Welcome to the Silver Gates for our Guild Wars 2 division! Please copy the following questions, and your answers of course, into a new thread to get the recruitment process started. When you create your new thread, please include your character/forum name, as well as the division you are applying for in the thread title. Q: What brought you to our website? A: Recruitment topic Q: This recruitment process requires that we get to know you a little bit. Please tell us a little about yourself. A: Age 48, male, married, Christian, working Q: If possible, it would be helpful if you could tell us what Account Name you are using in-game, as many members on our site here have a different user name compared to their account name. This will allow us to know it is you. A:I have several one is Kantazo Ben Joseph Q: All members are expected to uphold respectful conduct when communicating with other players and guildmates. This applies to in-game situations, our website and on guild/GW2 related websites and message boards. Intolerance for others based upon religion / sexuality / gender / ethnicity / etc. is not welcome. We are a guild of HONOR and INTEGRITY, and we reflect that in all public forums. The general rule of thumb is to treat people how you would like to be treated in return. How do you feel about this? A: Agreed as long as no one tries to push some type of agenda Q: In-Game Guild Status - Guild Wars 2 will allow characters to switch between multiple guilds as they wish while playing the game. The OSD Division Leadership Council within the Guild Wars 2 game expect that you will focus your time and energy towards this guild alone and will keep your characters as members of the OSD. Therefore it is an expectation that you will be 'representing' the Order of the Silver Dragons at all times while playing in-game as a member of this community. With that said, there might be a feasible reason why an ‘alt’ character or an RP character should be in another guild. Special cases and requests will be handled on an individual basis. What are your thoughts on this? A: I want to concentrate all my efforts in only 1 guild Q: Ventrilo is a communications tool that allows our membership to experience the full effect of being in a community-based gaming guild. If you feel alone in game and you don't feel that much is going on, or felt the scheduled event experience was lacking or not working as intended... it might just be because you aren't using the communications tools available to you. VENTRILO use will be 'Strongly Encouraged' for all players to actively use while performing normal game activities whenever you are playing in GW2. Even though it is not a requirement, it should be strongly considered for usage as a communications tool that allows our membership to experience the full effect of being in a community-based gaming guild. VENTRILO use can, and no doubt will be 'Mandatory' during organized guild events, such as Dynamic Content runs and meta-events/dungeons, WvW, sPvP, group or team meetings, as well as other types of scheduled events if the event coordinator advises of such. You don't have to speak if you don't want to, so long as you are on to listen to other members that might need help or guidance. With that said, we have several dedicated Vent rooms that allow you to sit quietly in peace if you so wish. All public discussion areas such as public vent channels are PG-13. Are you okay with our Ventrilo policies? A: Yes Q: If you are accepted as a member of our guild, you will automatically be placed at our 'New Member' position within the game. Please be mindful that this is not a single-player RPG game, but a multi-wing online gaming community. You will be expected to communicate, interact and support your fellow guildies, as well as ensure that you follow our Charter of Excellence at all times. In order to show your allegiance or loyalty to our community, we will ask that you perform certain 'Community Quests' that give you the opportunity to communicate, interact and generally become a member of our community (don't worry, they are enjoyable tasks that allows you to get involved with our player-base). Once these 'Guild Quests' are resolved, you will be raised one rank level in-game which allows you to access all the benefits of our guild. Are you okay with this? A: Yes Q: We have found that guild members have a better gaming experience if they use the forums and the events calender. This allows you to get game information and join guildies in events as your real life time permits. Do you intend on being active on our website forums and events calendar? A: Yes Q: Once you learn how, we would like you to create events or RSVP for other scheduled events as your real life schedule permits. What are your thoughts on this? A: I agree 100% Q: Have you been playing MMO's for a while, or are you just getting started? A: over 10 years Q: We expect all members to submit and update their characters in our Guild Wars 2 sub-forum 'Character Roster' (character name, class, level, possibly build, etc.). Are you okay with this? After reading the above content, why do you think it might be important? A: Because helps the guild better plan events Q: What kind of character do you typically play? Tell us about your main character you envision, and please list any alts that you know you will be bringing into the guild as well. A: Ranger and Warrior, I have an engineer and another ranger and working now in a mesmer Q: What type of playstyle do you enjoy the most? A: PVE and dungeons Q: If you violate any rules defined within the gaming EULA, you will face disciplinary action up to and including removal from this community. Do you understand, and agree with this rule? A: Yes Q: What time of day do you typically play? How often? A: weeknights between 7 pm- 10 pm Eastern, weekends depends what the wife has for plans Q: Are you affiliated with any other guilds? A: right now yes, but the guild is dead Q: How do you think you can best help this community? How can this community best help you? A: I am always willing to help, love to craft have several at max right now Q: OSD is generally a "casual, do it all" guild, meaning we welcome players from all playstyles and don't limit our focus to one playstyle in particular. We welcome PvPers, PvEers, Roleplayers, Crafters, etc. For example, while we may offer weekly raids, we are not a hardcore raiding guild that requires you to raid 5 or 6 nights a week. We also do not consider any one playstyle to be more important than another, all members of OSD are equal. For example, a hardcore PvPer will never be considered "more valuable" to the guild than a casual Roleplayer would be. Are you okay with this? Any additional thoughts on this topic? A: I am OK and agree 1000000% Q: With the previous question in mind...We will never force you to participate in any activity or event that falls outside your playstyle of choice. However, from time to time you may be asked to help the guild out if we are short a particular class, or just need to fill up an empty group spot. Are you okay with this? Any additional thoughts on this topic? A: I agree Q: We do ask that you stay active on the guild website as much as possible. We don't expect anybody to become a forum junkie by any means. But we do expect our members to cast their votes on any polls we put up, give input in any posts we make asking for opinions, as well as chime in with your thoughts when other members open discussions. What are your thoughts on this? A: I agree I think with the current status of the official GW2 we need a spot where we can share info and ideas Q: What previous experience, if any, do you have with the original Guild Wars? A: I played GW1 for over 3 years Let the community chime in at this point. There might be a few questions. Here's a good opportunity to get to know us. We have some folks that post an intro and are never to be heard from again. This is a good indication to us that this player is not very forum active...not what we want!! So, we encourage you to keep tabs on your intro post in case a member has a question or comment for you. Or if you have any questions for us, feel free to post them up, and we will answer them as best we can.
