@hayhor Yea, I feel like they could definitely make some changes to limit the hot dropping. I'm more curious about ring speed, just because of how fast the squads die out (due to hot dropping, mostly). I 100% agree about finding a way to reduce hot drops though, as this would eliminate my position for a faster ring and shorter round durations altogether.
My personal gripe at the moment, is that I don't hot drop. I tend to drop a little farther away, so I can grab a couple guns and hopefully a shield, and then I start rotating toward the zone, looking for fights. I don't waste much time doing this, and head out fairly quickly. Here lately though, with how fast everyone dies in the first round, coupled with the slow ring speed and long round duration, I feel like I'm just running toward the zone the whole match, looking for fights and not really finding them because the few remaining squads are too spread out, because the zone is still so massive.