Fireheart

On 7/10/2020 at 1:19 PM, howard said:

People who join this server are almost always confused by our weird bureaucracy, by how every decision needs to be rubber-stamped by admins who don’t play, and by our insistence on jargon. It’s a genuine obstacle to getting people to play the game. We should make an effort in the future to take power back from the admins and write rules in plain English.

It is, but it is a whole circle cycle type of issue. Speaking from the perspective of being on both sides of the coin rules are typically made to stop the 10% of the playerbase from taking things too far and ruining the experience for the other 90%. As the server grows and becomes more diverse you run into more groups of people wanting different things.

MC Name: Vras

Character's Name: Heise Ganji

Character's Age: 10

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable):

         N/A

Transformed form:

         N/A

Creator's MC Name:

         N/A

Creator's RP Name:

         N/A

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature:

Hou-Zi are a primate people native to a region of the archipelago of Axios, once having an empire that covered much of the continent long ago, now they live a secluded and reclusive lifestyle within the jungles. 

They currently follow one, both of neither of these two religions: Shen-Jiao and Hua-Jiao. Shen-Joao includes worship of Hou-Shen, also called the Godking, along with his sons and ancestral spirits. Hua-Joao involves practices around the Prophet Hualian, and follows the eightfold path to enlightenment. 

Before expansion and the Golden Age, the Hou-Zi rapidly developed, constructing complex and detailed structures, such as palaces. This rapid development was guided by Hou-Shen, who taught his subjects the wisdom of Metzli herself. After 50 years, the Hou-Zi had formed a complex society, but yearned for more, so a conquest began. Much of their conflicts involved that with elves, however the Hou-Zi conflicted with every major race.  At their height, they had conquered all of Asul, and much of Tahn and Ceru. Now the Hou-Zi live in solitude, with the memory of what their empire one was.

Heise Ganji is the son of Heise "Kuai" Jiejue, the current Lindi-Zhu (Chief), and was born in the Heise tribe. Heise Ganji strictly follows Hua-Jiao, much like his tribe. Since he is part of the main line of tribe, his is a Laobai-Zhi with dark brown fur and green eyes, he also has small amounts of white paint on his body to symbolise hierarchy and respect. Following his tribe, Heise Ganji has been tought Hua-Jiao and combat from a young age, strictly following and admiring the tradition.

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         N/A

Do you agree to keep Story writers updated on the status of your magic app?:

         Yes

Do you understand that if this creature's lore is undergoing an activity trial and that trial fails, you will no longer be able to play this creature and will be forced to either revert the character back to its normal form (if it was a transformative type) or stop playing the character entirely (if it is an entirely new creature)?:

         Yes

Memey RP or using this CA for subpar villain/bandit RP can lead to your app being denied, even after acceptance. Please put "I understand" as your response once you have read this part and understand the consequences.

         I understand

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         No

Bacon strips or sausage patties for breakfast?

DON’T YOU DARE SHORT CHANGE THIS!!! I need to know details like bacon should be crunchy or chewy or the sausage patty should be spicy or mild?

MC Name: AerosTheAlien

Character's Name: Mozuliki

Character's Age: 20

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable):

         N/A

Transformed form:

         Kha'Tigrasi

Creator's MC Name:

         N/A

Creator's RP Name:

         N/A

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature:

The Kha were created by a person named Metzli. They were originally an experiment, where she attempted to combine humans and ocelots. The very first few attempts were failures, but still, they treated her as their goddess. She continued on with her experiments, until she found the perfect one. A white creature, she seemed this as the first Kharajyr. She then protected this creature at all costs, and decided to continue making more. Yet, to her avail, none was as perfect as he. It eventually became a civilization, and sadly, left the Kha to be on their own. From there, raised the four different sub-races of the Kha. The Kha'Leparda, the most basic of the races, usually do not succeed in one specific area, so they practice multiple areas. Their coats are a light brown color, with dark spots. The Kha'Pantera, they succeed in stealth and thievery, alongside their dark fur, that allows them to sneak easier in the dark. The Kha'Cheetrah are usually the fastest subrace, and they succeed in climbing and sprinting. They have a golden colored fur, with spots on their body. The last of the races are the Kha'Tigrasi, the coat is like a tigers coat, orange + black stripes, and they are known for strength in battles, where they can easily overpower any race. 

