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Title: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 13, 2012, 06:38:31 pm
The idea is simple, keep NA_3 and _EU_3 permanently apart from one another. Let the sophisticated EU throw tea parties in one server, and leave the uncivilized NA to steal each others cattle in the other server.

It has been a while since this was last presented, so here it is again. I'm curious on what people think after some time has passed.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Malaclypse on March 13, 2012, 06:40:01 pm
No, don't, just give NA the token river field Vaegir lands and mountain clad Steppes again instead of the prime Rhodokian and Swadian lands to play in.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Rikthor on March 13, 2012, 07:24:54 pm
No, don't, just give NA the token river field Vaegir lands and mountain clad Steppes again instead of the prime Rhodokian and Swadian lands to play in.

To be fair Malaclypse, this whole NA/EU split was LLJK's fault. You see, the EU and their terrible alliances could never properly remove us from Afghoonistan. Like Herpes, we were always simply there waiting to ruin their next big date. So chadz, in his infinite wisdom, decided to split the two with regions by throwing all of NA in the white barrens of the north to eensure that EU players finally could play in Afghoonistan the sandbox.

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Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lemmy_Winks on March 13, 2012, 07:30:37 pm
I HAVE A BETTER IDEA. We can all pitch in and pay for a Strat Battle Server that will be located on a boat or an old oil rig out in the middle of the atlantic ocean. Whenever its a NA vs EU strat battle the battle will take place on that server, where we will all have decent ping, or atleast the same ping.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tydeus on March 13, 2012, 07:41:46 pm
Where's the resident crpg millionaire to make this true.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Vibe on March 13, 2012, 07:47:32 pm
I'll agree to anything, just... change your avatar please
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on March 13, 2012, 07:55:27 pm
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Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: dynamike on March 13, 2012, 07:58:34 pm
ADD BERLIN WALL AND PEW PEW AT (EASTERN) EUROPE!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Slamz on March 13, 2012, 08:09:52 pm
Somewhat agree.  For such a ping-dependent game, making EUs play on NA servers and vice versa seems a bit odd.

Ideally, I guess, you form EU-NA alliances so that you can have players in both time zones, but apparently we'd rather fight each other (and NA additionally fights internally).

The only thing I see that the EU-NA joined server accomplished was to add more players.  I assume that was the point, but since we rarely interact (due to time zones and pings), I don't think it's having the intended effect.


Basically, if you go down to EU lands, sit in the area of Tshibtin (southwest of Dhrim city, south of the big crevice) you'll see endless trains of huge EU caravans going basically NW to SE and back.

Even knowing this, who wants to run over there and fight in EU pings to stop them?  So they just get free massive caravan trains endlessly running the map unopposed (whereas fighting on the NA side largely, I think, prevented anyone from having one long, free caravan area.)
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 13, 2012, 08:26:02 pm
I think this is actually a good idea, maybe reducing the population of strat a bit relative to the map size would do something cool to stimulate more players to join.

Can't believe I'm agreeing with Tears but.. I agree with it.  I think a lot of EU players would say the same, even though they are murdering our peasant fiefs they still seem to hate playing with U.S..


And if the map is going to be split again, how bout mixing it up a bit?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Gnjus on March 13, 2012, 09:02:07 pm
Can't believe I'm agreeing with Tears but.. I agree with it.

Don't feel bad about it cause it's bound to happen to all of us, sooner or later, since ToD is so ever-present.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 13, 2012, 09:20:21 pm
Don't feel bad about it cause it's bound to happen to all of us, sooner or later, since ToD is so ever-present.

^ This.

Just remember the "Million Monkeys at a Keyboard" theory, where if you have a million monkeys pounding away, eventually you will have the complete works of Shakespeare.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 13, 2012, 09:44:12 pm
^ This.

Just remember the "Million Monkeys at a Keyboard" theory, where if you have a million monkeys pounding away, eventually you will have the complete works of Shakespeare.
It was the best of times, it was the bluRST OF TIMES?!?!?!! YOU STUPID MONKEY!!!

Also I don't think comparing yourself to a million monkeys is appropriate.  Take that however you want.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 13, 2012, 09:52:47 pm
Also I don't think comparing yourself to a million monkeys is appropriate.  Take that however you want.

I'll take that as a safe and reassuring sign that you have never read my mind or glimpsed inside of it.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Thovex on March 13, 2012, 10:00:16 pm
Fallen is not EU/NA anymore then?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 13, 2012, 10:08:08 pm
Fallen is not EU/NA anymore then?

We still are.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Richter on March 13, 2012, 10:31:10 pm
I'm surprised this wasn't implemented in the first place.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Vibe on March 13, 2012, 10:46:03 pm
Fallen is not EU/NA anymore then?

We are, but we are also bonded beyond strat.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Herkkutatti666 on March 13, 2012, 11:34:13 pm
U just mad, because Eu is so much more powerfull
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This is true too  "My internet vagina is deeper then your internet vagina!"
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 13, 2012, 11:46:31 pm
U just mad, because Eu is so much more powerfull

Erm, no.  :?

