It means more playing and less waiting, not everything in this game is about winning, you can have fun even without win.
Was it really? If you want to relog, you relog anyway. It changes nothing for you. If you only have one character, you don't need to wait too long anymore. So what's the big deal? "Oh no, they don't have to wait 60 seconds anymore!"? What exactly is it that makes 20 seconds waiting worse than 60 seconds waiting?
Then why not to remove it completely? No replication timer, preferably respawning on worldmap at the place you died or better, in your base.
Sure, let's make leveling a character only few minutes, farming equipment also few minutes, less waiting and more playing, more fun right? How about we just make resources available in all bases, HQ ore, minerals etc. etc. so we don't have to waste more time than we have to, right? Make advanced workbench right there in the caves. Might as well own personal Game Master to spawn stuff directly on demand, because hey he can do it faster! Less waiting, more fun, right? You'll do in some minutes, not hours, so what is the big problem?
Some sort of restrictions exist so everyone can have fun.
The sole purpose of that change was for players with one character to have better odds against those who use multiple and i just proved that it's wrong and desired effect won't work, instead now It'll help players who bring literally nothing to game play, risk nothing and now even have the least penalty ever. Great, trolling is promoted again.
i WOULD run in metal armor and avenger if i knew there's not gonna be losers that fast-relog massively just to get good stuff off ONE player.
and no, i don't go around in leather jacket and throwing knives. and no, i don't only go to reno.
Sure you would, sure.
The problem is that 60s replication timer was one of few things that weren't changed during last 3 years and it was perfectly fine. Then why to change it at all? Not surprising that jovanka came up with this dumb idea, don't you remember her defending AC-troll feature?
Exactly, you don't fix something that is already working fine.