The conclusions about raid leading (everyone should check this out)
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:14 am
This thread bases on the questions and answers talked trough in this post :
http://www.pryd.net/showthread.php?t=532
Suggestions and ideas gathered
(banana) The existance of these forums is not clear for everyone, and big part, if not even majority of people dont know what is hapening when.
(sharkith) Alot of pressure is piled to the few raid leaders that have made name.
(sharkith) Intresting and new raid targets is needed to upkeep the community morale, not the same things over and over again.
There is sometimes 2 or more raids same time. That reduce people from neither one. Also RVR issues effect here.
18gmt is too early starting time for many people. also raids that last over midnight on weekdays is a problem for some people.
(sharkith) alot of weekend only players, suggested raids that need more people or last long only to be held on weekends.
(sharkith) Effort is required to make sure everyone knows these boards.
(Seanchai) Rewards is often unclear, what and how is person coming to raid going to benefit.
(seanchai) random group setups reducre the funfactor.
(seanchai) goal of a raid may be unclear.
(seanchai) lack of planing, or the plan only known by the raid leader, makes it unpleasant to join a raid.
(malisha) Good planing and skillfull players makes better result than pure numbers.
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There are mainly the points that were gathered from the post about problems leading raids on low population server such as prydwen. Due these replys it is clear that some changes must be done, when raid threads are made, and how to answer to them. (and some other things.)
The most important thing for everyone of us, is that everyone is aware of these forums, and read them aswell when they search for something to do, or have any question. DAOC itself doesn't at its current stage provide us any kind of community tools, so its all about ourself, to write the 13 letters to the address bar.
When you write a raid thread, make sure you answer to the majority of questsions that are sure to raise when someone reads it. It is important that you mention as much as you can, and try to make it intresting, so that its as easy as possible to answer it and to sign up. You need to tell what is the plan of the raid, whats the rewards, how the loot is going to be splitted, when and where its going to start and how to reply to the post.
Its also very important that you are aware what other stuff is hapening that day, so that you dont try to run big raid on day when another raid is hapening, else you cause problems for both of you. Also its important to run raids that require alot of people mainly on weekends, and those that require less on weekdays, to gain better succses both for you and for the people that come to the raids. On weekdays raids should not start too early, so that as many people can join them, also they cannot last too long so that everyone can see the end too.
Making somekind of preparations before the raid you are going to lead is neccesary for everyones pleasure. You should know what you are doing, atleast have map about it. If you dont, you should be sure that you got someone by your side wthat does =) This is worth looking when you search for maps for areas (http://www.teatromusica.it/valmerwolf/mappe/mappe.htm) Vision of sages if ofc very good information source for everyone about everything related to TOA. (http://www.visionofsages.net/toa/) and there is hunred of other pages to seek info.
If you are the replying person, that answers the post. Start your post always with clear answer to what is asked, dont hesitate to mention as much info as you can, it will all help the on that needs the information. Answering to posts makes the post go top of the threadlist, so its also good to answer a post even if it doesn't require it, to give it atention if it requires it. Only sign up for raids that you can come, we all have RL but also we are all mature enough to know what we are doing tomorrow.
This is all important for the succsess of our small server to survive and keep the funfactor high =)
http://www.pryd.net/showthread.php?t=532
Suggestions and ideas gathered
(banana) The existance of these forums is not clear for everyone, and big part, if not even majority of people dont know what is hapening when.
(sharkith) Alot of pressure is piled to the few raid leaders that have made name.
(sharkith) Intresting and new raid targets is needed to upkeep the community morale, not the same things over and over again.
There is sometimes 2 or more raids same time. That reduce people from neither one. Also RVR issues effect here.
18gmt is too early starting time for many people. also raids that last over midnight on weekdays is a problem for some people.
(sharkith) alot of weekend only players, suggested raids that need more people or last long only to be held on weekends.
(sharkith) Effort is required to make sure everyone knows these boards.
(Seanchai) Rewards is often unclear, what and how is person coming to raid going to benefit.
(seanchai) random group setups reducre the funfactor.
(seanchai) goal of a raid may be unclear.
(seanchai) lack of planing, or the plan only known by the raid leader, makes it unpleasant to join a raid.
(malisha) Good planing and skillfull players makes better result than pure numbers.
---
There are mainly the points that were gathered from the post about problems leading raids on low population server such as prydwen. Due these replys it is clear that some changes must be done, when raid threads are made, and how to answer to them. (and some other things.)
The most important thing for everyone of us, is that everyone is aware of these forums, and read them aswell when they search for something to do, or have any question. DAOC itself doesn't at its current stage provide us any kind of community tools, so its all about ourself, to write the 13 letters to the address bar.
When you write a raid thread, make sure you answer to the majority of questsions that are sure to raise when someone reads it. It is important that you mention as much as you can, and try to make it intresting, so that its as easy as possible to answer it and to sign up. You need to tell what is the plan of the raid, whats the rewards, how the loot is going to be splitted, when and where its going to start and how to reply to the post.
Its also very important that you are aware what other stuff is hapening that day, so that you dont try to run big raid on day when another raid is hapening, else you cause problems for both of you. Also its important to run raids that require alot of people mainly on weekends, and those that require less on weekdays, to gain better succses both for you and for the people that come to the raids. On weekdays raids should not start too early, so that as many people can join them, also they cannot last too long so that everyone can see the end too.
Making somekind of preparations before the raid you are going to lead is neccesary for everyones pleasure. You should know what you are doing, atleast have map about it. If you dont, you should be sure that you got someone by your side wthat does =) This is worth looking when you search for maps for areas (http://www.teatromusica.it/valmerwolf/mappe/mappe.htm) Vision of sages if ofc very good information source for everyone about everything related to TOA. (http://www.visionofsages.net/toa/) and there is hunred of other pages to seek info.
If you are the replying person, that answers the post. Start your post always with clear answer to what is asked, dont hesitate to mention as much info as you can, it will all help the on that needs the information. Answering to posts makes the post go top of the threadlist, so its also good to answer a post even if it doesn't require it, to give it atention if it requires it. Only sign up for raids that you can come, we all have RL but also we are all mature enough to know what we are doing tomorrow.
This is all important for the succsess of our small server to survive and keep the funfactor high =)