Post by KingdomOfUnion on Jan 6, 2018 8:29:30 GMT
What is manual recruitment, and why is it important?
Until now, most of our recruitment has been done with an automated script that automatically sends out Telegrams to new nations, inviting them to join us. However, this is limited by NationStates rules to only one message every three minutes, and even then, automated Telegrams are put at the end of the telegram queue and will be received later than manual telegrams.
That's why manual recruitment is so important! By actually personally sending telegrams to new nations, we will be able to send telegrams faster than before, and they'll show up in new nations' inboxes faster.
So, how do you manually recruit?
Creating a Telegram Template
First, choose a recruitment message to use. Our standard ones can be found here, and I strongly urge you to use them, but feel free to personalize it a bit! Add in your own personal experiences, or testimonials, or anything else you think will draw new members in.
Next, go to your Telegrams page and click "+New Telegram." Paste the recruitment Telegram of your choice into the body. When using any of our pre-made recruitment Telegrams, please remember to replace "YourNation'sName" at the bottom of the telegram with your nation's name. DO NOT include your nation's title. For example, if you were "The United States of America," you would just put "[nation]America[/nation]." Please DO keep any %NATION% tags as they are. These will replace themselves with the recipient nation's name when your recruitment Telegram is sent.
Next, type "tag:template" into the "To:" box. When you send the Telegram, this will generate a template for it.
BEFORE you send the Telegram, click on the little down arrow on the right hand side of the "To:" box, check the little box that will pop up, and make sure it says "This is a Recruitment telegram for Londinium." If you do not do this, you'll be breaking the rules!
Once you do that, you're ready! Send that Telegram! You should get a little message that pops up that tells you your Telegram Template's ID, in the form %TEMPLATE-00000000%. This number will also show up with your Telegram in your "Sent Items" folder. You'll need the Template ID for the next step!
Manually Recruiting
You can go to this page to see a list of new nations as they are founded and refounded. To send a manual recruitment Telegram, just send a telegram to these new nations as you normally would, but just put that nifty little Template ID you got (%TEMPLATE-00000000%) as the entire body of the Telegram, and when you send it, it will appear as the entire Telegram!
You're probably wondering, "Why did we go through all that trouble of creating a template if we're just going to send a Telegram normally?" As long as you made sure your Template was set as a Recruitment message for Londinium, you won't need to check that box every time you send a recruitment Telegram. Although it takes a minute to set up, it saves you time in the long run, and makes sure you don't accidentally break the rules. Not to mention you'll have a record of how many nations you've send a recruitment Telegram to and how many have accepted!
Signing in
To make sure we don't have two people manually recruiting at once, make sure to post here when you start and stop sending recruitment messages.
As long as you made sure to mark your Template as a recruitment Telegram for
Londinium, you won't be running the risk of sending more than one recruitment Telegram to the same nation (NationStates makes sure of that), but it'd still be a waste if two people were trying to recruit at the same time.
Rewards!
I guess at some point rewards will be set up! But who knows, ayy?
Until now, most of our recruitment has been done with an automated script that automatically sends out Telegrams to new nations, inviting them to join us. However, this is limited by NationStates rules to only one message every three minutes, and even then, automated Telegrams are put at the end of the telegram queue and will be received later than manual telegrams.
That's why manual recruitment is so important! By actually personally sending telegrams to new nations, we will be able to send telegrams faster than before, and they'll show up in new nations' inboxes faster.
So, how do you manually recruit?
Creating a Telegram Template
First, choose a recruitment message to use. Our standard ones can be found here, and I strongly urge you to use them, but feel free to personalize it a bit! Add in your own personal experiences, or testimonials, or anything else you think will draw new members in.
Next, go to your Telegrams page and click "+New Telegram." Paste the recruitment Telegram of your choice into the body. When using any of our pre-made recruitment Telegrams, please remember to replace "YourNation'sName" at the bottom of the telegram with your nation's name. DO NOT include your nation's title. For example, if you were "The United States of America," you would just put "[nation]America[/nation]." Please DO keep any %NATION% tags as they are. These will replace themselves with the recipient nation's name when your recruitment Telegram is sent.
Next, type "tag:template" into the "To:" box. When you send the Telegram, this will generate a template for it.
BEFORE you send the Telegram, click on the little down arrow on the right hand side of the "To:" box, check the little box that will pop up, and make sure it says "This is a Recruitment telegram for Londinium." If you do not do this, you'll be breaking the rules!
Once you do that, you're ready! Send that Telegram! You should get a little message that pops up that tells you your Telegram Template's ID, in the form %TEMPLATE-00000000%. This number will also show up with your Telegram in your "Sent Items" folder. You'll need the Template ID for the next step!
Manually Recruiting
You can go to this page to see a list of new nations as they are founded and refounded. To send a manual recruitment Telegram, just send a telegram to these new nations as you normally would, but just put that nifty little Template ID you got (%TEMPLATE-00000000%) as the entire body of the Telegram, and when you send it, it will appear as the entire Telegram!
You're probably wondering, "Why did we go through all that trouble of creating a template if we're just going to send a Telegram normally?" As long as you made sure your Template was set as a Recruitment message for Londinium, you won't need to check that box every time you send a recruitment Telegram. Although it takes a minute to set up, it saves you time in the long run, and makes sure you don't accidentally break the rules. Not to mention you'll have a record of how many nations you've send a recruitment Telegram to and how many have accepted!
Signing in
To make sure we don't have two people manually recruiting at once, make sure to post here when you start and stop sending recruitment messages.
As long as you made sure to mark your Template as a recruitment Telegram for
Londinium, you won't be running the risk of sending more than one recruitment Telegram to the same nation (NationStates makes sure of that), but it'd still be a waste if two people were trying to recruit at the same time.
Rewards!
I guess at some point rewards will be set up! But who knows, ayy?