second question: what clan holds the record for running the longest ever

Depends if you mean before clans were an official feature. Also depends if you include clans that predated Warlight.

clans as an official feature

As in oldest clan to still exist? Or oldest clan to have had continuity? 101st, for example, is an old clan that's still active, but it's rebuilt from several collapses along the way.

One way to check is to run this on every clan (first clan id is 1). https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40522-get-clan-member-idle-time

Edited 10/20/2022 16:42:54

Clan IDs don't capture the actual oldest clans because those clans pre-date built-in Clans. The CL1 clans all seem dead now though.

GG, a.k.a. ReLite, is the longest active clan afaik

Dinosaurs, all of them!

VIW should be 7th clan founded. April 28th 2012

REGL is the First
FBG
LDD
Warlighters
WM --> still active
P
VIW
X
RP
...

lot of clans started in 2012 so it's possible some are before April but I never checked

Edited 11/1/2022 19:51:32

peepee poo fard is the longest running klan, it was founded by William Joseph Simmon, predating the roman empire