New members after the update

[Tower]

Before the last update we usually got a new member very fast after kicking a member. Now it takes ages.. Meaning hours/days
We are open w 800 medals minimum requirement - so that shouldnt be an issue

 

[BV123]

Another 24hrs came and went by without a single new member visiting us... Now I have lost count on how many days it is since last time we had a visitor... Guess we are like Area 51 - no admittance ...

Just a suggestion Tower.
Have you tried advertising your alliance in the alliance gate? That has helped a few alliances get some new players. Get a few of your co-leaders and council members to join the forum and post in your alliance chat thread in the 'Alliance gate' forum. This will do 2 things bump up your alliance advert and show people you have an active alliance.

Also on another note, this coming from a guy who initially lurked in the forums looking for an active alliance to play with, add an avatar to your profile pic and advertise your alliance in your chat signature. So every time you post something useful in the forum, people will see your alliance advert.
These are just some marketing gimmicks but it does work.

Anyway good luck in your search for new members

 

[S_How]

One of the problems with this is, that since the update that ruined in game alli searches, the alliance gate forum has become a madhouse. If you dont update multiple times everyday, you're at page 10 in an instant. There has to be a better solution, like reverting back to the way it was

 

[Guinevere]

Well this is embarrassing! While I can't get my main village to load I have managed to get my baby base up to level 21 (!) and my people have promoted me, their leader, to council ;-) Before the crash I had set medal requirements to 200 but we still werent getting many new members. At my pitifully low level I kicked one or two inactives and we have had a pretty good influx of low level players, some even active, lol. Will need to coach my co-leaders on how to increase medal requirements to see if we still get new members.

So has the new member issue been changed for anyone else? Not sure its worth being locked out of the game for.... But we have gone from 29 to 39 I think since I was locked out a week ago. No nasty comments, please!

 

[Guinevere]

Still cant load real base but this morning we have yet another newbie. Our alliance now has members ranging from lvl 18 to 153 but spread fairly evenly through all the ages. Interesting.

 

[kirsteym]

bumping cuz i think this is the most important issue needing fixing. if theres no players, theres no game.

 

[Tower]

3rd of June it was 24 hrs since last time we were "visited"... It is now 7th of June and still no visitors.

We have gotten 2 new members but this is people who have been with us before and after finding out that the grass is not greener on the other side decided to come back.

So in total, FIVE DAYS without a single new member. FIVE!!!

How is that algorithm going?

This is ridiculous...
Also everyone we meet in Alliance War seem to have many inactive members in their line up as they always have a lot attacks that is not completed... We don't mind winning wars.. but Nexon is making it too easy...

Seeing how alive and full the top alliances are it just goes to prove my "wild" theory about why they changed the algorithm...

 

[kirsteym]

People may be quitting the game in masse because of all the tech issues. My guess is there arent a lot of new gamers joining either.

 

[MicWoe]

So many responses! And I thought, My alliance was the only one. We had 3 new members in 4 weeks. Before we had 3 in one hour. This change is killing us.

See my post from May 15!

Help! The "Munich Royals" are drying out.

 

[MicWoe]

Sorry, nice try. But it doesn't fix the issue. To promote your alliance in the forum hasn't worked at all.

 

[MicWoe]

Here is a new way of dealing with this issue:

I had new players come to my alliance and after a couple hours, they started to promote and advertize another alliance. They promised all kind of things to my members, if they are willing to leave and join the other one. After their promotion, they left again.

Thanks to the change of policy, my alliance dropped to 30 players. The remaining players are getting nervous and some think about leaving, to join fuller alliances.

The 'Munich Royals' started in April 2015 and we have no idea whether we'll last another one.

Thx Nexon M!

 

[ccfoo]

Up for this issue. 165 posts and 5k over views, yet nothing was done? nexon, just roll back your old algorithm!

 

[ccfoo]

Please say something Seraphine, don't ignore us! Thanks!

 

[ccfoo]

We need everyone's help to keep bumping this issue up until there is a response from our moderators

 

[Guest]

Hey guys, JHawkins addressed this in the dev Q&A here. I don't have any further updates on where they're at right now, but once I or Nb4powerup has more info, we will be sure to post.

 

[S_How]

Hey guys, JHawkins addressed this in the dev Q&A here. I don't have any further updates on where they're at right now, but once I or Nb4powerup has more info, we will be sure to post.

That link is a month old, and doesnt give any info other than saying "We didnt mean to, we would like to fix it". Is this something you think you could press the development team for more information on, on our behalf Seraphine?

 

[Nb4powerup]

We will do what we can

 

[fussy]

This idea may already be on one of the 10 pages but hey....at the end of each season when ur donations are reset we should have an alliance search opt in button kinda like ur war button...opt in if ur searching for new members and all those inactive alliances clogging up the alliance gate will slowly drift away as they wouldn't have opt in.....its possible i was daydreaming this idea or ive read it elsewhere but i like it and i lack newbies despite hogging the alliance gate pages when im on a mission

 

[Magnifico]

I hate to have to bump this thread, but I had thought a change to the alliance search algorithm was going to be included in the 4.5 update. If it was, it's not mentioned in the patch notes, and I'm not seeing any uptick in new recruits to my alliance. This is especially galling now that the new Glory system rewards going to war with large alliances. Any idea when a fix to alliance search and recruitment will finally happen, Nb4powerup?

 

[Guinevere]

I had one week where it seemed to be working again....but it's back to nothing.

 

[Wonderstag_Bill]

At Wonderstag we went from 45 in March to now a total of 10. We haven't had a new member in 3 months! Unfortunately we didn't realize the problem until we were down to 30 (from non-attacking in WW culling), and then with a bit of turnover here and there, and disgruntled players leaving because of lack of new members, we don't even have enough to participate in WW. This is absolutely ridiculous.