I should add that even if uplinks were harder to find, people would still spam them because they're so useful and having more spread around would make it harder to figure out where the people are spawning from.

Drop Uplink spam started because Drop Uplinks are visible to everyone, which made them extremely easy to locate and destroy. The only reliable way to insure that your team has a spawn point at strategic points is to drop so many Drop Uplinks that your enemy does not have time to kill them all. This has resulted in Logi equipping multiple types of Drop Uplinks in order to deploy more at one time, and other suits selecting Drop Uplinks over other equipment choices. In a PC match you can have more Drop Uplinks deployed on the field than mercs.

Drop Uplink spamming is a brute force technique forced on us by mechanics. The only strategic element to placing them is if you can find a hard to get to location to place them such as rooves.

I thought Drop Uplinks were a lot more fun in Chromosome when you would see enemy coming from the same general direction and you would go looking for the Drop Uplink. They were not overused so much because you had a chance of hiding them.

Proposed Solution:
I suggest that the Drop Uplink should only light up for everyone to see on map and on radar for 1 second after someone spawns at one. The rest of the time they should only show up if they are within your passive radar range, the passive radar range of a team mate, or have been actively scanned.

This way there is some hope of being able to hide your uplink in low traffic areas. But if people are spawning at it, the enemy will see it appear briefly and get some idea of where it is. They can then go looking for it and try to get within scanning range, or try to get a visual on its location.

I think this provides a good balance between being able to try to hide your uplinks, while not making them impossible to find. It also adds another role to the Gallente Scout suit as their extra sensor range would make them more adapt at finding Drop Uplinks.

To the best of my knowledge CCP has confirmed that the current visibility of Uplinks is not working as intended and that there is a fix in the works to have Uplinks properly placed within the scan/TACNET system (more or less as they were within Chrome). It is a fix I am quite looking forward too.

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Hiding them will do little to stop the Uplink spam, actually it will probably just make things worse because you wouldn't be able to destroy them. You place many to combat some getting destroyed yes but also want to give your team many points so they can choose where to spam.

I'm still waiting for the anti uplink that slows spawns within a radius as a way to counter constant spam and constant respawn.

Your proposed idea wouldn't keep people from spamming Drop Uplinks at all. Cause it would just make them harder to see which is an advantage not a disadvantage to counter spamming. What would help the spam of Uplinks is only allowing a team to drop only so many instead of having like 20 uplinks crowding the objectives or any point on the map have a limit that only like 4-8 uplinks can be active at a time for a team. Thats preventing spamming, not making them harder to detect.

Drop Uplink spam started because Drop Uplinks are visible to everyone, which made them extremely easy to locate and destroy. The only reliable way to insure that your team has a spawn point at strategic points is to drop so many Drop Uplinks that your enemy does not have time to kill them all. This has resulted in Logi equipping multiple types of Drop Uplinks in order to deploy more at one time, and other suits selecting Drop Uplinks over other equipment choices. In a PC match you can have more Drop Uplinks deployed on the field than mercs.

Drop Uplink spamming is a brute force technique forced on us by mechanics. The only strategic element to placing them is if you can find a hard to get to location to place them such as rooves.

I thought Drop Uplinks were a lot more fun in Chromosome when you would see enemy coming from the same general direction and you would go looking for the Drop Uplink. They were not overused so much because you had a chance of hiding them.

Proposed Solution:
I suggest that the Drop Uplink should only light up for everyone to see on map and on radar for 1 second after someone spawns at one. The rest of the time they should only show up if they are within your passive radar range, the passive radar range of a team mate, or have been actively scanned.

This way there is some hope of being able to hide your uplink in low traffic areas. But if people are spawning at it, the enemy will see it appear briefly and get some idea of where it is. They can then go looking for it and try to get within scanning range, or try to get a visual on its location.

I think this provides a good balance between being able to try to hide your uplinks, while not making them impossible to find. It also adds another role to the Gallente Scout suit as their extra sensor range would make them more adapt at finding Drop Uplinks.

When the fixes to the TacNet system have been made I am sure we can expect some DL spam but this is because of what players have learned to do due to the broken mechanic. I am eagerly anticipating the fix and hope that when it has been made people will consider using something other than a DL to spam the battle field with, like triage nanohives or maybe REs or Proximity Mines just to spice things up a little.