East/West or Right/Left?

Never Eat Soggy Wheat.

I understand and accept both. Likewise on Alderaan; Snow, Wreck, and Middle (and most variations) are understood as well.

I guess it's amazing to me that after all this time and all these posts, you still have some people saying it's "obvious" that Right/Left means from the spawn, and others saying it's "obvious" that Right/Left means on the map.

Somehow it eludes them that it's this very inconsistancy that makes East/West much simpler. Instead we keep seeing posts with people saying "lol u don't know ur rite from ur left".

Because there are imperials that are confused with the fact that they're facing south not north.

I've seen this mostly amongst players who have a Rep main but are playing IMp side on an alt. East being to the left is not an intuitive direction for some people.

Another solution would be for BW to flip the minimap depending on which side you played on. So north was always forward. This would make e/w = r/l always.

Directions are ALL relative anyhow. For all we know the orientation of Aldaraan is NOT East and West....it could be that the top of the minimap is really NNW, which would make what some people call east ENE. Or maybe the top of the map is really East and the turrets are North and South.

And MID...think about Mid for a second....Mid is really North for Imp and South for Rep.

It's all just a matter of perspective.

Inc starboard

East/west. Left/right is relative depending on whether you are south looking north or north looking south. East/west leaves no room for interpretation.

Im sure it was said but the least confusing way for alderann is

"Grass" / "Snow"

People that use Right/Left don't use logic as they don't frame the subjective directions into context and people that call those often call them based on different context. I had a voidstar map where 2 people were calling incs one said right the other said left. They both were making a call to the exact same door but from different context. That CANNOT happen with cardinal directions.

I've also been a ******** and when someone called "left" in voidstar I decided to take them quite literally and turn left and run in that direction. I ended up at the republic spawn because that was "left" from where I was currently at.

Absolutely wrong. The map is oriented with North up. If you don't believe me, look at the patch notes. Watch the red text in Void, it says east bomb etc.

Mid?! I don't even....it's just....HUH?

you took out the constant......how dumb are you that you dont get the spawn never moves........just like the example of the road......everyone spawns in the same direction every time>>>>point of reference

It was your example, you said look to your right. I only pointed out the mistake in thinking that left right has a constant point of reference. Look in all these threads and you can see there is not. Some say spawn some say map. North is always North.

If everyone starts from spawn you can say go right or left. As soon as people are scattered, that idea goes out the window. A constant was set in place many years ago to prevent this. I am certainly not the dumb one for using it.