Like having NSA wasn't bad enough already. Half of the server camping at civilian spawn waiting for the map to end.
What makes you think another large map with a completely different area and without Area 69 to hide in would turn out that way?
Does anyone think the problem with NSA is the scenery or Area 69? I haven't read any complaints on West Venturas, and it has exactly the same scenery and Area 69.
The problem with NSA is that it is too big. Driving time before you find other players and get to see some action is too long. And even if you had enough patience to reach other players, nothing guarantees you won't be wiped out by a Hydra in a matter of tenths of second.
If you think that would be different in the map Lizard Person is suggesting (which is much larger, and especially wider, than NSA), I kindly ask you to explain me why. Take a look at the spawn locations he suggested. Can you imagine the driving time for terrorists if the president decided to camp, for example, in Flint County railway tunnel? They would definitely do that every now and then, to be out of Hydras reach.
I agree that the map he in fact proposed is pretty large. However, before I was corrected, I thought he was proposing LS and RC, which I don't think is that big.
I disagree with you that NSA is too big. How often do you see the President in LV? Very rarely. He's almost always in WV, and the most common strategy by far is to go directly to Area 69, which is actually pretty centrally located. It's basically WV with LV attached and Hydras.
As long as the spawns are reasonably close to each other, I don't really see an issue with adding more area to a map, particularly when Hydras are available. The problem with the map he's proposing is that the spawns are bad. What if the spawns were the LS spawns, and you could run into the other areas? The terrorist spawn would be pretty centrally located in an LS+RC map.
The "driving time" issue is overstated to me. It's not like only terrorists are impacted by driving time. The farther away the President gets, the longer it takes for his support to get there when they are killed. Also, you often don't need to drive when you can fly most of the way and get a car there instead.