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Title: Longest living clans?
Post by: Artyem on June 26, 2012, 11:09:51 am
NA and EU, anyone want to attempt to compile a list of the longest living clans?


Clans that change their name every five months do not count.

As far as I know, The Knights Templar is the oldest living clan that still plays frequently, but then again I'm not an EU player so I wouldn't know how active they are.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Teeth on June 26, 2012, 11:12:29 am
Inb4 Khorin saying that Ninja is the oldest living clan with proof.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Herkkutatti666 on June 26, 2012, 11:14:46 am
Templols ninjas druzhina mercs
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: autobus on June 26, 2012, 11:17:49 am
mercs

we're talking about living clans here
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Post by: Molly on June 26, 2012, 11:19:33 am
we're talking about living clans here
:mrgreen:
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Post by: Bobthehero on June 26, 2012, 11:20:08 am
BRD, which has been integrated into the FCC, has been around for a long time, imo.

There's also Chaos.
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Post by: Phazey on June 26, 2012, 11:21:24 am
we're talking about living clans here

FUUU!   :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: [ptx] on June 26, 2012, 11:46:46 am
Templols ninjas druzhina mercs
Druzhina was originally a native clan.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Molly on June 26, 2012, 11:55:24 am
What about GK?  :oops:
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Post by: Rhaelys on June 26, 2012, 12:05:05 pm
ATS and Hospitaller immediately come to mind for NA. ATS was an established clan when I started playing cRPG in July of 2010, and Hospitaller was established by then or a few months after, can't recall exactly. Chaos formed February of 2011, so it's somewhat long-lived.

Also Cavalieres & BRD.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Huey Newton on June 26, 2012, 12:06:21 pm
Cavalieres and Bridgeburners have been around since september 2010 with no name change  8-)


Free Companies of Calradia as a faction was formed in october 2010

edit: yes to everything Rhaelys said
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Everkistus on June 26, 2012, 12:07:58 pm
We have been around for a pretty long time.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Matey on June 26, 2012, 12:09:58 pm
aye. BRD and Cavalieres been around for a loooong time. both were doing fine when i came to crpg back in november 2010.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Overdriven on June 26, 2012, 12:11:03 pm
What about GK?  :oops:

Lol we've been around since Feb 2010. Certainly not one of the oldest.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Thomek on June 26, 2012, 12:16:06 pm
First there was Staffmen.  (recently been revived, but more of a playstyle than a clan.)

Then there were Ninjas, based on the basic principle of Staffmen, just more elaborated. (been active more or less the whole time)

Then Guards and I think Knights of the Roses about the same time. *Rosewoods clan.

Templars also came about this time.

Mercs came later when Gnjus, Olwen and Oberyn decided to start a clan together.

Still lots of oldmy old friends playing this game actively.. proof that it is extremely addictive.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Tristan on June 26, 2012, 12:19:18 pm
First there was Staffmen.  (recently been revived, but more of a playstyle than a clan.)

Then there were Ninjas, based on the basic principle of Staffmen, just more elaborated. (been active more or less the whole time)

Then Guards and I think Knights of the Roses about the same time. *Rosewoods clan.

Templars also came about this time.

Mercs came later when Gnjus, Olwen and Oberyn decided to start a clan together.

Still lots of oldmy old friends playing this game actively.. proof that it is extremely addictive.

This.
But with knights of the roses dead, I think Ninja and Guards are the oldest continueously active clans.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: [ptx] on June 26, 2012, 12:19:40 pm
Staffmen are/were hardly alive, Roses died out a looooooooooong time ago. Did Guards really appear before Templars? I remember that both guards and mercs appeared after the first strategus announcement.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Tristan on June 26, 2012, 12:21:41 pm
Though not a member of the guards at that time, I remember them from before the first iteration of strat.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Matey on June 26, 2012, 12:23:16 pm
no one cares about fake EU clans. you guys cheated by kidnapping chadz and making him host everything on EU servers for however long before finally relenting and allowing for the glorious Canadians and the not-so-golorious americans to claim the rightful place as most importantest peoples to play crpg. Thus, the oldest NA clans are most important. thanks.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: [ptx] on June 26, 2012, 12:23:42 pm
Though not a member of the guards at that time, I remember them from before the first iteration of strat.
Yes, formed BEFORE the actual thing but after the first announcement about it.
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Post by: Gomer on June 26, 2012, 12:25:05 pm
xKhanx was the first Siege Clan in NA. I miss you Kiddos! We played ages b4 strat and now it's HOC
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Post by: Murmillus_Prime on June 26, 2012, 12:48:32 pm
22nd
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Post by: Cosmos_Shielder on June 26, 2012, 12:53:41 pm
Pecores are also here since the begining. And we were one of the first to get a server which was EU4
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Angantyr on June 26, 2012, 01:14:43 pm
In general WB history (which cRPG invariably is a part of) the first warbands (created in beta, some even before) were IRC, 22nd, Einherjar, CoR and DR (all of which are still alive and thriving). So these were the first clans in cRPG, especially IRC, 22nd and Einherjar members were active in the earliest versions, but not the first clans made specifically for this module.
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Post by: Teddy bear on June 26, 2012, 01:20:15 pm
Lol we've been around since Feb 2010. Certainly not one of the oldest.
:shock:
Warband release date: 30 march 2010.
cRPG first open alpha/beta release - dunno, first time played in the middle of May 2010.
GK weren't there, LIAR!!! :D
Some of us (DRZ memebers) played from the very start of open beta of cRPG. We were native clan since release of WB (and forum clan since 2009 :D).
DRZ cRPG division being officially opened in September 2010 (or late August) iirc. Too much water has flowed under the bridge since that time, anyway :)
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Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Overdriven on June 26, 2012, 01:25:12 pm
My bad...mis-type...2011  :P
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Post by: Bulzur on June 26, 2012, 01:31:39 pm
I believe Templars appeared "just" before Guards.
But probably in the same week.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Lansamur on June 26, 2012, 01:36:38 pm
Yes, formed BEFORE the actual thing but after the first announcement about it.

