Thanks for the quote @chionophile. I haven't seen that before
But that essentially means it is possible to influence the matchups by joining sooner / later. That's a bad system in itself. Why not let the game have an hour after the join period to figure things out? That would be perfectly fine and a much better approach
Also perfectly right @CadoaBane. It could be so easy ...
Even the gear pieces you can buy every six hours from the store have sort of a confirmation screen and buying those clearly doesn't have an impact on anything unlike joining GAC too early by accident
