[TheUltraFish]

Well, I understand the intent, I can immediately think of two cases on this being a bad idea.

1) Hunter players will get bored waiting an entire minute each round of seeing nothing but black. An increase of the round could also get prop players really bored if they find themselves angled in such way where they end up staring at the wall.

2) For the longer hunter rounds, this becomes issue if you are a prop/hunter that dies within the first thirty seconds (which is commonplace). Some maps are specifically made large for props to be given an edge (market battle for example) while others are much smaller to give hunters an edge (house v3 comes to mind).

What you may consider is splitting the areas up among the hunters on the larger maps where a couple hunters checks a specific area as if they were team throughout the map. What I am suggesting is you could try is getting a small group of hunters together to check certain areas and to use team chat to keep the props unaware of locations that have been checked.

Most maps, get looked through well enough by an entire team of hunters where most of the time it is not because an area was checked, but a matter of inexperience and quite a bit of experience on the other team when it comes to checking spots. I am not against the ideas you suggest, but we already spend about 45 minutes on quite a few maps already. What I am concerned with is that extra minute will put the time per map up to around 55 minutes if we adjust the timer. If we do not adjust the timer then players could become disappointed that they only get to hunt or hide for about 3 separate rounds getting a total of about 6 rounds. The other concern is that players could get bored with the map if they are stuck on it for extra time. Your idea may work for some maps, but would be bad for others.