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.