Hello!!! Sorry for the MASSIVELY late response. So firstly, growing your regiment very quickly is a lot easier said than done. There are a lot of factors that play into whether or not a regiment will gain a lot of traction. There are a few notable ones I've spoken about previously but I'll list them here as well for convenience Theme - Is your regiment’s theme something easy to relate to or is it more niche? How well does it appeal to the general player base? Staff - Do you have enough qualified people serving your regiment? Are they all put in positions that match their skills? Originality - What makes your regiment stand out from everyone else’s? What new opportunities, activities, and functions does your group offer that others don’t? Sociability - Is your group approachable or do you keep to yourselves? How far are you going to make a good impression and connect with groups and players outside of your own circle? Consistency - How frequently are you making your presence known to the community and your own members? How often are you hosting activities in the public eye, regardless of the number of attendees that show? Policies - How many rules and regulations do you have put in place and what are they? Are they clear, detailed, reasonable, and beneficial to your members and operations? Timing - Did you open your regiment during a time period where people have the free time for regiments? How many other groups are you competing with for members and are there any larger groups that might be actively taking up the community’s attention? Luck - You can never guarantee that a regiment will be successful, even if all these aspects are present. However, meeting all the things listed above can help you increase the odds Ultimately, it isn't something one can really control. Luck is really the biggest factor when it comes to if a regiment takes off or not. But generally, regiments that have all of these components tend to do much better than others in the long run Making your group more well known in the community, is a lot more achievable, however. While you could hypothetically just ally with a bunch of regiments, that's really superficial and doesn't give the genuine result I assume you want. If you want to truly become more well known in the community, you have to put your group out there and you have to do it consistently. First and foremost, you need to be constantly having events in the public eye. Recruitments are the best way to do this, yes, but it's also important to be doing as many events as you can on the usual safe server map. Most people do not understand that when their group does events on other servers or is constantly at PI, they are depriving themselves of free advertisement. When people see your group constantly showing up and walking around and doing activities, they know your group is active and they get curious. People will be able to recognize you and your members when you're out and about and get more familiar with you. Secondly, if you want the community to notice you, you need to draw attention your group. If your regiment is constantly keeping to themself and is generally stand-offish from other groups, as most groups tend to do, they will just blend in with every other group. However, going out of your way to acknowledge the presence of other groups and having casual and kind interactions with them will get you so much farther than almost anything else. People will recognize your group for being friendly, well-mannered, and sociable. And that sticks out to people more than you'd think I hope this advice helps you even the tiniest bit and I wish you the best with your regimenting!

Hello! Generally, WOM stands for a few things, although they all have the same meaning.. WOM means "We're on move" or "We're on march." This is a term used by officers and squad leaders to inform the members of their line that they're starting to move and to get prepared to walk forward. WOM also stands for "We're Oscar Mike." The term "Oscar Mike" comes from the NATO phonetic alphabet and is essentially just another way of saying you're on the move. You'll often hear this version in more militaristic regiments While I'm unfamiliar with the term "wommer" I'm assuming that it is just a sillier way of saying WOM. However, you can always ask for clarification in any groups where the term comes up! Thank you for the question! I hope this helps

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Hello noodle! Here's a basic outline I happened to have on hand for server categories. You don't have to use this at all and you can edit, add, and delete things as you wish! I hope this helps a little __Officer Comms __ General (For minimal conversation and commentary) Points (For patrol records and issuing points) Logs (Chat logs) Commands (Not for issuing points) Tickets (CO Operations ONLY) Alliance Line (CO Access ONLY) Interrogation Room (CO Access ONLY) __Welcome__ Incoming Guidelines (Basic regiment rules) About Us (Explaining who we are, what we do, what we believe) Registration (Soldier or MWD) Self-Roles (Pronouns, Timezone, DM Status, Event Pings, Club Roles, Misc Roles) __Onboarding__ Enlistment Guide (An explanation of how our onboarding process works) Soldier Info (Information regarding the soldier unit, includes uniform documents. Hidden to MWDs) MWD Waitlist (Hidden to Soldiers) MWD Info (Information regarding the MWD unit, includes uniform documents. Hidden to Soldiers) Enlistment Processing (Uniform check) __Important__ Announcements Event Schedule Custom Events Event Notice (Event announcements) Alliances Watchlist Blacklist Policy Blacklists __Regiment Resources__ Newbie Guide (A list of resources for new members, newbie document, map, compass, NATO alphabet, combat guide, ect) FAQ Lore Training Games Questions Suggestions __Conversation Comms__ General Secondary General Media Memes Appreciation (For lovemail rambling) Quotes (Regiment only) Regiment Photobook (For screenshots during events) Self-Advertisement __SATCOMMS (Voice Channels) Telegraph (VC Muted) Event Radio General Secondary General Gaming & Streaming Staff Radio __Enlisted Showcase__ Artwork Writing & Literature OCs (For sharing general OCs) Trinkets (For sharing merch, cool items, ect.) Photography Pets Music Cooking Plants __Miscellaneous Comms__ Bots 1 Bots 2 Interests Gaming Artist Discussion Regiment Characters & Lore Tutoring Horse Channel (Non-Negotiable. Will not elaborate)

