Well the points been made. i didn't really bother reading the 28 pages to respond to everyone, but i'll say it one last time:
I support having an official server not run by me. I do not support giving any sort of control/responsibility (even if it is managed by shik and the dev team) to zealot. Balton would be a better choice. I prefer having multiple people donating so if one person decides to skip town, there's a chance to keep the server up.
If i'm wrong( I hope i am) the community grows. If i'm right, we're back to no server when we'll probably need one.
This wasn't about protecting my interests...if i wanted to ban every single guild who did something bad towards me...half the NA community would be banned. Not only that, but over half the guilds out there have at least one admin on my admin staff or knows someone who can represent them.
At the end of the day, this means less work for me which i can be happy about. What made me unhappy was the way this was handled. chadz you disconnected a perfectly good NA strat sever before you brought up a new one (even if this strat don't count, less fun for us right?). Plus you took a service that many have offered without doing your homework on the person who offered. Instead you recognized a problem, and got half way there to solving it.
Your the creator chadz, and its a free game that lots take for granted (even myself at times); i just don't see these types of actions with EU. Ever.