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         N/A

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         N/A

Do you understand that if this creature's lore is undergoing an activity trial and that trial fails, you will no longer be able to play this creature and will be forced to either revert the character back to its normal form (if it was a transformative type) or stop playing the character entirely (if it is an entirely new creature)?:

         Yes

Memey RP or using this CA for subpar villain/bandit RP can lead to your app being denied, even after acceptance. Please put "I understand" as your response once you have read this part and understand the consequences.

         I understand

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         N/A

On 2/5/2020 at 7:35 AM, Kaelan said:

I am also obligated to demand the return of the forum team in this response. Return the forum team. 

actually rolling in my grave

MC Name: someone_better

Character's Name: S'uur

Character's Age: 25

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable):

         Kha'Leparda

Transformed form:

         n/a

Creator's MC Name:

         someone_better

Creator's RP Name:

         someone_better

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature:

S’uur is a grey Kha’leparda who was abandoned as a child for reasons unknown and was raised by human merchant sailors from the sands of Korvasa. She spent 24 years with her parents sailing across Arcas moving wares of all kinds such as bladderwort and fine tapestry. Being as detached from kha culture as she was, S’uur, decided to go off on her own in search of other kha and learn more about herself and perhaps even why her biological parents abandoned her as a kitten.

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         no

Do you agree to keep Story writers updated on the status of your magic app?:

         yes

Do you understand that if this creature's lore is undergoing an activity trial and that trial fails, you will no longer be able to play this creature and will be forced to either revert the character back to its normal form (if it was a transformative type) or stop playing the character entirely (if it is an entirely new creature)?:

         yes

Memey RP or using this CA for subpar villain/bandit RP can lead to your app being denied, even after acceptance. Please put "I understand" as your response once you have read this part and understand the consequences.

         i understand

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         no

MC Name: Blue_Due

Character's Name: Yǒnghéng-Xiào

Character's Age: 14

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable):

         Laobai-Zhu

Transformed form:

         N/A

Creator's MC Name:

         N/A

Creator's RP Name:

         N/A

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature:

The Hou-Zi have two religions, the religion of Shenjiao and the religion of Hua-Jiao. Shenjiao focuses more on the Worship of ancestral Spirits and the God King Hou-Shen, and his sons. While Hua-Jiao is the secondary religion, which focuses around the teachings of Hualian. Hua-Jiao has four truths and eight tenants which dictate the worshipers way of life. 

The Hou-Zi were a race of semi intelligent creatures (apes) which were uplifted in Metzli’s experiments in an attempt to create an intelligent race similar to descendants. Hou-Shen was the first Hou-Zi made and the God King of Hou-Zi as declared by Metzli and was told to do her will and worship her.

Under Hou-Shen and his sons the Hou-Zi entered a golden age of their empire, where the Hou-Zi flourished on Asul until the Malin War. Though the Hou-Zi were winning at first, Hou-Shen was eventually defeated and killed by Malin and the Elves took many prisoners for torture. Though this was not the end of Hou-Zi nor for Hou-Shen as Metzli captured his soul, to have it reborn which in turn led to a boost in Hou-Zi Moral and a second Malin war which he lost everything in including his sons. Eventually peace was made and the Hou-Zi were not allowed to step forth from Asul. After that there was a lot of moving about a smaller squabbles called the Jade wars which were had between warring noble factions.

The Hou-Zi have three main subraces each one supposedly descending from one of the sons of Hou-Shen.
Laobai-Zhu: The Laobai-Zhu are the most common of the Hou-Zi and the shortest lived. They often resemble spider monkeys, or monkeys in general and almost always have brown coats.
Fei-Zhu: The Fei-Zhu make up most nobles and are the most brightly coloured of the subraces and resemble baboons. Often being the smallest, they tend to be more nimble. The Fei-Zhu also enjoy longer life spans, being twice that of a Laobai. 
Hei-Zhu: The Hei-Zhu finally are the longest lived and largest of the subraces, resembling large silver back gorillas.  

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         N/A

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         N/A

Do you understand that if this creature's lore is undergoing an activity trial and that trial fails, you will no longer be able to play this creature and will be forced to either revert the character back to its normal form (if it was a transformative type) or stop playing the character entirely (if it is an entirely new creature)?:

         Yes

Memey RP or using this CA for subpar villain/bandit RP can lead to your app being denied, even after acceptance. Please put "I understand" as your response once you have read this part and understand the consequences.

