Custom Ranks, in title only.. Read on you'll understand.
So I've been brewing this idea in my head for a while, I'll try to keep my explanation as simple as possible.
As a clan leader, I'd like to be able to customize the Co-Leader and Elder ranks within my clan without necessarily changing their tool-set. Here is whats currently available to a clan leader as far as inter clan ranks.
The responsibilities that each rank can control are:
Member
When you join or re-join a clan you will automatically earn membership.
However, remember that if you were an Elder, Co-Leader or Leader in another clan before when you re-join another clan you will always start as a Member.
Elder
The Elder has more responsibilities than a Member but less than a Co-Leader or Leader.
Elders can:
- Invite players to join the clan
- Accept players to the clan
- Kick out clan Members
Co-Leader
The Co-Leader has more responsibilities than an Elder but less than a Leader.
Co-Leaders can:
- Invite players to the clan
- Accept players into the clan
- Promote and demote clan Elders
- Promote new Co-Leaders
- Kick out clan Members and Elders
- Send messages to the whole clan. Remember there is a 12-hour recharge period until you can write a message again.
Leader
The Leader of the clan is the one who has the most responsibility and can make the most decisions.
Leaders can:
- Invite players to join the clan
- Accept and decline requests to join the clan
- Promote members to Eldership.
- Promote and demote clan Elders
- Demote themselves as Leader and give leadership to a Co-Leader. Do so with caution as all leadership responsibilities will be lost.
- Send messages to the whole clan. Remember there is a 12-hour recharge period until you can write a message again
- (Proposed) Can change the title of a clan member's rank when promoting
So, in my idea, all of this would stay the same. However, when the leader promotes someone, he/she has an extra option to customize the title of the rank.
Here is how I propose it works:
The leader promotes someone through the normal process by clicking the "Promote to (next rank)" button from the clan roster, but, within the confirmation to promote window, there would be another button labeled "Customize" or "Title" or "Edit" or something along those lines. Clicking button this will pop up a 10 character type space and an "OK" button. Typing anything in this space and clicking the OK button would change the title of the rank to whatever you typed, but not the rank privileges, (if you promoted the person to Co, they have all the tools of a Co.. etc..) If nothing is typed and the OK button is clicked, the rank title remains that of the selected promotion, (ie. Co-Leader). I see this option being made available only to the Leader and only applicable to the ranks of Elder and Co-leader. In this way a Leader cannot promote a Co-Leader to anything other then a Leader and a member is always a member.
What about demotions?
Demotions would work as they do now. If you wanted to change the title of an Elder or Co, and keep their current rank, you would have to demote them, and then promote them in order to popup the Custom title button. You can only customize through promotion. And again, only the Leader can customize a title.
Here is why I think this is useful:
I decided to promote an Elder to Co-leader because they have been keeping track of our clans statistics beyond what SC provides. I want to call this person "Historian", They would have all the attributes of a Co-leader, but just with a different title, a title I typed in. The clan would know their roll and it would allow me to visibly "rank" my clan members within the already established ranks.
Is't this allot of work for SuperCell?:
I don't know, I'd like to hear from Supercell on this. I know from chat servers I have run in the past, the ranking system is based on a "member type" and not so much a "title". I think this may be very easy to implement, especially if they made the "title" of clan members a device save versus a server save... To save on space.
(EDIT) I found these threads that are along the same lines, but don't really go into detail.
September 19th, 2014 http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...tom-Clan-Ranks
March 5th, 2014 http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-ranks-in-clan
Only bump from me I promise
I'd like to see more votes and input into this idea, should I change the title to get more attention?. Don't leave me hanging clashers... please.
