Annoucement: RE NS Recruitment

[Alvino Castillon]

Ikar has been suckered into has valiantly volunteered to save us from my laziness ourselves and take over NS recruitment efforts. He will be rewarded handsomely for his service to the Community. PAY PRAISE AND RESPECT UNTO HIM. >

PS: Thx Ikarius.

Np.  

Edit: Oh. Oh dip I should actually say some stuff. Here's a State of the Recruitment


Initial Look at the Region

Okay, so... where we are now. Things have changed in NS. A lot. Things have stayed the same here. A lot. We need to do recruitment. Cause let's face it, we're kinda lazy bastards busy people with very important and busy things to do. As time marches forward and things change, so too does our membership and levels of activity. Often, this will trend downwards rather than upwards, which is not good for the region as a whole.

Although we have a strange pull that seemingly brings back our members even after an extended hiatus, there is no guarantee this will last, especially if activity continues to decline. We have a very dedicated group of active users on the forum, including members of the staff, and a group of less active users on the forum (but still active in our chat), also including members of the staff. Having new members will make it easier to change things up and have new activity and innovations. It also means less holes on the map and a new sense of direction and motion forward. It also means an impetus for us to continue moving forward and actually plan new events and concepts (like global disasters! And spoopy ghosts! And aliens! Ghost aliens!)


Extended Look at NationStates Resources

Times have changed on NationStates. New tools, including the rise of a new wave of API-backed telegram-sending programs, make things a lot easier. NS even has an "official" add-on for web browsers now (although it will not likely be used for recruiting for various reasons). However we have also lost a few resources. Specifically, we have lost numbers in terms of nations in the Eternity RPC region.

As the NS region is the first thing new (and returning) NS players see, this is problematic. When they see a region with only 10 nations in it, they're more likely to pass on us. Activity is also an important part and not having a lot of messages on the board plays a part for new persons. Returning persons to NS are more likely to have a look beyond the front page (although that's not 100%) but membership still plays its role. Ten nations is not going to cut it if we want to see serious growth.

How We Move Forward

Well, this actually takes a bit of community effort. All of us has to play some role and do our part. What does this mean? Well:

• Each person should create or revive one of their nations on NS and bring it back to the Eternity region.
  
• Try being slightly active on the boards. A post once a day or something. If all of us make a post once a day or once every two days it should brighten things up a bit.
  
• Welcome new people with open arms and answer any questions they may have (alternatively, the Staff can whip something up if they wish... there's some ideas that we can prop up).
  

The first two points are the most important pieces. By showing we have some semblance of activity we can entice people to give us a second look. Also we can show off the god awful amazing map that we have that is totally done and totally has all the geography, including Kvaenna. That actually may entice them as well.

Additionally we should look to create a regional slogan. We made a thread about this already. Please look over suggestions and make your own suggestions (and please try to be serious).

Over the next few days I will be working with Flo on making a new recruitment telegram. Once we're all set to go and all the paperwork has been filed with the NS API Deities, we'll begin the recruiter. By then I'd like to have a slogan so, yeah.

If there are any questions or suggestions feel free to reach out! And please try to do the things above! Thank you very much!