Where have the clans gone?
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Where have the clans gone?
Hello everybody. I am posting this mainly so that I can get an answer to a question I have been pondering for a while now. What has happened to all of the user clans in Wesnoth? There used to be a bunch, HGK, CS, MAD, n3t, etc. Nowdays I have only see one HGK member on the server and maybe a couple of n3ts. Not to mention my own clan, UT, which used to have about 10 members on regularly, now I only see 3 UTs plus myself on the server. I originally thought that they had all gone to the dev server, until I heard somebody say that only 10 people play on there. If anybody has any theories about what has happened to our clans, please post here.
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Re: Where have the clans gone?
Clans are worthless.ubertuna-1 wrote:If anybody has any theories about what has happened to our clans, please post here.
Aside from the n3t clan, which is simply a note saying 'I won't join all your games, don't invite me into 3-team games' teams do nothing productive, are generally habituated by noobs, and get annoying with their attempts at recruiting. If you want a group of friends to play together, you don't need a clan, you just need to find some friends.
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Re: Where have the clans gone?
I don't think so. I agree with most people, Wesnoth clans are different then warcraft clans and that same genre of clan where you have clanwars etc. In my mind a clan in wesnoth is just an organized group of people that are friends and/or share the same interests.Ken Oh wrote:Clans are worthless.
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That's a very good description. And it immediately leads to another question: What is the purpose of a clan other than to give such a group a name?ubertuna-1 wrote:In my mind a clan in wesnoth is just an organized group of people that are friends and/or share the same interests.
Many people say "there is no other purpose, so we don't really need it". And i tend to agree. To find people that share the same interests is a matter of your behaviour and not dependent of a clan name.
The only thing i can see is that a clan name might make you find those people faster. But then we maybe shouldn't call it a clan. I like your definition of a clan, however i fear that it is not commonly adopted. That's why a clan regularly seems to attract the wrong people .
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Yeah I acctually started my clan when some of the other clans, such as HGK, had many members on the server. My clan was orriginally made for doing the clan wars etc. but when most of the clans... died off... my clan became what I mentioned before, a group of friends with a name and a website.
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Well, that and the NF (No Fog) clan.Weeksy wrote:Aside from the n3t clan, which is simply a note saying 'I won't join all your games, don't invite me into 3-team games' teams do nothing productive, are generally habituated by noobs, and get annoying with their attempts at recruiting. If you want a group of friends to play together, you don't need a clan, you just need to find some friends.
And Wesnoth indeed isn't really a game of clans. Clans never really lasted, except for the NF and N3T clans.
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Those two were the only ones that I've heard of that seemed to have any staying power, really... maybe because of the well-defined purpose beyond the secret club handshake.ubertuna-1 wrote:Never even heard of the NF clan. Most people know about n3t through its presence on the forums. I don't see many n3ts on the server.
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If you looked at our site you would have seen that our clan has purpose too. Here is a quote from our website:Kestenvarn wrote:Those two were the only ones that I've heard of that seemed to have any staying power, really... maybe because of the well-defined purpose beyond the secret club handshake.ubertuna-1 wrote:Never even heard of the NF clan. Most people know about n3t through its presence on the forums. I don't see many n3ts on the server.
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The difference is that the purpose of the n3t and NF clans lies within wesnoth. UTs purpose is about something outside of wesnoth. Something very improtant in the real world.
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