Clan Creation Guide

[Elite]

The utter essential basics!

 

Clan Name

Avoid silly or just generally stupid names. 'TH3 KILL3R5' sounds like a master-plan from an eight-year old. Sounds like the person who rage-quits and reports you, to be fair. Try and have a short (and appropriate) abbreviation, too. Do not make players change their gamertags, steam names and skype names are fine, but if you must pay to change your name, don't force people to do this.

 

Joining Requirements

As said previously, please try and avoid forcing name changes. Who wants to pay to join a clan? If you're starting a clan, you definitely should be 16 or over, and thus should set an age requirement to be 16, or 15 at the minimum. Have 'decency' and 'maturity' as a requirement, you don't have to define it, and thus can use it to get rid of those plebeians who decide to throw around racist comments, or decide to start raging-up all the time. 

 

Your 'main game' you play, be it Halo, Call of Duty or Team Fortress 2, should be required. A means of communication, such as an Xbox360/PS3/XboxOne/PS4 headset, or any PC headset, is a definate.

 

TeamSpeak 3 or Skype are needed for PC gaming, TS3 is much more useful than Skype; it offers any clan a damn brilliant means of communication. Remember kids, no communication = no clan!

 

Ranking Structure

Oh gods, no! Not for consoles at least; having ranks on consoles is just too messy, too sloppy. Consider a tree of up to 5 maximum tiers for console-based clans. A general layout would be:

1. Clan Owner
2. Commanders/Captains
3. Officers
4. Veteran Players
5. New Members

Avoid any sort of 'Trainee' ranks, those are all derogatory. Your second rank is purely for the purposes of administration, and is probably not needed on consoles. Event-organisers would be in the second row. In the third row, people who are in charge in-game reside. The fourth row would be the players that have joined. An officer-to-player ratio would be 1:7. You don't want to 'promote yo' friends', you just want responsible people. If people don't care about their position once they're in the fourth row of this example, then it means you've done it right. Avoid any awful stupid "Sir"-calling. You're supposed to have fun, not engage in some ERP with people that are just a little higher than you in some clan.

 

What Games?

Well I'll put this simply. Here is a list of games and/or franchises for Xbox360 and PC (Steam) that are suitable for clans.

 

PC

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Mount & Blade: Warband + Napoleonic Wars Module + Persistent Worlds Module (free)
3. PAYDAY 2
4. Call of Duty Franchise
5. Rust
6. ArmA II and/or ArmA III

 

Xbox360

1. Halo 3 / Halo: Reach / Halo 4
2. Call of Duty Franchise
3. Gears of War Franchise
4. Battlefield 3 / Battlefield 4

Biggest problem that you will encounter with Xbox360 clans is that you can not have over 8 players in your team at any given time, or it will be unbalanced. PAYDAY 2 is an odd choice, being it 4 player cooperative, but it is still a mighty fine secondary game for team building.

 

PC clans have a much better chance of survival, as there is more games to play that really do support some teamplay.

 

Organisation

'Meetings' can be held, but they must be meetings, not free-for-alls whilst discussing what you did at school today. Grurr, none of that. Discuss on what you'd like to play, when you're able to play, and most importantly achieve a consensus on what you'll all like to do. As an example, a Thursday 8PM GMT meeting can decide that over the weekend, 18 people are free, a productive thing to do would be host a custom games night on Halo 3 over the weekend. For PC, that might be taking your Warband crew into the Native or Napoleonic Wars module for some fun team-building exercises.

 

Trainings should never be focusing just on skills. Personally I'd say building friendships and teamworks is much better than learning to block sword swings or how to get them headshots.

 

 

 

 

done.

 

Please post feedback on this, any tips for people creating (or currently running their clan). much metric units of loves - elite

[Buns]

Although I am not interested in forming a clan this guide does seem very helpful to those who are interested. 

[Elite]

thanks love