Clan Management - War Participants

Clan Wars is awesome! My clan LOVES it. This feature has revitalized the game for many of our longer-term members.

However, if there was one thing I would recommend changing, it would be to give the Leader's and/or Co-Leader's ability to control who fights for our clan during a war. At the moment, I am a Co-Leader and we have 30'ish members and our recruitment is open. We have a solid core of about 20 players (including a couple low level players among that core who are real life friends of a high level member), with 10 "new" players coming in or going out through the revolving door at any given time.

When we start a war, our clan's leadership has no control over who among our ranks can wage war with us. Providing leadership the additional control over this factor will help us lead, versus getting abused by the troll'ish players who come and go as the wind blows. A recent example is that 4 of our "new" players were included by the system as being part of our upcoming war; however, each one left during the preparation day and now we're down 8 attacks (and likely going to give up 12 stars) during this war. It's not clear to me the mechanics of how players are selected by the system to participate in the upcoming war, but it works against those clans that don't close off membership and are still trying to grow. Establishing this level of war participant control would allow the clan leadership to actually lead and manage its membership for wars. The way it's set up now, we're at the mercy of the new players and the system making the decision for us when the wars are declared. That's a cart leading the horse kind of situation and it's not really working for us. I can only assume others are encountering this problem as well and I welcome their comments/concurrence.

Recommendation: Allow Leaders and Co-Leaders the ability to set player rank as a determining factor (e.g., "member" status and higher rank OR "elder" status and higher rank) for who is allowed to participate in a war. It would be up to leadership to promote the new member to elder status in order to participate in an upcoming war if the "elder status and higher rank" option is selected. Also, this ensures that lower level players who have stuck it out and proven themselves with us aren't excluded from participating in the war by the system when a higher level troll player comes along and knocks them into spectator mode.

Regarding recruitment - Yes, we could close recruitment or make it invite only, but that would limit our growth and/or deter potentially good players from joining us. Of course we get the usual ♥♥♥♥ players that come through and stay for 1 hour, a day, etc. then leave whenever someone doesn't give them 100% attention, immediately promote them, or they harass players who they think are girls and we give them the boot. We deal with that as needed because we do find some really good players from time to time. If we find someone worthy, we'll promote them to elder status and fight along side them... but it should be the leadership who decides this.

Thank you for your consideration.

Happy killings!

I would love to see this feature added. Since clan wars have appeared, it has re-invigorated our desire to grow our clan. Before, what was the reason? But now, we are trying to grow with good players and gain loot via winning wars. However, ever sine we have opened our clan back up, we are getting pounded by people coming and going in, like a revolving door. They come in, stay 2 days, get included in a war, and leave before attacking. It would be great to be able to control this per the suggestion above.