Brining new recruits in
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 2:08 pm
Hi there! Just checking in on one of my now occasonal visits. I scanned the forums for the intervening weeks. And saw Yaro's query/complaint/celebration that all the new recruits were coming to him and his clan, thanks (?!) to the pointers on the "New visitors look here!" that I wrote a while back. I can't seem to find the post or thread again, so my clarification has to be a new thread.
Funny, I seem to remember squaring that wording with Yaro before I went to print ?; maybe not. Anyway, it does NOT send every new recruit to join Yarosund's clan Brotherhood of Vayuna. It directs them there as possibly their best first point-of-contact. What that section actually says is (look it up on the "New Visitors":
"The way to join a clan is to click on “Site Content”, at the top, then choose “Clan Homepage”, which lists the current clans and their clanleaders, Clicking on the name of a clan’s leader calls up an email from you to his address; just mail him saying you’d like to join his clan and that you won’t go AWOL after 1 or 2 turns…. If you can’t decide which clan to apply to, just use a pin! (you can always change clans later), or else click on any clan in the “Clan” column of the “Clan Homepage” and see what they have to say about themselves.
Don’t worry, someone will accept you into their clan, so long as you avoid phrases like “I may not have time to get orders in every turn” (it happens to all of us from time to time, no worries, but is a real turn-off to a clanleader who is taking you into their clan!). The clanleader will then tell you how you can now register as a player, with a name of your choice ……. you need to have a clan before you can register. The whole thing takes a day, if the clanleader opens your mail in time.ut themselves, and choose one to apply to, by mailing the clanleader. As I write, if I were you (at risk of annoying others, including my own clan), I’d say maybe choose the Balance Of Time clan, because its leader Yarosund, is committed to bringing in and helping new players, even running training games if you want to practice before you take on the old hands! Sometimes games are run for new-playeres-only. Or he’ll pass you on to other clans, for variety of clanmembersns getting new members ."
i.e., it praises Yarosund for being great at welcoming and training new recruits, but specifically suggests that he might pass you on to other clans, at his discretion. ( I thought Yaro would act as a clearing-house, and pass on applicants to other clanheads if inundated, or to spread the boon). I still think I was right to suggest a PERSON to contact in the first instance ....... psyschology tells you that you recruit more casuals if you give them a "simple-next-step", and preferably one human they can approach to get their show on the road, rather than a "system" or "procedure". So they contacted Yaro. Yaro was at liberty to re-direct them to other clanheads .....
Well done Yaro. I put your name in there precisely BECAUSE you are so good at welcoming/training the new players; it wasn't meant to be an embarrassment or burden - you were free to redirect them to any other clanhead you knew was willing to take them on!
OK?
~ Han
Funny, I seem to remember squaring that wording with Yaro before I went to print ?; maybe not. Anyway, it does NOT send every new recruit to join Yarosund's clan Brotherhood of Vayuna. It directs them there as possibly their best first point-of-contact. What that section actually says is (look it up on the "New Visitors":
"The way to join a clan is to click on “Site Content”, at the top, then choose “Clan Homepage”, which lists the current clans and their clanleaders, Clicking on the name of a clan’s leader calls up an email from you to his address; just mail him saying you’d like to join his clan and that you won’t go AWOL after 1 or 2 turns…. If you can’t decide which clan to apply to, just use a pin! (you can always change clans later), or else click on any clan in the “Clan” column of the “Clan Homepage” and see what they have to say about themselves.
Don’t worry, someone will accept you into their clan, so long as you avoid phrases like “I may not have time to get orders in every turn” (it happens to all of us from time to time, no worries, but is a real turn-off to a clanleader who is taking you into their clan!). The clanleader will then tell you how you can now register as a player, with a name of your choice ……. you need to have a clan before you can register. The whole thing takes a day, if the clanleader opens your mail in time.ut themselves, and choose one to apply to, by mailing the clanleader. As I write, if I were you (at risk of annoying others, including my own clan), I’d say maybe choose the Balance Of Time clan, because its leader Yarosund, is committed to bringing in and helping new players, even running training games if you want to practice before you take on the old hands! Sometimes games are run for new-playeres-only. Or he’ll pass you on to other clans, for variety of clanmembersns getting new members ."
i.e., it praises Yarosund for being great at welcoming and training new recruits, but specifically suggests that he might pass you on to other clans, at his discretion. ( I thought Yaro would act as a clearing-house, and pass on applicants to other clanheads if inundated, or to spread the boon). I still think I was right to suggest a PERSON to contact in the first instance ....... psyschology tells you that you recruit more casuals if you give them a "simple-next-step", and preferably one human they can approach to get their show on the road, rather than a "system" or "procedure". So they contacted Yaro. Yaro was at liberty to re-direct them to other clanheads .....
Well done Yaro. I put your name in there precisely BECAUSE you are so good at welcoming/training the new players; it wasn't meant to be an embarrassment or burden - you were free to redirect them to any other clanhead you knew was willing to take them on!
OK?
~ Han