The Application Team

[Phibbup 286]

...Needs to be more 60's, alex. Like

"Holy smokes, so many people got accepted, batman!"

[Hu'Ganosh Shaklug 3]

Wait, do I have to write an application to become an application moderator too? Since we were already talking about becoming one before you made this topic?

[The Womping Wizard 400]

Awh shucks haha. I tried.. and failed xD

What was wrong with mine?

[The Womping Wizard 400]

Wait.. What ? O-O

[Nero 347]

EDITED

MC Name: alien1workshop1

Forum Name: Alien1workshop1

Top Five Important Things in an Application

1. Idea of Role Playing

Having and idea on what role playing is, is probably one of the biggest deciding factors in my opinion. I feel that even if your biography isn't the best, if you have a very firm grasp on what role playing is, then you know what to expect if you were to go onto LotC and go role play with other players. When I say "knowing what RP is," I don't mean go onto google and click on the first thing that comes up when you type in 'Role Playing' because that just shows very little dedication and effort into your application. Saying that this is a Role Playing server, it would just make the most sense that this would be the most important reason to accept or deny somebody's server application. Knowing the main idea of what Role Playing could be, will not cut the chase. If you are interested in joining a server like this one, I believe that you should have a crystal clear idea of what Role Playing is.

Seeing how many people are just filling in this section of the application with the dictionary definition with absolutely none of their own words just sort of kills me inside. If you put some serious time and effort into writing your true thoughts and feelings about what Role Playing is, chances are that you will be recognized for this and get accepted. I am not implying that all you have to try on for your application is the section about Role Playing, you should try your absolute hardest on every single part of your application. Trust me, it is possible to make what your character's name is have a very thought out response with some role play even included in it if you wrote your application as if it were a story, or as if you were you are your character answering every question.

2. Effort and Dedication

In my opinion, showing a lack of effort or dedication in your application is probably the worst thing that you can do. This just shows that you have much better things to do than rather play on a Role Playing server and would rather just get accepted as a last resort if you are bored. Me, not even knowing how long my biography should be, thought that my four paragraph application was going to look stupid compared to how long the other applications should be, and I think that everybody else applying to the server should feel the same. Showing effort goes along with many other traits too, with how in-depth you go with things like in your biography, and many other things.

Effort is probably one of my biggest pet-peeves on the applications to this server. It is just crushing to read an application with somebody who had a great backstory and biography, but just answered everything with one word and their biography was less than a paragraph. If you want to get far on this server, you are going to have to try and be determined to go through with what you want to do. You don't see King's of nations getting to where they are now by just roaming throughout the game cutting trees do you? No, you see them going out of their way in-game to try to start a chain reaction of Role Playing because they actually are putting effort and dedication into what they do.

3. Biography

The meat of the application, the biography. If you don't even make an attempt to do your best on your biography, you might as well apply to be a GM before even getting accepted to the server. It is just a waste of time if you don't sit down and just brainstorm a good idea for what your character is going to be like and if it would be possible for you to continue on Role Playing as that character. Although most of the examples shown on how to make a good application only show one paragraph for the biography, trust me, that is not how you are going to get onto the server. If you really want to boost your chances of getting accepted, type your biography until you run out of characters to type in one post.

I really want to emphasize on this key point especially because you can almost be guaranteed to not be accepted if you have less than a paragraph long biography. If you don't even have enough information about the character you are aspiring to be to fill up one paragraph, you probably shouldn't be applying as that character. You really want to apply as a character that has a story that you can easily build off of through Role Playing in-game and can change from different personalities over time, just like real people. I really wished that I could have made this number one for the most important thing to look for in an application, but I just feel that moral values of effort and dedication and knowing what role playing is, mean a little bit more.

4.Format

Using the correct format shown on the forums to use is also very important. This could be argued for being very important since that it doesn't seem like that it has much to do with Role Playing or getting onto a server, but it does. Putting your time into actually reading up on what you should do, and how to get onto the server shows that you actually care about what you do and won't just quit the server after a week. If you actually put a few hours into writing a good application and do everything correctly, I think that you should deserve to be accepted because that way it shows you have devotion and interest into actually playing on the server for a long time.

