armajesty

6 hours ago, nickrocky213 said:

I'll put this here, @armajesty honestly even though you were super busy with real life, you genuinely tried your hardest to keep the boat from sinking. I admire your work you put in, and the outreach to other teams for help when you couldn't do something. You did what you could and I hardcore respect that, I know your team hasn't been in the best of places as of late, and I hope now even with your departure Fie will be able to hold it together. Have fun grinding for dollars instead of pixels.
You'll be missed, see ya around
 

 

I said I wasn't gonna reply to most comments, but hearing this from you actually means so much to me so I have to say something. You put so much of your time and effort into this server, and I honestly respect that (especially considering how much crap Tech Team gets). Thank you for the kind words. I'm sure one day I'll be forced by family / friends to come back to LoTC, but in the meantime I hope you make the most of your time on staff!

13 minutes ago, Evonpire said:

Wow I didn't even get a mention as your favorite ct?? Smh. 

Regardless thanks for all you've done arma and hope you do good out of lotc. 

You should DEF be there! You were on the original list, but I missed some people when I redid it. 😞  I'm so glad I met you, Evon!!

Time to wait 110 years for administration to remove my PEX. 

 

Thanks for all your hard work in writing the update for these past two months! ♥️

Submissions are now closed. The goal is to have our results post out by the end of the week, so stay tuned to see who our winners are.

Results!

 

Greetings, Lord of the Craft players!

 

The Community Team is once again pleased to announce the end of the monthly Battle of the Arts contest. As the title suggests, this is a competition where you -- our creative player base -- can enter your artistic creations to earn prizes. The categories include visual arts, music, skinning, building, and video-editing. 

 

One winner has been selected by the Community Team from each of the categories, making a total of 4 winners this time around. 

 

We had a decent turnout in November, but as always we encourage everyone to spread the news about this competition! It was amazing seeing all of the creative works that everyone had to offer. We would like to thank everyone who took part in the contest and cannot wait to see what amazing submissions we get next month. With all that being said, we are pleased to announce the winners of the November Battle of the Arts contest!

 

 

Visual Arts Winner: @Ancelia

 

Skinning Winner: @ncarr95

 

Video Editting Winner: @gamegage

 

Building Winner: @The Fact Core

 

 

There was some really amazing entries this month, and I strongly encourage everyone to check out the original forum post to see all the submissions.

 

 

Congratulations to all of the winners! Make sure to shoot Armajesty#2403 a message if you have not received your prizes within the next few weeks. If you have any feedback or require help please don’t hesitate to contact me.  

 

 

Credit to Reko for the Battle of the Arts art

 

Crusade of the Creative

 

Greetings, and welcome to our first Crusade of the Creative contest, 

 

Crusade of the Creative is a writing competition implemented in order to give our writers more of a spotlight on the server. As a roleplay server we have many skilled writers within our midst, and we hope this contest will give them a place to shine!

 

The two categories for Crusade of the Creative are as follows:

• Fiction Writing

• Poetry

 

If there are any other categories that you believe are deserving to be in this comments then please let me know over discord. (Armajesty#2403)

 

This contest will give authors, poet’s, and the like one month to create their masterpieces. All entries will be due on the final day of the month. In this case your submissions will be due on December 31st.

 

Prompt

The prompt for December’s Crusade of the Creative is Steampunk!

 

How to Sign Up

Signing up is easy! In order to participate all you need to do is comment on this post using the following format:

IGN:
Category: (Poetry, Creative Writing).
Piece:

 

Prizes

• 100 Mina

• Event Exclusive Custom Item

• Creative Soul (win 1 time)

  • Creative Wizard (win 3 times)

  • Creative Overlord (win 6 times)

 

Criteria

• All content entered must coincide with the theme of the month.

• You are allowed to submit up to 1 submission per category.

• Submissions are to be posted in the comment of this thread.

• Creative Writing is limited to 10k words, and must be linked via google document.

