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Hello Folks! One of these community meetings has been way overdue and it is definitely time that we have another one. I’ve been struggling to find a good time that would fit into most people’s timezones that allowed me to be to be present. However, the show must go on. For those who have never joined us at a community meeting before, it is where the community comes into the LotC Discord to have their concerns and questions answered by members of staff. As things have settled into place, I will be continuing to host these meetings monthly. During the meeting we will go over your questions left below this post in order. Please do not leave any trolly or inappropriate comments for they will be skipped over. At the end if we have time we may answer a few questions from the discord as well. Once again, please leave your questions on this post. Thank you and can’t wait to see you all there! Information Date: Saturday, June 1st 2019 Time: 5pm EST| 9pm GMT| 7am AUS Location: Community Meeting Channel Discord: https://discord.gg/aD38Crd

Hello everyone! It is time for our second creative cafe for the year. The Creative Cafe is an event that we host quarterly where members of the community can show off their talents. This could range from art you have been working on, singing songs, playing an instrument, or even a comedy skit. This community is filled with many talented people and we’d love for people to come out and show it off. Raffles for prizes will be handed out throughout the event! This month the Cafe will be hosted by some lovely Community Staff members, @Zacho @SoulReapingWolf @z3m0s and @Jenny_Bobbs who are in charge of putting together little community events like these. So, keep your eyes peeled for more events like this one in the near future To participate, please leave a comment using the sign-up format detailed below! Information Date: Wednesday, May 29th 2019 Time: 4:00pm EST Location: Creative Cafe Channel Discord: https://discord.gg/aD38Crd Sign-Up Format Mcname: Talent: Special Thanks to @rwko for the banner!

There are still people coming back on late and requesting their vault to be checked. In addition, there are a number of people who haven’t read the vault post and have yet to go to ct to claim their items. Make sure you check there first ?

The Month of April Hello everyone! Back again for another monthly update. April was a pretty good month full of a lot of new projects and systems being introduced to the community. From fun Easter events to war rules and your views. As we go into May you all should expect another community meeting to be held soon. A post will go up sometime next week. In addition, it has come time again for another creative cafe. This month the community team will be officially taking up the event and hosting it. So look out for another post regarding the details for that as well. I apologize for getting this out to you all late but finals held me up. Thank you for understanding and enjoy! War Rules This month the long awaited war rules have been released. If you haven’t done so already check them out and read over them thoroughly so you know the system will work this map! Alt Whitelisting As many of you may have noticed, just about all registered alternative accounts have been unwhitelisted from the server due to our new system for whitelisting alts. Our goal is to have everyone forum integrated so it is easier to find people across all of our platforms. If you have forum integrated please take the time to do so for it only takes a minute and makes things easier in many ways going forward. This also means that the community team will no longer be looking at or accepting alt whitelist applications. If you have lost the minecraft account you applied on and your alt was unwhitelisted, don’t be afraid to reach out to a community team member for assistance. Flam’s Last Stand This is an announcement and update to what is currently going on with a lot of the current lore right now and what is going to be occurring moving forward. This includes things like magics, creatures, and rewrites. Check out the post for more information! Tailor’s Guild This month the community team revamped the Tailor’s Guild which is a group of skinners on the server whose purpose primarily is to provide appropriate skins for new players and also for older member of the community. We encourage those with the talent to join and help out the community while also earning some mina while you’re at it. Read the post for more information! Staff Team Updates The freshest scoop from the Admins themselves—learn all you can about your favorite teams. Development Staff The Development Staff has been busy working on our optimization issues and other bug fixed that have popped during our transition. Earlier this month Sporadic put out a post on some important information for everyone to check out! I Fought The Lag and The Lag Won Moderation Staff As always, the Moderation Staff are in need of new volunteers. If you feel you’re up to the task, head on over to the Staff application section of the forums to apply! Coup rules were posted for the community’s review, and we saw Riftblade step down from a long and faithful tenure as Moderation Manager. His position was thereafter taken by, |ZipZapMan|, one of a group of qualified candidates who put themselves forward for the position. Moderation Update Log - April Community Staff For starters, we saw another month filled to the brim with applications. All-in-all we received a whopping four hundred and forty two new applications, of which only six were alternate account applications prior to the new self-whitelisting system for alts. In addition, we put together a nice little Easter Event for the community. We hope you enjoyed it and we plan on putting things like that together more often. After an extremely long tenure on staff, having served previously as AT-Lead, we are sorry to see Ivory go. However MamaBearJade has stepped up to take her place, another hardworking individual to help better our community. Community Team Update Log - April Story Staff This month the Story Staff sees two new managers. ScreamingDingo has been promoted to event manager and MamaBearJade has been promoted to general manager. As the team continues to get set up and into their roles, there is a lot of projects they have in the works. One of them announced this month is the Lore Games mentioned above so don’t forget to give that a good read. And lastly, Flambo is /still/ doing vaults. Someone pray for this man. If you haven’t already, check out the Your View up on Magics and Combat and leave your feedback! Trendy Feedback Our crack team of gobos compiles, analyses, and critiques our feedback forums for the top-echelon of community suggestions. We’ve picked out some of the most unique, noteworthy, and civil articles from this month. On Rules and Community After the aftermath of Adria being burnt down earlier on in April, there were a few posts made by the community with concerns about the rules regarding PROs and ROs. This post in particular goes over the events the occurred and discusses where we collectively as a community can improve and learn but also where staff should work to improve the rules. Written by: @Vindicant On /evict This post brings up the topic of the /evict command that was introduced during this month (April) highlighting some of the issues that the use of the command can cause. Due to this post it allowed us to reevaluate the command and the rules around its use to better suit the communities needs. See rule 4.5 for clarification on how the command is used! Written by: @TheElvenMage The Player Province Community Spotlight Bright, committed, and talented people fill our community. With the community spotlight, we highlight one individual that stands out this month. This player engages the laid-back attitude, charitable spirit, and proactive nature hailed in our community guidelines. For this reason, we congratulate them for their hard-earned achievements! Slic3man This month we put the spotlight on an old time member of the community, Slice3man. Being apart of the community for such a long time gives you a wider perspective on many aspects regarding the community. In addition, we chose him for this months newsletter because we have noticed how he has been giving new members of the community a helping hand in and outside of roleplay. Interview Hello Slic3man, the Administration overhears much about your attitude and accomplishments. We would like to highlight you in this month’s community spotlight! What aspects of Human roleplay do you think are the most appealing or enjoyable? Slic3man: I've found one of the best aspects of Human roleplay is that