One idea is to be able to create a kind of "go fund me" for different a item you want to buy or rank up. For example, if I want help to rank up a revoker, I would select that as my "clan help", and every acoin that was donated 1.5 acoins comes off of the price. That way it is an advantage to help your clan.

Or you have a daliy ammount you could donate with no detriment to your own resources. Reference the system in the LotR video game.

Hello! Thanks for sharing your idea with us. We are always happy to check out some fresh and creative thoughts from our players.

It's confirmed that the clans will be updated in the future. Nevertheless, it's not a priority at this moment.

Hello!

 was wondering, are there any updates to increase the clan size to maybe 40 to 45?

Our clan [-ZEN-] (https://mindzgg.com) we are maxed out at 30 with all active members.  We have a very social culture, friendly atmosphere along with professional attitude. Therefore, I believe creating a second clan (like a branch or a franchise) like dilute the culture that we have created

 forward to hearing your response

wth.. I used quote and my message disappeared.. well.. if forum is such a weird one.. i will not use quote and I will skip on my ideas.

Varzz, you can create clan1 and clan2 and then go to create your own chat room, instead of joining languages room or something like that i believe.

I finally understood what clans could be used for apart from chat... 

That would fix matchmaking flaw of the game for specific groups of people.. so should be a win win...

So a while ago I had this match as on screenshot:

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We were just dominated, and the enemy were 4 people from the clan [KS_UA] playing a team match. 

They were stupidly over our powers, there was nothing in this match that would have word "balance" or "fair" 

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It was not only higher hangar powers, but also 32-79k inventory powers to oppose our grup with 16k max.. So they were 1-3 divisions against totally random guys from not even seasonal divisions some of us.

In short, the matchmaking for team games is not balanced, I would even say it doesn't function at all..

It's not fair not only for random guys to face a clan, but also must be a pain for the clan to fight somebody reasonably equal... 

There are load of clans but they don't really have a function in this game.. 

So why not make a clan tournament for them? 

If there was such a thing I would likely find friends to give clan some meaning... while right now I have few friends to chat, but we don't even play together. There is not much point.. 

It would have to be rewarding like Hangar showdown or Tournament.. Otherwise it will never work.. On saying rewarding, I mean, give it at least some stupid basic rewards like credits/fortune keys and skins. (I would be happy to receive some skins, they cost you nothing, but I like changing colors for my squad from time to time, and surely clan would like to have their team in same skin)

Now what benefits would it be for the Mech Arena itself???

1) You could be selling more skins, or could even give option to customise the clan skin completely from scratch exacty as they want it, and it would cost them a-coins or real money. You will be surprised how much $$$ you can make just on skins (as long as you don't mess up the clan tournaments and if it's going to work)

2) The point 1 is just an example of your monitizing options that took me 37ms to think of, I'm here to propose idea on clan/team wars system/tournament, im not here as an economist, you can think for yourselfs how you could monetize it.. I purely dont care about subject to propose anything.

3) It will create communities. Communities is something that people don't just leave if they are not happy about the game.. It's where they come to chat and thats where they make friends. I played a game that im fed up of, I'm still loggin in to that game once a day, I don't play it seriously, but there was a lot of my friends, we had alliance.. communities keep players in the game, it's not individual players any more, if they start hating the game they will still stay because their friends are here.. I don't like to manipulate people's addictions, i think it's "scummy" but, creating communities would be like creating addition for players, life is hard so a lot of things are scummy.. and right now I don't see Mech Arena to be trying to steal people life's and money.. it's reasonable.. I feel like I have a choice to play or not, to spend or not... So I think communities wouldn't hurt Mech Arena.. I feel bad to propose it, because communities mean more time in the game, less time working/learning/doing homework.. if you are part of something, you belong less to yourself and more to your team.. but I still propose it.

4) Having a clan could mean more chances for people to bring a friend from work/school/playground to play together. Right now clans are meaningless or at least the only reason I found for it is so I dont look like a bot to others.. It really does nothing, I dont see point in it.. And if I brought a friend we would have some super unfair team match like on screenshots above, so I would look stupid in front of my friend for bringing him into some bs. If the system would be based on tournament ranks like in new tournament it would give equal fights. It would although have to have few special rules to not create issues (potentially not, read point b2):

a) fobid new members of clan to join tournaments until tournaments over 

b) or allow them but only if they have some sort of clan tournament score.. out of 30 members there would be a big variation of skills and hangar powers, question is how to make it fair and balanced..

b1) one of ways potentially clans would need to group their players into 5s.. and stick to it until end. 

b2) or nothing is needed to be done.. one game the clan will have their powerful player and then next 5 games the weakest.. that is the clan, the result will average itself... so there should be no limits who fights for the clan and what they buy or even if new member joins... maybe

c) some sort of way to filter clan members to not be higher power than the rest of the clan.. 

d) if one clan member suddenly spends 1000$ on new equipment... he comes stronger.. so that would break balance, how to prevent it? Although it's a good for games economy isn't it if they start to abuse it this way? right. So a good thing. Nothing prevents same thing from happening in current tournament.

5) So after writing all these (a-d)s I realized that it should all go natural, the ranking should be only for the clan, not for individuals and it shouldnt matter what hangar power they have.. this will be a special feature of the clan tournaments, you may sometimes face super strong legendary players in your rankings, far about your SP, because there is one super strong player in their team, it's not always online.. the results will be based on average of all games.. with weak and with strong players.. no need to do any limits.. No need to do any system changes.. at least to start with this trial... 

What changes Mech Arena would need to do to implement the new Clan Tournaments

1) Create clan ranks and do matchmaking based on ranks like in new Tournament.

2) I assume it only counts if full team of 5 is playing.. so clans would need at least 5 players to participate.

3) Would make sense if clans had leaders who would be able to design skins (if you were to implement such features, and then other members could contribute $$ to that design if they accepted it or something like that), or every member could and then they would vote which one works and send $$/acoins to buy it. Also right now seems like random players can join my clan to tell me something bad and then leave :) So leaders could make sense to accept/deny new requests to join.

4) the difference between current team match is that it would only accept teams as 5s of the same clans to fight other 5s of the enemy clan as long as they are in same rank bracket. 

5) The rewards would be basic to start with (credits/skins/skin colors/fortune keys), the better players would get more, the less performing would get less.. Ideally the whole point in playing would be the desire to play as teams and to show off that their clan means something more than just a chat. I assume clan players already now playing team games just between themselves.. it's cool but not as entertaining as fighting enemies.. There would be fairer games for team players, better matchmaking than playing against 5 random players or bots.

6) New tasks to play 1-5 clan Tournaments per day.. 10-20 per week.. 

Don't know really.. what else can be expected from clans.. I assume would be cool to be able to watch these games if you are a member of clan you can watch it inside any of the players of your own clan