Are Clans Still Active

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I joined Sins Dec 2012, and I have yet to run into a Sins player who is associated with a clan. So the question I ask is are clans dead in SOASE Rebellion or is it just my ignorance getting the best of me?

 

If they are dead, with the recent influx of new players, a new clan maybe the way to help new players get a grasp on the multiplayer scene. What are your thoughts?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There are players who have some clan tag but I have no idea whether those clans are still active or not, but there are several threads for new players on these forums, and even an "academy" to help them assimilating into the mp scene. Actually I don't even know what is a clan good for :X

And new players can ask for help on ICO, not everyone is a douche and many are willing to help if noobs actually act like an intelligent man and ASK QUESTIONS OR HELP.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

There has to be some positives of a clan. it ensures loyalty to the game and makes sure the clan members should be active increasing the life of the game. Also, gives the player something to look forward to when logging on the ICO being part of a select team and aiding the community. Just random thoughts getting typed down.

 

Fair enough, getting advice is simple enough but new players need to take the initiative for anything positive to come out from it.

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Community is small enough, lots of regular players just use their friendlists as a clan.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting JinglyGoo, reply 3
Community is small enough, lots of regular players just use their friendlists as a clan.

 

Exactly, no need to have official clans when there is not enough players and everyone knows everyone.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Okay then, thanks for clarifying guys.

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

We used to have clans for the first couple years the game was out, but it became kind of pointless after a while.  The reason clans don't really work is that the community is so small, it is almost impossible to get a clan vs clan fight going, and a bunch of random people are not going to fight a clan team, even if we did 4v6 or occasionally 3v7.  Since people tend to prefer to pick teams, there was no real advantage to being on a clan.....in fact, once picking teams became the most common way to play, smurfing became the meta strategy to gain an advantage rather than trying to play as a disciplined clan team.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Luckily people have stopped smurfing these days for the most part.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

This game never had enough of an online player base to support having a real clan league with scheduled matches.  Also, 90% of the people online only play vs. AI and not real games, so the number of people playing PvP is far too small to have a clan scene.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting DirtySanchezz, reply 8

This game never had enough of an online player base to support having a real clan league with scheduled matches.  Also, 90% of the people online only play vs. AI and not real games, so the number of people playing PvP is far too small to have a clan scene.

 

It had, back in 08...

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Cpt_Siddy, reply 9
It had, back in 08...

Five or Six clans is not "active".  Try 50 or 100 clans duking it out on a ladder.  Heck, for a successful game you'd hope to have a couple hundred active clans at any one time.

I miss Clan X, as in, "I'm gonna do to Clan X what happened to Girl X."