I know a lot are complaining about trade/TEK but I find way more MP games ruined by the completely assinine player placement scripts on team MP games. About 1/2 the games I play are immediately abandoned since the placement will do things like stick one player right between two enemies homeworld and then place his allies across the entire map.
The script does not seem to pay any attention to teams or map or anything. For example, tonight on a 4v4 huge random multi star map it placed 2 players from each team together in two of the four star systems. Basically leaving half the map empty and making the game effectively a med map 2v2. Another game, 2v2 on razer's edge place me at one of the homewords in the north and my poor ally at the far south center homeworld with enemy on both sides one jump away - idiotic. Over and over the maps just place people at random usually leaving one guy ripe for an early gank and nothing his allies can do but hope one the enemy is just as hosed by the placement.
