Noone uses them as if they're not there....even if it is our only spawn.

If they can't, then can we get a droplink that will allow all team members to spawn?

Noone uses them as if they're not there....even if it is our only spawn.

If they can't, then can we get a droplink that will allow all team members to spawn?

Militia grade is for greendots i think, the one guy is right i think but i have to log in and look.

I believe more advanced links allow more of your force. I use other droplinks whenever possible, if there is a friendly or three nearby for support

As someone who strategically places uplinks, I have to say they are severely underused. Camping spawns is no excuse as I place them in areas that would seem like a pain to get to, so unlikely.

The worst is when my team is redlined and they don't move the spawn map up to see that links are far behind enemy lines.
With some of my links it makes no sense why Clone units or objectives aren't capped almost entirely thoroughout the match.

Use uplinks. They are your friends.

I don't have any problems with people spawning in on them when I use them- as long as I have people in my squad.

When you put it in a clever place within reach of an objective, people tend to use it more. I mainly use them when I'm on the southern team of manus peak, in places that allows my squad to easily sneak into A and C

Ohhhhh, I always be clever with me uplinks. Those uncreative minds that dismiss them is my problem.

I tend to place uplink thinking I'll be the only one to use them, so I wont be disapointed.

I think ambush anyone can, and skirmish just your squad but not real sure.

This seems to be the case, but would need testing in skirmish to prove.

Youre bumping into one of three problems.

1: your link is in a bad location that makes hitting an objective difficult

2: Your teammates have had bad experiences with droplinks and assume they will be spawnkilled on one they did not place themselves.

3: Most of your team is composed of killfarmer idiots with a dim understanding of tactics.

#3 is by far the most common. I cannot count the number of times my team has been pushed back to redline with the whole enemy force killfarming. I ninja my way behind enemy lines, drop a link and start hacking for great justice. I Die when bads panic spawn on objective.. I then proceed to have a ten death running gunbattle with the enemy team who assumes we flanked them and cant find my droplink.

This usually allows the clueless blueberries to attack and take the objective I DIDN'T hit.

Go farking figure. So how many of you see this a lot?

No really, there is no possible way im the only one, im tactically stubborn, not brilliant.

Not sure what the mechanics are but no not everyone can see everyone's up links. We have tested this a few times on a few occasions we can see other squads uplinks but not always don't know if its a glitch or if they have advanced uplinks that allow everyone to see them.

I am a droplink w hore. I use the gauged droplink in skirmish. I can say for a fact in skirmish only your squad can spawn on your link. I was in a match, had both my links down and my squad pissed me off so I switched and was no longer able to use MY links. I switched back and was able to use them again.

That may be a bug yes, but i do know the hacked drop uplinks from the merc pack allow team spawing, hence the hacked. Now i have never been able to spawn in on other squad member links except my own in skirmish.

In ambush i think i have spawned in on links that were not my squads but i cant say for sure.

The problem of wheter links are bugged is unless you know for sure its not a hacked link then that could also be the reason why. If its your own and your not using the links from the merc pack then yes it probably is bugged and CCP needs to look at that. Also remember what i said before they only allow for b/w 10-20 uses before they are done.

See, now that's interesting. I'm going to try that.

The thing is...I've had corp members in diff squads but on the same team say that they can't see my droplink. But sometimes, in random games, it appears as if blues can spawn on your link. Maybe it is a bug that needs to be fixed.

I know that one of the droplinks is supposed to reduce PG/CPU usage but it still uses the same pg/cpu as the others in the same std class

Youre bumping into one of three problems.

1: your link is in a bad location that makes hitting an objective difficult

2: Your teammates have had bad experiences with droplinks and assume they will be spawnkilled on one they did not place themselves.

3: Most of your team is composed of killfarmer idiots with a dim understanding of tactics.

#3 is by far the most common. I cannot count the number of times my team has been pushed back to redline with the whole enemy force killfarming. I ninja my way behind enemy lines, drop a link and start hacking for great justice. I Die when bads panic spawn on objective.. I then proceed to have a ten death running gunbattle with the enemy team who assumes we flanked them and cant find my droplink.

This usually allows the clueless blueberries to attack and take the objective I DIDN'T hit.

Go farking figure. So how many of you see this a lot?

No really, there is no possible way im the only one, im tactically stubborn, not brilliant.

you see.... the thing is that when your choosing an area to spawn in, you have to look at the actual map and choose a point via hovering over that point in the map. These maps can get pretty big, so when a team is redlined and your choosing the next place you want to spawn, you only see your MCC and main base as spawn points because thats the area your map hovers over on default (when those are the only two places you can spawn in at). Its not that the bluedots are ignoring the uplink, if they could spawn away from the kill farming then they most certainly would, its that they simply have no idea its there because the icon that symbolizes it isn't on their respawn map. (even if all you have to do is twitch your joystick to re-focus it)

CCP could fix this by adding a list on the side of the map so that people can see the available spawn points. the list would say something like.......

MCC dropzone
main base dropzone
Alpha dropzone
tactical drop uplink 1
ect.....

this way people would be less oblivious to the spawn points that are available, and would therefore use some of the more important ones more often

I am a droplink w hore. I use the gauged droplink in skirmish. I can say for a fact in skirmish only your squad can spawn on your link. I was in a match, had both my links down and my squad pissed me off so I switched and was no longer able to use MY links. I switched back and was able to use them again.

As far as i know the all Uplinks are for squad only. Currently the only uplinks that allow for teamspawning are the hacked uplinks that are included in the mercenary pack but not yet available in the maketplace individually.

This makes sense since the number of spawns an uplink will accomodate 10 spawn per uplink at tier I, 15 spawns at adv, and 20 spaws at proto. They have variant for std and adv that allow for 12 and 18 respectively. And other variants that allow for multiple(2 links) to be active at a time from a single player or allow for quicker spawning.

So as it is now the only ones that i know that allow for team spawning is the hacked uplink.