Guild Leader Gold Movement

[Rockwell]

[quote=“Lardy-Porker, post:8, topic:32636, full:true”]

1. Forum Ad. This is the best choice for bringing on new. reliable players. Unfortunately if you’re a ‘small guild’ you’re not likely to get a lot of responses to your ad. [/quote]

Tried that, only got one person interested because the players you want probably aren’t on here anyway

2) Global Chat. If you have a guild member (or members) who like to do this, probably your best option. Unfortunately most people hate this job (I tried it and hated it…).

Barely worth bothering with because there’s too much “noise” that swamps out the “signal”.

3) Open Recruit. It’s not hopeless, a few of our best players walked in via Open Recruit. But most players you gain this way will be mediocre at best. We found that about 1/3 of those who joined via this option never played at all after joining

Yep, or they play well for a week, then disappear off and you have to decide whether to give them a week, just in case they’ve had connection problems or lost their phone or kick them immediately

One piece of wisdom I can offer: if the player joins via Open Recruit and doesn’t bother to at least pop into your Guild Chat to introduce themselves in the first 48 hours, just boot them. They are very unlikely to be worthwhile.

Not necessarily the case, our Guild has some very good, long term players who just play, but don’t Chat (one because he doesn’t speak much English)

I still think a “Narrowcast” ability for the Guild Leader in Chat would be a good idea (see Guild Leader "Narrowcast" to Guild members ) so they can send messages that flag up for all Members, but I won’t hold my breath…