I just think you have no voice in the matter when you chose not to defend. I defend and am successful, if you helped, it would be so much easier for me to do my job. You won't always have the advantage of numbers, thats the beauty of main arena. If you are outnumbered you can get a Tempest really cheap and destroy all their 20eny options.
My examples were more based on no numbers defending or just me struggling to defend. When there are 1-2 more players trying to defend....I usually join in, as there is somewhat of a chance to slow them down. Remember....it's 0530 EST. The western world is asleep. I try to plead with them, and the reply I get is....."the Bish do it". Yea....the Bish do it DURING PRIME TIME. Tropical Thunder is the ONLY squadron that forms up at 0500hrs. Hence why they can roll 5-6 bases in 1 hour....and resetting the map.
Here is an example on one day...... again, just me and two or three Rook sleepers online....and here is what my dance card looked like. TechWrek (1) and you (2) in the air, heavy jabos. Baronred (3) in 24s. Mr Cart (4), Mr Jousts (5) and lets not forget Chute (6) all storming a base in GVs. So.....you are saying you, you alone can effectively defend these numbers? I highly doubt it. You cannot aim at one plane, and contend with the other one dropped eggs on you.
Anyways..... the purpose of my post was I hoped that Hitech would see it and if it was possible, set a min # required on a country....before the war can be won. We have parameters of what we need, when people are online....90% and then 20%, 20%............why is it so out in left field to have a min # requirement. It would solve the problem of us losing good maps, to this hording in the wee hours.