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  3. Posted

    Getting close to one year anniversary and yet no word about the necessary and important future for clan stuff. Communites are very important to MMO's but mostly they're all losing the sight and meaning of it, nowadays. Clans and communities are important for the palyerbase health and enjoyment and shouldn't be left out for years.

  5. Posted

    On 7/8/2018 at 5:35 PM, Paranormal said:

    +1 Just made a clan and hoped someone would suggest this. Well said bro.

    Thank you very much, really appreciate it!
     

    On 7/9/2018 at 11:44 AM, Seadee said:

    like in Shadowgun ? (if you ever played it) sort of "Tug of War" game mode or something like that, its fun, would work well for APB on a timed match basis (otherwise it could go forever!) i think in shadowgun you have attrition points, the more points you own the faster the enemies points goes down.

    though this sort of thing would work quite well on the fightclub maps or even a big district style (i think you could make a clan war/crim v enfo mode on any of the main maps by setting spray points as the capture locations.

    it becomes "clan wars" because your actively advertise whatever you spray on the point, you could easily do it as your clan, the people who do the work get their advertisement up, but it involves the whole faction so everyone gets rewarded not just the clan players, win win? 

    Do you've a footage of this game mode from Shadowgun - please? Tried to search for it but I wasn't even sure if I found the right game. 😀
     

    On 7/7/2018 at 12:25 AM, noudoei said:

    +1 

    Would love to have more use out of clans, now its just another friendlist.

     

    Maybe an idea for clan wars:

    the two clans start at cap point C. They need to capture it or hold it for a set amount of time, and when they do they will unlock the next point towards the enemy's base, like A<b<c>d>E    A and E are the main base of the clans.

    Its like they need to controll more of the city to win the war.

    I agree, thank you! Your suggested game mode sounds like a really nice game mode or event for APB. However, I'm not even sure if there was an APB event similar to your suggested one with capturing points already? I really forgot so much form the past since I basically didn't play APB for around 2 years. 🤔

  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, MattScott said:

    -snip-

    Hello @MattScott,

    if I'm honest with you, I wouldn't go that far and tell her to stop streaming APB missions. I would love to see you guys approaching the issue differently and let her stream missions or whatever but she should be solo'ing to skip the huge hate which appears grouping up with community members.

    I'm aware of the fact that APB: Reloaded isn't a singleplayer game and of course it favor teams and it's build around teamplay. However, she'll gain and receive knowledge, feedback and understanding how difficult it's getting into APB. It doesn't matter if she plays in green/bronzie districts but she obviously will learn from it, a lot more than playing with high ranked players who keeps "carrying" her through the missions - doesn't matter who it's (sorry for the word carrying!). The community loves to see a CM/Dev streaming APB for sure and I'm sure we all would appreciate that but it's really difficult to find the right rail to keep everyone pleased without creating drama and this probably only possible when she or however of the staff plays alone, at least while streaming. She might learn the game from the harsh and difficult side but it's pretty important since she'll understand and see what's missing to APB to keep the game new player friendly and make it more helpfully. Also streams like that always create nice disussions in terms of improving APB, helping new palyers and more but also a little bit of drama of course too.

    I'm, not trying to tell you to completely change your statement but I still would like to see you guys talking about the issues before instead completely turning it down. I think Lixils idea was great but she wasn't aware of the issues which can occur with the community.
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  8. Posted

    On 7/3/2018 at 1:40 PM, Dezire said:

    While it probably isn’t a priority, and certainly won’t come soon, this seems like a great addition to the game. Well done!

    Thank you very much, I appreciate those kind words @Dezire! 😊

     

    On 7/3/2018 at 10:31 AM, Seadee said:

    i always imagined the clan contact would also let you "sell" clothing/car "patterns" to them and then they would sell copies of them to your clan for the item price, gives a money sink but also helps out clans who use uniforms or have designers.

    i'm a backer of clan contact, though got to be careful about creating an unfair advantage (although, being in a clan and being semi organised is an "unfair advantage" as it is, so perhaps it would just encourage people to work as a team, thus giving everyone a better gaming experience?)

    The possibility to sell copies of clan clothins/cars/symbols et cetera. through the clan contact would make everything for clans easier and more interesting to even create those clan designs. Regarding the unfair advantage as you've stated already @Seadee , being in an organzied clan/group is a slightly advantage already but it's pretty much like this in every game. I still think a Clan Contact would be a huge and nice improvement in terms of progression.



     

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  9. Posted

    Thanks everyone for all those kind comments, likes and thanks - I appreciate it so much!!! :classic_love:

     

    15 hours ago, MoeEveryWeek said:

    I had a quick skin through the list and idk if I skimmed over it or not, but we could probably have a clan level system with bonus rewards/boosts for each level for example:

    Clan level 5 - Reduction item prices from the contact shops by 1%

     

    Clan level 45 - +5 more symbol layers for customization

     

    etc...


