LotsOfMuffins

Changed Status to Pending

Changed Status to Under Review Your application has been put on pending, as there are changes needing to be made before you may be accepted, as follows: Your Character Biography is missing some lore references! Please remember to include at least two! These can be existing settlements, wars, religion, etc. Here are some links that may help you find some! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Arcas https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Races https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters Your Character Biography is a bit short. Please include at least 10 sentences. If you don’t know what to add, I recommend thinking more about your character’s backstory. Where are they from, what were their parents like, why are they how they are…? If you do not make these changes within 24 hours, your application will be denied. When you are finished, please message me on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119 to let me know, or if you don’t have a Discord, send me a forum message, and please do ask if you have any questions. If you still need help, make sure to check the wiki, and I highly recommend joining our discord as well. https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/ https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F

Changed Status to Denied

Changed Status to Under Review Your application has unfourtunately been denied at this time due to many changes needing to be made, though here are the changes that would need to be made: Your Metagaming and Powergaming Definitions are on the right track, though they’re not quite there. Take another look at our Wiki’s definitions for help, and I recommend including examples so I can tell you fully understand! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Metagaming_%26_Powergaming Your Character Biography is missing some lore references! Please remember to include at least two! These can be existing settlements, wars, religion, etc. Here are some links that may help you find some! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Arcas https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Races https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters Your Character Biography is a bit short. Please include at least 10 sentences. If you don’t know what to add, I recommend thinking more about your character’s backstory. Where are they from, what were their parents like, why are they how they are…? Your Physical Description describes your character as almost-godly! Please remove this, as it can be considered powergaming. Your Physical Description needs to be purely physical! Don’t include anything personality-wise in there. Your Physical Description is a bit lacking; I recommend adding some more detail! If you’re lost on what to add, height, eye colour, hair colour, hair length, etc. are all good. Your Roleplay Scenario Response is too short. It must be at least four sentences long and include at least one piece of dialogue and one action. Your Personality Traits/Quirks need to include at least one negative trait. This can be anything that is a fault in their personality. After correcting the above things, you may reapply at any time. If you have any questions, please send me a message on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119, and I recommend you join the LotC discord using the following invite: https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F.

Changed Status to Pending

Changed Status to Under Review Your application has been put on pending, as there are changes needing to be made before you may be accepted, as follows: Your Character Biography is missing some lore references! Please remember to include at least two! These can be existing settlements, wars, religion, etc. Here are some links that may help you find some! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Arcas https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Races https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters If you do not make these changes within 24 hours, your application will be denied. When you are finished, please message me on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119 to let me know, or if you don’t have a Discord, send me a forum message, and please do ask if you have any questions. If you still need help, make sure to check the wiki, and I highly recommend joining our discord as well. https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/ https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F

Changed Status to Pending

Changed Status to Under Review Your application has been put on pending, as there are changes needing to be made before you may be accepted, as follows: Your Skin is not up to LotC standards. Please take a look at our Skin Archive for references and free skins that you may use if you’d like. https://sites.google.com/view/skinarchive/home If you do not make these changes within 24 hours, your application will be denied. When you are finished, please message me on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119 to let me know, or if you don’t have a Discord, send me a forum message, and please do ask if you have any questions. If you still need help, make sure to check the wiki, and I highly recommend joining our discord as well. https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/ https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F

???????????????????????????

im just saying bro...

i liked it

Changed Status to Denied

Your application has unfourtunately been denied at this time due to lots of changes needing to be made, though here are the changes that would need to be made: Please fix all grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors in your application to the best of your ability. I recommend using a free grammar checker such as Grammarly. https://app.grammarly.com/ Your Metagaming and Powergaming Definitions are on the right track, though they’re not quite there. Take another look at our Wiki’s definitions for help, and I recommend including examples so I can tell you fully understand! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Metagaming_%26_Powergaming Your Character Biography is missing some lore references! Please remember to include at least two! These can be existing settlements, wars, religion, etc. Here are some links that may help you find some! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Arcas https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Races https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters Your Character Biography is a bit short. Please include at least 10 sentences. If you don’t know what to add, I recommend thinking more about your character’s backstory. Where are they from, what were their parents like, why are they how they are…? Your Skin does not match your physical description. Please fix one! Your Personality Traits/Quirks need to include at least one negative trait. This can be anything that is a fault in their personality. Your Skin is not up to LotC standards. Please take a look at our Skin Archive for references and free skins that you may use if you’d like. https://sites.google.com/view/skinarchive/home After correcting the above things, you may reapply at any time. If you have any questions, please send me a message on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119, and I recommend you join the LotC discord using the following invite: https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F.

