Forum Requests

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Glad you play with us, and glad you visit the website. We want you to stick around. Why make your own website, when you can just use ours? We host more games, have more users, more match servers, generate more traffic (in game and in the forums) and have much more to do/play/read than any single clan or standard clan site. If it's about your clan having fun, being able to play on high-end servers, having constant competition and skill challenges, and exposure......clan residency is a good choice.

In your request for a clan forum, include the following:

A. Names and LINKS to the profiles and game-stats of all members of the clan.

B. Name of the clan leaders, who will also be the moderators of your clan forum, and represent the interests of your clan in the site moderator forum (a private forum for all TPG staff). A clan can have a maximum of 3 leaders, depending on it's size.

C. Name of the clan, including both the full name and abbreviated tag name. Be sure to choose characters that can be displayed (such as in this forum). Avoid using html tags or odd characters, since they will be impossible to use as titles for your forums or links to your clan pages.

D. Every named member in the application MUST post in your request, as an indication that they are willing to form a resident clan with you.

A few simple things to remember:

#1. It's your clan, but it's our website. Play by the rules and everything's fine.

#2. We can do most anything you want. If you want it to be private, fine. If you want it to be public, ok. If you want your own moderators (with our limited oversight), we can do that, too.

#3. Tell us what to call it, where to put it, and who's in charge of it, and it's yours. We'll even host your sprays, if you wish.

#4. We treat our regulars well. We treat our player-producing regulars even better. Get your clan to show up and play, and consider your self an admin, fast.

#5. Our current servers allow us to enable and disable server's at will. Almost any game, any time. You want a match? You say the game, the config, and the password, and we can make it happen. CAL, OGL, just for fun, whatever, whenever. Resident clans get resident benefits, which in this case means access to our resident clan match servers. As well, resident clans have the opportunity to purchase private match servers for only their clan to use, if they so wish, with the full support of TPG's proven admin talent and expertise in all of our hosted games.

#6. We host our own stats modules for most of our games (links in the main menu). Once your forum is set up, we can give you powers to track and manage your clan's stats pages in psychostats, hlstatsX, etc. If you're into BF2, you can set up a clan-specific leaderboard as well in www.bf2s.com or www.bf2tracker.com. The same can be done for 2142 at www.bf2142tracker.com and other sites. It's a great way of keeping an eye on your strengths and weaknesses, with clan statistics on accuracy, damage, weapon choices, team selection, and individual and overall KD's and skill values. It is YOUR CLAN LEADER'S RESPONSIBILITY to manage your clan's stats and links. Provide links of your clan's stats or relevant info to the website admins so that they can be posted in the resident clan block.

#7. Web savvy members? Want your own content, sections, or pages? Feel free to make suggestions, or submit items to our webmasters/site admins. It's your clan, so it is your responsibiltiy to make anything you wish to add; but keep in mind, having us host it here is going to get a LOT more people looking at it, rather than trying to run solo.

#8. In order to be a resident clan, hosted in the TPG forums, your clan must have a minimum of 5 website-registered members who fulfill the following requirements:

1. All registered founding clan members (or at least 5 of them) must have >100 posts within TPG forums. These posts must be of actual quality, and not simply spams to meet this requirement.

2. Each clan member must have a minimum of 100 hours of in-game playtime on TPG servers. This is easily trackable in our stats databases and game tracker services.

3. All members of the clan must be in good standing with TPG and its servers, forum moderators, and general population (meaning no outstanding bans or abusive conduct). No founding member of the clan can have any ban within the last 6 months. We've got good resident clans, and we've had some bad ones. The difference has always come down to who you people were when you first arrived (since you rarely change).

4. To be a resident, you have to USE what you are given. If your clan can not make a public or private post in your resident forum at least ONCE A WEEK, then your residency can be revoked, and your forums removed at the discretion of the site moderators.

5. Resident clans must have an ACTIVE roster (meaning actually gaming, posting, and participating for the benefit of the clan and/or TPG) of 5.

It must be said that TeamPlayerGaming is not a clan. It's a server. It's a website. It's about bunch of people that like to play games as a team. There are no "TPG" tags and there are no restrictions for players and clans coming and going. We just want you here, and if helping get your clan started, or hosting your entire legion of gamers keeps you around.....consider it done.

Also, to ensure your clan actually can get on together in high traffic periods, seriously consider pooling your resources and buying some reserve slots. It helps us, and it helps your clan.

A note for those interested in admin positions within TPG, as well as clan residency: In order to eliminate clan bias and domination of any game admin population, no clan may have more than 7 admins per game. This can, and will effect your clan's politics, as well as recruiting. But the rule will not change. TPG is what it is because we don't tolerate bias, or even the perception of bias. As well, any admin that is able to climb the ranks to high admin will be forced to disavow all involvement, tags, and forum permissions to any clan they are a member of. Again, for TPG to host clans, it's leadership must be impartial to clans.

Welcome to TeamPlayerGaming.com

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As per new rules, ratified by the moderators of TTP, this post has been updated. All current and future applications for TTP residency must fulfill these rules.

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updated.

Clans must maintain 5 or more active members to maintain residency.

Clan forums must be USED to exist. Use = at least 1 post, public or private, per week.