The Basics Of Starting Your Own Gaming Clan

They say that 75% of all startup businesses fail in their first two years. This is also true with clans, only perhaps even more clans fail than companies. I would say the percentage is probably somewhere around 85% -90% mark. If you're reading this, you may have to consider running your own gaming clan. I will say, as a former leader of his for about 3 years, this is not an easy task. There are certain things you must ask yourself before you begin, which will ultimately lead to either death or the rise of new organizations,

questions to ask yourself : (so you do not end up wasting your time :))

# 1) Do I have enough time? To successfully lead a large clan in this day and age, you must plan to devote at least at the time when it will be a part time job. Especially during startup. I would say that you should plan for at least 20 hours per week, and as high as 40 during startup.

# 2) Am I the only one? You will never be able to get the clan off the ground on your own. Starting a clan that has a level of effort. You will need at least 3-4 very dedicated members will help you to get this thing on my nogama.Više merrier.

# 3) Am I / my founding mature enough? time certainly comes into play as the leader. You must be willing to put up with a lot of crap. You'll hear lots of complaints. Maturity is definitely a necessity. I have never seen a clan successfully takes 13 years old.

# 4) I have the motivation to put in the effort? You can have all the time in the world, but if you do not do anything with it, you get no where. A better plan would be for those 20 hours a week to 20 hours of work. If we sit and chat for 10 of those are getting nowhere.

If you answer all these questions correctly then you've just met the basic requirements for the clan leader. There are literally hundreds of other things that play in a clan to be successful. Now, for starters:

First, decide what type of clan you want.

You and your founder must decide the basis on the type of clan you are preparing for you. All decisions in relation to what game you play. (Usually the first person shooters like Counter-Strike will be looking for a large number in the list of members. Real-time strategy and MMORPG's also have different sets of core values​​). If you want more members? Small amount? Will there be ranks? If so how much? Will you be using a standard military ranks, or will something original? Once the ranks of the question is decided, then you need to decide what the founders of what will be the ranking system. This can get sticky, so try to be as democratic as to what is possible. I would suggest that only you, as a founding leader be the commander (or comparable rank), and perhaps to all the other founding members to be your main headquarters.

. Tip: Save the transcripts of all meetings and keep them for a later date, or set your message board later

After these things are decided, you can begin to create.

Open website.

Make sure you have your own. Com /. Net /. Org domain for your guild, and pay-per-month hosting plan. (This can be purchased at godaddy.com ).

website is the most important part of any klana.Web site, or perhaps more importantly, a forum / message board gives its members a place to chat and get to know each other outside the game. This gives your clan more than the community feel to it. Your web site must, at minimum, have a page devoted to news, rules, members, and message board to talk. It is absolutely essential that you have a message board. Often, your webhost will have message boards that can be automatically set up in cPanel.

Make your website look as professional as possible. Do your best to make sure it is neat and tidy, a minimal amount of spelling pogrešaka.Ozbiljnije himself taken, serious potential members will take.

Find your place in the game

Depending on what game you start a clan for this, there are certain steps to be taken in order for you to have a meeting place for its members in the game. For Counter-Strike and other first person shooters, you have to buy a server. But for the rest of this article, I'll assume that you battle.net clan. In this case, you need to get a clan channel. It really does not matter whether you have a channel Clan ______ _______ or channel op. Just make sure one of your founding members can keep the bot sits on the STS (STS control channel can kick / ban) 24 / 7 Make sure you trust this person, in fact, it's even best if you hold ops. Check if this bot is able to convey the power of others in the channel.

employment.

Depending on how you answered your questions earlier about the potential size of the clan, to begin employment in a number of ways. Most clans wanted to start hiring as many people as possible. Make sure to tell every recruit on your website.

Put it in the forum of the newly formed clan, and let them know that moving up is optional.

Make recruitment games to reach out to new members. You always have the best player on-line at the time of play of potential members.

When playing alone, make sure to ask anyone you meet who will be the appropriate skill level, if you would be interested in joining.

Basically, in creating a clan, you are a salesman. You can dress up your web site it the best business attire to attract the most business-like crowd. You have to sell his clan that each potential member, and make them excited to join. The best members are always the ones who were excited from the get-go.

All potential clan-leaders have been provided sufficient information in the basics to get going. Please see our other articles for more in-depth look to successfully run your own clan.