there's a consistent influx of newer players. With that in mind, it's awesome to see them develop into their own niche and find something they enjoy the most, even if they move onto different venues. It's refreshing to see new outlooks and variety in the roleplay, along with the assistance older and newer players alike are willing to lend toward people who're just arriving. What would you recommend to a new player who is struggling to find a purpose for their character? Slic3man: My best recommendation would be something from my experience when I first started, get involved in multiple spheres, learn what catches your attention the most. There's a group for just about everything on LotC, and sometimes purpose comes from experience in an environment that you feel you'll enjoy the most. Having a variety provides some guidance, just be sure to lend a decent amount of time to each so you get a good taste of what that atmosphere can provide. What is one of your favorite memories on this server? It's hard to narrow a single memory down with how many people I've had the opportunity to interact with since 2011. Many of them have had substantially positive impacts on my life, whether it's how I go about treating others or just the simple hand helping me hone my writing ability. If I were to choose one, it'd likely be when I first joined the server. Initially I played an Orc in Aegis, and I was excited beyond belief to get involved with the server. Stepping into Krugmar for the first time and beginning my interaction with the players there made me feel welcome, and would keep me down that path for what has evidently been quite some time. Shoutout to Bog, Blawharag, craotor, Mogroka, Swgrclan and a few others I had the chance to learn the ropes from back in Aegis; it was great fun and I hope to do the same for many of the newcomers joining up with the server for the first time. Outstanding Volunteer Award We present this accolade to an exceptional staff member. We are honored and humbled that they choose our team and our server. And this month the award goes to... MamaBearJade This months award goes to a very well deserving member of staff, @MamaBearJade. Jade is a Manager for both the Community and Story Staff Teams. She performs exceptionally on both teams and continuously goes above and beyond in the work she puts forth. She is extremely innovative in her ideas and tends to be the one to always put herself out there and volunteer to take up large projects. She has been an amazing member of staff and deserves the recognition by far. We believe her to be a very good role model and we are grateful for the time and effort she puts into the community! Top VIP The truth is that without the funds to cover our monthly costs we cannot support this wonderful experience. I think I speak for all of us when I say, thank you to our wonderful contributors. To the greatest VIP contributor this month we bid our humble gratitude and a spotlight in our newsletter. MintyKnight @Mintyknight is our Top VIP of the month of April! Your contribution to the server is what helps keep our services up and running for everyone to enjoy. We thank you so much! Roleplay Spotlight When we think roleplay often we look to our fantastic Minecraft experience. Nonetheless! We are proud of you, our authors, who produce innumerable works—none the lesser, many are amusing, stimulating, and impactful. We’ve chosen one among the many creative posts this month. Rejoice, Silver Blooded This article’s purpose serves as a more coherent guide to the culture and beliefs of the High elves of Haelun’or. Within the well descriptive piece of writing, we learn also the reasonings behind the high elven forms of purity. Written by @Aythyinae The Day Alderyn Burned Tensions have recently been arrising throughout our once harmonious lands of Arcas, elven divisions rivaling one another. The infamous former rulers of Gladewynn, the family of Ithelanens’ decide to bring their former elven Kingdom of Alderyn to flames. Purging the unused lands, in order to cleanse the soils. Written by @ChaseusBelli A Selective Summary of Dwarvern History This post describes the detailed culture and aspects of dwarven history, it is both coherent and informative. It mentions the creator Urguan, the clan of Silverbeard and how the current thriving populace came to be. A good read to look into if you are still a little unsure of dwarven heritage, culture and faith. Written by @Kardel The Defence of San’Strohk Conflict across Arcas continues, this well written post highlights the occurrences between the Uruk of Krugman and the humans of the caliphate. Where both opposition and defence, fought valiantly. The Uruk of Krugmar reigning victorious within the defence of their homeland. Written by @TheNanMan2000 Conclusion This month there was quite a bit of creative roleplay posts to choose from and a good amount of feedback from the community which is always nice. We always encourage those to reach out and get creative with your roleplay, writing, art, or whatever it is you love to do. I have been thinking about adding a Art Spotlight section to the newsletters to feature all of those talented artists that we have on the server. If you would like to see something like that let me know in the comments. I would also like to give a huge thank you to @Torky and @Lukariatiasfor helping me with this month's newsletter last minute due to me getting rather busy with final season. Good luck to all those who are in their last month of school or are going through their finals right now. I hope you are all ready for a fun and exciting summer. See ya next month and I will be on time (hopefully)! Have fun, take care, and thank you all, LotC Administration

COMMUNITY TEAM MONTHLY UPDATE LOG- APRIL 2019 Introduction Hello Again Everyone! You know what time it is- we are back for yet again another monthly update! April has been a busy month, loaded with lots of new project work from the team. Overall, we’ve focused heavily on getting new content and events out to the community, and from what we’ve done so far, it’s been pretty successful. From application reworks to easter egg hunts- we’ve had a busy busy month. In this update I’ll go into some of this months app statistics, our team stats, as well as some info about ct projects that have been going on. This will be the last month @Ivoryyy_ will be doing the community team update alongside myself. She has stepped down from the team due to irl reasonings. I would like to thank her for all of the amazing work she has done from the team. She was always optimistic, supportive, and hardworking from the beginning when the team was first thought up and into the current state that it is. We will miss her and we hope to have her back some time in the future! With that being said, her position will now be filled by @MamaBearJade. Jade has been another extremely hardworking member of the team and consistently goes above and beyond. We congratulate her and wish her the best of luck! If you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know what the community team is, you can read more info about the Community Team’s policies [Here] Community Team Roster Monthly Application Data Hello, Ivory here! This month we saw 442 new applications to LOTC. 436 New Player apps, and 6 alternate accounts. This is a slight decrease from last month (10 apps), though still a huge increase from the earlier months of this year. From here onward, we can expect to see a steady, if not increasing amount- with summer getting closer. Our overall acceptance rate was 71.5%, including both pending-accepted and accepted. This is slightly lower than last month (by about 4%), but can be expected with such a stark increase in the amount of apps handled. 