Cons:

- Doesn't stop spawn camping if I can watch you fall. Whether you're stuck in inertia dampener recovery or inside a drop pod, doesn't stop me from shooting you or positioning myself and having my crosshair on you before you're able to fight back.

- Allows even more nonsense of people on roofs, especially on buildings without ladders. I don't expect people to use it to get to the safest spot, rather to get to the dumbest spot they can possibly reach that would otherwise be inaccessible.

I do not like this idea, because I can't think of any pros that could outweigh the above.

I always pictured this as why we wear "drop suits" sky spawning should be included for sure.

Ideally you can controlled your descent to some degree but the default fall zone is in the general direction of your squad leader if he has not set up a hot zone. Otherwise he can set up a drop zone that is static like rally points, or onto a certain soldier to help that merc with his current assignment. This is something that would help with squad involvement and team play.


Some limitations would be that you can't be shot until a certain height before hitting the ground, but at that same vulnerable stage you can start firing your weapon as well. So say the last 2 seconds or something you can be shot but you can also fire back.

The only problem I see with it is landing on buildings and high places becoming a total sniper debacle.

One such thing could be drop pods giving you extended shields while you are in range of it to give you a chance of clearing anyone trying to camp you off. Would be like having a super charged shield for like 10 seconds that boosts you to have Heavy grade defenses even with militia gear for that given time.

- Have MCC commanders preselect the DZ's for their team. Delay spawning until four mercs select the same DZ or a time limit is reached. Ta-da, instant back-up if the DZ is hot.

I have to agree about building camping being an issue. However as for getting killed if you dropped poorly, its entirely just as much your fault for picking such obvious place. There have been plenty of times people dropping tanks and lavs without getting shot on a platform that screams 'shoot me' on the way down more than anything.

We don't even have the commander role yet. Also, we don't have MCCs in ambush. Are we going to have commander mode in pubs (thought it was supposed to be only in like the conquest mode or whatever, which should be in corp play)?

Pros:
- Looks really cool.

- Makes uplinks more useful for defending cannons if you can't just spawn on the objective.

Not sure how this inherently makes uplinks more useful, or what spawning by dropping in from the sky has anything to do with your ability to spawn at objectives - the two aren't mutually exclusive.

- Reduces clustering on ambush maps and allows for easier flanking maneuvers.

The old spawn system did as well. This isn't something only sky spawning can give us.

- Gives CCP more skills for us to sink points into.

Why do I need to spend SP on spawning?

- Easier to escape being red-lined. Just drop with some buddies behind the lines and plant an uplink.

This should never be possible. Sky spawning should never allow you to drop behind defenses or controlled territory if you don't already have an uplink or CRU there.

- Still looks really cool.

- Reduces spawn sniping because of a lack of predefined points to aim at.

More spawn points would fix this. It's not something limited to only dropping in from the sky. In fact, snipers would probably be the ones to more easily see people falling down than be able to guess when someone is going to just materialize on the ground.

- Won't get shotgunned in the back by a scout who silently spawned behind you while you were hacking.

The silent part is the only thing this would fix, assuming dropping in would have accompanying audio. This is more a problem with being able to spawn at objectives rather than how they spawn.

Honestly if you are going OD for all spawns then you will need some sort of orbital counter, which could be provided by eve-ships. The vidoes I have seen and all the lore I have read dont really mention dropping from orbit or low orbit, its always been from atmo well below the space faring ships. This is where the MCC comes in for skirmish and i really dont think anything is wrong with the skirmish spawn methods EXCEPT null cannons dont have built in drop uplinks, the command bunkers do but you would need to spawn inside the command bunkers to be true to lore. Maye thats being too petty tho!

As far as ambush goes there really should be MCC spawn only unless a droplink/mcu is in play. The area around the MCC should be guarded within a small proximity (what kind of drop ship like that does not have guns seriously?) I guess there could be spanw waves where a dropship comes in and ejects soldiers over an area like in the immortal clones video but you would have to give the ability for AV to shoot it down, maybe make them player pilotable (control over drop trajectory sort of not liek dropship flying now) if you want to get to a specific area or npc controlled but drops you behind you? The only other option I would see is a few unconquerable "bunkers" but Im unsure how that would work too other than like in TF2.

It would have to have significant drawbacks to it. Ie: longer spawn times and inaccurate drops ( something like a random location within a 100m radius from your selection) otherwise drop uplinks would be pointless along with crus.

YES!

There is the problem of drop time adding to the time it takes to spawn. Solution is to remove respawn time, and just use the time it takes to land as a natural respawn timer.