I support a more liberal member cap of, say, 50 or 55.

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You need to calm down. Don't swear at me for stating a point. People would strive to get better, not everybody would just give up. I'm sorry if you are like that, but not everybody is.

50-55 is too much in my opinion, because if you think about it, that would basically allow every player on Era to be apart of a gang. I think you should earn the spot.

30-35, tops.

The problem is that you guys are thinking in terms of the average playercount.

More than 70-100 people play Era every day, far more every week. Alot of people play in different timezones and whatnot, so we have to try and accomodate them as well.
Also think, if a not-so-important gang member goes on vacation or something for a week or two with a member cap of 30-35, they'd probably end up removed if the gang was already at the cap and wanted to recruit someone else while they're gone.

Thats why I was saying either no member count or something reasonable.

Uh, I was the one who had the gang limit put in and I can honestly say 25 is too low. I had it orginally set to 25 and gangs well, died. I know 25 sounds like a lot, but generally those 25 people aren't always on, actually most of them are on at completely different times all together, so yeah...
I totally think my gang limit should of stayed, but not at 25....
Maybe 50.

Honestly though if we had one decent gang on Era at all, we would have atleast one gang that had half the limit even though they could have 50. The people who hire as much as possible will always be considered the noob gangs, unfortually every gang at the moment is "noob"