This completely wrecks my second favorite hobby in Zone, which is to collect solo squad hours in showdown. I use my squad to keep track of my total showdown time. Now my wins very rarely add to my squad planet time.
This change is an ineffective way to address the problems with planets. All it does is punish the players who play during off-hours when the game isn't as popular. It doesn't help new squads gain hours, it doesn't promote competition, all it does is eliminate a huge competitive aspect of the game for the majority of the time (since Zone doesn't usually have 150 members).
I hope they reverse this. It just doesn't make sense to me. How are small squads supposed to wrack up hours now? The only way they could do so is when huge squads go to bed... and now when they do go to bed, the planets don't even count.
edit: I misread the change, but this still causes problems