Whitelisting has now been closed.
Thanks for everybody who applied, but Ravien is about to get it's reset and is expected to be gone within a week. When our reset is done with, we will open up applications for our new map.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sorry to say that whitelisting is temporarily closed, but it will be open again as soon as our new map launches. (there may be a change in the application process, I'll get back to you on that.
Aw man.... Hopefully I won't have to write another application, it took a few hours to think it all up and put it into words. Do you have an estimation as to when the new map will launch? I'm really looking forward to playing on this server.
We are building the new map as fast as we can, though we are a bit behind schedule.
What is your IGN? WildMonkeyChef
What is your RP Name? Luthanis Amberleaf
What is your backstory? The story of Luthanis Amberleaf [A sort of a thief. The one that steals for good] began when human pirates stole a letter from Amberleafs' father. The letter was supposed to reach the dwarves' king. The father of Luthanis was arrested. Soon after Amberleafs' house was raided. He was left with no place to sleep and he had no food. When things couldn't get worse Luthanis made a friend - a dwarf named Gromhold Stormfist. Now Luthanis and his new friend fight to let Luthanis father out of prison.
Have you ever been banned? What for? I have not been banned.
What is your preferred race? Elf
You're going to need to rewrite this using the entire application form. Also, there's a minimum of three paragraphs required in your backstory (with each one containing at least 3-4 sentences). Also, if I may, proper punctuation in your sentences would be helpful. There are certain places where you have to assume what the writer meant, as it doesn't make sense, otherwise. Also, you used a lot of sentences that ended abruptly which, used sparingly, can make a story more exciting or anticipatory, but otherwise make it fragmented and difficult to read.
Unfortunately, at this time, applications are closed. They should reopen in, hopefully, a couple days, when the map reset is completed.
EDIT: I realize that I am not an official whitelister, and you may wish to wait for his response before doing anything... but I'm sure you'll hear similar from him; at the very least, about using the entire application form and your backstory containing three paragraphs. As well as, I suppose, applications being closed.
I'll apologize, on their behalf, on the length of time it took for you to get a response. However, at the moment, they're spending their waking hours designing the new map for all of our enjoyment! Check back a couple times every day, and please apply again! I'd welcome my elven brother, should you be accepted in the future.
If you all need someone to be a lore keeper, I'm down for that responsibility.
Also, we need a monk class for Heroes. Please?
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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates "The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mahatma Gandhi
ferusgrim handled that one rather professionally, and he is correct. Whitelisting is currently disabled pending the release of the new map. When the map launches and I receive the new standards for applications, I will let you all know here on the forums.
Are you trying to steal my job ?
Good to see that the standards are known by people other than the staff, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing the community can help each other out.
If you all need someone to be a lore keeper, I'm down for that responsibility.
Also, we need a monk class for Heroes. Please?
Alcyius is doing lore, talk to him if you have any questions. As for the heroes plugin manager, not sure who's heading that up. Are you on the skype ravien public channel? That would be a good place to contact staff and other players as well.
I don't have a mic, so I can't do the Skype thing. If I can't help with lore, I would still like my Kratom character to write books of lore, sorta like how Abd al-Hazir writes books of lore in Diablo 3, so it would help me out big time if I could get the straight poop on Ravien lore.
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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates "The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mahatma Gandhi
I don't have a mic, so I can't do the Skype thing. If I can't help with lore, I would still like my Kratom character to write books of lore, sorta like how Abd al-Hazir writes books of lore in Diablo 3, so it would help me out big time if I could get the straight poop on Ravien lore.
Alcyius has an iron grip on our new lorebook, even I haven't seen it yet XD (Really, driving me nuts) Also, I know how it feels not to have a mic. (I don't have one either, and resort to the textbox option of skype. works great.)
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates "The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mahatma Gandhi
I'll ask somebody to add you in. My personal skype is christopher.roy45, add me and I'll talk to the others about putting you on the pubchat.
(the pubchat can only host about 20 people at a time so we switch people out based on their activity level on it.)
Are you trying to steal my job ?
Good to see that the standards are known by people other than the staff, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing the community can help each other out.
Nope. I just understand that you guys are busy, and I didn't want to make him wait to long. ^.^;; Glad I could make you warm and fuzzy.
Thank You for the tips! I'll reapply. The reason the text is hard to read is because I'm from Lithuania, so I'm not that good at english. I'll try my best though ;D
You might want to wait until our whitelisting operations get reinstated. That will be about a half a day after the new map launches, to give us time to settle things down.
Didls, why are people still using the 20 slot only public Skype chat? I upgraded my clan's teamspeak to 35 slots specifically for this server's use. Instead, now I log on every evening to find you all using Skype every night. What gives?
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Didls, why are people still using the 20 slot only public Skype chat? I upgraded my clan's teamspeak to 35 slots specifically for this server's use. Instead, now I log on every evening to find you all using Skype every night. What gives?
