Okay maybe your right, who knows.
However, what downside would it have to change it? it would help me out extremely and others that want this.
Ask yourself in what way it would affect you.
It wouldn't directly but off the top of my head:
-Even more Spiez paranoia.
-Depending what they changed it to and how it was implemented, likely as not more actual spying. I really don't care because my gameplay rarely involves stealth.
-3 hours is still longer than the typical play session unless it's a weekend or your day off, so the effect it would have on most peoples' typical play sessions would be negligible. The main reason I don't switch is because I don't want to be separated from my squad if they happen to pop on, and that's likely over a 3 hour period. When it was 1 hour, I can remember several occasions where a squaddie popped on and I was only stuck on the other side for minutes instead of 2 hours and change. I liked that.
-According to HT, a shorter time makes the imbalances swing wider and worse. He's likely got access to a bit more information than we forum dwellers. I don't agree with his conclusions because you can watch the numbers swing on a weekend day a lot faster than over 6 hours. I've seen each country have ENY over a 6 hour period. But, that's his standpoint.
Wiley.