Quote Originally Posted by lynxx View Post
Should be a tournament structure with requirements to get into specific servers. Servers last for a few months to a year and when new servers are created they are segmented to tiered types, beginner through expert levels and restrictions on which players are allowed to enter into them are applied. There should never ever be 100+ servers to choose from, that is just crazy talk, my server is insignificant and 99% of the players who are on these forums would have no clue who I am nor any other prominent figure around many alliances in my server or any other server for that matter, do you think I know what is happening on server 30? I have no clue and that was made only a week after my server was.... There is a total disconnect between each server's players which creates a disconnect on these forums.


Example :


Beginner Server - Any player who does not qualify for the next two tiers or any new account

Average Server - Any player who finishes above the top whatever half way point is for number of players, so if there's 10,000 players then anyone who finishes at 5000 ranked or higher

Expert Server - Any player who finishes in the top 10% of players from any server may enter into these servers


Then of course you would have to allow for modifications of certain things for each type of server, costs of units and the power of research would be increased in beginner servers where as later servers would be more difficult to manage but would provide some sort of bonus to reach playing in these servers like removing resources from the spin wheel entirely in these servers or testing new items or unit changes or even to expanding the size of the map to allow much larger amounts of players in them and giving a larger alliance size limit (which sounds most like an expert server to me).


This would even encourage players to maintain single accounts over long periods of time and allow statistic tracking over multiple server games, having a profile that can track how well you place over a years time in 2 or 3 server games alone would attract alot of number freaks who thrive on having things ranked like myself.

In any event i have no clue what I'm talking about so have fun with that
Way too complicated