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EDITED IM DUMB 1100 northern noble via discord

On behalf of Fridtjof Nansen the Sloth#9220 over discord Blue Nobleman: 1000 Northern Nobleman: 700

IVORY’S SKIN AUCTION pt 2 Alright hi again. I did this once about six months ago, so here we go again! I’ll be auctioning off a number of skins. Almost all of these are newly created for the auction, but a couple are still old ones of mine ? Rules: You can not edit a comment, please post a new one with each new bid. I am keeping track of the auction, and will not count any edited comment bids. Bidding starts at 800 mina The auction will close off exactly 24 hours from the time I post! (9:20am Est, 9th December) BID FORMAT: Discord: Skin/s and bid/s (List separately if multiple): SKINS: Best of Luck! Side note: I am opening a few commission slots, but only for USD atm as I haven’t much use for mina! Message me on discord if you’re interested: Ivory#8860

COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOG OCTOBER 2019 INTRODUCTION Hello again! These update logs seem to come a lot quicker every month. October has been full of different things for the CT, and overall, we’ve had a great month. From different work with focus groups, to applications, to inner reworks- we’ve been busy! Last month, I briefly touched on the CT’s direction for October. We made a lot of progress on these four projects, and I expect that it’ll only continue to grow and develop with time. Each group has undergone a lot of restructuring, as well as making huge advances in their respective fields. The focus groups will be elaborated on below! OCTOBER DATA Overview This month, we saw a total of 206 apps handled, with 146 new players welcomed onto LOTC. This is a slight decrease from last month- 70 less total applications, and 40 less accepted players. Ultimately, this can be chalked up to the timing with regards to school/uni, and should be expected to pick up going into the later parts of the year, as well as going into 2020. Our accepted/denied ratio stands at a really, really good number right now- with almost every ¾ applications being accepted, and over ¼ of them on the first attempt. Across the last few months, the amount of INSTANTLY ACCEPTED applications has continued to grow- which is great to see! I believe that this comes down to an increased amount of resources for new players. Not long ago we made the application process harder, but even still acceptance rates rise each month. Accepted/Denied Ratios Race Specific Data Another aspect in which we’ve started collecting data on is the locations in which New Players are commonly being guided to, through our guidance and monk system. I’d personally like to encourage any Nation Leaders and/or Stewards to reach out to the CT, in order to help set up a more productive monk system within their nations, as well as improving communication! TEAM DATA Application Team Data Other Team Data Quota King/Queen This month’s Application Queen goes to one of our newer members- Language! This is their second month running, which is impressive. Throughout October, Language personally handled over 50 applications, earning them Quota Queen. @Language Followed behind by Katarama and LadyCarolina, yet again! MEMBER ALTERATIONS + Aurea was accepted into the Community Team + Z3m0s was accepted into the Community Team + KaleyKitty was accepted into the Community Team + Mememallower was accepted into the Community Team - Z3m0s stepped down from the Community Team - Tahmas stepped down from the Community Team PROJECT UPDATES WIKI - Ivory Hello again! So, I know that the wiki was a hotly contested topic this month. The playerbase had a lot of issues- many of which were addressed in this thread. I briefly touched on a lot of different ideas within my response, relating to aspects of the concerns brought up. Be sure to give that one a read- Tarren’s too! Let me give a run down of what the Wiki Focus Group has been up to this month. Our system is being outlined by a ‘weekly goal’, in which each member is assigned a page, or multiple, to work on. Some of the pages we’ve completed/are working on include: https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Guilds_and_Organizations https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Mechanical_Guides https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=New_Player_Guide https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Settlement_Guides https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Factions_and_Alliances