@Marilyn*43 Woohoo...4 pages! You've lit a
FIRE! We're of course attracted to the bright orange warm glow like moth to light (some more than others). Don't feel bad or discouraged about the dissenting opinions. When your lede is "players should be banned", it's gonna unleash some strong and passionate feelings.
Thank goodness that in Elvenar, the ability to use the equivalent of robo-calls and email blasts is severely curtailed. One checkmark on the plus side for an antiquated message/chat system, lol!
I expect my best players to be accosted and they're all free to go wherever as they please, but there's a notorious FS on EN server that blanket canvas my entire FS. C'mon now, that's just lazy recruiting! We're an active Gold Spire FS too. I'm tempted to just add to my FS description that they think we're their minor league farm system bc they keep trying to recruit all of us. The other FS reading that will get a good chuckle. Archmages talk to each other. We all know. My fellows enjoy writing creative rejection letters though, and given this is EN, they have as many unique ways across the pond to tell someone to piss off as they do describing low levels of sobriety, so at least it's entertaining.
Many of you seem to be missing the point here. A fellowship does not have to be gold spire/ten chests to be a good fellowship. That's not the kind of FS that a player looking for is a no-pressure FS needs. An overview that says "no" or "low" pressure doesn't negate the implied pressure put on members to go all the way up the spire and/or get ten chests or more - and no, pressure is not apparent when the overview says "no pressure". Three people from my FS were recruited by the same AM ... two of them left and I didn't. Even though I politely responded that I was happy where I was, he kept pressuring me to switch. No "don't solicit" is going to stop people like that. People who are "happy" can, indeed, be poached if they think the grass is greener. A cohesive FS is much more important to me than a full FS; however, that's really not obvious from my elvenstats. I also find it much more rewarding to help new players than trying to keep up with high level players, an insidious type of pressure in itself. People who enjoy that have no reason to change from it any more than people who don't enjoy it should be persuaded to jump to it. People have different ways of playing the game, which should be respected.
If someone left for greener pastures, a part of them wasn't happy with the current offerings though. And I do agree, a FS doesn't have to be all about prizes and rewards. My new US FS is only 4 months old and started with no chests or spire medals to offer. Yes, our players have already been accosted, myself included. The bigger wolves have been hunting and circling. But I like to think, well at least it's wolves and not vultures. We're not dying and circling the drain. We're fresh meat on everyone's radars suddenly because of our recent FA and Spire success. As
@Silly Bubbles said, it can be taken as a compliment. However, we're not going to chase 19 chests because I am lazy and recruiting is
hard™ so I don't plan to make the worst part of running a FS even more unbearable by limiting myself to a certain range of tourney players. If that's what players want, they'll have to look elsewhere and let themselves be poached. Most FS drama stems from people playing in a wrong fitting fellowship, as most of the wise people here have already stated. I have no interest in playing with people who don't want to be here either so they're all free to leave, if not with their own two feet and of their own accord, then I'm always happy to provide a one way ticket ride on the trebuchet.
But it's also silly to imply everyone reads FS descriptions before applying to land themselves into the right fitting FS. Some just randomly apply and some FS just randomly accepts, even when it's an obvious profile mismatch. I know for a fact most don't read descriptions because I handle recruiting (is
hard™) and the first part of the vetting process is seeing who can read and follow directions. If they fail the first step, we might not even bother looking up their stats. Truth is, a player isn't going to impress us just because they can throw 40k tourney points up weekly. That number can just as well be describing a singularly-focused, self-centered narcissistic jerk who wants everything for themselves. In which case, it'll be a bad fit for us. Again, it's all about perspective. So it's not all about stats and numbers. We took in a fledgling baby Flower Goblin with racing stripes even though she had no numbers because we know she has other intangibles we're after, like detective skills to help us find Shannon Egan.
* Recruiting is hard™ is a registered trademark of @Ihrlaen
the recruitment attempts probably make ya'll go "hey we must be getting close, lets get em!"
They went after them by adding a new chapter 1 player. That'll show them! HA HA HA!
We're not even trying to get close. We have some very small players, and we have no interest in replacing them with high-ranked players. We're high-ranked because many of us have been together for years, so we have a lot of mature cities. But we love our little cities just as much.
Hmmm...do I have to pay you now? I'm so used to you mocking me. I'm confused and disoriented as to what to do when you say nice things. Maybe it's just the vertigo.
Nobody in my fellowship has left except for one who went BACK to Band of Weirdlings (hard to blame her).
Damn. She's my nemesis! I can only see the back of her knees though. She better watch out because my diapers are good for 60k pts now! I've progressed to pull-ups!