• Creative Writing and Poetry does NOT have to relate back to LotC, but must relate to the overall theme.

 

 

 

This concludes November's Battle of the Arts! Our winners will be announced by the end of the week. ❤️ (This means Sunday).

Nahisa twirled a white tulip between his thumb and pointer fingers, watching as the shores of Arcas grew further and further away. "Van'ayla, Haelun," he murmured. The 'ker released the flower and watched as it flowed down, swept away by the ocean waves. "May we meet again."

 

 

20 minutes ago, armajesty said:

Rip monkey :((

 

Only real ones understand though

Rip monkey :((

Is there anyway to check and see which books we have stored? I'm trying to make sure I have the ones I want and we cant use /restorebook until the next map

Results!

 

Hello, artists of Lord of the Craft!

 

The Community Events Team is once again pleased to announce the end of the October 2020 Battle of the Arts contest. As the title suggests, this is a competition where you -- our creative player base -- can enter your artistic creations to earn prizes. Our winners have been selected by the Community Team from each of the categories, making a total of 5 winners. We hope those who participated had fun with the event. 

 

Following the announcement of our new and improved Battle of the Arts we are encouraging everyone to spread the word of this contest! As always, it is amazing to see all of the creative works that you guys have to offer. We would like to thank everyone for taking part in the contest. With that being said, we are pleased to announce the winners of the October 2020 Battle of the Arts contest!

 

 

 

Visual Arts Winner: @DAENGIE

 

Skinning Winner: @Qizu

 

Creative Writing Winner: @Sorcerio

 

Video Editing: @Buck

 

Building Contest: @NotEvilAtAll

 

 

Congratulations to all of the winners! Feel free to send me a message if you have not received your prizes within the next couple of days. If you have any feedback or require help please don’t hesitate to contact me at Armajesty#2403 on discord.

 

 

 

Credit to Reko for the Battle of the Arts art.

Very cool.

35 minutes ago, z3m0s said:

Where are the winners for October? Are they yet to come in another post or something?

 

If you look on the Battle of the Arts October post then you'll see that the winners will come out by the end of the week!

COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOG

OCTOBER 2020

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Hello, everyone!

October has been quite the month for the Community Team with planning for the Escape the Temple event, revamping a  few older projects, bringing aboard some new ones, and an overall change in administration which brings so many new cards to the table. We cannot wait to share what we have been working on this month, and hope you are looking forward to reading more about it.

 

OCTOBER DATA

 

- Overview -

 

This month, we saw a total of 135 apps handled, with 83 new players welcomed onto LotC. 

 

Our rate of acceptance has increased when you compare applicant numbers when comparing the two months as last month, we saw 172 applications and welcomed 78 new players. Despite this, the quality of applications has not changed.  On this note, we are safe to say that the applicant spike following the spread of COVID-19 is completely gone, meaning we’ve reached a steadier amount of applications. These numbers are dipping closer to 100, though we hope to see these numbers go up with the change to Almaris.

 

 

- Monthly Applications -

 

 

 

 

- Accepted/Denied Ratios -

 

 

 

 

- Race Specific Data -

 

 

 

 

- New Player Guidance -

 

 

 

 

TEAM DATA

 

- Application Team Data -

 

 

 

APPLICATION KING/QUEEN

 

This month’s Application Queen goes to... @zuziee

 

@zuziee

 

Followed behind by @Demon_Lilly and @Hopesky123!

 

With 42 applications, Zuziee is our reigning application queen of October!

