3Rd Application

tôrdae · January 28, 2012

---Out-Of-Character: Sam

---Minecraft Account Name:MUST_k1LL

---Did you attend minecon and sign up at the LOTC booth?:i could not attend minecon therefore i was not able to sign up at the LOTC booth sorry

---How old are you?:At this moment in time 15

---Time-Zone/Country of Residence:Birmingham in England

---Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?:I believe I do I have had A's in some English assessments at school and speak and can spell English very well as it's my primary and first language

---Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself: I am a 15 year old boy from Birmingham in England who skateboards and loves playing online games. I am quite a very social able person and also quite kind in real life and loves playing games

---How much time could you be on the server weekly?:weekly about 30hours, most of the time more

---What do you know about Roleplaying? Give a definition of what it means to you.: a roleplaying game should be fun and imaginative it should entertain you for hours and should make you feel as if your really a fictional character in the game you’re playing

---In your own Words, describe what Metagaming and Powergaming are:

-Metagaming: this is saying something in character when you actually wouldn’t know what the thing is. For example saying “hi Jacob” when actually you wouldn’t know there name if you were in character and have to ask them in chat

-Powergaming: this is when you’re leaving the other player no chance to fight back. And most of the time try and focus on themselves for example someone see’s someone in the wilderness randomly and attacks them straight away giving the opposing player no chance to fight back making the game unfair.

This can also be used in text by making stories of past memories and saying how good they were

---What do you expect this server will be like?:I believe it should be great it should be fun and I know it is unbelievable and have a friendly community of gamer’s which I shall enjoy playing with.

---What other server(s) have you played on and why did you leave them?:I have played on Trobeano server just a fun little server with friends who I have made in game and I have made my own server to play on with close friends. I have played on more servers but they got out dated so I removed them from my server list.

---Have you read, understood, and agreed to the rules?:yes I have read the rules and agree to them all.

---How did you hear about us?:A player who play's on your server called jackabeano and another friend called tromania they are there minecraft names not real life names

---Have you voted for the Lord of the Craft on Minestatus? Which vote number were you? Yes 3 times so far I’m now number 3,460

---What is your The Lord Of Craft forum account name?:tôrdae

---In-Character: “Greetings, my name is tôrdae Bolthor I am a soldier in combat searching for my long lost brother Arcturus, have you seen him?”

---Character Name: tôrdae Bolthor

---What is your Race? Wood Elf

---Biography(This should include the history of your character and his life as well as age, appearance and personality, etc.):

My family started off as a middle class elf, from a semi-wealthy background of farmers and adventurers, the Bolthors. They kept their heads ducked for many years, throughout wars where they saw friends and distant family die, whilst they carried on farming. With his twin brother Arcturus , tôrdae went to a renowned war academy in the area, as the leader of the village thought they had potential. At the academy they were taught archery, swordsmanship, stealth, agility and tactical planning.

tôrdae and Arcturus were opposites, and tôrdae was the ‘stronger fighter ‘ of the two, but not by far the clever one.

It was 156 years ago on tôrdae’s 176th birthday, (He is now 332) and the Great War was upon them. No longer could the Bolthor family keep their heads ducked. tôrdae and Arcturus had their chance. To break the family out from a circle of practically slavery, what they had to do to survive. tôrdae joined and bayed for blood immediately. He quickly climbed the war ladder. Arcturus respected him, as did everyone else. tôrdae was a soldier and Arcturus was a tactical planner, they fought alongside each other as the years past on. And then, the final march came. The two brothers pushed on under tôrdae’s orders, before the rest of the Elven army.

tôrdae wanted aimed for glory, and to be known by most and feared by his enemies. They all pushed and were shot down, outnumbered 8 to 1. Fortunately Arcturus only took a wounding to the shoulder early on in the battle and had to flee unable to fight, but tôrdae was not so lucky.

knowing of is brother from that very day set tôrdae on a quest to find his long lost brother

---Your characters ambitions: He is a very ambitious little fellow he loves competition and always aims to win . he always tries to dominate and come out on top of fights bar his long lost brother arcturus the intelligent one of the two

---Out in the Wild, your character comes across a small cottage. Outside, there appears to be an elf struggling combat with two bandits. What does your character do?

tôrdae hears the screams of an elf in the distance “ahhhhhhh HELP” he dashes over with his sword clasped in his right hand he notice’s the screams are coming from the old abandoned cottage not far from his home town he creeps inside hearing the pain and agony then tôrdae stealthly jumps in the room with the bandits still taunting and punching the poor elf unnoticed tôrdae readies his sword and quickly slices into one of the bandit’s necks with brute force then suddenly the other bandit turns around and readies his sword. Being a soldier in combat gave tôrdae a major advantage over the bandit scum. Tôrdae dodges the attack then quickly slices into the bandit’s leg causing immense pain for the bandit. Leaving the bandit behind I took the elf to safety of the nearby town and carried on my journey to the elven kingdom

---Your character walks up to a shop in the middle of Al'Khazar. "Hello, my good sir!" says the shop owner. "What may I help you with today?" How does your character answer?

