2 hours ago, Old-Rattlesnake said:

There are people who still don’t have all their vault items back. Can that be prioritized before moving forward? We’ve been waiting months for our stuff.

 

I’ve been waiting on my staff to be converted and turned over since before the map change.

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.

Spoiler

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%

Spoiler

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%)

Spoiler

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!

1 minute ago, Man of Respect said:

The tailor’s guild is great, but I also think that it’d be even cooler (if not avaiable already) for new players to view and pick their skins through a link that looks like this when they’re applying so they’re aware of its existance. Maybe a LotC planet minecraft account serving as a database would be really nice so it becomes much easier to locate in the future. While looking on these skins, players could also get inspiration, and they’re allowed to take and modify any pieces of the skin to be used by their characters.

1 hour ago, TarreBear said:

The Skin Archive is where new players search for the skins they are going to use on the server.

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.

Octavia Horen reads over the invitation from the comfort the palace. “I suppose I shall attend so people can’t harass me about ‘needing to get out more’,” her eyes rolled skyward before setting the invitation down upon her vanity to  begin preparing for the occasion. 

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!

Princess Nataya shook her head in recollection of the brawl “Those poor children.. parents behaving like hooligans!” she said with disgust before continuing to read on.

1 hour ago, Demotheus said:

Can anybody make a thread like this, with pages and such? This is cool.

I believe so. There should be a little button that looks like a page/notepad 

THE SACRED UNION OF MATRIMONY

-1710-

“You are cordially invited to the wedding of Her Royal Highness Princess Nataya of the House of Barbanov and His Excellency Gerard of the House of Stafyr.”

We implore all attendees to the peerage of the Empire of Man to bless this marriage with their company at The Basilica of the Fifty Virgins in the city of Reza on the 10th of the Sun’s Smile.

We do affix our seal and writ of holy matrimony as blessed by Metropolitan Thomas that the bride and groom join their hand in holy matrimony.

To all our honored denizens and peers, we extend the following invitations:

The Imperial Family

The Royal Family of Haense

The Lords of Haense

The Lords of Adria

Citizens of Reza

Citizens of Ves

Citizens of Helena

After the sacred ceremony in the Basilica of the Fifty Virgins, the House of Barbanov cordially invites the honored guests to attend a great ball filled with mirth and joy! The ball shall be held in Prikaz Palace with the best of Haeseni cuisine and spirits. There will be games, entertainment, dancing, singing, and a vast atmosphere of royal pomp and circumstance.

Signed,

Her Royal Highness, Nataya Elizaveta of House Barbanov

His Excellency, Gerard II of House Stafyr

- OOC Information -

Date: Sunday, April 7th 2019

Time: 5pm EST

Location: The Basilica of the Fifty Virgins, Reza, Kingdom of Haense

Coords: -1  67 -1958

Creds to Piov for helping with post! ❤️

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!

Tears flowed down the cheeks of Princess Nataya as she read over her father's final will. Grasping onto her letter she looked over in nostalgia of past memories of the card games in the tavern, how she constantly asked for him to take her to a place where it was warmer and her illness would plague her so. “We’ve finally come to this land and I am feeling better. This was suppose to be the place where we could finally adventure together,” she said softly through a cracked voice. The young woman sat at the end of her bed as her tears continued to fall, wishing she could see her father one last time. “You will always be in my heart, Papa.”

Princess Nataya worked hard in the kitchen alongside the palace staff to prep for the occasion!

16 minutes ago, lucasking321 said:

I have been going through the headshops and I was hoping to see updated heads, but I was sad to have discovered there are no updated heads, at least in the animal section. So I took it up on my own to create some new animal heads. I think this will help with more RP items and decoration in general.  

 

I had made a new Ram head, Bull head, and a Bear head. So I hope they get accepted 

Hey  lucas! I’ve actually been adding tons of heads to the headshop recently. Mainly in decorations, kitchen, meals, library, and farming. If you find any heads you wish to be added, please send me links and ill add them if they are appropriate. 

Nataya sat on the bench in the garden with her head held in the palms of her hands. Weeping over the loss of her dear mother she would mutter repeatedly to herself, “If only I had more time.. I should’ve spent more time..“ Tears flooded down the girl’s face as she slid off the bench, collapsing onto her knees. “Please forgive me, Mother..“

5 hours ago, Harrison said:

What criteria do you look for in a person when selecting:

1. Interviewed player of the month.
2. Best performing staff member of the month.

 a. Selecting the community spotlight is pretty difficult cause its not like i can breathe down everyone thats online’s neck to see what they’re up to. However, right now I am trying to pick a person from each race/group every month and looking for someone who has been really good whether itd be taking initiative to make nice rp experiences with others, actively helping new players and helping them get integrated into the server, and helping other people learn more about the server and aspects of lore etc.
 

b. When it comes to the staff members I look for individuals that have been going a bit above and beyond in that particular month. Or someone we have seen that is consistently working hard, actively participating in discussions and projects etc. 

Mcname: TarreBear

IC Name: Nataya Barbanov
Residency: Palace
Title: Princess 

1 minute ago, Sky said:

So, Tailor’s guild was dropped?

no just got lost in my copy and pasting 

COMMUNITY TEAM MONTHLY UPDATE LOG- February 2019

Introduction

Hello Friends! I hope everyone is enjoying themselves during this transition period. Myself and my wonderful Manager Ivory are here for the first every Community Team Monthly Update! Many of this may look familiar to you but we have a bit more to include and these updates will be ever-changing as some new systems are being implemented to the team in the upcoming months! February has been a good month for the team as they started getting settled into their new titles. However many of the big changes have recently come at the end of the month and you will see more throughout March. As 7.0 kicks off, the team is also kicking off a bunch of projects and content creation for Arcas that will be spoken about later on in this update. ?

