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Clan Help Page
The basics of clans: A clan is, well a clan. Clans contain one or more characters to and compete with other clans. Any player may create or join a clan if they have enough money for it. You may select one or more of your characters to participate in a clan. Changing which character(s) are participating in the clan can be done once per 24 hours. The cost of creating a clan is $10,000. The cost of joining a clan is $1,000 minimum and goes up slowly as your MPR does. You can't create a clan with an identical name existing already. You can't assign a character with an MPR of 0 to be member of a clan. You can't fire the last minion of a character which is in a clan. You can't join 2 seperate Clans at the same time. There is a limit of 12 players per clan. There is a MPR limit based on the MPR of the top 5 players, how it's calculated is yet unknown. The clan menu is available from the Places menu. When hovering over the link with your mouse cursor, it should display either of 3 possible lists of the 'Clans' menu as shown below. If not then you can still click the 'Clans' link and get to the menu from there. Each menu entry will be explained in detail: When not being in a clan yet: Join: The 'Join' button takes you to the screen where you can choose a clan to join. You can choose a standard clan or an economic clan, along with some details from both type of clans. Click 'View' to look at the clan's statistics or 'Join' to join the clan. If the clan can't accept you, you will be notified. If the clan is set to 'moderated' then you will be notified when either being accepted or rejected. Create: The 'Create' button takes you to the screen where you can create a new clan. You can choose between Standard and Economic clan type, more about the choice later. Enter the clan name and beware that you cannot change it later unless you disband your clan again. You can also choose to set your new members policy: Open: will accept any new member that is under your clan's MPR limit. Moderated: will let applicants wait until you either accept or reject them, or until they leave themselves. Closed: will make people unable to join your clan. You can set these policies whenever you like to after creating the clan. View standard: The 'View standard' button takes you to the top standard clan standings of the past 24 hours, clicking on a clan from the list will display it's statistics as well as the owner and members of the clan. View economic: The 'View economic' button takes you to the top economic clan standings of the past week, clicking on a clan from the list will display it's statistics as well as the owner and members of the clan. When being (a member) in a clan: My stats: The 'My stats' button takes you to the screen containing the statistics of the clan you are in. On the left it displays the players currently in the clan and the players that applied to be in the clan if the clan policy is set to moderated. At the right the raw and net clan scores are displayed. Standard set at the stats of the past 24 hour, but can be set to 1 week and 30 day stats to view more stats. Characters: The 'Characters' button takes you to the screen in which you can select and/or deselect the characters you want in the clan. Characters currently in the clan are checked, those who are not are unchecked. You can change your character(s) once every 24 hours to prevent abuse. Leave clan: The 'Leave clan' button takes you to the screen that makes you able to, well, leave the clan... Your entry fee will not be refunded when leaving a clan. However when withdrawing your application, it is refunded silently. (Which could require you to train before it shows.) After leaving a clan you will have to wait 48 hours to be able to create or join another clan. Clan Communication: While at the 'My stats' page you can also Chat Mail your entire clan using the text entry field available. When being owner of a clan: Admin: The 'Admin' button takes you to the clan administration page, with lots of things to do. One of the things you can see here is the MPR limit your clan currently has. This is the maximum MPR a character can have being able to allowed into the clan. At the admin page you can also do the following: You can process players who wish to join your clan if your policy is set to moderated. You can remove players who aren't contributing enough, or for other reasons. You can set the membership policy which was explained earlier. You can can disband your clan. A final option you may perform is clicking on a member and then click the 'Tranfer clan ownership to this user' from the member's page. You can easily list the current clan members from the admin page, but you can transfer ownership also from directly inspecting a player who is in your clan. Disbanding your clan will remove all members of the clan and delete it's existence. Disbanding your clan will not refund you the creation entry fee. After disbanding your clan you will have to wait 48 hours to create or join a clan again. Having a weekly score of -2000 clan points will auto disband your clan. (standard clans only) Standard Clans: You can compete by fighting other players and gather Clan Points (CPs) when winning against other characters. All fights vs other clan Character earn slightly larger rewards, both of money and experience. Rankings are recorded every hour to determine the clan ranking your clan has. Participants in the best clans get a separate bonus of up to 15% for the #1 clan to ALL fight rewards. Membership in a clan is one way to qualify to vote in the Black Market. Advantages: Higher fighting rewards, even more when being in a top clan. Disadvantages: Possibly be attacked more often because of clan competition, resulting in possibly a lower score for your character and clan. Clan points: When fighting with your clan character you can gain and lose clan points: Winning a battle against a non clan character, your clan gains 2 clan point. Winning a battle against a clan character, your clan gains 4 points and the other clan loses 2 point. Winning a battle against a highly ranked clan character, your clan gains 6 points and the other clan loses 3 points. When losing such a battle, the points are distributed the other way around. Losing against a non clan character doesn't make you lose points. Draws and Stalemates and fights against own clan members result in no clan point gain or loss. Clan rankings: The total amount of clan points of determines the raw clan score. The Clan Score is the net clan score, corrected for the clan MPR cap. this is to prevent the top players from combining strenght and dominating the rankings too easily. If the total MPR in a clan is exactly as is allowed, score equals raw score. If the clan's total MPR is lower than the cap, the Score is higher, but capped at 110% of raw score. If the clan is over the MPR limit, then the Score is lower than the raw score, no cap here. Every fight changes the current clan score which will determine it's ranking next hour. Every hour clan scores are calculated and are ranked for bonus gain.clan. Only points earned / lost in the past 24 hours count towards this ranking. There are additional rankings for players within a clan, most victorious player (MVP) that are logged for 24 hour, 1 week, 1 month and 1 year. These can be viewed from the stats pages. Clan rewards: The amount of clans gaining a bonus is 25% of the current amount of clans, for example: when 100 clans are in the game, 25 clans will have a bonus. The #1 clan gains 15% bonus and the other clan bonuses are based on the following formula: In other words: if there are 15 clans gaining a bonus, the bonus goes down in steps of 1%. #2 clan gains 14% bonus, #3 clan gains 13% and so on. Sunday rest day: On Sunday's, standard clans don't gain clan points and thus slowly go back to 0 points. On Monday after cache flush, clan fighting starts over again. First clan rank update usually is an hour after the cache flush is done. Economic Clans: An economic clan (also called econ clan) is very different from a standard clan. In an econ clan you don't make points for fighting but get a revenue based on economical aspects of the game. In other words, every transfer you do, auction you make, rental you put in, loan you give, gets calculated for your clan's revenue. Advantages: 90% discount on normal fees for loans to members of the same clan. 50% discount on normal fees for permanent transfers to members of the same clan. 20% discount on normal fees for transfers (loans or permanent) to everyone else. 25% discount on forge facilities fees. (instant) Disadvantages: One week waiting period before transfer discounts apply. Questions & Answers: Q: What is the meaning of the "Score / raw score" statistics in the clan page? A: Basically how full your clan is, if it isn't full yet then your score is higher then your raw score. Q: Do wacky bonuses stack with clan bonuses? A: Yes, they stack. The wacky bonus is added to the clan bonus. Q: How can I tell if a character is worth 6 clan points when I beat it? A: When you inspect the clan that the character is in, you can see if the clan gains a bonus, if the clan gains a bonus the characters in it are worth 6 points.

