Help a newbie day
Harrison Richardson
As a country, we have massive untapped potential. In no other area of the game do we fail more than player retention. I haven't looked at the data recently, but last I checked we had over 13,000 privates. I would venture a guess that around 11,000 of those accounts are dead. That's a terrible retention ratio and for the life of us, no matter what we do, we can't seem to get it right.
So I'm going to have a little fun and take some initiative. I intended this as a Democratic Party program just to have some fun before and during the Holidays, but I decided why not expand it to the entire nation? If each person sought out one player and kept them playing, it'd have a massive impact. As George Barker once said, the single greatest impact most players can have on this game is to recruit a player, have them be active, and teach them the ropes. You've just doubled your impact on the United States.
Here's a copy of the post I made on the Democrat Forums. I hope anyone interested looks in to this program to help a new player out. For the record, I'm not providing any non-Democrat members a stipend. Sorry, I'm not that rich.
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Help a newbie day!
This FRIDAY, October 30th, is help a new player day! It's something I've never tried before but I think it could be a lot of fun.
What do you do on this day? Well, it's quite simple. Find a new player, pref. one unaligned with a party (those parties can help their own members. We're looking for people with no one to help them). Once you find that new player, your job is to do everything you can to help them that day (and, ideally, into the future). You are, more or less, picking out your own mentee and skipping the long process.
What can you do?
Gift them, send them some food. If you see them fighting, offer them a Q1 weapon. If you see they're not in a Q5 Hospital region, offer them a moving ticket. If you need some funds to help you with this, let me know. I've got some money hidden away for fun projects like this and I know a lot of our members are new players themselves, so I don't want you all breaking the bank for this. I'm an old fart and thus have a nice, big daily wage to support such spending
😃.
So, Democrats, can you help out a new guy?
[Disclaimer: Try to be non-partisan as you do this. Don't mention your party in big bold letters unless they ask. You can mention perhaps it's a part of our initiative, but don't go overboard. That's not the point of this.]
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Comments
Best day ever.
that harry dick is so hot right now
Wow is she hot.
Oh, and the initiative is good, too.
Sounds like a good day.
Win.
As a 27 day old newbie, I can say that if had not been for the help I received from members, especially ones with obvious high presence and standing, who made me feel valued, I would not have made it past my first week. Help a newbie is fantastic and very important. I look forward to when I too can be helping a newbie.
I'm all for it.
Fantastic idea. But how about every day is help a noobie day? 🙂
I remember when I was a noobie and I had people like Cynic Grim and others help me out. Time to repay the favor! 😉
We should ask skill 0 gms to take up moving tix responsibility.
Every day should be Help a newbie day! 😛
Jelly-then it won't be "new" and nothing will happen at all.
somewhat related but not to jelly
I think we should have a ticket-referral system for people who need them on the eUS forums. I has a poor, and I see people who need tix every day, but I just don't have the money. For my personal employees I make exceptions, but only because I profit off of them having high wellness directly. Which could be a motivator for the Gms in my last comment.
lol the only thing i need is food but i have enough for 5 days I'm not sure what esle to do besides work and train until i get another level
You got it! I'll go find a lil helpless one now!
USAsoldierUSA, have you signed up at the eUS forum? Lots of good info there for your near future.
http://eusforum.com" target="_blank">http://eusforum.com
She has a crazy-eye.
Fantastic idea, when is Adrianna Lima Day?? I think adding an Adrianna Lima day would also help in player retention. \o/
Every day should be post-a-hottie day. For every publisher.
But the helping new players thing is good too.
i helped a newbie today!
it made me feel important!
VOTED SOOOOO HARD!
I will help a newbie. 🙂