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]

@Ivoryyy_ here ?

Buckle down because this might be longer than usual!
 

Community Team Roster

Monthly Application Data

This month we saw 146 new applications to LOTC. 131 New Player apps, and 15 alternate accounts.

This is a decrease from last month, though that is expected due to the awkward time with school etc. We anticipate that from now the numbers will continue to grow, especially shooting up around June/July due to school break. From these 131 applications, we saw an overall acceptance rate of 75.5%. This is an increase of about 2% from last month, which is great to see! We’ve got lots of new resources being worked on for applicants, so this is only expected to rise/

Going into more detail, 38.9% of applications were accepted with no changes needing to be made, 36.6% were accepted after being placed on pending for changes. 16.8% were denied after being placed on pending for changes, and 7.6% were denied straight away.

61.9% of all applications this month were American Players, 35.1% were European, and 3% Oceanic.
 

Now, onto the more interesting stuff.
 

Humans were once again this month the most popularly applied race, taking 49.5% of all applications (An increase of about 2% from January). Elves followed behind with 38.4%, an increase of only 0.1% compared to last month. Dwarves, Orcs and Halflings held the remainder, with 8.1%, 2%, and 2% respectively. That is an increase for dwarves, however a decrease for orcs and halflings.

Monthly Team Data

This month has been kind of crazy. We started out the month with the team switchover, and since then have been growing our team and training new members quite a lot. We’re incredibly happy with all of the new members- application response times have been lowered significantly! WIth these statistics also note that members were added later in the month, others were on hiatus, and our lovely Community Content Creators (Jenny_Bobbs, Bluee & Reko) are not required to make quota ?

This Month we’re back to a Quota Queen!

I’d like to congratulate @Roseways for making Queen of Quota for February,  with 20.55% of all applications this month!

Followed behind by Aquaquean, EtherealPVP, Cornivore & Jenny_Bobbs

Member Alterations

+Lukariatias promoted to Community Manager+

+ Mamabearjade promoted to Community Trainer+

+ GusanoArentonio promoted to Community Trainer+

+Lukariatias  accepted to the Community Team+

+EtherealPVP accepted to the Community Team+

+Roseways accepted to the Community Team+

+Jenny_Bobbs  accepted to the Community Team as a Content Creator!+

+Bluee  accepted to the Community Team as a Content Creator!+

+Rwk0  accepted to the Community Team as a Content Creator!+

-Valarin_ stepped down from Community Team-

-Nectorist stepped down from Community Team-

Tarre incoming ?

What on earth is a Community Content Creator?

These lovely people are the central media creators for the community who are tasked with using their creative abilities to work together and create videos, images, streams, or any kind of media-related content for the community. So far they have been doing a wonderful job and have made some very lovely pieces that have been featured on our twitter! The first of the pieces was the tailor created by Jenny_Bobbs and Blue featuring art by Rwk0! They have a number of projects in store for the future keep your eyes peeled for that. Currently, w have a varied little team- with two amazing videographers/editors/media slaves and a fantastic digital artist.  If you have any experience in media and wish to contribute to this section of the team, feel free to make a Community Team Application!

Some of the work that this amazing group of people have been up to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2M8srP5Wm8

https://twitter.com/LordOfTheCraft/status/1094973370599276550

https://gyazo.com/4a241e722698288b2f106f17868d7ff5
 

Cloud Temple Monks, and you.
 

You may have seen many of our lovely Community Team Members sporting monks skins and characters. This is one of our biggest projects that is launching for 7.0! CT Monks are going to be played entities by the Community Team Members whose duties are to assist players, primarily new players with getting acclimated to Lord of The Craft. There are Guides which are tasked with the responsibilities of greeting new players, getting them set up with basic commands, guiding them around Arcas, and getting them situated into the proper settlement which suits their interests. There are also Mentors, these members of the Community Team are tasked with the responsibility of helping new and old players alike how to further improve certain aspects of roleplay such as villainy. For new players, they have the Pots and Pandits initiatives they will be conducting in addition to something new called Player Intervention where they will be mentoring new and older players when it comes to first offense rule breaking or repetitive rulebreaking to help them understand the rules and to prevent them from getting into trouble in the future. There is more to come about this project as it is being fleshed out.

We’ll be releasing more information as to the specifics about CT monks a little later, and any special considerations regarding rules. Until then- feel free to interact with us, and if you see a new player needing assistance that you are not able to provide, just grab a Community Staff Member using /creq.

New Players in Arcas
 

This is just a short little bit I thought I’d add. Joining LotC and adapting to the very unique playerbase, roleplay culture and lore is incredibly difficult to begin with. On top of that, joining us whilst we’re in a period of transition from map to map is even harder. Please just be extra helpful to the confused new souls during this time and if you see anyone struggling please make a /creq to contact a Community Team Member!

Projects of February:

-Introduction of CT Monks

-The New Player Discord

[Join here]

-Pots and Pandits

-Player Intervention

-Comprehensive Application Guide

-The LOTC Skin Archive & Tailors Guild (If interested- shoot me (Ivory#8860) a discord PM!)

Special Thank You!

I would like to give a special thanks to Ivoryyy_ for helping write this update and being overall a great help with the team and extra help with some stuff for 7.0!
Thank you to MamaBearJade for being such a great help taking a ton of interviews, managing the multi-form to gather the data, and helping me create some new forms for the team.
Special thanks to Bluee for his continued eagerness and efforts put into the team creating content and for creating our new application images.

Big thank you to Fireheart_ for being a big support and help to me with like everything ?

Thank you all for staying tuned, Ivoryyy_ and I will see you again next month!