Good day fellow "race name", I wish to buy a new iron pickaxe please,

---A screenshot of your skin:

http://gyazo.com/d69...2586d6145fc5494

---Other Information: Thanks for your time reading the application I hope it’s up to your standard’s, Thank you

This is my second application form also i have made a new account as it would not allow me to login to my old one as non of the links would work when trying to activate my account it came up with the error message:

[#10120] We could not find the validation request you are attempting to verify.

James Undercroft · January 29, 2012

Your application has been:

But don't lose hope! After two days you can re-apply which gives you plenty of time to fix up your application and plan it out, as well as use all the advice I am about to give you to make it spot on. Also check out the links at the bottom of this page, trust me they really help.

You are getting really close to being accepted now, but there are still a too few many errors that need to be fixed up.

Like what was said last time, what "Great War" are you speaking of? In your application we expect that you have done some research on our server which includes the lore. So if you are going to write about a war that happened, research it! Go onto the forums or the wiki and search for names of Towns, Kingomds, Wars and people and then include them into your application.

You need to include a description of your character (that also matches up with your skin, but certain elements can be RP'd out), this is to show us that you have really put some effort and thought into the creation of your character. But don’t just write He is tall and old and carries around a bow. There are a lot of tall, old people who carry around bows. Get descriptive, what is your hair colour? How long? Eye colour? Big eyes? Small eyes? Do you have wrinkles? How tall are you? Are you muscled or slim but agile?

Another thing that was said last time, there are hints of powergaming in the first RP situation. In game if you were to fight some bandits, you don't know their strenghts so how can you presume an advantage over them? Also, just cutting someones leg and not having an actual battle with them just won't happen in the game. Try to structure it so that perhaps you don't actually take any wounds, but at least draw out the battle like it would be in reality. You aren't Ezio, you can't take out 15 guards and walk away like you didn't do it, this is Roleplay.

The second role-play question can be a bit decieving I admit, but try to put some effort into it. If you are just going to write "Good day blah blah blah." Done. It shows a complete lack of effort. For example look at the first battle RP question you answered, you had the other people RESPOND to your actions or words. Do the same with this, but get creative. You make the story here, but make it realistic. Perhaps it isn't actually a shopkeeper but a trap planned out by some outlaws to trap some unwitting victim in the store then steal all their money? Or perhaps as you walk into the store a bandit comes in and begins to rob the store but you help. Or perhaps it is just a normal shop keeper, nothing happens but you get into an interesting conversation about the current ruling monarch or you hear a good bit of juicy gossip. These are the things we are looking for, not just "Hello, I would like some bread today."

I hope that I cleared some things up so you can submit an awesome application next time, I think you can :D

The link to your skin is broken, but we would prefer you to not give a link anyway but embed it into your application. This can be done so by following these steps:

1. Go in-game and press the “F5” button TWICE. (Not once as this will show the back of your character)

2. Take a screen shot by pressing the "PrntScr" button on a windows computer or press F2 on the keyboard, then go to start => Run and type in this: %appdata%/.minecraft/screenshots

3. Find the screenshot and open it in an image manipulation program such as Paint or Gimp.4. Crop the image so that only the area close to your skin (including the skin) remains.

5. Save the file and go to tinypic.com

6. Upload the file

7. Click ONCE on the text box underneath: "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards"

8. Right click and copy the entire text

9. Paste in your new application

*Note* If you want a tutorial for Macs, please send me a message on the forums.

Do not post another application within 2 days or that application will be skipped.

Please do send a PM my way if you are having any trouble understanding the application process or my feedback, I would be glad to help you. :)

Good luck for your next application!

Here is some further reading material that can help you get accepted:

To understand the questions being asked better look here: http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/34777-in-depth-analysis-of-the-application-form/

The guide of a Game Master to accepted server applications: