Aug 3rd 2013, 1:30:33
16 is the maximum you can play and in some ways it's beneficial to have 16, so you might consider making all 16. You could always drop the ones you don't feel comfortable with if you think you have too many.
As far as clans, what do you want to do:
Netgain almost always? War almost always? Do a combination of both?
PANLV is the best netgaining clan, and is my clan.
eepandora.com if you want to join us.
TKO and SOTA are good netgaining options too.
Ares netgained this last set, but I think they started off as a war clan, disappeared for awhile and are just back recently. They might be a good option if you want to do some netting and some warring.
NBK and CC are almost exclusively warring clans, despite this last set being pretty much a server-wide netting set. CC also has some people who definitely know how to throw up a big country (last set's #1 and #2 both came from CC), although they aren't nearly as good top to bottom in netgaining as PANLV, TKO, or even SOTA.
NBK is pretty much pure warring. Even this set in a set where there were no significant wars, NBK still spent most of their time cleaning up messes for other clans so they could peacefully netgain, killing off suiciders. If they don't find a war, they'll at least find targets for you to kill anyway.
There are a few other clans returning this coming set. XI was coming back, which is mostly a war clan, and I think there was someone else, but I can't recall who.