62.9% of accepted players were from an American timezone (About a 5% decrease from last month) 23.8% were European (5.1% increase from last month) And finally, 3.3% were Oceanic, an increase of about 1% Now, onto some finer details about our applications this month As per usual, the largest applied race was humans, topping over 56% of all apps (An increase of around 8% from last month). Elves followed behind with 32.2% (Decrease by about 4%). Dwarves came next with 6.9% (Decrease of around 2.5%) 1.8% orcs (Increase of 0.2%) and 0.9% Halflings (A decrease of about 3%) Monthly Team Data This month has been almost entirely focused on project & application work. We haven’t taken on any new members until the tail end for next month, and have instead been working to further expand on our training procedures with our trainers - Jenny, Torky, Zach & Jade. We’ve also now split into some core focus groups into the future, and this will hopefully aid in completing our projects much faster going forward. Aquaquean is absolutely amazingly insane and has taken on a massive brunt of the applications and took on the alt application guide project, and well and truly deserves some thanks for that. Please keep in mind that some members may have not made quota due to hiatus’, being added to the team later in the month, or are a lovely Community Content Creator and therefore not required to. (Jenny_Bobbs, Bluee, z3mos, TheIchorDruid & Reko) I’d also like to welcome our newest team members- @LotsOfMuffins, @puffyduck & @Lirinya ! This Month we have a Quota Queen! I’d like to congratulate @Aquaquean for making Queen of Quota for April! Followed somewhat closely behind by Soul, Chaos & Marb Aqua here has been a huge help to the team for the last few months- she’s really taken on the load of applications whilst we focused in on projects, training & interviews! Member Alterations ^ Mamabearjade promoted to Community Team Manager^ +Puffables added on as Community Team+ +Laurelin added on as Community Team+ + LotsOfMuffins added on as Community Team + -Ivory stepped down from the Community Team- -Trinn stepped down from the Community Team- - Roseways removed from the Community Team - Projects of April: Application Rework: One of our biggest projects this month was drafting up a new application system and it will continued to be continued into May as we put final touches on the project. The current one displays many issues of being too easy, and so as a team we addressed this and met together to come up with an improved system. It’s a delicate balance to make the apps not too easy, but also not too hard as to deter new players from joining. We put this up to a {Your View} thread, and from what we’ve seen- the responses have overall been fairly positive. This new system aims to have new players flesh out a much more detailed character, and also expands on the knowledge required for Metagaming and Powergaming. The Your View is now closed and we will be looking through feedback. If you wish to see where we are headed with this project click the link below. https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/181198-whitelist-app-reform-your-view/?tab=comments Tailors Guild: This month we’ve done a lot on the tailor’s guild. Tonnes of behind-the-scenes work has been going on, and we have launched. If you’re interested in helping out by creating skins for new players, please let us know and we can add you. This project also incorporates a newly updated skin archive, with loads of free to use skins for new players to apply with. https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/181360-the-tailors-guild/?tab=comments#comment-1701727 Skin Archive: https://sites.google.com/view/skinarchive/home Alt Application Guide: As many have noticed, alt. accounts have been unwhitelisted due to the new forum account integration system. The community team will no longer be accepting Alt Applications over the forums. Aquaquean took the time out of her day to write up a guide to make whitelisting your alt account and integrating your forum account If you wish to have your alt whitelisted, please follow this guide to due so! https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/181142-alt-whitelisting-guide/ Easter Egg Hunt!: So this one was a fun little event that I (Ivory) spontaneously decided on doing- and I hope you all enjoyed it! The CT certainly had fun hiding eggs, and I know that I had a blast trying endlessly to find words that rhyme with one another for those damn riddles. Congrats to the winners ? https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/181066-arcas-easter-egg-hunt/ What’s Next: For the month of may our goals are to get the Pots and Pandits project completely fleshed out and have the focus group trained to start performing those events. The team also has a focus group that is tasked with planning community events which include things such as the Creative Cafe, Game Night, Holiday Events and more. Look out for that as we plan to kick of some of those events in the upcoming month. Lastly, our content creators will be working out getting the twitter and youtube more active! A goodbye! Okay not going to take very long here but it’s Ivory, and I’ve decided to step down from the Community Team. It’s been almost a year across AT/Manager/Director/ CT Manager - and I’ve absolutely loved working with such a great group of people, and doing a lot of applications. A massive thank you and best of luck to the team in the future, they’re under some amazing directorship/management and have a load of projects that’ll work brilliantly for the community. O7 Special Thank You! MamaBearJade for her continuous hard work keeping everything organized and leading projects! Aquaquean for pulling a lot of weight this month taking many apps and taking initiative in projects! Thank you and see you next month!

The Tailor’s Guild Hello everyone! The Community Team is pleased to announce the reopening and revamp of the Tailor’s Guild. The Tailor’s Guild is an organization created to help new players have proper skins for the server when they join. Often times, newer players join our server with poor skins and only a few new players are willing to find skins that are up to standards on LotC. In response to that problem, the Guild is responsible for skinning/finding skinners to create skins to add to our archive. The Skin Archive is where new players search for the skins they are going to use on the server. Our task is not only to gather skins to put into a skin archive, but also make lore friendly skins for new players, make event friendly skins, and to create a place where new and old players can receive skins. We could use your help! We are looking for skin donations, and skin creators to help us get a variety of skins for the archive. So if you are a skinner, or you have old skins that you don't use anymore, please lend us a hand! You can donate your skins using out Skin Archive Donation Form. Please make sure your skin is appropriate and labeled correctly in the forms. Soon you will be able to request a lore friendly skin for events or yourself. New players will get top priority over old. Note: Tailor’s Guild is not currently taking commissions until further notice. Joining the Tailor’s Guild will not only help make a name for yourself as a skinner but also give you a chance to earn some extra mina on the side. As such, we have brought back the paying system for working with the Tailor’s Guild. The System Every skin that is made within the guild, shall be posted within our database through the form, as well as published on PlanetMinecraft. In order to receive payment for your work, you must upload the skin to our database and publish it on PlanetMinecraft with the tag [LotC]. Not only does this help in searching for skins, but also serve as publicity for the server. With more publicity means more applicants to grow our community. We appreciate the effort put into making our community grow and thrive. Payments Racial Base Skins - These skins will go into the archive for new players to use. Non-shaded Racial Base Skins are 350 minas. Shaded skins will be 700. Outfit Skins - These skins will also go into the archive. They allow new players to gain outfits for their characters to use. Non-shaded Outfit Skins are 300 minas. Shaded skins will be 600. Event Skins - These skins are made for the staff to help create events for the players on the server. These can range from creature to hobo. Non-shaded Event Skins are 450 minas. Shaded skins are 900 minas. Commission Skins - We will no longer be offering payment to side commissions outside of the guild. The guild will give you publicity. We will post personal commission prices for each of our members to help you as well. The Skin Archive and Base Skins The Skin Archive has been created to help new players find lore friendly skins for their characters. Every base skin created will be posted under the correct race and sub-race in the archive. We will have tabs for Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, Humans, and Orcs as they are open for new applicants to apply as. These skins are starter skins and are open for public use to our new players. How to Join If you’d like to join, please fill this out and post below the thread: (Once you have completed the “application”, you will receive an invite to our Discord group) Minecraft IGN: Discord Username: Link to example(s) of past work: With your help, we can make the server a better place! With our gratitude and thanks - The Community Team Special Thanks to MamaBearJade!

Thank you everyone for you input and feedback. Over the next few days we will be getting together to review the feedback and adjust the application as necessary.

