East/West or Right/Left?

I personally prefer to call out east/west over right/left. Seems to reduce confusion slightly.

I've seen many instances where players are confusing their left and their right. I'm assuming this results from judging which side to go to based on looking at the screen and not the mini map?

Example from Alderaan yesterday:

Someone announces "Incoming left!" You look at the map and see that nobody on your team is on the left (west side), the person is, in fact, on the right (east) side.

This is also an issue on Voidstar where you can easily get turned around, especially if you're a defender coming out of the spawn area.

anyone who cant tell east from west on a mini map, you should probably stop playing video games and go back to school.

Yeah, I call East/West too, but unfortunately, it seems to baffle people on occasion.

Left/Right in Alderaan.
West/East in Voidstar.

East/West always. These directions can't be misconceived.

This doesn't work if you're Empire. I see from your sig that you're republic, and it works fine for Republic. But for Empire, you come out of the top starting area. If you're Empire and someone calls INC RIGHT in the middle of the match, and you've just rezzed, which way do you go?

That's why East/West is always the winner.


I had someone yesterday calling out "INC GT" yesterday. Took me a few seconds to figure out what the heck GT was - never heard anyone call it that before.

Alderaan is called as Gen/Mid/Crash on my server usually.

Still get Left/Right a lot on Voidy though, despite my personal preference being East/West.

Our guild quickly learned to call Alderan Snow/Mid/Grass.

why add any element of thought to it? Snow side and grass side. It's that simple. No one needs to check maps or pay attention to direction.

Snow side, grass side. Middle.

I don't like this so much, because if you're sitting in the mid guarding the turret, you can't see the snow or the grass until you pick a direction and run that way, so you still have to remember which direction is snow and which is grass. Might as well just call the directions to save time, and make it clearer for anyone else, too.