You sound like you would be a nice fit to our family and look forward to seeing you around. Welcome to the Silver gates!
Shouldnt be to long and if i happen to talk to leadership before they see this i will make them aware of it so it can get pushed through
Welcome to our website. I've reviewed your application but have one question. Can you elaborate more on the below? I'm not sure what you mean? Q: All members are expected to uphold respectful conduct when communicating with other players and guildmates. This applies to in-game situations, our website and on guild/GW2 related websites and message boards. Intolerance for others based upon religion / sexuality / gender / ethnicity / etc. is not welcome. We are a guild of HONOR and INTEGRITY, and we reflect that in all public forums. The general rule of thumb is to treat people how you would like to be treated in return. How do you feel about this? A: Agreed as long as no one tries to push some type of agenda Also, you need to request permissions for our site. Please go to the top right SETTINGS, then choose PERMISSION GROUPS on the lower left. Please request both CITIZEN and MEMBER individually. Thanks. Zso
welcome to silver dragons - my new silver dragon warrior - i am silverar the leader warrior of the silver dragons
I am an older player and have been in many guilds in other games and always the guilds that have failed is due to someone coming with an agenda, trying to impose some type of religious view, or sexual type of orientation that creates division in a guild. I am against creating division. I am a believer but I dont try to convert or recruit anyone to follow my beliefs. I always ask when someone has an issue with family been sick or going through problems, if I can pray for them and I always do it through pm so would no bother anyone. I always respect everyone and I always abide by the rules of the guild.
Sorry to see I didnt get approved, well I wish you the best, have fun, seems you have a great guild here. Hope we can cross path again in Tyra.
Well I applied for the permit in the groups today at noon and still have not been approved while others who applied after me got approved. So I really dont understand, no nard feelings do, guilds have the right to choose who they want as members.
I dont believe that is the case here tho leadership has family and works as well so they cant always get to it right away I havnt seen Zso on yet today to deny or approve your acceptance trust me if you were denied they would not just simply ignore you they would let you know and give you just cause of why just give it a little time and he will get back with you per your acceptance i believe the others that you see as accepted before you were accepted around the same time you were asked the questions and since they have just been welcomed by members and such so as i said give it a little time and he will get back with you
Great I will wait, in game I am Kantazo Ben Joseph and I already change servers so if you see me online give me a shout Ranger 80
I don't think anyone has said that you haven't been approved or did I miss something? I'll look at your permissions in a sec here.
Sorry for the delay...but... Welcome to the Silver Gates, we ask that all members absolutely review and abide by our CHARTER OF EXCELLENCE at all times, which is accessible by all non-members on our front-page. Please make sure that you completely read the Charter so that you don't have any issues later on. Also, please take some time to review the following information for our new arrivals: NEW ARRIVAL INFORMATION One of the aspects of the New Arrival Information has to do with the concept of our Vassal Rites of Passage (Community Quests). If you wish to have full access to our guild benefits, you would need to get involved with the community via these quests. We expect that all members try to stay as active as possible in these forums so that the rest of the guildies get to know you better. Please feel free to take a look around, there is a vast wealth of information at our website. Please become active in our GW2 community by posting and getting involved with the other members here in the OSD. Permissions are all done! You are now a member of the OSD. Please ask us any other questions you may have and we'll gladly answer them. Please get in touch with either Zsolaith or myself in-game for a guild invite. Alternatively send us a MAIL message in-game, or contact any of the other officers.
There's a stickie for it: http://silverdragons-lair.net/showthread.php?14651-Ventrilo&highlight=vent+info
