Blob9000's Second Application Re-Post (Just Fixed 1 Thing)

blob9000 · February 15, 2012

Out-Of-Character:

Minecraft Account Name:

blob9000

Did you attend minecon and sign up at the LOTC booth?:

No, I didn't, sadly.

How old are you?:

I am 15 years old.

Time-Zone/Country of Residence:

Central Time(US/Canda) / Canada

Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?:

Yes, I believe I do.

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself:

I enjoy playing sports, PC gaming, reading, and writing fantasy. My favorite sport is football and I play running-back on a team.

How much time could you be on the server weekly?:

Too many hours to say... just count on me being an active member unless I am on a vacation.

What do you know about Roleplaying? Give a definition of what it means to you.:

Role-playing is acting out as another person and leaving reality. When you role-play you change everything about you. Your personality, your looks, and even your race. (Unless your playing as a human, of course.) That's what I love about role-playing. You read in a book or see in a movie something you just want to be, you can do that in role-playing. Minecraft makes it even more interesting.

In your own Words, describe what Metagaming and Powergaming are.

Powergaming: Powergaming is when your character does something without giving the victim the chance to react. An example would be later down in my Bio, my character takes down a whole group of bandits/raiders.

Metagaming: Metagaming is when you use out-of-game knowledge to help you in the game. Like if I searched "minecraft mining techniques" on google, and found a way to find diamonds really fast, it would be metagaming.

What do you expect this server will be like?:

I expect it to be a very fun server in the medieval time period (My favorite time period by the way) and to be my new top server with epic builds and great characters.

What other server(s) have you played on and why did you leave them?:

Well, the only one I can remember is Mobicraft (I was an Admin) where the other staff and server owner got corrupt and I got banned for unbanning someone who got an unfair ban.

Have you read, understood, and agreed to the rules?:

Yes, of course.

How did you hear about us?:

I heard about you on a "Top 10 Minecraft Servers" website.

Have you voted for the Lord of the Craft on Minestatus? Which vote number were you?

Yes, I was vote 2,039.

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

blob9000

In-Character:

Character Name: Xalek Maru ((The "X" is pronounced like the "X" in Xavier))

What is your Race?: Dwarf

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

Xalek is currently a 28 year old dwarf who has a dark orange beard. As a Dwarven Warrior, he is covered in armor with a belt he stores his dual-wield ax's in. He wears a iron helm that completely covers his face. Some believe he wears it due to a battle injury but nobody knows for sure. Nobody has ever seen his real face since he joined the army when he was 19 years old. He came back at 23 years old, got married, went back to war, and came back at 25 years old wearing the mask.All you can see is his orange beard and his blank, mysterious eyes.

Xalek rarely speaks and is often a mysterious character. Some believe this is because his heart got shattered when his wife died at the hands of a group of Human bandits that called themselves the Grief Reapers. They just did small hit-and-run raids on houses in small Dwarven Colonies. They killed the inhabitants, took their valuables, and sometimes started the houses on fire. Xalek infiltrated the Grief-Reapers base-camp and killed every last one of them. This gave him some fame in the colonies but not enough to be recognized by the Dwarven History.

Little is known about Xalek, but he is mostly known for his Blacksmith and Craftsman abilities and his amazing tracking skills. His arsenal includes 2 dual wield ax's that appear to be made of diamonds. He has a bow and a quiver attached to his back which he shoots with remarkable accuracy. His belt contains his ax's and some iron knives. All these he crafted from scratch, using minerals he mined. From all his mining he has a remarkably large amount of gold. Xalek has ears of a fox and the eyes of a hawk, often spotting footprints or any sign of activity in the area, allowing him to track down any target. These skills were what allowed him to find the Grief Reaper's base-camp when he was 25 years old.

As a child, Xalek was a very happy dwarf, always eager to answer questions but was also quite the trouble maker, him and his group of friends. He always got top grades in Mining, Crafting,

Archery, Ax's, Knife Throwing, and Tracking. He always make the odd joke at times, which got him normally into trouble. But Xalek was cunning, and made stories that the Dwarven Council could believe, always getting himself out of trouble, and his adversaries into trouble. Nobody knows what happened to that perfect boy. The truth is, when Xalek went to war, he got his soul sucked out of him. He saw horrors no normal Dwarf could imagine. If not enough, he returned to a dead wife and a broken heart. As life can never be perfect, nobody thought that joyful child deserved a life like Xalek.

