Hey all! Chair squad here!!
So as you all know, we performed our first activity check under the new criteria on the 1st of February and in the interest of being straight will y’all, here are the results.


Some of our first thoughts were that more people passed than we expected, which is super good, but some of the clans that passed with nearly 40 points are just a couple of people keeping a whole clan alive - which isnt necessarily right.

Another thing was that some of the clans that are clearly inactive were getting far more points than perhaps they should? 2 people shit posting does not make an active clan, and I'm not sure there's much of an argument against that. As such we would like to tweak a couple of the forum-based point things.
We'd like to make the points gained for forum posting more linear.
At the moment you get 25 points for 50 posts, 30 points for 200 posts. It's heavily stacked towards the lower end. We want to even that out a bit.
So you would receive 25 points for 100 posts and 30 points for 200* posts.

We're also planning to look at how much invasions skew these numbers.
(Erths personal opinion is that if a clan has a lot of friends, it tells me that the clan is doing well enough and still has influence - however this obviously only takes us so far. If the data shows that invasions are significantly skewing things then we'll need to reasses and maybe institute limits or something. Again, forum criteria will change to adapt to these kinds of changes to get a more accurate bearing on whether a clan is active.)

We also want to change the "warning" bracket from 25-30 to 30-50. This bracket seems to have the clans that are in worse off in terms of activity, and we hope this change would help prevent major inactivity *before* they happen, instead of after they've already happened. You will have noticed Erth post in the clan boards already for that.

We've also seen that quite a few clans are topping out, and we feel they should be rewarded for that, so we're gonna look into that.

We think it'd also be nice for a "best in category" prize or something. Every check we give a prize for more wars, most posts, most ingame active players, that kind of thing. Dunno how we want to go about that, yet.

So that's everything we've got so far from these checks. We are always open to new ideas from the community. Just go about explaining them in a respectful way.

*this bench mark may move around by 30 or so, depending on how we see clans post in the coming months.

Looking forward:
Looking at the results, we think we'd like to move the pass mark to 30, instead of 25. A clan could still pass on forum activity alone, but it would require about 250 posts instead of 50, which was just too low for a whole month. You also then didn't have to do anything else. As such, raising the pass mark to 30 and lowering the posts required to get the full 30 points for forums would mean clans need to actually be properly using their boards if they plan on passing with forum activity alone.
We're not planning to change the pass mark just yet, we'd like to keep an eye on how clans are doing first, but it's something that came out of our discussions and we wanted to let you know