Wrong thread?

Trying to make a suggestion here, not useless "My internet vagina is deeper then your internet vagina!" We have enough of those.  :|
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Slantedfloors on March 14, 2012, 12:13:38 am
(whereas fighting on the NA side largely, I think, prevented anyone from having one long, free caravan area)
It's not just the fighting. Something like the half the space allotted to NA is a patchwork of rivers and mountains that turn any long distance travel into a massive fucking chore as you weave around map hazards to avoid touching a bridge's ghost length and slowing to a dead crawl of .0003m/min or whatever.

Also did, anyone ever figure out what that supposed benefit to having a coastal city that chadz said would totally make up for NA getting a shit deal on the map division?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Garem on March 14, 2012, 12:23:01 am
Also did, anyone ever figure out what that supposed benefit to having a coastal city that chadz said would totally make up for NA getting a shit deal on the map division?

Not having enemies come at you from every angle is a pretty big benefit... you can't trade that direction either, though.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on March 14, 2012, 01:14:46 am
Host 2 versions of the same website/data base... MOTHER OF GOD!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tomas on March 14, 2012, 01:48:13 am
Why do only NA clans get to escape from "The group of clans formerly known as the UIF that are no longer allied but are still friends and now help each other out through coincidence rather than through any sort of grand plan" (or the UIF for short  8-))

 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Elmokki on March 14, 2012, 02:16:39 am
Two strategus servers so they can form UIF on both servers!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Malaclypse on March 14, 2012, 07:28:05 am
Why do only NA clans get to escape from "The group of clans formerly known as the UIF that are no longer allied but are still friends and now help each other out through coincidence rather than through any sort of grand plan" (or the UIF for short  8-))

 :mrgreen:

Three maps, one for North America, one for the UIF, one for Europe.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: SeQuel on March 14, 2012, 07:54:01 am
Three maps, one for North America, one for the UIF, one for Europe.

That would be the MOST exciting strat map to be on.

ALL OF THE TOURNAMENTS FROM STRAT 1

I just jizzed.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Gnjus on March 14, 2012, 09:54:22 am
Three maps, one for North America, one for the UIF, one for Europe.

Already suggested it ages ago in a bit different format: one for Yanks, one for Euro Trash and one for Poles & Russkies so they can live happily ever after & cheat/abuse/exploit the hell out of each other in peace. It got rejected tho.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: bredeus on March 14, 2012, 11:37:17 am
So you say that only Poles and Russians are cheating? Pretty hard to understand since ppl everywhere are the same.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: BADPLAYERold on March 14, 2012, 12:05:31 pm
put it back to how it was in strat 2.0.

there isnt enough NA clans to have their own map/side of the map (for example LLJK with 10-20 active members took the majority of the fiefs in NA just because there were no other clans to take them).
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lordark on March 14, 2012, 12:55:37 pm
I HAVE A BETTER IDEA. We can all pitch in and pay for a Strat Battle Server that will be located on a boat or an old oil rig out in the middle of the atlantic ocean. Whenever its a NA vs EU strat battle the battle will take place on that server, where we will all have decent ping, or atleast the same ping.

Wow lemmy your such a fucking genius! like ? WOW!


Fucking tired of EU care baring it up 2 hi hell lets have 2 STRATS so we dont gotta .. O wait all of NA is just gonna join Green again. NOPE!!! 22222222
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Gnjus on March 14, 2012, 01:29:10 pm
So you say that only Poles and Russians are cheating? Pretty hard to understand since ppl everywhere are the same.

Polish & Russian gaming community have a notorious reputation and they keep proving it on a daily basis even in a free little mod like this.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Ufthak on March 14, 2012, 03:09:45 pm
Wow lemmy your such a fucking genius! like ? WOW!


Fucking tired of EU care baring it up 2 hi hell lets have 2 STRATS so we dont gotta .. O wait all of NA is just gonna join Green again. NOPE!!! 22222222

You still don't get it do you? Our size was a bluff, LLJK wasn't actually involved, it was just a few guys. Our fight was pretty even WHILE the Templars were still free, but after Grey started attacking them, yeah, it wasn't fair anymore.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on March 14, 2012, 03:28:57 pm
Wow lemmy your such a fucking genius! like ? WOW!


Fucking tired of EU care baring it up 2 hi hell lets have 2 STRATS so we dont gotta .. O wait all of NA is just gonna join Green again. NOPE!!! 22222222

Exactly.  It's common sense and basic strategy.  You should always make allies...and in theory only have one enemy at a time (and one front with that enemy).  It doesn't matter if you break up the strat map into time zones, you'll still have care bear alliances because the game mechanics of strategus do nothing to discourage it.

