No, No, No. Bad idea.

I don't have 1 sp put into sniping, but I have redlined teams and been redlined so I know that there are times where the only benefit to leaving the redzone is to watch your deaths pile up. Sure it speeds up the match so you can hopefully get into another without a team of proto, but I see no reason me, or anyone else, should be forced into a killzone just because you are pissed at a sniper actually doing his job. If you don't like it, take out your free sniper fit like I do and kill him yourself.

Everyone here may have leet skillz and swear they can't be pushed all the way back, but I guarantee you if it hasn't happened it will. And you would likely throw a fit if you were redlined at the end of a match and lost your reward up till that point (proto is expensive)........

On second thought, I would love to see someone I've been redline wasting disappear from the game entirely, losing all they earned trying to break out. Puts griefing on a whole new level, and gives prototrolls another way to ruin the noob experience.

Great suggestion OP.

I have yet to see a anti-redline thread that makes any sense or gives even a semi-coherent argument.

Do you even know why the redline was introduced in the first place?

Are you aware that the objective of the Skirmish and Domination game modes is "destroy enemy MCC", not "stomp the losing team into oblivion and make their defeat even more bitter by depriving them of WP, SP, and ISK"?

The only semi-legitimate issue regarding redline is the sniping issue. Sniper will, by the nature of their role, always try to find a position that is secluded, elevated and hard to get to. Redline area offers some or all of those attributes, some maps better than others. What you're proposing basically forces the sniper to choose a less optimal position, or forfeit the reward for his job. Speaking from personal experience, most times I get taken out as a sniper, I get taken out by another sniper. Regardless of whether I'm inside redline or not.
So, I'll agree that redline gives snipers an advantage that could be considered "unfair", however, I'm willing to bet that most snipers would be sitting at those exact same spots even if you remove it. Redline wasn't introduced to make sniping easy, but for reasons completely unrelated to sniping. It's not sniper's fault that his favorite sniping spot is inside redline. Don't punish him for it.

So, you mean there should be some sort of "premature ending" if one team completely withdraws behind redline?
That doesn't sound like a bad idea, but who decides when to end the battle, and on what exact criteria?

Why can't we remove redlines all together? If you don't want to spawn on a CRU, MCC, or Uplink, you should be able to spawn in an area relatively free from enemies, like most other FPS games. CCP really can't do random spawns well at all.

this is a very interesting idea i do like it and it would add a new element to the game.
Now for the questions
1 would said final terminal be hackable at all times or just when one side controls all objectives?
2now what if said team is not red lined but cannot hold any objectives would this still be in effect?
3 to stop count down does it have to be a null cannon or can a CRU reset ( provides a way to escape the red line)?
4how long would the timer be? after gaining access to final terminal, if terminal get hacked back ( normal red line timer is 20 seconds)
5 how far deep into the red zone would terminal be located ?
6 would it be out in open, or inside a structure, building?

i do under stand that people would complain " we cant see our red zone" but that can be fixed with changing of the color to yellow

and like i said in a previous post there is always a way out of the red zone you just have to find it

Ghost is here to try and fix things, but remember that I left my repper at home. :(

I like this idea, but I also would like to remind you guys that a sniper's position is crucial to his usefulness. I've said many times before that a Sniper is not just for kills, in fact, it's almost for the exact opposite. A sniper's position is used to see the battlefield and warn teammates of incoming dangers, and take out anyone that's trying to kill your squadmates discreetly. If a Shotgun is hiding next to a doorway, ready to blow the brains out of your friendly Squadmate, you need to warn that Squadmate so he's able to defend himself. Or, if you'd like, like up a headshot on that Shotgun and kill him then and there. But without a good sniping spot, you can't do that, because you can't see the whole board.

On the topic of Sniper Spots, I'd like to point out that MOST of the good sniping spots are shared between the redline and the actual field, making it still accessable by normal means. Or, even better, the sniper is sitting at the part that's outside of the redline. Technically, he's not Redline Sniping, but it's effectively the same thing, given the distance he is away from it.

However, when you're pushed BACK INTO the Redline via the opposite team, here's my idea.
You don't lose ALL of your stuff if you've been pushed to the redline. Instead, you get HALF rewards. 90% of the time, you tried your hardest to not get redlined. The game will know to give half rewards not if you're standing in the redline, but if you're in the redline and ALL points have been captured by the enemy team. If you still have a CRU, or Null Cannon, you're not redlined. If you manage to get at least 100 WP while in the redline, you'll get full reward.

If standing in the MCC spinning in circles so it doesn't kick you, you get no rewards at all. At least 25 WP and still in the field is required to get any rewards at all. When standing actually inside the MCC at all, rewards are negated, except for a small invulnerability timer when/if you happen to spawn inside the MCC.