Changed Status to Accepted

Player fixed application over discord due to forum problems. Congratulations, you’ve been accepted! Welcome to Lord of the Craft! Now that you’re accepted, you will spawn in Cloud Temple as a player and be able to interact with the world around you. If you need any help, you can message me in game by doing /msg LotsOfMuffins, or if I’m not online, you can find me on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119. Lastly, if you need any guidance in-game, and I am not around, please do /creq along with a message as to what you need, and another Community Team Member will get to you as soon as possible! After reading the below information and logging into LotC, I highly recommend sending this in chat so a Community Team Member can help you out: /creq I have just been accepted and would like a Wilven Monk! When joining, the bot may be down that normally automatically whitelists you after the acceptance of your application. So, please go into the wandering soul channel (#ws) and ask for a Community Team Member to accept you! I highly recommend you join the LotC discord using the invite link below, and please look through the New Player Guide! https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=New_Player_Guide In addition, I recommend taking a look at our Settlement Guides. Below, I’ve linked the settlements you may be interested in based on your character’s race. https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Human_Settlement_Guides https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Haense_Settlement_Guide https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Kaedrin_Settlement_Guide If you aren’t interested in any of those, take a look at our Settlement Guide Hub! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Settlement_Guides

Changed Status to Under Review

COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOG APRIL 2020 INTRODUCTION Hello again! The past month has been jam-packed with a load of applications, tons of progress on projects, and community advocacy, all thanks to the sheer amount of free time we’ve found ourselves with, and the next month is hopefully going to be just as productive. Read more below to hear about what we’ve been doing for the past month and our goals for the next. APRIL DATA - Overview - This month, we saw a total of 395 apps handled, with 216 new players welcomed onto LotC. Last month, we had 261 applications and 141 new players. We’ve still maintained about a 1:1 acceptance versus denial rate, with the exact amount being around 55% of applications being accepted. The biggest reason applications are denied is because they don’t correct the changes within 24 hours, and since we’ve made our application standards a bit more tough, more apps have changes needed. Obviously, the high app numbers are due to the quarantine (we’ve gotten nearly two times the amount of apps this month as compared with last month; the accepted apps nearly equals the total apps we had last month), with people getting bored and wanting something to do. Unfourtunately, this means wait times for apps are high, but the team is doing their best. More on this below. - Accepted/Denied Ratios - - Race Specific Data - - New Player Guidance - TEAM DATA - Application Team Data - APPLICATION KING/QUEEN This month’s Application Queen goes to… @LotsOfMuffins! @LotsOfMuffins Followed behind by @LordScisso and @stickyhon! In order to help the team out, I’ve taken on a couple of apps per day, which has accidentally made me the Application Queen. I wanted to be this when I was a regular member back in the day, but I guess now is as good a time as any. Whoo. CURRENT ROSTER - Community Administrator - @LotsOfMuffins - Community Managers - @armajesty @Nestro_Miner @NotAFie @puffables - Community Team Members - @chaosgamer_ @Dinochann @DigestiveSeed @Epistile @Evonpire @LordScisso @LotsOfFish @Mariolla @NotASunny @Nozoa @Shmeepicus @stickyhon @TheBelidle @Ttsim - Content Creators - @Beordan @ElvenMommaHacker @nerdypenguins @Parion @puffables @Shmeepicus - Wiki Team Members - @1_Language_1 @brotherbotany @Chorale_ @HeftyDonut @Qizu PROJECT UPDATES WIKI - @Nestro_Miner Heyoo everyone! This month has been a productive one for The Wiki Team! We’ve made great progress in ensuring The Lore on the Wiki has been updated and The Story Team have been a great help in ensuring that our guys post complete and authentic work! This month, a recruitment message was posted and we got a few new additions to the team which is great! All the help is welcome so if you’re interested in joining then please shoot me a message @ NestroMiner#1721. I’m also proud to say that our members have been working a great deal recently on fixing the uncategorized pages and doing maintenance reports. There’s a lot to look forward to in the near future and I’m excited! Lastly, I just wanna give a big shoutout to my entire team for their continuous hard work. Have a great day everyone, and stay safe! BROOM CREW - @armajesty Hello, everyone! Broom Crew has been hard at work this month in regards to Pots 'n Pandits. We managed to set up a Your View in order to take the opinion of the Community into account while determining the proper course of action. The plans for Pots 'n Pandits has officially been set in motion and we are aiming to have it completed by next month at the latest. This month, after much recommendation, we picked up the New Player Guide and have begun to rewrite it. It was brought to our attention that the guide is outdated and so we are prioritizing this update and hoping to finish it within the month of May. The final thing I would like to discuss is the purging of the Skin Archive. Unfortunately, many of our links corrupted as we were moving onto our final phase so we will have to restart this project, through we are hoping to wrap things up as soon as possible! A huge thanks to the hard working members of the broom Crew. Keep up the good work PROJECTS - @puffables Heya gamers, this month projects fg has been continuing to move ahead with our plethora of projects - a lot of changes made, and a lot done. Our 'travellers guild' is ready for release, juust waiting on our guidance rework [ after reviewing the 'your view' on such earlier this month ] and monk rework/lore projects to release them all together. We are also hard at work on the TUTORIAL ISLAND, something i know a lot of people are pretty interested in seeing! Prompts done, the build making way - we're putting a lot of focus into getting this done! Our hope is that these projects end up linking smoothly from one to the other, for an ideal new player experience. Tutorial Island presents players joining for the first time with all the OOC/functionality knowlege they'd