Applications

At the very least, you need to roleplay a little before applicating for something special. Get to know the RP, briefly read over the lores and atleast study on what you think your application will include.

It's always a good idea to roleplay getting your gear or learning your skills before applying for them, it shows both your roleplay capabilities and how responsible you are in the first place.

It doesn't hurt to make friends around as well, gain people's trust which will ultimately give you much better chances at getting your application accepted.



This is the second most important thing you can do. Dress your application up, use colors, bolds, italics and creative writting (not to mention spellcheck) to make your stuff look proffesional. It's really easy and guaranteed to make you look good and encourage others to read through your application.

When writting your application, it's always a good idea to elaborate on details and make sure the community will know exacly what you want and why you want it. Being vague or dull wont cut it...

When your done, don't forget to click 'Preview' and read over your own work, make sure it makes sense and that spellchecks are at a minimum.



Being denied for a special character or trait is something that will most likely happen on your first try.. But don't lose hope. Read over other people's applications and see what makes theirs pop out and seem acceptable. Although, I strongly encourage you not to commit any plagerism.

Being accepted on the otherhand, happens when administration accepts your applicaion and moves your thread to the "ACCEPTED" folder. This means you're ready to go out and roleplay with your new stuff-- But do not, ever think you can abuse your newly gained skills and get away with it... Being strong or experienced does not grant you the ability to powergame or metagame. You will never be "The best", and this is because everyone in Olden is given a chance to excell in different things. Gods are kept for admins to control.



If anyone has anything to add, do so.

Simple, short and pitchy. Hope the newcomers will read this before applying for flying space tigers.

Mhm.

Nice guide. Hope it's appreciated.

Covers most the basicssss.

This guide. This is the best guide. I am so sick of applications containing fucking walls of lower-case text, filled with run-on sentences, horrible punctuation and spelling.

Oh also, admins aren't allowed to roleplay gods anymore, when I was new to Olden, they were used very casually and it made no sense, because we had fucking Cyric visiting daily to administer circle-jerks. Quiz; what's the quickest way to turn a deity in to a horribly annoying god-mode Mary Sue? Portray it as an invincible dick-girl.

Fucking another edit: There's an un-written rule among admins that basically anyone is allowed to roleplay their very first character without applying for about a week. After that, the rules finally start to apply to them aswell.

Gods being allowed to roleplay or not... This just furthers my point that players, especially newcomers, cannot ask for a character that can instantly kill you with a snap of their fingers... They have to be detailed and fair.

" There's an un-written rule among admins that basically anyone is allowed to roleplay their very first character without applying for about a week. After that, the rules finally start to apply to them aswell. "

That's a pretty good rule, as seeing how i had no idea you were supposed to apply for the first few times i went on the server, and after about a week, i did get to the forums and eventually realised i did infact need to app.