Clan Help Page

The basics of clans:

A clan is, well a clan. Clans contain one or more characters to and compete with other clans. Any player may create or join a clan if they have enough money for it. You may select one or more of your characters to participate in a clan. Changing which character(s) are participating in the clan can be done once per 24 hours.

The cost of creating a clan is $10,000.
The cost of joining a clan is $1,000 minimum and goes up slowly as your MPR does.
You can't create a clan with an identical name existing already.
You can't assign a character with an MPR of 0 to be member of a clan.
You can't fire the last minion of a character which is in a clan.
You can't join 2 seperate Clans at the same time.
There is a limit of 12 players per clan.
There is a MPR limit based on the MPR of the top 5 players, how it's calculated is yet unknown.

The clan menu is available from the Places menu. When hovering over the link with your mouse cursor, it should display either of 3 possible lists of the 'Clans' menu as shown below. If not then you can still click the 'Clans' link and get to the menu from there. Each menu entry will be explained in detail:

When not being in a clan yet:

Join:
The 'Join' button takes you to the screen where you can choose a clan to join. You can choose a standard clan or an economic clan, along with some details from both type of clans. Click 'View' to look at the clan's statistics or 'Join' to join the clan.

If the clan can't accept you, you will be notified.
If the clan is set to 'moderated' then you will be notified when either being accepted or rejected.

Create:
The 'Create' button takes you to the screen where you can create a new clan. You can choose between Standard and Economic clan type, more about the choice later.
Enter the clan name and beware that you cannot change it later unless you disband your clan again. You can also choose to set your new members policy:

Open: will accept any new member that is under your clan's MPR limit.
Moderated: will let applicants wait until you either accept or reject them, or until they leave themselves.
Closed: will make people unable to join your clan.

You can set these policies whenever you like to after creating the clan.

View standard:
The 'View standard' button takes you to the top standard clan standings of the past 24 hours, clicking on a clan from the list will display it's statistics as well as the owner and members of the clan.

View economic:
The 'View economic' button takes you to the top economic clan standings of the past week, clicking on a clan from the list will display it's statistics as well as the owner and members of the clan.

When being (a member) in a clan:

My stats:
The 'My stats' button takes you to the screen containing the statistics of the clan you are in. On the left it displays the players currently in the clan and the players that applied to be in the clan if the clan policy is set to moderated. At the right the raw and net clan scores are displayed. Standard set at the stats of the past 24 hour, but can be set to 1 week and 30 day stats to view more stats.

Characters:
The 'Characters' button takes you to the screen in which you can select and/or deselect the characters you want in the clan. Characters currently in the clan are checked, those who are not are unchecked.