    Yes, the Clan Progression thread contains Clan Levels. As example I wrote 15 clan levels with ideas down just did some quick brainstorming long time ago. You can find those at 2.4 Rewards for achieving Clan Levels? 🙂

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  10. Posted · Edited by Esther

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    Originally posted 24. November 2013 – 11:32 AM
    Written and managed by @Esther // Proof-reader, editing, support by @freq


    Review/Flashback:
    1.  What is the Clan Progression thread about?
    The Clan Progression thread moved from a single suggestion and idea regarding clan functionality, improvement and progression thread of mine, to a community driven thread with a lot of great suggestions coming from forum members across the whole world. Together, we achieved a huge list with important suggestions to revive and bring back the importance and necessity of clans for All Points Bulletin: Reloaded.

    2.  What’ve we achieved the past couple of years?
    This specific thread received more than 190 likes, more than 230 votes (remains to have all of 5 stars filled out), more than 80.000 views and more than 570 replies. This isn’t everything though.
    The Clan Progression thread raised up to the most liked, voted and replied (without counting one pinned post) content in the Suggestions & Ideas – Section. Also, the thread achieved to be the third most liked content on the GamersFirst Forum overall.

    3.  What’s the plan regarding clans with Little Orbit?
    The most important step is to show Little Orbit that the clan progression has been left out for a decade after they removed the leaderboards for clans and players which kept the clans relevant during RTW. GamersFirst pretty much ignored this thread even though I tried several times to get in touch with a red name. However – we didn’t give up and kept being active.

    4.  Gratitude Statement:
    I’m going to take the possibility and try to explain my emotions and gratitude here. I want to thank everyone who supported me, the team behind the thread, the clan progression thread, and the efforts to keep the thread alive, fresh with ideas and relevant. I highly and greatly appreciate all the welfare and commitment to help me out over those couple of years. I just can say it a thousand of times again, thank you very much everyone and I hope – together we’ll get clans back on track. I am optimistic that together we’ll prove Little Orbit that something must happen with Clans.



    Contents:

    1. Clan Management + Usability Improvement to Clans
    2. Clan Progression
    3. Leaderboard (Leagues)
    4. Clan Warfare Event ("Hit Squad")
    5. Clan Wars
    6. Games Of Chance (Gambling)
    7. GamersFirst / Reloaded Production's plan for 2014
    8. Closing Remarks
    9. Special Thanks



     

    1.  Clan Management + Usability Improvement to Clans:
     

     


    There’re important information, statistics and user-friendliness (usability) are missing for Clans in the Clan Management in game. Following we’ve some certain important points which should have been added to the Clan Management interface on the first day of release already. This is necessary and important to Clans which should be reworked and done as soon as possible.

    • Ability to set the maximum time of inactivity allowed in the clan, after which the member would be either automatically removed, or added to a specific list for the leader and the officers. You can choose between both options.
    • Automation regarding clan symbol, clothing and vehicles. An ability for members to automatically claim these items (perhaps for a price- for younger clans) after set requirements are met. Like a Clan Store later coming with the clan levels.
    • We want the clan-title to be unlocked without having to buy premium. Premium is supposed to give you certain advantages like more rewards and less cooldown. I don't see how a clan title is an advantage, other than just wanting to represent your clan.



    1.1  History Journal:
    Date of clan creation, all the dates and reasons of clan invites, rank changes, removals, when did the person join date, et cetera. Literally everything what Clans should have.


    1.2  Statistic Tab in the Clan Management:
    Create a new tab in the clan management for literally all interesting statistics to look at:

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    • Kills the clan has made in total
    • Total Action District Time
    • Total Fight-Club District time
    • Players killed by car collisions
    • Players killed with main/secondary weaponry
    • Players killed by grenades
    • Kills by each clan member
    • Missions the clan has successfully completed
    • Missions each member has completed
    • Objectives completed in total
    • Medals earned in total
    • Total completed clan wars missions
    • The last 5 clan missions against whom they played (win/lose)
    • Et. cetera


    To make those statistic more usefully than just to leave it to be a number, there could be Clan Roles added to the Clan Management tab, like the same progression as characters already have. Clan roles again like Pointman, Marksman, Clan Wars, et cetera.

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    1.3  Inspect others Clans:
    Make it possible to examine the clan of the player next to you with the inspecting mode. You’re able to see the progression of his character but you can’t inspect his current clan. You should be able to see their clan level, clan symbol, clan statistics, clan members and a lot of other things.

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    When you’re inspecting the clan then there should also appear a button somewhere at the interface to give the inspector the possibility to write an application for the clan you’re currently viewing. This makes it a lot easier for newcomers to join or at least try to join a clan. This could also be added to the Clan Contact giving the possibility to write applications to all available participating clans with a filter for Enforcers / Criminals, members and so on.