LotC Application Reform Suggestion Hello everyone, For quite some time the topic of reworking the whitelist application has been debated. Many amongst the community feel as though the application is too easy and has been a proponent in the degradation of roleplay quality. Others, on the other hand, argue that if the application is too long or complicated then it will deter players from applying to the server. We have attempted to strike a balance between the two with our suggested reform below. The Community Team would greatly appreciate your feedback on the subject of an application reform and the proposed suggestion. Thank you! Everything highlighted in green is what we wish to add to the application and/or have changed wordings on. CURRENT APPLICATION SUGGESTED REFORM --- General Questions --- Minecraft Username: The exact name of your Minecraft account. Your Age: Your real-life age. You must be at least thirteen (13) to play on LotC. Timezone: (Drop-down list) Referral: (Drop-down list) Discord: Optional. This allows for easier contact with the Community Team Member who handles your application. Have you read the rules?: An affirmation of having read the Server Rules. Which rule do you agree with the most, and disagree with the most, and why?: After reading through the Server Rules, tell us which ones you agree and disagree with the most, and why. Define Meta-gaming in your own words: Please refer to the wiki for our definition of Meta-gaming. Then write it in your own words. Create an example of a Meta-gaming scenario: To show that you have an adequate understanding of our definition of Meta-gaming, please create a mock-scenario of Meta-gaming happening. Define Power-gaming in your own words: Please refer to the wiki for our definition of Power-gaming. Then write it in your own words. Create an example of a Power-gaming scenario: To show that you have an adequate understanding of our definition of Power-gaming, please create a mock-scenario of Power-gaming happening. --- Character Creation --- Character Creation Rule Recap: Your character is required to be at least eighteen (18) years of age. If you are playing an Elf, it is recommended, but not required, that you be at least fifty (50) years of age. Your character cannot have magic, cannot have used magic, and cannot be of a magical or otherworldly nature. Your character cannot be nobility or royalty, and your character cannot be related to, or friends with, nobility or royalty. Your character cannot be physically supernatural, meaning that they cannot be extremely or unbelievably agile or skilled in combat. Your character cannot start with knowledge about magic, magical creatures, magical artifacts, or about any otherworldly creature. Characters are encouraged to start with little knowledge, as it is good form to learn through roleplay. Character Name: - Please refer to racial culture, and fantasy tropes, when choosing your character name. It should be something both unique, and realistic. Character Race: (Drop-down list) Character Gender: (Male or Female) Character Age: (Drop-down list) Physical Description: - Please summarize the way your character looks. Consider including their attire, eye and hair colour, body-build, height, weight, and so on. Please include at least one significant negative physical ailment. Personality Traits/Quirks: - Please summarize your character’s personality. Consider including likes, dislikes, faith, opinions and philosophies, and so on. You are required to include at least one significant negative personality trait. Character Backstory: - Please write a summary of your character’s life, from birth until their current age. This should be at least ten sentences in length, and in paragraph style. Consider including your character’s parents, siblings, friends in youth, the location of birth, education, life experiences, trysts, and so on. Please refrain from using the “my parents were killed by bandits/orcs” trope. Please refrain from using the “I was raised by animals in the wild” trope. Character Skin: Please upload an image that clearly displays a skin befitting the gender and race of your character. --- Scenario Questions --- Imagine you’re roleplaying the character you’ve just created. Read the following two scenarios, and respond to them depending on how your character might react. Your response should be one emote, including a line or two of speech, and a line or two of action. The following is an example answer we’ve created for your consideration: Example Scenario Question & Answer: You are walking down the steps of your small abode after hearing the sound of shattering glass in the middle of the night. As you round the corner of the wall at the base of the stairwell, you come face to face with a masked thief, shocked at almost having run into you. How do you respond? “Out, out, get out of my house!” Charles barked, with a flustered and angered look. He jutted his arm out, with finger extended, to point at the rear door of his house. Now respond to the following two scenarios as your character would: Roleplay Scenario 1: You are walking down a path through the wilderness, traveling between your hometown and a local coastal city that is hosting a festival you plan to attend. Just as you pass the halfway point, with no civilization in sight, three strangers walk out of the thicket and block your path. They appear armed, carrying daggers and axes, and appear armoured, wearing gambeson and leather, respectively. The man in the center approaches you and says: “Turn over your pockets, it’s your coin or your life!” How do you respond? Roleplay Scenario 2: As you step out the door of your home in the morning, you are greeted with the sudden sensation of immense noise and an amalgamation of pleasing scents. As your eyes adjust to the sun, you realize that a traveling band of merchants has arrived, selling all sorts of exotic wears, and has attracted a huge group of people surveying their items and making purchases. How do you respond? If you’re having trouble with these scenario questions, feel free to contact a Community Team Member in-game, on the forums, or over discord. Thank you to @Lukariatias for managing this project!

Alt Account Whitelisting Guide Written by the Community Team Welcome! This guide will cover the steps to whitelisting a new alt account or integrating an old one so that you can start playing as soon as possible. Updated as of early 2019 If you’re having trouble or ever need any help, please reach out to a Community Team Member! Introduction Due to a recent update, alt accounts can be whitelisted automatically without requiring a member of the Community Team to review and implement them. This means that you can now have your alt account whitelisted right away! Note that from now on every alt account, whether it’s new or old, is required to be registered using this new method. Integrating Your Forum Account Before you can whitelist an alt account you need to integrate your Minecraft and forum accounts if you haven’t already done so. To integrate your accounts: Firstly, run the following command on your main Minecraft account that is whitelisted: /freja forum <forum name> You should receive a message from yourself on the forums titled Your Mincraft Account Verification Code like the one below. Because the message is sent from your own account, you will not receive a notification that it has been sent, but you can still find it under your PMs. Once you’ve received the authentication code you can run this command in-game to confirm the account integration. Use the code that was sent to you over the forums. /freja confirm <verification code> A message similar to this should pop up in game if the verification has worked successfully. Congratulations! You’ve successfully integrated your account. If you encounter any issues or need help, please contact a Community Team member. Whitelisting New Alt Accounts Whitelisting a new alt account is simple and takes hardly any time at all. Before you begin you’ll have to integrate your main account if you haven’t already done so. See the section above for instructions on how to do that. Now that you’ve integrated your main account, you can log into the alt account you wish to have whitelisted as a wandering soul and run the following command: /whitelistalt <forum name> This will bring up a message like the one below. From here, you simply need to find the verification code sent to you in your PMs. As before, you will not receive a notification on the forums that you have received a message but you should find it under your recent messages. Issue the following command in-game as it directs you to in the message. /freja confirm <verification code> You’ve successfully whitelisted your alt account! When you log in again on the newly whitelisted alt account, you should be able to play as per normal. Registering Old Alt Accounts This section will walk you through how to register an old alt account using the new system. If you haven’t already done so, start by integrating one of your accounts as shown in the section above on integrating your forum account. Once you’ve integrated one of your accounts, you simply have to repeat the process on each of the alt accounts that you need to register under the new system. After integrating each of your accounts, a message like this should pop up informing you that the integration was successful and listing the other alt accounts associated with your forum account. If you encounter any issues or are having trouble with registering an alt account, don’t hesitate to contact a Community Team Member. Big thanks to @Aquaquean for preparing this guide!

