What are ways that members can help?

1. Consider donating

HoA is paid out of pocket by our Council of Elders every month, so every dollar/euro counts.

2. Consider becoming an admin

Every task, down to the smallest detail, is on the shoulders of the individual Harbingers and their Advisors. With the millions of things they have to do, the only way the community can function is if they export some of their work to people to take responsibility for and do on a regular basis.

3. consider starting a ranked team with fellow members

While members want to socialize, they also want competition. They want to gather together in groups of like-minded people to seek perfection. Perfection in themselves and perfection in winning.

4. Consider getting to know a few fellow members in real life

While members want to be competitive, they also want to hang out. I am sure there are members somewhere in your country, or within a hundred kilometers. Consider opening up your home for a night or two for a member to come over via the train and hang out for a couple nights with you. Or just have lunch if you are all close enough.

5. Consider giving the admins your opinion on how the community is going and if there is anything you would like to see in the future

Much of what we do requires information. Information on what you want, need, and how you feel about things. Naturally we may not be obligated to say what we do with the information, but we do acknowledge it all and use it to the best of our ability, even if it does little more than motivate us.

6. Consider the benefit, and how easy it is, to use the HoA tag first in a game with other HoA members and second on a general basis

People have tags these days, and with those tags they declare some form of allegiance to a group.

If a group of five people all play a game where they have the same tag, it does create a small sense of unity. It also provides free advertising without any effort, and it is very easy to swap around.

7. Consider adding HoA to your summoner name, not for RP preferably, but with IP

A tradition held among gaming clans, guilds, and communities is the changing of your name. It gives a mark of allegiance, almost as a tattoo in real life, and creates a stronger impact than tags. It creates a sense of unity and provides free advertising as well.

I will say though, that the cost of doing this is considered and so it is not recommended by HoA that this be done with RP. We would encourage our members to value this tradition through the use of IP.

8. Consider setting up an event, a tournament, a special game of some kind with your members

While a normal game from day to day is fun, it does get old. It gets old for the admins as well as the members. So we encourage people to spruce things up with something different.

9. Consider telling your friends about HoA

While we do advertising on a regular basis to increase our member base and provide you with an ever increasing pool of friends to select from, we also are limited in numbers. At the same time, we consider even one person to be growth. Imagine how powerful of an impact it would be if every member asked their friends if they were interested in joining the community?

It would be nothing short of glorious how many we would get in a short time.

10. Consider the random players you find yourself in a game with, and whether or not they would be the kind of person we want to have in HoA

Something people do not often consider is the random people they play with. Yes, we acknowledge the flamers, the trolls, the feeders, but how often do we acknowledge the good ones? How often do we say 'you know, that guy would be really good for the community. I want to see him around more.'

11. Consider coaching a member or two and putting yourself out there to help your community

HoA is not a community that chooses 'elo' as a value by which our members should be judged. However, we also see that people naturally judge themselves in a competitive manner, and that is a mentality understood and shared by the administration on a personal level at times as well. 

There are members that are skilled and members that are less skilled, that are ignorant, that do not consider some things, or simply lack hard practice against a person more skilled then themselves. A natural thing is that if you play with nothing but silver players, you learn by what you see most, and if you see mostly silver-level plays, then your own abilities can reflect this in some way.

So consider taking a person lower than you under your wing and train them. Do 1 on 1 matches where you show them patterns of behavior that can bring them higher, discuss strategy of item optimization choices to adjust to different team compositions. Consider taking on a nooby.

12. Consider recording the good times we have here and putting it on youtube for the members to look back on or for others to see

We have good times, we have bad. We work to limit the bad and keep its exposure to members at a minimum because of the impact it can have on the atmosphere, and at the same time we want the good times to be proclaimed as loudly as possible (without being too annoying about it). So consider putting emphasis on something good and fun that has happened. Make a montage of it. Let people look back on it and reflect on what a nice time they had, or even in a competitive sense, reflect on their mistakes and achievements.