 

 

CURRENT ROSTER

 

Community Administrator

@Telanir

 

Community Managers

@armajesty

@Fiiieee

@Nilyeet

 

Community Team Members

@__TigerKitty__
@arkantos129

@BenjiBot_

@camocat9

@Demon_Lilly

@HogoBojo

@Hopesky123

@JokerLow

@MrChenn1

@snoopie12

@Yagami

@zuziee

 

Content Creation Members

@BenjiBot_

@Epistile

@FIXER957

@LaffenOutLoud

@peachcool

@SorairoDays
@Treshure

@Tykeandy

@zuziee

 

TRANSITIONING

 

Telanir has been hard at work with efforts to create a better and more connected Community Team, and empowering people to take responsibility for more challenging and effective work. You will notice in the next section that focus groups are no longer a part of our team, and that is because they have been swapped out in favour of commitments. These commitments are meant to allow our Community Team Members to put out more impactful and meaningful work for the community, while also maintaining our mandatory tasks like application, and new player guidance. Each of these projects has hit off with a big start, so please read onwards to find out what changes will be coming your way soon!

 

From Telanir:

 

My goal this month is to laser-focus the team on the essentials and on high-impact work. I believe the central mission of the Community staff is to embrace and facilitate meaningful human connections between the different communities we have and even for the people who haven’t yet met our server. Both community engagement and advertising make for a connected, happy, and populated community.

 

People might notice some members aren’t engaged with applications or with new player guidance—this is intentional, as some people are responsible for major commitments like monthly Community Newsletters, coordinating Community Meetings, contests, content creation, social media management, Nation Leader representation—and more.

 

COMMITMENT UPDATES 

 

Community Newsletter - @BenjiBot_

 

Hello! I’m BenjiBot_ I’m a member of the Community Team on LoTC, and I’ve been tasked with writing the LoTC Community Newsletter for each month! I, as well as others, think that the newsletter is an important part of LoTC because it’s purpose is to compile various important pieces of information from the server! This would include, announcements, team updates, and notable lore posts. It requires a lot of input, but hopefully once the process is mastered, we’ll be able to get out a suitable newsletter every month, to keep the community of Lord of the Craft, as updated as possible!

 

Community Meetings Revamp - @zuziee

 

Hey everybody! Personally, I am working on re-making the public community meetings that we host monthly. My main goal is to make it a fun and safer place for people to come ask questions, hang out, and get to know us CT more. Being more connected to us staff members is always a good thing for the entire server and the community team is the team to start with. At the moment I am brainstorming all these ways we can get the questions answered that you lot ask and have fun at the same time. I will hopefully have a complete plan for our first new community meeting in about 2 weeks!

 

Nation Leader Relations - @arkantos1279

 

I'm currently meeting up with all of the nation leaders to get their perspective on a variety of issues on the server. Since they do a lot of the leg-work for keeping the server active and running our communities I think it's important to understand their communities, things they deal with and ways we can help them run the server to assist them in running their nations. I have been going to each nation leader and speaking with them, getting a feel for things they deal with on the server, issues specific to their playerbase and things as a whole we can do to bridge the gap between leaders in the community and staff members. I have met with most of the nation leaders so far and have spoken to them about a variety of their issues. I'm attempting to take a very relaxed approach to this and getting to know all of the nation leaders in a more casual sense and working to create a better atmosphere for everyone to take on challenges we face as a community together.

 

 

Battle of the Arts - @Armajesty

 

Battle of the Arts has been undergoing a full revamp this month. We are transitioning the competition into two seperate contests. One for solely creative writing, and the other for general arts like visual art, skinning, building, etc. We are hoping to boost these competitions more than ever in the coming months! One of the biggest changes is coming to our prizes, we are trying to find prizes that will get players more motivated to compete. I won't say much more, but those of you who like custom forum roles like the 'Creative Wizard' role will definitely want to check it out.

 

Creative Café - @Fiiieee

 

I will from now on manage the Creative Café, which takes place 3-4x per year. @arkantos1279 and @Erik0821 as well as some other people have offered to help me, which I am incredibly grateful for. I will update you guys as soon as possible and announce any changes that may or may not come up. The next Café is expected to take place either in late November or in early-mid December. We look forward to seeing all of the creative content our community has to show off!

