please note: I'm not happy with the image quality from paint. So the images will change in the coming days, but are still useful now, until they are updated with images from Photoshop.
Recruitment Centre and Bumping Guide 3.0
Legend (the topics are clickable, and will take you to the respective areas).
The following guide is for information purposes to assist those in every section of the forum where bumping is needed. This includes, but is not limited to:
"Recruitment Center - find a Commander.... Commander seeking Officers..."
"Quantum Recruit!"
All sections of the market ("UU Market", "AT Market", "Planet Market", "Black Market", "Cross-Server Deals", "Accounts for Sale", "Sig Shop".)
"Alliances - seeking, recruiting, etc"
"CHAOS Recruiting & Requests Forum"
"Recruiting & Requests Forum"
"Spam Temple"
etc.
to maintain their threads.
"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
For those who shed their blood with me today
will always be my brother."
At certain points in time responses to your thread my be sparse/non existent, and your thread may just consist of your own original post and posts that just contain the word "bump" or other derivatives/representations. It is possible to "bump" you topic through management of your own posts.
Furthermore, it is no longer necessary to type bump and post it at the end of a topic to move your thread to the top of the section. This method, referred to in this guide as the "Bump Topic" link method.
This guide will explain how to preform both of these methods.
"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
For those who shed their blood with me today
will always be my brother."
The image below is generally how many threads are formatted in the above listed sections.
The components of the thread are:
original post of commander looking for officer, officer looking for a commander, or alliance member looking for members...in this case it is of a commander looking for officers
following bumping post(s)
delete button and post reply button avaliable to the poster, labelled (1) and (2), respectively
FIGURE 1:
If you have created a thread and have not had any replies, it is possible to delete your last post. This is done by clicking on the delete button(1). You will be prompted to confirm this step as seen below.
You can only delete your posts and can only do so if no one has posted after it. When you delete your post the thread will be placed in the forum, according to time and date, of the last existing post in the thread. This may put your thread further down in the forum or pages away. Steps to counteract this are listed below.
FIGURE 2:
Considering the example seen above, if the bumping post was deleted, the only post in the thread would be the original post.
After clicking on the delete button you will have the option to return to the thread or to return to the forum(seen below). Returning to the forum will take you to the forum the thread exists in, and returning to the thread will take you to the thread. Returning to the thread is useful if it will be difficult to find your thread if you were to return to the forum(if you think it might be far down in the forum, or it may be pages away). It does save time to return to the thread instead of trying to find it by eye.
FIGURE 3:
After your bumping post has been deleted and looking back to FIGURE 1, you can bump your post again by clicking on (2) and posting another reply to the thread.
Posting again, with new or updated information, will bring your thread to to the top of the forum, thereby increasing its profile and exposure.
"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
For those who shed their blood with me today
will always be my brother."
You can only use the bump link in a thread once every 30 minutes
To bump a thread you can be the author of the thread you are trying to "bump", or be the last person to post in a topic.
You can only rebump using the "Bump Thread" link after a new post has been posted in the thread
You cannot use the "Bump Thread" link in a topic that you are the only person who has posted
Upon using the "Bump Topic" link, the date and time of the last post will change. It would be misleading to assume that the last person was active as of their last post time and date.
You may bump a topic by clicking the "Bump Topic" link seen in FIGURE 4:.
FIGURE 4:
Upon clicking the link your thread will be at the top of the section. Successful bumping will prompt a message seen in FIGURE 5.
FIGURE 5:
"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
For those who shed their blood with me today
will always be my brother."
Try to do a rudimentary calculation of the naq bonus you would get. Quite a few commanders that gloss over how many officers they have, so the income bonus seems larger...
PART I: Calculating the income you receive
if they state total income: a. multiply that by 0.3 (if they operate on 30% bonus) b. divide that number by total officers he/she has + 1 (to account for you) c. see the bonus you would get
if they state income to officers: a. divide that number by total officers he/she has + 1 (to account for you) b. see the bonus you would get
if they do the calculation for you and present the income you will recieve: a. you have a number that you should be getting from them, but take into account/consider Part II
PART II: Stability of income
Find out if you prospective commander:
changes their alert level at night or during the day
keeps the bonus at 30%, or if they regularly change it
plans on recruiting more officers soon
meets their quota of officers to recruit. If they do not end up with as many officers as they set out to find, ask if the percentage you will recieve (what they have quoted) will stay the same, go up, or go down.
Section provided courtesy of Zeratul.
"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
For those who shed their blood with me today
will always be my brother."