A proven method of recruiting is the signature banner. I myself have led several people to www.minscandboo.com by way of the little banner in my sig (see below), but is it a viable tactic or shameless plugging? It's effective, no question, but does it really bring in the people we are looking for?
Made this is about 20 seconds. Give or take for time uploading and writing this post, which I did first. Yes, I just shrunk the header of this site, go MS Paint go!
Someone like Jetrall, WhiteGhost, Atrumentis or even Murderface could come up with a nice little sig banner we could use on other sites to attract new members. (I would of mentioned you too LinkX, but your not part of SICK (yet)).
I think that size is about right, not too big, not too small (for most sites).
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Sounds like a very good idea. I will certainly come up with something this weekend. Its not like we would be restricted to only having one, so I'm not claiming to be the guy to come up with the official one, but I'll come up with one that appeals to me at least.
Sounds great, please do. Could probably do a Df.com one and a SICK one, and various designs thereof.
Oh and if one of you guys wants to come up with a SICK version of the Uncle Sam WANTS YOU poster, feel free to do so.
Here is a DIABLO WANTS YOU poster I found a few years back.
I love the dental not included bit. Considering most of the army is more than likely to be decaying skeletons.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Though with SICK being the a somewhat Holy Order, it would probably be some sort of Paladin in full gothic plate looking guy, instrad of a skeleton (or the Uncle Sam).
Or maybe that kick ass picture of Tyrael holding his sword out, kinda like Uncle Sam and his pointing finger. I must find that image to better illustrate my point.
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Any got a better resolution (clearer) version? It's not quite it, but its close. But it could be this one that I am thinking off, it has been some time since I saw the cinematic. Memory has been know to change perseptons, it can change the colour of a car from red to green.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
I have the cinematics as mp4 files. The first and last ones are low quality though, but all the rest in between fit my screen easily and still retain their quality.
I dunno if I can help in any way, but I'll see what cool screenshots I can get?
That still won't really fix the clarity of the image issue, but youm ight be able to get a shot beofre or after the one I posted above, where he better resembles Uncles Sam. Which is one concept you could use.
I dunno if I can help in any way, but I'll see what cool screenshots I can get?
There is a pretty beasty one of Tyrael "praying" with his sword in front of him, shortly before he hurls it at the worldstone.
And just so everyone is clear, this is Uncle Sam.
This picture is usually accompanied by the words "Uncle Sam Wants You" It was a poster used for the United States Army.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
i know we got a few recruits from the battle.net realms as well. All you softcore players feel free to lead people this way. I and a few others speak of diablofans.com and SICK in our profiles
But most everyone plays in private safe games in hc thats why im throwing this out to u SC guys
-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
I feel honored to be mentioned. As a matter of fact, i just did some photoshop today for mother's day so i kinda feel artistic right now. Maybe i'll make a quick user bar or something.
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"I'm like a dog chasing cars." - Joker, Dark Knight
One must give credit where credit is due. It is my understanding you carry the title of Artifex Vasallus, seldom would one carry such a prestigious honour without having some knowledge or skill in the arts, particularily in the realms of drawing and image rendering and/or manipulation, being that, that was what garnered you said title.
For those of you who do not know latin, Artifex Vasallus mean artist's servant, or rather apprentice.
So yes, if you want to have a go at producing some concepts for user banners, or even the "We Want You" poster itself, like I said earlier, by all means feel free to do so.
And for those of you who play WOW, much like myself, and I think I may have mentioned thisbeofre once or twice, but perhaps we should look to getting a SICK guild charter, or how ever all that stuff works. We should be getting our name out there, having SICK or Silver Inferno Crusading Knights, displayed under your character's name would be one way of achieving that feat.
And jetrall, is your around perhaps you could look to making a video with the sole purpose of recruiting new members.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
just had this thought for recruiting people on battle.net. if im ever bored and nobody is in channel or none of my friends are online then i could make a game called sick recruits or something. then in the info bar place (cant remember name for it.) i could put SICK wants you!!!! or something. could that be a functional way to recruit? just throwing ideas out in the air.
User bars are good, but they are small. Within prior knowledge, you might not know who the figure is in your user bars, you do only see his eyes.
That is part of the reason why when I "made" the one on the first page, I paid special attention to make the figure as clear as I could, but still maintaining a banner of workable size. Well kind of.
Anyone able to get a hold of the WCIII cinematics? The very first one has that awesome shot of Medivh pointing at Thrall. Although Thrall is essentually 'behind the camera' thus Medivih is practically pointing at you. Ok so that scene is WC and we are a primarily Diablo series based guild, or would like to be, that doesn't make the scene any less powerful. Would make for an awesome concept art of one of the 'We Want You' posters.