    1.4  Clan symbole visible:
    Make the Clan - Symbole visibile next to or under the clan name, following pictures:

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    1.5  Scoreboard:
    Scoreboard should finally show the clan symbol of your clan and the clan symbol of the opposition on the scoreboard. This has been bugged since release. Losing the opportunity of seeing awesome clan symbols and representing.

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    1.6  Information Pinboard / Hub for Updates:
    Place somewhere in Social - District (preferable next to the Clan Contact) a Pinboard which could have the Clan Symbole on the board of the Clan who won a gambling event or a Clan Event (explained later).
    Players should be able to interact with this board (simply by pressing a button) to read the newest updates and some important information but also the current on-going or upcoming APB: R Events like Armas sales, clan events, community events like designing, racing, et cetera.

    There're always new players comint to APB: R or coming back to APB: R and would like to now the latest updates, those players mostly won't browse the GamersFirst Forum. Simply try to make it more conformable and beginner friendly and work in their interest.




    2.  Clan Progression:
     

     


    2.1  Why clans are important to APB: R?
    Clans are keeping the player base together, in touch and engaged to the game. Clans are very helpfully for new players, they can ask in the clan chat if there’s an issue with something or if they would like to know anything about APB. New players will stick to the game by far faster and more easily if they’re able to find friend to play and enjoy the game with. There’s currently a very big gap and issue with finding players to play with, a clan won’t fix this problem, but it can help to solve the problem a little at least. Clans are helping the matchmaking to a certain point too.

    They also own a very important aspect in APB: R which is that they’re having a high status to proudly show off in which clan you are in with your clan tag.  Being in a clan like WASP, Rezistance, 8bit, Essence, MVP, BitFenix and a thousand of more clans (please no hate neither do I advertise those clans – they just got in my head for this subject quickly) used to be a high prerogative but sadly this feeling and capability decreased continuously to a point where clans aren’t even relevant anymore.

    There’re tons of example where Clans/Guilds are almost the most necessary aspect in games doesn’t matter if it’ll be for PvE, PvP or PvPvE.



    2.2  What is the Clan Progression we're talking about?
    There should be “Clan Levels” which you can continuously level up through completing designated different activities and from simply playing APB with your clan group. What I still would like to try to avoid is that you’re punishing yourself when you’re playing with your friends. This shouldn’t be happening neither. As an example, clans can complete one to three clan activities per week, but those activities are more difficult than the standard activities you can accept from the contacts. After successfully reaching a clan level it could probably mean that the next clan level requires more completed clan activities for your clan to gain another clan level.

    The leader or/and officer of the specific clan could go to a certain “Clan Contact” in Social – District (there’s enough space a new NPC) who offers certain different activities for your clan to complete. The activities should be choosable and without a stressfully deadline. Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of creating a lot of stress in video games. There’re enough stressfully moments in APB and in real life already. Besides that, there could be a limit to the same activity a clan can complete within a certain time frame, to mix things a little bit up.

    Earning experience to gain a clan level could happen with: playing with your clan members; kills; finishing a mission objective; winning a mission; clan war missions; clan activities and a lot more.
    Playing as clan group could give you an experience boost of a certain amount like 25% more experience from completing those named tasks above.



    2.3  Clan Activities:
    APB: R uses a few different activities in mission districts, a few of those are already in the game and some activities got postponed a long time ago. They’re being used by Fight Club or Contact activities currently. So those are easily recyclable and rewritten for the clan progression. There can also be different tasks within one activity. The perfect case would be if those necessary tasks to complete an activity depends on your clan size to equalize small, medium and big clans.

    • Money activity: Earn as clan a specific amount of cash this week (you receive cash from kills, objectives, et cetera)
    • Kill activity: Kill this week a specific number of players to show the clan contact how great your clan is.
    • Object activity: Complete a specific number of objectives (burning doors, defusing bombs, et cetera.)
    • Win missions activity: Win a specific number of missions
    • Run over activity: Drive over a specific number of players with your lovely car
    • Secondary activity: Kill a specific number of players with your secondary
    • Burn and grenade activity: Burn down a specific number of doors and do a specific number of successfully grenade kills.
    • Run over and win streak of missions: Drive over a specific number of players and reach a certain number of missions win streak.

    There shouldn’t be only PvP activities, there should also be PvE activities like designing an icon, creating a theme, designing a car, designing outfits and more. APB: R has a lot of great opportunities to include every aspect of APB to the clan progression. APB has such a great customization, so why shouldn’t we use it?



