Talk:Survival/@comment-24.26.201.234-20160206015812/@comment-71.158.175.65-20160331102257

If a player is capable of quickly dealing with any enemy that comes their way up until an extremely high level, there's no reason NOT to camp. Especially if they're causing enough life support drops that they can sustain themselves until life support is dropped in their room again.

An optimal set-up, if you have players who all are capable of taking care of themselves,  is to have players camping in each room where life support spawns. That way, there is minimal interference with the other's combat, and enemies are spawning into 2 or 3 separate areas. Moving between rooms too frequently causes problems with survival's spawning mechanics, so it's actually a better idea to stay in one place as much as possible.

Using life support before ~50% can easily be a waste if you get a surge of life support drops, to say nothing of accidental multi-activations. In fact, using a capsule at 70% is almost guaranteed to be a waste if you're killing efficiently, since a life support drop will proceed to be wasted when you next pick one up.

When I'm soloing, I'll usually wait until the message to activate life support, generally because it gives the game plenty of chances to give me life support before I activate, so that I don't waste the capsules. And I've done 2 hours of T4 by myself, so I think I know what I'm doing.