Hell most factions have decided castles and cities are even that important...strategus is busted.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: roymorrison on March 14, 2012, 03:39:54 pm
I support this idea.  If you split strat there would be more fiefs to go around, so smaller clans could actually own some fiefs and get more trading going, more gold and equipment spread around and we might be able to have some actual battles instead of a bunch of peasants punching each other trying to get their hands on the only sickle that someone was lucky enough to spawn with.

In this version of strat I've participated in probably 3 or 4 actually good battles, every single other battle has been absolute garbage, simply because it's impossible for anybody to support a war effort unless they own a ton of fiefs and are able to do long trade routes, otherwise they are going to need to travel into enemy territory and get jumped by massive alliance armies.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Gmnotutoo on March 14, 2012, 11:46:24 pm
Split the EU Carebear Alliance from the rest of the community.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Crazyi on March 15, 2012, 01:43:12 am
Strat is simulated warfare/politics and it in my opinion it isn't ment to be fair. Either the smaller clans have to ally to a larger force or be crushed if any larger force wills it. Splitting the servers wont change that much, the largest and most productive army is STILL going to dominate most of the land. Sure its going to reduce the player pool and some smaller clans can possibly get a fief. You are still going to get crushed when the bigger army looks your way. NA clans need to drop the petty individualistic attitude if they wish to gain a foothold. Anyways just my opinion.

If cheating is involved the banhammer needs to be dropped, period.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Garem on March 15, 2012, 05:11:37 am
Strat is simulated warfare/politics and it in my opinion it isn't ment to be fair. Either the smaller clans have to ally to a larger force or be crushed if any larger force wills it. Splitting the servers wont change that much, the largest and most productive army is STILL going to dominate most of the land. Sure its going to reduce the player pool and some smaller clans can possibly get a fief. You are still going to get crushed when the bigger army looks your way. NA clans need to drop the petty individualistic attitude if they wish to gain a foothold. Anyways just my opinion.

If cheating is involved the banhammer needs to be dropped, period.

You might have missed the point about the economics tied to organization size, because this argument only makes sense by disregarding those facts.

Simply put, a group of 10 players can produce 10 resources. A group of 20 can produce 25 resources. A group of 40 can produce 40 resources.
Why?
Trade distance, territory control as the most basic reason.
These numbers are just random examples to show a simple model for current Strategus mechanics, obviously not real Strategus figures.

Throw in the ability of larger factions to reduce economic disruption because of immediately superior power, relatively speaking (and taking territory faster, too) and smaller groups' cost challenge of maintaining their already limited production space in fiefs.

Yea... the only mechanic in Strategus that I can think of that doesn't favor large organizations is the 49-troop rule giving small players a baseline of troops to start with without cost penalty. Of course, anyone who plays Strategus seriously knows that 49 troops won't make a big difference until, you guessed it, you've got a large organization with a lot of 49 troop pockets.

Here's an admittedly crappy example of what I mean. The ante for taking a village is 500 troops. If you have less, you're almost certain to fail at taking the village. So you need 10 players with 49 troops to gain the advantage of avoiding troop costs. A faction of 100 players, on the other hand, get 4900 "free" troops. Anteing up is super easy for this faction. So I'd make a totally arbitrary guess that you need at least 25 active players or so to gain any usable benefit from the 49 troop rule in regards to taking fiefs, which is the only way to make any serious, material benefit in Strategus.

This isn't nearly as important of a concern as the crazy broken economics and the positive feedback mechanism of unrestrained economic growth-by-size-times-distance overpowering smaller factions.

Lastly and most importantly, if we wanted a game that you win or lose based upon how many people you got to click a website every so often, for the LOVE OF GOD go play Kings of Chaos.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Vibe on March 15, 2012, 07:20:45 am
Lastly and most importantly, if we wanted a game that you win or lose based upon how many people you got to click a website every so often, for the LOVE OF GOD go play Kings of Chaos.


Strategus, gather referral clicks and Facebook likes to win!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tomas on March 15, 2012, 03:43:24 pm
How about offering the winners of Strat 3 (anybody who has more than 1 fief for every 15 members of their clan come the end) a chance to fight in an all new Strat Extra game.

Strat Extra rewards these highly successful clans with an opportunity to play in a special environment away from all the incompetent cry babies, allowing them to test the true nature of their Strat skills.

Every other looser clan will have to just play in Regular Strat 4 as punishment for being crap  :wink: :mrgreen:

Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Cicero on March 15, 2012, 04:45:54 pm
You might have missed the point about the economics tied to organization size, because this argument only makes sense by disregarding those facts.

Simply put, a group of 10 players can produce 10 resources. A group of 20 can produce 25 resources. A group of 40 can produce 40 resources.
Why?
Trade distance, territory control as the most basic reason.
These numbers are just random examples to show a simple model for current Strategus mechanics, obviously not real Strategus figures.

Throw in the ability of larger factions to reduce economic disruption because of immediately superior power, relatively speaking (and taking territory faster, too) and smaller groups' cost challenge of maintaining their already limited production space in fiefs.

