Minecraft name: Reilock
Forum name: Reiki
What do you think are the top five things, that are most important in an application and why?
1. Biography!
this is the most important aspect to know whether a player is a good Rper and a bad one.. I have been reading A LOT of application just for fun and I notice that a lot of the players like to do a cliche stories just for the sake of giving a bio. Furthermore their stories are mostly short and did not define their character.. I rather have the server to have a good Rper who have English as their 2nd language then having a bad Rper. thus I really think that biography is really important more than Anything else. I know a lot of applicants wrote that biography is really important and I'm stressing it further as I know having a good biography means you are a good Rper
2. RULES
rules are the law and should be obeyed all the time.. There are countless ban report in this server because people did not understand or did not read the rules at all! I suspect this is because of the current format of the application.. The application form did not test whether a player understand completely the rule of this server. And If I were to be in the application team. I would like to change the format of the application. Instead of asking which rules you like or do not like, it is better to test their understanding of the rules and stress the importance of it. One good example is to ask what is the meaning of power game base on your understanding and such. If they fail to answer or their answer is not what is desired, we know that he/she did not read and understand the rules
3. Age
While this is not a really concern of mine, there are some kids out there who likes to troll around. I don't really have a problem with this server and thus I'm not going to talk much about it.. I just wish that kids out there would act a bit more adult if things do not go their way
4. Language
I'm not to say that player must have a good grasp in English language since I,myself am not a native American. I was born in Asia and is currently living in Asia. However, I feel that applicants must have at least be able to understand English and is able to write without having grammatical mistakes in every single sentence. I can't say much about language due to the fact that english is my 2nd language.
5. Experience
Having a basic experience in minecraft would be very helpful in order to play in this server or other servers. It just irritate me when someone ask in ooh how to make tools and such when they can search the wiki or should have memorized it if they have some experince. Some people even have 0 experience and the first thing that they do is ask a lot of questions or get a ban for griefing or stealing just because they don't understand the basic etiqutte in minecraft server. Furthermore, having to have an experience in any RP forums or games will be a great start for the player that is applying..
Well there's my reasons and I'm sorry if you do not understand what I am saying :( if you need me to clarify any doubt please do not hesitate to PM me :)
Oh.. Also if I make any weird errors please forgive me.. I'm typing this on my iPad and it is such a pain -.- anyway thanks for reading :
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After browsing through the forum I realized that the format of the application form have been changed!! So I would to say that the format is much better than before but there are still some flaws as it still did not test their understanding of this server rules! One od the question was "what is roleplaying?" this question for me is rather redundant and should be changed to something that can test player's understanding of the rules instead. The reason is because asking what is roleplaying is more of a general knowledge rather than asking if he/she can RP.. They should have know what is roleplaying in the first place before they decided to sign up