My stories then and now our future.
Now I know this is a long read, but if you really want to support this legion, I think this is a great chance to get some insight of where we came from and where we want to go.
I was staring at this empty topic for a few minutes before typing. You know from Beta #2 to Beta #5, I never did have much time to myself. Meaning I did a lot of legion duty and Tributary contribute in the beginning too (he found some of the best form beta #2) thought our first few betas. I can’t fully tell you why we decided to make a legion. Not in this topic, ask me on ventrilo sometime. My 2nd beta was about getting NA experience in Aion, but it was all for building a legion then.
Was going to be named "Syndicate" and Tributary had something even more generic. He had even thought of a name that if abbreviated was a homosexual term. So I thought about this being another rising for me. I thought of "Rising Dragoon" and it was the spin from the guild that I helped build with the couple that I looked on as brother and sister. That was "Rising Dawn". So I think it worked. We couldn't even think of a good formation for 15 minutes till we thought of RDragoon.
We invited all these great people and even many rejected us then because they are looking for something hardcore, are the best, end game, etc. In my head, sometimes I wondered if people listened to themselves. Like achieving something in a new game is easy, better yet for a legion to make clams in the beta stages of a game. That’s why I’m nothing compared to others that are bigger than us. It’s up to the players to decide how they want to work and I only can add more clay to the sculpture for us to mold it. Back to the story;
From beta #2 I have met some of the best people there, we got that money to start the legion quick. We had the black capes. We all thought we were so cool. There still was a problem, growth and rejection. Nothing I could do then, but let people bounce. I didn't have a legion website then. I wanted to see who was interested. I got only a few people interested and a lot of people that were busy with their own things till release and then people who just rejected us.
It was hard enough work for us to email people from beta, after beta #2. Very little people responded to them. Looking back my first wave of emails was June 22, all hand-typed each. What we had for RDragoon then was nice.
Legion website I put up on June 25th. I was more than positive that we would be a good legion. I had no experience in Vbulletin. I was good at other forums and CMS. I wanted to do Invisionboard, but thought that was Vbulletin for some reason, but I’m satisfied. Nice setup and everything. I resent emails about the website. I can’t remember too much but I think 1/3 signed up then at that point. Compared to the looks of the website now, starting up it was ugly.
Closed Beta #3 was the highlight of meeting some of the greatest again. There has always been a new member(s) highlight for me in each beta. I was still doing my same ways. Searching for new members, building a stronger website, putting info on our legion on this forum and that forum, helping whomever I can in beta and the job is never done. You never know who will be there for you still in retail. People now don’t have time to fill out legion applications in a beta.
This beta is the start where I had to put being a leader into plan. I had to deal with more than the legion knows around that time. Right then my goal was to take care of the bull to have the others enjoy themselves. We can fast-forward from now. At the end of Closed Beta #3, I think that’s when people from around the net were finding us and checking us out. I also on my downtime I watched the goggle and yahoo bots searching the forums.
Last month we had 682 unique visits with 1922 visits, 76940 pages, 301925 hits and 1.31 Gigs of bandwidth usage(stats 4 times better than July). It’s only August 4th and we are about toped last month’s ratings.
You will see us in the top ten if you search (Rising Dragoon, Rdragoon, aion, and legion) in any sort of order, but “Rdragoon Legion” we are #1. The MSN spiderbot isn’t doing its job though, but I will get on it.
Closed Beta #4, I have been trying to recruit some shady people around that time. I had shady ones asking to join too. They lie to us, bail out on us in parties, stall us in parties, etc. We know who they are and I’m even constantly picked when I throw my mojo down somebody’s throat…and the ones that got away. I find it funny. We accomplished a good bit then.
Closed Beta #5, we did get the legion to level 3, but when I did it. I felt something very wrong and it’s not something I can share, but just something I will want to improve on. I didn’t do much recruiting at all and it’s not the best I’ve done. I did get many of the people from the website in the legion and I’m happy about that. In-game recruiting I lacked in this time. Overall the activity in the legion was great.
At this point though all my trials and tribulations (that will always continue) they have done a lot of it alone. I know my right hand man Tributary has been busy so you know it’s normal. I’m Michael Jackson and he is Tito Jackson. I have my Centurions (aka generals) on the game and all of them have it for a reason. I even wanted to give it to certain people and most just unsure with the responsibility. I understand and it’s not a problem. I get more suggestions that really help me out when I’m tackling situations alone.
The website is more than enough proof. That website is not even by me, that’s all of us. Ideas for that modification, website design, even that logo, we all had some part in it. We are all doing a good job too, but at this point of time I need more than what I’m getting now. I need at least a handful to get ready for real responsibility (preferably people that I’ve known for two or more betas).
I’m not sure how I’m doing to do this yet but I got a few ideas and things. I will make another topic and I want to know who’s really ready for a part in a position. Everybody will have the same title, but different responsibilities and management. It can be from recruiting, to legion warehouse management, giving me information on issues from within, group organization, etc.
I don’t expect anybody to tackle something that would make them look bad or cause too much drama; I’d rather make myself look bad or handle things like that. I’ll be the one to talk to people and handle things like that.
So, this was a pretty long read, but actuality it’s a quick story of where I came from and also how I met each and every one of you.
It makes me smile to see many of you around, having fun and learning more about others. So I feel blessed, to have something created now that I was just unsure about at first. I’ve done a lot for many of you and many of you have done a lot for me. I don’t ask for much, but I want to ask once, I want to see our legion ready for retail.
Well spoken (or typed i think), Sam (bubbletea) and I will be joining you guys for next cb and on. We were on Zaikel something but we will be on Siel now 
Originally Posted by aimbot