Yea... the only mechanic in Strategus that I can think of that doesn't favor large organizations is the 49-troop rule giving small players a baseline of troops to start with without cost penalty. Of course, anyone who plays Strategus seriously knows that 49 troops won't make a big difference until, you guessed it, you've got a large organization with a lot of 49 troop pockets.

Here's an admittedly crappy example of what I mean. The ante for taking a village is 500 troops. If you have less, you're almost certain to fail at taking the village. So you need 10 players with 49 troops to gain the advantage of avoiding troop costs. A faction of 100 players, on the other hand, get 4900 "free" troops. Anteing up is super easy for this faction. So I'd make a totally arbitrary guess that you need at least 25 active players or so to gain any usable benefit from the 49 troop rule in regards to taking fiefs, which is the only way to make any serious, material benefit in Strategus.

This isn't nearly as important of a concern as the crazy broken economics and the positive feedback mechanism of unrestrained economic growth-by-size-times-distance overpowering smaller factions.

Lastly and most importantly, if we wanted a game that you win or lose based upon how many people you got to click a website every so often, for the LOVE OF GOD go play Kings of Chaos.
Thats why your side is totally easiest thing to wipe out and run away to NA.
Let me just put a point for you we started strategus with 20 members now we are 107 members.Even if we were 20 members we were the biggest army that attacking byzantium.The thing is you guys suck in diplomacy , army commanding , action commanding , trade management and economy.

The game called strategus not communism to make equal all.If you are small faction gtfo or grow up.NA&EU clans are always needs to disband its bullshit.Many clans have vassals and this is the fuckin diplomacy.Even if you hate each other personally u can still make diplomacy because its faction.

Split NA - EU so both sides have larger maps but there is only 1 problem NA dont have enough people to use all of the map like EU.If we gonna have whole map only EU probably every clan gonna take a fief and it will be awesome we can see new factions by merging and also old factions wont be same.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 15, 2012, 04:48:03 pm
A wild Cicero appears!

What do you do?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Vibe on March 15, 2012, 05:07:27 pm
Oh my, isn't he just the cutest little clueless thing!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Garem on March 15, 2012, 07:09:00 pm
Good Cicero is really good at echonomicks. Is good.

Please define, "Being good at trading". Because that's a really ridiculous sentence in the context of "click to move far away". Or "tell all my facebook friends to click "Give Goods" once a week". This isn't about trading, it's about idiots and imbalanced game mechanics.

You're right, Fallen is terrible at forming the monolithic organizations to maximize economic growth, and they totally suck at sitting on their hands and grinding up gear instead of stupid shit like, you know, fighting battles and stuff. They're so bad at it, they constantly pick fights and start wars. Fucking losers, imo.

Please. The UIF doesn't impress anybody.

Give us an NA land so we can escape this absurdity where if you don't form Red vs Blue you can't play. Call me crazy, but the war of Greens and Reds was actually pretty kickass until the Carebear club came in to let everyone know how impressively they've been doing fuck all and shitting on the fun parade.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 15, 2012, 07:23:06 pm
As much as this amuses me, I kindly request all further UIF is teh devil/My clan is better then your clan arguments be had in another thread.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RandomDude on March 15, 2012, 08:25:16 pm
Actually cicero has a point about people not becoming vassals because they hate someone. How different would strat be if people swallowed their pride sometimes?

Also for troop upkeep maybe it should be based on faction wide numbers, not just 49 troops per person.

I dont know how that would be possible unless it was done in "Bands" (like tax bands).

EG Up to 1000 troops is low upkeep Up to 10,000 is medium upkeep, etc.

Each player with an army would pay upkeep based on this tax band.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 15, 2012, 08:29:01 pm
EG Up to 1000 troops is low upkeep Up to 10,000 is medium upkeep, etc.

Each player with an army would pay upkeep based on this tax band.
This is actually a really awesome idea and makes sense.

I was kind of thinking some sort of "official alliance" system would be nice, so that you would be penalized for neutral and gain bonuses for allies, in regards to trading and such.  And then add some sort of tax inefficiency as they have in Native, as a larger territory has a larger profit margin.. this would help reduce that a bit, and encourage  people to spread fiefs out to more owners, and more allies.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lech on March 15, 2012, 09:49:24 pm
Polish & Russian gaming community have a notorious reputation and they keep proving it on a daily basis even in a free little mod like this.

+1, we also steal german cars. Germans on the other hand are chocolate chip cookies, and croats destroyed yugoslavia.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Cicero on March 15, 2012, 10:25:41 pm
Can you tell me 1 success of fallen and his carebear friends ?
Everything in this game worse for you and best for us ?
Do you know a word called "organise" ?
Checking goods everyday , finding place to go , finding online member to make the caravan , making aggrement with factions.So easy isnt it , one click ? For you "Being good at trading"
What do you waiting from strategus ? Putting a crown on Ramses ? Its the best strategus atm they cant make a new thing.
Blaming people for your faults is just funny because we didnt tell you to organise badly against us so whats the point about whining ?
What is the name of this topic ?
"I whine , i came , i lost." Fallen.
We will kill you next strat also because i personally hate you.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: 22nd_King_Plazek on March 15, 2012, 10:30:58 pm
 :lol:
Someone got told.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tanken on March 15, 2012, 10:40:35 pm
We will kill you next strat also because i personally hate you.

