Zmanatordude's Application

Zmanatordude · February 28, 2012

Out-Of-Character

Minecraft Account Name: Zmanatordude

How old are you?: I am thirteen years old and I am turning fourteen this coming March.

Time-Zone/Country of Residence: I live in the Philippines. The time-zone here is PT(Pacific Time).

Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?: Yes, I believe I do because English is my first language and my grades in my English subjects are pretty high.

Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself: I grew up in America for about 9 years and then moved to the Philippines. I've been playing video games for quite a long time that I don't remember when I first played one. I play guitar and know how to speak Filipino.

How much time could you be on the server weekly?: I can spend up to 6 hours weekly depending on school.

What do you know about Roleplaying? Give a definition of what it means to you: Roleplaying to me means to play or be as someone else.Taking the role of someone to do a lot of things. One can imagine easily the medieval world of being a knight or mage and exploring the world. I've been playing Roleplaying games for a quite a while and it seems basically that it means to have many choices or things to do in a world you are placed in.

What experience have you had in Roleplaying, if any?: Most of the times I have been Roleplaying in Single-player video games. It is quite fun and I enjoy it.

In your own Words, define what the act of Meta-Gaming is: Metagaming, from what I know I can say it basically means to use information or knowledge not in-game to make a decision or accomplish what you want.

In your own Words, define what the act of Power-Gaming is: Powergaming means to an action which is against game mechanics or rules. These actions are usually silly, unrealistic or overpowered.

What do you expect this server will be like?: I expect a very big world with many things to do. I think of doing many adventurous stuff during my time in this server.

What other server(s) have you played on and why did you leave them?: I have never played on any other server.

Have you read, understood, and agreed to the rules?: After reading all the rules, Yes I have. Most of theserules are common sense and I can say I am mature enough to follow them.

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

How did you hear about us?: A friend told me about it. His username is Martinvilla822.

Have you voted for the Lord of the Craft on Minestatus? Which vote number were you?:Yes I have. I was vote number 3773

In-Character:

Character Name: Phillip Crusnov

What Race are you?: Human

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

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.): Phillip Crusnov was a man from an average family. They lived somewhere to the north-east. When he turned 20, he felt like he wanted to live an independent life and then moved out. His parents gave him a good amount of money and he went on his way. He was like a drifter, he got part-time jobs and went to many towns and cities. He never settled to live somewhere. He learned many things along the way though. He was normal with a sword and pretty accurate with a bow. He also learned a little bit of how magic works and learned a great amount of survival skills.

When Phillip turned 22, he grew tired of going around. He wanted to just settle down somewhere and maybe get married to a beautiful girl. One night, he walked in a dark road trying to go to a town to stay in. While walking, he saw an injured person on the ground. He went there right away and discovered that the person was a girl. She looked pretty bad and stated her name as Melanie. Phillip tried to help her and the next thing that happened was that she was shot by an arrow and then a group of bandits crowded him. Just as he was about to unsheathe his sword, He was hit and robbed.

The next morning, He felt confused and just laid there. Suddenly, he felt being carried, someone was bringing him somewhere. He didn't know if he was being helped or captured. The man who was carrying him brought him to The Cloud Temple. After Phillip recovered, He wanted to find out who helped him. He got his things ready and started out to look for the man who helped him.

What is your Character's ambitions?: Finding who helped him and also to make himself useful in the place he would live in.

What is your character’s favorite tool? (sword, pickaxe, shovel, etc): He prefers the pickaxe. He thinks that hard labor can change many things.

What is one of your Character's most skilled talents? From doing a lot of part time jobs, he eventually got use to multitasking and doing something without stress and with somewhat ease. But never a master at them.

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

Other Information about your Character: None.

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? "Hey! you there! Stop harassing the man! Don't make me call the guards to take you away! Just think of what everyone will think of you when they find out about this?" Phillip then calls some guards and the 2 warriors are brought away and hopefully learn their lesson.

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?"Greetings! I would like to see your latest items. I am in need of some new tools to help me in my work. I've got a lot of things to do you see." The merchant then happily introduces him to his new things.

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?:"These look good and I feel like I just want to take it" Phillip looks around and thinks someone might live here. He then concludes his decision saying "I'll just take a small amount of these stuff. If someone owns these, At least they keep a good portion of it."

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? "Nice to see a friendly face around! Say, mind if I rest here a little bit? I'm pretty tired." He is then accepted and he sits down. He offers a small amount of food and everyone had a small feast. After everyone has eaten, Phillip took a small nap. When he woke up, he said goodbye and thanked them for their company. He then left and continued to where he wanted to go.

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?:"You seem to have a fine town. I'll help as best I can! I may not be a swordsman but I could aid in maybe a little distracting or perhaps I can use my bow and shoot them from afar!" The guard nods and then after a few moments of preparing, they head of with the town guards and a couple of people.

James Undercroft · February 28, 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:

The formatting of your application makes it hard to read.

Please use the formatting from the application form here and do not alter it (although minor edits can be acceptable): http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/43580-official-lord-of-the-craft-application-format/

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.

Your biography needs a little work.

. Please include the entire question when writing your biography such as your characters history, personality, description and age. With the description 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?

You also need to add your characters strengths and weaknesses as well as reasons for such. For example, 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.

We would like you to include some lore from the world of Aegis and/or Asulon such as names of towns and people, or even events which have happened before and your characters connection to the event. You can find all about the lore of Lord of the Craft here: http://www.lordofthecraft.net/wiki , 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).

Your open response answers need a little improvement.

While your answers are alright, they need a little more detail. Do remember you are showing us (the application team) how good you are at roleplaying, so we expect you to try your hardest, and be your most descriptive in these questions.

That is all! :D

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