S39 Recruitment Drive

Hello all! This season my goal is to recruit 20 new members from now until the end of August. As such, this season I will be upping the ante in ther form of increased prizes.

First and foremost, during this drive, any and all recruitment related rewards will be doubled. So if you recruit someone during this month, you will be entitled to double points for any achievements they make.

Linking us on another forum you post on (http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/6334-do-you-post-on-other-forums/) will earn you two TPE for this month.

Any member who recruits someone during the drive will be entered to win:

1) A copy of NHL '15 for any system of your choice or cash value of the game.

2) Free Double's week

3) Double's week

4) 5 TPE

5) 3 TPE

6) 3,000,000 player store cash

7) 1 TPE + 1,000,000 player store cash

I will also be giving 1 TPE to anyone who can give me a good recruiting idea.

During this month, I've also decided that any new member will receive $3,000,000 in player store cash to use on their player immediately after they create.

I'll also pay for people who go out of their way to recruit on other forums.

Now hopefully we can reach that goal of 20 new members.

A video walkthrough for newbies with examples of where to go, how to post, how to introduce yourself would be a great method. A lot of the time, instructions are thrown to new visitors and without a full grasp of the site, it leads to more confusion.

Video Starts:
"Hi, my name is Sterling. This is the VHL. This is what it's about. This is how you create a player. This is how you can update your player stats with the use of TPE for Media Spots/GFX. Any questions, send them my way. Thanks, hopefully you enjoy your time here"

I tried once but couldn't get the software to work, anyone willing to do a video is free to do so

Love it! Let the Recruitment Games begin! And let the odds be ever in the VHL's favour!

Probably a stupid question but why are we doing this in the middle of the season, when it is pretty much the worst time for a new member to join TPE-wise? Every new player is now in a draft class where he has to compete with a whole bunch of 100 TPE players, some of whom got months of development on them that they'll never be able to make up for. Why not have this at the deadline or in the off-season, when we are approaching the VHLM-draft?

The recruitment drive in itself is obviously a good thing though . Just to make it clear though, recruiting alone doesn't give you a TPE-bonus or anything, right, it's just the milestones like 100 TPE and such?

is my recruitment of Mr.baller and iPL counts ? 

Probably a stupid question but why are we doing this in the middle of the season, when it is pretty much the worst time for a new member to join TPE-wise? Every new player is now in a draft class where he has to compete with a whole bunch of 100 TPE players, some of whom got months of development on them that they'll never be able to make up for. Why not have this at the deadline or in the off-season, when we are approaching the VHLM-draft?

The recruitment drive in itself is obviously a good thing though . Just to make it clear though, recruiting alone doesn't give you a TPE-bonus or anything, right, it's just the milestones like 100 TPE and such?

It's a month long, season will be over by the end of August

It's a month long, season will be over by the end of August

True but all the players we are recruiting until then are literally joining at the worst time... How about opening the recruitment drive at the deadline from now on, and have it run through the playoffs and off-season?

True but all the players we are recruiting until then are literally joining at the worst time... How about opening the recruitment drive at the deadline from now on, and have it run through the playoffs and off-season?

That's what I did last season. I wanted this one to be a month long. I've already stated that.

That's what I did last season. I wanted this one to be a month long. I've already stated that.

There usually is more than a month between the deadline and the start of the new season so there should be plenty of time to have our next recruitment drive somewhere during that timeframe. But it's only a suggestion, just wondered why we were putting such an effort into recruiting just to have our new members start with a pretty big disadvantage.

True but all the players we are recruiting until then are literally joining at the worst time... How about opening the recruitment drive at the deadline from now on, and have it run through the playoffs and off-season?

Doing the recruitment drive during playoffs and off-season would make no sense. The new players would have to wait a long long time before they get to play. By joining now, players can start playing within 24 hours through waivers for a good portion of the season

There usually is more than a month between the deadline and the start of the new season so there should be plenty of time to have our next recruitment drive somewhere during that timeframe. But it's only a suggestion, just wondered why we were putting such an effort into recruiting just to have our new members start with a pretty big disadvantage.

I already told you. I think this is a great time personally. It's the summer and people have more time. That was the original plan, to have it kind of coincide with the release of the game that will be given away.

I already told you. I think this is a great time personally. It's the summer and people have more time. That was the original plan, to have it kind of coincide with the release of the game that will be given away.

You didn't already tell me but fair enough, those are at least reasons I understand even though I can't really get behind some of them .

You didn't already tell me but fair enough, those are at least reasons I understand even though I can't really get behind some of them .

You like to bicker don't you?

You like to bicker don't you?

Not really, I just don't like being told "It is like it is, deal with it" without any reasoning provided. If we want to keep improving this league we should always look for ways to make existing rules and procedures better and one way to do this is to keep asking questions and exchange opinions, that's all I'm trying to do.

Not really, I just don't like being told "It is like it is, deal with it" without any reasoning provided. If we want to keep improving this league we should always look for ways to make existing rules and procedures better and one way to do this is to keep asking questions and exchange opinions, that's all I'm trying to do.

I suppose Id value your opinion more if you joined the recruitment crew instead of bitching about it in the announcement section

This is not the proper place to be providing input

This is not the proper place to be providing input

Um...

I will also be giving 1 TPE to anyone who can give me a good recruiting idea.

All I did is provide an idea, you didn't like it and after a while provided your reasoning as well so all is good. No need to get all defensive about it.

Probably a stupid question but why are we doing this in the middle of the season, when it is pretty much the worst time for a new member to join TPE-wise? Every new player is now in a draft class where he has to compete with a whole bunch of 100 TPE players, some of whom got months of development on them that they'll never be able to make up for. Why not have this at the deadline or in the off-season, when we are approaching the VHLM-draft?

 

The recruitment drive in itself is obviously a good thing though . Just to make it clear though, recruiting alone doesn't give you a TPE-bonus or anything, right, it's just the milestones like 100 TPE and such?

Middle of the season isn't really the worst time. Kendrick did a recruitment on reddit maybe 2 seasons ago right before the playoffs and he did a great job of getting a bunch of guys here, but it was hard to keep them active since rosters were already set and they had nothing to do for 3 weeks or so.

Um...

All I did is provide an idea, you didn't like it and after a while provided your reasoning as well so all is good. No need to get all defensive about it.

That's not an idea I already did that last season. It's unneeded griping

better than nothing i suppose. maybe i can improve my excitement? i have no problem running through another go if anyone has any thoughts.

thumbnail ftw

better than nothing i suppose. maybe i can improve my excitement? i have no problem running through another go if anyone has any thoughts.

Pretty good! Once this is graded you can double the reward. And also you sound a lot like Scotty. Thanks coach

Any other submissions during this month will be doubled once they're graded and then we will vote to see which ones are best or if you want to make another tutorial that is different than the one coach made we can also use that.

My only suggestion would be to include the new members guide forum and also to discuss the vhlm training camp that every new member can do as well as the welfare/pension program and the new member survey which is five free tpe once filled out