Your Country Needs YOU!
Day 2,182, 00:29
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by lancer450
Greetings fellow citizens,
Today we’re going to talk about the status quo, party recruitment, and how it is hurting our country. Let me be clear, the goal of this article isn’t to say party recruitment is bad. Not at all. In fact, we all realise it is necessary especially if we are to have a populace that is ultimately involved and educated with the issues and problems faced by the eNetherlands today. But, the way in which this is done is the problem.
Everyone knows how it works. Party leaders, across the political spectrum, stalk new players the moment they join eRepublik and pester and pursue them with messages to join their party and claim why their party is better than the others. You get it. It can be a very successful tactic.
Sometimes they are lucky, and once the player joins, a lot of the time the party and its leaders will completely forget about them and move right on to recruit the next new player. While this may boost party numbers, this is, in fact, detrimental to the country overall. We should be stepping up and doing our part to RETAIN these players and help them. We should be involving them and stop treating them like a bunch of numbers. The last thing new players want is to be used as political leverage.
The aim of our party, instead, is to give players a real change: To give them a voice in shaping our country and a say in the destiny of the eNetherlands. New players can offer a lot to our country and they can offer a lot to the Revolution. So when we send out recruitment messages to them, we aren’t going to ignore them or forget about them. If they join, that’s great. Our goal is to help them, help them to navigate eRepublik and succeed the best they can. The more informed and the more involved they feel, the less likely they will go inactive and grow bored and “die.”
The new player needs to look with clear, wide-open eyes and to select an active and engaged political party, one that will welcome them and their respective views and will actively engage with them. We believe that choice is the Dutch Revolutionary Party.
Some may ask if this in itself is a party recruitment article. The answer to that is, yes. But instead of sitting back and ignoring them or simply pestering them to boost our numbers, we wish to offer them a different choice. We are active. We are engaged. We want YOU. We care about you and your views and giving you the power to change the country.
This is just one of the many goals of our party. If you want to be a part of this Revolution and if you want to help the eNetherlands’ community to grow, just join by clicking this link: Click here!
Please vote and subscribe and look forward for more articles to come!
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Comments
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Voted, good luck guys you already have a core of some impressive players so it should be a great party to be part of.
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EDEN propaganda
lol EDEN? xD
New party brings PTO danger, watch out for that. Besides of that good luck with the new party. o/
v+s+j let's see what this is all about 🙂
I totaly agree with you and i think the party might be wat we need in here.
I think we need some change...... so i will sign up with the party.
I'd say the problem in eNL is getting (new) players to join our beautiful country rather than what party to join.
Yeah, that is difficult as well. But, I wasn't talking about WHICH party to join. I'm talking about retaining them, keeping them from leaving the game, no matter which party they join. So I was really commenting on the fact that a lot of parties recruit new players and then fail to educate them and get them involved enough to prevent them from leaving.
How can a new player have a proper view in things though?
I agree and have voiced my opinion on this in the past, its better to just advise the new players whit the stuff they really need to know, a party they should only join once they know what all the parties stand for.
I agree with this as well. They should be able to look clearly at what distinguishes each party from one another and then make their decision. However, a lot of times they are attracted with the position the party is in, such as being the number one party in the country, or they are swayed by simply pm's like I mentioned and then forgot about.
Well that is why articles like this are good, if players that where uninformed joint a party articles like this might get them to switch party, cause they would agree with there points of view.
Don't send annoying "join me" PMs just write a good article that gives some insights into the party and people that think it matches with them they will come and join.
People that decided to join simply cause a party is the largest that can't be stopped, but in general when i see a new player i give them some standard advise including to refrain from joining a political party till they got better informed about that part of the game, and what each party really stands for.
I don't believe new players will have the answers for us on issues they would need to be around to know about. For example, I wouldn't expect a new player to advise us on dealing with Poland when they have no knowledge of the history between our two countries. HOWEVER, the main point I was trying to make as I said in one of my comments above is this: " I'm talking about retaining them, keeping them from leaving the game, no matter which party they join. So I was really commenting on the fact that a lot of parties recruit new players and then fail to educate them and get them involved enough to prevent them from leaving."
So all I'm saying is, while our party will recruit, we aren't going to just leave them be once they join. We are going to cultivate them to help them to be a much better resource for our country, which is why I titled the article, "Your Country Needs YOU!" 🙂 I hope you understand what I meant now.
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Good to see you writing recruitment articles again 😉
But why send recruitment messages at all? Just give new players the time to look around, and make their own minds up. That still works for GPN, as we don't recruit per pm, but let them come to us. And no member is only a number; each member has a clear say in how things are run, by means of the party pm-treads that go around.
Yeah, I&W doesn't approach them in any way, not through recruitment messages, coaching, articles or whatever. One guy who makes up his mind is worth more than 5 inactive sheeps imo.
that's what I'm saying 😉 afaik only demNL, Libertas and UNP do this. sometimes new players complain to me, being ingame mentor, about that.
Well there is to be said that a mentor is a position of influence as well to sway them towards your party, even if you handle the role as mentor without any intention to recruit.
This is a lot easier for parties in the top positions. Being the #1 party inevitable attracts, I believe, a good portion of new players. A lot of time they join because they want to be in the #1 party. I'm not saying they don't end up liking GPN, they probably do like it very much. But that's just my theory. The other parties, though, have a much more difficult time getting new blood because of this so those in position #3, #4, etc. are going to have a harder time.