Especially in the lower populated arena's side switching should not be consider spying.
If I log into midwar, and find 25 knights beating up on 8 bish and 10 rooks I'll switch to bishop if not every time, quite often.
While I prefer to fly knight, I'm certainly not switching to do anything for the knights. I'd simply rather not be hindered by ENY requirements, and dislike seeing unopposed land grabbing for land grabbings sake.
But then thats just me. If a bit of me has rubbed off on banshee (and I'd be suprised if it hadn't)
Well then take it at face value.
Guilty of the same here, first thing I do anymore is check roster before anything else. If the numbers are really off, I go to one of the lower ones. Sometimes it does mean changing sides mid way through my evening, but thats the way it goes.
I'm sure it suprises people to suddenly see a guy they shot down 5 min ago on their side, but hey I'm just trying to even up the numbers. I don't see what anybody would have to gain by spying, but then I could care less about score, so maybe thats where I'm missing it.
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