Request: Change the Rules for Recruitment

[StuartD_MFC]

It say's what I'm asking in the title, but I'll explain why I would like their to be a change.

In Battle mode, games can last quite a while, so it takes a fair amount of time to put out more than 1 recruitment message. If I want to go on for a quick 30minutes to do some recruiting before going to sleep or going out. It's almost impossible, seeing as 1 message has a high chance of doing nothing and in the end it requires hours upon hours upon hours to get anywhere.

for A while now, I've been going on for a 2+ hours at a time, and I only get out 5 recruitment messages (estimate), and in that length of time, I've had no new recruits for my efforts.

I know, the timing of the recruiting has an effect on it, but I've been recruiting at different times of the day, between 2pm-12am.

I know that it depends on how many people aren't in a regiment, and want to join one. But I can't change that.

The amount of recruitment messages per game though, does have an effect. 1 Recruitment message at the start of a new game, is useless (IMO)  because by the start of the next few rounds, people have left, and new people have joined. And by the time the end of the map comes along, the new people who joined have left.

I would like to see the rules changed to increase the amount of times you can put up a recruitment message per map. Not to the point where it's Once every round. But maybe Every 2nd round? or maybe 2/3 times a map.

Thanks for reading What do you guy's think?

 

[cenzila]

The reason we implemented the 1 post per map rule, is that it is extremely hard to keep track of regiments posting Messages, and we do not force our admins to go out of their way to keep a tally. The servers is not intended to be a recruitment server, we merely allow it. Yes the 1 post normally does nothing. But there are other ways of gaining recruits if you use your imagination or just show your skill people may come to you. This rule also allows a better regulated and fairer system for regiments: As there was a 3 post per map rule in MM we found that it was ineffective at stopping reg spam messages. I believe that this is a better rule than others tried before(from experience) and i'm unlikely to change it.

TL;DR
keeps it fair
Stops Spam
Hard to Admin
Not likely to change

 

[StuartD_MFC]

Ah ok no problem, I guess I can see where your coming from.

 

[Lloydski]

It doesn't seem much from a recruiter's point of view, but if you look at the number of regiments and then have multiple regiments trying to recruit in the same server it gets cluttered. Some people want to just play without being harassed by recruiters. The most effective way of recruiting that I've found is having a server of your own and keeping it on a decent map/gamemode rotation and having your members populate it.

 

[nicknick12]

I hate recruiting in a server with a bunch of regiments

 

[Raging Womble]

If you want to get the most out of recruiting do it after a LB or training and get your entire regiment on one server, playing well- at the top of the leader board and being disciplined

 

[Kator Viridian]

Imagine a film with adverts and imagine a film without adverts ... which one would you rather watch?

Although the standpoint is very different in that you are playing a game, the principle is still pretty much the same, if your already in a regiment and your seeing the spam of messages you just get annoyed ... infact it can be another factor towards splitting communities and annoying other regiments.

Likewise if you don't want to join a regiment and are keeping tabs on the general chatter then having recruitment spam can be very annoying.

There are plenty of ways to recruit other than through the spam of messages, there are steam groups, teamspeak and other servers that cater to different needs than EU1 or NA1 servers where the majority go. For example some of our newer recruits found us by actively seeking us out, and having seen a few of our muck around videos and seeing we were enjoying ourselves than taking it all too seriously.

If sending out messages constantly was an extrememly good way to recruit do you not think job advertisements would be constantly posted through your door or every second advert on the TV or internet was a job advertisement?

 

[Feldmarschall Ben]

Imagine a film about adverts...
I´ve seen such a film and it was terrible

And to say something usefull...
Yes, the Spam in MM was... special.

I remember when there were around 25 guys of the 21e Regiment (They don´t exist anymore) on the official battle server...
3 Times on a map EVERYONE was sending a recruitment message at the same time...

Good times