As a coordinating TB officer of a 110 gp, 41 star guild, I totally agree with what most here are saying.
Locking zones at 1 or 2 stars would help immensely, even more so if we could lock individual CMs or deployment areas, thus allowing us to keep only a special mission open in some areas.
Mandatory, automatic participation locks after 3 stars are just plain dumb. They makes no sense, and are representative of lazy programming.
The attempts of the devs to explain these 2 issues, and rationalize them have been comedic at best, patronizing at worst.
Either play the game to the extent that we do, or take our advice about 'tools to make our lives easier'
