Presidential Task Force on New Member Recruitment

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

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[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

One of the biggest problems we will have with off site recruitment is time. This is twofold.

One, Dave needs to activate accounts. I've lost countless people who I've sent here because they lose interest in something in that short time. Its not that these are bad people, I've had tonnes of people show up and want to go NOWNOWNOW and some of them turn out to be amazing (like me). It is just human nature, and in particular, the nature of the type of people who want to play these games.

They have opinions and want to express them, all of them, quickly, and loudly. And that is what build a great game.

That is the first obstacle. The second is the fact that you have to wait multiple days before you can even officially join Atlasia. It may make sense to introduce a bill that says people can pre-register; IE register before they are allowed, with their registration only taking effect on the proper date; but that during this time, they can debate (but not vote) on things. This could help them get interested.

Recruitment is not easy. This is my example: http://rxr.ridingbyriding.ca/ My 'precious' game is dead. Died. Lack of players. Even our best minds could not keep it going.

The best way to grow the game is to grow awareness of it. This means, in short, playing other polsims. You need to go and play them and get to know their players. This does not mean you need to be a ninja about it. Ideally you should be joining these games to have fun and actually play them.

Most polsims dont like cheap ads for nothing. IE dont sign up and on day one say "JOIN ATLASIA" thats a quick way to a ban. Over time, however, note some differences. Say things like "Oh sorry, I didn't realize. I play Atlasia which is very different" and when people ask what it is, respond in a PM. Don't post a link to Atlasia publicly until you know for a fact it wont be frowned upon.

Knowledge of Atlasia is low. People just plain have no idea it exists. If you want more players you need to raise this knowledge. Google "political simulations" and google the names of other known ones like "US Gov Sim" "USGS" "United States Government Simulation" as well as "AGS" and "American Government Simualtion" for starters. "PolCan" "Politics Canada", "PolUK" "Politics UK" etc. Some websites/forums run a list of known polsims. Get Atlasia added to as many of those lists as you can. When you find these lists, take note of the other games. Try to reach out to the admins and see if you cant work out a link exchange between the Atlas/Atlasia and their game.

Recruitment is not an easy process, there are ways to do it, but all of them are difficult and labour intensive.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

We might also want to look into rules of conduct that are stricter in the game than in the forum as a whole. This is the only game I've ever played with trolls.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Oh right, I forgot about this >.<

Anything that I can do at this point?