Australian Fiefs!

[Eugene]

In the strategus map, it would be great to have some Strategus fiefs that we can defend/attack with feasible ping Australians love strategus, and the only deterrant is the ping

EU has it, NA has it, why can't we?

[okiN]

Presumably because there's so few of you and so nobody cares. In any case, why on Earth would you post about it here on the M:BG forum rather than the Strat one?

[Paul]

Maybe some kind of prison island.

[Kafein]

Maybe some kind of prison island.

All cheaters deported to 300 ping servers

[MeevarTheMighty]

That would be fantastic.

[Eugene]

Maybe some kind of prison island.

Well I get that it's a joke, but in all seriousness something is better than nothing. Just something like 2 fiefs and a castle would be adequate.

@ OkiN, the reason why there's so few of us could be partially because we have limited game-experience when compared to the other communities. Naturally if something has a better/deeper experience, they'll be more likely to hang around wouldn't you say? I dunno why I posted here, maybe because I think it's relevant if strat is integrated into Melee. I dunno

But there are >10 Aussie players who engage in strategus; despite playing with 230/330 ping. It'd also add interest to strat.

[Thovex]

What's the point if you add 2 fiefs and 1 clan will control it, you will just sit there and nobody would attack you because nobody will bother playing with 350 ping and you wouldn't attack anyone because you would straight out lose every battle on eu/na.

[Jack1]

If you could make an Australasian Server it could host a China and Australia Strat-map, i know ping wouldnt be perfect between the 2, but it'd be better than what they have now, and save having to cater for so few player alone. Many Australian and Chinese players have shown willingness to play even with huge ping disadvantage, i think they'd appreciate the effort even if not perfectly executed.

The point is having home ping advantage if you're attacked by EU or NA, and attacking elsewhere with bad ping if you feel like taking a risk. Of course Chinese community is big enough to make it's own drama on a China/Australia map.

Actually the ping from AUS to CN is worse than AUS to NA for the only AUS player I have talked to.

[Keshian]

Chinese community is large enough  to deserve its own strat area - hundreds of players in size, competitive with NA and EU sized communities.

[Olwen]

give australia a small island in the sea

[Jack1]

Really? It's nearly double the distance.

China to Australia should be roughly similar to EU to NA. By no means perfect but 120 ping is vastly better than 300+, it's playable at least, just not great for dueling. And if the server was somewhere in between both China and Australia should have better ping than an EU playing in NA (or vice versa) if just based on distance.

Yeah. We were screwing around on the NA servers and I asked him why he doesn't just play on the CN servers instead. He said he gets 320 in NA and 400 in CN. I didn't believe him so we went to the CN server and sure enough he did.

[Dutchydave]

Australia has best ping with NA as we have fibre optic cable running under the sea straight from both our countries and a solid network set up. The network between China and Australia is junk and we get much higher ping. For Aussies living in Sydney NA is 240ping with EU and China both around 350ping.

Even though I would not play in their map I think China has clearly shown they have the numbers, solid server and motivated strat players to deserve their own map.

As much as I would like for Aussies to have a few fiefs im pretty sure with the next strat due to start it is to late for this round. There are 100's of Aussie CRPG players and I really think they would need to show a solid server for the entire period of strat5 to have a chance for strat6 even though its a good chance Battlegrounds will take over and strat5 will be the last version for CRPG.

[Keshian]

I wouldn't worry too much about Melee:Battlegrounds.  Its not due until Dec. 2010.

[Ditty]

Yeah Aus Ping to China isn't too great, Japan I get 150 which is playable. I think the chinese have some sort of barrier to stop people playing on their servers or something so that the minnimum ping is set to 300 or something.

[Hamor]

Australia does need a few fifes, maybe ? 3-5 fifes and 1-2 castles would do the trick.
I love the look of strat but fucking playing it on high ping we are currently getting 50-60 people on in peak times although we don't have a huge community its a damn active one seein as everyone knows each other give us fucking strat !