Quote Originally Posted by Purrsnikitty View Post
My fc leader and I would scout starter cities for new players and help them out. When we found ones that we liked we would offer them an invite to the fc, if anything to at least make use of the buffs, but we would also tell them that they are free to leave if they decide we aren't for them and that we can still be friends after. It really helps when you try to be personal about recruiting and it really helps if they aren't burdened with the obligation of staying because they received help a few times. Once you start to get enough people they will start to bring friends and your fc will grow.
Absolutely this. Our former FC leader would blind-invite anyone with no FC and a leaf, and besides the fact that blind inviting bothers me (having been on the receiving end of it enough to know how annoying it is), it also meant we got a huge number of people we didn't know, many of whom stopped playing after a week or two, and quite a few that just didn't fit in with our concept of an FC. However, inviting folks we've run mount farms with, or helped out in dungeons, or friends new to the game has given us a lot of active members that we already know we get along with, and we don't have to worry about someone going into the FC chest to try to clear it out.