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Saarland Recruitment Guide

Why is recruitment important?

When Saarland started, it was just one nation. It only grew thanks to recruitment. Even once there's a community of players, some will naturally stop playing or leave for other regions. Therefore it's necessary to be constantly recruiting - and that's not an easy task. As of the writing of this document, over 1500 recruitment telegrams have been sent over the course of 48 hours, resulting in eleven nations and five citizens on the forums. Some of those nations have never even posted. Because the results/effort ratio is so low, it's really helpful to have multiple people working on recruitment.

What can I do to help?

The three main types of recruitment are manual, API, and Telegram Stamps. Manual recruitment involves copy-pasting a recruitment telegram template (more on that later) and sending it to nations are they're founded. API recruitment involves running a script on a computer that automatically sends telegrams to new nations, but is limited by the rules of the site to a rate of one telegram every three minutes, which misses many new nations. Telegram Stamps can be bought from the NationStates store and are used to send telegrams to every single new nation automatically.

A regional official will be constantly running an API script to send out that slow trickle of Telegrams, but you can help Saarland by doing manual recruitment or donating Telegram stamps to Kaisersesch!

How do I manually recruit?

First, make a Telegram Template. Site rules specify that you have to mark recruitment telegrams as such so that players can block them. Making a Template means you don't need to check that box every time!

First, open up your "Telegrams" tab and hit "+New Telegram" to compose a message. Type "tag:template" into the recipient field. Next to that field, click the little down arrow to open up more options. Check the check box, and make sure it says "This is a recruitment telegram for Saarland." Then copy-paste what you want to send to people into the text box and send it! You can find the suggested text [here (WIP)] but feel free to put a personal touch on it.


Once the Telegram sends you'll get this text box. Save the code it gives you - that's what you'll send to the people you recruit.


Now, to use it, go to this page to watch in real time which nations are being founded. Click on the nation, then scroll to the bottom of their page and click "Write Telegram." Then paste the template code you got (it should like like %TEMPLATE-12345678%) and send it! They'll receive the full text, correctly marked as a recruitment telegram. Congratulations! Manual recruiting is as easy as that! Feel free to watch Netflix and just pop back into the foundings page every few minutes to send another round of telegrams.

If you see a string of nations with very similar names, don't bother sending telegrams to them. They're likely puppet nations and probably block recruitment telegrams anyway.

Currently we are using Telegram Stamps to recruit refounded nations. If a nation says it is "refounded," you don't need to send it a manual telegram.

How do I donate Telegram Stamps?

Go to the NationStates Store. Near the top, click "Gift Options," type in "Kaisersesch" and hit "Select." Then scroll down to the bottom and buy Telegram stamps. They will be sent directly to me, and I will use them to recruit new nations into our region. If you do choose to donate stamps, I greatly appreciate it! It means a lot that you're willing to spend your real money to help Saarland.

Kaisersesch

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