It's been brought up before, and last phase, one person (and I regretfully forgot their name) had a simply BRILLIANT idea.

Make the timer count UP, instead of down.

The moment you press O to suicide and you arrive at the map to respawn, your timer starts counting up.

10 seconds on the clock, and you can spawn at a CRU/drop ship/default/objective spawn
15-20 seconds later, you can spawn on a drop uplink. (possibly sooner if the uplink is a prototype version or whatever)

This eliminates a few issues I currently have with the spawn mechanic (I can only speak for myself)

1. Trying to hero spawn on a lettered objective and being denied at the last second would no longer lead to yet another 10+ seconds to spawn (taking into consideration choosing a new spawn point).

2. Choosing a spawn point would no longer be taken into your spawn timers consideration, thus no longer "penalizing" someone for actually trying to pick a good strategic spawn point.

3. It would make it possible to actually communicate with team members and, when your squad/teams timers are all appropriate, have a team mate drop an uplink, and "Hot Drop" all at the same time. (Currently the 20 second timer AFTER the uplink is dropped seems a bit... non-spontaneous)

When I initially heard this idea, it was like a moment of clarity. It's such a simple solution. I understand why CCP has the 10 seconds in place, in order to pace the game, and make it so we aren't perpetually respawning the moment we die... but I think 10 seconds is good enough, 20 for a bit of a field advantage. It's great. but any more than that is just tedious, particularly when spawn-camping is such an issue currently.