Live here for a while and see how politic things go around here, then you will understand what I tried to say.Noobita wrote:
Didn't see anywhere that it says "Religious ranking" or "Cultural ranking"...
I approve of this.Lumikki wrote:
I would put Baltic and Nordic countries together and change the group name to Northern Europe
Reasons:
1. I have heard that Estonians view themselves more Nordic than Baltic (please correct if not true)
2. The population of these countries are quite small.
3. Common history.
4. Similar language. ( Finnish-Estonian, Latvian-Lithuanian, Swedish-Norwegian-Danish...)
I'm glad you agree with me.ShinseinaTenshi wrote:
I approve of this.Lumikki wrote:
I would put Baltic and Nordic countries together and change the group name to Northern Europe
Reasons:
1. I have heard that Estonians view themselves more Nordic than Baltic (please correct if not true)
2. The population of these countries are quite small.
3. Common history.
4. Similar language. ( Finnish-Estonian, Latvian-Lithuanian, Swedish-Norwegian-Danish...)
@Lumikki that is kind of true indeed we view ourselves more with Nordic than Baltic (afaik). Also, if to take a view upon the statistics of abroad estonians going to Baltic or Nordic, the majority of estonians prefer going to either Finland or Sweden to work and live there, instead of Latvia or Lithuania, it's also safe to say that there's a lot of estonians in Finland. Quite many have also started going towards Sweden, but that's what I've heard.
I also remember that many Estonians immigrated to Sweden during the past. Baltic countries as well as Finland have been under the Russian and Swedish rule during the history so I do not see why they cannot be in the same group. Also all these countries have very good relations with each other.This is not quite a valid argument. By all means, I wouldn't mind adding more countries to us, but this is merely opinions and doesn't have anything to do with geography.Lumikki wrote:
Reasons:
1. I have heard that Estonians view themselves more Nordic than Baltic (please correct if not true)
This isn't as much a preference as simply some nordic countries, particularly Norway and Finland having good amounts of jobs available. Estonia is not alone on that front. This isn't a valid argument either.ShinseinaTenshi wrote:
Also, if to take a view upon the statistics of abroad estonians going to Baltic or Nordic, the majority of estonians prefer going to either Finland or Sweden to work and live there, instead of Latvia or Lithuania
If the capitals of the countries ( Helsinki and Tallinn) are only 80km away from each other and that's not geographically close? I know there is a small gulf between that could make the distance look longer than it really is. It seems you are somewhat against to see Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian rankings in your area. In this Baltic region there are barely 6 million inhabitants, so it would be nonsense to make them as their own group compared to something like Middle East groups.boat wrote:
This is not quite a valid argument. By all means, I wouldn't mind adding more countries to us, but this is merely opinions and doesn't have anything to do with geography.
Thank you. I would also make lots of changes to Middle East groups, esp concerning Israel, which is not in a good terms most of the countries in the same group. Also I would add Cyprus to same list where Turkey ( or Greece, didn't see it anywhere) is since common language and culture. Also maybe Arab-countries would be nicer to be in the same list as well as all Turkic ones.boat wrote:
Nonetheless, if we're to go by the UN definition, then you are a part of "Northern Europe" as well and as such the proposal is valid, I'll add it to the list as an alternative.
This is not what I replied to.Lumikki wrote:
If the capitals of the countries ( Helsinki and Tallinn) are only 80km away from each other and that's not geographically close?
CDFA wrote:
this is like exactly the reason why grouping big countries is bad
With countries with less than 100 active players, they won't really care too much about being put into a general group
but when combining really active areas, it's like they don't want to be combined because they already have decent country rankings.
Why do you force me to repeat myself again? What's your definition of a "big country"? Sweden has more active players than close to all of the ones I've listed, but sure as hell has a big issue with the country rank feature. I'm pretty sure said 100 players would be happy to have at least something to compare to.CDFA wrote:
this is like exactly the reason why grouping big countries is bad
With countries with less than 100 active players, they won't really care too much about being put into a general group
but when combining really active areas, it's like they don't want to be combined because they already have decent country rankings.
If it works for a country then that's great, but if it doesn't I see little reason for why you wouldn't want it. If you like comparing only to a select few you could just as well add them to your friendslist and filter that, leaving the feature available to those who want it.peppy wrote:
make a list of which countries should be grouped into regions where necessary