Recruitment Improvement Methods

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Tarantino published this. I will look into it.

Hi everyone. I know I'm a brand new member and it would be very easy to blow off what I'm about to say but please, for the regions sake, don't. Also since I'm new to this region I don't know my way around the forums and don't seem to have access to the Ministry of Immigration section so I'm posting here.

It appears to me that this region recruits the old fashioned way. Refreshing the Nationstates page, waiting for new members to appear and tging them. This method is vastly inefficient and wastes much more time and manpower than is necessary.

I would like to show you the Nationstates Pipe tool. You may already know about this, but if you do I see no reason why you don't use it as it is completely legal and 1000 times more efficient than the current method.

Here is the link to the tool: pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=0cb4c0db9a0db2bca2073ab37a237c82

When you click on the link what you'll see is a list of Nations made within about the last week that remain in one of the feeder regions (The West Pacific, The East Pacific, Balder, Lazarus, etc.)

This means you will not only have a complete list of nations made within these regions but the program automatically excludes all nations that have been moved to user created regions. In order to use this tool effectively all you really need is a couple of recruiters who send telegrams to these created nations. Since this tool is not time sensitive you will not need somebody checking to see if new nations are created every 20 minutes. Now all you need is somebody to leisurely check every maybe 6 or 12 hours and then telegram all the nations created within this time.

In order to use this tool type the name of the region you wish to recruit in inside the box after that. The proper way to do this is The_West_Pacific or The_South_Pacific etc. After typing in the name of the region you simply press run pipe and voila all of the nations made in the region magically appear. The first page will have about 25 nations listed, simply click on the bottom right hand corner Next button and another 25 nations will appear and so on.

I believe this tool will improve the recruiting operations you have here a lot. Please respond if you have any questions about the tool or anything else.

[Kingdom of Grolsch]

@comanici: you should have the forum permissions to upgrade your staff to Department State (I believe it is called that, or at least something with Department in it). To do so, go to the profile of the member you'd like to upgrade and then go to the Modify Profile tab. If you can't do it, let me know, and I'll do it for you.

The pipe tool can be used and some people like it. I decided against using it when I was Minister of Immigration, because it doesn't show which nations are actually new and which ones arrived from other regions and therefore aren't new. Another reason for me to not use it is that you can't see how long ago the nation was created.

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Thanks for the feedback!

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For one you can see how long ago the Nation was made. If you click on the Nations name it will display a list of actions taken by the nation. Also as for the problem of it not showing when nations are moved or founded I just now realized that the pipe maker fixed this problem. I moved a puppet of mine from Lazarus to the Pacific to see if it would show up and it did not show up on the pipe so that point is now moot.


Also for the person who said you select who you recruit based on their civil rights and political freedoms I'm aware of that. To see it all you have to do is press the "Trend" button and it will show you.

[Kingdom of Grolsch]

If I click on a nation name, it redirects to the mobile version of the nation's NS profile. So that's really no different from NS itself. It is great the developer has fixed the problem of nations which aren't new showing as new nations.

Also, recruiting usually is the most effective from the 3rd minute to 30th minute of NS activity, statistically. At least, that was the case when I was Minister of Immigration. My point with this tool is that we'd need one more click to find out when a nation was created. ;)

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Maybe so and I'm not saying only this tool should be used. But I think that this tool can be used as a supplement for the regular recruiting method.

Perhaps instead of having people stay up at ungodly hours such as 2, 3 or 4 in the morning you can simply have someone message all the nations created within this time frame.

This doesn't have to be a complete overhaul of the system but I do believe if used creatively, the pipes tool can really help out the recruiting system and lessen the work load for recruiters.

[Kingdom of Grolsch]

Dec 1, 2012 23:36:21 GMT @tarantino said:

Perhaps instead of having people stay up at ungodly hours such as 2, 3 or 4 in the morning you can simply have someone message all the nations created within this time frame..

Now THAT is an idea we can use! ;D Of course, it is up to Comanici to decide on whether or not to implement it, but I would certainly not disagree with looking into it as a way to make recruiting more effective - especially as a method to cover the times in which we don't have an active recruiter.

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I will try to implement something that makes recruiting easier... Thanks for the suggestions. They helped a lot. Now I have to figure out how I shall do this :D

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sourceforge.net/projects/pyrecruiter/

When using, it gives a notification if a new nation is created, and they're information.

[Kingdom of Grolsch]

Quite nice, although it does only show a nation's name.

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Yes, but right when you click the nation's name, it opens the nation's page.

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I'm checking it out right now.

EDIT: Will not download for me, tried several times.

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Yeah it's only for PC.

Because PC is better,

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Just so everyone knows, there are new official NS rules regarding recruitment that should probably be added to this. Here's the news: www.nationstates.net/page=news/2013/03/09/index.html

Key points:
1. Recruitment telegrams must have the sender check a box to mark them as recruitment telegrams. New nations can choose to block recruitment telegrams now.
2. Telegram Templates are available for quicker sending.
3. Doubling up on recruiting is now basically impossible - if someone tries to send a recruitment telegram from the SLU that already got a telegram marked "recruitment" from the SLU, then it won't work.

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We don't need improvement if we don't have recruiters...

[Ceni]

I created a TG template if anyone wants it...

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[Millyland]

You have to be the author of a template to use it.

[Ceni]

Ah...