Just one suggestion. Wouldn't it make sense to organize activity such as NA ladders or tournaments first to see how active these guilds are before trying to push the idea of a complex ruleset on a hypothetical map into some sort of board game? Or maybe I'm just crazy, but making something complex with no idea how much activity is even there to participate leads to lots of ideas that never actually happen. Even if something similar is going on for EU players, unless I'm mistaken, I've seen nothing to gauge the NA populations activity/interest yet other than a few frequent forum posters who wish their was some kind of persistent map to fight over, and even so, saying individuals are interested is completely different than actually fielding an organized group for it. If this works, more power to the guys who are setting it up, just playing the devils advocate here since the thread seems loaded full of creative optimists throwing ideas around that may not be viable for the NA population currently. Start small, then expand, is a safer approach.
