[Working Concept] IC Weekend Recruitment

[Adolar]

(Credits to Olyver Hyral who proposed the idea and wrote out the post below)

 

IC Recruitment Bazaar

 

Who: RP FC Leaders and two Officers (maximum)

 

Where:

 

Ul'dah - Emerald Avenue

Gridania - Botanist's Guild

Limsa Lominsa - The Aftcastle

 

When: Bi-weekly/monthly weekends on all three nights, 8pm EST every night. (Adjust according to timezone.)

 

Ul'dah - April 11th

Gridania - April 12th

Limsa Lominsa - April 13th

 

Why: Build open-world RP, include currently excluded RPers and generally build the RP community

 

How: IC Recruitment for the first half hour to an hour followed by OOC sharing of goals, such as current houses/housing goals, raiding goals, RP goals, etc. Advertising will be done the entire week before the event via IC shouts/word of mouth through talking in the inn and market, as well as during the event in the two other cities via shouts. Shouting should always be done by a bard, being the entertaining/heralding class.

 

Further dates will be posted a week to two weeks prior to the actual event; expect at least one of the recruitment weekends a month.

 

If you are not looking for an FC, please feel free to come just to join in the RP - if you're in an FC that is attending and wish to come, please do not crowd the area around your FC. We want all FCs, including smaller ones, to benefit from this; as such, boasting higher numbers that appear will diminish the smaller FCs chances of growing and will ultimately destroy the entire purpose of this event.

 

Current weekend goals: March 21-23, April 11-13.

 

During the school year, the bazaar will be once a month; during the Summer, bi-weekly, and the weekend before Christmas as well as the weekend after New Year's to avoid intruding on family time.

 

The idea is to pull in new RPers as well as expand the current RP FCs. The FCs who come to the bazaar will probably change every time, with new ones coming and old ones leaving. The point in scheduling these events on weekend nights is to avoid being trolled by raiders, who will more than likely be too busy gearing, especially with the patch release.

 

If you have any further ideas, please feel free to post them; the goal is to expand the Gilgamesh RP community!

[Magellan]

(Credits to Olyver Hyral who proposed the idea and wrote out the post below)

 

IC Recruitment Bazaar

 

Who: RP FC Leaders and/or Officers

Where: The Aftcastle in Limsa, the Emerald Avenue in Ul'dah, Mih Khetto's Amphitheatre in Gridania.

When: Bi-weekly/monthly weekends on all three nights, most likely around 8pm EST. (Adjust according to timezone.)

Why:Build open-world RP, include currently excluded RPers and generally build the RP community

How: IC Recruitment for the first half hour to an hour followed by OOC sharing of goals, such as current houses/housing goals, raiding goals, RP goals, etc. Advertising will be done the entire week before the event via IC shouts/word of mouth through talking in the inn and market, as well as during the event in the two other cities via shouts. Shouting should always be done by a bard, being the entertaining/heralding class.

 

Current weekend goals: March 21-23, April 18-20, possibly April 11-13.

 

During the school year, the bazaar will be once a month; during the Summer, bi-weekly, and the weekend before Christmas as well as the weekend after New Year's to avoid intruding on family time.

 

The idea is to pull in new RPers as well as expand the current RP FCs. The FCs who come to the bazaar will probably change every time, with new ones coming and old ones leaving. The point in scheduling these events on weekend nights is to avoid being trolled by raiders, who will more than likely be too busy gearing, especially with the patch release.

 

If you have any further ideas, please feel free to post them; the goal is to expand the Gilgamesh RP community!

 

This is the kind of thing rp communities need more of. Kudos

[Adolar]

This is the kind of thing rp communities need more of. Kudos

 

I agree.

 

Thanks for the support!

[Alanth]

Fantastic idea.  I know either myself or one of my officers will be there!

[Spotz91]

Well done to Olyver for coming up with this idea, as I stated before, Bruden will be there. No doubt.

[Kyrrae L'minia]

This sounds great! ! I'll make sure to share this with my free company!

[Zoetrooper]

*taps fingers together* Oh yes. This will do nicely. If I'm not working I'll be there.

 

... and added it to Arcanum's calendar.

[Spotz91]

Looking like we're going to do Friday, the 21st, hold it in Uldah, Saturday the 22nd Gridania, and the 23rd have it in Limsa Lominsa.

 

Standing by for correction on this, in case Olyver doesn't like it, but as for now, the rest of us agreed on these days.

