Clan Roles

Hey all! We have three major components to discuss, so let’s get right into our August update.

To kick us off, clan roles are LIVE 🔴

Why clan roles, and why now?

• Imagine you own a clan. What happens when you go on hiatus?
• The clan can’t recruit, kick inactive members, announce, edit the clan description, etc. It kinda dies out or goes on hiatus too.
• Ergo, the most successful clans are usually those who have multiple people managing them. But how long does this last with only one person actually able to do this?
• In some cases, people ask for and share accounts for this very purpose, which leads to all sorts of security concerns on top of the dying clan ones.

No more. With clan roles, clan owners are finally able to assign Recruiters, Kickers, Announcers, Editors, and Leaders. Most of these are self-explanatory, but leaders are able to do all of the mentioned functions EXCEPT:

• Kick or mess with other leaders’ roles
• Assign new leaders
• Delete the clan or transfer ownership

Meaning you as the owner no longer have to bear all the weight of the clan’s livelihood, nor do you need to share accounts, nor do you need to worry over someone coming along and deleting the clan.

Some new tooling was added as well for leaders, owners, and moderators, such as being able to retract nefarious announcements, wiping the clan description, etc. to keep your clan out of trouble.

On the topic of moderation, a lot needed to be added and tested, hence why the update indeed took some time. For knowledge purposes, you can not assign someone with an active automod any clan roles, nor someone below level 20. If a clan member had roles and gets automodded, they will lose their roles, so keep an eye out for troublesome members 😉

If your clan has too many warnings, or we find you are intentionally promoting malicious behaviors, we may decide to ban your clan at our discretion. But we will otherwise give plenty of warnings too beforehand.

There’s still a couple things I would love to go back and refine. But I shan’t let perfect be the enemy of much better and delay the update further. It’s a very big update, so if you see any bugs, let JaSn or SirDrone know immediately.

Special shoutout to NYS Lask as well for all the wonderful work on many of our shiny new clan role icons! They look great and we appreciate the time he put in 🙏

August Clan Activity Event ⚔️

Naturally, to pair an update of this magnitude, we will be hosting a clan activity event! All clans that get 1,000,000 XP, in the period starting this week until the end of August 30th, will win their members 30k XP, given to each individual member. Yes you heard me right.

And the members of the top three grinding clans at the end of the period will get a special prize not too long after; stay tuned, but I’ll hint that if there was ever a time to fight for clan history, this moment is definitely up there.

*Note that if we do catch farming activities, we reserve the right to subtract XP earned as well, so be sure to keep troublemakers out of your clans. Thanks for your understanding!

Survey Results 📋

For our third major update, as you may remember from our June post, we discussed our Roadmap and held a survey to get feedback on both priorities and the financial direction we ought to take.

Firstly, a big thank you to all of our survey participants! All of you had been awarded 15,000 XP. As promised, three randomly drawn participants also got the Golden Maps arm! Congratulations to Ha I Just, AdvMah-p, and Snip3r King 🥳🎉

Secondly, we have the results of the survey!

How the survey worked:

• Everyone ranked efforts differently (makes sense).
• We analyzed each effort to get their average placement among all the participants, and the median placement to help balance extremities.
• We adjusted these placements to correlate to a proper rank when compared to the other placements. (e.g. “8” was the highest placement for the averages, so it became a “1”)
• On top of the average and median ranks, we also had OpinionX’s own ranking system. It gave whatever someone placed as “#1” 100 points, #2 gets 50 points, #3 gets 33 points, and so on, creating an interesting opinionated skew.
• So, put all three systems together, average, median, and OpinionX’s, and you get a final rank.

And you all really dislike getting stuck in walls it seems, haha. But I do get it, it has been a very long-running bug in Blocktanks’ history and has killed many competitive moments and broken the flow of matches.

Additionally, ranked matches, automated mission rotations, disabling Captcha for VIPs, and incentivized team-switching were equally rated highly! I will consider all of these our top priorities in 2025 outside of moderation and security concerns.

Everything else in our Roadmap has been placed in their appropriate orders (again, you’ll find general efforts separately below the moderation/security cards, I plan to work on the highest of both sections together).

And as for our second survey question, what to do about our financial direction?

You love currency, and loathe subscription tiers. Ergo, before making any serious modifications to VIP itself, we shall proceed with our top-rated routes. Yes, on top of currency and tradable items, we will also be seriously discussing Battlepasses among our Community Managers and Artists.

Closing

Next time we’ll likely be telling you how our discussions went, how our prioritized updates are going, and of course, reviewing the results of our event.

Cheers all! Hope you like this month’s updates and are raring to get your clans back into shape 🫡

Very Respectfully,

SirDrone
BlockTanks Developer