    2.4  Rewards for achieving Clan Levels?
    To receive your clan level, you need to place a specific amount of money into your clan locker (bank). This secures the economic of APB and it might try to bring it into a better state. This doesn’t necessarily mean everyone will be poor if he’s joining a guild but most likely you’ll earn more money for completing certain tasks in APB (like killing players) after you earn the necessary guild level. Following are a few ideas:

    • Level 1: Clan "locker" for easy sharing of mods, cars, weapons, clothes and all that stuff (bank).
    • Level 2: You will earn 25% more APB$ for killing players
    • Level 3: You will earn 25% more APB$ for completing objectives
    • Level 4: Discount for spawning your car
    • Level 5: Your clan members will earn more experience for contacts (like premium does)
    • Level 6: The possibility to complete daily activities of mission district contacts raise up to 10
    • Level 7: Sending Armas Marketplace cars and clothes between clan mates will be possible. (For designing, etc.)
    • Level 8: Sending money between clan members will be possible
    • Level 9: Sending legendary weapons between clan members will be possible
    • Level 10: Buying weapons, modifications and upgrades from the contact is 25% cheaper than as before
    • Level 11: More clothing inventory space, outfit capacity increases, garage space, theme/song space
    • Level 12: Earning 30% more $ in total for every tasks in APB
    • Level 13: You can choose a different colour for your clan tag
    • Level 14: Your clan tag will show up on the screen if you join a mission district as a clan group of 3/4.  
    • Level 15: Your clan get his own skin weapon skin with your current used clan icon




    2.5  Clan Store/Locker/Bank:
    Clan locker for custom items (clothes, cars, symbols, …) to claim from members. Those items can be updated from members of the clan if they own the necessary permissions to do so. They can simply upload their items with their unique clan design to the clan locker and those members who would love to get those items can buy it for the original price. Possibility to store other stuff like upgrades, equipment, modifications too.
    The clan locker will be able to hold money. The money can be withdrawn by the leader, officer and all members with the right permission. Useable for buying billboards, money for certain clan events, leader / officer purpose, clothes et cetera.

    Don’t forget to add a track list to the clan locker so everyone can keep track of withdraws and deposit of items and such.



    2.6  Contribution to your clan:
    A Clan could get some special purchase offers from the Clan Contact. To buy those special items the clan member must do gather a certain amount of APB $ and Joker Tickets to unlock those special items. As example:

    • AAEPD “Volcano” – necessary contributions: 0 / 200.000 APB $ + 0 / 500 Joker Tickets
    • STAC 10 Tactical R&D III: 0 / 400.000 APB $ + 0 / 1.000 Joker Tickets

    This could give every clan the opportunity to unlock special clothing, cars and kits to create an own unique clan design.



    2.7  Clan ranks + permissions:
    APB needs more variety in terms of clan ranks besides leader, officer and members for the future clan progression. You could create a clan rank “Main Designer” for the guy who designs most of the clan uniforms, cars and all that stuff so he’ll receive his own permissions to support his job. It makes it easier to keep track of members who are doing different tasks in APB.

    When you invite someone to the clan then he’ll receive the clan rank Member by default. If there’ll come a clan locker in the future, then we need different ranks and permissions to prevent people from scamming and stealing items.

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    There's enough space for a clan rank / permission button to be added in the clan management tab.



    2.8  Pledge to your clan:
    To prevent people from any kind of exploitation, scamming and stealing there should be a trial time for a certain amount of time. Could be up from one day to one week depends on the clan leader / officer which time frame they choose. After successfully passing the trail time of the clan the member must accept a type of pledge to the clan which makes it more difficult to leave. If he wants to leave, then he needs to pay a fee or whatever. The free will move into the pot for the gambling event part, explained at the end of this thread.



    2.9  Clans can join an organization:
    After your clan reaches the max level, your clan can pledge and fight for a huge organization. The Clan Contact will offer you a special mission for your clan which allows you to choose between 2 groups for each faction in the end. This means Enforcers can choose between Prentiss Tigers and Praetorian. For Criminal it will be G-Kings and Blood Roses or maybe there'll appear new unexplored organizations.

    The clan management will change his interface design depending of the chosen organization. You might also receive a special clan – organization weapon skin.

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    To keep the clan levels going and players engaged then there might be also clan organization levels where you must level up the organization for special rewards and perks. I’ll add a few examples:

    • Clan experience boost: Receive a specific number of increased experience for completing objectives/kills for 1 week.
    • Money boost: Increase the money you earn for each task for a specific number and time
    • Joker Ticket boost: Receive a specific number of increased joker tickets from daily, weekly and fight club rewards
    • Contact experience boost: Increase the experience you gain for your current chosen contact
    • Random Armas weapon: Your clan will receive a random Armas weapon/legendary weapon for a certain amount of time




    3. Leaderboard (Leagues):
     

     


    BRING BACK LEADERBOARDS! APB RTW offered leaderboards (leagues) to clans and individuals to play for glory and for your own ego boost. Besides that, you received awesome rewards for participating in those leagues. As far as I remember you used to get special cars and weapons (which are currently available to buy at contacts). This would obviously make clans a lot more interesting and addicting. You should be able to see their best acheived leaderboard ranking in the clan management statistic tab.

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    Leaderboards could offer different rewards for being in the top 10 (3). APB: R had monthly rewards a very long time ago where you received special weapon skins from playing Fight Club when they used to have the leaderboards located there. Please, do not recycle those special old Fight Club rewards, people earned it while there were still rewards for winning the leaderboard.




