Posted 14 May 2015 - 06:37 AM

Proposal:

Why do I think this is important?

While waiting for the game to start, show which side of the map your team is on and where each lance spawns. Also show conquest points, assault bases, and the grid squares.A lot of tactical decisions can be made simply by knowing where you are starting on the map. Unless you can peer out of your blurry cockpit and see what spawn you're at because you have them all perfectly memorised, you can't make any tactical decisions until your mech has started up, you've accessed the map, seen which side you're on, and assessed which weight classes spawned where. By this time, people are usually already going off and doing their own thing, so it's a waste of time to tell them any different.If you could see spawns before the match started, you could make decisions like "Assaults have the far spawn on Alpine, let's go to J4 instead and hold up there, we'll never make it to the Hill on time" or something like "assaults have the far spawn on HPG, we should NOT do the traditional Rush-Right tactic, let's rush left instead." You could even make a call like "Assaults got the Epsilon spawn, so Bravo and Charlie rush Epsilon and crush the enemy lance then let's go center after."Since we can't see our spawns before it's too late, making these calls is just not possible.