Q: What brought you to our website? A: Being playing quite a bit this past days and saw a couple of people running about with the OSD Tag around Tyria... So I searched for the website in Google. Q: This recruitment process requires that we get to know you a little bit. Please tell us a little about yourself. A: I'm originally from Nicaragua, but I am currently living in Miami studying my masters in behavioral neuroscience. I'm 28 years old, been a gamer all my life, from Atari to PS3. I love diving, I´m a PADI Dive Master and like to travel around the globe to find good diving spots. 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: It all comes down to respect, im easy going and I respect all players. 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´m ok with this, I have 2 current toons both of them would be part of the OSD. 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: Vent is my favorite voice comm program and the rules sound good to me. 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: Sounds good, im all about getting to know people and playing. I play MMOs for this exactly to have fun with others. 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: Sure, I have been using website and calendar system since I played LOTRO a few years back. 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: Sure thing. Q: Have you been playing MMO's for a while, or are you just getting started? A: Played Final Fantasy for a bit, then I got into LOTRO for about few years, really enjoyed that game. Then I moved to SWTOR, got to level 50 and this game came out, being waiting for it for a while so here I am. 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: Yes of course, this helps to see the gears that everyone has, to see the levels so this can help improve organization of the 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: I like healers, I was a minstrel in LOTRO and a Merc Bounty Hunter in SWTOR. This is why I went for a Guardian, was really interested in the Mesmer in this game too. Will probably roll a Necro afterwards. Q: What type of playstyle do you enjoy the most? A: I enjoy everything of the game, I like leveling slowly but thoroughly, I work on getting all the areas clear, gathering resources, working on dailies, etc. I really like PvP so WvWvW looks really appealing, but I like everything from Raids, crafting to PvP. 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: My schedule varies, but usually from 4pm till late in the evening. Q: Are you affiliated with any other guilds? A: Not at the moment. Q: How do you think you can best help this community? How can this community best help you? A: I want people to enjoy, have fun and play GW2 with so I think this goes both ways, you will have an active player to assist in your ranks and ill have people to kick butt with. 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: Like I said before, I do everything so I respect any and every game style. 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: Yes of course, I will be happy to help. 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: Im not much of a "forum new topic creator", but I do give my thoughs on things and try to be active in the forums. Q: What previous experience, if any, do you have with the original Guild Wars? A: I played, very quickly the 1st GW for just the trial time, just wanted to see whats up before I bought this one. I´m experienced with MMO´s though so that helps to get a grip on things quickly. Cheers! 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.
Application sounds good, you took some time to answer most questions and didnt just give a one or two word answer the whole way like some do Anyway, you seem like a great addition, welcome to the forums, and when leadership looks over it, hopefully you'll be officially welcomed in to OSD. Stick around, we'll see you around
A thorough player who enjoys exploring maps to completion? Dude, you have to find me in-game, I'm tired of being lost alone. Welcome to OSD!
Hey there Jetsu. Nice application. You still need to request CITIZEN permission groups at this time. I'll watch out for it.
Very informative application ^^ We love knowing more about our new members, Welcome to the guild Jetsu, I hope that you will like it here with us and I hope to see you ingame too.
Hello Zsolaith, the request for Citizen permision has been sent. Thanks everyone, who can I contact in game? I hope to see you guys online soon!
Permissions are all done! You are now a member of the OSD. Please take some time to review the following information as you will be expected to abide by our GW2 Charter of Excellence: READ THIS 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. Please ask us any other questions you may have and we'll gladly answer them. Please get in touch with either Xanz or myself in-game for a guild invite. Welcome! Zso
Great many thanks Zsolaith! I have read the information provided and I'm eager to start the Rites of Passage when I get the OSD tag. See you in-game soon!
Welcome Jetsu! Which model organism do you study behavorial neuroscience on? Sheepshead and I work in the same field basically. We work with drosophila melanagaster.
Hello Floydvoyd, The current research we are working on is neural mechanisms that help in the learning and memory process. We are working with monkeys. We have worked with mice, rats and humans also though. I am really interested in issues regarding drug abuse and stress exposure, this project uses transgenic mice basically for the experiments. I'm basically new at all this so it has been really interesting all around. What you guys working on? are you still at school or its your job already?
