Other gameplay issues aside, have arena numbers stabilized since the change? Are there fewer wild swings in numbers between sides over the course of an evening?
Quite honestly I have never seen "wide" swings in country #s. I have found if a country is low #s then it will be that way most of night until bedtime!
Just cause a country is "low #s" does not in anyway guarantee it is getting horded, in fact I've found it quite interesting how many times I see the "low # country" with the largest dar gangraping bases.
For me any imbalance in #s has always been quite insignificant and only on the rare occasion is it ever extreme.
For me this issue is a lack of choice for something I pay for. In no way do I mean that disparingly I mean it as a matter of fact. I don't think the 12 hour rule was enacted to balance countries as I've never seen major issues with balancing. If it was enacted to combat spying then it fails at that also for a miriad of reasons not least of which is, I could log in now as bish, find a cv or a mission then switch and do the "dirty deed". Now if I were in a squad prone to spying then as each squadie logs in then that dood could do the same thing and on and on and on. I understand that it use to be 12 hours but it hasn't been for quite a while now, so a new precidense and expectation has been set. I also believe the amount of folks who switch at any regular interval is quite small, now those folks may well be of a higher quality than average but the actual #s switching is quite small in comparison to those who do not!
My $.02, well I believe I have about $1.28 invested in this thread now
JUGgler