Community Team Update - April 2025

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COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE

[April 2025]

 

 

Hey gamers, it’s your favourite dual-admin back again with another CT update. We’ve got some exciting stuff going on on CT, keeping with the direction I outlined in March’s update. The projects kicked off last month are well-underway, with many nearing completion as you can read about below. I am looking forward to seeing these all come to fruition and having their impact realized towards our new player experience, social media, and community outreach. As for a permanent Community Admin, I am still unsure of when we will begin the selection process, though at the very least I want to see what I have in flight wrapped up. Anyway, that’s all from me, see you in roleplay!

- Llir

 

p.s. Thanks to the managers for putting most of this post together then letting me steal the rep.

 

PROJECT UPDATES

 - New Player Experience: Application Format - 

 

Project Lead: @Cheese

 

Hi again! Over the past month-ish, the application reformat has met a couple times to begin designing the new whitelist application for incoming players. We know it’s confusing and a lot of players struggle with it, thus we’ve designed our first draft. The biggest changes we’ve made are:

- Rephrasing the questions about metagaming and powergaming

- Requiring applicants to reference at least one piece of our lore & include one current realm on our map in their character backstories (pending completion of the NPE - Wiki project).

- Rephrasing the roleplay scenario prompt to be in third person, and to have the hag ask different questions.

 

This is not our final draft, and we’re currently looking for feedback from other members of the application team to make sure it’s well-polished and straightforward so applicants have an easier time. We look forward to updating you all in the future!

 

 - New Player Experience: Wiki - 

 

Project Lead: @RedeemedAidan

 

Hey there, the work on this project has been progressing well over the last couple weeks as we continue to make headway on the various pages that will be compiled together to make the first version of the ‘New Player Hub’ on the wiki. This new page will be added to the new player application page for a one stop shop of well curated information that a player might need while making their app and in their first few days on the server. 

 

Stay tuned as we finish up the last couple pieces and release the page to the public.

 

 - New Player Experience: Tutorial Island -  

 

Project Lead: @Smol

 

Hey everyone! We have begun working on improvements to Tutorial Island. We started by taking a step back to evaluate what’s working, what isn’t working, and how we can improve on it. At this point in the project, we are focusing on reorganising and refining the sections we presently have, as well as adding a few new ones. Yet, this doesn’t mean the work is over; we still have a bit to go with this before we implement it live, but progress is coming along steadily. So keep an eye out for updates, and in the meantime, we’ll keep assisting new players as much as we can!

 

 - New Player Experience: Monk Guidance -  

 

Project Lead: @molly molly molly

 

HI EVERYONE FROM THIS LOVELY N SWEET COMMUNITY! <3 It is I, Molly! GUESS WHAT? chicken butt :3 .. I have an update for youuu! <3 So! We have been working very hard on this project, and have compiled a great list of mentors who our monks can send new players to! (always looking for more though eyes emoji …) We have been working on working on the details of implementation, and here’s what we’ve decided so far!

 

I realized recently this project might introduce some staff bias in where new players are sent via their noob quest. I think it was likely that larger nations would have been favored, and smaller ones with less activity wouldn’t have been, and thus, strangled further. That wouldn’t be fair.

 

So… We’ve decided that when a new player joins the server, mentors will be pinged automatically in race-specific channels on the official LotC Discord, rather than nation-specific ones. With race-specific channels, I think we will open up opportunities for smaller, hungrier communities to get new players, while still leaving that opportunity open to larger communities if they start to dwindle. Getting new players, then, is left entirely to the drive of our mentors. 

 

New players will also be given a list of communities to seek out on their accepted message, retaining their autonomy to check out communities that pique their interest. They will be given a variety of quests/tasks they might undertake on their accepted message, which are tailored by our mentors. For instance, a new elf player could be told by our monks to seek out Caurost, Nevaehlen, or Haelun’or, and told of opportunities available to them– like joining the military in Caurost, druidry in the Vale, becoming a librarian in Haelun’or, etc. This way, if a new player is taken on by a mentor, and they aren’t really into the community they are shown, they will know what options are available to them. 

 

I think this is the most fair way of going about this project, while still achieving my intention- getting new players into RP, and showing them how awesome LotC is! ^_^

 

Again! I’d like to say, if you’re an awesome roleplayer with a great personality, who loves showing new players around, please (PLEASE I BEG YOU) feel free to reach out to my Discord @elkuknight! Those are all the words I have to say for now! BYE.

 

 

 - Community Featured Media & Social Media -  

 

Project Lead: @SaviourMeme

 

Hello there, as some of you may have seen, we released a post a couple weeks ago to gauge the communities interest in such a project and to gather some feedback on people wanted to see in terms of guidelines and plans for the project. Since then, we have been diligently working on formalizing the aforementioned guidelines, hoping to flesh them out as much as possible before going ahead and making it public. Look out for the guidelines post in the coming weeks and the official opening of community submitted media content!

 

If you have any thoughts or concerns about the project, and have not had a chance to comment on the previous post, feel free to message me directly on discord at saviourmeme.

 

 - Community Outreach -  

 

Project Lead: @Kaiser

As you may have noticed, this project has a new lead. Mady made some excellent progress towards getting this initiative going, but unfortunately has become quite busy with other commitments so I have been tasked with pushing this project forward.

 

For community outreach we’ll be implementing several ways for us, being both the CT and the staff as a whole, to easily communicate to the community all of our plans or to address concerns on how the server is functioning.

 

Firstly, we’ll be having bi-monthly ‘Fireside Chats’ which will mostly involve a more casual conversation between Admins, CT members, and other Staff on simple topics ranging anywhere from wars, realms, lore, builds, or, really, anything at all. This is something the Admins did once, but it’s mostly to allow a casual conversation the community can listen to and understand what ‘X’ thing we are doing, how we’re doing it, and why it’s important. Essentially, a look into the thought process of those working on these projects.

