A beginners Guide to Clans

Theres over a million clans in this game. And most of them are a waste of time. Hers how to avoid the rubbish ones.

First, learn to spot the timewasters. Join the clan. Then have a look at

CHAT: if the chat consists of a long series of people joining and leaving, and no one has actually spoken for three days, its dead. Hit the LEAVE button.

RANK: Avoid all clans where everyone is a Co Leader. This means its run by a bunch of kids. Kids are a menace in CoC. They are unreliable, vindictive, malicious and produce unstable clans that dont usually last five minutes. And havent a clue how to win wars.

WAR LOG: Look at the war log. Look at the scores. If they arent winning 10 player wars with 26 stars, or fifteen player wars with 36 stars, then they are winning (if at all) by accident, because the other side is even more clueless. If theres no wars on the log, and they have 47 members, then they dont wa - which is absurd. Watch how they attack in wars. Is it coordinated? Is there a plan? Is there someone directing the war? Or is it every man for themselves, attack what you like? If the latter is the case, they arent going anywhere. You dont get to be good by random.

Watch how people recruit in Global. Anyone begging and pleading for members avoid, Avoid any clan with 7 or less members, they'll never get enough members to war in your lifetime. Avoid Clans made of families - you're the outsider , at the first sign of trouble, you'll get the blame and the boot. Blood is thicker than water.

INTERNATIONAL clans: An 'international' clan is one where the members are all in 15 or so different time zones. Avoid these like Ebola. No one will ever be online when you log on, and because CoC limits you to one email every three hundred years, you'll never get be able to communicate with the clan effectively, unless you're gonna sit their online for two days while every logs in and out, one by one. The key to winning wars is effective communication, add 15 timezones to the absurd, strangled, crippled CoC email system, you'll never be able to win a war except by accident, since no one will ever know whats happening or what they are supposed to be doing.

Always join a single timezone clan, eg UK, USA. Least you all log in at the same time.

And remember, the clan needs you more than you need the clan. If they annoy you, hit the leave button, theres always another clan.