Who in their right mind plays native anyways? A load of epeen whoring, marco abusing retards; backed up by horses than have double the hp of crpg horses, pinpoint bows and xbows and dont get me started on the horse archers of native..... Any duels I had on native were boring as hell, even their supposed best players such as tobi, all had the same super defensive playerstyle, with a set pattern of difficult to see macro feints... There is no fluidity or variance in this, no need to adapt to new playstyles....
yes, blueberry_of_swadia, i remember you very well duelling on native
these players you say who play native, a lot of them are very very good, this lack of adaptation you're talking about is in fact just skill, and whilst i dont like the feint abuse on duel servers these days, the best native players are still 10x the best crpg players.
The horses are weaker in native than crpg as well, hunter vs. +3 destrier ?
Horse archers in native are currently rubbish, they took a huge nerf about a year ago, and the archers and xbows are not as OP as you crpg players all seem to think.
Also, CMP if you want to talk about balance, the whole reason i pulled out of the CRPG nations cup is because the balance on CRPG is so bad, every round the guys who won were the guys with the most armour and ironflesh, and all of them 2h.
I think the best way to think about it is
Native = skillful/ balanced but unchanging game great for clan play but stale in public
CRPG = nooby but fun pubfest where there's always something new going on, but dont even think about clanbattles on it
EDIT: also, in crpg, you can play as a samurai :3