Eh, NA battles aren't really "good times", they're normally pretty damn boring.
Everyone has a merc agreement with eachother and a siege in which there were ELEVEN defenders just occured.
PROtip: I'm gonna fucking retire at 35. I know nobody else is doing that shit.
Sorry man, just a copycat now. http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=tavernhof (http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=tavernhof) You can't be me no matter how hard you try :( sorry.
As we tarry here, a black tide rises in the West (EU). Even as we bandy these empty words, our own EU brethren steel themselves for death--forlorn, broken, alone. From the walls of Tehlrog in the North, to the old spire of Narra in the southern passes, and at all the ancient capitals in between, a fearless, faceless enemy batters the gates. "Kapikulu," "Druzhina," "The Grey Order"--their names are profane, their numbers, legion, and their black hosts march inexorably forward, quenching one by one, the sacred fires of our shared civilization; bringing savagery, ruin, oblivion.
Gentlemen, the lamps are going out all over EU. Shall we see them lit again in our life-times? Turn from your brothers in their hour of need, and the mark of Cain will follow you the rest of your days like the shadow of regret. But, if we muster the great armies of North America, if we unite the clans, we can join an epic, noble struggle, so that when Odin calls you home, you will be worthy of a place in Valhalla.
Behold!, the beacons are burning!
TL:DR, I think it would make strat more interesting if we supported the weaker clans in EU against the boring megablob EU factions. Just something to do. Maybe we can pick like a random castle in EU, and whichever NA clan takes it first wins a bunch of silver or C-RPG gold or a loompoint or something, IDK.
1mil XP in a full battle was not uncommon at all. Now it's more like 300k MAX in a big battle. People would rather sit in NA_1 than play any strat battles, because, for some fucking reason, everyone has a huge boner for XP.The same thing for EU...
I lost the argument because I replied.
I welcome NAs to EU (i'll backstab anyone if it means we get an EU/NA war), or preferably EUs to NA. I'd rather lead an exodus to NA cos we have a rather bad case of the plague in Europe, the entire desert has it, and most of the western half. The problem with plague is, if you try and fight the plague-ridden, you get the plague too.
I predict the plague will spread creating more plague-fiefs, so i'd rather find sanctuary with our NA overlords on the east-side of the new world, just incase the west side gets some plague too.
I'm afraid i must decline your generous offer on this particular occasion, i only pledge myself to NA overlords in the event of an EU invasion.
Until then i will imitate Moses and build an arc to save my people on their perilous journey to Egypt. But i'm sure once the promised land is reached we can consider some kind of agreement.
No one's mentioned how fucking ridiculously difficult it is to put an army together nowadays. An army that cost 100k last strat now costs 400 fucking thousand silver to fully gear. 400 thousand. Fucking Christ on wheels, dude.
For DRZ and Grey Order(not picking on you guys just making a point.) that's no big deal, they're extremely well organized and have a very centralized leadership (assumption) with plenty of veterans. For just about every single clan in NA, this, along with crime making low S&D a necessity makes buying equipment (and even just trading) much more difficult than, in my opinion, it ought to be. Attacking anyone at this point isn't even worth it anymore if you take in take in all the time needed to build an effective army and field it as opposed to how much fun that battle will be.
TL;DR- I'm a buttmad strat nerd who is angered at Donkey team's changes to both the S&D system (crime) and scaling up the prices, leading to strat just not being worth the effort anymore.
Also, Artyem: Assuming you're talking about Wardens doing EXP battles, that's not even close to set in stone. I'm not going to let EXP battles be our only goal in strat, because that's boring and lame and not even worth the effort, unless you're Murdertron and hide duped gear in your asscheeks.
The problem with NA Strategus at the moment is that the large clans like MB, Occitan, Acre aren't attacking other factions, only AI castles, and noone cares about signing up for random AI because theres no chance of winning (ok maybe you can defend a fief 1 battle, but then they take it right after so it achieves nothing) really it would be a whole lot better for everyone if those factions would stop giving out spoilers attack eachother instead of other AI but obviously thats never gonna happen. Until all the AI castles are taken everyone should just get used to and deal with it for a few months because the Big Factions aren't gonna change what they are doing.
All these reasons you're giving are reasons why this is going to be awesome.
Is that you guys in grey in the top-right of the NA map? Definately an enviable position (max distance from EU).
Lol
Earth to Sandy, why would we finish you off in strat? We have bigger fish in the sea to throw ink at.
Special education militia? You see that they just got 30 mercs against 50 in that last battle?
Bigger fish to ink? Who would they be?
I don't mean to say it's silly or stupid or unintelligent to wipe us. I mean, we're as big as you are, with almost certainly fewer active strat players, and CERTAINLY fewer allies. I reckon if we attacked an AI fief it wouldn't be 45v20. I imagine it'd be more like 40v40. There are a lot of big coalitions on the map right now, and we aren't exactly friendly with any of them. Well, by a lot I mean wardens and acre.
You could wipe us by yourselves, sure. It wouldn't get you much of anything, so I can see why you wouldn't do it.
Still, I ask you; who the fuck is opposed to you besides us? Acre? Hell naw. Wardens? You've got an agreement as far as I know. Those are the two largest factions on the map. Special education militia? You see that they just got 30 mercs against 50 in that last battle? What threat are they?
Unless you're looking to go hard on LCO, who is doing god knows what, who the fuck are you talking about?
What does it matter to you? I'm sorry Sandy, I didn't think you wanted me that much. I'm blushing hehehe . . As far as I'm concerned about you wanting to know our plans...Non of your Ink wax!
Sandy, every time I read your posts and look at your avatar I feel as if you are depressed.I the see the Seinfeld gif and laugh