The fact that players that switch sides gets a lot of PM accusing them for being spies is imo a bigger problem than the 12 hour rule. If u switch country u are not loyal to "the cause"...
completely inaccurate, I flew for over 10 years, only a few times was I loyal to one country, I spent most of my time hopping. The only country whose player base would accuse anyone? Bishop - not all players just the smash and grab newbies who whine about it, the rest of aces? doesn't care and welcome the change.
the low side numbers is one of the reasons I quit plus the 12 hour rule, not going to bother arguing over it - the way I see it; being I only could login once a day to find a fight, if i switched countries and the fight died down, that was the end of it for me. Not going to sit around waiting hours for something to happen.
We tried to put a good argument: switch within 12 hours, you dont get "war won" perks, hell even high eny planes... anything to get the time reduced; unfortunately the crusaders did more harm then good.
Back in the day, you had two servers to choose from, problem is when it merged to one server things started to go sour due to the time switch. The main reason is was good back then, the player numbers were through the roof. In 2013 (january) was last time I flew and there was hardly any numbers on.
(granted I flew only FSO and mid-day EST) which was mostly Aussies/europeans or empty.