Well, I'm going to venture a guess based on some previous conversations that the skype chat is more for the public playerbase.
We do tend to use your teamspeak more often when we are working on the buildserver or there are a larger number of us (around 5 or so, we are on the teamspeak when we are all doing the same thing) But when there are only a few of us or we're all doing different things, I tend not to see everybody on the TS. I can't particularly say why the skype is being used at any given time, nor can I say why the teamspeak is being used at any given time.
I can't, however, venture a guess as to what the others prefer.
(Personally, I check in on both when I'm online to make sure I'm not missing anything important.)
If you want to attract more players to the TS server all you have to do is give out the IP and password to people you want to be able to access it.
P.S. The servers are down for a little while due to flooding in Golgotha's area.
OOC (Out of Character Application) Username: Nefiron Prior RP Experience: Been founding 2 RP Communities in Minecraft, 1 in WoW, 1 in RIFT, 1 in Garry's Mod and hosted several Forum RP Games. Doing Pen and Paper on Regular Basis and MilSim. Why do you want to join Ravien?:I want to RP with likeminded people and maybe connect my community Everland, as it looks like we guys have a lot in common when it comes how we want our RP. Have you ever been banned? Not in Minecraft
IC (In-Character Application) Character Name: Argan Age: 26 Sex: Male Backstory (3 Paragraph minimum, proper grammar and spacing required): Argan was a warrior prince of a wild tribe of humans living in the cold places of the Ravien. He was a member of the Bearclaw Tribe but a terrible raid of an enemy tribe made him parentless and gave him scars for life. This all happened when he was only 7 and since then he was raised by the Shaman of the tribe and a few other tribesfolk that survived the raid. Now as he had come of age he has left his tribe to seek out his own glory and possibly one day regain a full pack of his own. Alignment (you can use http://tinyurl.com/8pf8eey if you are unsure): I'm both orderly and rational. I value control, information, and order. I love structure and hierarchy, and will actively use whatever power or knowledge I have to maintain it. At best, I am lawful and insightful; at worst, I am bureaucratic and tyrannical. Profession/Intended Class: Mercenary / Berserker What is your intended race?: Human
RP (Roleplay Application) "As you disembark from the Imperial Ship Leviathan, you notice a group of soldiers standing in the gangway. They draw their swords, with the captain of the guard standing intimidatingly. "We have recieved an order to take you into custody - you are wanted for the murder of Sir Raleigh, Earl of Dragnor."
How do you respond?:
"Before taking me into your nations custody do you have any proof of my presence and matters in this case? Else I hereby refuse to follow and will demand a full explaination before you two try anything else."
OOC (Out of Character Application) Username: Nefiron Prior RP Experience: Been founding 2 RP Communities in Minecraft, 1 in WoW, 1 in RIFT, 1 in Garry's Mod and hosted several Forum RP Games. Doing Pen and Paper on Regular Basis and MilSim. Why do you want to join Ravien?:I want to RP with likeminded people and maybe connect my community Everland, as it looks like we guys have a lot in common when it comes how we want our RP. Have you ever been banned? Not in Minecraft
IC (In-Character Application) Character Name: Argan Age: 26 Sex: Male Backstory (3 Paragraph minimum, proper grammar and spacing required): Argan was a warrior prince of a wild tribe of humans living in the cold places of the Ravien. He was a member of the Bearclaw Tribe but a terrible raid of an enemy tribe made him parentless and gave him scars for life. This all happened when he was only 7 and since then he was raised by the Shaman of the tribe and a few other tribesfolk that survived the raid. Now as he had come of age he has left his tribe to seek out his own glory and possibly one day regain a full pack of his own. Alignment (you can use http://tinyurl.com/8pf8eey if you are unsure): I'm both orderly and rational. I value control, information, and order. I love structure and hierarchy, and will actively use whatever power or knowledge I have to maintain it. At best, I am lawful and insightful; at worst, I am bureaucratic and tyrannical. Profession/Intended Class: Mercenary / Berserker What is your intended race?: Human
RP (Roleplay Application) "As you disembark from the Imperial Ship Leviathan, you notice a group of soldiers standing in the gangway. They draw their swords, with the captain of the guard standing intimidatingly. "We have recieved an order to take you into custody - you are wanted for the murder of Sir Raleigh, Earl of Dragnor."
How do you respond?:
"Before taking me into your nations custody do you have any proof of my presence and matters in this case? Else I hereby refuse to follow and will demand a full explaination before you two try anything else."
Sorry to inform you that our whitelisting process has been halted until our new map launches.
However, having nothing else to do with my time I will review your application anyway.
Denied- Expansion and halted applications
There are a few things we require from an application: You must have at least three paragraphs of backstory which are expected to give us some insight into your characters persona (If we can get a general idea about your characters midnset, goals, and potential traits, that is a huge plus).
