In-site Clans or Gym Leaders

Bennet and I were discussing possibilities to help activity increase on the site. One main aspect of having an active pokemon website is to have active battlers. Unfortunately, tournaments just aren't enough to satisfy this need. As possibilities we decided on these:


In-site clans where active members may start their own clan or join another. Much like gamebattles, including seasons, leaders etc., but would be able to have their own private forum, obviously more than two clan members, and whatever else the clan may want to have.


OR


Gym Leaders and an Elite Four

The members of this would be largely based on tournament placements and such. Each challenger would have to face the gym leader and his/her subordinates to get the "badge."


If you have any suggestions for either of these please feel free to post.

Also, Gym leader matches will more then likely be 4 v 4 matches with the gym leader only using pokemon that match his gym. Example: If the gym leader was ground he would only use ground pokemon, but if the gym leader was UU it could be a 6 v 6, and BOTH the leader and the challenger could only use UU pokes.

I have to say a clan would be better considering that we're pretty low on members to start Gym Leaders and Elite Fours, however, the Gym Leaders and Elite Fours could possibly help us gain members. Both could benefit us as we could kind of advertise for WWPL with the clans, and the Gym Leaders + Elite Four could perk their interest to have them (hopefully) stay.

I'd go for the gym leader/elite four bit. I've always like the idea of them anywhere I've gone though. Just fun playing people like that. I don't know about the 4 vs. 4 though. Why not just let challenger and gymleader keep the normal 6 vs 6 of standard battles? It would be like a normal monotype battle vs a regular team? I do agree with keeping the tiers though, UU vs UU ect.

I don't know bout the clans, there' loads of clans out there, and it seems like your to trying to tke GB's idea and use it here...

I voted gyms. nothing says we have to have the full 13 members to run it

Ok since it seems like the support is more towards the gyms we will do that. Right now since Latios is on vacation Landon and I will be spear heading this.

I voted for both because I think would great to have some organization with Gyms and things, but also Clan battles would be fun too. Tests what clan members can help their clan-mates with among other things.

Alright this has been decided. Landon and I will head both the Gym system as well as doing a Clan system. If you would like to be a gym leader please sign up in the sign up topic. Link here:
http://www.pokemonwifi.org/t1738-gym-leader-sign-ups

Alright. Don't you think we should have some kind of category specifically for Clans then?

And like, should we have like a base group of clans? Like for instance: in that category there were, oh say, 5 base clans. Users would then be able to choose which one of those clans they wanted to be in based on Criteria, Personal Preference, etc.

Or, are we just going to have some people start up their own clans, and take it from there?

If Option A, I'd love to help with discussing some criteria or something for those clans. Like type difference, battle style, single/double/triple/rotation battle preference, etc.

If Option B, then I'd join someone's clan if I wanted to!

The clans will be done but Landon and I are not sure how we are going to get them set up first. We will get the Gyms on their feet then focus in on the clans.

bennet3 wrote:The clans will be done but Landon and I are not sure how we are going to get them set up first. We will get the Gyms on their feet then focus in on the clans.

I'd say well start out with 2-4 clans at first. That way we have enough to possibly have events between them, but a small enough number so that every member wont have his own clan. I'll post a topic, where the first ones to sign up will be the clan leaders. Then I'll ask latios to add a forum for them, and we'll test them out.

I think to add more clans down the road there should be an application process, that way we don't get flooded by responses.