This is probably going to piss off some people, but the truth (imo) is that:
More tournaments =/= Help NA
More Public actvitiy = helps NA
The greatest issue with NA is that the public scene receives no assistance from anyone. Only a super minor fraction of public players will give half a shit about a draft league, 1v1 league, or some na grand bayonet groupfight nfl compwiki cup. The public player 95% of the time only wants to play on shit like Na1, bbg bot survival, roleplay servers or standard events. If these servers are not around, the entire public scene will die and so will the entire comp scene in tandem.
Why would a public player give a shit about playing in NA grand league comp cup if he has to fight against regiments with 1000+ hours average (even if this was not the case, the average player is still going to think this is the case and not want to play in the comp league). 61e doesn’t do comp, RKR doesn’t do comp, 27a(originally 6l) doesn’t do NA comp, 3e doesn’t do as much comp and this altogether is probably ~50% of the NA event scene. (I can guarantee there are probably other regiments that don’t play comp either, but I don’t want to claim anything and be wrong about it.)
If a CR wants to try to help NA, he shouldn’t worry about trying to host a tournament because that overall is not going to help NA. A CR would be better put to use trying to encourage activity within public servers such as the public RP servers, encouraging activity in the BBG bot survival and trying to revive some similar to NA1.
You can all argue that “oh na pub is already dead so why bother” but the truth is that NA NW still has potential and that the only way NA is going to stay alive is that if regiments continue to receive recruits to keep events active and alive. Old players that quit NW are not going to return and play NW forever, they quit it already because they’re most likely tired of playing the game. Doing a 20000th comp league is only going to entice a minor portion that is only going to give minimal support to the public player base. Furthermore, I would argue it’s a net loss too to NA overall bringing comp players to lead regs again for 5 weeks, because retired players that return to play NW for a competitive league that do try to recruit and keep the public player base active eventually just quit NW when they realize the comp leagues are all over and generally bring all their players with them to pure dormant inactivity.
Also, I know someone is going to argue, “well what about the NW matchmaker, wouldn’t that encourage activity?” no I cannot agree with this. Take for example, CRPG, if you told anyone who has played Native and CRPG and which had better skrims, the CRPG skrims were God-tier compared to that of Native, but CRPG still died before Native, and the reason is due to the ease of access to Native compared to CRPG. To play GK TDM and join a clan, you just need a serial key to play in the server. For CRPG on the otherhand, you needed to sign up on the forums, make an account, understand the stat system and remembder to sign up for the strat before it began. When it comes to new players, few players will give enough of a shit to sign up on the matchmaker to play on a group fighting server to play against people far better than them, and this just made things worse as public players who have no idea how NW or anything works much less have no idea how to play Warband Matchmaker or anything like that. They’ll just go f this and just play Holdfast instead.
On the topic for reviving NA1, you are probably going to have better luck on trying to revive the NA roleplay community, but I have no idea how that would work and you would have to ask someone who was very familiar with the community to assist in this matter. Probably someone like Rabbi if you could get in contact with him could help.
Also for actually reviving NA1, the truth is that a CR rep is not going to be able to do it alone. Reviving NA1 is going to need the combined effort of many people and when I say many people, I mean numbers of about roughly 30-40 people to come on every other day to help populate the server for people to see. Growth would be incredibly slow so you would need a group that would be very dedicated and probably getting something very beneficial out of this. Which probably would be, recruits, money or ass pics of some bitch like Belle Delphine which I don’t think the CR community rep would be able to promise by himself (maybe if he could find like 40 hmongs or somth he cud prob show his ass instead idk).
Trying help improve activity for NA will be a hard task alone, but if anyone here is actually willing to help improve the situation in NA, they wouldn’t have a hard time contacting regs like the RKR, 84th, 61e or 3e that would probably be glad to help, especially if it meant they could get recruits out of it.
This is the truth of NW and the CR rep should do what he can to support circle 2 and circle 3 because without these, The comp circle (4) is going to be doomed aswell.
I am not going to apply for CR because I think anything a CR can do can just be done without needing a CR role and I am more interested in stuff in SA and Asia than NA since its basically impossible to get anything done in NA as it is now.
But if you plan on being a CR, and you don’t want to assist in circle 2 or 3, then you should probably just not apply and let Jake win again by no contest because it wouldn’t make a difference to the state of NA overall.
If you disagree, I respect your opinion and I am probably going to bet if not all, most are going to have something to say against this but this is just my opinion to it all.
