paultownson:
I sympathize with you guys. I really do. But it's not the end of your club.
I belonged to a 250 member club which lost it's owner. (Masters and Disasters). I tried weeks of begging e-mails to WGT. The end of the line, was that our only choice was to start a new club. I created 'The Real Masters and Disasters' last May, with 40 guys from the old club. We now have 150 members, Club level 9, we came 18th in the latest 'Club Clashes' and all this in only 9 months! I've also had to remove around 50 members that hadn't played for over 3 months.
I only had a start of 40 members and it's going great. A big club like yourselves, with good communication and with attraction, could be back to where you were in less than a year.
It's still the same bunch of guys, just a different name. So, don't let your club die slowly. Make the change now, because it works!
WGT need to allow a change of Club Ownership, in cases like yours and mine.
Wishing you the best.
Paul.
Paul:
The problem is that the rules of the game have changed since the CC upgrades last August.
One of the members cannot go out and form a 250 member CC for 500 credits anymore and invite all the other 249 members. Rather, they have to start at CC XL 1 with 15 members and slowly work their way up to Level 11 before they can have a 250 member CC. So roughly 12.2 million CC XPs.
Yes it can be done - The Yorkshire County Golf Club had the same problem and had to start over as The Yorkshire County GC. It is a slow process but they have done really well getting the rejuvenated CC up and going.
The problem, as I see it is, that in the time it takes to go from 15 to 250 members many in the old CC who have to wait to be invited will bail out and will find a different CC.
Senior Moments has attracted some members from SCCC, but is at a level where only 50 can be invited. There is another CC by another member up and running as well, further splitting up the core group.
This is a situation that never has to happen in the future and should not have happened in the past to those it has happened to.
About this time last year WGTIcon stated that a CC "co-owner" was on the list of things for WGT to do to improve Country Clubs and that CC improvements were on their way soon.
We got CC Improvements just five months later.
Until those improvements are fully implemented however WGT has made the situation presented here and in the past discussions worse rather than better.
Simply, 1) one cannot buy a 250 member CC with credits but has to build it from scratch 2) not implemented any powers for the "co-owner" (now know as Director) and 3) not even gone in and given the new CC even some of the XPs of the old CC to give them a head start.
Seriously, would anyone object if last year WGT went in and adjusted The Yorkshire County GC upwards by 1 million CC XPs once the first 15 members of the old TYCGC joined? (the old TYCGC had 2.1 million at the time their plight came to light in the Forum).
Would anyone object if the two new CCs in this case were each given 2.5 million bonus CC XPs when SCCC's current total is close to 22 million?
I do not think anyone would object.
Ed
PS to WGT: Please, Please, Please do not give Courteney the pony you have promised here when The Peoples Club gets to Level 17 - we would not want her falling off and our CC in this situation...