Ping doesnt matter if you attack in the middle of the night, because nobody will show up anyways to fight against you.
IE When BRD attacked Amere(Mercs) at 5 AM in the morning. We actually had a full roster. We accepted loads of players. Yet only 3 showed up. So dos it then still matter your playing with a 200+ ping ?
Question. Do you actually play Strategus yourself?
Actually there were about 20 people, though 3-5 left shortly after they found out that the village ahd no equipment, many clanmembers on that side didn't sign up/show up because they already knew that. Another battle 2 hours later had 40 people show up and we had a great battle and thena nother battle 2 hours after that one 30 people showed up and we had 2, (1 left after his first death).
I am fully in support of the 2 continents (just copy paste current map on other side of ocean, duplicating all the fiefs once is not big deal). Not just for the horrednous ping battles, or the not-sleeping for 3 days straight, but also the fact that there are now 3x as many people actively playing strategus compared to before and there simply isnt even close to enough room to fit them all (I have 200+ people just in my visible radius alone on the map). This forces consolidation into massive powerblocks, rather than having many viable smaller clans vying for land. Already you can probably classify 80% of the map under 5 powerblocks rule (old strategus it took months of invasions to get to that point, many smaller clans existed all over the map for a long time), now within a week the map has already become dominated by a few groups with almost no room for hundreds of players. Almost all the villages have 8 or more people in them, I see multiple cities in my area that already have 20+ people in them. All the villages ahve been taken except 1 in roughlya week of playing (old strat there were free villages for almost 3 months into the game) The game would be far more dynamic with more room and making 2 continents (NA and EU) would solve two problems with 1 solution.
Also, the NA playerbase is roughly 80& of the EU playerbase at this point. It is not small at all, so saying not enough players is an invalid excuse.