We require that you complete the RP example with at least two sentences. The Rp example is important because it shows us how a character would handle a semi-aggressive situation, and is often used to showcase a preferred combat/persuasion skill.
When the map updates, we may experience a change in specifics for whitelisting (at the very least, our backlore for the server will be significantly changed) and I will make sure to post a full compilation of our new requirements.
Seeing as we are going to be getting a new map and lore, I am considering opening up some more time from my schedule to talk to the playerbase about things that may be interesting. Things I might bring up: Frequently asked questions, Racial lore, player groups, general hubbub. What do you guys think? Would you like to occasionally read a review section on server occurrences after the launch?
Things I would probably do with this idea:
Ramble about a commonly used racial subtype! I might notice that alot of demons are deciding to be scraelings, or alot of humans are being raiders/pirates/merchants/etcedera, or perhaps we see an increase in a particular type of elf? Well, let's take a peek at what this particular subtype does! Yippee!
Mention a growing player-made area, such as a town/adventuring party! We all know that the mods and admins like to stalk players sometimes, why not take advantage of that and keep an eye on some of the more interesting groups? Dishing out OOC rumors and tales of glory as your fame rises, or perhaps canonizing a quaint town, or a base of operations!
RP updates! Maybe i have too much time on my hands and get the scoop on some RP events, be they planned or already in motion! Who doesn't like a little gossip around the proverbial watercooler?
Q&A! My favorite part of this job is that I have to read every post on the forums. Every. last. word. While some people may balk at the entertainment value of a curious player's inquiry, I actually enjoy seeing what the players are up to! Ask a question and I will not only answer it to you regularly, but if I consider it a relevant question I may repeat the question and it's answer on the next Review post.
Player interviews! This one is pretty obvious. I may try to interview some player both IC and OOC and post the results here, should anybody be interested.
What do you guys think? Could this be a nice little incentive to check the forums more often? Respond as you wish!
(I have no life. I will probably do mini reviews even if nobody takes the time to read them. *yay*)
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Curse PremiumSorry, mate. Applications are closed.
Sorry to say that whitelisting is temporarily closed, but it will be open again as soon as our new map launches. (there may be a change in the application process, I'll get back to you on that.
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Curse PremiumLore will have to be determined, in-game. I'll post once it's been finished, and Arcanus has been established.
We are building the new map as fast as we can, though we are a bit behind schedule.
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Curse PremiumYou're going to need to rewrite this using the entire application form. Also, there's a minimum of three paragraphs required in your backstory (with each one containing at least 3-4 sentences). Also, if I may, proper punctuation in your sentences would be helpful. There are certain places where you have to assume what the writer meant, as it doesn't make sense, otherwise. Also, you used a lot of sentences that ended abruptly which, used sparingly, can make a story more exciting or anticipatory, but otherwise make it fragmented and difficult to read.
Unfortunately, at this time, applications are closed. They should reopen in, hopefully, a couple days, when the map reset is completed.
EDIT: I realize that I am not an official whitelister, and you may wish to wait for his response before doing anything... but I'm sure you'll hear similar from him; at the very least, about using the entire application form and your backstory containing three paragraphs. As well as, I suppose, applications being closed.
I'll apologize, on their behalf, on the length of time it took for you to get a response. However, at the moment, they're spending their waking hours designing the new map for all of our enjoyment! Check back a couple times every day, and please apply again! I'd welcome my elven brother, should you be accepted in the future.
If you all need someone to be a lore keeper, I'm down for that responsibility.
Also, we need a monk class for Heroes. Please?
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates
"The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mahatma Gandhi
ferusgrim handled that one rather professionally, and he is correct. Whitelisting is currently disabled pending the release of the new map. When the map launches and I receive the new standards for applications, I will let you all know here on the forums.
Are you trying to steal my job
Good to see that the standards are known by people other than the staff, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing the community can help each other out.
Alcyius is doing lore, talk to him if you have any questions. As for the heroes plugin manager, not sure who's heading that up. Are you on the skype ravien public channel? That would be a good place to contact staff and other players as well.
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates
"The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mahatma Gandhi
Alcyius has an iron grip on our new lorebook, even I haven't seen it yet XD (Really, driving me nuts) Also, I know how it feels not to have a mic. (I don't have one either, and resort to the textbox option of skype. works great.)
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates
"The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mahatma Gandhi
I'll ask somebody to add you in. My personal skype is christopher.roy45, add me and I'll talk to the others about putting you on the pubchat.
(the pubchat can only host about 20 people at a time so we switch people out based on their activity level on it.)
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Curse PremiumNope. I just understand that you guys are busy, and I didn't want to make him wait to long. ^.^;; Glad I could make you warm and fuzzy.