 

 

Community Events -  @Nilyeet

 

 

‘Lo LotC! Nily here w/ and update on our Community Team events. Very recently, the Community Team released Escape the Temple 2.0, a revamped escape room built on the foundation of last year’s event. I consider this to be a massive success, and lots of people have participated and enjoyed themselves, which I’m extremely happy about. If you have any suggestions on how to improve with our future events, or any event ideas, please let me know by messaging me over Discord or via forum message, or reaching out to a Community Member! 

 

Beyond this, we have some winter event ideas down pat, and are going to begin the brainstorming and planning stages in early November. Keep on the lookout for clues or hints to these events.

 

If you have any feedback you’d like to give us regarding an event you’ve participated in in the past, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m6Bx6FaXRDX1N28B6.

 

 Stay chill, LotC.

 

 

Media Team - @Fiiieee @snoopie12 @peachcool @LaffenOutLoud

 

Moving on to the next topic, the Media Team! After a month of figuring out what to do exactly, we are now starting to move forward. The Media Team is managing all Lotc official social media platforms. I (snoopie) for example, will be managing the Twitter account once everything is set in place. The past month the administration accepted our proposal for an official TikTok account, this one will be managed by @peachcool. And then as last but not least, @LaffenOutLoud will be managing our Instagram. I also want to clear up that for the time being we have no intentions of reviving our Reddit page, this because we firstly want to see how everything will go with the other social media. So keep an eye out for social media posts in the coming month!

 

 

Pots and Pandits Revamp - @snoopie12

 

Heya ya all, snoopie here with an update. Past month has been wild, with ups and downs, but we have made it out alive. Firstly it was finding our way, but now I am glad to say that I am fully back on track. I’ve been working on revamping Pots and Pandits as it was barely used. Together with @Yagami @FIXER957 @Tykeandy and @LotsofMuffins we are currently working on making a Tutorial Video on Combat Roleplay. This will replace Pots and Pandits for the time being, however our team members are obviously still here to help out with your Combat Roleplay. If you have a Tutorial Video idea yourself, don't hesitate to shoot me a DM so we can look at what we can do!

 

 

Wiki Team - @HogoBojo and @JokerLow

 

Howdy everyone! The Wiki Team continues to be working on maintaining, updating, and adding to the Wiki. One of the things we believe strongly is that the Wiki is a valuable source, and we would like players to reference it often. So we’re currently trying to make it easier to access and find information, and ensure that it’s accurate. Hopefully this will encourage new and old players to use the Wiki more frequently. If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or need anything else Wiki related then please contact one of the Wiki Caretakers. The current Wiki Caretakers are @HogoBojo and @Jokerlow. Below you can find the individual update of both of the team members.

 

Hogo’s Update

I’m currently hard at work, working on a new main page for the Wiki, and plan to have it complete for the release of the next map. This new main page still has the important information that the previous page has, along with additional information, and a slightly new look. Alongside this, I’m continuing to work on updating pages and creating new ones. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding the Wiki then please send me a message @HogoBojo#0001.

 

JokerLow’s currently focused on the Wiki’s approach with the next map and considering possible changes for the Wiki Rules. He’s working hard to ensure that there are no uncategorized Wiki pages. Before Arcas’s ending, the main focus remains on updating core Wiki pages to leave no place for confusion, especially for new players.

 

OCTOBER’S DIRECTION

 

Last month was about Community Advocacy. This month, we’re re-grouping under new leadership and focusing on improving the team!

 

 

Last Month’s Goals

1. Community Advocacy

Our community advocacy system is changing a bit, and although we’ve worked hard on getting interviews done for this month, due to team member losses, we’re struggling to compensate for their lack of interviews by interviewing more. Due to this, this month’s community advocacy project is taking longer than expected, and as such, it’s a goal of ours to finish it as soon as possible. Currently, we’re in the compilation stage, which means we’re compiling feedback from interviewees into one, coherent document to send on and discuss, though this is sometimes the lengthier part of the process. 

