The EU clans don't run any tournaments for NA clans, so I don't know why you would bring up doing any groundwork in making the game fun. A lot of NA clans worked with EU clans in order to cover all the hours and fight on each other's "home turf" when appropriate. You should know this because you are in Fallen. I'm not aware of any NA clans being "violently opposed" to working with EU clans. Any shit talking you hear about Europeans on the NA servers is probably just nationalism and ribbing at you because you mentioned you were from some other place. We do the same thing to Canadians.
Separation by water would still allow clans to interact if they had access to a port-city, and any serious invasion would be possible, but only under the unification of all nations on one continent.
cRPG events are run almost exclusively by EU folks, and at times that NA players can definitely make. I've participated in about 8+ scrimmage matches, three 150 player battles, 1 Fallen tournament, several multi-clan training sessions, and organized FRAPS/video shootings since the beginning of the year despite my living in CST (no clue what info led you to deduce that I was not American; in fact, my post itself implied that I was an NA player, not to mention that you've skewered me countless times before in cRPG).
So no, I absolutely stand by my assertions because my experience speaks for itself. Evening events in Europe are afternoon events for North America. Plus, there hasn't been any argument with the REAL point of my post- you have to have diverse players and timezones regardless of fighting people in your hemisphere or in another. That's the nature of Strategus and it won't change because of a split, therefore, none of the issues being raised are going to be fixed by a split. Suggest another solution that works (set or negotiable times for battles, for example) or just DEAL with it by finding an ally across the pond. As you say, I should know- and I do. It works, it makes things more fun. So you're agreeing with me? Your point is muddled, PZ. You seemingly promote internationalization on one hand, and then argue for dumbing down Strategus with an ineffectual solution in the other. Why?
Plus, port cities are fucking stupid because it takes the dev team 7 months just to hit to Power On switch for Strategus with virtually nothing being changed. I'm teasing, of course, but there's still a take-away point here. Keep it simple. Geography changes are easy and do the same damn thing as this peculiar "port" idea that seems to persist despite very obvious reasons for being unfavorable.
Soldier_of_God. You state that you have Risen as EU allies. Then say that you didn't want to have to fight EU pings... that's a self-contradiction. You don't, hence your alliance with Risen. That's what you're supposed to do, what makes Strategus interesting and complex.
