So most of you know that you can kick other Managers when you have Manager Rights. I recently kicked myself from AWF in an experiment, to see if it was possible.

Here is my solution:

1. You can't kick yourself (I know it's an idiotic thing to do but still)

2. Layered system, something like Clash of Clans uses.

3. People of the a rank cannot kick other people of the same rank.

Edited 8/13/2015 03:52:17

Give fizzer 5K. :)
I agree but you try and fix it.

Even someone with a pretty bad programming knowledge like me might be able to pull it off. It would be like at most 15 lines of code.

Edited 8/13/2015 04:32:58

What happens when the clan owner leaves a clan? Who owns it then?

They should be able to elect a successor, maybe in the clan options. Then, when and if they leave the clan, the 'successor' will automatically be promoted to clan owner. Maybe, if they do not name a successor, then a random player from the next tier down will get promoted.

Either that or you agree to leave and re-form the clan under a new owner. At least that's what I see happen in other such games.

+1 Benjamin

But that has been discussed many times and voted in the uservoice... But clan updates are not planned currently on the roadmap sadly.
But yeah we could get some inspirations from other games already existing with good clan settings.

I don't think fixing the clan system is a worthwhile time investment for Fizzer if he plans on replacing it like he's said. Moreover, Mercer said their priority is growing the playerbase, so improving less-often-used features (especially ones that newbies are significantly less likely to use than long-term players) shouldn't be that big an issue on their roadmap unless they also want to expand the usage of those features (== a lot more work than just 15 lines of code).

Ultimately, you're walking along the edge of a tall building and it doesn't have railings. It's on you to be safe, for now.

For now, we (the player community) can also abandon the WL Clan system and build our own clans. This could be done through external communication systems (linked, perhaps, using simple browser scripts/extensions) and by replacing WL clans in current inter-clan competitions with some other form of group organization that doesn't care about being WL official.

Edited 8/13/2015 14:12:08

Fun fact: you can remove your own Manager Rights.

As stupid as it seems, such things are actually possible =P

Being able to step down isn't stupid at all. It's no more weird than being able to remove yourself from a clan.

i dont know anything about programming, but i suppose that creating a 5 layers board wouldnt be that hard, if the leader was to leave, the people on the second layer would be in some kind of control i suppose

I'm not asking what should happen, or what we should have.

I am asking IF the owner of the clan left right now, what would happen (assuming no measures were taken to address that, like giving someone else ownership)? Would the clan have no owner? Say I just left WG (I won't), would WG have no owner, thus nobody could invite anyone to WG? Would warlight simply transfer ownership to someone in the clan automatically?

i believe anyone with admin status could assume your place, if there is none there would be na anarchic clan, no one making decisions over others

Just wanted to say, and I may be wrong, but Clan League doesn't care whether or not you're a WarLight official clan or not. We've been running Clan League since before the clan system even existed, so it's not against the rules to have a group of people call themselves a clan and compete.

I mean atm the clan system is just a stamp next to your name. I don't see how manager rights are such a hotly debated topic. Everyone in Apex has manager rights and we have yet to implode. It's what keeps us from recruiting people we don't trust.

"It would be like at most 15 lines of code. "

Yeah, no.

A funny statistic which puts clan updates to shame...

Roughly the impact of a update on clans.. Will only impact 2 - 3% of the general Warlight community.

Speak.

That 15 lines of code thing is way off :P

I agree mostly with Lolowut, but it stops stupid people from losing their clan.

Lines of code are a terrible way to measure effort, regardless. Sometimes 150 lines take a week, sometimes 1500 take just a number of hours on a busy Saturday. Not all lines are equally annoying to write and debug.

That said, we have no way to estimate how many lines Fizz would have to add because we don't know what the WL codebase looks like, how clans are stored and how clan operations happen. It could very well be a small amount or possibly take an entire week just for Fizzer to keep a manager from removing all remaining managers.

knyte, I know that some months ago, Fizzer was looking for professional people in graphism and design, and also programming, what about submitting an application, and work with him for a full paid job?

Edited 8/17/2015 11:44:00

angry panda, pls help me understanding it, why are you proposing knyte?