Ok hi, thought I'd shed a little light on a few things seeing as clan mod/admin and things.
As pretty much all of you know, and have said, there are a tonne of new clans being created... Can't really say much on that given that I recently founded Tribe, but anyway. A lot of these clans aren't good enough to ever become official in their current state.
Without being mean (or rather, without trying to be mean) most unofficial clans are awful, by general clan standards from back when I joined.
I shan't name names, but too many clans are just being created on a whim.
A lower price will lower the thought behind it.
That is to say, the less one has to spend, the less one will care if it goes wrong.
Given how materialistic this community is (not a bad thing, we have a thriving market scene and such) a material investment and loss of tc if it doesn't work means a higher emotional and time investment. If the price was like 50k to register an unofficial clan, can you imagine how many people would actually do it, and how good the clans would be? No one would want to waste that kind of money.
The reasons the price was raised was to try and get people to think a bit more before creating a clan.
Ask themselves questions like;
Am I ready to lead a clan?
Am I active enough to maintain a clan?
Looking at the current thriving clans, can I do that?
What will make my clan different, and unique?
Too few people are asking themselves these questions and even fewer are doing anything about it, even if they have asked themselves.
The new requirements are there to kick you in the right direction, and the price increase is there to ensure quality.
We're trying to drag your clans to glory whether you like it or not.
Last edited by Erth; Apr 3, 2014 at 06:50 PM.