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In the interests of fairness, a time out from the arena they were in would neutralize this advantage and penalize team jumpers, the time of a team change would still be one hour, only at the time of a team change a ten minute block would be placed on the arena they were in, the player would have to use one of the other arenas for this time out period.
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In the interests of "fairness", HTC has ENY implemented to ENCOURAGE switching chess pieces. I doubt they will undermine and mollify a system that they worked so hard to enact.
Waiting 10 minutes to fly in the same arena because I didn't want to be part of the horde is acceptable... as soon as you start paying my account.
It would be useless to stop "spying" for any player that has been playing for any length of time and has befriended folks on other countries. I, personally, have cell phone numbers for around 15 players in this game, all from different chess piece nations, not including the guys in my squad. All I would have to do is make a phone call or send a text to circumvent this "waiting period"