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Originally Posted by Light
Its a two way thing, in one way it helps casual players by allowing them to attack at the optimum time. In the other way it kills casual players as everyone is now launching when they arnt online.
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It's only an optimum time because prelaunch exists. Before prelaunch was added attacks happened a lot earlier in the day (game time) as everyone had to actually be on to launch. Consequently a lot more folks were also online to defend at the same general time. This made attacking harder and defending easier in general terms, at least for Europeans. Before prelaunch attacking was much easier for Americans (I can't speak for aussies and the like) and Americans were very valuable for defense against other americans.
What I am really trying to point out is that prelaunch has upset the balance of geography. Before prelaunch you tended to play with and against people primarily in your own time zone. Since the advent of prelaunch basically everyone plays with the americans and aussies as they are the ones awake (generally speaking) when attacks/defense primarily happen. All this to say, removing prelaunch would make people play more with people in their own general time zones, and thereby make the game a bit more accessible to europeans, which is probably not a bad thing at all.