- Jan 15, 2010
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To the many experienced leaders in the FPS gaming community: how about sharing some of the wisdom you've garnered from your time leading gaming clans?
I'm primarily a CoD4 gamer, and I see literally thousands of servers that sit empty most of the time and hundreds of clan web sites with half a dozen members and one post per week. This is the Internetwe should be able to pull together and organize better than this, bring people together better and stop wasting resources (game servers aren't cheap!). I think we can make gaming better by sharing some wisdom to help fellow and future clan leaders avoid the pitfalls of leading a clan.
Clan leaders often have the best intentions but lack the experience and/or resources to establish a clan that will persevere through time and help everyone have the best gaming experience possible.
They have to fight hackers and other abuse in their servers, accusations of various types from other clans, drama within their own clan, and more. They have to keep order within a group of people that tends to be younger and less mature by the nature of what it is that draws them together (gaming). They have to be [or have someone else] around almost 24/7 to deal with complaints and problems. They have to stimulate and maintain a healthy level of activity and involvement from clan members, and as those of us who have been leaders in the gaming community have learned, you can't force people to be more active than they want to be. Competitive clans have to find and schedule matches and practices, often while dealing with members from many different time zones.
This makes leading a clan sound like a lot of work (and for many, it is)but the goal here is to avoid making the gaming experience a tedious job while getting done what needs to be done so that everyone can just chill and have a blast.
Answers are going to vary from clan to clan and game to game, but what have you learned in your time as a clan leader? How do you fight drama and problems while helping everyone (members and guests) to kick back and have a great time together? Please, share your suggestions for making the clan gaming experience all it can be. We will all benefit.
I will chime in about my own experiences later in the thread, but at the moment I am in the process of planning a new clan called Regenesis (tags [RE]) with a few good friends. [RE] will be working not only to provide its own members with a great clan experience, but also will provide resources to help other clans connect and grow, so many of the suggestions in this thread may contribute to that end. If you're interested in being involved in that effort by doing more than just posting here, PM me.
By the way, also feel free to add me on XFire! My username is TIGRCS.
I'm primarily a CoD4 gamer, and I see literally thousands of servers that sit empty most of the time and hundreds of clan web sites with half a dozen members and one post per week. This is the Internetwe should be able to pull together and organize better than this, bring people together better and stop wasting resources (game servers aren't cheap!). I think we can make gaming better by sharing some wisdom to help fellow and future clan leaders avoid the pitfalls of leading a clan.
Clan leaders often have the best intentions but lack the experience and/or resources to establish a clan that will persevere through time and help everyone have the best gaming experience possible.
They have to fight hackers and other abuse in their servers, accusations of various types from other clans, drama within their own clan, and more. They have to keep order within a group of people that tends to be younger and less mature by the nature of what it is that draws them together (gaming). They have to be [or have someone else] around almost 24/7 to deal with complaints and problems. They have to stimulate and maintain a healthy level of activity and involvement from clan members, and as those of us who have been leaders in the gaming community have learned, you can't force people to be more active than they want to be. Competitive clans have to find and schedule matches and practices, often while dealing with members from many different time zones.
This makes leading a clan sound like a lot of work (and for many, it is)but the goal here is to avoid making the gaming experience a tedious job while getting done what needs to be done so that everyone can just chill and have a blast.
Answers are going to vary from clan to clan and game to game, but what have you learned in your time as a clan leader? How do you fight drama and problems while helping everyone (members and guests) to kick back and have a great time together? Please, share your suggestions for making the clan gaming experience all it can be. We will all benefit.
I will chime in about my own experiences later in the thread, but at the moment I am in the process of planning a new clan called Regenesis (tags [RE]) with a few good friends. [RE] will be working not only to provide its own members with a great clan experience, but also will provide resources to help other clans connect and grow, so many of the suggestions in this thread may contribute to that end. If you're interested in being involved in that effort by doing more than just posting here, PM me.
By the way, also feel free to add me on XFire! My username is TIGRCS.