set a viewing angle that attackers or other pirates first see when looking at your island. Sometimes the island is best viewed at a certain angle for ascetics or for strategy to influence where attackers drop their pirates
Good suggestion. Others have commented that the zoom level is to close when first viewing an island to attack. I agree. One if the first things I do is zoom out to get a better view of the whole island. Improving this would be time well spent by the devs.