Someone takes this game entirely too seriously.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 15, 2012, 10:46:56 pm
So as much as this is adorable, can people actually be on topic and stop being idiots about this?

If you want to shit talk each other, do it in the thrice-damned cesspool known as the diplomacy section.

Stay on topic and don't make me warn you again, or so help me god I will start posting Boxxy Gifs with every single post I make for the rest of my c-RPG stay to "punctuate" my points, and get inventive with SNSD again... Maybe even introduce some Kim Kardashian/Paris Hilton/etc action too...
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 15, 2012, 10:48:07 pm
Checking goods everyday , finding place to go , finding online member to make the caravan , making aggrement with factions.So easy isnt it , one click ? For you "Being good at trading"
What do you waiting from strategus ? Putting a crown on Ramses ? Its the best strategus atm they cant make a new thing.
Oh look at me, I get to skip around in the land of faeries and carry my goods about with one click.

(click to show/hide)

because EU've never heard of a river or a bridge, and you can just walk right over mountains.

oh wait that was today  :lol:
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Cicero on March 15, 2012, 11:24:42 pm
What is the name of this topic ?
So as much as this is adorable, can people actually be on topic and stop being idiots about this?

If you want to shit talk each other, do it in the thrice-damned cesspool known as the diplomacy section.

Stay on topic and don't make me warn you again, or so help me god I will start posting Boxxy Gifs with every single post I make for the rest of my c-RPG stay to "punctuate" my points, and get inventive with SNSD again... Maybe even introduce some Kim Kardashian/Paris Hilton/etc action too...
Thats why i am supporting EU NA split ribaldron i didnt get your post anyway
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: 22nd_King_Plazek on March 15, 2012, 11:30:29 pm
Oh he was being American, he thought you meant trade was as easy as one click.

Which was the opposite to what you were saying, of course.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Darkkarma on March 15, 2012, 11:46:09 pm
Thats why your side is totally easiest thing to wipe out and run away to NA.
Let me just put a point for you we started strategus with 20 members now we are 107 members.Even if we were 20 members we were the biggest army that attacking byzantium.The thing is you guys suck in diplomacy , army commanding , action commanding , trade management and economy.



Split NA - EU so both sides have larger maps but there is only 1 problem NA dont have enough people to use all of the map like EU.I
f we gonna have whole map only EU probably every clan gonna take a fief and it will be awesome we can see new factions by merging and also old factions wont be same.

This is pretty accurate actually. As it stands, I just don't know if there are enough active NA clans to even use all of the map. Currently, DRZ and Grey order alone could probably make up around 3/4 of the active NA clans. Maybe if we had factions like the FCC and others come back then it'd be a different story. As it stands though, NA would basically have to over extend itself to fill up the map.


Also tears, would this mean that fallen would essentially split into two different branches on the both the EU and NA map?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 16, 2012, 12:08:23 am
Also tears, would this mean that fallen would essentially split into two different branches on the both the EU and NA map?

I am not the person nor is this the place to answer that, my apologies.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Cicero on March 16, 2012, 12:13:47 am
Oh he was being American, he thought you meant trade was as easy as one click.

Which was the opposite to what you were saying, of course.
i thought i was speaking english, his main language =)
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Darkkarma on March 16, 2012, 12:32:38 am
I am not the person nor is this the place to answer that, my apologies.

I didn't mean to be that specific, sorry. I was more so using Fallen as a universal example for other clans that had strong EU and NA member bases. I wasn't trying to derail the thread, although I do think it'd make for an interesting point of discussion.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Nebun on March 16, 2012, 12:42:23 am
Make continetns and raid eachother on ships!!!! :))) yeaaaah

I also want a continent for Moldova, i strongly believe our 10 moldovian crpg players deserve their own continent, where we will smash eachother with cudgels.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Rikthor on March 16, 2012, 12:48:09 am
This is why I like Cicero, owns in game then owns people like Tears in a second language. +1 for Cicero and trolling freedom. -1 for Tears and oppression.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Nebun on March 16, 2012, 12:58:04 am
+ 1 to Cicero, because he can do a lot of things, for example
he can go and kill kapikulu, he can kill them on forum, he can come to their TS and order them to DIE and they will obey... Because he is strong!  :)
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Cicero on March 16, 2012, 01:46:01 am
i can even make Fus Ro Dah with my nose
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 16, 2012, 01:52:40 am
i can even make Fus Ro Dah with my nose
Fus-rah-CHOO?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Materia on March 16, 2012, 12:43:11 pm
Dont change your avatar.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Renten on March 16, 2012, 04:33:55 pm
About NA not being able to fill up the whole map, I think it would be pretty interesting to see neutrals/mercanary armies/bandits owning fiefs alongside the factions.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Malaclypse on March 17, 2012, 01:16:43 am
I'd say one of two things should happen: Either we completely split NA and EU into separate maps, or we go back to the old system of server assignment for fiefs. As it stands, NA loses access to playing in like, roughly two-thirds of fiefs/castle/towns on NA servers, and EU only loses access to playing in roughly one third of fiefs/castles towns.

