Strategus wipe - new features - vote for your continent!

[dynamike]

To get back on topic...

Suggestion: dynamic timezones.

Start with the split percentage you determine, chadz, plus a neutral zone in the middle. Then provide ALL fief owners with the ability to set the timezone for their fiefs. Indicate the time zone a fief belongs to on the map.

This way timezones will be able to shift and will automatically reflect the EU/NA split. When a timezone is saturated, clans will likely go out of their timezones and try to grab some more land for their continent. On the other hand, timezones big enough for the number of players will not have a reason to expand outside of it.

[Matey]

i dunno... personally i would like to see the split be permanent enough to make it impractical for EU to war NA and for NA to war EU. a lot of the ideas in this thread would just encourage all NA and EU to group up to fight each other. the whole point of a split is so that there is not any real reason to go fight on shit ping or at shit hours.

[hotcobbler]

Can anyone explain why this is being done through a forum poll and not by looking at the demographics from the Strat database? It seems like that would be a much more logical route.

Not trolling, serious question here.

[MaHuD]

@hotcobbler, this is for upcoming players aswell and also people may not play anymore.

[Banok]

I can't really think of a better way of deciding in what percentage the map should be split.

Also, mirroring the map (which won't happen for now due to technical reasons) does not solve this problem, because the percentage would still have to make sense. Because otherwise one region would be way emptier than the other, and that's unfair for those who happen to be in the region that's packed. That might even force people to go to the other side, just because it's less populated, which renders the whole idea of splitting the map useless.

tl;dr: find me a better way to decide in what percentage to split strategus. But something that can be calculated, not just some gut feeling.

cant you just use eu vs na server statistics? I mean not that many of the players will come vote in this thread.

[Varyag]

I believe chadz will have a look at both forum poll results as well as strat and crpg databases before making decisions

[Damatacus_ATS]

Yay strat wipe!!!

[BalrogBoru]

That being said, a forum poll will only show which side is currently most active on the forums. It probably won't reflect strategus and imho we should just have separate NA and EU strat servers anyway.

[PhantomZero]

The more sources of data to assess the amount of NA players over EU the better.

[Gnjus]

What this mod desperately needs is to be brought down completely (even the battle servers), for a period of 2-3 weeks, maybe even a month, and getting intensively worked on (the Strategos part at least). People are way too itchy, nervous, blinded and addicted so this would be a perfect rest & refreshment from the game. Then, after this time expires, you give 'em a new, better version of Strat with numerous bug fixes, new map and all that, accompanied by a full database wipe so everyone gets a new fresh start and things become very interesting again. That's  the only proper way of handling it, if you keep listening to no-life grinders who just wanna keep their "hard earned" virtual generations/looms/whatever you'll never get it right. That's just my opinion, I'm not getting into any arguments here.

[Serfonz]

What this mod desperately needs is to be brought down completely (even the battle servers), for a period of 2-3 weeks, maybe even a month, and getting intensively worked on (the Strategos part at least). People are way too itchy, nervous, blinded and addicted so this would be a perfect rest & refreshment from the game. Then, after this time expires, you give 'em a new, better version of Strat with numerous bug fixes, new map and all that, accompanied by a full database wipe so everyone gets a new fresh start and things become very interesting again. That's  the only proper way of handling it, if you keep listening to no-life grinders who just wanna keep their "hard earned" virtual generations/looms/whatever you'll never get it right. That's just my opinion, I'm not getting into any arguments here.

I have like 1500 hours played on Warband and that is 95% cRPG and I support this long nosed beautiful man. Down time to get everything sorted and just have the beta testers testing, then clear absolutely everything and hit the big start button.

[MaHuD]

What about the Asian people!
Since we are all whining about Americans now, we should not be racsist and leave the Asian people with nothing!
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This guy has rights to, you know!

[Matey]

wiegraf is the crpg ambassador to asia

[FICO]

i don't now if it's possible, but i think it would be actually fun:

make new strat map consisting of two continents which will represent europe and america. each continent has it's time. you can travel to other continent and try to colonize it, but you have to build expensive ships, lose lot of army on a long journey at sea and fight in different time zone (and server). colonization is dangerous and expensive 

[Gingerpussy]

Here is a new map i found that fits the NA community.

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and get them some archers and a bunch of AI horsearchers as well.