Hey I'm kinda late on my thoughts with the 63e and all the hate going towards there way but I'd think I have something you all need to hear. New regiments this late into the commuinty are HARD TO FORM. I myself made the AEF with a fresh start and built up from nothing. My biggest issue was recuirting of course. But not because of the 63e. It is simply the matter of one understanding how to recuirt this late into the game and two committing the endless hours and late nighters it takes to recuirt. It took me about three months into my regiment to get to 15-19 people everynight. Once I had this base of people I could grab these members to hop on AEF server and play commander battle. Hope and pray pubs come on and server population hits 15-25. Then information about the AEF would be given in admin chat and directed towards pubs. At this rate with a 20 man server I could get 5 people to join. So while it's not easy it doable.
The issue though is I only hav access to a small base of random people who decided to open NW that night. The other also very effective and desperate tactic I had to use in the starting of my regiment was to add about 40 people on steam from dead steam groups and ask people to come back. I'd get like 5-10 out of 40 people.
If I kept putting all this effort in which was like 6-7 hours a night after I got home from school I was able to get a regiment going. But because of all these hours and this work I put in I know have stopped recuirting leading my regiment to stagnate attendance wise. But tbh give me 12-16 guys a night without putting effort into recuirting into a dead commuinty anyday
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