Okay so as some of you may have heard...I recently had a member provide me with information on a replacement for the old MSN Internet Gaming Zone (MSNIGZ). I am sure some of you will remember this site well. It used to be a heavily used pool for recruits until it died out. This new site, the International Gaming Zone has started up a perfect clone of the old Zone. Over the last week I have sent petitions out to the High Council to get registered on there so we can start recruiting off there and for those who are interested...play games on there too.
Now...a few notes on that. First off to those that will remember how we used to register names there is NO NEED to register your name with a clantag anymore. I used to have VEA_Rizzit but for this site I just registered Rizzit because once I created the VEA Clan it shows up now as [VEA]Rizzit next to my name. (left or right of name depending on room)
I currently registered only the Army because obviously I cannot speak for the Navy. Also I did not notice any "Navy" games on there. To the Navy then: it is quite easy to register yourselves on there. If you should so desire or you are free to just join under the Army tag until such a time you do register yourselves. Recruits will join what division suits them best anyways.
As to the list of games...currently the only ones are Jedi Knight: Dark Forces2, Galactic Battlegrounds (and expansion) and Rainbow6. The site will always be adding new games they claim so in the future we might see almost 90% of our supported games on there.
Not supported games (though some I am sure you will remember) are Age of Empires (all), Microsoft Ants, and Midtown Madness. Ants is a free game by the way...you just download it and play. These games are not on the VE's official game list and most likely will NOT count towards personal activity but some of us might enjoy a casual game of something now and again so have at it. Though to be sure...contact your Commanding Officer(s).
The site is located at:
http://igzones.com
We are listed at:
http://www.igzones.com/clans/5141279 or lookup Vast Empire Army.
A note on recruiting...(and there are various threads on this too if you decide to be a comnet hermit). As a recruiter you will sit in a room and wait for someone to join your room. Your room will say something like "Vast Empire Recruiting" for a title and have a description like "Come join the Vast Empire we are a Star Wars club with a focus on fan fiction but also play all of the Star Wars games. http://www.vastempire.com" Once they enter you will have the job of explaining exactly who and what we are and help them through the joining process. Be sure to offer them BOTH Divisions as we are all part of the same club. They might be better suited for the Navy than the Army or vice versa. Also be sure to get them to list you as a recruiter and list this recruit in your weekly report.
That is pretty much the gist of things. The old zone was an enormous pool of recruits for a long time...hopefully this site can be just as good. I'll try to dig up the old recruit topics and maybe someone can sticky them for us? But in the meantime if there are any questions ask your immediate superiors as they will be getting an info packet on things as well. However, I will also be available to answer any and hopefully all questions!