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Here's the video,(with subtitles unfortunately) but Medivh doesn't appear visually until the very end (2:35). But his body position, and his hidden face could be just what we are looking for, for use as a concept. Might have to do a bit of tweaking, it is a little dark, making it kind of hard to see the image clearly.
Kudos Blizzard for another awesome cinematic (ok so it's really odd now but whatever), go on give us your own inhouse produced film, all CGI.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
yeah i know, i just didn't have too much time so i made something that could be done quickly. Plus they will attract die hard fans and are nice to have.
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"I'm like a dog chasing cars." - Joker, Dark Knight
Die hard fans are great, no question, but there are more Naives, noobs, or newbies, we shouldn't exclude them. Some prove, with time, to be valued members of organizations.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
I highly recommend you to get that "holy Lord God Silver" out of there. No one outside of SICK knows who the heck Silver is, and not everyone is a big fan of Oscar statues, anyway.
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Made this is about 20 seconds. Give or take for time uploading and writing this post, which I did first. Yes, I just shrunk the header of this site, go MS Paint go!
Someone like Jetrall, WhiteGhost, Atrumentis or even Murderface could come up with a nice little sig banner we could use on other sites to attract new members. (I would of mentioned you too LinkX, but your not part of SICK (yet)).
I think that size is about right, not too big, not too small (for most sites).
Oh and if one of you guys wants to come up with a SICK version of the Uncle Sam WANTS YOU poster, feel free to do so.
Here is a DIABLO WANTS YOU poster I found a few years back.
I love the dental not included bit. Considering most of the army is more than likely to be decaying skeletons.
Or maybe that kick ass picture of Tyrael holding his sword out, kinda like Uncle Sam and his pointing finger. I must find that image to better illustrate my point.
EDIT...
Any got a better resolution (clearer) version? It's not quite it, but its close. But it could be this one that I am thinking off, it has been some time since I saw the cinematic. Memory has been know to change perseptons, it can change the colour of a car from red to green.
I dunno if I can help in any way, but I'll see what cool screenshots I can get?
There is a pretty beasty one of Tyrael "praying" with his sword in front of him, shortly before he hurls it at the worldstone.
And just so everyone is clear, this is Uncle Sam.
This picture is usually accompanied by the words "Uncle Sam Wants You" It was a poster used for the United States Army.
would any of these work?
- http://www.itsablackthang.com/images/Edward-Clay-Wright/arch-angel-by-clay-wright.jpg
- http://www.luckymojo.com/archangel-michael-holy-card.jpg
- http://aromamassein.moonfruit.com/communities/004/006/151/205/images/4517222835.jpg (kinda gay face on that one)
- http://images.epilogue.net/users/sevencrows/archangel.JPG
- http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images/michael_by_raphael.jpg (a caption saying slay demons like our friend Michael)
- http://www.scottneil.co.uk/archangel.jpg
*also see the bottom of my sig
But most everyone plays in private safe games in hc thats why im throwing this out to u SC guys
We have our own clan site on xfire.
http://www.xfire.com/clans/xsickx/
One must give credit where credit is due. It is my understanding you carry the title of Artifex Vasallus, seldom would one carry such a prestigious honour without having some knowledge or skill in the arts, particularily in the realms of drawing and image rendering and/or manipulation, being that, that was what garnered you said title.
For those of you who do not know latin, Artifex Vasallus mean artist's servant, or rather apprentice.
So yes, if you want to have a go at producing some concepts for user banners, or even the "We Want You" poster itself, like I said earlier, by all means feel free to do so.
And for those of you who play WOW, much like myself, and I think I may have mentioned thisbeofre once or twice, but perhaps we should look to getting a SICK guild charter, or how ever all that stuff works. We should be getting our name out there, having SICK or Silver Inferno Crusading Knights, displayed under your character's name would be one way of achieving that feat.
And jetrall, is your around perhaps you could look to making a video with the sole purpose of recruiting new members.
my personal favorite:
Another decent one:
This ones decent too:
That is part of the reason why when I "made" the one on the first page, I paid special attention to make the figure as clear as I could, but still maintaining a banner of workable size. Well kind of.
Anyone able to get a hold of the WCIII cinematics? The very first one has that awesome shot of Medivh pointing at Thrall. Although Thrall is essentually 'behind the camera' thus Medivih is practically pointing at you. Ok so that scene is WC and we are a primarily Diablo series based guild, or would like to be, that doesn't make the scene any less powerful. Would make for an awesome concept art of one of the 'We Want You' posters.
EDIT...
Here's the video,(with subtitles unfortunately) but Medivh doesn't appear visually until the very end (2:35). But his body position, and his hidden face could be just what we are looking for, for use as a concept. Might have to do a bit of tweaking, it is a little dark, making it kind of hard to see the image clearly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgRu633WQU
Kudos Blizzard for another awesome cinematic (ok so it's really odd now but whatever), go on give us your own inhouse produced film, all CGI.