Without players there isn't a game and PGI is scrambling to keep whomever is left....
When we had players, the teams I belonged to never would have switched.... If you switch it begs to ask the question: why have a game that is divided into unique parts to start with???
I would hope that PGI would simply "turn off" the faction ID check process and let anyone, as an individual play in a FP event as a mercenary......no strings attached and no teams: all singles.... That way you get the FP experience without the "organized team farming" that goes on...
Just a thought.