You can change your character(s) once every 24 hours to prevent abuse.

Leave clan:
The 'Leave clan' button takes you to the screen that makes you able to, well, leave the clan...
Your entry fee will not be refunded when leaving a clan. However when withdrawing your application, it is refunded silently. (Which could require you to train before it shows.)
After leaving a clan you will have to wait 48 hours to be able to create or join another clan.

Clan Communication:
While at the 'My stats' page you can also Chat Mail your entire clan using the text entry field available.

When being owner of a clan:

Admin:
The 'Admin' button takes you to the clan administration page, with lots of things to do. One of the things you can see here is the MPR limit your clan currently has. This is the maximum MPR a character can have being able to allowed into the clan.

You can process players who wish to join your clan if your policy is set to moderated.
You can remove players who aren't contributing enough, or for other reasons.
You can set the membership policy which was explained earlier.
You can can disband your clan.

A final option you may perform is clicking on a member and then click the 'Tranfer clan ownership to this user' from the member's page. You can easily list the current clan members from the admin page, but you can transfer ownership also from directly inspecting a player who is in your clan.

Disbanding your clan will remove all members of the clan and delete it's existence.
Disbanding your clan will not refund you the creation entry fee.
After disbanding your clan you will have to wait 48 hours to create or join a clan again.
Having a weekly score of -2000 clan points will auto disband your clan. (standard clans only)

Standard Clans:

You can compete by fighting other players and gather Clan Points (CPs) when winning against other characters.

All fights vs other clan Character earn slightly larger rewards, both of money and experience.
Rankings are recorded every hour to determine the clan ranking your clan has.
Participants in the best clans get a separate bonus of up to 15% for the #1 clan to ALL fight rewards.
Membership in a clan is one way to qualify to vote in the Black Market.

Advantages:
Higher fighting rewards, even more when being in a top clan.

Disadvantages:
Possibly be attacked more often because of clan competition, resulting in possibly a lower score for your character and clan.

Clan points:

Winning a battle against a non clan character, your clan gains 2 clan point.
Winning a battle against a clan character, your clan gains 4 points and the other clan loses 2 point.
Winning a battle against a highly ranked clan character, your clan gains 6 points and the other clan loses 3 points.

When losing such a battle, the points are distributed the other way around.
Losing against a non clan character doesn't make you lose points.
Draws and Stalemates and fights against own clan members result in no clan point gain or loss.

Clan rankings:

The total amount of clan points of determines the raw clan score.
The Clan Score is the net clan score, corrected for the clan MPR cap. this is to prevent the top players from combining strenght and dominating the rankings too easily.

If the total MPR in a clan is exactly as is allowed, score equals raw score.
If the clan's total MPR is lower than the cap, the Score is higher, but capped at 110% of raw score.
If the clan is over the MPR limit, then the Score is lower than the raw score, no cap here.

Every fight changes the current clan score which will determine it's ranking next hour.
Every hour clan scores are calculated and are ranked for bonus gain.clan. Only points earned / lost in the past 24 hours count towards this ranking.

There are additional rankings for players within a clan, most victorious player (MVP) that are logged for 24 hour, 1 week, 1 month and 1 year. These can be viewed from the stats pages.

Clan rewards:

The amount of clans gaining a bonus is 25% of the current amount of clans, for example: when 100 clans are in the game, 25 clans will have a bonus. The #1 clan gains 15% bonus and the other clan bonuses are based on the following formula:

In other words: if there are 15 clans gaining a bonus, the bonus goes down in steps of 1%. #2 clan gains 14% bonus, #3 clan gains 13% and so on.

Sunday rest day:

On Sunday's, standard clans don't gain clan points and thus slowly go back to 0 points.
On Monday after cache flush, clan fighting starts over again.
First clan rank update usually is an hour after the cache flush is done.

Economic Clans:

An economic clan (also called econ clan) is very different from a standard clan. In an econ clan you don't make points for fighting but get a revenue based on economical aspects of the game. In other words, every transfer you do, auction you make, rental you put in, loan you give, gets calculated for your clan's revenue.

Advantages:
90% discount on normal fees for loans to members of the same clan.
50% discount on normal fees for permanent transfers to members of the same clan.
20% discount on normal fees for transfers (loans or permanent) to everyone else.
25% discount on forge facilities fees. (instant)

Disadvantages:
One week waiting period before transfer discounts apply.

Questions & Answers:

Q: What is the meaning of the "Score / raw score" statistics in the clan page?

A: Basically how full your clan is, if it isn't full yet then your score is higher then your raw score.

Q: Do wacky bonuses stack with clan bonuses?

A: Yes, they stack. The wacky bonus is added to the clan bonus.

Q: How can I tell if a character is worth 6 clan points when I beat it?

A: When you inspect the clan that the character is in, you can see if the clan gains a bonus, if the clan gains a bonus the characters in it are worth 6 points.