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alexoner:
Ok, well i find it quite amusing people making their own clan which lasts for a month maximum, has only played 2 or 3 cws and generally sucks.

To be blunt, and straight to the point, if you want a successful clan, mIRC is vital. People try to use MSN or xfire or other IM programs as communication for clan members aswell as other clans, but these programs downright suck. Incase you don't know what mIRC is, it's internet relay chat, which thousands of soldat players use to keep in contact with the real soldat community. Not only that but it has hundreds of channels for the purpose of clans. Thanks to this wonderfull program, you can find a clan war in less then a minute, and play vs the best clans in soldat.

How do you use this mIRC you ask? Well, go to http://www.mirc.com/ and download it, once you have installed it and opened it up, a notice will pop up saying some crap and have the options of 'Register online now' or 'continue' ~ Yes you can pay to register, put you can also keep using the program once the 30 trial days are over, so in other words, it's basically free. Anyway, you need to fill out your details, nickname email addy etc.. And connect to the server Quakenet (doesn't matter which quakenet server, aslong as it is, quakenet), this is the server that the soldat community is on. Once you have connected try doing '/join #Apocalypse', '/join #soldat.forums' (these are only example channels but do actually exist as you'll see).. Anyway, thats bascially it! mIRC is a tricky program to use at first, but once you get the basics it's easy as pie!

So, you want to start your own clan, you've installed IRC, what next? well, think of your clans name, and a tag for it. Try to be original, but not stupid (especially when it comes to the tag, don't over do it trying to look cool with). Right, so for example say your clan name is 'The pwners of soldat' and the tag is 'TPS - nick', you need to create a mIRC channel, this is simpler then it sounds, you just type '/join #soldat.tps', and if this channel is empty then there you are! It's now yours! However if you want it to be permenent, then you need to get some idler friends to stay in your channel for a couple of hours, then you can request L bot.

REMEMBER, go to http://www.quakenet.org/ and read up more. Here you can find out how to auth yourself, witch is VITAL, and also then allows you to join the most popular channel in the soldat community, #soldat.gather ~ here you can play organised games with pros and average players alike.

IRC VERY USEFULL TIP: hit alt+o ~ connect - perform ~ Enable perform on connect, and under 'Perform commands:' 1st, put your auth so when you connect you automatically auth yourself, '/MSG Q@CServe.quakenet.org AUTH authnamehere passwordhere' (look at quakenet site to find out how to start your auth). Then under that you can put '/join #yourclan' '/join #soldat.gather' etc.. This saves you the hassle of manually joining the channels you wnat everytime you connect to irc, now it will do it automatically!

You might be thinking now, hmm, i thought this was a guide to make a clan, not all this mIRC bollox. Well, being straight the point again, IRC is what makes clans successful, without it your clan will no doubt fail, with no rewards or achievements.
So please, if you are determind to make a good clan, you NEED irc, i can't state this enough!

So you've got your channel and stuff set up, now you need members. Well as i've said before, IRC is where the real soldat community is, you can find the best players in soldat here ~ but that doesn't mean they'll want to join your clan! But even so, there are hundreds of decent players, some advertise themselfs when they're clanless, some don't.. So lets just say you're playing a gather (#soldat.gather) and you see a decent guy and are impressed, ask him on irc after the match if he's intrested. Ask anyone you see and recognise, even if they have a clan already they might be tempted by your offer! ~ Remember, Rome wasen't built in a day, to get a full and decent rooster could take days or weeks. Also you don't need loads of members, 6-8 players is enough! Any more and your teamwork will be poor as your playing with different guys each time.

Once you have members, and you have 3 online, hey! Play a cw! An easy way to do this is to join #soldat.match where people often seek cws, or try the command '/amsg blabla clan is searching for a cw! PM me or /join #yourchannelhere'. '/amsg' Is a command that sends a msg to every channel that you are in. Remember, be nice, if you've seen a clan and respect it, idle in their channel, aswell as channels that benefit the soldat community, such as #soldat.gather and #soldat.news etc.