         Yes

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         No

MC Name: periklis02

Character's Name: Kromps

Character's Age: 15

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable):

         Frog Wonk

Transformed form:

         Frog Wonk

Creator's MC Name:

         N/A

Creator's RP Name:

         N/A

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature:

The Origins of the Wonk Species are shrouded in mystery, though currently these creatures fall into two cultural categories, the Reformed Wonks and the Tribal Wonks. The Reformed Wonks are only applicable of the two and their distinction with the Tribal Wonks is their acceptive nature towards other cultures and Descendant races, even going as far as adopting foreign cultures and ways to their villages and essentialy being more ‘civilized’. The Wonks have no genders and rather breed through growing eggs on their backs and dropping them in ponds or bodies of water for them to grow. Wonks can live up to 120 years in age and as they grow in life, they will require to drench themselves in water more often so as to not dry out and thus retain their moisture. There’s two Wonk subraces, the Frog Wonks and the Toad Wonks. The Frog Wonks stand taller than the Toad Wonks at the height of 4’6-5’0 feet tall, they can be any shade of green or brown and their skin is smoother and slightly more slimy than a Toad Wonk. Toad Wonks on the other hand seem to be shorter than Frog Wonks at the height of 4’1-4’7 feet tall while their skin is bumpy and more rough than the skin of a Frog Wonk. Both Toad and Frog Wonks seem to be as strong as average Humans and as smart as them, while building up muscle seems to be quite difficult for them. Wonks can extend their tongues outwards to an arm length, though the tongue’s strength would be equal to that of a finger push. Wonks are also unable to drown or asphyxiate (atleast in normal means) as they can breath and take oxygen through their skin. As such when submerged, they can stay underwater for long periods of time, yet they are unable to speak while doing so as opening their mouths would risk them drowning. Wonks also have two sets of eyelids which they use to keep their vision clear underwater. They do still require to blink, but their transparent eyelids make it seem like they dont.

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         Nope

Do you agree to keep Story writers updated on the status of your magic app?:

         Yes (?)

Do you understand that if this creature's lore is undergoing an activity trial and that trial fails, you will no longer be able to play this creature and will be forced to either revert the character back to its normal form (if it was a transformative type) or stop playing the character entirely (if it is an entirely new creature)?:

         Yes , I do understand that

Memey RP or using this CA for subpar villain/bandit RP can lead to your app being denied, even after acceptance. Please put "I understand" as your response once you have read this part and understand the consequences.

         I understand

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         Nope

MC Name: dragon360killer

Character's Name: Ker Wolf

Character's Age: 2

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable):

         Ker Wolf

Transformed form:

         N/A

Creator's MC Name:

         N/A

Creator's RP Name:

         N/A

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature:

Ker wolves look and seem vicious and bloodthirsty. Their grown and bark shows them as highly aggressive and very intimidating. However, their true temperament is the complete opposite.Very calm and gentle, these wolves play the part of vicious attack dogs. Very few were willing to get near the wolves believing they would be killed, however, despite this all, they are docile. With temperaments similar to golden retrievers, these wolves are very loyal and very sweet. However, this also comes with domestication. Ker wolves will not be as peaceful to people unless raised around them.

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it:

         no

Do you agree to keep the MT updated on the status of your magic app by using the Magic List Errors topic?:

         Yes i agree to keep mt updated

Are you aware that if this creature's lore is undergoing an activity trial and that trial fails, you will no longer be able to play this creature and will be forced to either revert the character back to its normal form (if it was a transformative type) or stop playing the character entirely (if it is an entirely new creature)?:

         yes

Do you consent to accepting what may happen to this character?:

         Yes i do

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app:

         no

On 1/13/2020 at 8:03 PM, Kaelan said:

I’m going to ******* steal your kid, Syko.

 

 

woah.... that’s a bit toxic bud

“Not a true Vladovic” Livia would remark upon hearing the news.

