The alpha conquest server is available for players with active premium access.

There's still a little bit of time to change game mechanics before the start of round 1, so any strong opinions should be posted right away.

I'm not sure how I feel about this new server.

I like the bots being added to give the server more market stability, but this makes the game too similar to Classic and Express IMO.

The benefit of Tournament was you could get to a higher server level and limit some of the interaction you get with players who would prefer to focus on attacking other players/ruining resets, etc. So you could kind of choose if you want a high-level netting country by playing the same country and getting into A - or create a new country and know you'll need a bit more military in a lower server.

This removes that filter and makes min/maxing a country much more luck based depending on who decides to hit you. That's a big component of Earth, but I feel like we already have non-alliance Servers with that focus in Classic and Express.