UT,

I will respond to your "MotR specific issues via PM, and if you decide to you can share this information with your members that is fine as it should probably come from you rather the other individuals who have contact me from your clan.. I do not think that it would be in the best interest of MotR or ER to discuss those matter on this forum wiht the other 5-7 clans and 200+ players that play RC.   I would be happy to discuss this with you as the clan leader of MotR, and it probably something we should have discussed sometime ago.

Regarding your other issues, Roster changes. The following sections are in the rules for each event. They are rather repetitive, but the speak to your suggestion in numerious ways. We basically say the same thing over and over again. In the past this was not enforced and the moderators had to spend hours trying to resolve this issues. The latest attempt to fix the unregistered player problem has been to the put the responsibility on the players reporting/playing in the match.  The last strategy which alerted the Club Captains via PM failed miserable as for the 4-6 events when we tried that we never once got contact by a club captain to resolve the player not on rosters.  The current strategy has been the most effective with regards to reducing the frequency of these matches.

1. Stop allowing roster changes after event starts. I feel if players think their match will get deleted, they will make sure their fellow players are listed before going into the match. Nobody wants to waste their time playing to just have the match deleted. This will also free up some time for the ER mods and eliminate confusion. Ultimately this forces the clan members to pay more attention to stuff like this.

This is addressed in the rules to the event.  However allowing people to affiliate (join but not leave a club) is an ER wide policy. Having the RC policy differ from the standard ER policy would be counterproductive.  Allowing people to affiate is a positive thing, (for now). The problem isn't allowing people how honestly forgot to affil or thought they were affil'd the problem is people who aren't even registered.  Not allowing people to affiliate would likely cause other problems as it removes our ability to address these issues when they happen (unintentially). The larger issue is when a player (usually a top 10 player) plays 30+ matches with 2 or more unregistereds. We have no way to verify this, so putting the responsibility on them is the best solution.  The recent rule change which says the reported is responsible for making sure the particapants are registered has reduced the number of "player not on roster" reported matches by over 1/3.   The moderators feel that this is acceptable an will only continue to improve as the word gets out (often people don't read the event rules).

1. Registration

All Clans MUST be registered with Ecliptical Realms in order to participate in Republic Commando events. Club Captains must have all participating members registered with ER and affiliated with their Club including the Captain approving themselves.

2. Setup and Coordination of Matches 
a) Match Agreement:
During match setup, when maps, hosts, number of matches, in game species, and competing sides are chosen, players on each team should be announced to help enforce that all players in the match are signed up at Ecliptical Realms and are active on a club.

 c) Membership:
Clan and player membership should be verified prior to each battle event. ER names must match in-game names.

d 3. Rosters should discussed if only to verify ER membership status, before the battle starts and host launches game.

5. Reporting Matches

 2) Documentation:
All players are encouraged to take their own screen shot of the results of each battle.

3) Unregistered Players:
Players affiliation and ER status should be verified by both teams prior to the event.

Your other question was:

2. Require the player in each match to edit their in-game name to match the one here at ER. This makes match reporting easier at the time of submitting and would help eliminate submitting scores for the wrong player. This also makes it easier for a Mod to verify screenshots in disputes. Plus, it allows all players that keep back-up screenshots and personally verify the match reports themselves. Really it's not hard to press ~, then type name ______. This again, makes the job of the Mod easier.

This is covered in the rules:

 c) Membership:
Clan and player membership should be verified prior to each battle event. ER names must match in-game names.

I don't understand how we can further require this, if the match particapants themselves do not inforce the rule, afterall moderators are not necessarily involved in each match.

I'll send you a PM with the other issues 3/4, and we can discuss.

-bp