Port, is it really that bad?

I love the map. The only downer is the pain in the ass that is traversing the railroad. What a clusterfuck. I think the real design "failure" if there is one, is as follows:

The ends of the maps containing the spawns are beautiful, but there's rarely any battling to be had there. Most of the fighting is done at either end of the train tracks. THere are so many awesome corridors and what not near either spawn. It's a shame less than 10% of the fighting in a given match occurs there. I would love to see an Encounter mode on Port. Spawn both teams on either the north or the south side, one on the east and one on the west, and place the encounter flag in the center of the opposite end (north or south). From the jump, either team could head for the other's spawn, thus battling it out in industrial area...or they could sprint for the flag, fighting on the tracks along the way, or fghting in the industrial complex on the other side by the objective.

The probelm with that map is that it creates the focus of battle in the least awe inspiring portion of it.

I feel Widepark would benefit from this too. De-emphasizing the tracks in the middle of that map would cease it from being a colossal game of peekaboo. More fighing amongst the buildings in that map would be awesome...especially on the south side.

The map would be 100x better if there was 50% less train cars and tracks.

I've seen this thread title dozens of times already but for some treason I just read it as "Porn, is it really that bad?"

I was going to be like "What the fuck is WRONG with you?"

i like porn erm i mean port (which is worse?)
fast tank zipping about spotting and sniping stuff, allmost allways an exit, i love it. even when my teams all dead i just zip about resetting the cap and trolling the reds till i mess up and get pinned down and butchered, ahhh good times.

It's one sided that's why it's bad, to be honest it wouldn't be terrible if they could balance it because it would be ok, it's not a corridor map. Offers lots of options, just needs balance.

Why can't an armor piercing shell capable of going through four inches of hardened armor plate go through both sheet metal sides of a freight car without slowing down? Train cars should be destructable terrain in this game, to be either shot or driven through by a big enough gun or tank. 

Is it tier restricted now? I can't remember the last time I actually played a game on port. Feels like forever.

My biggest problem with the city maps is the inconsistency in what can and can't be destroyed. Building, yes. Stairs, nope. Light post, yes. Railroad sign, nope. Etc, etc, etc.

It just doesn't make any sense. Personally if we are going to do city maps they should be fully destructible. Hell, every man made object in the game should be able to be destroyed. Just my two cents.