Event is now closed. All eggs & prizes have been claimed! [!] The word would spread of seven special eggs hidden across this very land. The Cloud Temple Monks recite these rhymes, giving hints to where the eggs may lie. Across the lands, seven eggs lay, Bound in easter- dare I say. The first will be where monks reside, Pink and red, side by side. The second by the home of men, Where flowers line the hilltop zen. In sandy bays, the third will lie By Sutican shores, a boat made dry A fourth will sit within Dwarves’ sight, Over yonder, the trees alight Above the flames the fifth egg lay Nature burns and wastes away The sixth far off, it takes a row A boiling pot within the snow The seventh, so gold- on route to green Left in ruin, stone be seen So go, young soul- seek place anew For mina waits the lucky few! Credits: @Ivoryyy_ for writing the majority of the rhymes & Event Planning! @rwko for the beautiful art!

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The Month of March Hello everyone! The month of March has been full of excitement, creativity, and hard work. We have officially been on Arcas for an entire month and it is always nice to see a lot of creativity bursting throughout the community with all of the art, well-written roleplay posts, and guides. Speaking of art, as you may have noticed the banner for these newsletters has been updated by one of our lovely community staff content creators, rwk0! She is very talented and there is more to come from her. Staff this month has also been working hard on various projects and are continuing to work hard into the month of April. I hope had a lovely April Fools Day and I wish you a great time as we roll into the holidays later on this month. Now let's get into it! Notable News The latest and greatest on Lord of the Craft. The Map Returns This post here announces that the map on the forums has been updated for Arcas. This time around it includes nation locations. The map is still in a work in progress so please be patient with us during the process of getting it completely together! The Real Final Vault Information Thread We’ve been receiving tons of questions about the state of vaults throughout our first month here on Arcas. So fret no more! This post has everything you need to know about getting hold of your vault items. We experienced some technical difficulties with people’s vault items being wiped from their enderchest. Therefore a new solution has been worked out. Please read this thread if you have not received your items yet! The Wiki Thread This is a thread created for the purpose of fixing errors on the wiki. If you see any issues or errors on the wiki that needs to be fixed please use the format and post them on the thread! Tokeballs I hope you all liked our little April Fools Day joke. This post details some information on their use and what is to come of the tokeballs in the near future. Team Updates The freshest scoop from the Team Directors themselves—learn all you can about your favorite teams. Development Team The Development Team has been busy working on our optimization issues and other bug fixed that have popped during our transition. Thank you for being patient and bearing with us as we get things sorted. An update will be coming out soon for the development team! Moderation Team The Moderation Team has worked hard this month on getting war rules together which are currently under review. Throughout the month the team puts out updates on what is going on which are very important because often they highlight changes to the rules. Later on this week the team will be posting their monthly update log that will give much more insight and information on the happenings of the team for the month of March. That will be inserted once the post is up but now please check out the other updates they have put up: Moderation Update- March 13th 2019 Moderation Update- End of March Community Team This month the Community Team has been busy working and putting together systems for many new projects coming up. Some of the projects would include Monks, Pots and Pandits, and Player Intervention. As these systems have been tested out and performed by members of the team over the month, we can now go back in and work on what needs to be improved. For the upcoming month, the team will be focused more in-house work doing updates to our training processes as we implement these new systems and getting the team trained up to standard. However, it will not be the only thing the team will be doing. The team plans to host a small easter event this month so keep your eyes peeled for content related to that. Lastly, a small reminder that the team is fairly new and has doubled the size since it was first introduced. This means we have many new faces and with so many new things being introduced we have to get everyone accustomed to their new duties! More information and statistics regarding the Community Team can be found here: Community Team Update Log - March Story Team The Story Team has officially launched, detailed in the thread found here. In it, they have linked a number of other announcements that link with their launching, including links to the new lore rules. These are part of our server’s ruleset, so please make sure to read them. Trendy Feedback Our crack team of gobos compiles, analyses, and critiques our feedback forums for the top-echelon of community suggestions. We’ve picked out some of the most unique, noteworthy, and civil articles from this month. New Headshop Items This post spoke about the lack of new head items. I have added a bunch of heads in mainly the food, decoration, kitchen, and gem areas. @lucasking321 has made some very nice animal heads that have been added to the headshop. Check them out with the /headshop command in-game under animals! If you have any heads that are roleplay appropriate that you’d like to be added to the headshop, send TarreBear a forum PM. [Forums Feedback] Latest Topics Module @Hunwald brought up a nice suggestion about how the topics module can be better organized. It is an idea we can definitely look into improving. Give your thoughts and opinions on the post! The Player Province Community Spotlight Bright, committed, and talented people fill our community. With the community spotlight, we highlight one individual that stands out this month. This player engages the laid-back attitude, charitable spirit, and proactive nature hailed in our community guidelines. For this reason, we congratulate them for their hard-earned achievements! AlligatorBait This month’s community spotlight goes to AlligatorBait for their creativity and hardwork on this lovely map of Arcas that can be seen below. They are currently a member of our human playerbase, specifically, The Kingdom of Haense. In our interview with him below we discussed his digital skills, roleplay experience, and his thoughts and feedback on the map. We thank you for your creativity and efforts put into the community! Interview Hello AlligatorBait, the Administration overhears much about your attitude and accomplishments. We would like to highlight you in this month’s community spotlight! Tell us about yourself and what made you join LotC AlligatorBait: I joined back in Asulon, played consistently until Athera, and then have been off and on the server until now that I got dragged back into it. A friend of mine was the one who found LotC and we both applied for it together. I can't really remember any of the specifics, since this was way too long ago, but it was around the time that A Song of Ice and Fire was getting more popular and the idea of being apart of a bigger story of political intrigue in a medieval setting was what drew me into playing a human from the start. I played a blacksmith living a modest life for a while until Elysium, and that's when I got mixed up with the Stafyrs. Being surrounded by more experienced roleplayers and thrown introduced into the wider world of human RP was what really got me into the server for good and that's where I've been ever since. Your map of Arcas was nicely done! We want to hear more about the creative process and how you got into making maps as such Thank you. The process is kinda dry, but I'll go over it. This one was made all in Photoshop, but I've done others in actual map making software like Campaign Cartographer and Wonderdraft. I started with a stock photo of a parchment I find online and trace the outline of the map onto it using the first screenshots that were posted on the forum (this was started before the dynmap was updated). Then I'd color in the land and the sea, overlaying it on top of the parchment so that it still has the texture of the paper. Next came the actual content of