Time for a clan on 360?

[Epyon MX]

Saw this over at Penny-arcade:

Looking over Joystiq's final word on the Fall Update, and seeing that clans are still nowhere to be found, it seems as though the Friends of Friends option could be used to gin up a somewhat functional compromise.

By creating a new Silver Account on your own box named (Let's Say) Team Inferno, and and using this new dummy account's hundred-man friend's list as your clan roster, you can with a single invite get access to a well-groomed list of guys that is essentially tuned for this purpose. It's not perfect, it's not complete, and without Group Voice Chat it's even less so. But it's something I could see myself using.

Is it something we should check out?

[Quo]

Hmmm. That's an interesting way to side-step the limitation for sure. I may use that for events and such as a way to keep my FL down. Nice find!

[D_Litch]

A lot of people are already doing this.

[Leftie247]

I think it would be something useful for us newer members of the site. I know I spent some time last night trying to add new people to my friends list from PGL. I know there are more than a hundred people here but maybe if there were a way to break it down by game or something. Lots of people play Halo 3 but not COD4. I on the other hand traded Halo 3 for COD4.

[namehater]

if they play h3 instead of cod4 then they arent worth the space on your FL haha!

[D_Litch]

Friends of PGL

Send that tag a FR and bask in the PGL glory!!

*Note - There is no one on there now, so everyone send a friend request to it!

[The Milk Man 09]

When friends of Pgl is full I created a silver account also.

[Epyon MX]

I was going to suggest putting some characters in front like ..Pregamelobby.. so that it'll stay at the top of our friend lists. That way we don't have to scroll down forever to see it.

But I sent a FR anyway.

[The Milk Man 09]

I could create another one all I have to do is make another email address.

[Quo]

Excellent, D. Thanks for starting that up.

I'm not sure I understand the logistics. I mean, you can certainly reach people this way who aren't normally on your friends list. But aren't mostly the same people going to end up on that list too? Plus, if D' isn't on a noob's FL, they can't get the info, right?

What do you guys think of a master PGL list... say you split the alphabet into 5 groups (A-E, F-J, K-O, etc.), then allowed people to send FR's to the appropriate list. Then you'd have a catalog with up to 500 names on it, all PGLers.

The current leadderboard has about 93 names on it. There are many who have slipped off the list but show up from time to time. As the site grows, a single 100-name list won't hold everyone.

Thoughts?

[Epyon MX]

I'd say we should just have a bunch of lists:

Friends of PGL
PGL Associates
PGL Clems
PGL etc.... and
Etc of PGL...

[The Milk Man 09]

the one I made is called "PGL Clan". If you dont want to use it let me know and I will just delete it.

[namehater]

why not associate the list(s) by active days, like, if you have certain days that you play, you go to certain lists, like for me, the only day that i really play is sunday, make a list that consists of nothing but people that play on sunday, if i happen to 'pop' online on a random day, just do as we do now, look at your normal list

get what im saying at all?

[The Milk Man 09]

Yea then people can pick and choose which pgl groups they want to be in instead of keeping the people they rarely play with on their fl just because they are from pgl.

[D_Litch]

Originally Posted by Epyon MX

I was going to suggest putting some characters in front like ..Pregamelobby.. so that it'll stay at the top of our friend lists. That way we don't have to scroll down forever to see it.

But I sent a FR anyway.

I will never allow myself to have a GT on my box that has characters surrounding the name, so someone else would've had to do that one.

I just figured this could be an easy way for first-time PGLers to shoot out some FRs to other people, as well as a way to condense everyone's friend-load. I sent out a few FRs to OGs, but I'm gonna let everyone send one to the account itself.

[Quo]

Originally Posted by Epyon MX

I'd say we should just have a bunch of lists:

Friends of PGL
PGL Associates
PGL Clems
PGL etc.... and
Etc of PGL...

The problem with that is that it leaves you without a way to find a specific person quickly. Say you're in an event and you know CrackSmoker2000 is on your team. But he's not on your FL. If they were organized alphabetically you'd immediately know how to find him (PGL List A-E). Under the above system you'd have to search varying lists until you found him.

I still don't get it though. If I'm holding the list, you still have to be my friend directly to have the list, right?