Cparvini Application

cparvini · February 21, 2012

Out-Of-Character

Minecraft Account Name: cparvini

How old are you?: 20 years old.

Time-Zone/Country of Residence: USA.

Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?: I like to think that I do.

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself: I'm currently a student a private college. I'm studying engenieering and economics and am about to graduate soon.

How much time could you be on the server weekly?: About an hour or two a day.

What do you know about Roleplaying? Give a definition of what it means to you: Roleplaying is putting away your own knowledge and experiences and choosing to live a new life. Living a life whose actions and decisions are reasonable of that character but may not be agreeable with yourself.

What experience have you had in Roleplaying, if any?: I've roleplayed on a few other games including GTA.

In your own Words, define what the act of Meta-Gaming is: Metagaming is using outside information, obtained without roleplay and mostlikely out of character, in chracter. Using knowledge obtained by out of character means to affect decisions made in character is an example.

In your own Words, define what the act of Power-Gaming is: Powergaming is using unrealisitic or unfair abilities to gain an unfair advantage over others to benefit ones character.

What do you expect this server will be like?: I feel this server will further my enjoyment of roleplay and lead to some interesting and fun experiences.

What other server(s) have you played on and why did you leave them?: This will be my first real roleplay minecraft server.

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

Do you promise to abide by said rules, and laws? This includes the Server, Forum, and Teamspeak set Rules: Yes

How did you hear about us?: A friend recomended it to me.

Have you voted for the Lord of the Craft on Minestatus? Which vote number were you?: I have not voted yet but will start.

In-Character:

Character Name: Aaron_Goldweaver

What Race are you?: Human

What Sub-Race are you? (note, you aren’t required to have a sub-race): Just a human.

Biography (Please make this at least 2 paragraphs long. This must include the history of your character and his life as well as age, appearance and personality, etc.):

Aaron is currently 40 years old. He is very calm and likes to think he has acquired a great deal of knowledge. He loves to spend time reading books and studying. He has never once used a weapon or has fought. He is an able farmer when he puts his mind to it but he can be easily distracted.

Aaron grew up in a small farming communitty with his brother Richard. Although Richard quickly married and had James his halfling son, Aaron never married. He lived happly in Aegis, mostly by himself or with a small group of friends. Soon James went off with his group of friends and founded Greenshire. Over the years Aaron grew older and with the war growing near was undecided it he would attempt to flee Aegis. Richard had come to the sad conclusion that his son was dead and was able to talk Aaron into coming with him to this new land.

After arriving in Asulon, he was hesitant about going of on adventures with Richard. He decided to stay at the Cloud Temple for a while. He wondered around directionless, reading books and speaking with the local monks. Recently he received word from Richard about the completion of the town and has decided to go on his first adventure to Greenshire.

What is your Character's ambitions?:

Aaron wishes to live in a peaceful town like Greenshire. He has no desire for war or love. He is not active politically but would serve well in a quasi leadership position.

What is your character’s favorite tool? (sword, pickaxe, shovel, etc): Aaron does not enjoy work and thus despises tools. He would much rather enjoy a good book. So perhaps you might say his favorite tool is his brain and his wits.

What is one of your Character's most skilled talents?

Aarons greatest skill is in the debate of ideals, logic and deductive reasoning.

A screenshot of your skin (must be in proper format):

http://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/34703/bernard-the-necromancer/

Other Information about your Character:

Aaron would be a great intellectual asset to the town.

Open-Response-Questions

Whilst traveling from the Cloud Temple you see a small halfling, being harassed by two armed warriors. They appear to be trying to steal money from him, how does your character respond? Aaron watches with a bit of sadness. He knows that getting himself involved would only cause more harm. He continues to watch from a distance hoping not be seen. If the armed warriors eventually leave he would then offer assistance to halfling. If it lasted for too long he would continue on his way. Feeling bad for the halfing but knowing that he did the right thing to save himself.

Your character wanders into Alras, and comes across a small stall, behind which a well dressed man is standing. He’s offering various wares, the merchant turns to you and says in a posh accent " 'ello there, what can I do you for today?" What is your character response? Afteroon sir. I'm looking for some new books. I visited the other day and the man behind the counter told me to come back today. I've read many books and do not wish to reread any of them. Do you have any great historical works? Perhaps I have missed one in my studies.

Whilst wandering in the wilds, your character comes across a small hut, which looks abandoned. Inside it you see a chest containing a few iron bars, and a golden sword. How would your character respond?:

He closes the chest looking around to make sure no one noticed him. He would occasionally go back to check on the chest but each time careful not to take anything. He understands stealing is wrong but the chest and house look abandoned. He would leave the house knowing that he would be rewarded later on for his good deed.

Hungry and lost in the wilderness, you stumble across a small trading camp nestled among the forest, they greet you you in the common tongue, how do you respond? I would respond by being very respectful of them. Letting know of the peculiar circumstance in which I arrived at their camp. I would offer them money if I had any or services for temporary food and shelter. I would be warry of starting any arguments or disagreements with them and help anyway I could. If I had arrived without any money I would help them till I repaid my debt.

You hear word that bandits occupy the road outside the town in which you have been staying. The town guard have gathered, and are asking for assistance to help eliminate them. The leader of the party is offering a reward for any who offer their support. How does your character act on this information?:

I would offer the support in terms of perhaps some money to help purchase weapons and armor. I am not a warrior, nor am a tailor or blacksmith.

James Undercroft · February 22, 2012

Your application has been:

Denied

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:

Your definition for powergaming is incorrect.

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 have not voted for the server.

Please make sure you have voted as it is a requirement to join the server. The link to the website is here: http://www.minestatus.net/6317-the-lord-of-the-craft/vote

To find your vote number look at the total number of votes for this server, because you were the latest to vote, this number is your vote number. If you do not want to vote because you don’t know if the server is worth your vote or not, have a look at some videos, look around the forms and ask around on Team Speak, if you do not like what you see/hear don’t vote and don’t join.

Your biography is incomplete and requires some work.

You need to include a description of your character in your biography. This shows thinking about your character, and gives you a chance to write about the little details which cannot generally be included in a skin.

You need to write more for the RP open reponse situations.

I feel as if you have not put much effort into the open response questions, and that they can be improved quite a bit. Instead of something like:

"My character would first talk to the people, and find out what happens, he would then go and kill the bandits." (and I know you did not write this or something similar, it is just the style of writing I am emphasising on) write it so it has a bit of excitement to it. For example;

(in response to the last open response question)

Zolgash tilts his head and he comprehends the words being said. He gives a grunt of acknowledgement and hefts his battle axe in reply.

"Me can 'elp lat umies wif your problom." A grin of almost evil or sadistic nature creeps over his face. "Been long time since I went to battle a'fore. Been too long me tink." The town guard lead the way, grasping their torches almost nervously while boisterously calling out oaths and promises that they will kill the most bandits... Etc. Etc. Etc. Just write with a little more, creative flare in it. So you describe what is happening NOW rather then This happened, then that happened then this happened, the end. Do you get my meaning?

The link to your skin is not embedded.

The reason for this is because recently people have been linking some dangerous websites to where the image of their skin has been hosted. To avoid this we request that the image is directly linked to this website either as an upload or being embedded into the post itself. You can do this by following 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.

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:

(Please do note, some of these may not be updated as of now, and rest assured I am working on getting newer links :) )

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