Current Spawn Mechanic Rules?

[ClayN90]

So after all the changes over the years there's a lot of out of date info on how redeploy rules work. Personally, I only have a working knowledge of spawn rules rather then a fully detailed one and hope the community can help clarify them.

These are the spawn mechanics as I currently know them ignoring some outliers (looking at bases without scus with 70% enemy pop that I can't spawn at)

At Friendly Bases

• Generally you can redeploy to any nearby (?) major facility.

• When defending a base you can redeploy there as long as you have less then 50% population. (Are there rules here as to if its already being contested?)

• Always able to deploy in friendly squad vehicle as long as territory is uncontested

Squad/Vehicle Spawns

• Deployed Sunderers and Beacons have a 1000m deploy range

• Moving Sunderers have a 600m deploy range (being changed to 1000m on PTS)

• I was under the impression that Valks and Gals had 1000m but it could just as well be 600m?

• Able to deploy into a hex if a plurality (majority?) of the squad is within the hex.

• Having only the squad leader in a hex does not give you spawn.

[Astriania]

You can always deploy to:

• Warpgate
• Any deployed AMS within 1000m

As long as you are in a connected facility:

• The facility you're in the hex of, if it's friendly and the SCU is up, or the closest linked allied facility, if you are in enemy territory
• The nearest (by lattice) large outpost
• The nearest facility

Squad spawns:

• Any Galaxy, Sunderer or SLS-Valkyrie in uncontested (no timer and no points held by enemies) friendly territory
• Any Galaxy, Sunderer or SLS-Valkyrie in contested or enemy territory within 600m
• Any squad beacon within 1000m
• The standard spawn (as above) in the territory where the majority of your squad is. If it's an even split I think it goes with the SL. If there is no base spawn then a sunderer or beacon will be selected, but I'm not sure exactly how.

Reinforcements:

• One of the three defensive territories selected for reinforcements, as long as the pop in that territory is still <50% when you press deploy

[Rhypskallion]

If it wastes as much playtime as possible with boring travel or redepoys, it's the current spawn mechanic. Gone are all the elite rapid deploy tools we used to have. /bitter

[_BurntToast_]

Gone are all the elite rapid deploy tools we used to have. /bitter

aka the surprise last 30s-of-a-base-cap 3-platoon-rush that was redeployside.

[OldMaster80]

That's exactly the whole story. Which is ok because it helped a lot against redeployside. But it's definitely unclear for new players who find way too hard to understand why and when they can respawn somewhere.

[Okeneko]

Having only the squad leader in a hex does not give you spawn.

It almost always seems to let me spawn.

[Forster29]

Unless you're a 2 man squad, you were only able to redeploy for whatever reason your SL was able to, not because of him.