You are talking about EU here
NA is a completely different thing.
Like I said, IF DRZ does happen to go to NA, then I was wrong to believe they won't.
But they won't, because they will not have much fun over there.
All the low ping guys will wreck them left right centre. I guess almost the whole of NA would do everything they can to send the invaders back to EU.
That would make some nice battles, at least for NA.
Druzhina would care about the ping, even though most of the times they just spam without blocking. To target switch and spam properly you still need to get the timing right. I have never seen any Druzhina guy on NA1 or NA2, or even NA7. And maybe 1 or 2 in NA strat battles. No way they will be as successful on NA3 as on EU3.
Also Harpag:
Exp battles are not necessarily boring and pointless.
Even though I really like the idea of having real battles, exp battles can be very fun at times too.
Last strat Murdertron arranged many of these, made them themed battles basically. They were insanely much fun, I got up at 4 or 5am just to participate in these.
Like arbalest line battles (they were by far the best), rondel battles, Donkey Knight battles etc. So if you could toss such a battle in between all the real battles every now and then, I am sure people would appreciate it