So you've searched a cw, hopefulyl someone has sent you a msg asking for one, ask them for server info (Do NOT try and play a cw on your own selfhosted one from 'Start Game' on soldat, lots of lag and hits - not nice). So you get your clan to join the server, and this is how you play a cw. 10mins every round, 1st map is ctf_Laos, winners of that round choose their map. If that map is tied then the clan that didn't choose the 2nd map can choose the 3rd. If you want a more detailed guide, see here ~ http://www.tnl.org.uk/rules.php ! (TNL is a league which also hosts other soldat events, SWC, SEC, etc.. Sign up your clan next sign ups!)

Ok, so you've played your 1st clan war! CONGRATZ! If you were unlucky enough to be asked for a cw by an Asylum member, or one of mine don't cry that you lost 10-0 on both maps!  :P Decent clans play an average of 3 cws a day, but clans have been known to play more then 10 in one day! The more you play, the better your teamwork will be. PLAY MORE AND GET GOOD.

Don't let arguments errupt over silly things, and try not to kill your clan for pointless reasons. Try to be a nice leader that respects your members and other clans, don't make stupid petty little rules for your members to follow, be cool and try to make your clan strong and respected!

Once again ~ IRC IS THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL AND GOOD CLAN, WITHOUT IT YOUR CLAN WILL EVENTUALLY DIE, AND HAVE A CRAPPY LITTLE LIFE!

I think that's all, but pleaaaaseee god! Stop trying to make a clan using msn and getting random players of public servers.

IRC is the key to becomming a better player, and to create decent clans.

Merry christmas.
ps/ outcast sucks
But not as much as alex does ;>

alexoner:
Yes, im a noob  ;D, i've only played soldat for a couple of years, been in the top soldat clans, played hundreds of clan wars, probably over a thousand actually. I'm known in the REAL soldat community.

Look, you don't even know me ~ that just sums it up how you aren't even close to knowing what the real community is like. Sorry for sounding massively big-headed, but that's the truth. Sure every country has their own small community, but the whole REAL soldat community is on irc.

Sorry to burst your bubble mate but you're nothing.

-Vis-:

--- Quote from: alexoner on December 24, 2006, 09:00:54 am ---Yes, im a noob  ;D, i've only played soldat for a couple of years, been in the top soldat clans, played hundreds of clan wars, probably over a thousand actually. I'm known in the REAL soldat community.

Look, you don't even know me ~ that just sums it up how you aren't even close to knowing what the real community is like. Sorry for sounding massively big-headed, but that's the truth. Sure every country has their own small community, but the whole REAL soldat community is on irc.

Sorry to burst your bubble mate but you're nothing.

--- End quote ---

Maybe not everybody cares about your "REAL soldat community". I certainly don't. I could just as reasonably say that it's nothing to me, and sound just as pathetic. And by the way, it's called IRC, not mIRC, and mIRC is one of many programs you can use to connect to it. :P

The Red Guy:
I disagree with you about the IRC.

Outcast:

--- Quote from: desertorz on December 24, 2006, 08:50:27 am ---wat a load of bs frm some noob. In australia, clans use msn to communicate and find wars (not with some random nub clan) with the top clans in australia cuz most top clans have their own clan section in aussoldat and are together with the rest of the forums as one big happy family

--- End quote ---

First off, he's no noob, even though he has some noobish tendencies here or there.

Second off, while you can use msn to lead a clan and communicate and find clanwars, it's all a lot more efficient and faster by IRC. MSN works for isolated communities with small number of clans that know each other. But when you have hundreds  of clans, try keeping all the leaders on msn etc. Isn't it better for everyone to be on IRC, where you just auto message all the channels your on that you're looking for a clanwar, and you get it within a very short time span....without having to click 30 different people asking each on individually for a clanwar on msn?
Same with members, you're all in the same channel, communication is better.
The north american community used to rely on MSN only, but now they've seen that IRC with it's hundreds of clans is a lot better, faster and efficient way to find clanwars, even though they still use MSN to communicate because they're daft...even though most better NA clans have their own irc channels now and are using the advantages of  having IRC. Aussies are pretty much isolated because well, they're ****ing isolated due to ping differences. As for forums, you don't need forums if you have IRC, atleast that's how I see it...though the NA community are all packet up in the same forums too which is impossible for the euro community, which is way too big and has way too many languages for living in harmony in 1 forum :>
You can go ahead and call me noob too but that won't make the truth any different ;)

P.S. - Stickied.
P.P.S. -  the red guy, if you disagree, tell us why. You can't expect anyone to take your opinion seriously if you just disagree without a sensible arguement.

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