Now, I'm also not for splitting NA and EU into separate maps. I think this would only serve to hurt smaller NA and EU clans when whatever mega-alliance inevitably arises. It is my personal desire that we just go back to the old system, where anyone can attack any Neutral fief and fight on their own server with decent ping instead of giving the NA players the short end of the stick.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Nebun on March 17, 2012, 01:38:44 am
old system would be good but with huge new map :))
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Matey on March 17, 2012, 01:48:54 am
the old system... but 2 changes...
1. as nebun said: bigger map
2. as someone else (smooth?) said in a diff thread, attacker chooses server, defender chooses time. (instead of attacker picks time and defender gets server)
that 2nd change would be great... the thing that sucks right now is defenders always get hit at shitty times where they cant make it, now it would be the attackers having issues with timing so it would be more important for them to have friends who can show up at various time, it might also encourage EU to fight EU since i think people would rather fight at prime time on shit ping than fight at horrible times on good ping... so it would be harder to launch offensives against other time zones unless you want to always fight at shitty times.
Also, night time would still work but it would be the defender basically setting a 8 hour window when they cannot schedule their defensive match, so that attackers would know it would occur within a 16 hour window but would have no influence over what that window is.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Crazyi on March 19, 2012, 03:58:15 am
Now I don't know this for a fact but I believe strat = simulated warfare. Yet here you guys are asking for it to be fair....Like some people have suggested swallow your pride and allign with a "king" or be crushed like a rebel.

Yes larger size = more economic power.....duh?

They have 100 players or whatever......10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10 also = 100. Swallow your pride? Make allies? The only thing you can argue is that the larger army has more power.....and you think a larger organization should be weaker so it can be fair? I fail to see where that makes sense....

The larger map honestly I think would cause more harm than help. Sure you give the small NA clans that dont wish to form any alliance knowing they will be crushed when EU turns this way, some time to squabble over a small amount of territory....but you are also giving the super faction more room to dominate the economic side. There size gives them economic advantage and you want to give them more space to use their advantage? By the time they reached our doorstep they would be FAR more geared than they are now, unles every time they approach we reset the strat. If you would make it large enough to never see the two factions you might as well split them up(which I am opposed to, competition keeps people on their toes, or on their ass and they cry). Honestly I think making it smaller might be more effective. Force attacking, disrupting trade, and be very aggressive vs letting them stockpile and gain momentum. Anyways just my thoughts....
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 19, 2012, 06:14:30 am
I think it would be nice if a new map was designed, perhaps closely to resemble campaign map, with some changes of course.

With a new, customized map, I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to improve how trading works, a simple system such as

- Selling goods DECREASES prosperity

- Buying goods INCREASES prosperity

Production would be neutral, however, fiefs would slowly CONSUME goods to increase prosperity, so the whole map would average a prosperity of zero.  Large transactions would decrease the fief's resources, so naturally, they will have less money to pay for additional goods.



A simpler idea would be to have set prices, such as in Native, that the fiefs will pay for good(s) of certain types.  This does not necessarily have to make sense based upon the layout of the map.  Grain in Dhirim becomes Praven's Ale.. or however that saying goes.  :rolleyes:

Anyway, this would help balance the map, so that there would be LOGICAL trade routes (cheap Grain from Dhirim, sold to Suno for Wine, sold for Ale in Praven, traded for Iron in Uxkhal, where each product is in demand, and contains a cheap resource in demand elsewhere) however with people taking advantage of these trade routes, the demands would be decreased, there would still be a profit in it, but a larger alliance would have more difficulty, over time, making money in the same transactions.

Oh, yeah, and the main production areas for said resources would begin to charge more, cutting profit margins of commonly traded goods for mega alliances.

Basically, the larger your trade alliance, the less profit each individual sees.  Overall, this would still BENEFIT a large alliance, but your entire alliance will not be turning your 3 gold goods into 25 gold (further multiplied by the distance bonus) by the thousands, continually.


This will also have traders playing a more active role in strat, and add to the realism, in that they will usually have SOME cargo on their person(s) which they have had for several cities back, waiting to turn a good profit on it.

Now I don't know this for a fact but I believe strat = simulated warfare. Yet here you guys are asking for it to be fair....Like some people have suggested swallow your pride and allign with a "king" or be crushed like a rebel.

Yes larger size = more economic power.....duh?

...
The larger map honestly I think would cause more harm than help.

...
I think the main problem is that NA has proven, strat after strat, to be very warlike.  EU, when cordoned off, has shown that it is perfectly capable of exterminating resistance, and resorting to peaceful and VERY profitable trade.  They also control the most lucrative sections of map, IMHO, and much more of it than does NA.

