In-game RP recruiting 1.0

[likwidtek]

This is just me thinking aloud so to speak.  

I feel we have two main weaknesses right now.  One is our lack of character skill / PVP effectiveness and the other is our numbers.  The focus of this thread is my proposed solution for the latter.  We did this in MxO and it was HIGHLY effective and really fun.  This should only be looked at as a partial effort and part of a multipronged recruitment effort.

I propose we take some RP volunteers in-game for some FA recruiting.  It would go something like this:

A small band of Angels gear up and venture out very sneaky like.  We find a lone straggler here and there.  We rush on them uniform and consistent.  Same armor, same weapons, forming a line or surrounding the person.  It would start out by one of the the angels /msg'ing the person saying something like, "We have a message for you.  Accept our party invite."  Once the straggler is in party the conversation can begin.  It will be the usual cryptic Morpheus to Neo: "We've been watching you.  We see potential in you and have been instructed to show you the path of the angel however you must walk it alone" sort of thing.  We can discuss how the dialog will flow and how in depth it should be but it would result in peeking their interest, perhaps a riddle or test or two, then directing them to the challenge in a very RP non salesman fashion.

More details should be fleshed out but I wanted to run this past you, see what the top brass think of it and go from there.

/discuss

[Anonymous]

Good idea, we need to get more respected and known ingame!

[Anonymous]

Sounds good. I volunteer to be one of the recruiters, just as soon as I get the game...

[Runjun]

Nice idea.

[Phienyx]

I also think this is a cool idea.  The most receptive players would be those who are unaffiliated and were just attacked or ganked so we need to keep an eye out for these people as potentials and maybe even send them a tell or a party invite when we are nowhere around.

[likwidtek]

Bump.  Would like input from leadership on this.

Things to discuss:

Uniform
Suggested dialog

[Zortarg]

uniform suggestion for angels:
simple or better fine robes and a assassin hood.

if weapons and shields maybe even the same shield. and maybe  a special weapon of the same type.

[Tbone]

Yeah, I think robes and hoods are the way to go in terms of uniforms.

[likwidtek]

Crafters, possible to make white robes?  That assasins mask/hood thing looks flippin sweet.

[Zortarg]

simple robe: the normal brown as eveybody knows.
fine robes: still brown but a bit more noble and some gold it it too i think (from the style like the assassin hood.
extravagant robes: purple ugly shit.. .dont like it at all.

i dont know any others so far.

[Anonymous]

Secluded goblin spawns would be a great place for this...

fantastic idea - great way to differentiate ourselves

[ArchNemesis]

Those are the only robes available.

We don't even need a weapon for uniform... it'll look less harmful and more welcoming in my opinion.

[KnightOfZero]

may i suggest that we have a different uniform according to the kind of character we run? for example archers have different uniforms than tankers and mages... just a suggestion... i know tihs thing is still in the works... i just mentioned this because if we were to engage in combat... then we would already be in the appropriate armor suited for what we do.  but i understand that if were just going to have one single uniform though.

[likwidtek]

Also anyone in the recruit squad would have to be mirdain for uniformity.  This is just my opinion but I think it's a good idea.

[Phienyx]

may I suggest that we have a different uniform according to the kind of character we run? for example archers have different uniforms than tankers and mages... just a suggestion... I know tihs thing is still in the works... I just mentioned this because if we were to engage in combat... then we would already be in the appropriate armor suited for what we do.  but I understand that if were just going to have one single uniform though.

I don't think this is necessary.  In MxO, we had our uniform/combat clothes set to a hot bar.  Granted, this is full loot, but I don't think the cost of the FA uniform in game is going to be such that losing a few in the case that you die is going to hurt us and once we get a good base stock of them, they are easily replaced.  Have a bag in your inventory with your combat gear which is set to a hot bar and viola!

Also anyone in the recruit squad would have to be mirdain for uniformity. This is just my opinion but I think it's a good idea.

We should not exclude anyone from recruiting in this manner based on race.  I hope I don't need to say anymore on that issue.

And while we are on the subject of our in-game RP we need to address our behavior in-game.  I have to say that there isn't much about our behavior in-game that sets us apart.  I see our members running around acting like the rest of the 15 year olds in guilds we claim to be set apart from....whacking on eachother (not sparring), jumping around, standing on eachothers heads, humping eachothers mounts and over all just behaving very immaturely, silly and very unlike what we claim to be: Furious Angels. An elite....blah, blah, blah...ok so lets act like it not just talk about it.  I'm not suggesting we stop joking around and having fun on TS. Nor am I proposing we go hardcore RP, but we need to be conscious of how we are perceived in-game.  Our actions, more than our flash movies and rhetoric, will define us.