I've been in Guards since around late August 2010, so I'd guess it was founded in July or somewhere around that. Gotta ask Bane about it, if he'd still be here. But Templols and Ninjas were kinda the first cRPG clans.
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Post by: okiN on June 26, 2012, 01:54:05 pm
Lol we've been around since Feb 2010. Certainly not one of the oldest.

I don't remember seeing you guys in the Warband beta.

Edit: ah, someone pointed it out already. :P

In general WB history (which cRPG invariably is a part of) the first warbands (created in beta, some even before) were IRC, 22nd, Einherjar, CoR and DR (all of which are still alive and thriving). So these were the first clans in cRPG, especially IRC, 22nd and Einherjar members were active in the earliest versions, but not the first clans made specifically for this module.

Yes, obviously irc:// was the first clan in cRPG, since the whole project began there. We tested the pre-release versions for chadz and were his first admins. The clan hasn't really existed in cRPG for a long time, though. Dunno if the Native branch still plays, since I'm full-time cRPG these days.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Beauchamp on June 26, 2012, 02:21:20 pm
Ninjas, Guards, Templars, Mercs... What I know is Fallens are like 1-2 months younger than Templars.

22nd and all the other native clans weren't active in early stages of cRPG "as clans".
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Lech on June 26, 2012, 02:22:55 pm
FotG was created during the beta but it was never c-rpg clan.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Penchik on June 26, 2012, 02:32:18 pm
Druzhina was originally a native clan.
In cRPG since 1st Sep 2010, at that time with clan-tag of "DRZ_". As far as I remember, at that time Templars were well established. There also were Shogunate, Guards, 22nd, and others.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Vovka on June 26, 2012, 02:43:44 pm
If I remember correctly, the first fraction were created on strategus by templars, then shogunate ... they had ID 1 and ID 2, respectively, in the list of factions  :P DRZ as faction appeared much later

In DRZ native since 04 april 2010, oh shit  :shock:
In DRZ cRPG since 26 may 2010
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on June 26, 2012, 02:45:08 pm
Inb4 Khorin saying that Ninja is the oldest living clan with proof.
Totally, although Thomek said most of it already.

Although, for the sake of the topic, I'd have to make a distinction between oldest M&B clan and oldest cRPG clan, that is, a clan created by cRPG players and to mainly play cRPG.

I did some research on this with the wayback machine last october. It was discussed in the ninja thread. I could not trace any clan apart from staffmasters that had roots in cRPG that were older than Clan Ninja. The earliest info I could find about Clan Ninja is from June 26, 2010. I joined late august or early september 2010 and I've been holding the reins for the clan since March 2011. I do not know who the first clans in strategus were.

Here's the discussion in the ninja thread: http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,4952.msg272592.html#msg272592

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Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Artyem on June 26, 2012, 09:33:08 pm
I've been playing cRPG since June 2010 (maybe earlier, but I don't remember) and I can remember The Guards, 22nd, Templars, Ninja, Shogunate fairly well, and DRZ extremely well (considering they raped everyone when Strat first came out, hard to forget  :lol:).  Wasn't Fallen's original leader in the Templars?

Now, for NA, I remember Roses because Anders is still around to remind me with a friendly sword to the face every once in awhile.  BRD is pretty damn old now and Dracul is almost two years old (October 21st, 2010).

Where did Growl ever go?
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Huey Newton on June 26, 2012, 09:48:37 pm
Longest living NA clans if my memory serves me right.