  Minecraft Name (s): (Include any alts)

pinkpyro

Please link the blacklist you are appealing

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/184294-pinkpyro/

Blacklist Reason:

poor villainy

How has your blacklist helped you improve your overall/villain RP?:

The Blacklist has helped me realize that there is so much more to role play than just going around with someone doing boring villainy role play. As in the weeks I have had the blacklist I have had the opportunity to meet friendly people and have some interesting role play with them. The blacklist has also helped me to know how to approach villainy/conflict role play, if I even wished to do so, from observing others perform conflict/villainy role play. It has helped me understand how frustrating it can be when a random person approaches you and kills you when you're just minding your own business. The blacklist has caused me to go out and explore the other communities on the server and role play with them, leading to some pretty enjoyable role play for both parties involved. Overall this blacklist has made me appreciate the role play aspect of the server and has helped me find the type of role play I enjoy.

Are you aware receiving another blacklist after this one, will be more severe?:

Yes. And for this reason I do not intend on receiving another

Why should you be un-blacklisted?

I have spent my time improving my role play and thinking how I can make my role play more enjoyable for both parties. I have also grown to favor quality of life role play over villainy role play. which I have realized that Villainy role play isn't at all needed to effectively role play and as stated before I now favor other role play styles over villainy role play as it doesn't offer the encounters and role play that those other role play styles can offer. I have also read over the servers conflict rules to refresh my memory in order to avoid poor villainy and possibly ruining someones role play experience. Ensuring that I will not make the same mistake again.

Wooo!!

lack isn’t cool though...

Blacklist appeal denied. 

MCname: Excitedly
UUID: a79be6f4-01b4-49b9-b3ef-472cbea150f7
Reason: idk because he pugsied everyone and is a bad egg with big issues
Evidence: Refer to his appeal I handled on this date

Yes!!!!!

we never had kids,,,,

I will be on hiatus from the 2nd of June until the 10th. If you need assistance that I typically provide please contact either @Pun or @IZipZapManI

Moderation Staff Update Log - May 2019

‹ Introduction ›

    Good morning and for those of you who are getting out of school for the summer or graduating, congratulations! This month we’ve seem a ramp up both in the sheer amount of tickets being submitted and also some complicated issues that have hit the community which include: Wars, indecisive moderation, and a general feeling of unfairness and toxicity that is harming the overall community. This is gonna be a focus of ours moving forward during the summer as we try to tackle these very complicated issues. You might have noticed that I didn’t include the header of “needing more moderators” at the top of the post since I wanted to really drive it here that we are in need of support and assistance. Providing feedback and giving opinions on how to fix issues as a community is always valued, but the day to day upkeep on the server is taxing, which is why I wanted to really encourage you that you should consider applying if you haven’t already or are on the fence about it.

‹ New Changes ›

    Something I have been working on the past month is some back-end quality of life changes. Most of this has to do with disciplinary actions. This is something I have talked on quite a bit, but several months ago we rolled out an internal system of keeping track of player infractions (bans + warnings) and keeping them within a general guideline framework. These guidelines on the punishment to hand down after a player’s third time of griefing vs their first time were and still are a guideline, or a suggestion, for the length. However, it is highly encouraged and instructed to moderators to follow this unless the situation is unique and outside of the scope of what the guidelines outline. This document and structure can be found on our information post and will now be public. As always you can approach a manager to get the list of your infractions. Specific infractions which is every single mark up until level 7 will be not be held against you after the mark is a year old. Meaning, for example, if you griefed a statue of a dragon back in 2017 it will not count against you in 2019 if you are caught griefing a farmhouse.

    As a reminder there is a your view up relating to war rules. Please take a chance to give it a look over and provide your feedback. Recently a couple weeks ago I had a player approach me complaining about some of the rules and guidelines to heist. When I asked them if they saw the posts asking for feedback on it they said yes, but opted not to post on them since it didn’t affect them. While that might be true to you and wars you never know and we can not know if you don’t speak up. So please take a couple of minutes to read it over and post your thoughts!

    As mentioned on Friday the forums are going through a revamp in some areas. I hope you all have been enjoying the extra “Thanks” reputation button as we continue to live test it. Awhile ago some might remember the rework of “Appeals” and how we consolidated the sub-forum to make it more easy to work with. Alongside that now we are rolling out the second phase to this area which is hitting the brand new “Reports” sub-forum. This subforum will now house a one stop shop location for you to file player reports, magic reports, and staff reports. The hope is to make it more easily accessible. Both the reports and appeals subforum will now be OP view only sub-forums meaning that the respective staff for those sub-forums will be able to view it and the OP; no one else. This is to take into account the feedback I have received on people being scared to report players or groups due to the fear of backlash. If you are wishing to make general public feedback regarding a staff member or a specific team please use the respective team feedback forum, but make sure to follow that with an actual staff report for an investigation. These post should be constructive in nature and follow forum rules etiquette.

