Man oh man.
I took Friday off of school because mum was scared we were going to get flooded.. how close to the cyclone were you? :o
Had no idea you were Australian also though.
Good to know dude! o7

Not very close (northern suburbs, Albany Creek), but we still got the storms and a bit of flooding and stuff. 30 degrees and 70% humidity tomorrow... Another sweaty day...

Uh, it should be. Should've been linked the instant the Toriclan was created. Isn't it?



Yeah, lot of questions. Here goes nothing, lol;
[1] We decided it would be a good idea to have at least a semi-multifaceted clan. Rather than just being active in the forum and IRC spheres, we can have a war squad and also be active in the ingame sphere as well. The more mediums we can express our activity in, the better.

[2] The current thinking is that we hold all members to some maturity/intellectual standard, but that the war commander finds and selects his squad. For the war squad, we wouldn't treat them like they're applying as forum-elites, but we wouldn't be accepting deadshits.

[3] Well, I re-read the rules, and apparently if we are recruiting, then we have to have a recruitment thread. I was going to get people to just post freeform apps here, but I suppose we'll have to get them to post a freeform app in a recruitment centre thread.

[4] We'll have a split between the Elite Forumers and the Ingame Beasts (ranks titles subject to change... suggestions?). Ofc, clan artist is seperate, and so will any other special positions we can think of.

And yeah, like Nerti said, you should hop on IRC often. It's just easier to communicate ideas through that rather than PMs.


edit: You ninja'd me Insane, and I'm not sure my post is before yours or not.. some weird forum glitch. So I'll answer you here;

The ways wars are in Toribash, you don't need to think to hard about devising some strategy and weighing the pros and cons. Most clans have a few 'war commander' type people, and they've got the Toriclan permissions to wage wars themselves (some ingame clans give those permissions to all of their members). I think it'd be best to allow our war commander autonomy, seeing as that person would be all about ingame, and they'd know their shit - whereas us forumers don't really.

Also, creating some chain of command/bureaucracy that the commander needs to follow to initiate a war wouldn't be a good idea. A lot of clans wars are created on the spot, in the server, between a few members of each clan (it could even be 1v1). If we put in some time-delay, then we'd miss out on a lot of opportunities to go to war.

We're not having a recruitment thread according to Ele, but yeah, we talked all about this stuff on irc. You should come over some time. :O

Well, I re-read the rules and it turns out we do need to have one if we're recruiting. Or I don't know, maybe we could get them just to PM us if they're interested, like Proto mused?

Making people pm us would make the application harder to go around. I think we should just make a recruitment page for now, then, discuss in IRC and sorts. It would be better that way.

But if we do have to make a thread in the recruiment centre, then there's no reason why they shouldn't just post the application there. The only reason I'm thinking we could get them to PM us is so that we don't have to worry about a thread in the recruitment centre. Originally, I would've just liked to have them post their app here.

It's an issue that's gonna require further discussion. I don't know which path we should take.

Mkay. Found out that we are allowed to keep the applications within this DSC thread. So we'll just go ahead with our original method - people post freeform apps here, and then we vet them, discuss on IRC and get back to them in this thread when we've made our decision.


Phew - glad that's sorted.

I agree with letting people post their applications here. I don't really see a problem with it. Is important to point out that people who thinks on applying should at least try to know us a bit before posting the app. We have an IRC channel for it. That will probably increase your chances to get accepted.

Regarding ingame stuff, I think it's very important for us to keep it up. It will better contribute for us to be recognized in the community as well as to show that we are both active ingame and on forums. Thus the wars are a good way to doing so. I like the ideia of a war squad, since it brings more organization and easiness when running things out. We can also start thinking of others methods; such as bet servers, torneys, all hosted by tldr. Not to mention the fun we will have.

Once I get my PC fixed, I'll help with the hosting. I have a good amount of experience with tourneys.