EU Server merger info

Good job finding the original post yesterday, as the forums were inaccessible, but yea this is worth talking about because it’s going to be pretty major for us.

First of all, I can’t see it happening until after the Merger smashes which are scheduled for this weekend between Woodman and Miller, and two weeks later between Ceres and Cobalt. After that we have some decisions to make.

Firstly, lets try not and worry too much about 48+ meat grinders on each lattice lane, I’m hoping some of the base designs right now will accommodate them better and that hossin will absorb the majority of players, however they’ll definitely also change the limit of continent locks to 1 at these times (after today’s patch it’s already a dynamic system based on population), and that may still spread people around enough to facilitate our preferred types of fights. We’ll see how it goes though, but we shall also have the continent lattice and battle islands hopefully within the next few months to help spread things out a bit more, although tbh we’re probably as well not holding our breath on that one.

What we may want to consider though is how to use this to our advantage. Between Miller and Woodman TR, I can see the main Miller outfits absorbing a lot of players from the Woodman crap, in order to organise them better, so as far as our plan to make an XDC outfit on Woodman goes, I think that’s a non starter right now (although I want to see how things pan out initially). On Ceres and Cobalt though we may have more options. If we open XDC up for recruitment there we might be able to boost our numbers to a level which might permit an evolution in our current playstyle.

We’ve found a pretty good niche right now in that we can be extremely effective at delaying and even preventing base captures when badly outnumbered, but it’s incredibly difficult for us to do the same in attack. The reason for this is that a 4 or 5 man squad just can’t be everywhere at once when attacking a big base, and when you need that many people to lock down a flag on a smaller base, all it takes is one mistake and a loss of your sundy/beacon, and it’s all over. If we had 2 or 3 squads of the same size working together, we could a lot more when we need to. I’d love to see us able to keep our current squad setup, and size, where we’re working well as a close unit, and if we could find a few able randoms able to fit in with the style, we could become a real force without the need to become too zergy or resorting to simple macro management of 48 player platoons.

Anyway, given that a server merge between Ceres and Cobalt will also see some player movement, and the outfit recruitment tool was updated recently, this is probably an opportunity for us not to miss, but are we up for the work it would require? For example, we’ll have to get to know a ton of new people in probably a short period of time while trying to integrate them into our current style (which is a lot different from standard outfits), and we might end up having to mix current xdc members up with randoms to ensure the squads work right, if we’re ending up with too many people in one place.

Organic growth always seems to work well… We’re getting to a point where we need to expand in order to evolve our efficacy in attack on larger bases, but I’d say let’s not rush it too much in terms of recruiting…Good long term plan though…