Or they could just be thinking its like how it was in the previous version, not knowing that a undocumented (or very slightly documented change) made the lower points not un-capable.

The Map does not say anything about the botom points not being capable by the Imperials, and why should someone re-read the intro loading text if they already read it before?

And if that point is uncapable by imperials why would it be nutral to begin with?   What point does that have?   Why not just move the map up a point (drop the current initial rebel spawn) and move it up to the one that now starts out nutral.

That's funny MrMonkey, you must be one of those people who don't read or look at the minimap ever?

Because there are 2 blue brackets AND IT CLEARLY STATES that imperials cannot capture lower CPs, as well as where the bleed is tied.

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