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

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

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PatrickTheLama
03.20.2012 , 07:28 AM | #111
In the warzones I play most people run around like headless chicken, including myself, so it's only very rarely that some poor lvl 47 veteran bothers to instruct about anything, whether snow or west or up or down... lot of newbs in there trying to avoid falling into the chasms and dying before reaching the actual battlezones etc. There's a definite slapstick element at play. Fortunately for me, no one will notice my mediocre FNG performance.

I encourage any experienced PvP player to enter a random PUG 10-49, you won't believe what you see.

This may be specific to my server, but more likely to a lot of new players arriving.

So yeah, brackets of 10-25 and 26-49 might be a good idea.
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AetherMcLoud
03.20.2012 , 07:48 AM | #112
Not this again. Yes every civilized person should instantly know which side is east and which is west and only ever use those directions henceforth.

But as I've seen ingame, 50% of the time when you write "inc east" people will go to west. 10% of the time they'll ask "is that east from my side or yours?"
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jayfourc
03.20.2012 , 11:28 AM | #113
Quote: Originally Posted by kgruyo View Post
grass or snow is actually much easier..

I find that "here" and "there" are always right since it's always relative to me

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Rawksoss
03.20.2012 , 11:38 AM | #114
I find most people mess up east and west becuase they dont understand the compass. Neat trcik to help you remember Never Eat Shredded Wheat. I love when ppl say west and go east so silly left and right is so much easier I think for the masses of young kids that dont know how to read a compass.

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Autarkh
03.20.2012 , 11:50 AM | #115
I am sticking with Grass/Snow. Always works

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Arrys
03.20.2012 , 11:57 AM | #116
Quote: Originally Posted by Tourne View Post
Some of these guys couldn't get off of the toilet without a GPS...too many times I've seen people shout "west" for east...or "left" for right going off the objective GUI or the way they are viewing the MINI map and not the zone map.

...it's really, really bad some days.
Thats wehy snow grass works. Cardinal direction requires your teammates checked their orientation on main map. Grass is always grass, snow is always snow.

Now if they could just color the doors in voidstar.

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BelphagorAD
03.20.2012 , 12:01 PM | #117
For the Coast, it'll be NW, NE, and South? The Southern one isn't between the other two, although it is mid map between the two forts.

VS colored doors would be nice... blue/green, red/purple, gold/silver- or something like that.
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JakeDawg
03.20.2012 , 12:07 PM | #118
I can never remember which is "grass" and which is "snow", so I just don't respond to calls.

I don't know why people can't figure out east / west.

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Xneco
03.20.2012 , 12:31 PM | #119
On some maps the mini map is flipped, so I'm just going to call things left and right... others are going to have to deal with it. And I don't get why left and right are so confusing. If you in the respawn point and I need help and call left... exit the spawn point and go left in Void Star or click on the left speeder in Civil War!!

I like it best when someone trys to tell me I'm calling the wrong thing. I call "Left" they say that is "snow." Well, they knew WT F I was talking about, which is all that counts.
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elorei
03.20.2012 , 12:42 PM | #120
No one sees the irony of using east and west in voidstar? A ship floating in space?

There is no north/east/south/west in space. It would be a different vector on each planet, and vectorless in the void.