Mostly.Vet Seeding

= Seeding Guide =

What is seeding?
Priming a server with enough starting people that other organic people will join the server in the server list, incentivizing others to join. Typically this user population follows a geometric growth curve.

Why Seed?
Seeding provides a place where the community you enjoy can play in a collaborate space curated by a crew you influence. Mostly.Vet is striving to make a great place to play, learn skills, and execute high level play. Many other HLL servers don't enjoy good moderation, or concentration of experience. If these are things you value, seeding is in your best interest!

Free VIP tickets for Seeders
We realize that rewards for effort are necessary. At ANY level, If you help Mostly.Vet seed a server you get a VIP ticket on that server letting you skip the queue for 24 hours. If you seed on Monday but don't use the ticket until Friday you get 24 hours starting Friday, no rush! The ticket activates when you join the server when its full and you skip the waitlist - i.e. If you join a server > 95 players then you activate your ticket.

Time of Seeding
In every timezone throughout the world there is a period of user growth, as people have free time from work or school, and user decline, as people need to sleep. Typically the afternoons are periods of growth and evenings are periods of decline. The most effective time to seed is in a growth period, when there isn't much competition from other seeding servers (servers with 10-90 people are seeding).

Gathering People
About 20 people are needed to seed a server in a growth time frame (i.e. 16:00-19:00 local time weekdays), as more server seeding competition happens the numbers required go higher.

Making Seeding Fun!
In the seeding state we want the game to last as long as possible, we want to be on a map that has general appeal, and we want the gameplay to be enjoyable and not frustrating.
 * Build garrisons around the middle point so people can spawn and have fun immediately
 * Have unlocked squads so people can play with multiple classes
 * Only fight over the middle sector (no steam rolling)
 * No tanks (They can be frustrating to fight as a small squad)
 * No Artillery (Again frustrating for the receiving side)

Types of Seeding
Join the server either through the in game Enlist screen, or via the connect now link in the seeding call.


 * Easy: Sit at the team choice screen, there is no idle timer in seeding, you can alt-tab out of the program leaving it running.
 * Medium: Join one team, create a unlocked squad, build a garrison, then go idle
 * Hard: Play the game over the middle sector with other seeders, hang out in discord chatting!

Leveling Up Roles while Seeding
Do you want to increase a specific role's level to unlock a loadout? Seeding is for you!

Build nodes!
They generate passive experience every minute - for the class you are at the time, not just the class that built them! You can even build nodes by yourself without a supply truck. You can switch teams and build nodes on both sides to double the experience. Once you have finished with your nodes switch to the role you want to level up, and enjoy.

Sit in a truck
You get passive per minute experience sitting in a truck, even if its off.

Where to advertise
The Mostly.Vet #seeding channel! We have four seeding roles defined to alert interested people (@Seeding, @Seeding_USEast, @Seeding_USWest, @Seeding_EU)

The Hell Let Loose Official Discord #Seeding_help channel

Embassy-Regimental Headquarters #seeding-help channel

How you can help?
Take a seeding role in The Mostly.Vet #seeding channel!

Following the The Mostly.Vet #seeding channel in your friend group's discord. Simply click the follow button on the top left of the The Mostly.Vet #seeding channel.

Ask your friends to join you seeding.

Join the Mostly.Vet discord!

Seeding Advertisements
Mostly.Vet Advertisement Prompts

Battle Metrics Seeding Rankings
US BM Seeding Rankings

EU BM Seeding Rankings

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