It's East/West. . .NOT Left/Right. . .NOT Grass/Snow

I'd have to agree with the OP on this one. I don't know how many times I'll see Incoming Left or Inc Right and I'll head there and no one is there. Now I find it more of a problem for Alderaan mainly because you really can't see each side, by that I mean I can't sit at say west turret and see the right to see what their situation is ( I blame people not using Ops chat for this but that is a separate issue.) Were as in Voidstar you can see from your gate roughly where the majority of people are congregating at and adjust accordingly. You'll still get the "Plant on left door" and run what you think is left and the only person there is your sniper just chillin, guarding the door.

It's West/East people, use that dang map at the bottom for directions.

Left / Right (from spawn point) is used almost exclusively in 50s warzones on imperial side of The Ebon Hawk server. This weekend a few of us ran low level matches with alts and the new people in these use Left / Right as well, only about 10% of the time they are refering to the minimap. I was put on ignore by one player for telling him that Left / Right are from spawn, and East / West are map directions.

Personally I prefer Left/Right from spawn so that I don't need to reference my map, but if we are referencing the map it needs to be East / West. Both should be able to be used interchangeably with confidence that everyone knows what is being communicated to the Ops group. IMO the real problem isn't the use of grass / snow, east / west, or left / right, its with newer people or those who have not been in warzones much not knowing what the frame of reference with left and right is.

Every Alderaan control point has a name. Hover over it on the map and it'll tell you.

Middle is the Command Center, and one of the sides is the Generator.

I forget the last one.

Do you see the problem here?

I completely agree, use West/East (and North/South when appropriate), you will win more.

There's no more debate on this than there is on whether toilet paper rolls should be installed overhand or underhand.

The minor satisfaction you might get out of using the less effective direction system that you learned during your first WZ isn't a good reason to keep doing it.

That I'm not telling everyone this?

In-game pop-ups for "The Empire has captured the Command Center controls!" would help quite a bit.

In Voidstar, I've gotten to the point of yelling, "Other side!!!" This tends to get everyone's attention, and the guy all by himself and seeing 4 reds come his way isn't going to peek at the other side, while the 5 guys with their thumbs up their butt might actually look at the other door.

Whooooooosh

I was in a Aldaraan a few weeks ago and the "ops leader" decided it was time to educate folks on the whole east west thing. Half way through getting our butts destroyed someone told him to shut the heck up and started calling it out by left right. We won after that.

Personally I am tri-directional and able to adapt on the move to whatever is called out but most folks if you say east or west they have to open map and figure out east west in case the map has changed and sometimes that lil bit of time taken to do that means the world in controlling a point.

It always just seems to work better since "most" folks will base left right on where they land, either in aldaraan or void star. Some folks are not able to do this.

This subject pops up every so often and just not sure why people want to educate folks when its currently working fine, if you are having issues with left right not working your either in a group of folks who prolly dont know up or down either or your in a group of east west folks who dont understand left right.

I find it much easier to think of directions from spawn point. so left means left from spawn. right means right from spawn.

Its easier than east/west I find. Because west on map might mean I need to go right from the spawn point... so I find simple left and right from spawn easier.