NA vs NA fighting with equal gear and all players who know each other without a lot of rage and stuff but some troll posting is really what the game should be about. Strat took a looong time to get there but the green machine vs desert alliance + hospitaller/occitan was about as fair and fun of a war as it could be.
That's why it was honestly pretty disheartening to have lordly plate UIF stacks roll in and wipe us out within a week or two of the war starting, it wasn't remotely balanced and pretty much highlighted all the flaws in the NA/EU divide, the crafting heirloomed gear system, and the UIF hegemony on trade routes that made vast amounts of gear/gold for upkeep that would be unobtainable for most factions to be granted to them in abundance.
Looks like chadz, cmp, Harald, and the rest have been making some really impressive developments on Strat behind closed doors though, and I imagine once they implement rebalanced gear prices, customizable construction in your fiefs, and whatever else they have planned there will be a wipe soon enough so who knows how it will go again, though I doubt I will participate in it much either way.