    4. Clan Warfare Event ("Hit Squad"):
     

     


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    I’m sure a lot of people remember the Hit Squad Clan Event, the one where you had to play missions in the mission district in a group size of 3/4 to receive points for your clan. The idea behind the Hit Squad Event was pretty good. It preferred bigger clans or clans who recruited quickly players for their clan. But in the end, those players needed to play in a group to earn those clan points.
     

     

    Complete any opposed mission in a full group (of 4 from the same clan) to earn:
    • 1 Point for you
    • 1 Point for your clan
    It would be awesome to see Events like those happening more often, like every 6 months or so.

    After winning this event the top three clans should get special rewards like a flag in social district, 1% marketplace tax income for like a month (1% of 20% is 0,2% which is literally nothing, but the money could transfer straight to the clan bank). The marketplace interface could change its appearance depending on the winning clan, having their flag on the interface, different colour, a massage that it’s in control by a specific clan and more. Special Cars / Kits your clan will receive until the next clan event will begin.


    OLD: GamersFirst offered those rewards, which were also pretty good and should stay:

    Top 3 Clans per World that earn the most points by the end of the event will win:

    Server Wide Clan “Shout Out”
    Have your Clan Name with Clan ‘Motto’ or ‘Tagline’ announced across your server for an entire month! Clan Leader will submit on behalf of their Clan.
     
    • 1st Place Clan – 2-hour interval (12 announcements/day)
    • 2nd Place Clan – 3-hour interval (8 announcements/day)
    • 3rd Place Clan – 4-hour interval (6 announcements/day)
    There’re endless possibilities to make this event more appealing to players playing for their clan. Also, this could always be an huge event announcement to attract players over the whole world to bring them back to APB: R again.




    5. Clan Wars:
     

     

     


    5.1  Bigger Wars:
    Add an 8vs8, 12vs12 and 16vs16 clan warfare for much bigger wars, probably in an own clan fight club district or in an own mission district for clan fights only. Add a system in the district select page where your group leader can pick an option for your group to join a clan warfare district. Offer an invitation possibility to invite your desired opponent to match against you, sure they can decline it.

    Example Video:
    16vs16 Fight Club - Match
    uploaded by EvocatiCommunity, published at 10.01.2014


    5.2  Asylum as Clan War District:
    Asylum would be the perfect district for clan wars. It's just a "small" district but it has a lot of potential for clan fights. Prevent the possibility to join the Clan War Asylum - District alone, just possible as group with your clan friends or just with friends so you'll match against other pre-made groups. APB: R lost a lot of different missions in the past couple of years, but it would be an outstanding moment to offer new, enjoyable missions for the Asylum District. 10 different missions would be enough already to offer a new experience, different locations for objectives and environment for players in APB.

    I would love to see the old matchmaking being used for the asylum clan district which we had during APB: RTW times. It works quite simple as your group leader can choose between different opponents when the notificiation pops up. This means two different clans can aim to play against each other - if they want to or even lower threa level groups can choose to play also against lower threat level groups, without being forced to play against gold TL.
     
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    As you can see, the group leader (but if I remember right the whole group could even see the matchmaking pop up) can choose between opponents and see their current threat level of the players they might match. An improvement would be to add the clan name on the notification name (probably next to the threat level) or instead of the threat level use the clan name. However, adding the clan name could prevent people from matching you which would be a step backwards.

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    To reward the playing clan group for playing in Asylum District (besides clan experience, et cetera.) they could show the clan tag of the group leader on the map after winning a certain amount of missions in a row as it used to be with Gold 10 back in the days. This could be one incentive for clans and friends to play on this district and have fun.

     

     

     


    6. Games Of Chance (Gambling):
     

     

     


    The clan contact has an own tab after unlocking it which offers you random games of chance / events where your clan has the ability to bet with a specific number of APB $ to win or lose. Those events should stay rare but offer special and rare rewards. Every member in APB will receive a letter in game that a special gambling event has started for their clan. Everyone can read the rules and explanation at the clan contact about the current active event. There’ll be a deadline set by the clan contact after the deadline the possibility to join the event will be closed.

    Special Rewards could be like:

     

    • Receiving the whole money which were in the pot
    • Next to the clan contact will be a wall, shield or flag of your clan symbol (There’s a shield in social district which keeps changing its picture, this one could easily work for the clan advertisement)
    • A special boost for your clan for a certain amount of time
    • Pick an Armas weapon of your choice for a certain amount of time
    • Special car kits / clothes / themes / songs
    • A figure of your clan symbol or a doll with your clan outfit next to the clan contact
       
    • An event could be like your clan has to guess a number between one to fifty. Obviously, no one knows the answer before the gambling event is done. Entry fee for this gambling could be a certain amount of APB $, Joker Tickets or even completing different activities from the clan contact.
    • Clan contact wants to know a specific name, word, sentence from the Lore of APB. Question: Who has been called “Sal Murino” before he changed his name? Answer: Michael Simeone
    • Question: What’s MattScott’s favourite colour, food? Answer: Wiener Schnitzel of course.




