Ideas to increase pre-game communication

One idea is for char select to basically have it so you arent wasting a bunch of time deciding who goes where. (img) I also think the lock-in could be better changed to ready, and can be undone as long as all 5 players havent clicked in as ready. And for the load screen, id really like to have the chat window stay up. im not sure exactly what happens during load, but i cant imagine a chat window would bog things down too much and i think it would lead to more enjoyable games. more pre-game communication cant be a bad thing, and sorting out whos going where is wasting too much of the little time we have.