The [TiC]Clan's Structure:
 

1. Screened Applicants (no tag)
          A. Read
          B. Apply
          C. Notified by email
          D. Interview
          E. Screened Applicant
          F. Limited Access
        

2. [TiC-G] Guests
          A. Request a Guest Quiz
          B. Guests Quiz
          C. More Access
          D. [TiC-G] Guest
          E. Some clan jobs & Staff Meetings

3. [TiC] Members
          A. Notified of TRY OUT
          B. TRY OUT
          C. Initiation
          D. Full Access
          E. [TiC] Member & Clan Meetings
          F. Recruiters or other clan jobs & Staff Meetings
          G. Rconers
          H. Department Managers
          I. Council Members

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How new people get started, go to our JOIN page:
(How to become a Screened Applicant.)
 

New people simply first go to our Join page and follow -ALL- the instructions on that page from top to bottom.

To apply to our Club you do not have to be the best player in the World (all though we do have some really great players), but you do have to be a friendly, helpful, mature, loyal adult and be able to FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, especially the instructions on our Join & Rules page. Our Club is about having fun, building a great Club, and helping people as our time allows. A lot of our Members are very busy with jobs, family, and sometimes school too. We understand that people have busy lives, but you can only be part of this Great Club and benefit from it if you really want it and do your unselfish part, other wise go play with the kids and deal with them and that stress.
;-)

After you send in your completed Join application, we will review your application within a few days. If your application does not pass the initial review, we will respond to you and let you know that you won't get in by email. If your application does looks like [TiC] material, we will contact you by email and schedule an interview with you. If you pass the interview (takes about 1 hour), you will become a "Screened Applicant" and will be given several ICQ contacts of our guys/gals and access to one of our Club's Roger Wilco channel and limited access to the [TiC]Private Area. Our Members are our greatest assets, so we make new people work for those contacts.

 In games, we treat all Screened Applicants, Guests, and Members the same, recruits are not feed mercilessly to machine gun nests unless we are all doing it. ;-)

In our Club, you have to be at least a [TiC] Member before you can state your opinion on issues, this rewards and elevates the opinion of the hardest workers in our Club. Read all of this page (Clan Structure) and our  Rules page to learn all of the other requirements, privileges, and responsibilities of the various levels of our Club and the "DOs and DON'T DOs" of our Club to get and keep you on the right track here.

Before you get yourself in trouble by making comments about our servers, please read the Rcon Guidelines and Rules page as the privilege to commenting on our servers must first be earned and you must be at least a Member. Sorry, but we don't need a new comer reinventing the wheel and we would rather not listen to any squeaky wheels, our Club was founded 5 June, 1999, we have figured out all this clan stuff a long time ago. A Clan is about teamwork and compromise for the good of the whole.

Membership has it's privileges.
:-)

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How to become a [TiC-G] GUEST:
 

For a Screened Applicant to become a [TiC-G] Guest, they simply have to study the Rules and this page (Clan Structure), then ask a Council Member to schedule a time so you can take the [TiC-G] Guest Quiz (takes about 1 1/2 hours), which is given by a Council Member. If the Guest passes the Guest Quiz, they are then officially a [TiC-G] Guest and get more ICQ contacts of our crew and RW channels and can have a "clan job" like "Instructor" or "Event Coordinator" and they are then authorized to wear the "[TiC-G]" tag. If the Screened Applicant fails,  they simply have to retake the test starting over at their last missed questions a few days later.

The [TiC-G] tag lets everybody in the [TiC] Clan know that the person wearing it cares about our Club and it's Members and has taken the first steps to becoming a Member of our great Club. A [TiC] Guest is still not a Member of the Clan yet, but they are on their way.

For more details on getting a clan job after you become a [TiC-G] Guest,  see these pages: Help us, Events Department, Training Department.

Once a [TiC-G] Guest gets a clan job they can then attend the Staff Meetings.

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How  to become a [TiC] Member:
 

WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOU WILL GET YOUR TRY OUT:
To get a chance at a TRY OUT and to progress from being a [TiC-G] Guest to [TiC] Member, you must EARN a TRY OUT. You must PROVE to the Council Members (who actually give you a TRY OUT), that you are ready to assume a role of leadership in the Clan and serve as an example to the other Screened Applicants and Guests.