    As a final note due to the high volume of tickets and the current burden of work being placed on moderators we will be temporarily halting our service of providing fly to players. This is to cut down on the current workflow so that we can handle the more time sensitive and more important tickets such as CRP issues or other forms of player conflict issues. This is something I do want to bring back, but for the sake of the current team this has to be done to give some of us a small break from being burnt out.

‹ Current Team Roster ›

‹ Monthly Statistics ›

Moderation Staff received a total of 5392 modreqs in May.

Congratulations and thank you to: Potts24, Lomrun, and ZachsSlayer for taking the most tickets in that respective order! It was awesome seeing these individuals step into the team and really contribute a lot during their first month.

The monthly quota for Moderation Staff 3%, for this month that meant an individual Mod had to complete a total of 161. Below you can view the general statistics for all members of the team. Keep in mind some new Mods were added to the team late in the month and some Mods were on leave for real life reasons.

‹ Roster Changes ›

+ ZachsSlayer added to Moderation Staff

+ func_Soap added to Moderation Staff

+ Rwk0 added to Moderation Staff

+ Endershadow292 added to Moderation Staff

- Murlocs stepped down as a Moderation Staff Manager

- TastyCheesecake stepped down from Moderation Staff

- Pandann stepped down from Moderation Staff

‹ Special Thanks ›

Gamma_Byte for building support.

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Hey there. Your report has only been sitting for two days please have patience as there are other reports as well.

Greetings! This post is coming to you a day early before the monthly update log to announce something SUPER important!!11!!!111!

Over the next day there is gonna be another wave of changes coming to the forums which will be a follow up to what we started back in March with the launch of the new map. These changes will be detailed in the update log coming out this weekend, but for now I did push one of the changes out. Alongside being able to upvote posts you will now be able to “Thanks” post which will do absolutely nothing. I repeat ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! This does not give you a positive reputation point like an upvote, but it also does not give you a negative point like the dreaded downvote button (may it rest in peace and NEVER return). We will be testing this feature for the next week to see how it works out and we might end up swapping it out to trying other kinds of reputation buttons. If you have ideas for positive buttons that are not toxic let me know down below! (I’m not locking this for my boy Med, gotta keep that man happy! ❤️) Keep your eye out for the update log and please follow me with some patience as we change some more things over (most will have to do with sub-forum functions). If you notice something missing or super br0ken shoot me a private message and have a good Friday!

- Fire

*Livia hears news of the festival and cracks a small smile of excitement for the day to come!*

I for one welcome our technician overlords and and am excited for when we will some day be placed in 2x1 black boxes that will teleport across the map to do our roleplay!!

1 minute ago, Medvekoma said:

 

Do you understand what increasing means?

2 minutes ago, shoahinsnowyfields said:

just keep voting?

What Med is suggesting is that the price multiples on itself so that it is not sustainable forever. 

Good evening morning. For some reason forums decided to not auto post this on the schedule placed on it so apologizes for the like twelve hour delay. As promised in my previous post we will be throwing out this centralized post for people to give their thoughts and opinions on several topics. The two specific topics for this thread are the follow:

    - Fortification criterias (what is and what isn't a PvP fort).

    - Fortification edits (what is a minor edit, what is major, et cetera).

To break it down and to give context to how it currently has been handled most of this is under moderation discretion. Some questions to think about and answer when giving your input and feedback could be…

Are you for or against modifications in the middle of a war?

Should players be allowed to create giant 100 block tall forts over the timespan of a day or two or should it be restricted to something smaller?

For sieges; what would constitute fair defensive modifications?

Are there specific types of traps or building structures that should be outlawed for not being realistic or friendly to our roleplay atmosphere?

...and many more beyond that. I look forward to hearing people’s thoughts on the topic and remember that suggestions do have to fit within a rule set so detail and accuracy is appreciated!

p.s. I hope Med loves me now since this post isn’t locked ❤️