East/West or Right/Left?

Aye, this is how we tend to refer to them on my server as I mentioned earlier in the thread. Sure for a newbie it might be a bit confusing but after a couple of WZs hearing people calling it that (or having looked at the map and seen) it's fine.

Had brand new, that-very-day 50s calling "inc 2 gen". I guess it only works if your server embraces it the way mine has though. I've no idea what the Pubs call them.

Yep and it was stupid that people said "Mine" in Arathi Basin. People obviously should have yelled "North".

I can notice I am fighting on snow side and how to get there a hell of a lot easier than I can compare my position to something as arbitrary and abstract as a mini-map. If someone yelled East I would know where to go, but only because I know Snow is on the East side of the map and I know how to get to Snow.

Haha or this. I might start calling "inc Blacksmith" on my server instead of "mid" and see what kind of response I get.

To the people who say using east/west adds an element of thinking, I'm truly concerned. There's a reason why north , south, east, and west are used, instead of "up, down, left right" when giving directions, it's to keep things uniform and simple.

I guess I forgot that the majority of people playing this game are from a certain country known for poor education, everyone knows they can't tell directions without GPS. Like one of the first posters said, if you really have a hard time using east/west, stop playing games and go back to school.

EDIT: Removed certain "inflammatory remarks", leaving it now open to interpretation.

Yes, the Empire turret is the one that ticks faster...

In any event, don't do like I did the other day & call "IC weast x4"!

That's what I'm puzzled over. If snow = east, why would you bother using "snow"? We learned cardinal directions years, if not decades, before we started playing warzones in TOR. You're adding a superfluous level of information.

People new to the warzones can be reasonably expected to know east and west but may not know what snow or grass means.

Never noticed that. And I'm pretty sure if I would write "inc gen 2+" nobody on my server would know what I was talking about. They should put those descriptions on the map and under the icons on the top right corner. Only showing the turret names on mouseover means 99% of the playerbase doesn't know they even have names.

Can we keep this polite? I didn't make this thread so we can discuss who's stupid and who isn't stupid.

Your insults of Americans was not called for here. Simply put, n00bs in general will join and have no idea (for whatever reason). Giving them a visually recognizable que such as Snow / Grass makes it easy for them to figure it out. The one with Snow is called Snow, the one with Grass is called Grass. We all know (except maybe you in this case) what Snow / Grass look like.

How does being a noob have anything to do with not knowing how to look at a map and recognize simple cardinal directions like east and west? I can't believe people even have to argue about NOT using east and west. There's nothing COMPLICATED about it, east and west should come as natural as 1 + 1. It should take zero time to process.