A Unified Socom Community

[Method]

There was this one site I heard about.. www.You know better than that frag.-Sypher I heard it was pretty good site that would be up for any of this say central site..Lol
(Owner is me)


That would be so much better because I know I visit alot of socom sites and clan sites...

[SOTGMarine]

WeeWoo,

Perhaps you and I can work on the site together. I built www.sotg.us and www.militarybattles.com

The greatest things to gain by doing this, is to provide a "Horses Mouth" Web site where people can go to get the real scoop, and get some real deals on SOCOM-related subjects.

Basically, we would be bringing together all those clans that have something to offer, and that have similar goals of fair and fun gameplay, while offering a panel of experienced and well-known and respected SOCOM players to review possible cheats and glitches to come to a collective conclusion, and provide these conclusions to the general SOCOM public.

As well, the site would serve as a recruiting tool for the affiliated clans, offering descriptive information on the different clans, including their requirements, restrictions and any other pertinent information, so new SOCOMers can get involved with some of the more mature clans in the game. For those clans that dont recruit by skill level, that is fine, as SOTG is a Training Group, that will accept members that are new or not so good at the game. After they are trained up, we can allow that member to try out once again for our affiliated clans that they were not good enough to join before - living up to our name as a Training Group.

[OTTER]

Sounds good to me. [S3] doesn't base on skill either, we let usually anyone in with 50+ posts, but, we aren't letting anyone else in right now, we are too full.

I dunno if you guys mean the biggest clans out there, there are bigger clans than us, and if that were the case, I doubt [S3] would be a part of it. Maybe the clans with most influence or maybe well-known, like SS SOTG FSSF S3 etc.


[S3] will be included on this, right?

[RadioactiveMan]

I don't think that the point is to have the biggest clans. When voting for a clan to enter, I will base my decision on whether they glitch, and how permanent thier clan is. It is one thing to have members come and go, but I don't want to have a hundred disbanded clans signed up.

[DaKilla]

Marine, I'll look into removing the offending name(s) for you. As you can surely understand, we have no real way of knowing whether or not someone is who they claim to be.

And about your idea: I'm all for it. Perhaps we should get into more specific contact about this idea of yours and flesh out any possible problems / "plan of attack". For instance, how would we go about beginning a campaign like this? What would we have to change or add?

I am behind this idea entirely, but there are things we really should discuss in person before getting too excited.

And I apologize if I sound rude or abrupt, but I just got back from my vacation and have lots of content to sift through. So I may come back to edit my post in a few hours, or I may not... Once again, sorry.

[RadioactiveMan]

As for a plan of attack, I favour the "Hit 'em hard, hit 'em differently" approach.

Marine and Thompson, have you mentioned anything on the SOTG and FSSF forums about this?

[Erg]

i have sent an email to the SS inquiring about this. ive already talked to them about the strategy guide and their maps, so im on fairly good grounds with them.

Marine essentilally expanded on my proposal. we could have a "staff" email around a PW for the week. and even accept clan applications to join S3 clans. and send them their "congratulations" notification if their accepted by the other S3 clans.

[SOTGMarine]

Well I'll also see if I can talk Rator into getting involved, as ultimately, it could be a good thing. However, SOTG now also has a member capable of drawing the maps, and will be doing so for SOCOM 3, so we can make those "official" www.socom3.com maps, if we do this thing.

DaKilla, I'll IM you my cell phone number, so we can talk more on this. I'm in Hawaii.

And to answer someone else's question, yes, I would assume that "respectable" clans would get the SOCOM3 "Seal of Approval," and would be allowed to display this site's logo with a link to your list of approved clan names. If this site or any of the affiliated clans learn of one of the "approved" clans cheating, glitching, or otherwise doing something to dishonor your affilation, then their status as a SOCOM3 clan would be re-evaluated by the panel. I would recommend, when the "panel" is formed, that its meetings take place at a posted time and date, and one representative from each clan need be present.

Of course, several guidelines would have to be met to determine if the clan is 1. Perminent 2. Under adult leadership 3. Have a stable area for communications (ie website forums) 4. Do not cheat 5. Respect other clans 6. Practice good sportsmanship ........... and maybe some others, depending on what every clan agreed to for requirements.

I spent the afternoon looking around the internet for some clans that initially might be interested in cooperating with this project, as most of them meet some similar criteria, and are active clans who participate regularly with the ESeals and other SOCOM venues:

(Of course, I'm not suggesting all of these clans be accepted, this is just a list to begin looking at, to see if they are in fact respectable clans that we would want as a part of this organization. - Remember, just because we all don't know them, doesn't mean they aren't a mature, adult clan. Some may require our getting to know them.)

S3 (SOCOM3)
SOTG (Special Operations Training Group)
SS (SeaSnipers)
LTU (ARAS)
SiK (www.sikclan.net)
SiC (Soldiers in Combat www.sic-socom.com)
ReD (www.redcellsocom.com)
AE (American Eagles)
mXm (www.mxmbers.com)
HNIC (www.freewebs.com/hnicsocom2)
VvV (Veni Vedi Vici)
10C (Ten Commandments)
sDq (http://sdq.socomclans.us)
EC (Eazzy Company)
PMS (www.pmsclan.com)
uK* (United Killerz)
aa (Alcoholics Anonymous)
-e- (Epidemic)
VOA (Vow of Apathy)
AMW (America's Most Wanted)
AoD (Angels of Death)
DKZ (www.dkzclan.com)
FSSF (www.teamfssf.com)
CDK (C-4 Demo Krew)
SW (SilencedWarriors)
NUTZ (www.socomnutzclan.com)
DK (Dark Knights)
TeQ (www.clan-teq.net)
NG (Naked Gamers)
F4F (MidWest Gamers)
US (United Seals)
D12 (Dirty Dozen)
FOG (Family of Gamers - formerly Dads Playing SOCOM II)
ROA (Reign of Anarchy)
007 (www.007clan.com)
MM (Now running www.socomzone.com)
WH (WolfHounds - www.clan-wh.com)
NA (Northern Alliance)
USN (www.unitedsocomnation.com)
BEER (www.beerclan.net)

I would have included DOA (Dead on Arrival, who started the National SOCOM League, but as far as I can tell, these guys have fallen off the planet. I used to be friends with one of their members that was here in Hawaii, in the Navy.)

All of the above clans have a few things in common:

1. They have websites
2. They have rules on respecting their adversaries in battle and rules against glitching, cheating and talking trash.
3. Most have been active, or are ran by players that have been active in SOCOM and SOCOM eseals from the start of SOCOM.

I have been looking long and hard around the internet, and if you don't see your clan listed here, it's probably because you're clan isn't very well-known on the internet. I think this should be the base list for attempting to get together some responsible clans.

[Erg]

DK...this was my idea (just thought i should clear that up )


Well, what we can do to accomodate the Socom3.com clans is to have another "section"


say a Socom3.com Clans Section

with
Gen. Discussion
Clan Application
Announcements?

and since marine gave such a long list of clans. thatd be a good basis to work off. We should also have some sort of quota, to control the flow of new clans applying to get in to S3.com Clans. say the top 3 candidates? We could rate the candidates off a point system (much like Canada's and America's immigration pt. system)


Ive already contacted Rator, but i guess multiple voices will obviously be stronger.

[OTTER]

You mean you havn't seen [S3]? We don't have a website simply for our clan (though we are the official representatives of www.socom3.com), we have a forum and that will suffice. We were VERY well-known on INTL, ask anyone on it and they'll say they've seen us, but with our recent move to NA we might not be very well known. But....we are up there with all those clans, beleive me.

[S3] Socom3.com!