    7. GamersFirst / Reloaded Production's plan for 2014 were:
     

     
    • Clan Leaderboards
    • Turf Wars

    Source: https://apbreloaded.gamersfirst.com/2014/05




    8. Closing Remarks:
     

     

     


    There’s endless potential for Clans in APB: R to increase the overall interest and enjoyment for new, veteran, casual and hardcore (competitive) players. I’m absolutely looking forward to receiving feedback, suggestions but also criticism comments.

    A perfect start for the whole free to play community regarding clan improvement would be the following sentenceand I hope Little Orbit will make this small but important change soon:

     

    • The Clan-Title (choosing the clan tag as title below your name) should be unlocked to everyone after joining a clan without having to buy premium. There’s no reason to hide the Clan Tag as Title behind a paywall and should be removed as soon as possible.

    A post with constructive feedback, criticism and/or love, + like is the best way to support this thread and keep the stone rolling. Please keep in mind and accept that this thread doesn’t represent any accurate numbers neither percentage.




    9. Special Thanks (added your ideas, suggestions, improvements and more):
     

     


    @freq (proof-reader and helped me with editing this huge thread for several days)

    Insane (created the awesome looking banner)
    @Dopefish (being super supportive and active)
    @Seadee (being super active on this thread for several years, helping me out with every issue I experience)
    @Itazura (helped me with my huge formatting issues and gave me a workaround)
    Erihin
    KASS ( @K4SS)
    @AkiMVP
    Hectix
    Ellix
    Thunder93
    The Milk Man
    Kukki
    BigBragg
    Bethra
    Infinitor
    Jackty
    NekuKiriyu
    Queen of Love

     

     


    I do greatly appreciate every small talk, gif, picture, feedback, suggestion, criticism and a +1 like. I want to be clear here, that I've spent several hours (yes hours) on editing and formatting this thread to get it ready and published for this forum. I really - really hope the APB: R community will enjoy and appreciate it as much as a few did on the old forum. Thank you.

    "As stated in number "8. Closing Remarks", I would love to see a small little change/update but an important improvement to the whole free to play community which makes it possible to choose and use the Clan-Title without having to buy and own premium in the near future. Clan Tag should be usable as free to play player."



    Updates:
    27. 06. 2018: Rewrote and overhauled the complete thread.
    27. 06. 2018: Proof-read and supported by freq.
     

     

     

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  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, Dopefish said:

    +1 for this aswell.

     

     

    Another related issue is that sprinting seems to move the FOV to a set value instead of adding to it.

     

     

    So if you're fully zoomed in normally, the camera would zoom out when you would be sprinting, and vice versa.

     

     

    I believe the original intention was to increase the FOV to give you a greater sense of speed, but I'm not sure how that would be if you're already zoomed out a lot. Personally I would prefer to be able to disable the FOV changes while sprinting.

    Thank you @Dopefish as usually. I agree, the small little FOV change from sprinting (when zoomed out to max camera distance) could be disabled or at least they could offer a disable button in the settings.

     

    However, the FOV change from camera distance close (zoomed in) to sprinting maximal camera distance (zoomed out) is a huge jump and also generates a huge camera movement. I'm certainly sure that not everyone enjoys those camera movements and shakes.

  12. Posted · Edited by Esther

    9 hours ago, AsgerLund said:

    I also have some line break issues.

    • In Google Chrome - When I press "enter", the cursor stays on the line. I have to press it twice for the cursor to move to next line

    I've to do the same with Samsung S6 Edge on the Samsung Internet App, but this could be simply count as confirmation when you press "enter" once and another time to create a line break. I have no clue for what this could be good though. 🙂

     

    9 hours ago, AsgerLund said:
    • On iPhone/Safari - When I press "enter", the cursor stays on the line no matter how many times I press it, and I have to move the cursor to the new line/lines manually with my finger on the touchscreen

    That's pretty annoying, I can imagine that. This clearly should be changed.

     

    9 hours ago, AsgerLund said:

    I also have an issue with the [.spoiler] function in Google Chrome. I just made a post including a rather long [.spoiler] and I included a litte text and a gif AFTER the [./spoiler]. But the text and gif after the [./spoiler] was included within the spoiler text, and when I tried to edit the post afterwards the text and gif which was wrongly placed within the spoiler could not be edited.

     

    Did you include "Bullet Lists" in the [.spoiler]? This will trigger an issue and spoiler box goes beyond his [./spoiler] command and literally sucks up the whole post of yours.


     

    7 hours ago, Itazura said:

    -snip-

     

    @Itazura I'l give it a try later, thank you very much!

     

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  13. Posted · Edited by Esther

    This can be an issue for long time players too but mostly for new players who are freshly starting with APB. I'm not trying to say that the possibilty to change the camera distance is an issue per se but there're tons of players who might not know that his is even possible to do.