need - teaching of the chat plugin, basic commands, basic rules, settlements and various other bits of useful information to get started! Once they've completed this, we hope to have them directed from the spawn at CT to the Travellers Guild - where a CT member as a monk traveller can guide them in RP to a settlement of choice, get them started with RP, collaborate with settlements for a smooth, rp-based integration, prompting good storytelling and immersion from the very start. Very much looking forwards to having this released to you all - and a huuuge thanks to the Projects FG and all who have been assisting with these projects !! ❤️❤️ CONTENT CREATION – @NotAFie Hey gamers, Fie here! This month has been quite the wild ride. I'll try to stay as brief as possible in this summary. The content creators have been hard at work. We are currently in the process of reworking the Skin Archive together with the fabulous Broom Crew, managed by Armajesty. Another project would be the training and tutorial videos. Sadly, the Content Creation Group is currently short on Video Editors. If you are interested in the position, feel free to apply (https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forms/52-content-creation-staff-application/). It'd be a joy to have you! Lastly, I'd like to thank every Content Creator for working so much on our projects, even though things can get quite hectic. I believe that's all I have to say - sooo, cya!! Stay safe, everyone! ❤️ EVENTS - All Management The month of April was jam-packed with Easter egg hunts and chasing down crazy rabbits. It was a blast to be able to share these fun holiday events with you guys, and we look forward to many more! Special thanks to @Ttsim for heading the Chase the Rabbit event and putting it together, and @armajesty for overseeing it! Keep a lookout for our May event, and the next Creative Cafe will be coming in June, so start preparing your talents. MAY’S DIRECTION Last month was primarily about pushing through applications despite the large influx and working towards completing our first test run of the new community advocacy system. Now that we’ve done that, it’s time to keep moving forward with engagement, projects, and more community advocacy. - Last Month’s Goals - Engagement Every two weeks, Community Team Members have a conversation with their overseeing manager about how they’re doing in terms of applications, monk guidance, etc., each of our core duties. This month, we’ve added engagement to that list. So, every two weeks, a Community Team Member sits down and discusses their other core duties as well as how engaging they are with the community. Managers keep a lookout for how active they are in the discords, in #h and #ws, and generally in-game, and they talk about how they can improve. Personally, I’ve seen members such as @stickyhon and @Nozoa assisting new players in the main discord daily, and a large majority of the team speaks in #ws to wandering souls as well. This is continuing to be a topic of interest as we move forward, however, as there is always room for improvement. Community Advocacy Throughout April, the team reached out to nation leaders, charter leaders, and players concerning the new charter reform. We heard over 30 different peoples’ input on the subject, compiled the positives, negatives, and suggestions into a document, summarized them for ease, and sent them on. Applications The Community Team has been hard at work keeping up with applications. The large influx has been wild, but we’ve been managing to keep the wait time down to a few days. Initially, that sounds bad. But keep in mind that we’ve had almost two times the amount of applications in April than March, and the number was still a bit high for March compared to usual. Due to the coronavirus, people want something to do, so they’re applying. Lots of them. And we’re still managing to keep the wait time from turning into weeks so I am proud of the team for all their hard work - This Month’s Goals - Community Advocacy Last month, we completed our first community advocacy project under our new system. Read more on that below. This next month, we will be continuing this feedback system with a new topic: applications and how they should be handled. This topic will concern mostly nation/charter leaders, but we will also interview players and new players on the subject. If you’d be interested in giving us in-depth feedback regarding how we handle applications, the current application standards, etc., please reach out to a Community Team Member Monk Guidance I made it a goal within our team for every single Community Team Member to complete at least one monk guidance. We’ve basically achieved that goal, though one or two members missed it. I’d like to continue with this, slowly upping the bar to more guidances without making it a quota; instead of punishing members for not reaching a certain number, I am rewarding those who do. Monk guidance is a crucial part of new player integration into the server, and thus, it should be a focus for the team! Hopefully, one day, we will be able to provide guidance to almost every new player who logs into the server. But as it stands, it’s difficult to get new players to request that guidance. We send them a PM on discord after accepting their application asking them to make a /creq, we include it in our accepted message, and we reach out to those we see struggling, but the fact of the matter is that not all new players request guidance, and we can’t sit around Cloud Temple waiting for someone new to pop up all day. Perhaps part of this is streamlining the process through Tutorial Island, as progress continues on that, or through a system where the new player has an option during their first log in to click a button to request it instead of typing out a command. Or perhaps we just need to encourage them to make a /creq more. However this looks, we need to work towards guiding almost every new player. The Wiki Team The Wiki Team has been a focus before, and it is again now, as we’re yet again shifting how it works somewhat. Instead of dished-out assignments that are the same for each member, we’re working with the members to establish what they want to work on and then helping them achieve that. Perhaps one member wants to update lore pages and another wants to write about dwarves. That’s fine! Our goal is to ensure that progress is happening and moderate the players with regular accounts, not to force the Wiki Team Members to complete a bunch of writing assignments that they may or may not be interested in. Read more on that here: If you have any questions or comments about the direction that we are going in, feel free to leave a comment down below or reach out to a team member.

