Thus balancing the arena.
Yeah, it balances the arena all right. Oh wait. It doesn't. As Shida, Violator, and I have posted (more than once) it craters the numbers, however.
THAT DOES NOT HELP ANYONE.
What is the benefit to reducing the number of players online? There is none whatsoever.
HiTech has said that he has time limits on side switching (which is a better way to balance the numbers compared to causing people to logoff, if you ask me) in order to tame ENY spikes/swings. Well, people logging off in frustration combined with low numbers at certain times of the day is causing ENY to bounce around like a basketball so something needs to change.
I hope AH3 will ameliorate some of this. We shall see.