I certainly appreciate the sentiment! I understand where you come from. It can be difficult making connections in regiment spaces. Honestly as cliche as this seems, one of the best ways to make friends is to just do it. Small talk isn't inherently a bad thing, especially if you do it consistently. It can just be small things like asking about someone's day, complimenting someone's pony, and finding little things to comment on regarding your interests or theirs. Friendship takes time but it starts with familiarity and connection As for myself, while I wouldn't say I'm in the market for friends, as I'm a bit too busy for long-term consistent communication, I certainly don't mind if you'd like to strike up conversation with me or sit next to me if you see me around. I don't bite and I'm always happy to make an acquaintance

Hello! I'm glad that the things I've made have been able to re-acclimate to the community! I appreciate you asking me. I don't mind touching on these, simply because I can answer them very briefly. TA is still open although as far as I'm aware, they are entirely inactive on ponytown itself. Their server is semi-active SWS shut down after various controversy a few years ago, however there is a regiment that was heavily inspired by and connected to them called The Synthwave Vanguard (SWV). I hope these answers can sate your curiosity and I'm glad to have helped you

Hello!!! Thank you for this lovely question! I have some really good advice on this one, since this is something I know a lot of people struggle with. Before you do anything get yourself fully enlisted. Verify, get your roles, get your claim, and make all your uniforms. Make sure to do this as soon as possible and make all your uniforms at once if you can. The sooner you get those submitted and approved, the sooner the real fun can begin. First and foremost, look through all the informational channels. Read through any guides or documents and familiarize yourself with the basics of the regiment's operation and structure. The more you know and understand about how the regiment works, their terminology, their ranks, their games, their events, any vital lore, etc. the easier it will be to adapt and fit into the group. You'll be more prepared for events and end up with less confusion in the long run. Before you even have your first event, start talking in their discord server. Make your presence known. Engage people in conversation, even if it's just a simple "hi, how are you doing!" If people are discussing something and you can jump into it without intruding or interrupting, do so! If someone posts something or shares something, comment on it. This helps you build rapport with people, come off as friendly and approachable. Moreover, this helps you get a better idea of the people in the group that you'll be interacting with. That way, when you finally do attend your first event, people will be more likely to recognize you and it will be easier to find people you connect with or share common interests with. Your first event is going to feel awkward and uncomfy and maybe even make you feel a little anxious. This is normal. You're new, you don't know anyone, and you're worried you'll screw up. Everyone has been there. But there are some things you can do to make it easier. Firstly, try to put yourself out there and engage with the activities or general conversation as much as you can. While staff and other enlisted will probably do their best to include you and guide you around, if you aren't making a conscious effort to be social, people will assume you don't really want to be approached. You won't have a good time if you spend an entire event keeping to yourself and being non-verbal because you're shy and nervous. Even if you aren't explicitly there for the social aspect, regiments are inherently social groups so you should be making a bare minimum effort to give others an idea of who you are. Secondly, you need to be open to mistakes and correction. You're new and you can't expect to do everything perfectly when you're starting out. If someone tells you you're doing something wrong or if you mess something up, don't let it be the end of the world. Just learn from it and let it go. You can't expect to be perfect at first and while it is embarrassing to be corrected from staff, it helps you to learn how to better interact with the group and how to properly engage in events. Nobody else will be more hung up on it than you, I promise you. Lastly, and this is the most important thing you can do, BE CONSISTENT. In order to make friends, have a place in the community, and grow as a person within the regiment, you NEED to keep showing up. Talk in the server every day, attend events frequently, learn the regiment's customs, and be actively engaged in events. Yes, some groups are inherently cliquey, but you cannot expect everyone to comfortably accept you if they don't know you. YOU have to take initiative to make yourself stand out and be familiar to people. Show others that you are someone who is sociable, who cares about the group and its members, and that you are someone who is worth connecting with on an authentic level. It can be difficult starting out in a new regiment but as long as you keep showing up, keep putting yourself out there, keep an open mind, and take initiative to learn how to properly participate, it will be so much easier every time you interact with the group. Nobody is more responsible for shaping your experience with a group than you are. If you go into a regiment with a respectful, teachable, and positive mindset and keep that mindset, the more fun you will have and the more comfortable it will be. I hope this helps you a little bit! Thank you for the question

