Well i think i understand Ronald's point.
I personally enjoy being part of a community who works together . Every member of a clan are rings of a chain.Together they make something.
We,bashibazouks enjoy this.Strategus doesn't offer a lot with it's current version.All you have to do as a faction member is crafting and transferring goods to your designated trader guy. If you are the trader , all you have to do is to wait till you recieve the designated amount of goods from your clanmates and sell them to a designated fief.
This sounds retardic i understand.It is really really simple and kinda primative but doing this with 60 people , doing this without any mistakes or delays feels good somehow.
Its like "mexican wave" . Basically all you have to do is stand up and raise your hands but doing this in order with thousands of people on stadium feels good
As i experience and as i understand Strategus serves entertainment to big and organized clans for now.
We cannot change strategus,this can be made by devs only and i believe (Hope!) chadz will work on it soon.
All i can suggest to small clans is to unite and form larger strategus factions.
More players in faction creates trouble and organisation problems , solving those issues and make every individual work as one is the core of having fun on strat.Feeling that you do a part to grow an army of 5k feels good.
So summary is this:
If you are clanless or want to rp bandit for example form a clan make it strategus only and recruit people , if you are alone you won't enjoy this version of strategus.Wanna trade with caravans ? Form a neutral merchants guild ask for protection from clans in return of paying visitors tax be rich buy troops from other factions raise your own army etc...There are lots of possibilities but if you are alone you won't have a chance.
If you have a clan of 20 members try to unite with another clan with 20.There are lots of clans in cRPG but very few of them play Strat because they don't believe that they can have fun in that.