Little Phraseology Bits + Ramp Control

[Team Triss]

You guys have done a good job improving the phraseology to be more realistic since both the last tower sim and launch. I can even give runway crossing instructions at the end of taxi instructions (and adding "taxi via" was a big one)!

Would it be possible to make "After Departure" optional when giving an initial heading on takeoff? I don't do ATC for a living, but in all the hundreds of hours I have done VATSIM controlling and flying with people who do, I have never once heard someone say "after departure fly heading 123" instead of just "fly heading 123." Same with the winds; can we make it "wind 330 at 15" instead of "wind is 330 at 15 knots?" The real-world Atlanta center controller who first taught me my tower phraseology and control would reach through the PC and strangle me if he ever heard me say "wind is 330 at 15 knots."

Are there any tips on ramp control? IRL, the ramp is generally uncontrolled, but pilots maneuver around each other. Here, obviously they have to stick to rigid taxiways and may or may not exist IRL. KSTL, for example, has a bunch of single digit taxiways in-game that have no real-world counterparts. The Southwest ramp has a bunch of taxiways like 4, 5, and 8; it's easy enough to tell someone taxiing out to start via 8, but telling someone to go a specific route into the ramp, it reads the number as part of the last letter you said. I tell someone to taxi in from rwy 29 via B, T, C, 5, and no matter how much of a pause I put in, it takes B, T, C5. The solution has just been to hold people wanting to push back and depart if an arrival is coming anywhere near them, but I'd like to know if anyone or the devs have a better way.