The Old Man Clan was founded in 2005 by Dog, Blaze, Bangalor and Blue.

After playing numerous online games infested by trolls, the founders formed the OMC as a refuge for adult gamers. We consider ourselves more like an online drinking team rather than an actual gaming clan.

Becoming a member of the OMC is more like pledging a fraternity than a usual gaming clan. Applicants start out in boot camp to learn the basic rules of how we play, then they become pledges. After a period of time, if the OMC deems you worthy, you will become OMC.

You need to be at least 30 to apply. However, there are exceptions for active duty military/veterans and friends/family of OMC members.

At our age, we have enough stress in our lives and play videogames for fun.

As a clan, pretty much all shooters (in the past year: COD4, W@W, MW2, BO, MW3, BFBC, BFBC2, BF3, MAG, KZ2, RDR, but members will often play other types of games together as well.

Right now over 110.

Since we have members all over the world, there is rarely any time when there’s not an OMC Member playing online. The heaviest time is usually between 8PM and 2AM Eastern time.

On the North American side, the President is OMC-DIRTY DICK and the Vice President is OMC-FROSTY. For our EU group, the President is OMC-DUTCHBOY and the Vice President is OMC-CHURCHILL. We also have Judicial and Recruiting departments for each side of the pond.

Don’t panic! While your password cannot be retrieved, it can easily be reset. Visit the login page and click I’ve forgotten my password. Follow the instructions and you should be able to log in again shortly.

Due to an issue with our boards in June 2010, we had to start them over. If you registered before then, you will need to re-register. If you registered after June 2010, but more than a month ago, aren’t an OMC member, but didn’t make any posts, we deleted you to keep our user database slim and sexy.

It is possible that you were being an ass and we banned your IP address or disallowed the username you are attempting to register.

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Although we are a world-wide gaming clan, we only use English on the forums.

There are two images which appear along with a username when viewing posts. One of them is your posting rank, modeled after US Military ranks, though some OMC have other images here depending on their role in the OMC. The other image is known as an avatar and is generally unique or personal to each user. You are able to pick one of our pre-loaded avatars or upload your own.

Ranks, which appear below your username, indicate the number of posts you have made or identify certain users, e.g. moderators and administrators. In general, you cannot directly change the wording of any board ranks as they are set by the board administrator. Please do not abuse the board by spamming posts just to get your rank up. We will ban you.

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Unless you are a board administrator or moderator, you can only edit or delete your own posts. You can edit a post by clicking the edit button for the relevant post, sometimes for only a limited time after the post was made. If someone has already replied to the post, you will find a small piece of text output below the post when you return to the topic which lists the number of times you edited it along with the date and time. This will only appear if someone has made a reply; it will not appear if a moderator or administrator edited the post, though they may leave a note as to why they’ve edited the post at their own discretion. Please note that normal users cannot delete a post once someone has replied.

To add a signature to a post you must first create one via your User Control Panel. Once created, you can check the Attach a signature box on the posting form to add your signature. You can also add a signature by default to all your posts by checking the appropriate radio button in your profile. If you do so, you can still prevent a signature being added to individual posts by un-checking the add signature box within the posting form.

When posting a new topic or editing the first post of a topic, click the “Poll creation” tab below the main posting form; if you cannot see this, you do not have appropriate permissions to create polls. Enter a title and at least two options in the appropriate fields, making sure each option is on a separate line in the textarea. You can also set the number of options users may select during voting under “Options per user”, a time limit in days for the poll (0 for infinite duration) and lastly the option to allow users to amend their votes.

The limit for poll options is set by the board administrator. If you feel you need to add more options to your poll than the allowed amount, contact the board administrator.

As with posts, polls can only be edited by the original poster, a moderator or an administrator. To edit a poll, click to edit the first post in the topic; this always has the poll associated with it. If no one has cast a vote, users can delete the poll or edit any poll option. However, if members have already placed votes, only moderators or administrators can edit or delete it. This prevents the poll’s options from being changed mid-way through a poll.

Probably because you are not allowed. If you aren’t seeing a forum that you think you should be, contact OMC-DUTCHBOY or OMC-FROSTY

Attachments can only be added by Grads and OMC Members. If you are a Grad or OMC, contact OMC-DUTCHBOY or OMC-FROSTY and we will investigate.

Probably because you did something stupid. Or maybe because we felt like it. Or maybe we were just testing the system.

You should see a button for reporting posts next to the post you wish to report. Clicking this will walk you through the steps necessary to report the post.

This allows you to save passages to be completed and submitted at a later date. To reload a saved passage, visit the User Control Panel.

By clicking the “Bump topic” link when you are viewing it, you can “bump” the topic to the top of the forum on the first page. If you don’t see this button, the time allowance between bumps has not yet been reached.

BBCode is a special implementation of HTML, offering great formatting control on particular objects in a post. The use of BBCode is granted by the administrator, but it can also be disabled on a per post basis from the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML, but tags are enclosed in square brackets [ and ] rather than < and >. For more information on BBCode see the guide which can be accessed from the posting page.

No. It is not possible to post HTML on this board and have it rendered as HTML. Most formatting which can be carried out using HTML can be applied using BBCode instead.

Smilies, or Emoticons, are small images which can be used to express a feeling using a short code, e.g. :) denotes happy, while :( denotes sad. The full list of emoticons can be seen in the posting form. Try not to overuse smilies, however, as they can quickly render a post unreadable and a moderator may edit them out or remove the post altogether. The board administrator may also have set a limit to the number of smilies you may use within a post.

Yes, images can be shown in your posts. If you are OMC or a Grad, you can upload the image to the board via an attachment. Otherwise, you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. imageshack. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor images stored behind authentication mechanisms, e.g. hotmail or yahoo mailboxes, password protected sites, etc. To display the image use the BBCode [img] tag.

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To make things pretty.

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