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Hello! Thank you for the question! I really enjoy ones like this and this is a question I've really had to think about! While, most of those things are things are still existing things within regiments that have just changed over time, I can name a couple of things that don't really exist anymore within regiments. Firstly, regiment balls don't really happen anymore. Regiment events do! But not regiment balls. Regiment balls as I knew them were events where regiments would make fancy outfits, listen to music, and dance around and socialize freely with each other and other regiments. There weren't really games or marches or other activities. Maybe there was a group photo but for the most part it was just groups freely connecting and having fun. They weren't structured the way that most regiment events are today. Regiment wars also don't happen anymore. While generally this is due to a lack of militaristic regiments and the enmeshment of regiment and scout culture, it used to be really fun! You would just spend the event running around and fighting with another regiment. Sometimes it was planned, other times it was just another regiment pulling up and saying "RTS!" It really made regimental groups feel like regimental groups. Regiments have also stopped going onto other servers for events. I remember regiments used to take field trips to Ashestown and do events on there. But servers like Mystic Meadows or Derguntown or Luminous Kingdom were used for regiment events as well. I can name a lot of old regimental activities and games that aren't really used anymore either. Pushing is a big one that's been phased out that used to be really popular. It involved a lot of coordination and was considered a much harder activity. Traditional search and find/rescue activities aren't really done anymore either. Running laps and doing push ups also used to be super commonly done on regiment events but those have also been phased out. It's also been awhile since I've seen a traditionally Navy-aligned regiment. While there are certainly a lot more, these are some of the biggest ones I can think of! The community has gone through a lot of changes throughout its history and I tend to be a bit of a regiment history nerd. Thank you so much for this lovely question! I had fun answering it

Of course!!! I LOVE answering questions!!! Feel free to ask as many questions as you'd like I enjoy talking about regiment stuff and I like meeting new people!

Hello!!! Thank you so so much for the inquiry!! I appreciate you asking for context about things I say. I enjoy clarifying So, I'm not at all against allyships! I think they can be a fun way to interact with other regiments and bring people together. But one of the biggest issues I have with the allyship system is that it's essentially just an advertising system now, with an occasional cross-march like one or two times in your regiment's lifespan. Maybe a group event if you're lucky. Allyships used to be a bit more than that. I remember regiments used to run around together, be more playful and friendly to their allies casually on events, host more than cross-marches but full blown games, wars, all sorts of events that didn't include just walking around. And the few marches I've gone to in recent times, every group just sort of keeps to themself. There's no real intermingling. between the two When regiments start up, I notice they immediately scramble to ally without knowing too intimately the regiments they're allying with. They don't know if they align with their values, if their staff would mesh well with their own, if their communities would work together. They just see another opportunity to get members instead of recognizing other regiments for the admirable qualities they possess. It feels shallow, almost. When you make an ally, you are promoting that group and saying "we support, stand by, and align ourselves with these people!" And it feels a little silly to do that when you don't even know the other group well enough. Used to, you allied with another group because you got along with them. You were friendly, your members liked to play around, your staff worked amicably alongside their own staff team on certain issues, and your group aligned with their mission and their values. You became allies because you were close. Now you become close if you're allied first. I have nothing against regiment allyships! I'm glad so many people in the community are getting along. But I feel like getting along is just the bare minimum. Allyships have the potential to be so so much more, and I like to think that if more groups knew each other more intimately and had a better understanding of how everyone operated and who was running each other's staff teams, we wouldn't have nearly as much controversy as we do now. Thank you again for your question! I enjoy ones like this

Hello!!!! Thank you for your question. There has not! I imagine it would cause a lot of issues for a lot of people and be seen as disrespectful by a lot of groups , so that's most definitely why. It would infringe on a lot of people's creative property and potentially harm the reputations of some groups. It certainly a fun thought, though!

