It’s time for the first maps. I have checked alliances top 300 and sorted them mostly after nationalities in maps. I’ve also checked Top20 alliances and players. All mistakes is as usually my own.
We have 9800 players on server. A bit less than I hoped. Even if the start worked this time we didn’t get as many as was possible.
I still wonder about the Travian employer that wrote in their blog that they would fill up the missing spots with wild cards so it would be 28.000 players.
“Anny Zenker
Hey Spartacus,
we will have a total amount of 12.000 Wildcards 
Greetings
Anny”
I think it’s bad when their own intelligence service don’t know how it works in reality. I protested of course.
“The amount of wildcards have never been more then 1000-3000 as far as we know. We have 15K qualified. Around 30% will not start that makes 10500 players and you tell us you will allow 12K more to play?!? Why should we play qualification if whoever can get a wildcard?
You must be aware of that a such high number of wildcards will mean that at least 10K of them will be multiaccounts and will unbalance the server since we all know that some countries is more prone to try for wildcards to use as multiaccounts then others.
If I at the server start can see that it’s not a fair amount of players from each country I will recommend our players to delete in protest.
Regards
Safiren”
As it turned out it wasn’t many wildcards and we lost more then 30% of the qualified players.
Back to the maps. I started with NW, the smallest quad this time. As expected East Europe started here and not many others.
Dacia meta is the biggest part of the NW meta with 659 players. Teutonic Steel is their leader and they are usually very aggressive and good team workers. Good simmers also as it looks.
Alliance rankings pop: 1 Dacia W, 3 Dacia, 5 dacia K, 14 Dacia Z, 15 Dacia V, 19 Dacia W1, 20 Dacia R. It can’t be easy to have a lot of aggressive players and a homogenous quad. No ranks on either attackers or defenders.
Players rankings pop: 1 Pazuzzu Dacia 14 villages, 2 Teutonic Steel Dacia 11 villages, 3 Katyusha Dacia K 9 villages , 5 RAMPAGE Dacia R, 11 HoneyBadger Dacia W, 17 IMDB.com.
Attackers: 14 all blacks Dacia W, 19 HoneyBadger Dacia W.
Next in size in NW is the CS meta. Consisting of KSN&MoD with friends. 234 players.
Alliance rankings pop: 6 KSN&MoD.
Attackers: 11 KSN&MoD.
Defenders: 4 Aegina.
Players rankings attackers: 9 0neDay Aegina.
Defenders: 8 Sabatina James Aegina©.
Hungary 131players. BG 33 players.
Alliance rankings pop: 11 HUN.
Hellas and TTT have 173 players.
Due to ally profiles the Ukraines is also a part of the NW meta but have settled in SW. 298 players.
An interesting band of settling. Two fronts.
Alliance rankings attackers: 1 777, 17 SP.
Defenders: 2 SP, 8 777, 14 дEBRи.
Players rankings attackers: 1 RockNRolla 777, 10 Harley Davidson 777, 20 sphyrna.
Defenders: 4 Jolly Roger 777, 7 tarlviv SP, 15 babai дEBRи.
In total 1540 players belonging to the NW meta, if they can keep it together they will have a big chance to win this Final.
Other alliances in NW: Nordwind, 59 players, that fighted with the other Russians in qualification settled in NW but moved to SW, Ukrainian area, and is at war with ДEBRи ^^ Rank 5 on attackers.
Turks, 4 alliances, 119 players, will have a hard time in NW. HİLAL rank 16 defenders.
