After 7 months leading a feeder clan Ive lost my mojo.. Anyone relate? Share your burnout story, any suggestions on how I can recover my love of the game more than welcome. I love my clan, my members, I love leading, but nearly ready to quit CoC.
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After 7 months leading a feeder clan Ive lost my mojo.. Anyone relate? Share your burnout story, any suggestions on how I can recover my love of the game more than welcome. I love my clan, my members, I love leading, but nearly ready to quit CoC.
My leader in our feeder clan left us and went on to the main clan.. :( I don't think hes coming back.
I've been leading for about a year now.:cool:
Switch things up. Do you farm nearly every time you play? Push as far as you can. Make big expensive armies.
do you push a lot? Boost your barracks and go in! Maybe even buy some gems to get something cool and new.
i was gone for 8 months but recently got back into it, it might come back, it might not.
I did worse than that even.. My main clan nabbed my most trusted coleader, so they're in my bad books lol.. Instead I promoted my 2nd co to leader and went clanless.. Now I'm having R&R in a farming clan, until I can return. My job is secure, they're just waiting on me coming back, missing meQuote:
Originally Posted by SKoRM
All great ideas :D thanks JackClashesQuote:
Originally Posted by JackClashes
Another thing I like to do is try out new base concepts like right now I'm using this http://i.imgur.com/9zATne6.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by FionaKMcK
Go join some other clan(s) for a while. Leadership isn't easy. Good leadership is even harder. It can take up a lot of time, cause stress and aggravation, and may not feel worth the trouble. When you start to envy your members' carefree existence, it's time to go out and become one of them. Let someone else shoulder the burden for a while and see if it rekindles some of your prior love for the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by FionaKMcK
Just don't try to hold on or pass leadership of the clan you're in to someone else while you remain. You're either not going to approve of how someone else runs the clan you built or they're going to continue to lean on your or expect you to pick up the slack. Start clean with people who don't know you or have high leadership expectations of you.
Good luck.
After 15 months of me being leader I was close to just leaving and I saw this Forum Elite thread and I entered myself looking for a well deserved week break from leadership, I come back to find my clan was trolled by a Co-leader, so things turned out well!
Why don't you tell us a bit more about what is causing the burnout?
I find that some weeks can be really busy with work and I find it challenging to fit in the normal clan stuff. To combat this, when things quiet down, I try to make some time (maybe a couple hours) to just sit in chat and hang with the crew. It's especially enjoyable during battle day.
Having strong co's really helps a lot, but it does happen where everyone is busy.
It's a game and you should have fun. Find something that makes it fun for you.
It is mainly donating, having to stay online so people don't get bored, recruiting, giving advice to people, feeders to stress about. It is hard being leaderQuote:
Originally Posted by Phoenix7744
I don't think you should have to stay online so people don't get bored. There are a lot of things that you need to do as an effective leader, but simply constantly being online is not one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnybro1234
Recruiting can be a pain, but just try to do jump in a chat room once a day, or send out a clan message saying you are trying to recruit. The clan eventually reaches a critical size where you have too many people rather than not enough.
You shouldn't have to stress about feeders. Your Elders should take care of this and enjoy doing so. Try to give people more responsibility.
Staying online is quite necessary, most clans where the leaders aren't on much tend to be dull. When I was a Leader, I made sure I entertained everyone and that made our clan so successful. Also you never know when an argument or some trolling might arise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenix7744
Recruiting is a pain and many members are just not bothered with recruiting.
Feeders are quite a chaotic thing, but I tended not to care about them too much cause my bro was leader there.
Sounds like you need a new challenge. Being burnt out goes in phases.
I've been dealing with the same thing...I've been leading my clan since April, it was so much fun for the first couple months...the clan was crazy active, we were like a huge family and had a great time together! We lost some wars but our win ratio was much higher!
I don't know what happened, but recently it has gotten really bad. We barely ever win wars and I'm feeling so burnt out. My co's have been very helpful and are always trying to think of ideas to help make the clan better (even though we never changed anything and we kept the same good core members). But nothing has helped...everyone is getting frustrated and not knowing what to do and even though I love my coc family and I love being leader I'm so tempted to just give it up...
I'm trying to stick it out though because I know I will miss it and I don't want to have to start over with a new clan.
Because the Leader is the only member of the clan who should be active, amirite? Look, if your co's and elders never talk in chat if you're not online, why did you promote them in the first place? I only promote the active players. I myself play only once a day on my Leader accounts in the two clans I lead (main and feeder), and on busy days it's just for a few minutes to do clan war battles. It's enough to administer the clans and both of the clans are quite active.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnybro1234
In fact I'd say that the clans where the Leader knows how to take things easy and isn't glued to his device 24/7 are much less dull because the rest of the clan has more effect on the happenings of the clan and the Elder's have to kick troublemakers etc too and not just the Leader. The clan shouldn't revolve around the Leader (especially if it's a max size clan like both of mine)
If you stress too much over your clan and feel the need to constantly be online, you're doing it WRONG! No wonder you get burned out. it's a game - not your whole life. Pick Co-'s and Elders you trust and you can safely not be on all the time.
I guess some things have to get worse before they can get better. My most trusted coleader left for the main clan.. Very unexpectedly, and I really was devastated. Emotionally crushed. Betrayed. And then it happened. I realised I cared too much. Way too much. I went AWOL, clanless. And I loved it. I used global for interaction while cooking troops, had fun picking out the rare player there with good stats good base good attitude - chatted to them and muted the rest. 3 days of feeling like id left my 40 odd kids (members) in good hands while I holidayed in Fiji or something. Holidaying without your kids is great - until you realise you miss them. Then it's all you can think about. I went back, expecting admonitions, disaster or worse - they might not have cared I was gone. I joined, was celebrated like the prodigal son and my kids (members) were so relieved mum (their leader) was back- back in the clan, and back on track.
I have a friend named Finally McKenzie on FB. Are you her?
Fiona, meant to say. Message me.
I'm Fiona Killick-McKinnon :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaden
Me too. Posted a similar thread today! I got sooooo tired of dealing with squabbles, recruiting, discussing why this player wasn't promoted or why this player isn't an elder that in the end it was no fun at all!
I left my clan 'ENGLAND' a week ago and have tried helping a couple of new clans develop for a week and it has been great fun. I have had a few invites back which I have rejected (I sent a very nice email explaining why I was leaving).
I also noticed the guy I promoted to leader has already dropped back to Co and promoted somebody else! I have realised how utterly uninterested I am in being an elder or co despite many lower clans throwing it at me to persuade me to join.
The only slightly tedious factor is when you go onto chat without a clan you are inundated with invites regardless of what you type but as you say you can just mute people.
I am going to wander the lands as a Hobo for at least a month then return (hopefully at lv 100) or maybe I will just stay homeless and happy! Either way leader is not something I feel inclined to return to for some time...bring back the fun!:cool: