Here's a simple solution: Squids make peace with or without concessions. Without support all fighting stops. We all stand and stare at each other. Then we realize Strat is about to end, and we all attack each other; preferably one faction vs one other faction. Everyone forgets their earlier hatreds and alliances and just looks at the rosters and supports whoever they think they needs the most help... even though it might mean half of one clan will sign up for one faction and the other half will sign up for the other. Cuz who cares; good fun and lots XP.
So perhaps you might lose because of worse gear and less ticks. Who gives a fuck*. There's no shame in losing if you can put up a fight going down (lesson I learned in grade three). If the Euros taught us anything it is there can be glory in defeat: Arthur vs Mordred, Beowulf vs the dragon, Roland and his horn vs the Saracens, Britain in Dunkirk vs the Germans, and the Dutch vs Spain World Cup in 2010.
So lets's worry a little less about winning as we are about making some strat history. It's better to be the hero of some losing battle than the whiney little bitch who won't fight at all unless they can gank some easy target.
So, I beg you, whoever here thinks Strat should be about awesome battles that make or break empires, that wars are something you should be able to boast about 'just being in', rather than 'winning or losing', that ninja rosters are just gay homoerotic, that winning a battle should be based on a good, fair fight, then do just one thing- SIGN UP FOR THE LOWEST ROSTER NO MATTER WHAT CLAN YOU ARE IN!!!!!!!!!
And if they Ninja roster, please switch sides. Or show up and quit. Let's not let these pathetic individuals try exploit game mechanics.
Is it really too much to ask that all non-retarded people try make this game fun?
*Just losers who have no self worth except what they can get by playing a pretty stupid but the best we can get Rpg (though most have forgotten the RP part of RPG) cuz they have small penises and still need their mom's help to dress themselves in the morning.