    When you're creating a fresh new account, start playing APB: Reloaded for the first time, spawning on the district then the default camera distance is set to be the closest to your character.

    Of course there's the possibility to zoom out the camera when you press "default button -" but this isn't explained in the tutorial neither does everyone have knowledge of camera distance and FOV in shooters that's possibile to change it. I've seen several youtube videos, streams, footages of players but also friends playing with the camera zoomed to the closest point where most of them don't even know they can move the camera distance.


    The small suggestion but improvement would be:

    • Change the default camera distance to the maximum distance (zoomed out) for new accounts.
    • Add a zoom in/out task to the tutorial so you have to complete it at least once.

       

    The only reason I can think of why the camera is zoomed in on a new account is probably the first impression, immersion and the feeling of joining a world where Enforcers fight against Criminals.

     

    To compare the differance of the camera distance, I've taken several screenshots with a new account. They're hiding in the spoiler box.

     


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  16. Posted · Edited by Esther

    Sorry to annoy you again @Majiik but I just found out and wanted to let you know that issue 1 "double line break" is back again in the spoiler box. I was certainly sure it worked yesterday though I'm very precarious now and confused. Maybe I just didn't realize it while I tried it out. Following I've three screenshots with the same issue again. I've tried the line breaks on this thread and on the suggestion & idea section, on both tries I received the double line breaks again. Copy pasting it into Word 2018, Notepad or whatever shows me those unnecessary line breaks. I'm very sorry.

     

     

     


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    To be clear here, I've tried it on all of my browsers available Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and I also asked @AkiMVP to try it out in case that it's not an issue on my end. However, he also receives those forced line breaks. 😓

  17. Posted · Edited by Esther

    23 hours ago, Majiik said:

    The patches have been applied. Give it a try to see if it helped. 

    Okay, thanks for the heads up @Majiik. Issue 1 "Double Line Break" seems to be fixed now in the spoiler box since the patch. However, Issue 2 and Issue 3 seem to be still active and not working as intended. "Bullet Lists" still moves to the end of the spoiler box if typed in manually or the spoiler box goes through the whole thread if "Bullet List" is used with the button.

  18. Posted

    5 hours ago, Majiik said:

    There are minor patches available for both IPBoard and our theme which promise "bug fixes". So potentially those might help with some of the editor issues. I will see about applying the patches tomorrow or later this week.

    Thank you @Majiik for letting us know, I appreciate it a lot! Please, let us know though when you applied those patches so I'll give it another shot. 😊

  19. Posted

    4 hours ago, Seadee said:

    Ignore my PM, Why not just copy it into a Google doc and share the link? makes it much more easier to maintain in the long run, you can add trusted people to help maintain it.

    Just as information, @Seadee and me are talking with PM. To be clear here though, I think this "spoiler box" command should be fixed regardless. Other people might experience the same issue whenever they're going to use a spoiler box for whatever reason. Depending on the depth of the bug and the duration of the fix, the workaround with google doc is an option for sure and I'm not going to lose track of it. Though I would like to try to avoid this opportunity for now in hope it won't take too long to solve this issue otherwise I'll get back to it of course and try to create an appealing, informative and clear thread without the spoiler box. 😊

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  20. Posted · Edited by Esther

    Here's a quick update after giving it another try because I thought I would have found a work around for all 3 issues. At least I hoped but in the end it didn't work. However, I might found out which "command" brings up all these issues.

     

    I've tried to copy past several different written "Clan Progression" threads on another forum and looked at their preview window. One thread was written in word 2018, one in Notepad++, one was completely done on their Forum, one was a mix of word 2018 and their forum tool (made the break lines in Word2018 and spoiler tags + bullet lists on their forum). Everything worked fine and looked good on their preview window BUT then I thought their Forum might not be up-to-date like this one or at least runs on another IPboard version.

     

    However, if I've to guess the "[.spoiler][./spoiler]" command is a huge mess and might brings up all those written issues 1- 3 above. I've made an example after trying it out again with better screenshots this time so it's a little easier to follow (hopefully) and understand my problem:

     

    Here on the first screenshot we can see the upcoming thread in the preview window WITHOUT the spoiler tag. I've used a bullet list (manually written with [.list][.*][./list]) and the Bold button. Everything looks exactly as I wanted it to be, every sentence is in position and nothing moved around.

     

     


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    On the second screenshot you can see how I approached and formatted my flow text. I used [.list][.*][./list], [.spoiler][./spoiler], [.img][./img] and the Bold button within the spoiler box.

     

     


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    The last screenshots simply shows the outcome of my written text in the preview window. As you can see the spoiler box added 2 additional line breaks - issue number 1, this means I've used 2 line breaks between 1.1 History Journal and 1.2 Statistic Tab in the Clan Management but I've actually got 4 line breaks in total between then.

