Why not re-imagine barricades?

[Sir_Eldras]

Here is a suggestion which will most likely be shot down or irk people, but here goes. What would the mod be like if barricades were not deployable by players? Wouldn’t it make more sense that maps would already have fortified points before the Nords showed up? I mean, “the empire is in ruins,” so we all would know that they were coming, right? Why not have some defenses set up from the start? Each map could have two or three defense points with barricades already set up. When one fails, maybe players could scramble back to another choke/hold point. Maybe engineers could repair them instead of place them. This would help to minimize crashing/resets, people destroying barricades because they don’t like someone else’s placement, and it would just make more logical sense. Yes, players would have to give up a bit of control and freedom, but it would allow mapmakers to craft more focused maps, and (as long as it did not introduce new exploits/glitch spots,) could be interesting.

All of that wood could be turned into a new craftable like lumber. This could be used by engineers to repair barricades. Maybe higher tier engineers could craft metal into supports used to fortify the ‘cades with metal (requiring a simple re-skin to show it in-game.)

Let people have deployable shields and such, but the barricade usage has introduced bugs, frustration, reportable player behavior, and they are forcing players to only have one approach to the game. Why not let the mapmakers just place them where they seem logical?