Transparency and Documentation of Clan Population Limits

Clan leaders are told how many people they can hire, and the game will be even more shitty if everyone is in one clan.

The only way to get everyone in one clan is for that clan to produce a shitload of activty. Players are lookng for shit to do. Especially shit that mattrs.

clan caps just serve to conceal which clans are mismanagd and which arent. They help steer players away from the limited places theyd have fun towards sponsored pcs who have nothing for their subordinates to do. Except sparrng, of course. But you can spar anywhere.

I think the situation would likely sort itself out. Take the 'Byn. There's twenty of us available for the contract so I only get twenty sids? I get left behind because f-me chameleon is kanking the sarge? I have to share my locker with three other guys who can whip my ass? I think I'll go somewhere else..eventually.

I have been very excited to get into a clan only to discover that it was capped at like a few people. I mean, that is not the way that my mind works with Armageddon and clans... It's like... It's a good clan when I log in and another dude is there to go do clan stuff with. But, that is just like, my opinion man.

Okay, let me talk about the specific thing I'm talking about.

I rolled into my only, I think, family role, and though I was annoyed with the rigamarole of the sponsored app thing to do a family role... Whatever, it was worth it because it meant that I would be playing with two folks I hold in extremely high esteem to this day, even if one of them took a cheap shot at me recently... *squint*

So right, we all made Dasari dudes, and yes, there was a cap.

Here was the deal:

There were two nobles brought in at the same time. One was great and kicked ass and played a lot and the other I saw maybe once, and I was playing a LOT.

The absentee noble hired a dude, who turned out to also be an absentee dude, and the present noble hired a dwarf in addition to me and my character's sibling, both servants.


It was so much fun and the active noble was really focusing a lot of energy in creativity, and in general the north was decent at the time. But suddenly, it was like, we were frozen at four people who played regularly, one of them being a noble.

There were other PCs at that time, like a guy who was a powerful indie merchant who did the belshun gear, and others, who could have been brought into that fold and really ignited the clan. But, maybe because of me, and maybe because the noble had run-ins with the staff before, we were locked out of being able to pull more people in.

I played a lot and was bored, eventually dying in the grasslands, and the other two characters stored. Not sure what happened to the dwarf.

It kinda boils down to this: if the playerbase is willfully isolatng itself by all joining the same clan, you should probably see what theyre doing right. Odds are most of what the clan is doing right boils down to the staffer not shitting on player activity that doesnt need staff support. And much of what the staff decidd needed staff support only needed it because they injectd themselves into the situation.

Not happy leaving the megaclan be? Fine. Do something about it. But dont make the something you do be artificially shrinking the clan. doing so means making active players inactive.

Instead create a competitor that works the same way. (Or take their existing competitor, stop fucking it up with your bad staffng, and announce it's now going to follow the same model as the popular clan.) Because theres a limit to how high anyone can rise when theyre competng with 40 people in the same place, so they can be lured away with the opportunty to succeed in another.

Thats something the staff never got. Even back before they started capping clan membershps.