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hello, thank you for your advice that you gave me on the other post. I was wondering if you have ever taken on a clan that some one els had made or started?, if so I would love to hear any experiences you had. the clan I have taken over has a large member base about 75+ people in it so far, and is only growing every day. Althow I may not be the best leader for the clan I genuinely do love the clan and all the people in it. also I was wondering if you have any advice on training an heir for a clan, I do not plan on leaving any time soon, but I would like to be prepared for any thing that could happen.

I am currently a leader of a two and a half year old FPS clan. We have had our peaks and lows, but over-all id consider it a success. I constantly read your site to ground my expectations.

That being said. What about Clan to Clan issues. I run a successful clan, but and outside clan is “Invading” and spreading alot of negativity and hostility. I usually approach the matter very diplomatic, but communication virtually doesnt exsist.

How would you deal with a negative outside force?

Hi. Let me start by saying your advice helps a great deal. It is good to hear that I am not the only one that messes up. I have a bit of an issue I need help with.

I play wolfenstein Enemy Territory online. That is where my clan is from. We are not that big but we have a rival. Their name is GDC. We cannot do much to fight them except Scrimming and playing on each others servers. However this may be, we hate eachother. We have some skilled members who can Hack their servers and forums but I was wondering how I as a clan leader fight them back. What could i do to help out and ultimatly force them to abandon their clan?
If you want to reach me you have my email and you can contact me on the forums or here. I want to bring that clan to their knees but I dont not know how.

Thank you for all you help and advice.

DOOM
Clan Lord of the Imperial Forces

Excellent work, a must-read for clan leaders and clan-leaders-to-be alike.
As someone who’s led a medium size gaming clan for almost two years (wow, time does fly), I can safely say each of these points are absolutely vital to the longevity of a clan.

A small addition; in my personal experience, good contacts are vital. Though my experience is limited to a relatively small and tight-knit game, I have found (especially at the beginning) that without good contacts, you won’t get anywhere. You need them for your clan’s popularity, for a site/forum ( which is absolutely vital these days; not knowing HTML like myself is no longer an excuse ), and more. It is safe to say that, had I not had pretty good contacts, my clan wouldn’t have lasted more than…what, a month?

Either way, as said, awesome article. Keep up the good work!

Well Doom, I’d be willing to give you some advice on the matter and all that. Sufficed to say trying to kill eachother’s clans won’t exactly help

Either way, feel free to mail me about it and I’ll get back to you.

Caelumsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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