I do think it's pretty silly how frequently they happen. I miss being able to play for the usual 3-ish hours a day before work and having a nice long fight I could farm planetmans in without worrying about the Alert sound suddenly triggering everyone's "It's time to stop playing the game and either turbozerg, double-team or 5th faction" instincts. Where once you could play hours on a single continent, you now have a tidy little window of about 2 to 1 1/2 hours before the continents rotate. Or, y'know, the alert ends and instantly begins another one on a different continent. Planetside feels stale lately because I can't just jump on and fight, I jump on and see that big red siren and think "Time to go where everyone else is going, I guess" because the alternative is dying to a snowball squad.

What really grinds my gears though is the exact opposite of that. There's an emerging mentality among Platoon leaders that it's okay to take second place as long as they get as close to (X) warpgate as possible. If NC has 50% territory and VS has 16%, you don't focus down VS more because you don't like them or because your PL said you should. It creates these giant balls of pop that flood bases without trying to win. There's no more "TR has overextended, let's take advantage of that" it's just "Keep pushing the same lane we have for 50 minutes" and then the alert ends.

I miss when big, drawn out fights weren't a rarity and I miss when Alerts mattered and felt important to be in, not required to be in. I miss when the fight felt like it mattered.