 

Secondly, we’ll be doing Server-Wide Community meetings every quarter. This is where everyone gets into one big discord chat, and it’s a lot more free form. Have a concern, question, etc? Come to this, and you’ll be able to actively talk with staff such as myself and others in a public setting. This’ll allow you a public outlet with a rapid fire response if you feel something about the server is needing to be discussed.

 

Lastly, we’ll be running a LoTC Focus Group for public view every month. This means we’ll be taking high demand topics and gathering together those within the community who have experience with said topics, and sitting down with them individually. If, for example, the topic was on ‘War’, we would bring on an individual known throughout the community who often enjoys PVP, raids, and war, and speak with them on how they view the current rules, and how war operates on LoTC. We’d cycle to the next guest, and bring on someone who had the opposite opinion, perhaps someone who did not enjoy PVP, and compare and contrast the two opinions. This will allow us to, hopefully, see the viewpoint of others and work towards a more healthy community status.

 

 

TEAM UPDATES

 - Wiki - 

A big focus of the wiki sect has been keeping the wiki up to date in regards to events surrounding our current war. This includes keeping the actual war page up to date as well as pages for each of the individual battles and all the other roleplay events that happen and affect the war in some way. Other than that, we have been working on general wiki maintenance, making fixes and changes throughout the wiki as a whole. 

 

If you are interested on doing any work on the wiki feel free to make an account request in the main LOTC discord, and shoot me a message directly if you have any questions (discord: saviourmeme)

 

 - Media -

Over the last few weeks our focus has been moved to an experiment of releasing a consistent amount of shorts content over the period of weeks and hopefully months. With these shorts we are attempting to follow the current trends on the various platforms to increase the visibility of our content. During the consistent release of shorts, we have also been hard at work on more long form content which you should see on our youtube channel very soon!

 

Speaking of new content, the talented @Blake0205 worked very hard on our latest video, the teaser for our un-name upcoming map! If you haven't seen it, feel free to check it out below and watch all associated shorts on their respective platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru5P_FzC0zE

 

Come check out our recent videos and shorts on all our social media pages!

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lordofthecraft/videos

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lordofthecraft?lang=en

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lordofthecraft/

More coming soon!

 

As always, if you have suggestions for media content we are always open to them and can be messaged to me directly on discord @saviourmeme.

 

And we are always looking for more media team members, if you think you have what it takes to make media content for the server. Please apply at https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/forum/1191-community/

 

 

APPLICATIONS - March 2025

 

During April of 2024, we saw a total of 207 applications submitted and reviewed. Out of these, 133 new players were accepted! Our accepted/denied percentage ratio last year was around 126/79.

 

Please note that the Racial & Timezone Data shown will only be shown for accepted players.

 

 

 - Accepted/Denied Ratios - 

 

- Race-Specific Data - 

- TimeZone Data - 

 

- Raw Application Data -

- Racial Data -

- Humans -

Total:  76

Adunian: 6 

Heartlander: 4 

Highlander: 8

Farfolk: 7

No Subrace: 51 

 

- Elves -

Total: 38

Wood: 11

Dark: 12

High: 8

No Subrace: 7 

 

- Dwarves -

Total: 6

Cave: 1

Mountain:1 

Forest: 1

No Subrace:3 

 

- Orcs -

Total: 8

Orc: 4

Goblin: 4 

 

- Halflings -

Total: 5

 

- Timezone Data -

Oceania: 11 

America: 73

Europe: 49

 

- Accepted/Denied Ratio -

Total: 207

Accepted: 67 

Pending-Accepted: 66 

Pending-Denied: 43

Denied: 31

 

APPLICATION MONARCH

 

The title of Application Monarch for March 2025 goes to @Cheese

 

With the most applications reviewed this month, @Cheese

is our reigning Application Monarch of March, followed by @Lortime and @outcook.

 

FEEDBACK FORM

 

Since its inception, the Community Team has been dedicated to assisting wandering souls, whitelisting players, aiding new & old players alike, and much more. However, it's been some time since we've sought feedback on the Community Team itself. With the survey below, our goal is to gather valuable anonymous insights into what the Community Team excels at and where it could improve. We will be aiming to post this form every three months.

 

Please provide honest feedback so we may improve our team's performance.

 

You can find the survey below:

 

 https://forms.gle/JrUyvtrc1DkkgwR76  

(Form will close after one week.)

 

 

Need help? Feel free to contact a community team member via the forums, Discord, or you can use the command /creq in-game and a member can help you out there!

 

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me via Discord (llir), and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.

 

Cheers!

 

[____Spectral____ 168]

Nice

[Random 1690]

Can't believe they didn't even include a wowj comment despite his tenure this month 😔

[Digit___ 1225]

MORE MONK STUFF! LET’S FREAKING GOOOOOOO!

[Cheese 8881]

zomg

[argonian 14254]

The CT is full of cringe OOC signs announcing competition winners from 2023. When are you guys going to delete that shit which makes the server look like it's dead?

 

Navigation in the CT is a mess. I can log on and walk you through what it's like for a noob if you want. Yeah sorry, won't happen.

Also, once you get through the CT and start heading toward a capital, the signs always randomly stop. This is idiotic - I presume it's accidental but it's very annoying for new and returning players and there should really be a CT member in charge of checking signs at least once every 2 weeks. I could do it if needs be but no you'll just cry and do nothing instead, understood.

 

And finally, a <66% acceptance rate is abysmal and we should accept more.