Well i have to say I very enjoy this game even if it is still in alpha and i think i can talk for my friend Captain Winkler of the 18th NC that he like it also.
We had a lot discussions about this game. I dont like to play on bloody lane or Burnsides Bridge and he hate it to play against sharps rifles. Do you know what we do? WE LIVE WITH THAT!!
We see it as it is: a fucking awesome simulation! I can enjoy it even when my company lose again at bloody lane because we like to sing while we marching or i give short presentations about some historical facts, answer someones question about game/regimental history etc. Its just make fun to play it. Sometimes it's hard and sometimes it's easy.
I found some possible movements with i can live on bloody lane and Winkler found some solutions against superior number or weapons. Thats the game! you joined a faction and now live with the advantages or disadvantages. Thats also something which shows how "skilled" a Unit is. Can it use their own advantages and overcome disadvantages.
The only thing which keeps bothering us and also Captain Ross of the 95th NY(we like to host events with historical formations together) is tha fact that there is no possibility to play in private without a randoms who ruins our immersion by ramboing as a officer etc. This is the real problem in my mind. Please note that i understand that we are still in alpha but a lot of guys stopped playing WoR because they dont see why they should play when they know that they cant play it in the way how the game wants to be played because they get interrupted by ramboing childish randoms.
Our events hosted together dropped from a activity level of 40-50 men to 20 - 30 men because so much guys told me that they will come back on a later state when Campfire introduced private servers.
It's not just our companies also a lot of other companies have the same "problem".
If it's not possible to host private servers due to development i can understand this but could be a compromise a "reservation for a private server"?
maybe you can lock one server with a PW and we are allowed to sign up to get this PW. Just one server per day at weekends. If i sign up and get the PW from you I can collect my buddies and other companies and host an event in a closed environment and i can guarantee that you will get a full server for stress test because everyone wishes a controlled event in a organized way without interruptions.
Advantage is you can serve 80 people with a high quality and enjoyable event and the rest has still enough other servers to play on it. Next weekend some other gets the PW and rally other companies and the rest can still use enough other servers.
And while i am typing this a other idea come up to my mind: Why dont host Campfire Games a closed event?
Advantage would be you can handle the sign ups and control that every company gets the chance to play on the server. Say a company is allowed to 2 events in a month and only more when space is available. If it's possible for you to close a server with a PW it would be a really really big thing and everyone (speaking about companies) would like it.
Thats just my idea and opinion. Sorry for my English. If something is unclear i will try to explain it again.