Your characters ambitions:

Xalek has a broken heart, and a lost soul. Some people question why he hasn't commited suicide yet. The truth is he has a little bit of good left in him. A bit of sympathy. A bit of compassion. A bit of love. His only goal in life is to build up the courage to take his mask off. To reveal the shadow of what he once was. Then, maybe then... will that joyful little boy be restored.

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?

Xalek studies the fight for a moment. He is haunted by the bandits, looking like the ones he had slain, and gets visions of his dead wife. Suddenly he knows that the Elf can't suffer the same fate. Xalek draws his bow and aims right for one of the bandits. He quickly releases the arrow and it goes splat into the side of the bandits head. The other bandit must have been determined because he stood his ground, sword in hand, but Xalek knew there was fear in him. Xalek picked up another arrow, aimed it for the bandits hand, and released. The arrow hit the bandits hand, causing him to drop the sword. He tried to run, but it was to late. Xalek had already drawn his bow and the arrow stabbed right into the bandits back.

"Thank you." The Elf says,

Xalek doesn't reply, and walks away.

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?

(The shop is a stable for horses) Xalek doesn't answer for a moment but replies in a deep voice: "I'd like ta make a trade."

Xalek holds shows the shop-keeper a slain deer, resting on his shoulder. It has a ax chop right in it's back.

"A deer for a horse?" Replies the shop-keeper, "Nice try."

Xalek doesn't answer but instead puts out a few swords and some skinned rabbits, all taken from his victims.

"Hmm... I guess you can take Jess over here."

The shop-keeper brings out a big horse, strong enough for Xalek's weight and weapons.

All Xalek says is "Deal". He takes the horse and walks it to the path, where he rides it out of town.

A screenshot of your skin:

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Other Information:

If this application gets rejected, please put a reason this time, as "Moving to denied applications" doesn't give any advice whatsoever on how you need to improve

James Undercroft · February 15, 2012

Your application has been:

Do not worry though; this does not mean you cannot apply again, quite the contrary! After 24 hours 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 quite a bit.

You have been denied because:

The example you have given for metagaming does not match with your definition.

Although you based it off a similar idea, if you searched for "minecraft mining techniques" that would be fine, as long as you RP'd your character learning from an instructor/senior dwarf/parents in his past. Metagaming is more used for situations IN-GAME. Please use a more relevant example; to assist you with this I reccomend that you look on the lord of the craft wiki and then search for "Metagaming", join our Team Speak channel (You can get Team Speak from http://teamspeak.com/?page=downloads ), or you can do a google search.

Your biography includes powergaming, god modding and Gary Stuing.

Your character is Dark, Mysterious, has excellent aim with a bow, can defeat a whole group of bandits single handedly (or so your biography leads the reader to believe), and is excellent in any percieveable way. I reccomend that you read this page: http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/27643-how-to-avoid-making-a-mary-suegary-stu/ and make a more realistic biography.

The first RP question needs a lot of improvement.

The first problem is that you cannot enter combat on this server, without prior engaging in some form of RP. Whether this be an OOC agreement that the combat would take place, or IC text in the game. Failing to do so in game will result in a ban, so I strongly suggest that you follow this rule in the RP situation as this is a reflection on your RP style.

You powergamed and god modded; you just shot the bandits and they could do nothing, and did nothing to defend themselves. In reality an arrow, unless expertly aimed at a throat or through the heart. Even this is extremely unrealistic in terms of this server, as you would never one shot someone with a bow in the game. At least engage in some meele combat with them, and take some damage as a 2v1 you are most like to loose, but you are allowed to win.

You have not included a screenshot of your skin.

For me to accept you I must be able to view your skin as I need to judge whether it is acceptable for this server, reason being if someone joins this server, but do not show their skin but they have a Tron skin on I would be in big trouble. This is one of many ways to upload a picture of your skin and embed it into your application:

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.

Please wait 24 hours or your application will be instantly denied.

This gives you a chance to have a cup of tea and read all of which I have provided, then give you a break and a fresh mind to re-write your application in the required areas. This is also to prevent the spamming of applications, as if there was no limit we would be absolutely swamped with applications.

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:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/13144-petyrs-guide-to-accepted-server-applications/

Tips to definitely include on your application:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/19145-tips-to-include-on-your-application/

A must-read guide to the world of aegis:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/9868-an-extensive-guide-to-the-world-of-aegis

How to avoid role-playing as a terrible character:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/27643-how-to-avoid-making-a-mary-suegary-stu/