Just bring back the 1 hour rule.
This isn't ever going to happen, Hitech explains his reasoning
here. I dont know why people keep going on about it.
ENY works as intended. In Violators post, they had a large ENY hit and it made it much harder to take those last bases. This is what it was meant to do, aid the out numbered team by limiting the overwhelming forces equipment. They cant force people to switch sides to keep the numbers even (tho that option is available), and so fair. Having the team with the larger force have to use inferior equipment helps "even" the play field.
The two biggest issues with ENY is one, those that refuse to fly other planes instead of their "favorite ride" which aggravates the other issue, numbers (because they log off instead of using other planes). That is why you see such big swings in ENY during the low numbers times. If the numbers never dropped below 150 players on line there would be very few complaints about ENY.