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Post by Possut Wed May 04, 2011 4:24 pm

We all have seen how new players are jumped on, everyone want that player to join your faction. This is not good looking and isn't very fun to be greeted with.

What I want to say here is that we pretty much forbid /global-spam "join my faction!!!" and instead let the player seek out and ask what factions he or she want to join. If the question arises it will then follow by a decent and good looking, "We are and we do this and that", and then let the player decide who to talk with.

If however, the player doesn't actually ask, someone could calmly /tell and introduce him/she to the game in a disciplined manner.

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Post by Crimsony Wed May 04, 2011 4:52 pm

The problem a lot of the smaller factions are having (and perhaps some of the bigger ones too) is the /f claim aspect of it. While I can guarantee my faction has never once spammed join ours now! (At least to my knowledge), many others do for the purpose of claiming more safe land they can build on. 10 squares per 10 people isn't bad, but a 160x160 space over the period of a couple of weeks becomes very small. So to remedy this people spam for land. People also spam for numbers when they are attacked. Personally when I've got at most 4 people to defend my territory from attack (all of whom aren't online at the same time) versus a squad of 10+ (who prob have sword leveling skills much higher than any of us) we loose our land.

I know the only 2 reasons really I want more people in my faction are for more land and for defense. Perhaps when the time comes when I run out of useable "safe" land I too may spam newbies. The bottom line is there's a limit somewhere, and in a game where in theory to survive (as in keep playing the game) you need to keep building. Limit the safe land to any extent and you will always have spam. New players unfortunately will be subject to it, and there's virtually no way around it.
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Post by The_Valken Wed May 04, 2011 5:54 pm

Crimsony, you keep relating land and safety. You shouldn't, they have almost nothing to do with each other. Pentra gave me my own personal 48x48 just because I asked for it and its as safe/safer than any other faction. Its build like Diamond except soon there wont even be a way to claim it if my faction was to get attacked.

I agree with the original post saying no spamming newbies, though it is a relatively effect manor of gaining members. But also, like he said, it is very annoying and very low for a faction to do. If you want members give your faction a good look, be well known, and a post explaining your faction in the faction thread helps too.

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Post by awesom03 Sat May 07, 2011 5:25 am

I would just like to say that we used to have an 'embassy' on the last map which held information on every active town on the map. This way new players could go there and pick a town which looked appealing. Perhaps this is something that may work well again?
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Post by Crimsony Sat May 07, 2011 8:42 am

It sounds like a decent plan, and with the release of 1.6 (supposedly not too far off) people will have a map feature. People will be able to see what each faction has to offer, and then (if notch provides it) allowing players to synch up their maps giving people an actual mini view of the faction city.

Currently with the amount of new people I see every day, spam is going to happen.

Actually I suppose you could have people join a new channel and only spam in there / have it listed in the rules so hopefully when people join they read it and go there to see who is all recruiting.
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Post by Possut Sat May 07, 2011 1:36 pm

The_Valken wrote:Crimsony, you keep relating land and safety. You shouldn't, they have almost nothing to do with each other. Pentra gave me my own personal 48x48 just because I asked for it and its as safe/safer than any other faction. Its build like Diamond except soon there wont even be a way to claim it if my faction was to get attacked.

I agree with the original post saying no spamming newbies, though it is a relatively effect manor of gaining members. But also, like he said, it is very annoying and very low for a faction to do. If you want members give your faction a good look, be well known, and a post explaining your faction in the faction thread helps too.

I really like this! We (The Order) are currently working on our own embassy, where new players can come and check us out, but a public embassy at spawn for that idea should definetly be built for new players to check out. Lets create an embassy area, pretty big one, with the "main-building" and each factions own embassy. Would be very professional and good looking!

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