Will there be a delay between pings so that you can't just spam pings?
TL;DRYes, pings will have a cooldown built into the ping item, not yet balanced, and they're also toying with ideas like power drain or rising EM emissions so frequent pinging reveals your own position.
Yes, it's part of the ping item itself at the moment. We haven't quite gotten to balancing that yet. Obviously, when we're developing it, we want to be able to ping as quickly as possible to see the results. But yeah, that is a feature in which there'll be a cooldown time so that you can't go crazy with the pings.
And at the same time, we're toying with the idea of if you ping, maybe you spike up your power a little more. So if you continue to do it, maybe you're going to drain your power, and then someone's going to go, hey, there's someone pinging over there, comes up to you, but you're not prepared because you have no power.
Maybe your overall EM emissions go up with each ping. Ideally, you want to wait until your EM goes down a bit before you ping again. Otherwise, you're just broadcasting your own location.
Right, here I am. But that's the whole push-pull. Yes, you're getting information back about the things you want to find, but you're also making yourself a vulnerable target by announcing to everyone that you're there.