My squad doesn't force us to stay loyal to a country but we are loyal to each other so we stay knight, just as we were always Cz in AW. Sometimes we're outnumbered, sometimes we're not, but we're always ganged by the bish/rooks. It all evens itself out.
What's broke: ENY doesn't take into consideration 2 countries piling on to the 3rd country who by the numbers has, for example, 110 players, while the other 2 have 80 each. That makes it roughly 110 to 160 admitting there may be some skirmishes between the other 2 countries. So now the country getting ganged has a very limited planeset to combat a horde on both fronts....really the only time I hear much griping about ENY anymore.
Now what really is frustrating many is that they can't log in at prime time and get into the arena that their squadmates are flying in.
I personally have a plane or 2 at every ENY level that I am perfectly happy flying no matter how many LA, P51, Spixteen dweebs are around. But I know it forces more people to quit flying for the night then it does to change sides.
So with all the great intentions, I don't think it's working as intended.
Criticize me, my squad or others who have a similar opinion all you want. Your opinion matters to me as much as mine does to you. But we are all paying customers.
I don't know the answer so I will leave it up to HTC as they continue to do well by us all and never seem to stop trying to improve gameplay for us all.