So, I've been thinking lately. I know that this isn't exactly an original idea, but what if we actually put time and effort into recruiting people into the guild and introducing them into the VE through that? They don't even have to join the Army/Navy, just post on the boards and be active. I think it's pretty clear at this point that any activity is better than none.

But before we start recruiting people, we need to make sure that the guild is actually worth joining. I think I read that the guild is primarily PvE/RP, so we can start doing TOR stories to show that we are actually active.

Or maybe I'm just rambling on with no fucking clue what I'm talking about.

So thoughts?

I can do the roster adding, if I'm trustworthy enough to fuck with the roster (note: I am :P ).

I think that we do need to change the "Marines" thing, though we can always put that up to a vote.

What do you mean by "academy-style proceedings"?

Marine Corps Story Board

Ahh. My bad. Yeah, I get what you mean now. Since we're a RP guild on a RP server, it would make sense for people to give a basic rundown on their characters. Hell, they can even make non-game characters as well for use in stories.

But if we're going to recruit people, we probably need to do some RP stuff, because why else would they join?

I do agree that it doesn't need to be overly complicated, though. We can maybe give them two options, a short skeleton bio and a much more in depth RP bio.

I logged in to my Serpentor character yesterday for the first time in a while, and saw that he had been promoted to Grand Master of the Order of Kadann!  Er... so am I the leader of our SWTOR guild now?

If so then I am quite happy to give it a try.  I'll do the shouting in General Chat advertising our guild, talking to people about why they should join.  But first, every guild must have a website.  And I might have mentioned this in another thread, but simply put, we don't have one.

First, and most obvious, the VE website has no clear sign saying 'Order of Kadann members go here'.  We need to fix that, with a nice clearly labelled SWTOR section plus basic introduction thread.

However, is it even possible for new people to join primarily for SWTOR?  Its been near two years since I joined the VE, but I think I recall having to select Army or Navy when I made my profile.  If new recruits don't have an 'Order of Kadann' option they may well think they've got the wrong place.  Sure, we'd like them to try out the two 'main' branches eventually, but we don't want them to feel pressured into it.

And finally, the Vast Empire site is not fitted out like a modern MMO Guild website.  The most important thing is a calender, clearly showing when we are having guild RP events.  Half the problem with the VE playing SWTOR is that nobody knows when to be on.  Even if it was only once or twice a week, a clearly marked "two hours SWTOR time here" would really help us, I believe.  Indeed, in the larger guilds, that is essential.  And alas, I don't know where to begin shoe-horning a calender system into this site!

So yeah, if we were going to do this.  I mean really do this, we will need to fix a few things first.