In-game recruitment comments

[American Badass]

I think that as people are putting WAR WIN : 2 perhaps upon creating a recruitment template it adds that stat from your kingdom page to A) save space in description box and B) stop kingdoms lying. Perhaps "war" = war wins. "Honor = honor rank "growth" = Nw rank

[Crypticterror]

I still find recruiting on forums better :)

Because,
You can write down allot more what sort of player(s) you are looking.
You can give allot more information about your kd.
And for a recruit he can't really see how good a kingdom really is.

There are still more problems why it is still best to just use the forum to get players but,
this option helps ghetto's-semi warring kd's good.

But I think the better kd's will still relay more on the uto forum and than do an interview on irc etc.

So overall it is nice but could use some improvements

[mbab]

Devs; way to waste your 'time' when there are some things that needs to get fixed.Finding players via forums works alright.Was totally unnecessary =p
Luckily they didnt make this as premium feature as usual ^^

[Bishop]

Devs; way to waste your 'time' when there are some things that needs to get fixed.Finding players via forums works alright.Was totally unnecessary =p
Luckily they didnt make this as premium feature as usual ^^

Look, i'll pretend that was you trying to be constructive but, and i'm being nice here, you haven't a clue what you are talking about.

[dingy2]

The system is unusable imo. There needs to be a way to CONTACT these guys... there should be a little PM option nice and easy, or a little mini-forum or something. SOMETHING.
Recruiting is absolutely the most delicate process in Utopia, and we can't communicate with the guys trying to join? Yeah right.

That being said, all it needs is that function, and it's the best new feature added to Utopia EVER imo.

[dingy2]

I second Topsy's and American Badass' comments on first page about options. Either let me specify exactly what we're looking for, or let me select a range of options so he is locked out of picking dwarf/war hero or something ridiculous.
For a war wins or honor kd to be ranked by nw alone is pretty silly :)

[dingy2]

Might be nice to have the option to EDIT your current campaign, rather than having to end it and restart to change your 120 character pitch. Btw, only 120 characters, and I cant even review what I wrote.... this system just lacks communication ability top to bottom.

[lazl]

Sounds fancy, doesn't have all the features you want it to have if you'll be recruiting this way and in the end it all falls and stands with a player being honest..
As for the incidental case this system might be useful, it just still lacks if you're wanting to run a serious KD.

Somewhat of a let down, was expecting more of this grand announcement. Guess it's amazing it's not brought as a premium feature though :P

[Susie D.]

(...) it just still lacks if you're wanting to run a serious KD. (...)

I don't think this feature is targeted at "serious" kingdoms. They already had no trouble at all recruiting new players. For newer kingdoms, trying to crawl their way up from total ghetto-land, this feature could be exactly what they have needed for a long time.

[Molly]

This is a very seriously bad idea. Right now there is a group of kds with 25 players and these kds dont really have much trouble recruiting, and there is a group of kds with 20 players who are playing along happily enjoying the game against other kds with 20 and if they lose a player the game reloads them promptly with a fresh greenie. If you put an in your face notice that players see every time they login that basically says 'hey dude your kingdom sucks, why dont you join one of these other kingdoms...' I would expect that quite a few will give that a try. This will be a smashing success and will result in lots of kingdoms with 21 or 22 players. It will also result in a lot of kingdoms with 18 or 19 players. The game started this age with only 7 kingdoms per island so very clearly there is a shortage of players and it will not be long before the kingdoms with 18 simply dont get new recruits because there arent any. They wont want to play with that level of disadvantage so they will disband and half will join other kingdoms and half will say screw it and go play something else. Now you are down to 6 kingdoms on that island and headed rapidly to 5 or 4. Is that really where you want to be?

[Dolgil]

Disagree with the above. Now new players have a chance to be matched up with kds willing to take them rather than being bullied or killed oop. That here is a big reason people leave. Also, gets the kd involved with new players with communication. Many times I've gone into a kd and nobody even notices me for a week or two. Not exactly social there.

[Talaren]

@Bishop I think there should be a tag if a KD in particular is a 'New Players Welcome, will teach' etc. type of KD. That might make a NEW player more inclined to go to a KD that is interested in having him/her. Also a form of communication would be pretty sharp too, but that could be a mess considering forums and actual game are separate accounts (sort of).

Anyway, I think it looks great thus far, last step would be add an external link for KDs recruiting to send to old pals ;)

[Persain]

If i was looking for a kd i'd love to be able to see the kd page of the kd recruiting. That way i could judge for myself if i like them beyond the blurb/requirements.

[Palar]

I agree with dingy/badass and topsy you need some sort of contact between monarch's and those applying. I think that having a quck back and forth discussion would be very valuable to kds. And a way to rechoose race/perso would be very good particularly for recruiting but I guess the work around is delete and wait 24 hrs?

[igotnomilk]

I agree with a lot of the suggestions above
- as a recruiter I would like to know more than the one sentence 'I would like to join your kd' before sending this guy an invitation.

The recruiter needs a means to know more about the applicant. I just end up putting my MSN address on the recruitment campaign thingy.