@TC: I'm not talking about growth in terms of members. MH seriously outstripped CORP in its ability to help members develop. Personally I was never interested in adding more people as much as making our existing playerbase more able to improve.

First: I honestly think the problems with TLW, Darklords, and most other clans that don't autoremove all inactive players is that those players ruin their reputation by dragging down the clan average skill.

Second: clan reputation is generally based on the average player, giving a clan with a large membership that isn't very selective a difficult time acquiring a good reputation. If the true goal of clans' is to develop a player into a better warlight player(strategically, as diplo and RP clans don't have great reputations due to their lack of strategic players that make the top of ladders), we should focus on a clan's development process and who is incharge of it.

Third: Any clan that just improves players in any way is a good clan, but I also believe that having a good social interaction through a large number of players that partially work together and play together is good for the community, as those players will be more willing to return.

Lastly:these unselective clans allow people to join together with their friends, encouraging them to return to the game and grow the community.

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Do not judge a clan on their logo alone.

the Darklords have not failed as a clan because there goal was to get as many members as possible, which they have done extremely well and succeeded at.