ATS - June-July 2010 - for crpg not native
Hospitaller - August 2010 - Not positive
Cavalieres - September 2010
BRD - September 2010
Dracul - October 2010
DL - October-November 2010 - not positive

Every other clan has changed their name more than once or are newmy old friends  :lol:
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Oberyn on June 26, 2012, 09:54:55 pm
If I remember correctly, the first fraction were created on strategus by templars, then shogunate ... they had ID 1 and ID 2, respectively, in the list of factions  :P DRZ as faction appeared much later

In DRZ native since 04 april 2010, oh shit  :shock:
In DRZ cRPG since 26 may 2010

Nah, it was templars and mercs, chadz gave access to a really early version of Strat to Growl and I for that test siege.

edit: now I think of it that was probably wiped, so you might be right.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Magikarp on June 26, 2012, 10:09:28 pm
Wasn't Fallen's original leader in the Templars?
His name was Beauchamp, I remember him well. Always a coward, and always in plate (when people could afford it). He quickly turned to archery when plate wasn't OP anymore.

Oldest clan I remember that still has active members is the ninja clan.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: KingBread on June 26, 2012, 10:24:59 pm
Yes i would vote for ninja clan. But i'm suprised no one thinks Fallens are one of the oldest, but yea bit younger than Templars.

But for sure first evil clan around :)   :twisted:
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: wanteds on June 26, 2012, 10:45:44 pm
I have been around for about 1 year and half, but I heard from shanks that SoA is one of the old clans.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Toffi on June 26, 2012, 10:48:10 pm
First there was Staffmen.  (recently been revived, but more of a playstyle than a clan.)

Then there were Ninjas, based on the basic principle of Staffmen, just more elaborated. (been active more or less the whole time)

Then Guards and I think Knights of the Roses about the same time. *Rosewoods clan.

Templars also came about this time.

Mercs came later when Gnjus, Olwen and Oberyn decided to start a clan together.

Still lots of oldmy old friends playing this game actively.. proof that it is extremely addictive.

Absolutely right, GUARD POWER!!!
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Toffi on June 26, 2012, 10:49:24 pm
I've been in Guards since around late August 2010, so I'd guess it was founded in July or somewhere around that. Gotta ask Bane about it, if he'd still be here. But Templols and Ninjas were kinda the first cRPG clans.

Yeah me too since middle of august and tenne even joined before that.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Magikarp on June 26, 2012, 11:13:03 pm
Though, everyone seems to forget the Fish Clan, so sad. Founded before templols and fa(i)llen, the almighty clanleader pommeled people with his Great Bardiche.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Beauchamp on June 27, 2012, 12:52:26 am
His name was Beauchamp, I remember him well. Always a coward, and always in plate (when people could afford it). He quickly turned to archery when plate wasn't OP anymore.

Oldest clan I remember that still has active members is the ninja clan.

Better to be remembered as ingame coward than irl retard...
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Shik on June 27, 2012, 01:25:33 am
Hoplite_/RS were some of the first NA clans that i recall. obviously irc:// was the best and oldest warband/cRPG clan though
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Mordand on June 27, 2012, 02:42:14 am
ATS had a Native battle server before crpg was up and running
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Torost on June 27, 2012, 02:48:53 am
What?!?! Noone remembers the feared POLLY clan? Shield with a parrot on it.

predates ninjas..

50% of the members left and started the Ninja-clan..

The remaining 50% is still playing, but incognito...sleepercell..

:)
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Allers on June 27, 2012, 02:51:18 am
Chivalry
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Lt_Anders on June 27, 2012, 03:04:39 am
DL, though we've changed leaders many times now, and are almost dead.

BTW, anyone wanna join DL :wink:
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Mustikki on June 27, 2012, 03:13:55 am
First there was Staffmen.  (recently been revived, but more of a playstyle than a clan.)

Then there were Ninjas, based on the basic principle of Staffmen, just more elaborated. (been active more or less the whole time)

Then Guards and I think Knights of the Roses about the same time. *Rosewoods clan.

Templars also came about this time.

Mercs came later when Gnjus, Olwen and Oberyn decided to start a clan together.

Still lots of oldmy old friends playing this game actively.. proof that it is extremely addictive.

Just to get some of this right. Clans that were formed in cRPG. Not before.