At Clan Meetings, all the Members that show up will discuss who they think has earned a TRY OUT, the Department Managers also comment on who they have seen helping in and around their Departments, it is the Council Members that decides which [TiC-G] Guest has earned their TRY OUT though.The Council Members will then contact that [TiC-G] Guest and schedule their TRY OUT and announce it in the Clan's forum for everyone to see. The Clan then gets together at the scheduled time and gives that Guest a TRY OUT (takes about 2 hours), if the Guest passes, they then take the [TiC] Oath and are officially initiated into the Club at their Initiation Ceremony (crowbar knifing ;-) by the Council Members, [TiC] crew,  and other knife wielding maniacs on the server at that time ;-). They are then officially Members of the MiGHTY [TiC]'TALK is CHEAP' Clan and get to wear the prestigious [TiC] tag. The Council Members then post the official announcement at the [TiC] Forum for all to see. The Council Members then issues the new Member the full ICQ Contact Lists of our Club, access to all our RW channels, access to our Roster, and they can then attend our Clan Meetings. If the new Member has earned it, they will be issued Rcon password(s) to our game servers too. If there are openings and they have earned it, they could be offered a Department Manager job.

Once you become a Member you are allowed to state your opinion on issues around the club and about our servers (see the Rules). All [TiC] Members can and should attend Clan Meetings. Clan Meetings are where we candidly discuss past problems and discuss possible solutions and plan for the future of our Club. What is said in a Clan Meeting, stays in a Clan Meeting and is a secret of the Clan. Members are allowed to state their opinions there as time allows in the Clan Meeting, but they first have to show up for them ;-). If you are a [TiC] Member and have a clan job, not only are Staff Meetings mandatory but so are the Clan Meetings as part of the extra responsibility of the job.

YOU HAVE TO EARN A TRY OUT:
How long a person stays a [TiC-G] Guest before earning a TRY OUT is dependent on your maturity level, your participation in the Clan, your level of performance in games, your TEAMWORK, and most importantly your overall --WORK contribution-- to the Clan. The purpose of the [TiC-G] Guest level is to allow the new person a chance to orient themselves to life in the [TiC] Clan and to teach them how to play as part of a TEAM (as a reflex) and later to lead the team by example in games and to give them the opportunity to earn a TRY OUT. Teamwork and pitching in are the secrets behind the success of the MiGHTY [TiC]'TALK is CHEAP' Clan. Everyone around our Club should be donating at least 10% of their gaming time back to helping our Club, it is a mandatory requirement and makes our Club what it is.

 This Club has the BEST group of people you will ever come across online,  it's no accident, it's because of our extremely highs standards that each Member has to adhere to and the never ending unselfish contributions of our Member to our world class Club over the years. Some say we are like the Delta Force of online gaming because of this. [TiC]Clan is an Island of hope in a sea immature online butt holes ;-). If you want to benefit from our World Class Club and a [TiC] TALK is CHEAP Membership, you first must earn it. ;-)

  We expect all our Members to know how to play as part of AND to organize a team under fire, both on and off the servers. This includes participating in others' OFFICIAL TRYOUTS, helping them configure Roger Wilco, ICQ, helping out with mic checks, and helping the Department Managers to resolve any concerns or problems that they might have. You have to help to train other Screened Applicants and [TiC-G] Guests. You should also help in "policing" the clan, pointing out (kindly) any errors or breach of rules of ANYone. You should be indicating your commitment to the Clan by assisting with some of the more time consuming and less desirably tasks. You must have a "clan job" in the [TiC] Clan, like Event Coordinator,  Instructor, script writer, logo maker, ICQ Expert, RW Expert, informal gamer organizers (invites people into games and picks servers and reads IPs), [TiC] web page maker, etc. You MUST be HELPing with SOMEthing in the Clan.

Not only should you be conducting yourself properly as a [TiC-G] Guest before you get a TRY OUT, you have to actually PROVE you can conduct yourself at the Member level -BEFORE- you will get a TRY OUT. You must have not only always played as a team, but you should have actually been showing you can lead by example in and out of games, keeping teams even, teaching others, helping others, and  --WORKing-- for the Clan before you get a TRY OUT. You won't have Member level privileges before your TRY OUT, but you should be investing some of your time by helping the Club as if you are a Member to prove that you really want it. In general, you should be doing a LOT of WORK for Clan weekly to show you are willing to sweat for this fine Club. You should EXCEL at leading the Club by example, especially at items like "20 minutes in charge" Classes, were you lead and coordinate the team in games, evening the teams, enforce the Rules, use Roger Wilco to motivate and coordinate the team, and making sure that anyone on our RW plays on the same side and PLAY AS A CLAN at all times. Needless to say, you should have been conducting yourself in a mature manner at all times without any conduct problems or 'issues' or any acting up in the recent past.

At Clan Meetings, the FIRST QUESTION that the Council Members are going to ask is:

1. "WHY should that person get a TRY OUT, list the things they have done for the Clan?"
2. "Have they stayed out of trouble?"
3. "Have they always been 100% loyal to the [TiC]Clan?"

