A more exciting buildtime countdown from 10 seconds - not just for looks

I think at 10 seconds there should be a big ol' eye-catching countdown like

GAME BEGINS IN 10... 9.... 8....

With arrows pointing to the enemies, or "prepare to fight!" or somesuch. You get the idea.


Why have this? To make it absolutely apparent to everyone that the game is starting soon, and hopefully to encourage more people to actually rush. Sometimes I don't really notice that the safe period is over, sure, but there are a lot of games (especially more calm, smaller games) where people just keep building and it's like the build time may have never even ended, and then there's just one lonely archer/knight in the middle of the map.

And sometimes you have a very small force that actually rushes just sweep over the map and crush the hapless builders on the other side who never mustered up any sort of army. The early game is pretty important, and I think something like this would be a small tweak that would go a long way to cutting down on the several-minute-long build times that end in a 30 second victory. And because these 30-second victories are more prevalent in smaller games, and are kind of frustrating... they cause people to leave, which sometimes kills a server.

Thoughts?

 

Ooo, like the drums in TTH, that sounds like a good idea