Anyone here who have led clans before or know how to be in one properly?

Make sure everyone is in it for the same reason - clans where half the players want to be cyberleague pros and the other half just want something to do on a sunday night don't work.

Get a group of like minded people playing for the same reason and everything else will run fairly smoothly.
 
Well were a casual but active most days group. Near 50 members. We just would like some advice on leadership on how to run a successful clan as in get ppl to turn up, get ppl to aim for certain things in this case high tier tanks, play well in clan battles.

I duno just were all kinda just winging it atm. Not sure what to ask tbh.

Basically help with advice for organization and things like what clans do.

(really duno what im on about haha just trying to answer what were lookin for)
 
you want a head admin and four or five admin to cater for all the other activities only use people you fully trust and arnt childish if beaten or sore losers.

you want a basic website and some kind of way of communicating through either ts vent or mumble

server for said game you play.

getting a good group is the hardest who arnt silly and you know you can count on.

if you have these already just ask the most responsible ones to admin for you .

its not to hard just keep things upto date but most important fun.

work out like said do you want a group of people who want to go leagues ladders lans and stuff or you want fun clan who arnt bothered with that.

money ! this is one of the worst things with clans ! organizing paying for things most things arnt on time and this can lead to arguments when its time to pay for servers or whatever so try to keep things low cost and easy to keep a eye on

if you want and its casual kinda thing ill make you a section on my website which you can use but no one will have admin on my site youll just be able to make posts and such. if its helpful.
 
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We have a site/forum thing, the game is world of tanks so no servers to pay for as it their servers with a global clan war (turn based) which battles 15vs15 when time comes up after arranging.

Thanks for the advice. ;)
 
Structure and rules.

You shouldn't have to force people to turn up, Steam is great for organizing events etc and keeping in touch with people. If people don't want to take part then they don't really need to be there.

Make sure people who what the Admin structure is and respect that, otherwise it just goes wrong when something bad happens.

Kinda hard to explain but I've been in a 'fun clan' for nearly 5 years now, Admining for probably about 4 so I have some background. Oh and this is with over 120 members and about 6 or 7 different servers, including TF2, L4D2, Minecraft and a few others that come and go.
 
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As said you need a clear focus for your clan, if its fairly serious have a minimum attendance rate, and demote/boot anyone that doesn't meet the minimum. Clear rules is also a must and don't try and do everything yourself, you need at least a couple of other people you trust, whether it's someone to run the website side of (I would recommend a clan forum + some form of teamspeak) or an online events coordinator. The otherside of the coin is don't have too many otherwise it tends to just lead to arguements.
 
Depends if its a serious clan or just a group of people that play together, i run the Lions BC2 server and we have about 15 clan members i have 4 admins, we also have a forum and TS3 server but we dont play competitive matches as its more of a group of friendly people playing together. I dont really have time to organise games either but running one isnt a huge amount of work, its whatever you want it to be really.

Stick t running the website, forums and server techy stuff yourself i wouldnt advise you give admins access to the entire server but it depends what game you play and what client you use. The biggest thing is make sure people that want to join are genuine and play with them for a month first you will be suprised how hard it is to find genuine people that stick with a game.
 
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Have a published set of rules, and enforce them (and make sure YOU stick to them!)

Have a grievance procedure.

Don't air your dirty laundry in public. Have a private dispute resolution forum where you can talk it through with the people concerned.

Don't be afraid to boot people. A few bad apples can loose you half you clan if you leave them to rot. Again though, have a procedure for this, with warnings etc first.

Never, ever loose your temper.

Play the game! This might seem obvious, but the worst thing for any clan is a leader who's never around, doesn't know who's doing what, and generally isn't interested. If you don't have the time to commit, give the job up to someone who does.
 
I highly recommend the use of www.doodle.com for finding out good times to play.
What you do is go on there and set up a calendar for say the forthcoming week, with evening hours in it. Then people put their nick and yes/no to each time slot. It then totals up how many people you have committed to a each hourly slot so you can easily see when you have enough players available (15 in your case).

It sounds really simplistic to organise times to play but having played in clans since the last millenium I can tell you that a simple tool like that can be a great help. We used it last season to find the best times to schedule our league games and it was very useful - without it you get a situation where people come and ask on IRC to schedule games but nobody can be sure what time is ok without asking everyone else (and often people are offline/afk)
 
Pretty much everyone above has covered the basics, but have a forum or the ability to discuss things with people as you're always treading a fine line between being a control freak & a good admin.

Get people involved & express to people the more input they put in the more they get out of any clan.

I've run clans for over 8 years now in various guises & it's not smooth sailing but get people involved in as much as possible is one of the best nuggets of info I can offer.
 
Had the misfortune of running a CS:S clan for 2/3 years. Not sure if you heard of them but they were called IOA - Irish Online Army. Used to be pretty active in ED and made a few trips to Newbury for some of the i events. Ran some fairly popular public servers as well.

When I say misfortune, I took over the clan when it was in a state of disarray with a few of the older heads holding onto the past glories of the clan in America's Army.

It was incredibly hard work and one thing I would say is that you need to be stern, consistent, organised and insistent on regular clan meetings. Saying that, it was also good fun, met some genuinely great lads and have never laughed so hard in my life since.

In all honestly, it gave me quite the insight into the whole world of people management. It was a great place to learn what worked and what didn't. I genuinely believe that it has helped my career quite a bit - I believe that it is no coincidence that I am now a Team Leader (First Line Billing Operations and Application Support team for one of the biggest telecoms companies in the world).

I agree that tools that help you organise everyone makes thing far easier.
 
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