Like that kind of thing?

Also there's more to do with clans than ever, outside of events.

Events require manpower, and as much as I'd like to start some clan events, I would prefer to fix these underlying clan issues before jumping to the next one.
I'm aware that clans should have events though - but it's not a short term priority.

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

Hello guys.

Today i'll be cleaning up the dead/inactive unofficial clan list. We have a list of over 1000 clans that we can deleted, so if you want a tag or name of an unnoficial clan that can be considered inactive you can contact me and i'll check if I can do it for you.

Thanks.

Remember how people didn't like being extorted into playing the game? Why do you guys think extorting people to post on the forums is a good idea? Way to incentivise (even more) shitposting fellas.

Too easy to pass? We wanted it to be easy to pass. Don't make it harder.

Hi gamers, today the clan staff bring to you a new and exciting perk.
Static Official Servers!

This perk is for official clans only, and allows a clan to set up a static server ingame that will stay there even when no one is there, so the whole game knows that you spent way too much time earning perk points.

Here's a summary of some of the main things you need to know:
> It costs 50k perk points to open the server
> You can moderate it yourselves as it counts as a private server (so the same moderation standards apply as your clan board)
Please note that if someone comes into your clan server and you start properly cussing them out and calling them the n word and stuff, there will be repercussions. Harassment rules still apply, there are limits.
> You can set an ownerpass that you can moderate yourselves, if you're a dumbass with it then we reserve the right to remove their server
> upkeep of the server requires a bimonthly fee (inline with activity checks, so the first month upkeep fee will come sooner than it ordinarily would whenever you purchase your server), the fee is 5k
> official clans only

It should be up in the perk shop for purchase soon.


BUT DON'T FEEL LEFT OUT UNOFFICIAL CLANS!
We're releasing a minor, but welcome, change for all clans. You can now use the broadcast system for recruitment purposes.
If you set up a clan server yourself, or you want to use your new fancy official server to recruit people then you can now global it!
The rules for this will be common sense, mainly:
Don't spam it
Don't missuse it
Don't swear in globals etc.


We already have our next idea in the works so keep an eye on this thread for further updates and fun stuff.

bye gamers

This is awesome and will be utilized.

Thats great

Good job. Looking forward it.

thats pretty good

You should reinstate the fee for creating a fresh clan, the recent quality of
new clans havenot been very good.
I mean, who cares if there's 20 new clans a week, as long as there is some
sort of way to ensure atleast some degree of effort.

when 10k was the dealio it was still not enough to ensure quality, now that its free its even worse.

Also people that make 500 clans a week should get some sort of spanking