Falls into the Not Blood Likely catagory. They don't want people to be able to make missions that stuff AVs (or even Bosses) up front by the door out of fear that it would be abused the way Barracuda was in "The Cult of the Shaper".
Personally I think the difference between tickets and regular drops would make this not such a big deal, but there it is.
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Considering that most maps only have a few "front" spawn points, right in front of the door, combined with the ability to set maps to "empty," that reasoning is silly.
People only farmed Barracuda because SOs were actually valuable back then. From what I understand of farming (which admittedly is probably a few issues out of date), the -1 difficulty setting is far more exploitable than an up-front boss.
Of course it would be extermely exploitable to allow us to place spawn points anywhere, but choosing a specific existing spawn point, no, not really, and it would eliminate all the issues with "front" "middle" and "back" spawn points that aren't.
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People only farmed Barracuda because SOs were actually valuable back then.
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I did a search and couldn't find anything, but has it been discussed if/when one day we will be able to get a spawn location editor for maps so we can designate the location of spawns?