the map -- trees, mountains, cities, etc -- which were custom blank brushes that I picked up from somewhere online ages ago. The most tedious part came next, which was coloring in every little part of it, similarly to the way I did the land and sea to make it retain the texture of the parchment. From there I just had to make all the labels and it was done, save running it by some other people to see what they thought of the font I used and such. Fortunately, there wasn't very much present in the map besides the capitals when I made it and I could tell, for the most part, what was what by looking at the screenshots posted on the forums. For what I couldn't, I'd have to scout around in game during off hours. I first got into it during Athera when I was taking a web design/photoshop class in high school. There was a map making contest put on and I decided to use what I'd been learning to make a submission. I won second place (though I still disagree with that ruling), and from there, it's become a bit of a hobby to make one for new maps and refine my skills each time. What are your thoughts on Arcas and where do you think we could improve? Arcas itself is really nice looking and definitely an improvement over Atlas, in part because each section of the map has something interesting about it, which was something I can't say I felt about the previous map. In my opinion, it would've been better had the CT been placed in the direct center of the map and freebuild not have been included so that the nations on the eastern side would have more space, especially considering that the whole snow island to the NE has been off-limits for story team stuff (so I've heard). I'd also relax the requirements of the charter system to allow for smaller and more niche groups to establish themselves as I believe that restricting what players can do to affect not only their own characters' story but the overall story of the server is more detrimental to maintaining a dynamic and engaging RP environment than if groups were allowed to splinter off and utilize the whole map. Outstanding Volunteer Award We present this accolade to an exceptional staff member. We are honored and humbled that they choose our team and our server. And this month the award goes to... Tofuus This months award goes to our good old pal, Mister Tofuus! This guy has been busting his barnacles fixing a lot of the bugs and issues we have been having from the transition. In addition, he did a lot of the work to help make the transition be as smooth as possible for everyone. He’s been great with being around, responsive, and overall very helpful. We appreciate everything that you do! Top VIP The truth is that without the funds to cover our monthly costs we cannot support this wonderful experience. I think I speak for all of us when I say, thank you to our wonderful contributors. To the greatest VIP contributor this month we bid our humble gratitude and a spotlight in our newsletter. Auric_Saint Auric is out Top VIP of the month of March! Your contribution to the server is what helps keep our services up and running for everyone to enjoy. We thank you so much! Guide Spotlight One way to lend a service to your community is writing a guide! Bold players write them for a targeted audience and share expertise, commentary, tips. We present to you some compelling, practical, and ambitious guides written this month! Formatting Forum Posts This is another very wonderful post by @Toffee . A couple of months back they made a wonderful guide on how to roleplay a medical patient. A now they have a made another great guide, this time it on how to Format Forums Posts. This is a great resource for new and older players alike can use. Formatting can be a bit of a struggle, especially for those who are new to making forum posts or are generally new to the server. Check this out for good tips! Arcas Resource Pit Map This neat post was created by @Omar Grimmer'Lak They created a map guide of the resource pits in at cloud temple. This is a very nice resource to use to find your way around. Thank you Omar, for your contribution and work. I suggest everyone check it out! Guide to Fair Combat Roleplay This a very well-written, informative guide to combat roleplay. The guide breaks down combat roleplay and highlights factors that players should consider when performing this type of roleplay. In addition to going over basic combat, the guide also speaks about combat roleplay involving magic. Using magic in combat can be a hard thing to grasp and roleplay in a fair manner. Roleplay Spotlight When we think roleplay often we look to our fantastic Minecraft experience. Nonetheless! We are proud of you, our authors, who produce innumerable works—none the lesser, many are amusing, stimulating, and impactful. We’ve chosen one among the many creative posts this month. The Crow Flies This post is about the long-reigning monarch Queen Elizaveta, it tells the story of her unfortunate and early demise at the hand of the treacherous Andrei. It is a prime example of a developed and layered character that provided much to the Kingdom of Haense during her reign. Written by @Torky Grasping This post highlights the struggles in the position of Loras, fighting against the testing atmospheres of both his daunting mentalities, physical mutilations and the discovery of the safe sanctuary of a loved one. One of the many enjoyable reads of character experience our forums have to offer. Written by @Tato The Aide of The Sea This post was written as an insight to orcish culture, a roleplay situation where mighty orcish farseers contacted the infamous spirit of the seas. The trio of Uruks faced the might of the giant beast of the waters, in a moment of panic the Uruks attempt to reason with the spirit. Written by @Sykogenic Thanks to @torky for helping me finish this section The month of March was a great month as we launched into Arcas. It was refreshing to see everyone around, old members returning and seeing a lot fresh faces around! The amount of creativity that was shown over the forums this month was also really nice and reminds us of how unique this community really is. I can’t wait to see and read more throughout the month of April. We hope all of you enjoyed the read and we wish you all another great month! Have fun, take care, and thank you all, LotC Administration

COMMUNITY TEAM MONTHLY UPDATE LOG- March 2019 Hello Everyone! I hope everyone had a great month and is ready for another. Ivory and I are back for another monthly update. This month has been quite a busy one for the team as we’ve begun to get into and start testing out some of the projects we have lined up. In addition, the team has grown quite a bit in the last month and we’ve currently reached a healthy number of members. As we’ve added members we have been able to analyze our training systems and have begun to work on improving some aspects regarding our training processes. Coming up in April we have a number of projects we are continuing to work on and some new projects in the beginning stages of being set up. An update on the projects worked on this month will be highlighted later on in this post! If you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know what the community team is, you can read more info about the Community Team’s policies [Here] NOTICE: Community Team is currently not reviewing applications. Applications that are up will remain open until further notice. Community Team Roster Monthly Application Data Hello, Ivory here! This month we saw 454 new applications to LOTC. 435 New Player apps, and 19 alternate accounts. This is a huge, huge increase from last month, with an increase of 308 apps. This is attributed to the map change, with a lot of new players joining us for the start of Arcas! Our overall acceptance rate was 71.5%, including both pending-accepted and accepted. This is slightly lower than last month (by about 4%), but can be expected with such a stark increase in the number of apps handled. 67.8% of accepted players were from an American timezone, which is 6% more than last month. 