Celtic Heroes

Interesting topic... The kind that can make you really happy to be in a clan, or very bummed put about the way yours is run. :)

I guess, even IRL, people can have family who make you sad with their choices. But, this is a game, and you can pick your family, for better or worse.

I would be happier in a sandbox with friends, than in a pile of gold nuggets with a dragon.

Since I started playing in February, I have really only been in one clan (One clan, but a few tiers). I will be in this clan until I, or the Chiefs, quit the game.

For me and the entrenched members of my clan, it is all about friendship, family, respect, and trust. Drops are like finding pennies on the sidewalk while walking with a friend... nice to get, but not necessary in order to enjoy the time together.

Our mutual respect, coupled with good communication and teamwork, means that when things drop, the first line of text in clan chat is usually something like "Does anyone need a drag?", or "Who still needs a whatever crest?" rather than anything else. There is very little drama, but a lot of good humoured one liners. lol.

A good clan would be one that goes beyond personal wealth in Gold, and respect everyone's opinion in the clan - some weighted more than others of course.

The real-world challenge exist with temptation of new items, and it only takes one in the clan to go down such a path to get others following suit. If you run a clan-bank, you start to see less significant contribution coming in, as people are selling them for personal profit / gain instead of supporting clannies as priority.

How many in your clan (other than yourself) can you truly say will forgo an item that could fetch a market value of 200k Gold - and gift it to a clanny who needs it or sell it to a clanny for a nominal 10~20k ?

Personally i think when players start to make ALTs, and more than one ALT, issues start to breed. They become needy, and other clannies get less sharing. These players with ALTs start to drop off the list of contributors to clan over time, as they retain most of what they would drop.

Drops are like finding pennies on the sidewalk while walking with a friend... nice to get, but not necessary in order to enjoy the time together.

+1
Ain't that the truth.

I couldn't agree more, Lady Rosethorn. I look forward to playing because I honestly like my clannies and enjoy spending time with them. Not because I hope to get a good drop. We do a fair amount of boss-hunting and are always asking "who needs x," with the predominant responses being "i do, but so-and-so needs it first" or "nope, im good, but I think so-and-so might."

In my (admittedly short but intense) experience, this free drop distribution can attract greedy people. A simple rule that you can't get free drops for a while and must kick in to be considered tends to weed this group out pretty quickly because they get bored and antsy. That's ok. I'm not knocking how anyone else wants to play. I just don't want to play that way.

Here is someone that didn't get accepted in to a clan. I will save his name for him

maybe i can switch servers and lvl up but depends what u are offering and ill also have to bring some friends over from taranis...

Me personally it is all about the family, I my druids still need 2 dd's each, I am one of the guardians who collect drips and I can easily have enough to kit out 1 or 2 players spread over my characters when hand in days happen.
But if I took them or begged for them all the responsibility and Trust I have gained over the last 6+ months will go and a whole server will quickly hate me.
Why would I want to pass off good friends for a quick buck?

Family all the way, same with my new clan in arawn, can't see me ever jumping ship.

For me, sorry kayanos (Hope I didn't misspell quite an odd name for me to spell, but I was joining and leaving clans to see which one had that, "Friendliness to it." I found my clan. =3 Their like family, a real one, we have the muscle, he likes to help since he is a level 120+ tank, then we have a level 120+ druid who acts as the peace maker. You get to know each other so well and sometimes by talking to you, they learn what you need and surprisingly they may give you stuff out of pure kindness, I'd say I'm the child of the family, I dunno... Anyways, I feel like I found my spot, just hope it lasts a long long long time.

I agree with the OP 100%.

I am yet to find a perfect clan, but no family is perfect and I am very content in the clan I am in. If I get drops, then great, but there are far greater things in the game that are more important than gold and drops.

Money can't pay for the best things in life.

My clan is my family, and the day i leave it will be under very harsh circumstances.

Good for you. That's the way it should be in my opinion.

For most people, it seems like clan loyalty is an oxymoron.

I couldn't agree more with is post. I feel ever since other world and radiant type armors have come it just seems to be about greed and not actual game progression. Which is what a clan means to me. People who work together to progress thru the game. Have fun meet people stuff like that. But now with all these semi/high level players they forget what it actually took to get them there and have become glutinous and self entitled. Exspecting everything to be handed to them. It took me months to get warden armor way back when and now ppl just exspect once they hit a level req while they haven't done much as far as clan parcipition. Just seems there will always be the complacent people who always exspect everything. It's just a question of how long as a cheiftan u wanna put up with it.