seven wrote:
more of a general response to the overall thread. I really think A videogame staring colonial marines that had lots of support and updates and multiplayer would be the best possible way to get people into the groups. Also i definitely agree with prop-forge. this community is tight and awesome. The things that i imagine disney doing are terrifying. They have zero interest in source material or loyalty to a fanbase.
For what its worth theres always someone at a con who ill bump into thats totally unaware of the Legacy or that people even dress as colonial marines. Their jaws deop and they wanna know how to get started. granted their never younger then 25. Maybe we just need to show our kids, nephews ect. raise the next generation to keep it alive and keep the community honest and tight knit. If suddenly a flood of new members joined based on some new Disney transgender illegal immigrant character named prince Leebo, its gonna cause oldschool members to just leave. I already can see which members here are the facebook addicts, always having to be contrarian or high-roading eachother, playing moral superiority ect. Maybe staying small, exclusive and badass is what made this group last so long and attract the right people.
One of the forums I frequent, timebomb2000.com started as a y2k prepper forum. It eventually involved into a real world events focus group and they keep on top of all happenings internationally. The site gets over a million hits a day. The problem they faced a while back was an infestation of radical folks that were destroying the positive community. There was a purge, but everything was calculated and documented so that only the trouble makers were first contained, then removed if they proved to be too troublesome. It eventually came to a point with the 2016 election that they had to create a sub forum just for all the politics to keep it off the main page as it was creating too much strife within the community.
The issue we have to be careful on is to try and keep the social media drek from creating excessive drama on the board. We have that well in hand here and I do not think that will ever be a concern here.
I am working on a radio script that is almost done and I will see if radio spots are an effective recruitment mechanism.
As it stands with conventions, too many markets are over saturated. There is a literal collapse and stigma associated with some of the conventions now. Some convention properties(names) literally owe large sums of money to cities and actors. I forsee that it will come back to having a few mega conventions, and not much else in a few years. Until that scene gets completely ruined our best bet is to attend as many conventions as possible in uniform and in costume and try to spread the word and hand out cards and information.
The other thing I have started doing at the end of a convention is to get everyone's business card and then compile a massive list of folks to make connections with, connect with them, and the more interesting ones I message to thank and others to see about collaborating with. That is how you make longer term friends and future convention buddies.
The other thing I have been looking at as a cheaper costume upgrade is a business card holder and a qrcode patch and a badge that says free pictures, not need to ask. The key is to make it easier to approach us and get conversations started that will enable us to encourage more recruits.
The other problem we face is that there are too many cosplay groups trying to recruit folks to their clique and that creates its own set of problems. cliques and mini fiefdoms need to be avoided when possible. They create their own set of baggage and issues when personality clashes occur.
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