27.7% were European, a decrease of 7% from last month. And finally, 4.5% were oceanic, an increase of 1.5%! Now, onto some finer details about our applications this month As per usual, almost half (48.5%) of all accepted players applied with a human character (A decrease, actually, with 1.4% less than last month). Elves followed behind with 36.7% (Decrease by 1.7%), Dwarves with 9.2% (Increase of 1.1%), Halflings with 3.8% (An increase of 1.8%) and finally Orcs with 1.6% (Decrease of 0.4%). As you can see, we’ve had a small increase in applicants applying with the lesser-populated races! Monthly Team Data This month has been full of lots of behind-the-scenes work in further establishing the community team. We’ve grown in members substantially, so a large focus has been put into creating our training policies. Our new members have been working extremely hard, and the team has handled the massive amount of applications this month in a fantastic and timely manner. Please keep in mind that some members may have not made quota due to hiatus’, being added to the team later in the month, or are a lovely Community Content Creator and therefore not required to. (Jenny_Bobbs, Bluee, z3mos, TheIchorDruid & Reko) This Month we have a Quota King! I’d like to congratulate @Rave_Cave_marb for making King of Quota for March! Followed somewhat closely behind by Mamabearjade, Aquaquean & Roseways Member Alterations +Shy_French_Fry accepted to the Community Team+ +SoulReapingWolf accepted to the Community Team+ +Jungle_Asian accepted to the Community Team+ +Marb121 accepted to the Community Team+ +Chaosgamer_ accepted to the Community Team+ +Zachslayer accepted to the Community Team+ +TheIchorDruid accepted to the Community Team as a Content Creator!+ +z3mos accepted to the Community Team as a Content Creator!+ -GildedDuke stepped down from the Community Team- -Hex stepped down from the Community Team- - Cornivore removed from the Community Team- Projects of March: New Player Guide: The new player guide has been worked on for quite some time. It is packed full of information that will help new players understand roleplay, commands, the chat system a more. Check it out here. Application Guide: This month we updated the application guide that can be seen before someone applies. It can be seen here . Pots and Pandits: This month we kicked off the start of this Project. Pots and Pandits is a project designed to help members of the community learn how to Combat Roleplay (CRP) and introduce villainy roleplay to the newer members of the server. The Community Members dress up as halflings who raid or bandit new players depending on the event for their pots. It’s a fun and lighthearted event and shown to be helpful to our newer players in learning how to roleplay combat. As a couple of these have been conducted we have seen where the team needs work. Currently, these projects have placed on hold until the proper training systems have been created to make sure the team is ready to perform the events well. Player Intervention: Player Intervention is a project designed to help new and old players with their understanding of the rules. Currently this month we have only been focusing on creating the system surrounding the newer players. Instead of having these newer players get in trouble for things right off the bat, the moderation team sends them to a member of the community team in which they are tasked with helping that player understand our rules and how to do things properly on the server depending on the scenario. This system is still just getting on its feet and the team has a lot of training and work to do in the upcoming month before it is put into full swing! Tailor’s Guild: This project has been ongoing for quite some time but has been put on the back burner as we focus on other things. The project is to help provide newer members with appropriate skins for roleplay. It is a hard task to find skins or get people to make them. Therefore we are thinking of ways in which we can continue to grow the archive and get more people involved. This project is something we wish to dive into more in the upcoming month or so. Special Thank You! Thanks to @Lukariatias for his work on the new player guide and application guide. Thanks to @MamaBearJade for her hard work taking a large number of interviews and side work for training. Thank you to @rwko for all their hard work on art and graphics for our upcoming projects. Thank you and see you next month!

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New Player Guide Written by the Community Team Welcome to the LotC new player guide! This document will take you through most of the major points in settling into the server, chat commands, roleplay, staff and major settlements in Arcas. Updated as of early 2019 Helpful Links! New Player Discord Main LotC Discord Wiki Skin Archive Application Index Welcome! What is LotC? Rules Core Three Raids War Intro. to Roleplay What is Roleplay? Character Development Roleplay Tropes Getting Involved in Groups Creating a Persona Character Card CEX Additions Channels & Commands Roleplay Chat Roleplay Commands Out-of-Character Commands Playable Races Creature Application Races Conflict in Roleplay Combat Roleplay (CRP) Player-Versus-Player (PVP) & Combat Commands Statusting Parties Countdown Showhealth Character Death Permanent Kill Monk Resurrection Soulstones Time Progression Staff Team Administration Moderation Team Community Team Development Team Story Team Voting Glossary Welcome! If you’re reading this guide, it means you have successfully applied and been accepted into our server! This will take you through some important information and tips to help you adjust and settle in. LotC is incredibly complex, and the most important thing to understand is that is okay to struggle a bit at first -- we’ve all been there. If you ever need any help, or have any questions whatsoever, reach out to a Community Team Member! What is LotC? LotC is a unique roleplaying experience, utilizing Minecraft as its primary platform. The server launched over seven years ago and naturally has accumulated quite a substantial basis of players and history. We’re a fairly serious roleplay community, but love to see new faces on the server, whether new or experienced! The server incorporates both medieval and high fantasy elements, including a few mundane races (Humans, Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, etc.), magic, fantasy, creatures, and much, much more! Rules LotC has a few different pages of rules for different aspects of gameplay, forum use, building, pvp, and general community guidelines. It is very important that you read and understand all of these, ignorance is not an excuse for rule breaking. If you’re confused about any of the rules or have any questions about them, reach out to a Community Team Members or a Moderator. Intro to Roleplay Your Persona When creating your first persona, the server will take you through the simple process of putting down basic character information on your ‘card’. These are some useful information commands to use after you have created your card. Chat Channels and Commands These are the channels in which you do your roleplay, through dialogue and emotes. It’s a relatively easy system, but don’t worry, everyone takes a little time to adapt to it. Playable Races Conflict in Roleplay There are systems in place to ensure combat and pvp work in a fair and roleplay-friendly way. When you enter combat, the defending party is able to choose whether the fight will be carried out in combat roleplay or ordinary minecraft pvp. This is called defender default. It’s important to note that the defender is the one that did not initiate the fight physically. The only exception to this rule is if one of the parties is on guard duty in their own city or settlement, and you have broken a law in their Nation. This is called guard default. Character Death When your character dies in LotC you have more than one option. While many players feel that it is a point of honour to kill their characters off permanently after they get killed, this is not required under normal circumstances. The next two sections will cover the options you have if your character dies. Resources & Building Building and gathering resources is not at all necessary for the average player because things such as food, weapons and even houses are generally bought or traded for, much the same as in real-life. If, however, you feel that your character would rather go off into the wild to build their own house or you just need to grab a few items to make something, you might find this section helpful. Soulstones Soulstones are a system in LotC which allows us to quickly travel between different places. It’s a form of teleportation, utilising an item called a soulstone (Sometimes abbreviated to ‘ss’) Time Progression Time is enhanced on LotC for the purposes of aging in roleplay. One real-life day equates to one in-game month, one week being an in-game year. There are seven different months (aka Seeds), those being: Staff Teams LotC was once a platform operated by a significant number of staff teams, each with their own specific and nuances duties. Following a staff-wide reform in late 2018 and early 2019, LotC staff has been condensed into five well organized teams wish slashed bureaucracy and some shared responsibilities. The teams as they are today are, save for the Admins and Mods, broken up into subsections that each handle their own specific set of duties, though this does not mean that a team member is incapable of helping you just because it isn’t directly their job to do so. You are free to ask any member of staff for help, because if they cannot assist you correctly they will pass on your request to someone who can. LotC’s staff teams are as follows: Voting Voting is a helpful way to contribute to LotC’s growth and public image, as well as a way to benefit yourself in-game. For each time you vote, you gain fifteen (15) mina, LotC’s in-game currency. In addition to this, the first vote each day gifts you with free Monk Bread to aid with your hunger on those long treks from city to city. As you vote consecutively, you will start to earn voting milestones, which gift you with something special a few times along the way. Issue ‘/vote’ and ‘/vote milestones’ to help out LotC and yourself! Glossary Special Thanks Hellebore & Ivory for initial formatting and planning