#1 Staffmen

#2 Ninjas

#3 Knights of Rose (dead)

#4/5 Guards/Mercs

#6 Templars

Knights of Rose
Oldest picture which i could linked to them is from 2010-06-29 John_Applebottom Going to contact Rosewood to join her clan.
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2010-07-08 Airith being in ATS already, must be a native clan. Also Cmpxchg8b being clanless.
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2010-07-16 was my first found of when Mercs existed(but at the time there where plenty of members, so it was formed obviously earlier).
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2010-07-17 a picture of Guards existing. Sorry, coulnd't find any older pictures with Bane.
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2010-07-21 was when Templars formed. See pics and find Growl.
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2010-06-28 Beauchamp relaxing after a rought battle.
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- Staffmen were dead quite a long time, but has been recovered recently?
- Ninjas were dead a while when Lisa resigned from leader position (Khorin & Thomek were not active at that time and there were not any other active ninja members at the time). But guess is will be arguable in this thread.
- Knights of Rose died at the autumn of 2010, while being playing a moment in strategus?
- Guards and Mercs has been longest continuous period of active clans in cRPG.

PS. Found in one picture where there is a Hoplite_ indeed.
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Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Baggy on June 27, 2012, 03:41:55 am
It's beautiful, so many peasants.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Bobthehero on June 27, 2012, 04:45:00 am
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I counted 4 huskarl shields and elite scimitars.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Miley on June 27, 2012, 05:28:16 am
NA: ATS
EU: Merc, Guard (Caravan I think), Templar

These are for sure answers according to my cRPG_1127 screenshots (oldest I have). Second for NA would be LLJK... only because I see PhantomZero there, lulz.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Banok on June 27, 2012, 06:06:52 am
Then there were Ninjas, based on the basic principle of Staffmen, just more elaborated. (been active more or less the whole time)
to be fair I don't remember ninja's originally being a proper clan, more like staffman - an open group but with code/rankings. ninja's turned into a clan when strategus was announced, this is when clans really started forming within crpg community. I believe guards was formed with the intention of guarding caravans in strat right? and mercs formed with the intention of winning strat... To me the first group that really seemed like a clan was rosewood's chaps; knights of the roses. at least thats how I remember it heh

and seriously clans formed outside of crpg community are pointless even discussing.


I counted 4 huskarl shields and elite scimitars.
haha and isnt that cmp at the front the big spamitar noob.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Tanken on June 27, 2012, 06:09:39 am
KUTT, duh. We've been in existence for 7 years (cRPG ~ 1 year) and it's always been a small-ish clan.  8-)
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Magikarp on June 27, 2012, 11:31:18 am
Better to be remembered as ingame coward than irl retard...
You were/are both =).
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Elmuri on June 27, 2012, 11:37:28 am

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So many guys still playing :D
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Penchik on June 28, 2012, 05:49:23 pm
In cRPG since 1st Sep 2010, at that time with clan-tag of "DRZ_".
Oh, I mean on strat. I started playing cRPG only after the native DRZshniki were called for strat. I don't know when DRZ was first time in cRPG.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on June 28, 2012, 06:26:47 pm
Anyone remember any native clans that were around when Warband was in beta?  The only one I can recall is nK
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Angantyr on June 28, 2012, 07:07:19 pm
@Cracka,

all the (EU) clans I mentioned in my post a few pages back, some of which were additionally formed before beta. Add to my own clan Einherjar our now merged sister clan 'the Shieldings'.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Leesin on June 28, 2012, 07:12:10 pm
Ninjas, Guards, Templars, Mercs... What I know is Fallens are like 1-2 months younger than Templars.

22nd and all the other native clans weren't active in early stages of cRPG "as clans".

I think the Brigade was founded in late July or  early August 2010, I joined in the second half of August 2010 and the clan was relatively new then. I was in Knights of the Rose before that then got bored and left, then joined the Fallen Brigayd.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Tennenoth on June 28, 2012, 07:37:07 pm
I was the 4th/5th member in the Caravan Guild (Guards) to which *checks signature* I joined;  03/08/2010. I am certainly the oldest active member still around but I know that Bane created the Guards about two or three weeks prior.

So, from my memory it goes along the lines of;

1) Staffmaster
2) Ninja
3) Templars
4) Mercs
5) Caravan Guild (Guards)
6) Roses (Inactive)
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Leesin on June 28, 2012, 07:51:32 pm
I was the 4th/5th member in the Caravan Guild (Guards) to which *checks signature* I joined;  03/08/2010. I am certainly the oldest active member still around but I know that Bane created the Guards about two or three weeks prior.

So, from my memory it goes along the lines of;

1) Staffmaster
2) Ninja
3) Templars
4) Mercs
5) Caravan Guild (Guards)
6) Roses (Inactive)

I'd say Roses were around before the Caravan Guild if they were only founded a few weeks prior to your joining, pretty sure I was in the Roses for more than a couple of months and I joined the Fallen Brigade mid August, but then again my sense of time could be warped considering I played the ass out of cRPG back then, so maybe it just seemed longer lol.

 It's a shame all the taleworld forum stuff was deleted, then we could really nostalgia.
Title: Re: Longest living clans?
Post by: Torak on June 28, 2012, 09:05:32 pm
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