Keshian I understand your anger, but talking that NA has nearly same player base as EU is just bollocks, well I've noticed that in last 3 months servers are not as populated as they were eralier but still just close look at amount of players in EU and NA servers (of course I'm talking about usuall playing time for NA and EU), EU have nearly twice more players. Also you can't just say that account sharing has singificly increased players activity in strategus... lol. Even if things like that happend whose players didn't just disapeard or didn;t came from nowhere, they were somehow active. ALso keep it in mind that not everyone used it to simplify and to make transfering gold/troops faster.
And this:
you can tell by looking at what their favored settings were set to).
2680 players have their server set to EU,
772 have their server set to NA.
Besides whose facts I wouldn't mind splitting the strategus into the two worlds for NA and EU, playing with 150-200 ping is just bullshit... but I remember battle that I participated in NA server where EU players won with 1.4 K/d ratio... or so.