What's Wrong With RHA?

[globalplayer-svk]

maybe is that because when you as red hessian try to attack gamma,you meet lot of corsairs ships(and i am most of the time there), or maybe when you try to tax traders in omega15/dresden you have on tail boutny hunters in their battlecruisers(how many ships smaller as cruiser you meet? I only 2 or 3 other are caps) or when you try make something in rheinland, you have on tail RM where are very good pilots. So from my point when you undock, and start acting, you have something about 10-15 minutes live. Then you are destroyed. Maybe that is why.
but yes the ships are realy good and nice.
ooc:loki is light fighter right?and he has slot for torpedo?

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[mjolnir]

well that's true....
anyway.. I'm starting to think about scrapping some of my characters and making an independent Red Hessian:)

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Yes Loki is an LF with a torpedo slot.. and it has Arrwing agility

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.

[globalplayer-svk]

hmm so i think another independent red hessian in loki will be born when i come home from work:)

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[I_m_rdy]

About Reinhold... He still lives. Yeah, sorry, it's kinda my RL or I just have plain no interest to RP a Hessian right now. Point is that I didn't see so much possibilities before. Now I do.

Time to do the same for NLH...

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[SimonBlack]

Im playing a lot, trying to do some kick-ass RP on forum to attract people to come back. Sometimes gets lonely being alone though. We need good advertisment. The best one probably is when there are many RHA around, people want to join active factions.

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Character background summaries:
Red Hessians Major Matthias Schwarz
Golden Chrysanthemums Chusa Fumiko Shimazu

[Xoria]

I was taking a serious look at joining RHA a couple of months ago, but I decided to join Workers Front instead because they were just starting up and I wanted to give them a boost. As it turned out, the collapse of Junker leadership made me feel like I should spend most of my time as a Junker to give my Junker teammates someone to fly with and that kept me from doing much Unioner activity. Once the Junker clan really and trully went belly up, the three of us remaining decided to stay together as a team and we all had a big interest in the Lane Hackers...so there I am.

I say all of that just to say that the only thing that has kept me from joining RHA is circumstances. I still think it is a great faction with a tremendous amount of potential, fueled by the extensive variety of activities available in the rather large ZOI.

I have just looked through the RHA faction post and independent forum, and what I see is lacking is a set of concretely measurable goals for members to meet. The abstract goals are well spelled out, but there isn't anything that I could find that shows me concretely what a member needs to accomplish for promotion. I grant you that a stringent system like LH has is much less workable in Rheinland due to the much tougher NPCs and the ravenous RM presence. However, from what I have seen, having concrete and easily measurable goals to meet attracts a serious type of player, and focuses their attention. Here are just a couple of rough ideas to illustrate what I mean:

To achieve promotion / medal / etc

Require pirating X number of diamond transports and X number of Niobium transports

Require attacks on X number of RepEx vessels.

Donate X number of credits to the clan from RHA activities.



Now maybe those are lousy ideas, but they illustrate what I mean : provide measurable objectives that also direct members in the direction of good RHA roleplaying.

Another thing I like is the pilot and Codename donation requirements that LH is using. I wasn't sure how well this would work in practice, but using our clan shared storage account, our members are doing extremely well with this. Pilot donations also provide a very nice side income for the clan when done in conjunction with the {SU}.

I'll just share my overall philosophy that guided every stage of LH clan development:

Limitations create Challenge.

Challenge creates Risk.

Risk requires Teamwork.

Teamwork creates Real Fun.

All of the LH protocols revolve around that philosophy, and the results demonstrate that it is solid.

As far as recruitment, I think you could really benefit by focusing on new players to the server. In LH we have a good mix of veteran and rookie Discovery players. If it is too one sided then you either have a clan that has players being pulled in too many different directions due to their multiple clan memberships, or you have a group of rookies who will just get in trouble or collapse due to lack of experience. I think solid recruitment requires the presence of RHA in space for rookies to notice them, and also a challenging recruitment process to prequalify recruits to weed out the PvP whores and otherwise bratty teenagers. Don't be reluctant to give your recruits a serious challenge to start them out. Solid players will relish it, and it will help weed out the ones would drop out after wasting your time anyway. I firmly believe that high recruit turnover and washout is due to the lack of challenge involved in joining most clans. A serious training program helps too. New LH members are trained and tested (including verbal and written exams on Hacker RP and Server rules) before they are permitted to pirate or PvP in any serious capacity.

Well, I'm not trying to turn RHA into LH, but this is the only good foundation for offering advice that I have, and I think a lot of the concepts are transferable.

I hope some of this is useful. I eventually hope to be able to delegate some of my LH responsibilities and be able to branch out to at least one other clan. RHA is at the top of my list if that day comes.

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[LancerZero]

Thanks for the replies, everyone, and thank you Xoria for the suggestions. I'll have to think about it before I implement any requirements, but all told I think it's a good idea, giving new rekruts something to work towards.:)

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[Kuraine]

If it makes you feel any better, i've been planning to sign up for the RHA for ages. My birthday is as good a day as any to sign up. Treat myself to a new character/fighter etc.

So you just got yourself a new recruit;)

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[Eppy]

I've been wanting to sign up for ages, but I kind of have Other Responsibilities (namely fighting a two-front war with two of the largest factions here) which is a full-time job... The 66th is really the only faction I have time for (if I were even in-game, which I'm not, because my dad has my machine:dry:)

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.

[Qunitinius~Verginix]

I have a HEssian Character [Hessian]Anton.Kastner which I can fly with and support you guys from time to time, but as is, I dont get enough time on the server and when i do, I play my other factions (I have 20 char and I only get on the serv 1-2 hours a week).

The Hessian's are a nice faction, so keep up the good work.

Verg

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