Cities And Housing Archive

I personally have recruited for 6 city's. 2 on a previous server and 4 on my current server. All were built to lvl 4 status or higher. I have one method that I have used that works better than all methods combined. No one really pays attention to people who are recruiting by spamming, and I personally usually put them on ignore. If you are simply looking for citizens, the best way that I have found and have had the most success with, is sending out mails. I write up a mail about the city that I am recruiting for. In the mail I state what the benefits of living in the city are, what services we offer, and what kind of vendors we have, I also include a wp, and invite them to look around. I also add the requirements for living there such as faction etc. If there is a guild being hosted in the city I make sure to included that we are only recruiting for citzens and not guild members. I will sit in a starport and pass along these mails to people who are unguilded and/or look like they are new to the game. Every city that I have recruited for has offered a free house, a new vehicle, and some maintence and/or credits. By passing out the mail you are giving them something to read, aside from the passing spam that not many pay attention to. You are also giving them a waypoint to go take a look at. It gives them a chance to *think* about it. And everytime they open their mail, they are reminded about it, unless of course they deleted it due to non intrest. Coloring the subject line text also helps it to stand out and there will be less of a chance it will get accidently deleted when they are getting rid of vedor/purchase mails.

Thank you for your replies...

I sent out invitations only to people with houses relatively near to our town - never thought of sending a mail to potential new citizens I see when I go about my business all over the place... That just was a positive "DUH!!!" moment...

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Gohma_Manovich wrote:
well when i was a guild leader/mayor i used to get new players not because they were easy prey (believe me most wanted loads off of us so they didnt join) but because the guild liked helping, we wernt a ghost town either even when we only had 20 citizens

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I have also went out in search of new players for the fact that they do need a hand up. By providing them with a new house vehicle and some credits they are extremely grateful. We always have people running around our city's , running missions, shopping, and just generally looking to be social. It builds a great community this way. Mos Eisly is a great place to recruit right now as all the new players have to start there and go through the tutorial. Be prepared though, as one of the first "veteran" players that they probably have contact with, they will look up to you have have questions about many aspects of the game. If you are someone that enjoy's helping others, such as myself, this is a great way to help. Sometimes I will go stand in Mos Eisly just to greet the new players, and answer questions for them. It can be alot of fun

Scornd - just wanted to thank you again for the tip with the mail - I tried it out yesterday with about 15 sent mails and not 30 minutes later there were already 5 people cruising around in our town and 2 of them decided to stay already...