Originally Posted by
duck
And @pusga sorry but no, we are rather focusing on in-game activity and giving a small benefit to forum activity. Coupled with how dead IRC is to the point where we have as the core community moved to discord, we really don't consider it. Besides, if IRC is your main source of activity, then you can keep that if you clan fails the check anyway.
I don't need my clan board for playing ingame either, if I want to find my friends I can /sa them.
The reason nobody plays is because the game is old and too hard to learn. Considering the community is only dwindling, these criteria are strange to say the least.
Over time the community of this niche semi old pc game morphed into its natural shape: a small group of recurrent players, players that come and go in short periods of time, and a strong forum presence. This is threatening to cripple the experience of some users who care much more for the forum aspect than the game aspect. The criteria in your op dictate that ingame activity is over three times more relevant than forum activity, and 75% of all official clans failed to pass the hypothetical check. These are alarming numbers; there is no apparent reason to only allow about 10 active official clans at a time. Regardless of how close they were to passing, a fail is a fail and after a couple of months the clans would go back to being inactive and eventually fail the checks again. You need to have a strong community before you can manage it like one. If anything, I predict this will piss some people off of Toribash rather than get them playing it, as I know for a fact a lot of people come to the forum just for their clan and friends (and these aren't just people in "active" clans).
You mention that the majority of the clans are not forum oriented. In that case, how the hell did 31 out of 41 clans fail to pass this check? Doesn't add up.
Comically, fallu's quip was accurate, if this is an attempt to increase ingame presence, then it's pretty much blackmailing the players to play a game they don't want to play because it hasn't changed for almost a decade and they're tired of it. I don't see any other way I could interpret this.
I like Toribash as is, I'm satisfied with its current state, and I recognize I might be a minority. If you guys are so desperate to push it into the next level, then the game needs to change, in its current state Toribash is akin to something like Endorphin. Toribash Next can't come soon enough.