Proposed Guidelines - Open for comment until May 6th. Please provide your feedback to the commander.

DB4D (Death Before Dishonor) Clan Guidelines

Membership In The Clan

1. Everyone is encouraged to seek potential candidates to join the clan.
2. The Commander, Deputy Commander and all Recruiters are empowered to invite candidates to join the clan, or to accept requests to join.
3. Any clan member may suggest a candidate to any of the above officers for consideration.
4. The above are all asked to excercise their best judgment, and make their best effort to only invite or suggest new members whom they believe will honor the guidelines of the clan.
5. All new members are recruits for 60 days, before they can become soldiers.
6. There is no requirement to donate gold to join the clan, but there are benefits to doing so.
7. Those who have donated gold to cover the formation and ongoing expenses of the clan may, but are not required, to vote on key issues, such as clan name, clan tag, etc.
8. If you wish to donate gold for this purpose, please ask the Commander or Deputy Commander how to do so.

Clan Aspirations

1. Everyone should play to their full potential.
2. Everyone should be playing to advance their play style, abilities, and skill level.
3. Everyone should be playing toward tanks that are favored in the various battle modes. These include:
   
   • Tier IV: Matilda
   • Tier VI: KV-1s; Hellcat; ARL 44
   • Tier VIII: T69; 1390; AMX 50 100; IS-3; 110; T-32;
4. Everyone should maintain at least one of the above tier VI tanks, and one of the above tier VIII tanks in their garage at all times.
5. In addition, everyone should be working toward at least 2 tier X tanks in their garage.
6. Everyone is encouraged to have a tier VII or tier VIII premium tank in their garage, to farm credits, and to ensure they have enough credits for team battles, tank company battles and tournament play.

Group Play

1. Platoons: Everyone is encouraged to play pub matches in platoons. Remember, we were all noobs once and helping each other out will foster growth.
2. Team Battles: Whoever creates the team, is in charge of the team. The creator decides team members, he decides tanks, he decides policy, he decides who is calling.
3. Tank Companies: Whoever creates the team, is in charge of the team. The creator decides company members, he decides tanks, he decides policy, he decides who is calling.
4. Tournaments: Tournament Teams should be created by the Commander or Deputy Commander only. Whoever creates the team, is in charge of the team. The creator decides members, he decides tanks, he decides policy, he decides who is calling.
5. Clan Wars: We arent there yet, but only senior leadership will have input.
6. Catchall: The clan is not for trolling. All of the above game modes are for fun and improvement. You should be able to carry your own weight and be working toward improving your game.

Disputes

1. Respect your fellow clan mates and community members, if you have an issue, try dealing with it privately first, before seeking mediation.
2. Respect your fellow PUBLIC MATCH PLAYERS and community members, if you have an issue, be respectful, don't team kill, and ignore the other players who do it to you.
3. Any problems that can't be dealt with by yourself, please confer with a Senior Officer and it will be dealt with accordingly.
4. Disrespect or ill conduct towards other clans in-game or on any 3rd party forum is frowned upon and COULD result in serious consequences.

Exclusions

1. Persons willlingly, flagrantly and publicly violating Wargaming's community standards are subject to immediate ejection from the clan by either the Commander or Deputy Commander. (Check the WOT web site for details.)
2. Any members who are inactive for a period of 30 days are subject to ejection by a 2/3 vote of officers.
3. All recruits are subject to ejection by a 2/3 vote of officers, until they become soldiers.
4. Persons willingly violating the clan guidelines are subject to a vote that could result in being excluded from the clan.
5. Exclusion of a member from the clan can only result from a vote including the Commander, the Deputy Commander, 3 other officers and a pool of voters comprised of other non recruit members of the clan, to be chosen by the officers.
6. Gold donation to the clan neither forgives violation of clan guidelines, nor prohibits the donating member from being ejected from the clan, pursuant to this section.

Clan Leadership

1. From time to time new leadership may be elected to various offices of the clan.
2. Gold donation by members allows that member, but does not mandate that member, to cast a vote if/when a new Commander or Deputy Commander is chosen.
3. The commander and Deputy Commander may promote or appoint other officers any time, at their discretion.
4. The person who holds a given office at any time is asked to make decisions on behalf of the clan, according to the powers that War Gaming has given their office in the interface.
5. In addition, the clan Commander and Deputy Commander are asked to oversee that these guidelines are being practiced, to react to incidents where action is required, and to act as mediators in the event that mediation is needed.