Split the servers.

[Tears of Destiny]

That's cool, but how about you let the guy who gets paid to make jokes online keep making the jokes.

We should increase your pay as incentive, or fire you and find a better joker.

[ABCF]

We should increase your pay as incentive, or fire you and find a better joker.

well fuck you to

[Blondin]

Guys this is BETA test.

I guess BETA TESTING is slightly different then PLAYING final version.
I am pretty sure that it's much better for testing Strategus when both EU and NA play together.


As for me I do hope that EU and NA will be separated, cause it's really no fun playing on NA servers as well as having NA neighboors

+1

I much prefer the devs work on the new version.

[hotcobbler]

I would support a split in the new Strategus. 2 reasons:

1. Lag, of course.

2. It would almost certainly open up land for more clans to take; more land, more clans, more fun.

I think it's a win-win. It could also bring in some new players to strategus and grow the community more.

[Burr1ck]

Signed.

[Cosmos_Shielder]

Definetely signed

[Overdriven]

+1

[Varyag]

Ok, lets see:

The pluses:
+Both NA and EU can have good pings in battles
+Both NA and EU can enjoy normal times for battles
+No need to make a larger map since for now there will be enough space for clans
+Map wont be overcrowded
+No need to have backstabbing neighbours around...

The minuses:
-EU can't kick NA's ass 
-Smaller community for each shard

Mmmm..I am undecided....Maybe chadz' idea of the ping borderline is better? It only needs a bigger map.
Though, as a temporary measure this can do

[Miralay]

Ok, lets see:

The pluses:
+Both NA and EU can have good pings in battles
+Both NA and EU can enjoy normal times for battles
+No need to make a larger map since for now there will be enough space for clans
+Map wont be overcrowded
+No need to have backstabbing neighbours around...

The minuses:
-EU can't kick NA's ass 
-Smaller community for each shard

Mmmm..I am undecided....

If it's going to stop, why bother keep playing then?

[Jarlek]

Signed
EDIT:

Ok, lets see:

The pluses:
+Both NA and EU can have good pings in battles
+Both NA and EU can enjoy normal times for battles
+No need to make a larger map since for now there will be enough space for clans
+Map wont be overcrowded
+No need to have backstabbing neighbours around...

The minuses:
-EU can't kick NA's ass 
-Smaller community for each shard

Mmmm..I am undecided....Maybe chadz' idea of the ping borderline is better? It only needs a bigger map.
Though, as a temporary measure this can do

Just remembered the bordeline thingie. Would much rather have that but WAY bigger maps. And also make the line changing depending on which continent having the most members/land/troops/gold/small fluffy dogs.

[Temudjin]

As much as i agree, you got to understand that this is a beta, i'd prefer it that chadz works on the new strategus than wastes his time splitting the servers.. and i'm pretty sure he won't split the servers, but don't lose your hope lol

[Varyag]

but don't lose your hope lol

Lol he thinks it's funny to stay awake all night and fight with ping 180? You just wait till some nuts NA clan(or alliance of 10-20 clans) backstabs you. Then we will see how funny it is going to be for you.

[Dehitay]

It really doesn't take that much effort to add an extra column to the territories table in the database that says which server its battles should be on. Hell, populating that column would take far more time and that's nothing more than deciding which territory has which server preference. And since there's already code that decides which server to play on based on defender's preference, I'm relatively sure it wouldn't be that difficult to recode it to decide based on the town's preference. Hell, chances are it would actually be simpler cause instead of looking up the owner to the town and then their preference, you can just jump straight to the town's preference. But as I'm not on the dev team, I don't actually know how it's coded. It might be a huge cluster of uncommented evil without any spacing style or naming strategy.

[Gafgarion]

sleep is important

signed (not that it matters)

[MrShine]

The real bummer is splitting the community, since I really enjoy fighting against players I am not used to with these EU/NA strat battles.  Still, the ping and timezone issues (EU has to stay up really late when we attack, NA has to get up really early when EU attacks, etc) are pretty make or break, and splitting seems to be the best thing ultimately.