It would be nice if sometime in the future, observers would not have to be placed in a player slot, since it often makes setting up evenly balanced games more difficult. If they would not take a start position on the map but could be in addition to those players set up with defined start positions and would also not count to the # of players (so an increased # of observers does not require a larger map) this would be nice. but it's surely a lot of work to achieve it, too.
