I came over here to the EU from the NA server a few months back, just to check it out. This was after reading a thread from a tanker on the NA forums posting about being able to login and play here. He was encouraging other NA sever players to establish accounts on the EU server, so I thought I would do the same.
I started playing on the NA server after stumbling on to the app. This was in the early days back in 2014. I only played sporadically the first couple of years and picked up the pace this last year or so. I'm not a great player but am learning to hold my own, somewhat. Having stumbled onto the NA forums a while back has really given me a better perspective in understanding the game, the personalities, WG, the overall playerbase diversity and much more.
I'm only in the lower tiers here on the EU format and am quite comfortable there as well. I think I have a tier six tank and the rest are lower tier tanks. Maybe ten total.
I'm only picking tanks for my garage that I am familiar with the most and have tended to prefer from my NA tanking experience. This works ok for me now that I've learned I don't have to own every tank available and can grind or acquire them long enough to get to ones I really want.
I also keep a lookout for those premium tanks I like best, and manage to take pass on any offers that come around for ones that I don't really care about as much.
At any rate, it's been a good experience for me seeing how things go over here and it has been kind of a benefit not knowing any of the more identifiable, popular (and/or infamous) player names yet. That allows me to be a bit more aloof as to any particular drama type scenarios that might exist. If that makes any sense...just playing at a moderate pace and anonymously enjoying the hospitality of the EU tanking community.
I haven't read every post in this thread yet but hope to later and more thoroughly, but I do think that it would be important to consider any experienced players that may decide to come over from other servers to play, join in and participate within the community. They may be expecting to have the same accessibility to the game as anyone else and the idea of limiting new players could adversely affect the ability of those players, to have a quality experience.
Just a thought worth consideration. However, I understand much of the commentaries and sentiments I've managed to skim through here, so far, since I'm currently at work right now.
Good luck and happy tanking!
peace
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