The current spawn arrangement is very 1995. Spawning into heavily camped areas with no spawn protection at all, in a game where losses cost you currency, is just terrible, un-fun design.

Played a few random pugs tonight. First game, joined a team losing badly. Spawn was camped, died in under a second. Tried a heavy for greater resilience, died in under a second. Quit the game because the only winning move was not to play.

Joined a second game, enemy spawned in an elevated position overlooking our spawn, and our spawn was locked down in under a minute. Two deaths and quitting the game was the only winning move again unless I wanted to donate isk.

Third game, joined another losing game in progress where our spawn was locked down. Quit again.

Due to the time it takes to load/unload and join games this was like 15 minutes of complete not-fun that I guarantee you would turn off most players.

The vulnerability of spawns further snowballs because the players racking up kills then call down orbital strikes on the spawn areas, and the 'rich get richer' so to speak.

Even Doom had a spawn-farthest flag. Need to make this system way more modern if you hope to be competitive.

I have an old idea but it could improve spawning even further. Instead of appearing outside of the CRU, it could be redesigned for us to spawn inside it. The doorway will have an impenetrable shield that keeps out players from the outside and blocks shots from players inside but lets them get out of the CRU.

The current spawn arrangement is very 1995. Spawning into heavily camped areas with no spawn protection at all, in a game where losses cost you currency, is just terrible, un-fun design.

Played a few random pugs tonight. First game, joined a team losing badly. Spawn was camped, died in under a second. Tried a heavy for greater resilience, died in under a second. Quit the game because the only winning move was not to play.

Joined a second game, enemy spawned in an elevated position overlooking our spawn, and our spawn was locked down in under a minute. Two deaths and quitting the game was the only winning move again unless I wanted to donate isk.

Third game, joined another losing game in progress where our spawn was locked down. Quit again.

Due to the time it takes to load/unload and join games this was like 15 minutes of complete not-fun that I guarantee you would turn off most players.

The vulnerability of spawns further snowballs because the players racking up kills then call down orbital strikes on the spawn areas, and the 'rich get richer' so to speak.

Even Doom had a spawn-farthest flag. Need to make this system way more modern if you hope to be competitive.

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Since we're "dropping in" (it's right in the intro-movie), let us decide where to spawn.

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Definitely a MASSIVE improvement, but needs work.

The system is good, but how things are weighted needs to change.

Order of importance should be Enemy vehicle > Enemy infantry = Squad vehicle > Friendly vehicle = Squadmate > Teammate.

Squadmates are already prioritised over other teammates - good move, that one. But it doesn't seem to weigh the threat of enemy proximity to the spawn location as having nearly enough importance. It's WAY too easy to use the default spawn and appear in the middle of a killing field where the entire enemy team has a line on where you and all your teammates are showing up. It's way too easy to take advantage of this scenario when the enemy team gets stuck in this situation. Also, I think there should be a cap on how much weight allies can provide in favour of a particular spawn location, but the same should NOT be true for enemies. Teammates outnumbering the enemy doesn't really make an area safe, because a LOT of players know to look out for a player who's mid-spawn for an easy kill.

Just spawned at the start of a match surrounded by nothing but enemies.