The way trade is set up does not make great logical sense, and is kind of busted from a balance perspective too.

Splitting EU and NA into their own strategus maps would be a way to solve this problem, EU would have more land (which may or may not take one of their mega alliances longer to conquer the entire thing) while NA would have more room for everyone's ego to expand, and this would hopefully lead to more NA wars.  That seems win-win as the largest portion of players, on both sides I think, would be appeased, without a major overhaul to the game.

This would have the added bonus of, essentially, INCREASING the amount of strat battles, as well, since  there are two maps  producing armies, etc, to be battling, as opposed to one.  This would end up being a good thing to make the entire game more fun.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lordark on March 19, 2012, 11:46:35 am
Strat is simulated warfare/politics and it in my opinion it isn't ment to be fair. Either the smaller clans have to ally to a larger force or be crushed if any larger force wills it. Splitting the servers wont change that much, the largest and most productive army is STILL going to dominate most of the land. Sure its going to reduce the player pool and some smaller clans can possibly get a fief. You are still going to get crushed when the bigger army looks your way. NA clans need to drop the petty individualistic attitude if they wish to gain a foothold. Anyways just my opinion.

If cheating is involved the banhammer needs to be dropped, period.


This rings true in my ears! What chadz might do then to help solve the care bear issues is to give the faction with the most 'strat' power REWARDS and or BONUSES like perhaps Perma x2 Crpg ticks for best clan in game or Reduced crafting costs for stronger clan in game and perhaps even a minor buff for 2nd strongest. Then 2nd strongest ally in care bare clan will get sick of the one in 1st hogging all the crpg gold and then attack! Sounds simple crazy and perhaps cruel but hell if it will shut every 1 the fuck up then why not chadz my good man?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Loki on March 19, 2012, 11:53:07 am
This has been brought up time and time again.

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Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lordark on March 20, 2012, 06:05:12 am
Sorry Loki it seems Ive never heard it before. Anyways the more ideas shot out there the better chance chadz might like it and do it. And I really really like my idea! Promote competition!!!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Mamba on March 20, 2012, 06:23:13 am
How about some genius designs a balanced continent instead of using the native Calradia.
Who tells us to use the old factions, they don't even exist in Strategus because all there is is us with our factions.

Unless chadz decides to put in NPCs Kings and Quests, but thats not really the point of Strategus is it. It would be Online M&B.

Only chadz and god knows if thats planned. Aside from that I demand a Startegus for myself, because Im not joining any of you mindless hobos!  8-)

HAHA
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lordark on March 20, 2012, 10:43:46 am
We can have a new continent where Drz/str and allies are the bad guys and the rest are all good guys. But then Fallen would join Drz and we be doubly screwed  :cry:
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Jarlek on March 23, 2012, 03:30:13 am
We can have a new continent where Drz/str and allies are the bad guys and the rest are all good guys. But then Fallen would join Drz and we be doubly screwed  :cry:
Nah. It would be easier to win if Fallen joined them.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Haze_The_Hobo on March 23, 2012, 11:02:47 pm
Yes please!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Garem on March 25, 2012, 12:09:12 am
No matter what you picked, or what you think... just want to highlight some numbers:

-133 people voted in this poll. That's a fairly sizable chunk of the Strategus playerbase.

61.7% FAVOR splitting into an NA and an EU Strategus.
33.9% DISFAVOR splitting.

Nearly a 2:1 ratio.

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My analysis, feel free to disagree, is that this is not a good sign for player's contentment with the status quo. In a game where the playerbase IS the content of the game, this is not a good indicator.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Farrix on March 25, 2012, 07:13:30 am
Heres an idea. Take the native continent, put one on each side of an ocean. Rhodok sides facing each other. make one continent NA, make one continent EU. Set strat 4.0 up so that once one side conquers their entire continent, nomatter the method or clan, their main responsibility is to use the economics of a unified continent, which would be accomplished militarily, or through alliances, with one clan designated head, using economics after unifying the continent to build an invasion force upon the other continent. The first continent to have a unified power would have this option and they could initiate the invasion whenever they wanted. this would allow either side to race towards hegemony and allow them to invade the not-so-organized enemy continent whenever they feel ready. It would force a war for continental power, or an alliance with clear leadership. This could be a unique and fun way to approach another round of strategus. everyone talks up the eu invasion of na lands. lets make that a reality and see if the "carebear" tactics of eu clans (stereotyping, not reflecting my own beliefs) can beat NA warmongering tactics in continental hegemony and who can beat who to initiating an invasion.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Slantedfloors on March 25, 2012, 07:26:33 am
The first continent to have a unified power would have this option and they could initiate the invasion whenever they wanted.
This will be like Day 3 for Europe, just FYI.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 25, 2012, 07:34:50 am
Heres an idea that involves fighting on high ping.

