McMuffin
09-20-2018, 12:19 AM
The company tool is often neglected for the sole purpose of most regiments do not think that it is a good source of recruits. This could not be farther from the truth. I check my own company's page on the company tool, and we regularly get volunteers, but I also can see that those remaining alpha keys are still going down at a notable pace, so that tells me we are still getting a steady amount of new players. Personally, with only a few tweaks that I will list, the company tool will be the best way to get recruits and vastly more helpful. All of these suggestions are kept simple to allow for easy implementation.
Quality of life for organizational purposes.
A filter for what recruits a regiment wants (Alpha, Beta, Early Access). We should be able to put a filter on what recruits we can get that is based on what stage of the game they have backed for. For example, if a regiment wants only Beta and Alpha players, an Early Access player would not be able to join. If a regiment only wants Alpha players, then only people with the Alpha stage of the game will be able to enter that regiment. You get the idea. This filter should include Alpha, Beta, Early Access, full release, and no filter. Why do I think the tool needs this? Well, this is primarily so that a regiment is only getting the people they want. No longer would we have to guess if a player is Beta, Alpha, Early Access, or full release because of unresponsive volunteers, which brings me to my next suggestion.
A more informative company tool profile.
The company tool telegrams are okay, at best, forms of communication to potential recruits, but its usefulness is bound to someone checking their e-mail, which let's face it, many people do not do. So, why not have players be able to link their steam profile or even Discord tag on their profile to allow for quick forms of adding someone and communicating to them. Now you would not force them to link it, but prompt it to them when making their profile with a message that strongly urges them to connect a steam profile for communication reasons. I cannot tell you how many people have volunteered into 1st Texas, only to have them not respond to a telegram. Granted this will not ensure that everyone who volunteers responds, but it is far better than just the telegrams. I hope at the very least; you add this.
Proper regiments.
I know it is called the company tool, but, people use this for regiments. So why not treat it like so? Let us group our companies on the same page instead of displaying individual companies. The layout you would see would be the same as the current layout, except instead of platoons, you would see companies with the number of people listed in the company and anyone registered as command staff. Players can instead volunteer into the regiment, not a company, and until they are moved to a specific company, they sit in a simple 'unassigned' section. The layout for company commanders would stay the same as it is right now and does not need to change at all. All this does is scale up the current layout of the company tool to the regimental scale and not just a company. And of course, the appropriate ranks of Sergeant Major, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel would be added. We do not need to, nor should we for a while, go up to brigade and above size.
Quality of life for organizational purposes.
A filter for what recruits a regiment wants (Alpha, Beta, Early Access). We should be able to put a filter on what recruits we can get that is based on what stage of the game they have backed for. For example, if a regiment wants only Beta and Alpha players, an Early Access player would not be able to join. If a regiment only wants Alpha players, then only people with the Alpha stage of the game will be able to enter that regiment. You get the idea. This filter should include Alpha, Beta, Early Access, full release, and no filter. Why do I think the tool needs this? Well, this is primarily so that a regiment is only getting the people they want. No longer would we have to guess if a player is Beta, Alpha, Early Access, or full release because of unresponsive volunteers, which brings me to my next suggestion.
A more informative company tool profile.
The company tool telegrams are okay, at best, forms of communication to potential recruits, but its usefulness is bound to someone checking their e-mail, which let's face it, many people do not do. So, why not have players be able to link their steam profile or even Discord tag on their profile to allow for quick forms of adding someone and communicating to them. Now you would not force them to link it, but prompt it to them when making their profile with a message that strongly urges them to connect a steam profile for communication reasons. I cannot tell you how many people have volunteered into 1st Texas, only to have them not respond to a telegram. Granted this will not ensure that everyone who volunteers responds, but it is far better than just the telegrams. I hope at the very least; you add this.
Proper regiments.
I know it is called the company tool, but, people use this for regiments. So why not treat it like so? Let us group our companies on the same page instead of displaying individual companies. The layout you would see would be the same as the current layout, except instead of platoons, you would see companies with the number of people listed in the company and anyone registered as command staff. Players can instead volunteer into the regiment, not a company, and until they are moved to a specific company, they sit in a simple 'unassigned' section. The layout for company commanders would stay the same as it is right now and does not need to change at all. All this does is scale up the current layout of the company tool to the regimental scale and not just a company. And of course, the appropriate ranks of Sergeant Major, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel would be added. We do not need to, nor should we for a while, go up to brigade and above size.