Things like doing the correct format goes along with a lot of other points of why or why not to accept somebody. Somebody's personality of just lack of effort or care really show off when you read their application and the format is all mixed up or cut short. Having incorrect format will obviously prove that the person applying does and will not read through their posts before posting to check and make sure that they are flawless and will be easy for an Application Team member to read; this is not the kind of person you would want on your server is it? These are just a select few of the handful of reasons why correct format actually does make a big impact on your application.

5. Realistic Character

To put a little perspective to the reason why I put this as one of the most important things to do correctly on your application, imagine you or, if you're young, your dad. Do you see you/your dad mining? Do you see you/your dad being able to wield a sword? Do you see you or your dad building? Do you see you/your dad farming? For me, I could only do probably two of those. You have to be reasonable with this and can't just try to be superhuman. Also, you will really know if somebody will be true to what they say and only do what they say they can in their application once they land in Aegis by seeing how much they write on their responses to these questions. When somebody responds "no" or "yes" or "doesn't like to"(typically for farming) you can tell that what they are saying is just all lies.

Realistic Characters also bring a bit of more realism to LotC and it encourages others to be and act more as if it were real life with their character. Being good at everything just kind of taints the application completely and leaves you with a bad feeling in your stomach if the rest of the application was actually pretty good. Luckily, I am seeing that more and more people are actually making their characters realistic and true to their biography which is another good point. Whatever you state in your biography should also be reflected in your character traits. For example, if you say that you group up in a fighting camp your whole life, wouldn't you only be good at wielding a sword? These are just some things that I always think about when I am checking out applications.

Note: These points are stated in order of importance, 1. being the most important and 5. being the least important. All though I treat 5. as if it is the least important, all of these factors are very important, some are just more important than the rest. (I tried to shorten this as much as possible to only express my key points. I don't want to bore you with a massive wall of text so I tried my best to summarize what I felt.-Thanks

[Auldhin Talonwick 2]

Yay, I'm accepted! Finally I get to do something to help you guys out.

[Sinstrite 77]

Minecraft name: Sinstrite

Forum name: Sinstrite

What do you think are the top five things, that are most important in an application and why?

*I'm going to be somewhat harsh explaining this, so sorry if it's offensive*

1- Grammar

2- Motivation to get into character

3- Length of application

4- Ability to be humble

5- Persistence

6- Realism (yep I added one)

*Before you waste your time reading below, if this is worthy of acceptance, keep in mind I'll probably be harsh on applications compared to what I've seen others do lately - so if you don't want that harshness then please by all means deny me ;)*

1- If you suck at typing simple words and using proper punctuation, you're going to suck at role-playing in the game, and when you suck at typing in the game while role playing, you're making everyone's role-play and experience around you suck. Please, use spellcheck, or just proof read. Seriously.

2- The motivation to get in character comes from your biography in my opinion. People with a half paragraph of a biography are going to go in the game as a thief, turn evil, get saved by becoming an ascended, only find out it was a dream, in reality they're actually a king... See where I'm going? Write a nice, long, solid and PROPER biography for your character. When you do this, you're actually motivating yourself to get into that character and play them they way they're supposed to be played - the way your "accepted" application intended.

3- This is something that's sad to me Short Application because it's not fair to other people who take their time to write longer and better looking applications. You're also showing the dedication you're willing to put forth by taking the time to increase the length of your application. You're showing that you have a solid grip on the understanding of what's required from you as a player and not someone in the position of authority on the forums or the server. Length is an importance many people don't think about. (That's what she said).

4- You need to be ready for someone to deny you. People to critique you. People to re-pull your application up in the future to make fun of it just in good spirits. It's probably going to happen if you're not a person with a unique application, or whom didn't take the time to spell check it and make sure it's not make-fun-of-able. (lulz). When people do this, take it with stride, smile, joke with them, and move on. Learn from your mistakes, and if you get denied, use all of the above said information to persist to write a better application next time. This brings us to persistence.