The Wiki Team Update – April 2020 Introduction The wiki has seen a period of higher activity than in years passed, but is still way too low if we want to see the wiki get to a great place in a reasonable amount of time. To do this we’re opening wiki account creation to anyone who shows interest, and incentivizing people to spend their time improving the wiki. How to Get a Wiki Account Previously, in order to get a wiki account, you had to fill out a Google Form that no one could find. From now on, all you have to do is head to the LotC discord and fill out the pinned format in #wiki-account-request. If you have any issues or need assistance, please reach out to a Wiki Team Member. Standard Accounts Versus Wiki Team Accounts If you get an account through #wiki-account-request, you’ll get a standard wiki account. The differences between these and those provided to Wiki Team Members are: Standard accounts can’t edit protected pages, such as the Main Page. Standard accounts do not have bot privileges, and can’t use automated editing tools. Standard accounts can’t create new accounts, block or delete accounts. And, standard accounts can’t delete, move, or protect wiki pages. Otherwise, you can do anything not mentioned. You can edit and improve any unprotected page (94.9%, or about 100 out of 2500 are protected), create new pages, upload images you need for pages, etc. The Wiki Team Wiki Team Members work with the Community Team on focused assignments and moderate standard accounts’ edits to ensure they are not counterproductive. If you’re interested in applying for the Wiki Team, you may do so here: https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forms/49-wiki-staff-application/. Rewards for Editing To incentivize people to have a greater impact on the wiki, we’re offering a new monthly reward system. Whoever has the highest edit count at the end of every month will now receive 1,800 minas, with 2nd and 3rd place getting 1,200 minas and 600 minas respectively. We understand that judging people's contributions purely off of edit count can be misleading and encourages bad practices, but the Wiki Team will be moderating edits to ensure no one is performing redundant edits or edit bombing to artificially increase their edit count. The emphasis here is on quality, the more we can improve the wiki as a result of this the better. It also goes without saying, but anyone that uses automated editing tools, bots, or poor editing practices to artificially increase their edit count will be disqualified from the reward system for that month. Conclusion We will continue to try to improve the wiki as we move away from the non-functioning strict private model and move towards a freer, user-friendly wiki. We’re accepting suggestions for improvement and invite anyone who wants to improve the wiki to make an account. Mistakes are expected as people learn the basics; it’s no reason to panic if you see pages with fresh mistakes. Rolling back mistakes is a button-click away for the wiki team, and we all started somewhere. Thank you for taking the time to read this over, and we hope to see some new wiki editors! Credits @brotherbotany - writing/editing @LotsOfMuffins - writing/editing @Nestro_Miner - reviewal

