Q: What brought you to our website? A: Recommendation of friends that are applying Q: This recruitment process requires that we get to know you a little bit. Please tell us a little about yourself. A: I'm Andrew. 23yo from GA. I've been gaming in some extent or another for as long as I remember, but definitely not what I consider "my life". I went to school for graphic design cause I've always enjoyed it, but up until a month ago I worked retail, and now I do landscaping, so I'm kinda all over the place there. On the "interests" side of things, I'm a whore for a lot of old/out-there music, I enjoy reading/discussing philosophy, I love anything with an engine (outside of two-wheeled death mobiles) and I spend entirely too much time watching anime. 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: Mine is not the place to judge anyone based on who they are or what they believe, so I completely agree with this. 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: Makes sense. Someone with multiple guilds is less likely to spend time in this one. 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: Not a problem. 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 'Guild 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: Works for me. 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: I do. It's good to be able to keep track of events and talk about the game with those you play with. 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'm more likely to RSVP than create, just my nature. But sounds good. Q: Have you been playing MMO's for a while, or are you just getting started? A: Started playing WoW back in Vanilla beta and played all the way through Wrath and quit a few months into Cat. 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: It allows everyone to track of what others play, what level they are, what builds the run, etc. Keeps everyone informed. 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: One of my nicknames in WoW was Axe Dwarf. And that sums it up. I mostly play DPS warriors, running around with the biggest weapon I can get my hands and wield it with a mix of tactics and bloodthirst. Not above running into a pack of mobs that out-class me and walking out with a smile and 10hp left. Oddly enough though, I plan to play a thief as my main for GW2. Most games with sneaky types never play the way I envision they should in my head, but GW2 is pretty close. I love the fluidity of the class in this game. Q: What type of playstyle do you enjoy the most? A: Most of the time in WoW I spent doing casual PvE. Questing and farming, picking a fight with anything that moved. I never really committed time to raiding or hardcore PvP due to time constraints and having to share a computer with someone who DID raid. But I'll definitely be trying out other facets of the game. 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: Yup. Q: What time of day do you typically play? How often? A: Late afternoon/evening EST. Most of the time I'm awake from Noon-4am, so you're likely to see me on at any point during that time. If I had to throw out a number on how often I'll play, I'd say anywhere between 15 and 30. Just depends. Q: Are you affiliated with any other guilds? A: No. Q: How do you think you can best help this community? How can this community best help you? A: I've always been good at listening to problems and finding solutions for said problems, or at least presenting another point of view. 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 think it works better with this style. Offers variety and brings a range of different people together. 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: One hand scratches the other. 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: Gives me another website to peruse, so I'm cool with it. Q: What previous experience, if any, do you have with the original Guild Wars? A: I played up through The Searing on a few different characters at different times. But as a whole the game didn't do anything for me. Specifically the movement mechanics of the game. (No jump?! Cmon!) Edit: Anal retentivity when it comes to text formatting.
Only sport I actively keep track with anymore is baseball. And being from GA means I gotta go Braves. When it comes to football, I usually pick on a game by game basis. Unless we're talking NCAA, and then I will always Roll Tide. It's the team my grandpa ALWAYS rooted for
I like your answers good sir, you have my respect! Make sure to stay active and post around in the forums (once you get your permissions from a guild leader) while we wait for the game to be released so you can get to know us all!
Hail and welcome to the Krewe! I could never figure out why the lack of jumping in GW1 bothered so many people. *cue Old Man Voice* Back in my day, we had to make do with Click-to-move, none of those fancy-schmancy "Keyboard movement" thingamabobs, and we could only use one skill at a time dagnabit! And that's how we liked it! And we had to walk to our missions, up hill, in the snow, both ways, with no shoes, with the Charr chasing us...
Very nice app. And thief love! I know the sneaky classes usually get pinned for being trolls, OP one week and underpowered the next. Good to see more thieves Welcome to the Gates! Our leadership should be with you shortly to decide your acceptance, but in the mean time please take a look around the site and familiaze yourself with our Code, Ethics and other information. I'm sure you'll find it acceptable for dealing with a mature and responsible group such as OSD. While we await the arrival of the Guild Wars 2 release date, we are currently very active on our forums. Hope to see you pitch in to the conversations! I hope you'll find everything to your liking here at OSD!
I've accepted your permissions and you are now an official Silver Dragon, welcome! Please check THIS out since it has many things that pertain to the GW2 division of OSD.
Hello Remolg, Welcome to OSD! If you have any questions , feel free to ask Very nice read (sorry for being late) I also like anime
Woot. Yeah, I looked around in guild and didn't really see much of an anime following, which isn't really that big a deal, but still.
Yay ^^ Since you have yours in your sig, here is my animelist : http://myanimelist.net/profile/SatokoChan you can see i'm not that active lately, I am in a drama phase for the last year. (japanese real actor shows)
Haven't really watched too many dramas. Last one I watched was on called Yasuko to Kenji. Wasn't too bad, but kinda screwbally. Live action Japanese shows are harder for me to get into for some reason.
