Alrighty. Ever since I posted the DSC, I said this clan would eventually be ranked #1. Now, after evaluating our performance, I have calculated that, at our current rate, we would achieve this goal in approximately 14 years.

Our current path will take us too long. I'll probably be dead (weed overdose) by then. So, what I'd like for us to do is brainstorm ways for us to get there quicker. We need a comprehensive reform of our war system. We're a smart group of guys, so let's come up with an implementable plan to follow.

At some point, we're going to have to tackle the tricky question of maintaining our high standards vs letting in more ingame-oriented people for wars. Depending on which way we answer that we might have to redefine our expectations.

That's a discussion we need to have too. To me, top 3 doesn't seem like a realistic goal. Those clans have (literally) thousands of points and they were able to get them because of their vastly different clan composition (having primarily ingame people only). We've got a different make-up (forum+irc > ingame) and our make-up puts natural restraints on what we're capable of accomplishing.

Maybe we could have a "wars per week" thing, you'd have to participate/start a certain amount of wars, if you don't you get ranked down in the WotM if that's still a thing.
Just throwing ideas.

I think if we got more serious and active in game for wars we could pull it off, but that just might not be what we actually want to do. Half of us don't really go ingame too often as it is.
Idk

I think that getting the first rank is a great idea but not a realistic one. I think we should aim for top ten or twenty before we even think about getting to the number one rank. To get to the first rank we'd have to pass up some clans that was around three or four times everyday. Whereas we struggle to get one out every day. First things first.

We just need to recruit more ingame active players and incentive them to help with the wars. Then the number of wars would grow proportionally to the amout of ingame based members.

How about defining the positions of the War Squad. What does the leader do? The regular members? Perhaps some other ranks in the squad could be created.

The problem we have with recruiting ingame people is it's rare to find one that meets our forum standards. Which brings us full circle, back to the question I posed in the OP - "At some point, we're going to have to tackle the tricky question of maintaining our high standards vs letting in more ingame-oriented people for wars. Depending on which way we answer that we might have to redefine our expectations."



If we were going to create a squad leader rank, then naturally, everyone else would be a regular squad member. How would creating this squad leader rank improve our position, though? Organising multiple members to join wars, finding new squad recruits, creating some sort of war schedule? That'd be a fair bit of responsibility - it certainly wouldn't be some figurehead/honorary position.

I tend to agree with all of those points. What does everyone else think?
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Double post, but who cares - important announcement.

It seems like we're all really keen to ramp up the war efforts. We will have two war leaders, Galaxy and Triton. They will organise wars, recruit talented mature members and make sure we keep up the war effort.

I've invited Tacticaled to the clan. Triton has been putting together a list of guys who he thinks would be suitable. He's gonna start contacting them and seeing if they might be interesting in joining us.

After we get a good amount of ingame guys, we can focus back on getting forum guys. It'll balance out in the end.

Sounds amazing Ele! I agree that we need more ingame active folks around this clan so that we balance it out. And I also think that our clan is a pretty good drive to get higher up in the ranks which is good.

Just a heads up that I may not be here to war with you guys later.