NationStates Jolt Archive

My suggestion won't change the mechanics of the game, but it will restrict recruiters from coming after large nations in feeder regions.

It's been a while since I complained about getting recruitment spam, to which I got a 'yeah and why should we care' reply from the mods. The nation in question at the time was my nation of Kutou-koku, which I was playing around with and evicted from my region and brought it back minutes later. The person who spammed me didn't bother to check the minutes and the mods didn't do anything to make me feel better about it.

Further, since I'm liable to whine and complain about this (especially after my region was spammed with recruitment essages), I started to think that maybe there should be a courtesy given to older players.

Many of the veteran players who switch region are probably doing so either to join friends or make their own. They aren't going to go because of an offer.

I'm aware that it is open season on veteran players in feeder regions, but, many of them probably dislike receiving recruitment messages and probably have complained about it.

I think it would probably be better to impose a time limit on recruitment.

Perhaps, after a nation has peaked over 500 million or something like that. Because then you get people like me with puppets who forget to log in, get it revived and within minutes of moving it back, get a stupid message that you don't want, and then have the mods give you a hard time because you don't want spam because you know what region you want to go to as a vet player.

What do you think?

I do understand your concern, and frustration for recruitment telegrams, but I think it's safe to say that not all 100% of nations that are over the 500 million population mark know exactly where they want to be. Just as an example, in the past few months, I've been moving around to a few regions, because I honestly wasn't too sure which region I should stick with, and I honestly wouldn't have minded a recruitment telegram from someone describing their region, and why they want me there.

Though at the same time, getting those telegrams can be extremely frustrating when you have found the region that you want to stay in permanently. I really don't think that putting a restriction on the time limit of recruiting nations is a good thing, because you're basically classifying every nation over 500 million as in the region that they want to be in for the rest of their time on NS.

Not; classifying it as the older players know how to move regions and bouncing around is easy for them because they are familiar with the game play, whereas newer players aren't.

Not; classifying it as the older players know how to move regions and bouncing around is easy for them because they are familiar with the game play, whereas newer players aren't.

There's still the possibility that veteran players out there still don't know exactly where they want to go, and have remained in the feeder regions until they've seen some sort of good advertisement from any region out there. I just don't think that completely eliminating recruitment telegramming to nations over 500 million is going to help.

I know several older players, myself included, who have responded favorably to recruitment telegrams in 500 million+ nations. Recruiting is already limited; there's no need for more restrictions. Since all you have to do is delete the telegram, which takes like two seconds, I don't see what the big deal is with receiving one. It's part of the game.

Spam is spam.

I have a puppet in every feeder region. They all started in their respective feeders from day one, and are all over 2 billion. I've found that they get very few recruitment telegrams any more, perhaps one per month between the six of them.

I think recruiting is limited enough as is, and there's no need to add on yet more restrictions.