First answer decides important foreign policy!

No

***evil laughter***

someone had to spend a lot of time sending repeated invites to everyone in warlight. they deserve to be number one.

I never got an invite. :D

They are #1 (it is not any measure of a ranking)?

Or do you mean should they be listed first?

IMO (and most others), there should be a formula that ranks clans instead. But, Fizzer/Mercer don't have time to do the math on that (there are more important things to them on here...even as a clan leader I can recognize that). However, if someone on here did come up with a DETAILED and GOOD ranking system, I'm sure they'd adopt it. They just can't do all that legwork with bigger fish to fry.

There could be 3 ranking systems. One could be how it is right now.

Another could be mean points per player.

The other could be mean ladder ranking.

Thoughts?

The clans should be ranked on how many points they have gathered in the last 30 days.

This will encourage players to score a lot of points and encourage clans to have active members.
Incurige of activity > more income out of the ads.

I don't think warlight should try to make a clan ranking based on what clan the best players/performance has.

There is bias in any ranking system . I don't have to explain. Logic

@Orange: It should be the average if each player's points, otherwise its just the system we have now, where largest active clan wins.

someone please explain the system as it stands ... is it not the total combined points of all clan members?

@Orange: It should be the average if each player's points, otherwise its just the system we have now, where largest active clan wins.

Not quite. His suggestions counts only points from the last 30 days, while the current counts all-time points.

This favors clans who have a large number of members (example: Vitrix, Wolves), as well as clans who have many players at higher levels (example: LEA, Illuminati)

This can be noticed by looking at rankings - masters have nearly no members but them all have insane points each. Darklords, on the other hand, are ranked #1 because they have a LOT of players, despite being mostly low levels.

Under Orange's suggestions, clans with large portions of inactive players or clans with lower income (due to not being competitive players and/or being Diplomacy clans)

someone please explain the system as it stands ... is it not the total combined points of all clan members?

That is correct.

Edited 7/3/2015 00:04:51

@Zephyrum: AH yeah, I was in a rush when I sent that, i meant Average of all players in the clan in the last 30 days.

I have to say that I did put in lots of my time adding friends and targeting desirable players. Yes, numbers were my main objective.
DARKLORDS have the top spot.

WOO HAAA

In a different game I built a 1000 person clan just so we could be #1. People complained there too, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it, like someone said, there's always bias.

It just generally means more if a clan with less members is near the top (like it was in this other game)

Having activity over last 30 days, and maybe average per member could work too, it's always nice to have something to add competition between clans in games.

I think Orange's suggestion is the best one.

Can't clans be sorted by clan ID? It doesn't relay favor any clan, apart from when it was created.

it would be cool to be able to sort it a bunch of different ways. i'm curious to see who has the oldest members, best record at 1v1, team games, ffas, specifically by map, most points by average, most games, i could go on.

in fact it would be awesome to sort individuals this way too.

if i knew anything at all about computers i would attempt to make a code, or whatever it is people do on computers when they're not looking at porn.

I'm just a dummy though, so the best i can do is offer 20 bucks donation if someone wants to make this happen. i know that's chump change, but maybe others would be willing to pay up too :)

Do people even go to the Clans page often enough for the clan sort order to matter? Most people don't know how to accept clan invites or navigate their way to a clan page just because Clans is a pretty weak feature that offers almost nothing by itself. You can sort clans based on the % of players whose real-life middle name begins with the letter "D" and I don't think it'll actually matter.

@shyb: That would be very easy to do, actually. Give me a second.

How do you want the data sorted? I'm busy this weekend (visiting family) but I can come up with a bunch of clan rankings if people just tell me what they want.

Edited 7/4/2015 02:18:06