I was going to say some things about my current plans for the clan, but I just talked about it with THM on Steam for a bit, so I am just going to post that chatlog. I have a lot more things to say, but for the time being the following chat should give you a small idea.
icycalm: i am trying to clean up my friend list and the steam group
icycalm: but it's been so long that I don't recognize half the names
icycalm: and to make things worse some people change their handles
The Hanged Man: you should def add Robomoom if you haven't already. we've been playing with him alot - great dude
The Hanged Man: Robomoo*
icycalm: I think I added him last year just before going awol
icycalm: I am going to kick out all the random PA people I added
icycalm: So we'll be down to a couple dozen people again, and it won't be confusing
icycalm: and then I'll slowly build it up from there exclusively with subscribers
icycalm: have you seen DOS2?
icycalm: I just found out
The Hanged Man: about active players - I've been mostly playing with Robo, Recoil, Infern, Rory and Jeff, although the last two haven't been playing due to various reasons
The Hanged Man: yeah, it's even playable, too! too bad we haven't finished DOS1 yet
icycalm: we'll get to it dude
icycalm: the fun isn't going anywhere
The Hanged Man: sure
icycalm: i reckon we have 10 reliable players or so
icycalm: which, if you consider that when I started the clan me and recoil had to spend weeks begging people to play 4-player lost planet 2 with us, is great
icycalm: with 10 people you can play almost anything with full numbers
icycalm: only a few games like PA and PS2 can benefit from greater numbers
The Hanged Man: maybe we'll have 10 once everybody finds out that you're back. definitely not right now, sorry
icycalm: when I say 10, I don't mean simultaneously
icycalm: to have 10 simultaneously you need at least 30 overall
icycalm: the maximum you could use simultaneously anyway is 6 for the one or two diablolikes that support it, and we do have 6 right now: you just listed them. if you add me and you to that list, you get 7
The Hanged Man: so you, me, Recoil, Some Guy, Robomoo, Infern, mothmanspirit, Jeffrobothave you heard from Qpo? you two have been communicating, right?
The Hanged Man: whoops, chat fucked my formatting
icycalm: sorry, i was on the phone
icycalm: qpo is out for good i think
icycalm: he would come if i asked him
icycalm: but he is addicted to games and the rest of his life collapses when he is playing with us
icycalm: so if i want to be a good friend, i would be kicking him out of the clan even if he wanted to play with us
The Hanged Man: alright, I get it
The Hanged Man: too bad
icycalm: yeah, because he is a very good person to play with
icycalm: but i am sure he will sort out his stuff and come back eventually, perhaps in 2 or 3 years, once he has graduated and has a good job
icycalm: but yeah, it's the names you listed plus ctf, maybe dinopoke, Robby and a couple others
icycalm: chevvy too
icycalm: and of course these guys will come back only for the 2 or 3 genres that interest them
icycalm: they are not like recoil and rory for example, who will play pretty much everything, and that's why you don't see them around much
icycalm: oh stevenberg too and danjiro
icycalm: with these guys you just have to reach out and invite them
The Hanged Man: sadly I almost never see them play anything, except for CTF
icycalm:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/stevenbergicycalm: he just played 86 hours of civ6
icycalm: they are not online all day, but they put in the hours for the genres that interest them
icycalm: and for those genres, we can get them to play with us most of the time
The Hanged Man: that's fine then
icycalm: yeah, i am not worried
The Hanged Man: there's ingolfr also
icycalm: lol
icycalm: i kicked him out a long time ago
The Hanged Man: oh! i don't remember that lol
icycalm: and i even stopped responding to him by email, because he's been spamming my inbox for years
icycalm: listen to what he did
icycalm: after months and months of saying he wants to play PA, he finally says he will play one day
icycalm: so i say great
icycalm: but he says he is playing another game (can't remember which) and would i wait for him to finish
icycalm: so i say yes and I wait
icycalm: and i make 3 other people wait too, since we are planning to play 5v5
icycalm: we are all in mumble waiting for him, and when he finishes his game he tells me to also wait for him to go shop for groceries lol
icycalm: if he was in front of me I would have sent him to the hospital
icycalm: but since he wasn't I said lol and kicked him out of everything
The Hanged Man: lol. I assumed he was good with you since he has posted this on our discord: "ingolfr - Yesterday11:07 if for some reason you are reading this chat room and haven't checked insomnia today, it looks like icycalm is back"
icycalm: he is just obsessively following me around
icycalm: he even spammed qpo, and qpo unfriended him
The Hanged Man: you just have this effect on people, nothing surprising here.