All I really want is for this lovely autistic mod to be even half as populated as the days of glory of which memories often run through my head and bring a grin to my face. I've had several conversations with fellow internet spergs regarding strategus lately. I ain't trying to bitch at nobody or about anything.
Anyway, for the last 2-3 weeks that I've found myself playing the game nearly every day, I've noticed something that I am surely not alone in. NA1's population is quite better than it has been in the near and far past; been really loving topping out at ~65 or so on NA1. Absolutely fantastic and some older faces coming back is really cool. Unfortunately, there are some problems with the Test Round of strat that we find ourselves in temporarily.
I've seen the server repeatedly killed in its infancy by strat battles (that folk are going to complain about if they get back in NA1, putting a bad taste in new/returning players mouths) in this test round. I understand the necessity of testing certain faction balance elements (of which I also have plenty of quibbles but thats not here nor there atm) and things like that. Even so, it is folly to expect the players of this mod en masse to completely understand and be cool with shitty battles going on killing NA1. You've basically got 20-30 nerds throughout different timezones and schedules that are probably gonna show up to every battle regardless. You've got a few that won't show up to anything unless asked or they get a wild hair up their ass. But mostly, you've got people that won't show up unless they think its gonna be FUN.
Further, with the large returning population and even several new players, we really want them to join up to as full of a server as possible. If they see 20-30 max my old friendets in an awful siege or naked hijinks or other shit experience and 15 people on NA1 it ain't gonna be as good for *continued* population and play as 50-60 fuckers in NA1 having a good time.
Please Dave or other requisite authorities, I beg you. For the sake of this mod, will you just lock strategus until the reset on the 26th? I should've requested this a week ago or more, but oops. Frankly, I don't care all that much about people having a poor time in the battles of this round. They are there by their own volition and free will, after all. Those fuckers could just leave and be like "wow what a shit battle good thing i didn't stay for 30 minutes or more and be pissed off lol". But the people just trying to return to the game, the new players, and the (likely most intelligent of us all) players that simply won't participate in anything less than a good battle are who I am concerned about.
ninja nerd edit: keep chinaman/eurotrash strategus battles open because lol. keep test battles because "test"
