Is the imbalance due to people switching sides for perks they're never going to receive, or is it a function of people on the losing sides logging out?
Also, if everyone's switching to the "winning" side due to some erroneous belief that they'll gain perks for it, then one hour side switching won't really change a thing.
I know that for me, the status of the "war" is the last thing on my list to worry about. The only important thing about the "war" fopr me is if it is active and precipitating some good action.
My opinion of hordes is as follows: I would rather fight 20 red things to avoid getting killed than to fight 20 green things to get a kill.
The ability to switch to the low numbers side, yet switch back to fly with my squaddies if they happened to log on within an hour or less was nice.