Leader Abilities

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April 7th, 2016
Buckbucksc

Leader Abilities

As a clan leader for the past year and a half one of the most frustrating things is not having the ability to communicate individually with my clan members. As a result all clans have to struggle with outside programs to communicate with our team members. If the Leader had the ability to message players individually it would lessen the need for programs like kik or instant messenger. One would think the longer you have your players online the greater the opportunity would be for them to make purchases. Instead, you have your players leaving COC to use programs that simply offer them a better means of communication.

Also, giving the Leader the simply ability to opt team mates in and out of clan wars (outside of the war search feature) would simplify the role of Leader. Often what we are faced with is no means of communicating with players, therefore having to keep track of who is in and who is out (players are lazy about opting themselves in and out of clan wars).
Most clans have rules such as "failure to use both clan war attacks puts you out of future clan wars for X# of wars. Some clans simply boot members who fail to use both attacks. If the leader had the ability to over ride the players opt in or out for a selected period such as " keep player out of 1 war" or "keep player out of 2 wars" it would be greatly appreciated by all Clan Leaders and would result in fewer homeless clash of clan players.
April 7th, 2016
Rue73

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Originally Posted by Buckbucksc

As a clan leader for the past year and a half one of the most frustrating things is not having the ability to communicate individually with my clan members. As a result all clans have to struggle with outside programs to communicate with our team members. If the Leader had the ability to message players individually it would lessen the need for programs like kik or instant messenger. One would think the longer you have your players online the greater the opportunity would be for them to make purchases. Instead, you have your players leaving COC to use programs that simply offer them a better means of communication.

Also, giving the Leader the simply ability to opt team mates in and out of clan wars (outside of the war search feature) would simplify the role of Leader. Often what we are faced with is no means of communicating with players, therefore having to keep track of who is in and who is out (players are lazy about opting themselves in and out of clan wars).
Most clans have rules such as "failure to use both clan war attacks puts you out of future clan wars for X# of wars. Some clans simply boot members who fail to use both attacks. If the leader had the ability to over ride the players opt in or out for a selected period such as " keep player out of 1 war" or "keep player out of 2 wars" it would be greatly appreciated by all Clan Leaders and would result in fewer homeless clash of clan players.

I'm rather confused by your post, really don't understand your point about over riding a players opting in or out of war, it is you who decides who is in or out of war so I don't see where your coming from.
Also I'm not trying to be rude but if your still having communication problems after running a clan for a year and a half.....
Having an external app. Is looked at by many as a great way to communicate as it helps rather than hinders with a clans progress.
April 7th, 2016
SharkyFinn

There are benefits to a third-party chat app over anything in-game that you should consider.

For one, it allows for communication outside the clan, even outside the game entirely. IMO, there's no way Supercell will ever add the ability to send a direct message to a player outside your clan, because it'd be ripe for abuse. With outside chat, if you promoted a bad coleader who kicked everyone? No biggie. You can still talk to them and get them back. One of your member's little brother thought it'd be funny to change his name and quit the clan? Still no problem. A member downloaded a bad Android update and can't sign into his game? Not a big ordeal. A member broke his phone, got tied up at work, left his device at home, isn't allow to play Clash where he is, etc. etc.? Can be overcome. To take it a step further, my clan actually began with a group of us who met in a whole other mobile game but who kept in contact through Groupme.

Also outside chat apps have been working on their software for years and have features (video, animation, pictures, hyperlinks, avatars, groups, to new a handful) that would take a long time to get right if developed in-game. More likely any direct messaging chat would be as primitive as the text chat we have now in clan chat and global chat. And its these outside features that make third-party chat apps such an important tool.

Lastly, Supercell probably doesn't want the headache of managing the awful things that people say and do to one another when masked behind the internet. Let's be honest, people online can be incredibly cruel and our news is filled with a litany of online abuses: cyber-stalking, cyber bullying, pedos, phishing, spamming, scamming, shaming, flaming, swatting, viruses, trojan horses, malware, and ransom-ware to name a handful.