We are also going to be slowly making a new front page, which will be a lot of this month’s goal. If you’d like a wiki account- please reach out to me. The community are welcome to help out with maintaining and/or updating the wiki. COMMUNITY EVENTS - LotsOfMuffins The community events focus group has been hard at work this past month ideating, planning, and running events for the player base. At the beginning of the month, we released a feedback form collecting event ideas and feedback as well as asking how many events you guys would like to see per month. Most people voted on two, so for October, we headed 2 different events: the Great Arcas Scavenger Hunt in the middle of the month and Escape the Temple as Halloween approached! During our first event, we received feedback that not a lot of people could participate because it didn't last long enough, so we expanded the escape room event to last four days in order for as many players as possible to participate. Please keep the feedback rolling, as we want to make these events the best experience possible for you guys. Our group meets typically 2-3 times per month, with our first meeting being the third for this month, and I'm super excited for the upcoming events we have planned, and I hope you are, too! If you have any feedback regarding events, please reach out to me at LotsOfMuffins#0119 on Discord! TUTORIALS- MamaBearJade Tutorial Island is underway and in the early stages of construction. Be on the lookout for our Tutorial video that we hope to have out before Thanksgiving. As for guides, we are on hold until we can discuss this further with the playerbase the will affect. MEDIA - Tahmas/LotsOfMuffins The media focus group is currently being set up. This group will encompass our social media, including (but not limited to) Twitter and Reddit! In addition, this will include the creation of various content for the team, though it is largely under construction. If you have any suggestions or ideas concerning media, please reach out to one of the leaders of this focus group! OCTOBER’S DIRECTION Alright. So, looking into October, the CT are going to be having a lot of both external and internal changes. We’re taking another look at our policies and responsibilities, and reworking these to fit an improved overall team vision. Tarren is taking a short break, and whilst she does, Telanir will be helping to direct the Community Team. It’s fair to say that there have been some issues with the team recently, some in which I’d like to address. Moving forth, the primary role of the CT will be to solicit, compile, summarize, and deliver important information. This means essentially, acting as journalists on behalf of the staff for the community. We will be personally reading through feedback posts, interviewing players, and acting as a means of communication between players-staff. CT will be able to bring forward the playerbase’s concerns to the relevant people able to help. Secondary to that will be applications, guidance, focus groups and appeals. We will NOT be using the ‘player intervention’ system anymore, as it proved to cause more harm than good. Some areas that will be worked on especially this month: Playerbase Engagement / Feedback Nation and/or Steward Communication Open Attitudes, Losing the ‘Backseat Moderation’. It is easy to identify that the team has encountered some problems along the way, so this month will be full of looking into new policies and restructures to create a better CT. Appeals Appeals have been something we’ve been fleshing out for some time now, and throughout November we will see these come into play. Keep an eye out for an updated appeal system which adds additional eyes and hands to the process to help keep it fair for players and prevent the abuse of staff power. More information on this soon. Commission Central Overhaul The New Player Discord has recently had a massive overhaul to Commission Central. In this overhaul, skin requests by new players (classified by having applied less than three months ago) are paid for completely by the Community Team! In addition, Story Team members can now request skins to be made for their events which are also paid for by the Community Team. Payments are getting rolling, so be sure to pick up the Skinner role from #role-request, take skin requests, and donate skins to the skin archive (handled by the amazing @SoulReapingWolf). Lots to do, new policies to write, meetings to be had. Expect lots of changes throughout November. Until next time!

COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOG SEPTEMBER 2019 INTRODUCTION Hello again! Back yet again with another monthly update log. This month has seen a lot of changes for the CT team, primarily working with last month’s large influx of new members, and taking another look into our policies and training. Though there has undeniably been some bumps along the way- our team is finally settled and really progressing in a lot of different areas. If you’re not aware of the CT’s policies, have a read here: =lhttps://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/179092-community-staff-information-policies/= THIS MONTH’S DIRECTION Focus Groups As a team this month, we’ve poured a lot of our time and energy into establishing a few key focus groups for the team. These have primarily been the source of our teams energy, other than applications. Our focus groups, include the WIKI, NPD, TUTORIAL ISLAND, EVENTS & MEDIA. These are each headed by a particular manager, with LotsOfMuffins taking care of both Media & Events. We’ve made lots of progress on these- and will detail more of those specifics later on. SEPTEMBER DATA Overview Our team has been busy at work with applications this month. We saw a total of 267 apps handled, with 186 new players welcomed onto LOTC. Our accepted/denied ratio stands at a really, really good number right now- with almost every ¾ applications being accepted, and almost ¼ of them on the first attempt. A few months into our new application format- we’re still seeing great acceptance rates, even with a slightly more difficult process. Accepted/Denied Ratios Race Specific Data Another aspect in which we’ve started collecting data on is the locations in which New Players are commonly being guided to, through our guidance and monk system. TEAM DATA Application Team Data Other Team Data Quota King/Queen This month’s Quota Queen goes to one of our new members- Language! Throughout September, Language personally handled 45 applications, earning them Quota Queen. [[ @Language ]] Followed closely behind by Katarama and LadyCarolina! MEMBER ALTERATIONS - Aquaquean stepped down from the Community Team - Damo stepped down from the Community Team - Evonpire stepped down from the Community Team - Kursion23 stepped down from the Community Team PROJECT UPDATES WIKI - Ivory I recently took charge of the Wiki team in the later part of this month, and so far we’ve already made some great progress on the various pages. Particularly, we’ve put all of the nation’s various settlement guides into an organised wiki- which we will hopefully be able to link to newer players to further help them find a suitable nation to settle in. Our team often has a ‘weekly goal’, be that of a particular page or category of pages. COMMUNITY EVENTS - LotsOfMuffins The community events team has been working towards creating a large-scale scavenger hunt with fantastic prizes available. In addition, we are continuing to plan and host Battle of the Arts, which you’ll be able to see our next post for soon! Lastly, earlier in the month, you might have seen our feedback form collecting ideas for future community events. We’ve compiled these and are currently working towards planning more awesome events for you guys! TUTORIALS- MamaBearJade With the new month, we are approaching making things more accessible not only to new players but also old. We have split a group to work on Tutorial Island, and another to work on guides. We intend to create information that is not only accurate but also informative for all. Keep an eye out for more information on our work. OCTOBER’S DIRECTION Monks & Nation Connections As we roll into October, our team is going to be heavily focusing on a particular aspect of aiding new players- monks & nation connections. We recognise that there have been a few issues associated with this, so our goal is to further communication between nation leaders, ourselves, and new players. Through looking into different ideas of ways we can open particular channels in the NPD, as well as reworking our monk system- this month will be full of nation guidance trial & error to settle on monk policies that are the best option for the staff, players, and nation leaders. Until next time!

