first i have to say ROL admins are making a REALLY good job for free.
now to the Problem of "top teams of NCL will beat EU teams":
maybe true, they can show it after 2.5 month.
1.) if you make EU ladder bigger, the period gets longer => more unfair to the "top NCL" clans to get into EU ladder
2.) make big ladder where all are in you have the same problem that the "low skill" clans will not have fun against the "top clans"
the solution i ever hear: "you can only challange higher ranked clans"... ok, top ranked clans don't challange and are only waiting for a lower ranked clan until they ask for a challange.... this does not solve problems
and the clans will get TIRED if they can only challange against 2 clans if they are on top spots. (maybe the lower clans won't challange them)
3.) compare it to soccer leagues (at least in germany)
there is a "1. bundesliga", "2. bundesliga" and so on.
only the last two will exchange with the first two of the leagues.
If the teams in the "2. bundesliga" are good enough, they will get into the better league. but this takes ONE year, and in ROladder it only takes 2.5 month.
4.) you are afraid that most of the NCL teams will be able to beat EU teams, but don't have the chance. FALSE, they have!
if team A is not as good as team B in NCL, and team B will not beat a team C of EU, the result is A won't beat team C. if B will beat C, C will get to NCL, but A can beat C to get into EU ladder! ok, it takes 2.5 month longer for them, but they CAN!
and at least the thing that the EU clans are not active atm (especially PT):
did you see the NC? yes it is still going on! I can only speak for myselfe, I don't have time to play NC AND EU the same time.... this would waste too much time. And most of PT players are in NC team!
PT is a real active clan, but they do not only play, the ORGANIZE!! one of them is coding for a mod, others are helping as admins. Most things you maybe don't realize would not be possible without PT guys!
Now only one question: did you ever do a free project on the internet? I have done, and i know that there are more "****, does not work" comments than "thank you"... I can only mention the free RoTV project. It is closed now!
So, hop in a project and help, then you can realize all your ideas and see that there will be EVER more "this is bull**** comments" than, "well done comments", no matter what you are doing.
and to the TWL: yes they make it different, but there will be crying players too! perhaps one day you will think "yes, TWL is not the best solution, ROL did it better", maybe you will think the opposite! But you didn't even give them a new chance, and sorry, you can't say atm if it will work or not. nobody can it!
I am sure ROL admins will change to a "better" system if they have one, or someone told them one. The problem is, that most "improvements" poeple wish are not working, or if they do the "improvements", the others will cry "this is bull****".
Now they try to make a change (btw, the second time), and you will not even give a try to it! The only thing is bashing. So i really understand admins if they get pissed some times. Everyone of us would do the same. If you don't agree with me, you have never done a free project!
To the point to merge USA and EU. Yes it would be great because there would be more clans. But this is a example for a "not good working improvement" i already mentioned. Time and ping differences are thr problem. It is no fun to play a 4 hours match against USA. (i have done it!!) You can't go to bed until 1 o'clock, because you can't start match before 8 or 9. And you have to get up at 6 o'clock perhaps. really nice! And you can only play on weekends because of time difference. The result would be that most EU teams would only challange EU teams, and USA teams only USA teams. Then there would be the "USA teams only challenge USA teams" whining.
GOOD WORK ROL ADMINS! perhaps it is not the best solution, but NOBODY can know this for now! thumps up