 

Can't wait to see you guys there!

 

Cheers!

[Steel Wolf]

Awesome idea.  +1 for what seems a head-slappingly obvious bit of community building.

 

<3 from a Balmungian.

[Spotz91]

Update Via Olyver

 

UPDATE!

 

Who: RP FC Leaders and two Officers (maximum)

Where: The Aftcastle in Limsa, the Emerald Avenue in Ul'dah, The Botanist's Guild in Gridania.

When: March 21st in Ul'dah, March 22nd in Gridania, March 23rd in Limsa Lominsa. 8PM EST every night.

Why: Build open-world RP, include currently excluded RPers and generally build the RP community

How: IC Recruitment for the first half hour to an hour followed by OOC sharing of goals, such as current houses/housing goals, raiding goals, RP goals, etc. Advertising will be done the entire week before the event via IC shouts/word of mouth through talking in the inn and market, as well as during the event in the two other cities via shouts. Shouting should always be done by a bard, being the entertaining/heralding class.

 

Further dates will be posted a week to two weeks prior to the actual event; expect at least one of the recruitment weekends a month.

 

If you are not looking for an FC, please feel free to come just to join in the RP - if you're in an FC that is attending and wish to come, please do not crowd the area around your FC. We want all FCs, including smaller ones, to benefit from this; as such, boasting higher numbers that appear will diminish the smaller FCs chances of growing and will ultimately destroy the entire purpose of this event.

 

Thank you!

[Adolar]

stuff

 

Thanks. Added it to the main post.

[Austratus]

Definitely going to try making it to one of these.

[Spotz91]

We had a great turn out tonight, a lot of friendly faces, and even a pinch of IC drama Shout out to Oly for a great event!

[Alanth]

As a suggestion from what I can see sitting here in Gridania might be to give each FC a bit of face time up front at first.  Opening speech, an introduction as it were.  Just splitting off into your own little area tends to make smaller FC's kind of disappear compared to the large gatherings.

 

A small IC introduction followed by an OOC statement of goals and what type of FC you have to be might have been nice.  Then breaking off into individual groups for smaller play.

[ImmoralAria]

Cripes! I missed the Ul'dah Event, there were just too many things going on that day [Namely the EoN Ball!], But are FC's not based in that specific City able to show up and recruit at the other cities? Or is it primarily for the FC's based in that city?

[Adolar]

As a suggestion from what I can see sitting here in Gridania might be to give each FC a bit of face time up front at first.  Opening speech, an introduction as it were.  Just splitting off into your own little area tends to make smaller FC's kind of disappear compared to the large gatherings.

 

A small IC introduction followed by an OOC statement of goals and what type of FC you have to be might have been nice.  Then breaking off into individual groups for smaller play.

 

That's actually something I was planning to suggest to Olyver. A way to make sure each FC can spread their own message equally. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

Cripes! I missed the Ul'dah Event, there were just too many things going on that day [Namely the EoN Ball!], But are FC's not based in that specific City able to show up and recruit at the other cities? Or is it primarily for the FC's based in that city?

 

There has been FCs who were aligned in other cities participating in the events so it's really your choice if you prefer to go to the city that fits your FC or not.

[Magellan]

Awesome weekend for rp all. Thanks to all who put in the work for this (:

[Dreamdrifter]

Hello all! Having run the first bazaar and figuring out some measures (and getting feedback from the event), the planning for the second bazaar is beginning earlier than five days before it actually happens. 

 

The next weekend's working idea is April 11-13. To take into account some of the feedback, I will be contacting the various FC leaders to confirm attendance as well as give each FC leader a chance to peddle their merchandise at the beginning of the event. The order of events, however, will not change; Friday will be Ul'dah, Saturday will be Gridania and Sunday will be the grand finale of Limsa Lominsa, all beginning at 8pm EST and ending between 9pm and 10pm EST.

 

To make the changes needed for each FC to have the stage for a short speech (mind you, I would prefer it to be between two and three posts so that the other FCs aren't scrambling to write a Shakespearean monologue in five minutes), I will need all leaders who have not heard from me to contact me. Sending an in-game tell or Moogle Mail is one option, another being to shoot me a PM on here. Unfortunately I'm still in college and therefore tend to become scatterbrained when there's so much going on.

 

So thank you in advance for your cooperation, and thank you again for making the last bazaar quite successful. Let's turn quite successful to fantastic next time!