 

2. Community Events

Specifically, this month’s focus in terms of community events is the upcoming Escape the Temple event for Halloween. The team has worked super hard on this event, and they are continuing to work hard wrapping it up. Keep an eye out on the forums for an announcement regarding the opening, and I hope you guys will enjoy it!

 

3. Team Members

Although we’ve gotten a small handful of new members this past month, we’re still looking to continue recruiting! Our cap is 20, and our ideal size is between 15-20. This will probably continue being a goal for us until we reach that ideal size, so please reach out to your friends if you think they might be interested in applying for the Community Team, and we’ll see how we grow next month!

 

To find out the direction for October, I suggest scrolling back up to ‘From Telanir:’ for a message from the legend himself.

 

 

If you have any questions or comments about the direction that we are going in, feel free to leave a comment down below or reach out to a team member.

 

25 minutes ago, froeggy said:

Hey just for reference,, can I make an outfit for this or does it have to be a full skin?

Just an outfit is fine!

1 minute ago, Wretched said:

 

Just a request for when you release the first creative writing side of this, could you keep this theme for it?

 

Honestly... I think having matching themes is cool so definitely.

5 minutes ago, NotEvilAtAll said:

You say there to be four categories, but then you list five. Is this a typo or am I missing something?

 

Right! Was gonna remove video editting since we never had any submissions, but last contest had 2 so I changed it last minute. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

Welcome to our new and improved Battle of the Arts contest -- the first of its kind!

 

There are a few changes rolling around this month so I highly encourage you to read through this post to find out what is different.

 

Battle of the Arts now consists of only the following five categories:

• Visual Art

• Music Creation / Singing

• Building

• Skinning

• Video Editting

 

You may have noticed that Poetry, and Creative Writing have disappeared, but do not fret because they will be returning in their own special contest next month called Crusade of the Creative!

Battle of the Arts and Crusade of the Creative will be happening in opposition, meaning one month we will run BotA and the next we will host CotC. I’ve been wanting to put a heavier focus on creative writing as it is a huge part of our community as roleplayers! Now, let’s get back to Battle of the Arts.

 

 

Theme

The theme for November's Battle of the Arts contest is Steampunk.

 

How to Sign Up

Signing up is easy! In order to participate all you need to do is comment on this post using the following format:

IGN:
Category:
Artwork: 

 

Prizes

• 100 Almaris Mina Voucher (For reference, players will start with 100 mina.)

• Event Exclusive Custom Item

• Creative Soul (win 1 time)

  • Creative Wizard (win 3 times)

  • Creative Overlord (win 6 times)

 

Criteria

• All content entered must coincide with the theme of the month.

• You are allowed to submit up to 1 submission per category.

• Submissions are to be posted in the comment of this thread.

 

 

Credit to @reko for the Battle of the Arts art.

Submissions are officially closed! We will have results up by the end of the week! ❤️ Thanks to everyone for their participation.

i’m coming for you monkey man

uwu

Hello, everyone! I am stepping in to make a change. Winners will receive a 500 mina voucher for Almaris. This is happening because of the drastic change in the value of mina next map. I promise you that this 500 mina in Almaris is just as valuable as 2.5k in Arcas. 🙂 

Honestly, I’ve never really been one to partake in raid/conflict roleplay, nor have I ever enjoyed being raided on the road when travelling from one destination to the other, but even so I find a part of me misses those interactions. Road roleplay is at an all time low, and this is honestly something I miss greatly. I remember last summer when my character would have to find soldiers to guide them from Curon to Oren because there was almost a constant threat of being bandited on the roads. Bandit roleplay can actually create some really cool dynamics, and overall if we’re aiming for a medieval/fantasy style server then it’s pretty accurate to the setting. Like Michaelhz said it creates a purpose for the military, which in turn provides more roleplay for our nations. I think we should be trying to encourage higher quality banditing, while still giving them the space for creativity by having less limiting rules.