You must have proven you have always 100% LOYAL and DEDICATED to the MiGHTY [TiC]Clan, EVEN IN TROUBLED TIMES.

You must KNOW, honor, obey, and help enforced -ALL- of the [TiC] Rules.

You must be "knowledgeable" in RW and  ICQ and how to play the games at expert level as a TEAM. Note, it says "as a team". You must have proven you can organize and lead TEAMS.

DON'T MAKE SENIOR MEMBERS MAD:
Just so you know, the SENIOR [TiC] Members (Members, Department Managers, Council Members) are usually covertly asked their individually opinion about a potential TRY OUT of a Guest as a courtesy (behind the scenes over ICQ and at Clan Meetings) to coordinate the Club's actions and to avoid ill feelings and to allow Members a 'chance' to give feedback. Heavy weight is placed on the opinions of the Department Managers and "Workers" of the Clan.

ONLY THE BEST OF THE BEST BECOME a [TiC]Clan Member:
If you do get a TRY OUT and pass it, you will have reached a step that few every do or ever will, becoming a [TiC] Member is something that you will never forget. Only about 1 out of every 150 applicants sticks to it and survives the gauntlet to become one of the few the proud a Member of the  MiGHTY TALK is CHEAP Clan! Congratulations if you make it to becoming a New [TiC] MEMBER ! You will be empowered to help many others inside and outside this World Class Club, most of all everyone including yourself will know you earned it!!!

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How to get a "clan job":

You have to be at least a [TiC-G] Guest before you can hold a "clan job", the reason is you should know our Rules and understand the Clan Structure before you can lead at an operational level, passing a [TiC-G] Guest Quiz proves you know our Rules and Clan Structure. If you have a Clan Job you should be attending Staff Meetings even if you are only a [TiC-G] Guest. Staff Meetings are where we create the monthly training plan. [TiC] Members with clan jobs should also be attending Clan Meetings. As a [TiC-G] Guest you can become an "Instructor" (Training Department)  or "Event Coordinator"  (Events Department) at our Club. The clan job of "Recruiter" (Recruiting Department) is restricted to Members only, because of security reasons. To become a [TiC] "Rconer" of our game servers, you must earn it first plus you have to be a [TiC] Member. "Rconer" is a highly regarded privilege and responsibility that hardworking Members are rewarded with. Staff Meetings are scheduled by the Council Members and announced on our Event Calendar, we plan out the Classes and Events of our Training Plan there until the next Staff Meeting. Generally, a "clan job" requires at least 1 1/2+ hours of work for the Club each week, plus attending the Meetings.

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How to become a "Department Manager" and  what do they do:

Only [TiC] Members that have had a clan job and done a great job at it, attended all Clan and Staff Meetings, showed 100% unselfish loyalty, will be offered a  Department Manager job. When a Department Manager job is open, the Council Members will offer the job to the most senior hardest worker. Council Members will discuss it amongst themselves and then contact the selected person and offer them the job and discuss the responsibilities and the guidelines of the job  and what will be expected from them. Department Managers are required to attend ALL Staff and Clan Meetings. Usually, when there is a need for a Department Manager, the Council will post and ad on the Forum advertising the opening. Department Managers hire and fire the workers in their Department (they can't kick them out of the Clan, they can just give clan jobs in their Department). Department Managers advertise job openings in their Departments in our forum.  For more details, see these pages: Events Department, Training Department, Recruiting Department.

 Generally the job of Department Manager requires at least 2+ hours of work for the Club each week, plus attending the Meetings.

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How to become a "Council Member" and  what do they do:

Council Members handle the most stressful tasks of the Club and all the tasks that fall thru the cracks. They are the guys/gals who oversee the whole [TiC] Clan and are responsible for generally how the Clan is run and the general conduct of the Clan. All Clan Members answer to the Council Members on any issue. Only Council Members can give an Interview,  TRY OUT, issue passwords,  or kick someone out of the Clan. Event Department Managers are specially authorized to issue the Event Calendar password to the workers in their department (Event Coordinators). It takes the approval of all the Council Members to make someone a [TiC] Member (TRY OUT) or give them a "Job Title"  (such as Department Manager) or kick then out of the Clan.

 You have to have done the job of Department Manager and done a great job at it, attended all Clan and Staff Meetings, showed 100% unselfish loyalty, and when a Council Member job is open the Council Members will discuss it amongst themselves and offer the job to the most senior hardest worker. Council Members will contact the person and discuss the responsibilities and guidelines of the job and what will be expected from them as a Department Manager.

 Generally the job of Department Manager requires at least 5+ hours of work for the Club each week, plus attending the Meetings.

[TiC]Big, [TiC]Wheelman, & [TiC]EVIL are the current Council Members.

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This page was last updated 04/27/03.