I want to start this off by saying that I am 100% happy with the current status of the clan. I have a plethora of perfect gaming companions with whom to tackle 99% of the multiplayer games ever on any system ever and in any genre ever, so I sure as fuck am not complaining. If anything, I am ecstatic, because the only thing keeping me back from playing online MP games for dozens of hours every week is my available time. THAT is the limiting factor, and not the quality or quantity of my playing partners.
HOWEVER, there do remain a handful of games that the clan is not ready to tackle in optimal circumstances, and unfortunately these are precisely the best ones: PlanetSide 2 and Planetary Annihilation: Titans, the former of which really needs 12 people online simultaneously as a minimum to unlock its full potential (because that's when you have two reasonably-sized squads, and the game starts to really get tactical), and the latter of which needs several dozen people at least in order to set up a decently-sized turn-based metagame which will allow you to basically keep playing it forever.
On top of that, there is For Honor and the upcoming Dawn of War 3, which though we can already play at optimal settings, in 4v4 and 3v3 modes respectively, we just don't have enough players to do this with a good degree of regularity. And that's why I want to do whatever I can to enlarge the clan. The trick is to do so without allowing the quality of players to deteriorate. And this is where this thread comes in: to float and discuss ideas on how to do that. So far I have three:
1. Make announcements on the frontpage Social tab about games we are playing, especially headline games like PS2 and PA:T;
2. Offer sessions where guests are invited to drop by and play pick-up games with us for a few hours, the intention being that they see how much fun we are having, and decide to join the clan; and finally
3. Streaming, which we're already doing, and doing it pretty well as far as I can tell
Any more ideas, or suggestions on how to improve the implementation of the above ideas, post them here.
And let me re-invite everyone with forum access who hasn't already joined the clan. Even if you can't play with us right now -- perhaps because you are busy or you don't currently have a decent PC, which is the format most of our coolest games are played at because it is the coolest format -- you can still join our Steam group at least, and therefore increase our numbers, and therefore entice outsiders to join us, because people like to join popular groups. So post your Steam profile here, or make one if you don't have one, and help us out http://culture.vg/forum/topic?t=4710