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I have never seen them before, at first they were cute but now I can get over 5 a day I am afraid I have stopped responding to them.
I don't know if other leaders are getting bombarded with them - but I wanted to raise this so any new player to the game is not disheartened and can understand how it is received.
The message
Hi, my name is XXXXXX. I found your alliance using the alliance finder and I would like to join you. I look forward to receiving an invitation.
Best regards, XXXXXX
It is polite, but what does it tell a recruiter about the applicant = zero
If a player wants to join and wants to give it their all you could consider them - but this shows minimal effort.
As a leader I want to know how experienced you are, how active you are, whether you would be fun to have around the alliance - I have mainly played on the EN servers where some guys can't speak english - they have used Google translate - I have even searched for players with the same nationality to speak (i have even got the messages translated in a different world and ask for a response of mine to be written out in that language - then pasted it back over to the player.... they made an effort so I made an effort.
These default requests will only work on MRAs (Mass Recruitment Alliances) that don't really care who they bring in - if you want to get into a decent alliance then I would advise you to write a decent personal message to the person listed as the recruiter on the alliance page (or at least the diplomat)
The Raiders have a few players for whom this is their first world, we did in our last world and the one before that (where we ran with different names and groups - it is not a problem - we can answer questions and those players have done very well - we all started somewhere and I love to repay the guidance I received (paul50 and others) to new players.
My best tip at the moment is to ditch using this - write as decent a message as you can and in doing so make a better first impression.
I don't know if other leaders are getting bombarded with them - but I wanted to raise this so any new player to the game is not disheartened and can understand how it is received.
The message
Hi, my name is XXXXXX. I found your alliance using the alliance finder and I would like to join you. I look forward to receiving an invitation.
Best regards, XXXXXX
It is polite, but what does it tell a recruiter about the applicant = zero
If a player wants to join and wants to give it their all you could consider them - but this shows minimal effort.
As a leader I want to know how experienced you are, how active you are, whether you would be fun to have around the alliance - I have mainly played on the EN servers where some guys can't speak english - they have used Google translate - I have even searched for players with the same nationality to speak (i have even got the messages translated in a different world and ask for a response of mine to be written out in that language - then pasted it back over to the player.... they made an effort so I made an effort.
These default requests will only work on MRAs (Mass Recruitment Alliances) that don't really care who they bring in - if you want to get into a decent alliance then I would advise you to write a decent personal message to the person listed as the recruiter on the alliance page (or at least the diplomat)
The Raiders have a few players for whom this is their first world, we did in our last world and the one before that (where we ran with different names and groups - it is not a problem - we can answer questions and those players have done very well - we all started somewhere and I love to repay the guidance I received (paul50 and others) to new players.
My best tip at the moment is to ditch using this - write as decent a message as you can and in doing so make a better first impression.