Looking at your Gang/Clan
Over the last few months I have be talking to a few people about CC and The Clans.
Most of the people in Clans seem to only play team games with their Clan members as team mates. They become well oiled Fighting Machines. Though these teams are formed as a loose association of like minded players. They soon start Coordinating their games where one person or as a collaboration, directing the whole game advising where to place armies. In affect becoming a single player against the opposition team, who 60% of the time is made up of lower ranked players who don't Know they are playing against one player with 4 times the fire power that they have . As the younger /newer team is not in constant communication with team members on messenger or Skype they can not hope to battle on an even playing field. Not understanding the importance of what is happening around them on the map. The Clan takes the points albeit few to be shared but as any major discount store will tell you if you watch the pennies the dollars will look after them selves
So what do we know about the clans, well from the outside they spend a lot of time preaching that it is all about the Strategy and they all spend a lot of time bitching about the random dice rolls not being random enough.
‘No, it's about strategy not luck of the draw. I play a lot of strategy games and prefer to avoid the capricious nature of luck as much as possible’. .The fact is you are all just preying on the lower ranks for the points you crave. You become Obsessive, and Fixated on archiving rank and points to the point where the game is forgotten and only the achievement of rank matters refusing to play one on one or a non team event unless you have your fellow Clanies on a team to support you. “I play dubs, trips and quad games just about exclusively these days”.
I see that strategy works as a gang / Clan you can support each other, taking unfair advantage of other players who do not know you are in a clan or that you have been building your tactics and working together for months just to present as a single force against all comers but 60% of the time the other team is not another Clan/ Gang but 2,3 or 4 newer players who don't know any better.
Much the same as the school yard bully's we all hated at school . You have in fact refined it in to a fine art and convinced your selves that it is strategy
Before you all claim this is not the truth take a look at how you mount a game or should I say campaign. Before you take a move you have had several hundred hours working as a team, against a scratch team of cooks and cadets who just want to have fun. Their may be a junior officer there, is that how you justify taking the points . You say "but they joined the Game" but they thought they were playing 3 people not one .
In closing, I ask should Clans be banned ? No but they should only do battle with other Clans if the members wish to hone their skills let them do it as a player in open combat. And let them practice their team skills against Clans, fighting it out with them selves earning their Rank and points against players of equal skills / experience