     

    Next the bullet list disappeared from the position I wanted the text to be at and moved to the end of the spoiler box again, I wrote the bullet list manually ([.list][.*][./list]) - issue number 2.

     

    When I used the pre made button for the "bullet list" then the issue number 3 appears and means the WHOLE text is in one spoiler box.

     

     


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    Hopefully this can help us to get this solved. I also hope everyone understand my issue better now and sorry for my bad explanation. 🙂

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  21. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Dopefish said:

    There might be some formatting issues if you copy your text from one source to another, so being able to edit the "code" for the post is very important for big topics that are written outside of the forums.

     

    I really hope these issues can get resolved.

    Exactly @Dopefish, that's what I also thought and accepted. I was pretty sure I can't copy paste the thread from another source to this forum. However, I could solve two of the issues with Word/Notepad which brings up the code issue with the bullet list - vice versa. I'm pretty sure you udnerstand what I' trying to say. I simply can't skip through one of those issues. 😓

     

    17 minutes ago, Lixil said:

    @Esther if I can help somehow with the "admin" account and edit your post/make it look good etc. until Majik can see about this. Let me know. 

    You can even add me on discord so we can coordinate.

     

    Just an idea.

    Honestly @Lixil, you're probably the best CM I've ever seen for any games I've played. This offer is just too nice. I highly appreciate it. However I don't wanna use any of your important time/free time for a thread of mine. It's simply not necessary and I'm not in a "rush" getting the thread published so I can wait another few days. You better enjoy your wonderful weekend and relax a little between your stressfully work time. :classic_blush:  Once again, thank you so much though!

     

    I would love to give everyone a heart here but:

    Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today.

     

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  22. Posted · Edited by Esther

    - Update with better explanation just a comment below on this thread.

     

    I honestly need help here and I would appreciate it a lot if someone like @Majiik could help me out here or someone else too who has knowledge of this forum. I'll try to explain it as good as possible.

     

    I tried to post the "Clan Progression" thread on this forum. However, I've experienced three critical forum issues which prevents me from posting it. I've tried several work arounds for hours to skip those issues (...) and even asked @Kevkof to help me out with a thread in the Off-Topic where he also experienced the same issues, yet a work around worked at the beginning but not anymore for the second bug which I will explain here. Those issues put me into a loop which I can't leave neither get it solved without help.

     

     

    1. Double Line Break:

    First of all, I've no idea if it's called "line break" in english, sorry! After writing the whole thread, clicking on the preview button then I saw that the whole Forum made a DOUBLE forced line break. Whenever I press "enter" I would like to have ONE line break and not a double one, neither could I see the double line break while I wrote the thread. I simply wanted to write in the next line and not skip an entire one.

     

    Following the preview window showed me this:

     

     


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    I forgot to take a screenshot of my written text but the normal window didn't show me any double line breaks neither do I wanted to have a space between. However, I could solve this issues when I removed ALL line breaks of my text and made the line breaks with Word 2018. Yet it was annoying and a lot of work again. I've certainly no clue how it occurred but it for sure wasn't in my intention to do.

     

     

     

    2. Manual bullet lists move to the end of the spoiler tag after I tried to solve those two issues above and below (this is actually issue 3):

    After I completely re-wrote the thread from scratch again for the second time in Word 2018 and Notepad++ trying to solve the issue number 1. and number 3 I found out that the forum thought it needs to move my bullet lists to the end of the spoiler box. Not much to explain here since I've 2 really good screenshots where you can actually see the problem.

     

     


    As it should be and I wanted to look like:

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    What I actually got:

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    All of my bullet lists a moved to the end of the spoiler box, doesn't matter at which spoiler box I looked at.

     

     

     

    3. Issue with [.spoiler] [./spoiler] combined with a bullet list button:

    Whenever you create a spoiler, add a bullet list with the button in your spoiler tag and after that you would like to keep writing outside of the spoiler tag - the spoiler goes beyond his [./spoiler] and hides the entire text of your thread in the spoiler. To recreate this issue, you simply need to write a text, hide it in spoiler and add a bullet list WITH the button on top.

     

    To solve this issue, I had to manual type ALL of my bullet lists and enumerations which was a lot of work with [.list][.*][/list]

     

     


    Here's the issue. As you can see the entire thread is one spoiler:

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    Manual typing to solve the issue:

     

     


    Austria is so beautiful, you should definitely travel there someday!



    But we've a lot more beautiful places you can travel to in Austria!

     

    • We have Wiener Schnitzel
    • Mountains
    • and beautiful dogs
     

    This sentence should be outside of the spoiler tag and hopefully is

     

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    As we can see here, the double line break came again.

     

    Example with the issue is at the end otherwise the whole thread would be one spoiler:

     

     


    Austria is so beautiful, you should definitely travel there someday!

     

    • We have Wiener Schnitzel
    • Mountains
    • and beautiful dogs

    But we've a lot more beautiful places you can travel to in Austria!

    This sentence should be outside of the spoiler tag and hopefully is

     

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