What is a Community Team Member? A Community Team Member (often abbreviated to Com or C) is someone tasked with handling every capacity of community interacts within LoTC. Specifically, the Community Team is responsible for handling community events such as community meetings, creative cafe, handling feedback and ensuring it is responded to, and working with new players who are applying to the server through assisting in the application process. In addition, they assist players in-game with getting accustomed to the server and settled in. They are to be the bridge between the community and the staff by advocating for the community’s feedback to be heard and change to be made. What should I know before applying for staff to be a Community Team Member? Being a Community Team Member is a very draining job. It is demanding of consistency, dedication, and a drive to better the server experience and connect people. During your tenure as a Community Team Member, your actions are no longer representative of just yourself -- rather, you represent the team as a whole. As in the case with every job of this nature, in time you’ll find it is as equally rewarding of a task as it is a demanding one. How are Community Team Members picked? Community Team Members are selected based off multiple pieces of information that are put together. When your app is posted you will receive an interview by a Community Team Trainer who will then pass that information onto the team. Every time we select new members to be added the Community Team gives their weigh-in followed by a discussion with Community-Trainers, Community-Managers, and Admins on who would be the best addition to the team. After that process is complete the Communications Administrator considers the following: The application, the interview, team opinions, opinions of the discussion with trainers, managers, and admins, forum history, in-game history, and the applicants' overall position in the community, before making the final selection of who will join the team. NOTICE: If you re-apply you are not promised another interview. You will usually receive another interview if you re-post your app after a considerable amount of time has passed between your last one for your old app and your new app. This is up to Community Managers. [NEXT: Team Policies] COMMUNITY TEAM POLICIES 2-factor Authentication must be enabled on all accounts used in this position. This includes email, discord, forums, & MC Account Abide by all server rules, staff conduct, and act within the community guidelines on all LotC platforms. Failure to do so may result in removal from the team (Excessive warnings, reports of poor behavior, & bans.) Pex Abuse You are allowed to be in vanish when you please as long as you are not using it as a means to metagame You can use fly as long as you are in vanish You can use /places to teleport to settlements as you wish as long as you do not use it for the purposes of metagaming etc. Any abuse of Pex may result in removal from the team Wandering Soul Chat must be turned on at all times. [N] New Tag Removals New Tags should not be removed unless the player has been actively whitelisted and on the server for at least a month, but if they persist please give them the warning that an AT member cannot easily find them to assist them and with their permission, you may remove it. DO NOT REMOVE IT if they have under a week of gameplay. New Tags may be removed from registered Alts upon request. Unwhitelisted Accounts Players that have lost their account and wish to have another one whitelisted must be directed to a trainer or manager They will be given choice to make either an ALT app or have their old account unwhitelisted for the new account to take its place They must make a new application Minas and items do not get refunded All posts pertaining to the Community Team must be looked over an approved by a manager or the Communications Admin before being posted on the forums. [NEXT: Team Structure] COMMUNITY TEAM STRUCTURE The team structure is designed to keep optimal efficiency in project management, overall direction, timeliness, productivity, and activity monitoring. The roles within the Community team are as follows: Communications Admin The Communications Admin oversees all thing related to the community and communication on LoTC. This role is here to be a support to the community team and ensuring that the team is progressing in a positive direction. Tasks include: Ensuring standards for the community team are consistent and being maintained Managing community feedback and advocating for the community’s thoughts and feedback are being taken into account and recognized. Managing announcements, news, and community engagement. This includes managing the LotC twitter, scheduling community meetings, events, and ensuring important information is reaching the community. Managing the Community Team Roster Manager which includes team commitments and project delegation. Managers The Communications Managers are responsible for supporting the Community Team. They are a lead role of the team and ensure that responsibilities and the standards of the team are being met. They are the final say in issues that may arise on a daily basis. Tasks include: Overseeing daily operation and ensuring responsibilities are being fulfilled Identifying issues relating to the Community Team and finding to improve upon those issues. Leading and organizing large projects to help push the community forward. Trainers Communications Trainers are tasked with the responsibilities of preparing new members of the team, setting them up with all the tools and information needed to succeed in their new position. They are also tasked with improving the training system and working on ways to make the process more efficient and effective. Those in this position are to be role models to the team and display how a member of this team should work and act. Tasks include: Interviewing new applicants for the community team Training and ensuring new members of the team are set up with the tools to succeed on the team Creating tools used to aid in handling duties on the team. This includes guides and documentation for our processes. Creating and working projects to further help new players and improve the quality of roleplay. Reviewing feedback from the community and advocating for changes to be made. Guides & Mentors The guides and mentors are the backbones and the faces of the team. These are the people that go out on a daily basis and connect with the community. Those with the guide position are focused on guiding new players around the map and getting them settled within respective player-bases. Those who are mentors are the ones who ensure players are familiar with commands, teaching them how to roleplay properly and improve. Tasks include: Helping new members get acclimated with the rules and roleplay Helping players in-game and in the WS channel. Creating and working projects to further help new players and improve the quality of roleplay. Reviewing feedback from the community and advocating for changes to be made. Handling Applications in a timely manner Media The media sector of the community is reserved for those who have the talent and drive to promote our server through their work with media. They are not tasked with the same duties as the rest of the team as their creative work takes a lot of time. Those in this position will be offered the tools necessary to do their job as best as they can. Tasks may include (depending on what they do): Youtube videos Streaming Creating Graphics