Changed Status to Accepted

Congratulations, you’ve been accepted! Welcome to Lord of the Craft! Now that you’re accepted, you will spawn in Cloud Temple as a player and be able to interact with the world around you. If you need any help, you can message me in game by doing /msg LotsOfMuffins, or if I’m not online, you can find me on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119. Lastly, if you need any guidance in-game, and I am not around, please do /creq along with a message as to what you need, and another Community Team Member will get to you as soon as possible! After reading the below information and logging into LotC, I highly recommend sending this in chat so a Community Team Member can help you out: /creq I have just been accepted and would like a Wilven Monk! When joining, the bot may be down that normally automatically whitelists you after the acceptance of your application. So, please go into the wandering soul channel (#ws) and ask for a Community Team Member to accept you! I highly recommend you join the LotC discord using the invite link below, and please look through the New Player Guide! https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=New_Player_Guide In addition, I recommend taking a look at our Settlement Guides. Below, I’ve linked the settlements you may be interested in based on your character’s race. https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Human_Settlement_Guides https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Oren_Settlement_Guide If you aren’t interested in any of those, take a look at our Settlement Guide Hub! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Settlement_Guides

Changed Status to Denied

Your application has unfourtunately been denied at this time due to your 24 hours being up, though here are the changes that would need to be made: Your Skin is not up to LotC standards. Please take a look at our Skin Archive for references and free skins that you may use if you’d like. https://sites.google.com/view/skinarchive/home Your Powergaming Definition is on the right track, though it’s not quite there. Take another look at our Wiki’s definitions for help, and I recommend including an example so I can tell you fully understand! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Metagaming_%26_Powergaming Your Character Biography states that your character is from Atlas. This is impossible, given that we moved to Arcas in 1705, and the current year is 1765. https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Arcas Your Character Biography is missing some lore references! Please remember to include at least two! These can be existing settlements, wars, religion, etc. Here are some links that may help you find some! https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Arcas https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Races https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters After correcting the above things, you may reapply at any time. If you have any questions, please send me a message on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119, and I recommend you join the LotC discord using the following invite: https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F.

Changed Status to Denied

Your application has unfourtunately been denied at this time due to your 24 hours being up, though here are the changes that would need to be made: Your Character Biography states that your character is Ruskan orthodox, which is not in our lore. Please either show me where this is in LotC lore, or correct it accordingly. You cannot start off as a member of a noble family. Please correct this in your Character Biography. After correcting the above things, you may reapply at any time. If you have any questions, please send me a message on discord @LotsOfMuffins#0119, and I recommend you join the LotC discord using the following invite: https://discord.gg/fwEQA2F.

Changed Status to Denied