Clans, big vs small (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Thursday, October 04, 2018, 07:53 (2219 days ago) @ Phoenix_9286

I lied. I just remembered I forgot to have a bitch about Clans.

We're three seasons in? Four? The Clan system feels useless. My biggest grief with it? The milestones.

Why am I, in my humble little clan of friends with just under 10 members, subjected to the same qualifications for completing a milestone as DBO, a Clan with probably 5-10 times as many members? I have never seen any return from my Clan, and never will, and I think it's disingenuous for Bungie to claim that anyone can make a Clan and get rewards out of it. This isn't even a hard problem to fix. Just tier the Clan system and implement a restriction on bailing and rejoining Clans. The more people in your Clan, the harder those milestones should be to hit.

I'm not arguing that I'm entitled to, or should have access to, all of the things. I made my peace with that long ago. I will never have or do all of the things in Destiny. That's fine. A large portion of it I can just comfortably ignore. The Clan system, however, was a "Big Deal". It's Hawthorne's only purpose in the Tower. It's a major part of the game you're walked through and pushed towards, and I get no benefit out of it. It's a dead-end system for me, which makes it a failure on their behalf.

Now I'm done.

Probably.

I haven't posted anything of substance in forever. I guess my brain is making up for lost time.

The only real difference that be in a bigger clan gets you is two things, one grinding out the tiered bonus rewards and having enough people to do the major events.

So the tiered bonuses aren't really all the special, at least in my mind cause I've never actually looked at them. What you really care about is when your clan finishes the raid, nightfall, trials... and other things I can't remember. Everyone gets a clan engram for those no matter who finishes it. So it shouldn't matter if you have 100 people or 10 people, what matters more is if your clan is active and playing. Yes, I'm not saying it doesn't help, but they shouldn't be help back anymore than any other clan as long as they have at least 6 members.

Also, Bungie has made it very clear that community makes the game better so it makes sense that the bigger clan the easier and better it is. I'm not trying to say tell you that you are doing it all wrong just that you still get 2/3 of the rewards of a maxed out clan with a small clan and that 2/3 gives you the best items :D