Clan Wars Discussion Thread

Huge game last night Heap of players Well done to all the clans and players involved. As A participant We had a lot of fun...
Would be great to see some more clans in if any are left active.

Reguardless of the politics

Thank you to the Cult clan for Getting the clan wars back on its feet.

I absolutely agree with the nosebreaker there! Almost all of the Clan Wars have been the best games I have ever played and I can't quite believe what a success it's been!

This new format of Clan Wars has been one of the most surprising, unpredictable, painful and utterly hilarious events in a LONG time. Whether it's a 3v3 midday League game away to BSE, or a 2am 11v7v5v3v3 Clan War, every game feels special and always turns out to be an absolute EPIC!

I urge everyone to either join or create a clan, because even though some may think there aren't enough players to make it worthwhile, I have to say from my experience with both Clans and communities that I have met some of the most brilliant and amazing people - just by being in a Clan. I would then urge everyone to take part in this event for the reasons mentioned above and to do the PA community a favour (again, regardless of politics, it's just an insane amount of fun)!

Thanks again to everyone who is involved in organising this event!

On the subject of clans joining, we've been in talks with NW and Promethean for weeks, for almost two months in fact, and they are both very positive about joining, but have issues with arranging things between their players. However, we do expect them to join eventually, perhaps even this week in the League for NW. As for other clans, we have had problems with Exodus and TNC (the latter of which formed specifically in order to take part in our events), both of which participated once, but they are both welcome back as long as they adhere to our rules, which we will be posting soon on cosmicwar.net (belatedly, we know, and we apologize for it). VOC is also welcome back anytime, we've had no problems with them at all. And icy has been inviting unknown clans in the MP lobby left and right, so we eventually expect to see some action from that quarter too. If any clans/players have any issues/grievances about our events, I suggest they talk to Elite (known as sardaukar666 in this forum), who is good at sorting stuff out.

And then there's the original VoW (which still has some members, and icy has talked to them too), MBC, perhaps the RLM, which has already played in two Wars, will rise again. Even PAG, in the form of Clopse, has expressed interest. The PA scene has many clans, they just need time to realize they have events specifically tailored for them now being held on a weekly basis, and arrange to come back to the game in force and start playing. We are confident that 6 months from now we'll have a dozen clans or more participating on a regular basis. The question, at least for the Wars, is whether the server will be able to handle them, but we are already working on solutions for that, and we'll have articles about it soon.

Welcome to the fight Guys Hope you go actively recruiting new members to your clans
Make this clan wars even bigger then it is already..
Great fight again this week Epic dooms day ending like a freaking movie.

Three way tie for leadership atm. Who will break it?
Next week will be very important
The Nosebreaker knows BRN are amped ...

Once again Thank you to the Cult clan for hosting and organizing this epic showdown.

The current color chart that includes the two new clans that joined us yesterday for Clan Wars #8: APAA and NBT:



They both want to join the Clan League too, so the League will now reach the six-clan number of the original Exodus league, and we can't wait for more clans to join so we can move past it.

If other clans want to reserve their color, post here or in the Insomnia thread: http://culture.vg/forum/topic?t=5846

I just want to point out that ten clans have played with us so far. That's after CDRKF told us back in July that all clans had disbanded. And this, despite our lacking PR. If icy had been any good at PR we would have had 15 regular clans by now. And that's only two months in. But we have contacted all the people we've ever had trouble with and re-invited them to the events.

So we'd like to see eXodus, TNC, VOC and RLM back, and we'd like to see P, NW, PAG, MBC and the old VoW join. Talk to us if and when you are interested guys. There's no other way for this party to go but up.

For the next game, could it be a map with smaller orbits and more metal?

icy has replied to you at length here: http://culture.vg/forum/topic?p=30005#p30005

He is banned from this forum. On top of the fact that he posted thousands upon thousands of words explaining his events in an 18-page thread here that disappeared. So from now on, we want all important explanations to be in a space that we control. We are only using this forum for announcements.

We have made a Live Stream Gallery for Clan Wars: http://cosmicwar.net/live-stream-gallery

Using it, viewers will be able to watch and comment on all streams simultaneously. Currently, BRN, BSE, CULT and pXs are represented, but we hope to get more of the clans streaming, and perhaps also more players per clan.

It would also be nice to get a countdown timer to Clan Wars every week on the game's main menu, that sends people to this gallery when they click on it. It would be good for the game, to show people that there is a major event every week, and that the competitive scene is far from dead, and it would be good for the event, to help it attract more players. So if that is possible, let us know what we can do to make it happen.

That’s a really clever idea. Perfect for a small community.

Clan Wars #13 is about to start and we will probably have 6 clans today including the return of TNC, represented by flubb, broom, grzegorz and romeo. See you guys on the battlefield! (or in the Live Stream Gallery)

We had the biggest Clan War today in terms of clans: 7 of them, with 26 or 27 players in all (we almost had 8 clans with 30 players, but pXs backed out at the last moment).

BSE POV: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/185791669
TNC POV: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/185792375
CULT POV: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/185787574

It was a huge game with lots of fun stuff happening, but with crippling lag, and a crash at the end, so it is clear that changes need to be made. icy will elaborate soon, but we are looking at alternating each week between high and low divisions (i.e Uber-Gold and Silver-Bronze). More details soon.

One thing's for sure: you will need to be ranked to get in these lobbies from now, so get on that ladder and start playing!

We have arrived at a new format for Clan Wars. Ranks will have nothing to do with it.

The problem is that the Wars are becoming far too popular for the capacity of current server tech, and something must be done to limit the number of teams and players every week. icy and Elite think they have found the optimal solution:

Clan Wars 3.0: http://culture.vg/forum/topic?t=5958

We will wait a couple of days for feedback, and then we will press ahead with the new format. There is still time to change our minds if some kind of new, genius solution is proposed, but as you can see from the discussion, icy and Elite have already examined, and rejected, a great variety of solutions, before arriving at the current one.

For those who can't be bothered to read the link above, a tl;dr version will be provided by midweek.

Lots of things have been happening with Clan Wars, but I haven't had time to update this thread. If you want details, check our forum and our Discord. The tl;dr is that each War will take place over a period of three weeks, with the clans dividing themselves up into groups for the first two games, and the top 2 winners from each group facing off for the final. So last week it was Clan Wars #14A between APAA, BRN, CULT, and NBT. The top 2 winners were NBT and BRN, so they will play in the final.

This week it is Clan Wars #14B between BSE, P, pXs, TNC and newcomers FREAKS, on Saturday at 22:00 UTC. If you belong to any of these clans you can play, as long as you are present in the Insomnia Discord at game time (https://discord.gg/8Vx2Sax). We have a channel specifically for Clan Wars there now, and also for setting up League games or voting on Insomnia Balance changes etc. The top 2 winners from this game will face NBT and BRN in the finals on Dec 2 (no Clan War on Nov 25 to avoid clashing with Marshall's event).

CW14B will be live casted by icy and me and possibly other people too, plus at least one or two POV streams, all of which will be viewable in our Live Stream Gallery: http://cosmicwar.net/live-stream-gallery

We made a trailer:



See you guys tonight!