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Naruto 1001

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Anyone who's feeling adventurous is welcome to enter our clan's chat: Free Players.
We're a global clan with 500 clan members.

Don't expect to get the full picture in a matter of seconds. Anyone spending several hours in our chat will see that it works. If you have more time and spend a day with us you'll notice why. Please let me know the result :)

On-topic: I 'd love it if the cap was put a little higher.
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10-Dec-2015 03:40:46 - Last edited on 10-Dec-2015 03:56:08 by Naruto 1001

Scret
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It is to do with storage space, other than that theres no real reason to have the cap

The only reasons against it here are just peoples own personal opinions and leadership styles which will change nothing if the cap was lifted (not saying it should be or needs to be btw)
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10-Dec-2015 05:31:22 - Last edited on 10-Dec-2015 07:34:57 by Scret

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Subzero said :
At the risk of creating constituencies within the game, as opposed to clans, I personally would prefer the restriction be kept in place.

Clans should be built around quality, not quantity, and I actually feel that some form of restriction emphasises this. I honestly could not cope with having a Clan of 500, and to me, Clans in a game should feel personal - it's hard to be personal with 500 other people.


Then dont go over 500, you can personally see this done with or without a 500 cap, removing the cap of 500 will not change the way you approach your clan philosophy.
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10-Dec-2015 05:34:45

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Scret said :
It is to do with storage space, other than that theres no real reason to have the cap

The only reasons against it here are just peoples own personal opinions and leadership styles which will change nothing if the cap was lifted (not saying it should be or needs to be btw)


I agree. Having a cap is an incentive for leaders to maintain (or prioritise recruiting of) an active member base, meaning inactive accounts aren't taking up yet another form of storage in one or more of Jagex's systems.

500 is a good number though. A clan should be a group, not the equivalent size of a world. If I remember correctly nothing can be written which would auto-kick members after a certain period of time. I don't think many people would use a feature like that anyway. How many leaders have are almost capped at 500? Not a majority I would think.
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10-Dec-2015 07:36:46 - Last edited on 10-Dec-2015 07:37:37 by Post

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Salcos said :
So with all of this in mind, what about linked clans? Clans that have reached the max account limit and continue to make new clans on alts to continue to grow?


I dont see the problem and dont understand why anyone would?
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10-Dec-2015 16:52:45

Tyki Mikk

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I've never heard it framed as a storage issue. Rather I've always seen Mods discuss it in the sense that few, if any, clans have 500 actually active continuously playing members, so there's never been a need to raise the cap.
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10-Dec-2015 18:03:47

Agita Sage
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So we started our new Clans for a few reasons:

1. We had maxed members & maxed Citadels.
2. We were at the stage where we were just Recruiting to kick out old inactive members.
3. We wanted to see if we could.


With regards to the maxed member limit; personally I wouldn't mind having the option of having this number extended:
If you wanted a bigger member limit, there's an option to extend it.
If you didn't, you need not opt for it.


With regards to the Recruiting aspect, we found it was a bit demoralising that we were Recruiting so many new members into the Clan to never really see our total Clan Size grow: we have the 1 in, 1 out system.
Yes this system is vital to keep our Clans healthy and active and we still practice this, but the point still stands.

To put it into perspective, we use Blastys excellent Clan Logger which has been running daily since 09/11/2013 to date and it's logged over 5.2k members joining overall between all our Clans: yet have just over 1.1k members to show for.


And with regards to just wanting to see if we could: creating a new Clan just added an additional management challenge for us.
The opportunity and excitement to start a new Clan with all that you've learned over the years, as well as the being able to test or change systems you maybe couldn't in your established Clan, to even the reason of being able to start a new Citadel from scratch: we couldn't resist.
I am very fortunate that I have some really fantastic members who help me run our community, as I know multiple Clans wouldn't work otherwise: it's not just me and 2 other alts running the show, there's a whole bunch of us.


So even if we could increase our Clan member limit (which we'd probably do regardless), we would keep our other Clans too because it is more to us than just member size to us why we've done it.


On a related note: one thing I would absolutely love Jagex to do is allow for additional Clan Guest Chats: would save us a headache. Pls ;)
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