Clans and crews
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Clans and crews

Most players do not survive long alone. A clan or crew gives you people to call, work to share and a reason for other players to remember your name.

What clans actually do

  • Run businesses and criminal operations together.
  • Cover each other's shifts, debts and legal trouble.
  • Hold territory and defend it during conflicts.
  • Recruit and train new members.

What leaders look for

  • Reliability. Someone who shows up on time beats someone with a perfect backstory.
  • Roleplay quality. Losing gracefully matters more than winning fights.
  • Clean record. Bans follow the player, and no leader wants that risk.
  • Specialisation. A driver, a negotiator or a mechanic is easier to place than a generalist.

How to apply

  1. Play on the server for a couple of weeks first — leaders notice active players.
  2. Introduce yourself in character, not in Discord DMs.
  3. Write a short application: who your character is, what they can do, when you play.
  4. Expect a trial period and a test scenario.

How to run a clan

Set expectations in writing, keep a roster, and remove inactive members politely. Crews that fail usually fail on logistics — nobody knows who owns which car or who owes what — not on ambition.

A recruitment board with player listings is planned for this site. Until then, read the factions and rules pages.

Writing an application that gets accepted

Leaders read dozens of applications and reject most of them in the first few lines. What works:

  • Name your character and your job. Not your Discord handle and not your ambitions.
  • Say what you bring. A driver, a mechanic, someone who can open a shop, someone who is online when the rest of the crew is not.
  • Give your play hours, honestly. An overstated schedule is discovered in the first week.
  • Mention something you did on the server. One real scene is worth more than a paragraph of backstory nobody can verify.
  • Accept a trial. Offering to start at the bottom and work up is what leaders are listening for.

What gets rejected: a gangster with no criminal history on the server, a list of skills your character has never demonstrated, and any application that reads like a job résumé for a real person.

Crew logistics that decide survival

  • Who owns what. Vehicles, premises and weapons need one named owner. Shared ownership is where crews argue.
  • A ledger. Debts, contributions and payouts written down. Most crews that dissolve do so over money nobody tracked.
  • An activity floor. A rule for how long someone can be absent before their role is freed up — decided in advance, so it is not a personal insult later.
  • A chain of command in writing. Who speaks for the crew to other factions, and who speaks to staff.
  • An exit. How someone leaves without it becoming a war. Crews without one lose members to grudges instead.

Clan etiquette

  1. Do not recruit from inside another crew's event without asking. It is remembered.
  2. Do not use out-of-character channels to settle an in-character dispute.
  3. Do not take a conflict to staff because you are losing it.
  4. Keep your tags and your behaviour consistent: a crew name is a promise about how its members act.

Illustrations

Official artwork

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