You have about the same concerns as me. I'd like to see all players and not just netters able to protect themselves from griefing, but by and large I think war clans wont want to pay a high early game expense to avoid killing someone.

When laf arranges a war with us, I think you and I both know you'd like the clan GDI until the war. And having all of our sets ruined like 2 sets ago when suiciders ruined an arranged war with half the server still pretty fresh, I would probably want to join this. I dont think much of the rest of mercs would, but I would lol.

It kind of assumes that war clans like getting suicided so they have things to kill. While there is some truth to that, a suicider could still ruin a war clans experience.