Community is currently NOT ACCEPTING STAFF APPLICATIONS until further notice! COMMUNITY TEAM MONTHLY UPDATE LOG- AUGUST 2019 Introduction Hello! Here we are, back again for yet another update log. The CT have been up to loads this month- undergoing a lot of internal team restructuring, as well as our outlook on Focus Groups & projects. A couple of members have sadly left us, but we’ve got a bunch of new and wonderful faces who’ve joined the team in their stead. From Applications, a new NPD, wiki rewrite work, the Creative Cafe, Battle of the arts- we’ve been up to lots. -=- 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 I’m going to do this update a little differently this time, bear with me. AUGUST’S APPLICATIONS: JULY - AUGUST COMPARISONS: Accepted Applications & Denied/Accepted Ratios: 309 - 234 29.8 / 70.2 - 29.3 / 70.7 Timezones: AMERICA: 73.1 - 64.1 EUROPE: 23.3 - 32 OCEANIA: 3.6 - 3.9 Racial % Distributions: HUMANS: 52.5 - 60.9 ELVES: 29.5 - 28.7 DWARVES: 11.8 - 7 ORCS: 5.5 - 2.5 HALFLINGS: 0.7 - 0.9 Subrace % Distributions: ORC: 76.5 - 66.7 GOBLIN: 23.5 - 33.3 HIGH ELF: 25.6 - 25.8 WOOD ELF: 33.3 - 25.8 SNOW ELF: 11.1 - 21.2 DARK ELF: 23.3 - 18.2 ELF UNSPECIFIED: 6.7 - 9.1 CAVE DWARF: 11.1 - 18.8 MOUNTAIN DWARF: 22.2 - 37.5 FOREST DWARF: 25 - 12.5 DWARF UNSPECIFIED: 41.7 - 31.3 Monthly Team Data This Month we have an Application Queen! I’d like to congratulate @LotsOfMuffins for making Queen of Apps for August! Member Alterations + Katarama - accepted into the Community Team + Armajesty- accepted into the Community Team + TwistedFries- accepted into the Community Team + LadyCarolina- accepted into the Community Team + 1_Language_1- accepted into the Community Team + Kursion - accepted into the Community Team + Bluee - accepted into the Content Creator Team - SaltyOlog - removed from the Community Team- - MrMineLoveDude - stepped down from the Community Team- - Bickando - stepped down from the Community Team- - Ducklingator - stepped down from the Community Team- Projects of July: Community Events: {Ivoryyy_} This month we have been planning a few Community Events, if you’ve noticed in the News tab we’ve been testing the Battle of The Arts which we’re going to be changing to a bi-monthly project. More recently we held the Creative Cafe where players showcase talents, both of these events have ended in success which now we’re going to strive to do more in-game content. Some things to look forward too would be the upcoming Scavenger Hunt which we’ll be first testing the new Scavenger Plugin developed by @Wrynn and concept idea @Jenny_Bobbs to assist in future holiday events. Wiki Rework: {Lukaratias} This month the Wiki Project Group has been moving along in its effort to design and create new HUB pages for the wiki to improve navigation. On top of this, a few of our members have seen keeping certain culture groups and history pages up to date, especially in such areas where are lacking players who seek to do so. NPD: {Tahmas} Asuh dudes. This month we successfully rolled out the new New Player Discord as promised during the last update log. We've included the Tailor's Guild and combined the Nation and Charter support into an easy to use system that better helps us communicate and manage both new and old players throughout the discord. The new, more automated, and clean system better helps us to keep track of new players and keep on top of everything. Throughout this month we've also been looking into ways that we can better engage with Settlement Leaders to better lead and integrate players into the most appropriate community for them based on their character and needs. For this upcoming month, I'm going to be working closely with both the NPD Focus Group and the Settlement Leaders to better identify the problems with our Guidance and Integration system. I'm wanting to hold a meeting with both the Community Team, and the Settlement Leaders to try and isolate the problems with the way we currently handle things and how best we can proceed with improving them. Already, we've been looking into ways that we can involve Charters in this system alongside Nations, as they are often neglected and may often serve as more viable placements for New Players, in the beginning, depending on varying factors. Thank you and see you next month! Special thanks to the wonderful Jenny_Bobbs and Katarama for helping with this forum post!

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Heyo! It’s that time of year again! Get ready for our third Creative Cafe, where you get to show off your talents, whatever they may be, ranging from art, singing, builds, skins, and more! There will be prizes as well as random raffles, so be sure to attend, even if it’s just to watch and listen! If you have any questions, this event is being held by our fantastic community events team: @Tigergiri, @MaybeDamo, @Evonpire @SoulReapingWolf, @chaosgamer, @Jenny_Bobbs, @MeteorDragon, @Salty, and @LotsOfMuffins . To participate, please leave a comment with the below sign-up format! Information Date: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 Time: 6 PM CST / 7 PM EST Location: Creative Cafe Channel Discord: https://discord.gg/YSwqGQn Sign-Up Format Mcname: Talent: Thanks to @Defy and @rwko for the featured graphics!

