Define the faction's current target
Agree on minimum requirements and priorities: activity, level, experience, ranked-war participation, timezone, growth potential, conduct, and communication expectations.
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Faction recruiting workflow
How to find, evaluate, contact, and follow up without losing the shared context.
A useful recruiting system begins before the first message. Define who fits, build a clean prospect list, enrich only the details you need, record every contact, and make the next action obvious to the entire recruiting team.
The complete workflow
Collect prospects
Use forum-thread scans, referrals, factionless players, manual scouting, and future-interest leads. Preserve the Torn ID as the identity key.
Run enrichment
Use the shared pool to add current profile and activity context. Treat partial data as partial—not as a failed prospect or a zero value.
Filter and review fit
Use the board score to order work, then read the actual fields: activity, faction state, age, level, available profile details, notes, tags, and recruiter judgment.
Claim or record the contact
Change the prospect from New before sending outreach. Add the recruiter name, message context, and date so another member does not duplicate the contact.
Write useful notes
Record requirements, questions, schedule, personality fit, concerns, response tone, and anything the next recruiter needs to know. Avoid vague notes such as “good.”
Set the next action
Use Contacted, Interested, Invited, Declined, or Do Not Contact. Add a follow-up date or reason rather than leaving the row in an ambiguous state.
Review the pipeline regularly
Archive dead leads, retry incomplete enrichment, follow up with interested players, and revisit strong in-faction prospects only when appropriate.
Recruiting board quality checklist
- Every prospect has the correct Torn ID.
- Requirements are written and shared with recruiters.
- New prospects are enriched before heavy review when possible.
- Contact status changes before or immediately after outreach.
- Notes explain context and next action.
- Do-not-contact reasons are preserved.
- Duplicate rows are resolved by Torn ID, not display-name spelling.
- Old prospects are reviewed rather than allowed to pile up indefinitely.
What the board cannot decide for you
Culture fit
Stats and activity do not show communication style, reliability, maturity, or how the player will fit the faction.
Future participation
Recent activity is useful context, but it does not guarantee war, chain, or Discord participation.
Intent to move
A player in another faction is not automatically recruitable. Contact respectfully and preserve the outcome in notes.
Final approval
The pipeline organizes the decision; faction leadership still applies requirements, interviews, and final judgment.