Current Goals: [OUT OF DATE: Needs to be brought in line with current model of operation.]
- Reach Tier 5 status
- Rebrand organization to appeal to more mature audience? (8th Armored?)
- Membership to about 100
- Recruit a Brit or two
- In-House Game Server Hosting
- Remove costs of rental. Donations become slightly less critical and could transition from server rental to acquisition and maintenance of in house team hosting equipment. (ie. replacing a failed hard drive)
- Bandwidth seems to be biggest restriction at this time.
- Olathe, KS appears to be taking part in Google’s fiber experiment starting within the next 6 months. This will provide a unique opportunity that very few organizations can actually take advantage of as I am at that location.
- (Proof of Concept is underway now for CoD at test.eliteclangaming.com)
- If this is successful, we could potentially host a couple servers for other games, CoD4 etc.
- There is also a potential for us to start using a dedicated server in a data center to give us more resources on our current budget. (The KC server is a proof of concept that shows its viable)
- Better integration of website and forums. Potential total overhaul.
- Distributed administration abilities using several super-admins to keep things running smoothly.
- Better delegation within officer corp to better use talents available.
- Moving up some of our quality lower ranked members who are ready for more responsibility.
- In House Plugin work for our games in addition to custom maps? We have some talented up and coming devs. Use maps for pushing name.
- Clan press core to generate quality content. Substance and depth seem to be everything.
- Potential Enforcement System? Rules and regulations have always been very lax, perhaps a little more structure would help?
Sgt.Skiffy