I timed this to the second and hit post on the dot. gg fellas this was fun

CLOSED I will go through and contact all winners shortly. Thank you for bidding- I sure had a lot of fun

Bidding will close at 10AM est sharp ?

IVORY’S SKIN AUCTION Alright hi. Basically, I’ve got a load of skins that I’m wanting to sell. A couple are old ones of mine that I no longer use, and a few are brand new. So, I figured that I’d just forum auction them all off for mina. Essentially, after 24 hours I’ll be accepting the highest mina price commented for each skin. If a person fails to respond to my PM within a day, I’ll pass it on to the next person. I’m also willing do so some tiny edits if you need (Putting heads on etc.) If this idea actually works, I might do it more often! Seems like a good way of selling off skins. BID FORMAT: Discord: Skin/s and bid/s (List separately if multiple): Please make a NEW comment if you wish to raise your bid. People making edits to prior comments will end up wayyy too confusing. Bidding starts at 700 mina. SKINS

I have attempted to contact you on discord, however it does not work. Please contact me within the next 24 hours

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On behalf of the server and Community members I’d like to welcome you to LOTC! As soon as this is posted, you should be whitelisted onto the server. Contact me or make an /creq if there’s any issues with whitelisting or similar. Feel free to browse the Wiki, and you can also join our New Player Discord, which is a wonderful place where you can ask questions to our Community team,meet other server players and learn about new roleplay opportunities for all character races! The new player discord is a great help in getting you situated into our server. I hope you enjoy your time on the server, and if you ever have any questions or need help please feel free to contact me here on the forums, through my discord (Ivory#8860) or by /msg Ivoryyy_ in-game. You can also /creq on the server to place a ticket if you require assistance from any of us Community Team members. Please also make sure to read our New Player Guide to get you situated on the server quicker! Happy roleplaying!

-Please take another look at your lore! The Holy Orenian Empire is correct, however the current capital city would be Helena, not Kingston. You also mention Kaedrin, which is the another Kingdom, it’s capital being Ves.

Your Powergaming definition is still incorrect and lacking detail. Please revise this, using our wiki as a tool. Again, your biography overall displays many key features of a typical, edgy character. I ask you to really drive into an original and detailed backstory, allowing for a character which can bring dynamic roleplay to the server. You are not allowed to lore that is not within the realm of lotc. Also please do be mindful that you cannot possess any ‘shapeshifter’ magic. Please describe your character traits in full sentences, and make this original and exciting! For your role-play scenario, please detail an ‘emote’ (Actions/movement) that your character would respond with.

Changed Status to Accepted

On behalf of the server and Community members I’d like to welcome you to LOTC! As soon as this is posted, you should be whitelisted onto the server. Contact me or make an /creq if there’s any issues with whitelisting or similar. Feel free to browse the Wiki, and you can also join our New Player Discord, which is a wonderful place where you can ask questions to our Community team,meet other server players and learn about new roleplay opportunities for all character races! The new player discord is a great help in getting you situated into our server. I hope you enjoy your time on the server, and if you ever have any questions or need help please feel free to contact me here on the forums, through my discord (Ivory#8860) or by /msg Ivoryyy_ in-game. You can also /creq on the server to place a ticket if you require assistance from any of us Community Team members. Please also make sure to read our New Player Guide to get you situated on the server quicker! Happy roleplaying!

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Changed Status to Under Review Hello there! At this time your application has been placed on, Ø Your biography is lacking the one required lore reference. This could be a city name in which your character was born/lives in, a religion in which they follow, or a world event they witnessed and/or remember. You can find these pieces of lore on the Wiki. Your application was good, however there are just a few issues that need editing. If you have any trouble in understanding and/or implementing these edits- please reach out and I can help. Once you have corrected these issues, please message me here on the forums or through my discord (Ivory#8860) The Wiki has lots of important lore information, as well as the metagaming and powergaming definitions, please refer to this when making changes. You can also join our New Player Discord – Where you can ask questions to our Community team, and meet other server players. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out!

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