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04-09-2015, 06:08 AM
Hm.. Personally, I like the Threshold, and when I was a herd leader I enjoyed going there and picking people up. It's a great way to meet new characters, and I always found the "welcoming" threads in the home land more bothersome tbh :B
But it's nearly 2 years since I last was a recruiter so things might have changed since!
The idea of the Threshold being optional for secondary characters is interesting.
What about a hybrid of IC/OOC herd joining? It's an example from RoW, really, where they have OOC pack joining because it got kind of tedious at some point with all these loners falling on your borders looking to join/needing to have an IC thread where someone invited you.
Their system works that they have a board for OOC joining and a thread with a post prompt for each pack, and the character looking to join posts their own thread with the pack name in the title, and a full-fledged post responding to the prompt (the prompt is normally something like you come upon the borders and one of the leaders show up and ask you what you can offer the pack in terms of loyalty and skill). Then either of the leaders decide what to do, and either just post "Ok you're in ~" or some shorter IC-type reply. And then you're accepted and can go have fun.
However, I've always been fond of "recruiting ground" type areas, because some of the most marvelous things have come from when my characters have been presented with multiple allegiance choices and then made their picks. So instead of having a mandatory Threshold, maybe have an open "recruiting ground" where a character can go if they want to be recruited someplace? Maybe in tandem with the OOC/IC hybrid joining for those who already know where they want to go?
^Doutaini had something that like this, an open recruiting/claiming ground and another one where you requested to join a specific element.
The recruiting grounds wouldn't be restricted to new characters. Any old geezer (cough Mau) who wanted someone to convince him into having a home could go there. C:
But it's nearly 2 years since I last was a recruiter so things might have changed since!
The idea of the Threshold being optional for secondary characters is interesting.
What about a hybrid of IC/OOC herd joining? It's an example from RoW, really, where they have OOC pack joining because it got kind of tedious at some point with all these loners falling on your borders looking to join/needing to have an IC thread where someone invited you.
Their system works that they have a board for OOC joining and a thread with a post prompt for each pack, and the character looking to join posts their own thread with the pack name in the title, and a full-fledged post responding to the prompt (the prompt is normally something like you come upon the borders and one of the leaders show up and ask you what you can offer the pack in terms of loyalty and skill). Then either of the leaders decide what to do, and either just post "Ok you're in ~" or some shorter IC-type reply. And then you're accepted and can go have fun.
However, I've always been fond of "recruiting ground" type areas, because some of the most marvelous things have come from when my characters have been presented with multiple allegiance choices and then made their picks. So instead of having a mandatory Threshold, maybe have an open "recruiting ground" where a character can go if they want to be recruited someplace? Maybe in tandem with the OOC/IC hybrid joining for those who already know where they want to go?
^Doutaini had something that like this, an open recruiting/claiming ground and another one where you requested to join a specific element.
The recruiting grounds wouldn't be restricted to new characters. Any old geezer (cough Mau) who wanted someone to convince him into having a home could go there. C:
