I also want to tell you jelle, Clans do also wanne make mergendice to, to ther own clan and will stay on ther server. In BCD i was hoping that the total clan will join it for 3 hours a week, but often you see them play but in their own server, which I can understand if they have gast players and possible members they need to for various reasons.
You try to with this to grow to make your clan bigger and gif a good playground to others and together with your team like all clans are hoping to grow. that way merlin say do it under the name 25Assist !!
1. When I first started playing again, i searched for an EU clan that plays different maps. I didn't have any desire of becoming a clanleader or a member in controll. Becides the SWISS clan, I was not able to find a clan who changes the map form time to time. The only problem is, I have high ping and lag on swiss server. I'm not saying that the SWISS servers are bad, because I asked around and other players from Belgium don't have lag. It's probably my ISP or my location. I think it's sad because I still think that SWISS is the #1 clan in playing different maps.
2. The main problem why I decided to found my own clan, is the power hungry admins. They want to enforce rules like "up only" or "main only" and change time settings so that other players are forced to rush. They want to increase the amount of rounds so that they can play longer with the same good weapon. They want SF mod because they can't play with M16. Etcc... As long as I've been running my server, I have not increased or decreased the time limit, forced players to play a certain way, changed the amount of rounds or swapped the map without using mapvoting.
This is because I still beleave that the best servers, are the ones without people in control. The only thing I do is welcome new players, promote Big Clan Day and forceclass a gun from time to time, when players ask for it. But if they ask for "normal", I will stop forceclassing.
3. The only reason I recruit is because I noticed that it's needed in order to get regular visitors on the "Play Another Map" server. It's easyer for Swiss to fill up a server, if there are already 4 Swiss members online playing on it. But like I sad before, I have lag on their server and there are no other EU clans that actually play different maps every single day. But don't think I created the calendar in order to recruit for PAM.
4. I am not trying to make my own clan bigger with this. Do you see any PAM logo's on that website? Do you see any links to our website? Hey man, if you give me a domain-name or subdomain, I will eaven remove the "events.pamclan.com". I just created the short url so that it's easy to remember. I want to encourage HT, PUF and other EU clans to announce an event, so that I have no need to join my empty server, waiting for players to join. I invite all clans to at least try the calendar and I'll do my best to participate at every event and I'll encourage my members to participate aswell.
There will always be competition. so do not fill the calender with only every day your idear your clan your server.
Does there has to be? Really? Why can't we help eachother out. If PUF wants to do a border event, annnounce it, I'll try to join. If HT want's to do a breakout event, announce it, I'll join. I really don't care wich clan hosts the events. But if we work together, and join eachothers servers, there can be full servers on different maps every day, just like on big clan day. But you're not willing to try it.
And where do you see me filling up the calander with events on my server? I don't mind hosting events on your server or any other server for that mather. If you can make sure that your server can be put on the map I want to play, it doesn't have to be on the PAM server.
Big Clan Day is also not =PUF= its 25ASSIST and together all clans have the same level, and only that make BCD work and even then it hard to led it work.
Vanoke, I really don't like to say this, and I'm pretty sure you will be very mad for posting this, but if you actually beleave that all clans have the same level of controll over big clan day, then you really don't know how much
you need to be in controll. Big Clan Day is not =PUF=. But it is yours Vanoke, and you make sure to remind players and admins on a regular basis.
You attack admins if they don't follow your instruction. A few weeks ago you joined my teamspeak, asking me why I wasn't playing Big Clan Day. I was not playing anymore because my wife needed me, but you still saw me online at battletracker and you were mad because you thaugt I wass still playing on my own server. A few weeks later, you attack the Swiss clan because they didn't play by your rules. And not personally, you do it in the shoutbox and start a topic so that all AA players can read about it. You discontinued the 2nd EU server and you sad last Sunday that there is no need for a 2nd EU server. So you decide this for all other clans. Last week, 15 EU players had to play with high ping on the USA server because you wanted to support the 3 USA players that were online at that time. I checked battletracker. Only 3/18 players where form USA. A few days later, you requested full acces to the servers from HT because they had "Big Clan Day in the servername. Player-admin rights should be enough to host Big Clan Day. Why do you need so much controll?
You'll probably be mad at me for weeks for posting this. But I'm only telling you the truth. I still respect you and everything you did and keep on doing for this community.
Why does anyone have to be in controll of a freakin calendar? The only thing I was planning on doing was copy/paste the replies in this topic. If SWISS or PUF hosts 9/10 events and I publish them all, why does someone else need admin acces to the calendar? Why do 10 clans need to be in controll of that? It's a calendar, that's all.
I think that all players should take a good hard look at this calendar, and see it for what it is. A simple public calendar that can be used by all clans and by players who are not in a clan! You don't need to be in a clan to share that you want to play a certain map at a certain time. The only thing that is required is a simple post in this topic.
It's so sad that I worked hard to come up with an idea to improve game-activity, and the first replies are all about who should be in controll of it and how it should be managed. Just reply with an event damnit!