In-game recruitment comments

[Topsy]

Mentioned this on IRC, but only 4 kd's are currently accessible to newbs. I think this could be a great tool to get newbs into kd's that are good enough to help them and get them into the game, but with only 4 accepting newbs(and 2 of them seem to be as ghetto as any random) it basically asks that they join and then use it again. I don't think it will be self-correcting on the monarch side, because i they put the lowest activity "any" than more serious people wouldn't want to go to their kd. Something on the monarch side that they can click which says "willing to help newbs" and then makes the bar not a requirenment for actual newbs would be nice.

[Bishop]

Its far too early to tell how many will recruit people with no recorded activity yet. Lets give it a while before we make any snap decisions.

[Marc5000]

Thats strange... I got 5 uniques (45m away from 6) in a min time war, train troops and sci every tick in post war CF and it says I'm not active enough for a KD with 3/3 activity.. haha not that I want to switch the KD I'm in but I think something is broken there. :-)

I also have colleagues who have no life and are here all the time and still get 2/3.

[Topsy]

It will take 5 days for the new system to recognize your lvl of activity. Right now, anyone recruiting who put maximum activity required will have noone send them a message.

[Bishop]

Nah, its 5 days for new players to build up activity levels. To get 3/3 you gotta be active over an 18 hour period - this is why its called hardcore ;)

[Marc5000]

Yeah, that must be broken. I'm talking people that have nothing to do in life other than stare at a screen. 18 hours is a lifetime. Unless something got reset and it takes another 5 days to re-earn the 3/3, something is off. I was previously 3/3 and nothing has changed in my activity so maybe something did get reset?

Edit: Never mind, I misunderstood.. Active 18 hours of the day.. Not every 18h, lol that wouldn't make much sense.

[Bishop]

You cant have previously been 3/3, this only went live 4 hours ago.

[Marc5000]

Yeah I understand, it was just open to everyone since there was no rating before. :-)

[Bishop]

Yup, exactly. We can always tweak this stuff later once get gather data - its more likely that kds will tweak their requirements i suspect.

[Marc5000]

If there is such thing as 0/3, what is required for 1/3 and 2/3 for activity?

[Bishop]

Log in within a 6 hour and 12 hour period respectively. Anyone that hits twice a day, or doesn't let their stealth/mana get over 60% should be in the active category right now.

[Marc5000]

That would be really cool if we could see our rating if we clicked on our own prov name on the KD page, maybe even extend it to intra-kd to view the ratings of KD mates. Then possibly an option to display it to others not in the KD, like how we have the option to show different statistics if we want to.

Slightly off topic, but it would also be cool if we could message a province by clicking a link after clicking their prov name.

[Bishop]

We are looking at adding your activity to your public profile, it involves messing with the db though so it wont even be looked at until Monday. There are also some other things that fall into the "nice to have, but a fair bit of work" category that we are investigating, such as one to one communications - remember, some players don't have a prov when they are looking to get placed. For now you can just stick your contact info in your ad.

[csarmi]

Hello,

My kingdom has 8 players AND that with using up all the invites (4 of them). The flow of new provinces has stopped completely. A few weeks ago we have been flooded by inactives, managed to kill them all, but now we get no new provs at all.

Does this recruitment feature help in it? Because I have 0 invites (moves) left and still I could launch a recruitment campaign and 'invite' the players who responded.
Not sure what would happen afterwards, because no one ever actually joined the kingdom this way.

What is the next step?

BTW, it would be extra cool that if your kingdom has a very low amount of provinces, you would get extra free invites, or recruitment would bring you new players even if you don't have any. Trust me, having 8 provinces are quite limiting. And I'm sure I was not supposed to keep all those provs with 420 acres 22k nw 20% draft and 2 mill gc, did I?

[Bishop]

You cant move people in if you have no invites left.