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I agree that donations are important in the clan, but the reality of my life in particular is that some weeks I have more free time and other times I do not. Knowing that reality and the inconsistency of my donation habits I moved from Cavebears to Riverbears, and now will probably move to Icebears.
I donate what I can, when I can.
Just another thought to add to the mix, maybe we can base donations on size of clan castle...the larger the clan castle the more you are expected to donate?
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Originally Posted by Cavebears
OK I hesitated to express an opinion on is topic because I thought it would not impact me since I can't resist hitting that green donate button. :) As long as everyone donated some and my requests were filled quickly, I do not care who donates.
But now I have realized that the more people donate, the more often they comment in chat. In order to donate you have to either leave the chat open or check it often. (Mine is usually open when I am not raiding) The more often you are reading the chat the more likely you will add a comment. The more people who comment, the greater variety of opinions are expressed and chat becomes more than just ty & np.
This game has built in down time while the army trains for the next raid. When I first started playing coc, I would read a book during this time. Now I spend the time reading chat and chatting a bit myself. This adds to the enjoyment I get from the game. Clan mates will cheer for your accomplishments if you share them (my husband just looks at me oddly)
Enough rambling, my vote is to raise the limit slowly. We don't want force people to leave. We don't people to feel we are requiring them to play more often. We want to encourage them to participate more.
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Originally Posted by Doulton
Ahh Doulton we still miss you in the cave!
hey riverbears! I miss you guys but I'm having fun in the cold for now! I was thinking about the donations and some of the comments and think there can be an easy solution to this. I know personally, I use my castle for defense. If we would all commit to using our castle for both, there would be way more requests to fill, more success in battle, and easier to get a high donation count (which equals more xp too). I know most of us have no trouble hitting 200, but if you can only play for an hour or so per day, it can be stressful to race the other eager donors. Evga recently made a suggestion of only donating 3 for high donors, and that could work too. But why not just request more? What are your thoughts?
I'm selfishly thinking only of myself.
As I said previously, I'm new so still determining how much time I will spend playing. I have enough commitments in my life that I would hate to become a slave to the game just to keep up donations.
So far, I don't appear to be having a problem keeping up with donations, but I have to stop playing too much at night as it is interfering with my sleep (how bad is that - I actually dream about archers and raiding and stuff and it keeps waking me up).
Maybe ice-bears is the place for me if my life commitments become too much.
However, looking at the donations at this point, if we went to 200 minimum, there are 19 people who have not reached that level. If they were kicked, it would drop the clan numbers to 24 and would that really make it a better place to be?
I would suggest smaller increases to start off with and see how people are going. Try 100 for a few weeks, then 150, then finally 200 if people are keeping up.
IN THE NAME OF THOR!
BEARS!
I am please to announce that clan BUILT have entered into a formal BLOOD OATH TREATY with us! BY THE GODS! Our holy alliance shall be invincible!
I have copy pasted the details here:
The Blood Oath Treaty
Both the entirety of BUILT and the Bear Empire, swear a blood oath to each other. Creating not only an alliance, but a brotherhood. Where all members of both parties and all of their vassals (Sub Clans) will aid each other against any foe, foreign or domestic, natural or un-natural. No matter the odds, each clan will aid the other where ever possible, whether it be war time or not.
Should the treaty be broken, the party that breaks it will forever be cursed, his food will turn to ash in his mouth and he will bare no children.
BUILT- /signed
Bear Empire- MIKE$
BY THE GODS! SIGNED IN FRESH 100% PURE PUMPING ATERIAL BLOOD! (Plenty more of that where it came from)
Miss you too Jorg!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jorgbear
This was being discussed in chat so I thought, I'd make it easy to find. For a more detailed description see mags post on the bottom of page 30.Quote:
Originally Posted by loosu
If your clan castle holds 10 archers and you request troops once a day that is 70 archers a week
If your clan castle holds 15 archers and you request troops once a day that is 105 archers a week
If your clan castle holds 20 archers and you request troops once a day that is 140 archers a week
If your clan castle holds 25 archers and you request troops once a day that is 175 archers a week
Now what do you think is a fair donation minimum?
Ok, I mention this is faction chat today. But i should put it here. First off, I do not really mind where the donation standards are gonna be set.
First off, why are we doing this? If going off stryfe post, I think we can definitely do it in order to increase chat activity. Then there is two thing we need to consider.
A. Peak hours, whereby donations get filled in less than a minute. We need to do something about this like limiting how much a person can donate (for the 10 min)? This is to allow slower people, or people who log on only every certain interval.
I think for peak hours chat activity are active enough (could be wrong)
B. For off peak hours, this is where i feel, chat activity and donation can be boosted. I know at night there are times when i wait for a long time for donation, and chat is almost dead. This is the part i feel, we need to work on. BUT we can't fix that by increasing requirement. We need to recruit people from different timezone.
Well, that is my two cents. As long as donation isn't raise to a ridiculous amount, like 1000... i am pretty cool with anything.