Heya!!! Welcome back I'm glad I was able to help. Unfortunately there's a bit too much to your question to answer in one go, especially so in depth. But I'll try to answer what I'm familiar with!!! Cross-marches and ally events were never my expertise. However, I can tell you that you should find groups that share your ideals, plan every minute detail that you can, listen to and work with their staff, take responsibility for your own members, and encourage your groups to intermingle! I'm unsure if you mean promotions from an event standpoint or operational standpoint so I'm going to leave off on that. When it comes to staff applications, do not release them unless you are lacking active and/or adequate staff OR your staff team is in a comfortable position and you have the manpower to be properly and consistently training your staff in accordance with your regiment's staff training program. If you do not have a staff training program, you NEED to make one. First off, figure out what you're looking for in a staff member. Make requirements you need them to meet before anyone would be eligible to staff at all and traits and skills you want your staff to have. When making staff applications, I recommend having four sections. Within the last three sections, try to make questions as open-ended as you can so you can get better understandings of your applicant and how they work. Avoid questions that have "correct" answers. 1. An informational section where you get their demographics (where you ask basic questions like what the person's name is, their rank, their username, how long they've been in the regiment, ect.) 2. A personal section where you ask them about their experience with regiments, why they want to staff for your regiment, what they're like as a person, their strengths and weaknesses, their availabilities, their staffing style, ect. 3. A short server section where you ask them hypothetical or common knowledge questions about how they'd go about moderating your discord server itself and their knowledge of the regiment itself 4. A short event section where you ask hypothetical or common knowledge questions about how they'd go about handling staffing situations on ponytown as a host or as a staff When making staff applications, make sure to formulate the questions to YOUR REGIMENT AND STAFF TEAM'S NEEDS. Don't use questions just because every other regiment has them. Ask the questions you feel like are important for you and your staff to know to properly gauge if someone has the potential to excel as a staff in your regiment. If a question doesn't make sense to be asking, omit it. If you think of a really unique thing to ask someone because it's specific to YOUR regiment, add it! Always encourage your applicants to really think through and elaborate on their answers. The more information someone gives you, the easier it will be to determine if they're a good fit or not When going through the staff applications, do not allow every single member of your staff to chime in. Designate a group of staff members who you believe are qualified to be making decisions that will permanently affect your staff team and who you believe are objectively sound of mind and judgement. You want to avoid bias as much as possible when deciding who will have a future position of power in your regiment. Not everyone is going to be able to provide helpful and unbiased insights on your applicants. You don't want people who have grudges or show favoritism making suggestions about your team. Nor do you want to include staff members who are overly emotional, immature, careless, inactive, passive and dismissive, or staff who cannot confidently articulate their opinions and communicate effectively and respectively. Set up a meeting where everyone who is designated to look through your applications can be present, focused, and engaged When you actually go over the applications, always look at things logically and from an impersonal standpoint. Do not let feelings cloud your judgements. Think through and discuss every single response. Do not rush through applications. or make up your mind about something pre-maturely. Always speak honestly if something really stands out to you or feels off to you, and wait until everyone has given their thoughts on something or discussed before moving on. ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO CONSIDER THE APPLICANT'SBEHAVIOR ON EVENTS, IN THE SERVER, AND FROM EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCES. Make sure that what they say in their applications lines up with their actions. Some people are wonderful writers but their behaviors, personalities, and history within the regiment directly contradict or don't align with what they write, and vice versa. Of course, you should never consider somebody who won't take an application seriously or is incapable of writing literately. But you shouldn't consider somebody just because they're good at writing either. Always take their personality, history, application, and actions into account when deliberating on if someone should be staff or not. I recommend making a list of all your applicants and giving them an honest ranking (1-10) based on their application, their in-server & in-event actions, and how well their personality and attributes would fit into your staff team. Put them in order of highest to lowest ranking. Anything below a 5 should be automatically denied. Anything above an 8 should be priority candidates for your staff team. Whoever ranks the highest should fill your staff slots. In the event that you end up with no candidates that your deliberation team is happy with, do not settle for less just to meet your quotas. You always want to prioritize good quality staff for the health and security of your entire regiment. If you only end up with one or two new staff members and have slots unfilled because you turned down people with mediocre or unsatisfactory applications, that's completely okay. If you end up with no new staff, that's okay too. It's better to wait until you have members who are ready, qualified, and up to your standards who can fill your ranks. Hosting is an entirely other topic but I can answer the two questions you gave me. Pick a lockdown spot depending on the activities you have planned. You always want to be in the most convenient spot for what you're doing. Always have a couple of backup options in case your first picks get taken. If there are a lot of regiments on the map that might hinder your activities, first and foremost, you need to be patient and respectful. First of all, if a regiment is in a place you need to be, always ask their staff for permission before entering the space that they're currently occupying. If you can wait for a regiment to quickly finish up in a spot or to leave if they were there before you, do so. When walking on the same path, give them enough space so that you don't run into them. And always communicate to your members what's going on and what to do in order for them to be courteous and not accidentally disrupt another regiment. In the worst case scenarios, improv, improv, improv! If a spot you need is currently occupied, make your own lockdown at a spot next to it. If you can't get to a place in order to complete an activity or obtain a certain item, do a different activity or find a substitute item. If a route you're trying to take is currently being blocked or crowded, take a different path. When hosting events, you NEED to be able to quickly think on your feet and roll with the punches. Always have a backup activity or task or location when you're planning out your events. Plan as much as you can, always have backups, and if all else fails, improvise to the best of your ability. I hope some of this helps!!! Thank you SO much for asking me for advice again!!! I love writing out stuff like this and I'm always happy to assist

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