Something needs to be done for those of us who change to find fights. A certain squad has chosen to frequent Early War now. They play for rank, score, and toolshedding (map-flipping). There were 5-6 of them when I last logged in. I upped to defend the base...lasted about 10 minutes before they regrouped and came all at once. After that, they started attacking the other side (that had zero people on). A couple of others came on, and we went to that side to defend and find fights - which is the point of a combat game. Well, wouldn't ya know...they switched back to attacking the other, now empty, side.
Let us switch as often as we need. Impose whatever anti-spy rules you feel necessary, but let us switch so we can fight. I'm not paying $14.95 a month to fight buildings...I can do that offline for free.