You might want to wait until our whitelisting operations get reinstated. That will be about a half a day after the new map launches, to give us time to settle things down.
GENERATION 21: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
Well, I'm going to venture a guess based on some previous conversations that the skype chat is more for the public playerbase.
We do tend to use your teamspeak more often when we are working on the buildserver or there are a larger number of us (around 5 or so, we are on the teamspeak when we are all doing the same thing) But when there are only a few of us or we're all doing different things, I tend not to see everybody on the TS. I can't particularly say why the skype is being used at any given time, nor can I say why the teamspeak is being used at any given time.
I can't, however, venture a guess as to what the others prefer.
(Personally, I check in on both when I'm online to make sure I'm not missing anything important.)
If you want to attract more players to the TS server all you have to do is give out the IP and password to people you want to be able to access it.
P.S. The servers are down for a little while due to flooding in Golgotha's area.
Username: Nefiron
Prior RP Experience: Been founding 2 RP Communities in Minecraft, 1 in WoW, 1 in RIFT, 1 in Garry's Mod and hosted several Forum RP Games. Doing Pen and Paper on Regular Basis and MilSim.
Why do you want to join Ravien?:I want to RP with likeminded people and maybe connect my community Everland, as it looks like we guys have a lot in common when it comes how we want our RP.
Have you ever been banned? Not in Minecraft
IC (In-Character Application)
Character Name: Argan
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Backstory (3 Paragraph minimum, proper grammar and spacing required): Argan was a warrior prince of a wild tribe of humans living in the cold places of the Ravien. He was a member of the Bearclaw Tribe but a terrible raid of an enemy tribe made him parentless and gave him scars for life. This all happened when he was only 7 and since then he was raised by the Shaman of the tribe and a few other tribesfolk that survived the raid. Now as he had come of age he has left his tribe to seek out his own glory and possibly one day regain a full pack of his own.
Alignment (you can use http://tinyurl.com/8pf8eey if you are unsure): I'm both orderly and rational. I value control, information, and order. I love structure and hierarchy, and will actively use whatever power or knowledge I have to maintain it. At best, I am lawful and insightful; at worst, I am bureaucratic and tyrannical.
Profession/Intended Class: Mercenary / Berserker
What is your intended race?: Human
RP (Roleplay Application)
"As you disembark from the Imperial Ship Leviathan, you notice a group of soldiers standing in the gangway. They draw their swords, with the captain of the guard standing intimidatingly. "We have recieved an order to take you into custody - you are wanted for the murder of Sir Raleigh, Earl of Dragnor."
How do you respond?:
"Before taking me into your nations custody do you have any proof of my presence and matters in this case? Else I hereby refuse to follow and will demand a full explaination before you two try anything else."
Sorry to inform you that our whitelisting process has been halted until our new map launches.
However, having nothing else to do with my time I will review your application anyway.
Denied- Expansion and halted applications
There are a few things we require from an application: You must have at least three paragraphs of backstory which are expected to give us some insight into your characters persona (If we can get a general idea about your characters midnset, goals, and potential traits, that is a huge plus).
We require that you complete the RP example with at least two sentences. The Rp example is important because it shows us how a character would handle a semi-aggressive situation, and is often used to showcase a preferred combat/persuasion skill.
When the map updates, we may experience a change in specifics for whitelisting (at the very least, our backlore for the server will be significantly changed) and I will make sure to post a full compilation of our new requirements.
Things I would probably do with this idea:
Ramble about a commonly used racial subtype! I might notice that alot of demons are deciding to be scraelings, or alot of humans are being raiders/pirates/merchants/etcedera, or perhaps we see an increase in a particular type of elf? Well, let's take a peek at what this particular subtype does! Yippee!
Mention a growing player-made area, such as a town/adventuring party! We all know that the mods and admins like to stalk players sometimes, why not take advantage of that and keep an eye on some of the more interesting groups? Dishing out OOC rumors and tales of glory as your fame rises, or perhaps canonizing a quaint town, or a base of operations!
RP updates! Maybe i have too much time on my hands and get the scoop on some RP events, be they planned or already in motion! Who doesn't like a little gossip around the proverbial watercooler?
Q&A! My favorite part of this job is that I have to read every post on the forums. Every. last. word. While some people may balk at the entertainment value of a curious player's inquiry, I actually enjoy seeing what the players are up to! Ask a question and I will not only answer it to you regularly, but if I consider it a relevant question I may repeat the question and it's answer on the next Review post.
Player interviews! This one is pretty obvious. I may try to interview some player both IC and OOC and post the results here, should anybody be interested.
What do you guys think? Could this be a nice little incentive to check the forums more often? Respond as you wish!
(I have no life. I will probably do mini reviews even if nobody takes the time to read them. *yay*)
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Curse PremiumSomething like this should really have it's own area, to prevent confusion.