The only time this tends to be a problem is when the clanners have a lot more experience with the game (not always the case) and when the other team don't have anyone with experience (or their squadleader is inexperienced)

Since Teamwork is such a huge part of FS, a clan's natural willingness to communicate can be the deciding factor in victory, regardless of skill levels.

That is so true and its somehow funny and sad to see someone going straight to the endor secret entrance bunker as a rebel....despite the big red arrows on the map

However i dont have a big problem with all that and i didnt want to be offensive.
My friends may have stopped playing FS but i think its great....getting pwnd or ubering....heh...i am used getting pwnd mostly but the good thing is, as an imperial i have an good excuse at least

Looking forward for many good rounds such as last weekend.... the space battle was epic

greetz
Daf

There should be a Shotgun Riding badge for surviving for more than 10 seconds in such a role . We have to try getting a squad on top of a slowly moving APC Freerunner, too.

Gwyn, gurd:

I can only speak for myself,

You're speaking for me aswell! <3

But when there is no alternative server -as in FS- they just dont come back to be the clan-food.

I understand where you are coming from.
I don't think FS clans are like that really- I don't know any players that would take much pleasure in mercilessly pwning an inexperienced opposition.

I've seen much the opposite. Some servers don't allow teamswitching though, and it can be 'the luck of the draw' that a few clanmates  end up in the same team.

The only time this tends to be a problem is when the clanners have a lot more experience with the game (not always the case) and when the other team don't have anyone with experience (or their squadleader is inexperienced)

Since Teamwork is such a huge part of FS, a clan's natural willingness to communicate can be the deciding factor in victory, regardless of skill levels.

I can only speak for myself, but when I'm up against some names I don't recognise I'll fire warning shots(so as not to just kill them without a fight) and make sure they know the map objectives (they cant sneak past and capture the back CP on espa for example)
And should I feel the teams are really unbalanced, I'll switch teams or ask someone with experience to do so (who may or may not be a clanner)

About the clan-stacking thingy:

A few months ago i told some friends to install FS and join me. We already had much fun in "Galactic Conquest", so they were all very excited about FS.
These were the times were a full 32 server was quite normal on saturdays.

So the first saturday with my friends, our team lost every round...some in just a few minutes and a look on the list made it clear: winner team was full of clan-tags (there are not many clans in FS i guess;), looser team was filled with names i mostly didnt read before.

The same occured the following saturday and again the same picture.
So my friends were absolutely de-motivated and since then they never played FS again.

It seems they are not the only one which came to that conclusion, looking at the number of payers in these days. I also remeber players of the loosing team writing in chat: "we loose every round "

I have to say clearly: the clan stacking was a fact in these times!
I saw it on many evenings, always the same thing...clan mates try to get together, having "their" fun.
Its nothing new, it happens in all MP games and the result is everywhere the same: people leave the game (at least the server).
But when there is no alternative server -as in FS- they just dont come back to be the clan-food.

I can understand both sides.

With the few players left now there is at least on up-side: the clans are forced to split up.

So, apart from the technical problems people experience with FS, the clan-stacking phaenomena was just another "i dont play FS" problem.

in my opinion all this "we removed our tags and see they still whine"-excuses comes too late for a already near-dead patient....

I wanted to make that clear....because it makes me angry that FS suffers (suffered?) from such "soft" problems

greetz
Daf

Anyway, that is a discussion I'd rather drop before it blows into yet another argument

A big hug goes to RSF aswell, for totally tearing apart the "Clan Stacking" argument that was going around a while back.

Clan stacking against an inferior team is wrong, regardless of what you do against teams of equal skill.

But yes, that was some great rounds, there.

A big hug goes to RSF aswell, for totally tearing apart the "Clan Stacking" argument that was going around a while back.   You fought well on Mos Espa, good radar evasion

Demos of the games are available here: http://www.blackintel.org/firststrike/demos