Application

Jacey · February 7, 2012

Out-Of-Character:JCW313

Minecraft Account Name:JCW313

Did you attend minecon and sign up at the LOTC booth?:No I'm only 14

How old are you?:I am 14

Time-Zone/Country of Residence:USA

Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?:Yes my first language.

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself:My name is Joseph I am a Junior. I work hard in school. I enjoy my life and family.

How much time could you be on the server weekly?:5 days a week 12+ hours a day.

What do you know about Roleplaying? Give a definition of what it means to you.: Jump into another characters body and act as they would in a whole other world.

In your own Words, describe what Metagaming and Powergaming are. Metagaming is using something you know in OOC and using in IC even know your character wouldn't know that information. For example, Walking up to someone you never met and read there gamercard and say hi Joe the Dark elf. Powergaming is where a roleplayer uses the games flaws and exploits them to help himself and level up or get what he wants in an rpg, for example using mob traps to gain unlimited amount of xp then enchant something to kill someone with a Fire aspect II sword.That would take a good day to do but when the person uses a mob trap he can do it in 15 minutes.

What do you expect this server will be like?: A very strong and serious server with some kind people and some not so friendly people.

What other server have you played on and why did you leave them?:Kamikazecraft I left because it was getting boring and there was no more then 4 people on at a time so I just left.

Have you read, understood, and agreed to the rules?:Yes I have read and understood the rules.

How did you hear about us?: Candle, from YouTube.

Have you voted for the Lord of the Craft on Minestatus? Which vote number were you? Yes i was the 1,003 to vote.

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

In-Character:

Character Name:Cultor

What is your Race?:Human

Biography(This should include the history of your character and his life as well as age, appearance and personality, etc.):My character is 23, Male, 5'11, tan with small scars on his skin, brown hair brown eyes, and very energetic. Grew up in Aegis helping his father hunt. His father was part of the guard. I went to the Kings funeral. My character wants to join the guard. lives in the wild, planning to move to a city that needs guards. Very charismatic and vulnerable to arrows. Strength is with a sword and intimidation. Now to a short story of my life. When i was a young boy my parents where killed by bandits. Forced to live off the land using hunting skills my dad taught me. Then one night I was in my cabin then i was attacked by 3 bandits. I grabbed my sword and took on two of them, but the last one started to run. I chased him threw the thick forest, and all of a sudden he jumped off a cliff into a lake and then i looked up and saw a Town, not just a village but a city like I've never seen before. So the next day I packed my things and walked to it. There was a sign that said Welcome to a Town in the Land of Aegis. Next to it a sign that said Help Wanted Guards needed. So I thought that was my chance to get back at the Bandits for ruining my life. So I walked into the city and asked to join the guard and they said I need more skill with a sword. I said "I'm good enough," and he said,"lets duel then". So we dueled and he knocked me on my back and smirked. Then I went and found a small house in the city. I set up a training post for getting more skill in my sword. I went back a week later and dueled him again and knocked him on his back this time. They said, "Come back in a week and we will get you prepared, teach you the rules, and set you up with a Mentor just till your ready to handle yourself."

Your characters ambitions:To join the guard and keep a city safe from Bandits like the ones that killed my parents and attacked me!

Out in the Wilds, your character comes across a small cottage. Outside, there appears to be an elf struggling combat with two bandits. What does your character do? Kill of the bandits and ask why the elf was attacked by them.

Your character walks up to a shop in a quiet market. "Hello, my good sir!" says the shop owner. "What may I help you with today?" How does your character answer? I want a sword that slices though wood in one slice.

A screenshot of your skin:http://www.minershoes.com/skin/view/i4f3039e5407b20366487415724361923612236249

Posted early cause i had it all typed and have to go.

James Undercroft · February 7, 2012

Your application has been:

Do not worry though; this does not mean you cannot apply again, quite the contrary! After a day or so you may apply again which gives you plenty of time to fix up your application, plan it out as well as use all of this advice which I have given you in this post to make your application one of the best. Please check the links at the bottom of this post, they will help you so much.

This is why you were denied:

Your definition for powergaming is not the definition we are looking for.

There are quite a few different definitions for powergaming, but there is one in particular that we are looking for. Luckily for you there are plenty of ways to learn the correct definition. First of all you can look on the lord of the craft wiki and then search for "Powergaming", you can join our Team Speak channel (You can get Team Speak from http://teamspeak.com/?page=downloads ), or you can do a google search.

You seem to be under the persuasion that this is an RPG server over an RP server.

To be able to play on this server you need to understand the different between the two. I suggest you do a google search or look on our wiki for "Roleplaying", for this is far different to an RPG server.

Your biography shows a lack of knowledge of the lore of Aegis and Asulon.

You need to read and understand the lore before you can join the server, namely because Aegis was destroyed and abandoned and everyone moved to a new land. You can find all about the lore of Lord of the Craft here: http://www.lordofthecraft.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page,'>http://www.lordofthecraft.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page, or in the lore/history sections of the forum and website. The types of lore you can include can people places such as towns and kingdoms, or even people or events (such as the exodus from Aegis to Asulon which affected almost everyone).

I would like you to go more in-depth in your biography, for example explain your characters skills, if your character is good at swordsmanship, bows or even farming you need to explain in your biography why your character is so good in what it does and how it developed these skills.

Your biography is far too cliche, more then half the people that apply have their parents killed by bandits. Personally I don't think it would be possible for the number of bandits we have to kill off more then half the servers parents. Try to think of something more origional and creative.

What you have written for the RP situations is far below satisfactory.

This are RP situations, not merely questions. If you went into game right and, went up to two bandits harrassing and elf and wrote: *kills the two bandits and saves the elf.* they will laugh at you and probably file a ban report for powergaming. You need to act it out as a story would, as an RP Situation would. I shall write just a small snippet right now, and I want you to try to emulate the style.

Zolgash brushes his brow, rain falling from his cheeks and hard jaw, onto the mat of rotting leaves beneath his feet. Peering through some brushes he spies two bandits hacking at an elf half heartedly and laughing all the while. The elf he can see is past tired, he is exhausted his slim sword gripped loosely in his fine hands. Zolgash feels his anger begin to rise and calls out. "Hey, you filth bastard son of a mongrel! Leave that elf alone or you will feel true steel in your necks." The bandits turn wearily, still keeping an eye on the elf to make sure he doesn't escape. The bandits call back...

As you can see all of the actions were stated, all of the text was stated and even some of the combat (although I did not get to the part where "Zolgash" my character would be fighting the bandits.). You need to write all of that and more, try to be creative and origional but do not powergame. You will take damage, you will be hurt nad perhaps even loose and end up unconscious? Be creative but above all realistic..

Your second one needs a lot of work too, and not only because of its length. In case you hadn't known, swords do not "slice through wood" unless it was thing branches. Not only because axes are more suited to the task, a sword will blunted much too easily biting into wood then flesh -- Think upon that.

Everyone (and I mean everyone) just writes that they buy something, and leave. What is that? It shows a lack of effort in my opinion. All you have to do is use your imagination, create something innovative, exciting and fun for the reader. There are endless possibilities, for example you could write that the shop keeper is actually a bandit who is luring victims into his shop and then he gets his thug friends to come in from the rear to block your escape, or perhaps the shop keeper tries to cheat you of an item and you respond by calling the guards and something exciting happens. The possibilities are endless, all you have to do is be creative.

The image of your skin is not embedded.

Please embed the image of your skin into your application, there are reasons behind this. Ones which I will explain in detail if you request, but for now I would suggest and reccomend that you follow this tutorial:

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 a day 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: