...you're still not above average in the quality of your players...
...Druzhina was not even close to Grey Order in the amount of really talented players, to say nothing about Mercs in the best time...
You can say the same for Mercs. Drz probably have more better players than the mercs (Yes they have more members) but don't you only accept good players?
Every one I've spoke to about strat say Drz have/had the best archers.
I have to admit, over the last few strats Druzhina players improved a lot and got better than most players in other factions. I actually enjoyed the first few battles in the desert this strat round, because both sides had good players and nearly the same equip.
It's just that with 90% of non-UIF people not wanting to fight UIF and having a big gear disadvantage it's not really fun anymore.
Some people even brag about getting free wins, because they win battles like this one
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=strategusbattlesarchive#!?page=strategusinfobattledetail&id=1507, because their enemy had nearly no players fighting.
Strat history repeats over and over and over again, while the people that didn't want to get involved in fighting UIF, that wanted to do something new in strat, just get steamrolled too.
Just look at NA strat, even though there is happening a lot less than in EU, people try to do small wars. They roleplay some more or less reasonable motives to fight others (some of them are typical american talk that can be skipped, because dem weirdos, durr
)
The last few months, 90% of quality diplomacy threads with good roleplay was made by NA people.
What happens to the people that want to do something else than fighting UIF for once in strat and migrate to NA?
People make fun of them, because they wanted to play at least a bit of strat without being forced to repeat history again.
People tried to fight back, people lost, and now most player's dicks (not only UIF, I am talking about people fighting them as well) suddenly turned hard and they feel the need to talk bad about everyone that tries to have a bit of fun in strat, even if they have to endure bad ping in NA.
Good job, both sides are killing the mod slowly by turning into dickheads and stopping the game from being fun for others.