Add some cool shit to strategus, don't make the economy mandatory, make raising armies easier. Reset Strategus. Then everyone has big cool battles which give a lot of XP. Everyone has fun.
That is where Grey Order and Druzhina come to crash the party. It's probably related to their culture, but they really want to win, bad. At all costs really. Now a bit of competivity is ofcourse not wrong, but in their case their need to win kills all good sportsmanship.
Now I wasn't there in the first strat, but I read the forum and some recap people did while waiting for the second strat, it seemed a lot more fun. People were playing the battles, had a lot of fun, congratulated the other party with their victory. They did all kinds of roleplaying stuff, were respectful to eachother. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Then Druzhina came and this mentality got lost, because Druzhina doesn't care for respect, sportsmanship and fun, but only for victory. To keep up with them the other clans had to approach strat like that too, and voila, there is the shithole we now call strat. Grey Order pretty much upped this a notch. And the bug abusing and griefing, that would've probably never happened in strategus 1.
That is why I yelled blanket ban Poland and Russia for the next strat. This is ofcourse blatant generalization, but if its really something culture realed that creates this mentality that ruins the fun for the rest of us, its not really that crazy. Ofcourse its not ethically right to ban people for their culture, but this way I am never going to enjoy strategus and a whole lot of other people with me.