Star Trek Gamers - ClanBase
General Clanning
Expanding
Your Clan
If you have
just started your clan for Legacy or any of the older games a time will
come when you think to yourself "should I branch out into other games?".
It's a
question that a lot of clan leaders ask and it's one which requires a
lot of thought.
Before you
even think of expanding your clan into another Star Trek game or a game
outside of Star Trek you need to think of some basic questions first.
-
Do I have
enough members?
For a clan to expand into other games you need to have the member
base to play those games. However, even if you have a good
member base of more than 20, if all of those 20 have the new game
you want to expand to you need to make sure that the other games you
are covering wont start to suffer from a lack of people playing it.
For example if all of your member base has Star Trek: Legacy and
then you decide to move into a future Star Trek game or a game
outside of Star Trek and over 3/4ths of your Legacy players leave,
it means that only a small amount of your clan will be left in Star
Trek: Legacy, when this happen you are more likely to lose more
members as the people in your clan that play Legacy see less and
less people from your clan play the game.
-
Will there
be a lot of interest?
This point works both ways. Interest from your own members and
interest from future new members in the game you are moving into.
The basic rule of thumb when moving into a new game is ask your own
members first to see how many people would be interested.
After that form a small group of 5 to 6 players to move into this
new game to check it out and see what the clan world is like.
Moving into a
new game is much like adding an extension onto a house, you have the
base of the clan and you are deciding to build an extension onto the
back. Of course when you build an extension you move items from
the old house into the new extension. This basically means that
when you move into a new game you sacrifice some of your players in your
Star Trek game who move into the new game.
This can mean
only one thing...you need to recruit...a lot.
When you have
decided to move into a new game it is always the best option to recruit
in your older games before you move into the new game. This
means that instead of having 20 members and half of them moving into the
new game, you might have 30 members with only 10 of them leaving into
the new game therefore leaving your Star Trek game with the same base of
20.
Doing this
every time you branch into a new game will mean that your older member
base still playing the older games wont be sacrificed when you do
expand.
The next big
question is when to expand into a new game.
There are
several theories to this. The main one being the minute a really
good new game comes out, when this happens moving into a new game as
quick and as fast as possible is always the best idea, the main reason
is the large amount of free solo players who are just waiting to be
recruited into your clan.
The next
theory on moving into a new game is when your own members start to get
bored with just playing one game in your clan.
Either way, if
you prepare in advance before moving in you wont suffer any of the
growing pains that a lot of clans suffer on moving into new games and
expanding their clans. |