5- Persistence is something not a lot of players I see get denied have, sadly. Along with number four, you need to be humble and be ready to possibly get denied over getting accepted. Don't let your small nerd-heart get crushed and force you to get back on to D&D when you could simply take the 48 hours before re-submitting, to rewrite an awesome and badass application that makes everyone else go, "Well mine is sh!t compared to this guy/girls awesome piece of glory." Trust me, keep at it, and just follow the 48 hour re-submit rule, and you'll eventually get in. If you're not willing to atleast do that much, then you're not willing to actually follow the role-play rules and the server rules in my opinion. Prove me wrong.

6- Realism is simple. Before you submit an application, please look through a few pages. Take note of the difference to accepted and denied ones. You can easily see that most of the people with realistic characters never have problems. If you're going to be a flying, space rocketboot wearing, half elf half orc who was an Undead in his past life but reincarnated as the son of the Ascended Lord - Yeah... you get the point... Don't be stupid and you won't have a problem with people thinking you're stupid.

To Shift or anyone else my email is [email protected]

[Brent 281]

Minecraft name: brent42817

Forum name: Brent

What do you think are the top five things, that are most important in an Application and why?

1: Biography- The biography I think decides most of it. When I was trying to get accepted, my biography was usually the only thing wrong with it. For instance, in your bio you lived in Russia in 200B.C. You have nothing to do with Aegis. Plus that is out-of-lore.

2: The skin- The skin must fit Roleplay well. (Dwarf, Orc, Elf, Human) You can't be something like a penguin in a RP server.

3: Grammar- Someone who misspells every word won't be good. Constantly typing wrong words then having to go back and fix it. This interrupts the RP.

4: Person's ambitions- If they are pvp happy then they will probably go around killing everyone causing frustration for all players.

5: Ban record- Having a couple bans for something you didn't do would probably be acceptable... Being banned from many servers by griefing, excessive pvp, language, etc. If by some chance they do get whitelisted it won’t last long.

I think it would be really fun to accept and deny applications. Hope I get accepted.

[Repiteo 173]

Below, are those who have been accepted onto the team.

• 
  
  
• Repiteo
  
• Gaius Marius
  
• benny508
  
• Haldon
  
• deathmetus
  
• shields12347
  
• SimonBane
  
• Mercius
  
• Jadles
  
• Stickymayhem
  
• Arnh Junns
  

Ill get you that email ASAP

[LoKeenx 0]

Minecraft name: LoKeenx

Forum name: LoKeenx

The top five things in an application are grammar, how good your biography is, how reasonable and realistic their characters goals in Aegis are, how mature the person is, and how familiar with the lore they are.

1: grammar: This is something that bugs me greatly. Reading someone’s RP that doesn’t begin with a capital letter and has no punctuation is not going to give you a good RP experience. Just because you can’t see periods and end marks in real life, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use them in game.

2: biography: If your biography is garbage then chances are, you’re a crappy role-player. The biography shows whether you can, or can’t role-play and plays a majority part in whether or not you are accepted to the server. If you have a bad biography then you are just going to ruin the fun of Aegis by having bad role-play skills.

3: Part of playing on an RP server means that you have to have reasonable goals for your character. Your character shouldn’t be able to wield every weapon imaginable, be able to fly and do magic, all at the same time. You aren’t a superhuman, and don’t even plan on becoming one.

4. Maturity matters. This aspect ties into how your application looks entirely. If you look like someone who’s really annoying and stupid that’s going to contribute to the server in a negative way. You should not be accepted. I know many people who are like this that are on the server and never should have been in the first place.

5: Lore: read up on the wiki, talk to people about the history of Aegis, and do not wander into this server without knowing anything. You should know a solid amount of lore and should tie it into your application. A little bit of research can be the difference between getting accepted, or getting denied.

[no longer active 734]

Should I edit my old post or make a new one?

[Repiteo 173]

Should I edit my old post or make a new one?

Edit it and state before the actual application that it is an edit. Thats what I did for mine.

[Samson Option 9652]

Ill get you that email ASAP

Oooo :P

[Haelphon 407]

Oh! I thought you meant an application in general! Time to go redo mine :)

[Arkelos 1027]

Vardak would like to stay.