I've seen worse. Way back, there was a spawn on a tiny island in the middle of a lava ocean, with 1 metal on it. I don't think there was enough room for an air factory.
Eh, there's a patch of 5 to the right of it that will require a fairly small amount of walking to get to. I've seen much worse.
Ya, still needs work on spawn locations, but they have certainly gotten alot better, i have seen worse then this...much worse
Eh, there's no real point in defending it, though. You'd want to build your base around the metals anyway.
That's the spawn for absurd difficulty in gw.... A bit like the 'godlike' scenario map in warcraft 2- so hard you couldn't even win it with cheats (you didn't live long enough to enter the code)...