No thank you.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Kazak on March 25, 2012, 10:47:22 am
Signed: Druzhina_Kazak (http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;u=5803)
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Farrix on March 25, 2012, 05:01:53 pm
@ slanted: No I really don't think the EU's are as unified as NA propaganda would signify. There would inevitably be battles to decide which clan would gain leadership of whatever type of mega-alliance would be formed. And I mentioned hegemony of the entire continent before setting up an invasion force is even an option. This would mean every fief would have to be under control of a single alliance. If your trying to tell me that the entire eu community would join together under a single banner without any wars for leadership, I respectfully disagree with you. In addition there is always the option of an NA clan supporting a dissenting EU clan that would work to prevent such a mega-alliance from forming. The political intrigue could be quite tantalizing.

also, continent to continent trade could be a legitimate option. It could even be taken to the extent of having ship to ship naval battles for ocean trade routes. all it would take would be a map with two ships next to each other and two or three planks crossing the divide.

@ Tears: You realize that chadz has already set up the map in 3.0 so that the server decision for a strat battle is decided by where the battle is initiated according to a split down the middle of the map. This is how it already works. So if an NA clan wants to battle for EU territory, they already have to fight on high ping and vice-versa. My idea is simply an extension of the already set up game mechanics to a logical conclusion without the cloudy division of lands. The russian invasion of NA lands has been an end-game event, my idea does not change that, nor does it force any change as far as ping levels are concerned with the bulk of the battles which would be within each respective continent. To say that this idea would dictate high ping to all players is simply foolish.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 25, 2012, 06:47:11 pm
Your idea does dictate high ping to all players, as your plan forces an invasion of one continent at another.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Farrix on March 25, 2012, 08:52:30 pm
no it doesn't force it. it is optional. just as invading from one side of the map to the other is optional. all this would do is bring a naval aspect into strategus. There is 66% of the votes that favor a split. This idea would create a split map that would allow each of us to duke it out for the continent that the 66% want all to themselves (whichever side) and still allow an interaction. The way to do the navy would need to be considered thoroughly, and the requirement to own the whole continent could be ditched before allowing an invasion. It really is the best of both worlds. Port cities would be the strongest and best defended therefor an invasion would be expensive and very difficult to achieve. You've got your own map to fight each other in, and you've still got the ability to invade the ping barrier across the ocean and still interact with our EU fellows. make boats a very expensive, buyable item in a port city. Don't even gotta code it in as an item. Just make 9 maps on ocean with three different quality boat designs (trade boat, light boat, heavy boat) and boom we've got a navy in strategus and we've got a split map as 66% of the population wants.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 25, 2012, 11:27:05 pm
-133 people voted in this poll. That's a fairly sizable chunk of the Strategus playerbase.

61.7% FAVOR splitting into an NA and an EU Strategus.
33.9% DISFAVOR splitting.
You missed the most important part of the poll:

55.4% support Tears changing his avatar
40.3% support him keeping it

Maybe not the landslide you mentioned but GET RID OF IT!
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 26, 2012, 02:28:27 am
GET RID OF IT!

I will, I just need to figure out an actual, proper avatar, that I want. I might go back to using Misha Collins as Castiel is really cool, but I am unsure.

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Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Vibe on March 26, 2012, 08:39:30 am
Just use a hot guy ToD <3<3< x0x0x0x0xxoxo
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: RibaldRon on March 26, 2012, 09:25:21 pm
I will, I just need to figure out an actual, proper avatar, that I want.
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You're welcome.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Gawin on March 27, 2012, 02:15:59 am
Nah. It would be easier to win if Fallen joined them.
We headshot them while behind their lines  :o
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Jarlek on March 27, 2012, 02:34:50 am
We headshot them while behind their lines  :o
Exactly! You don't want people behind you headshoting you, now would you?
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Anhy on March 31, 2012, 08:27:53 am
Delete NA servers from Strategus!
Or give to Ammerican boys other Strategus map without the EU players and community.
Create http://EU.strategus.c-rpg.net/ and http://NA.strategus.c-rpg.net/
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Vingnir the Wanderer on April 02, 2012, 03:01:57 am
I voted split.

And the only reason i did so, is because there are not enough fiefs, to accommodate all those interested in strat, and too much affect on the average player, by the stranglehold of the larger guilds.

The 100 gold per hour for visiting, as a owner setting is rediculous, and SHOULD lead to a percentage chance per day, of a revolt by the actual AI commoners living in the fief, against the controlling entity. That way, it could still be used occasionally and temporarily, but not without possible consequences, and not as a permanent way to hold down the entire game, and greater community, in a rediculously unrealistic fashion.

I'd rather see more fiefs added if thats even possible, or even a new map with a better border, but if neither is possible, split it. Please.
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Moncho on April 02, 2012, 08:03:43 pm
Dont care, but, please, keep your avatar :)
Title: Re: Split the next Strategus into NA and EU.
Post by: Lordark on April 02, 2012, 08:44:44 pm
split strat but demend more donations. If donations not met, reduce strat to 1 map again.