How to join SoV Options

[Hesacon]

There are a lot of topics floating around with very good information and tips on joining us. I don't plan on cleaning them out, so if you happen upon one, I have done my best to put all the good information from them here.

Joining SoV is, relatively speaking, simple and straight forward. You must post a petition to join us in the petition center, in the game you play. A petition is a fancy word for an application, and isn't much different than you might fill out when applying for a job, a boat loan, or to get grandma out on bail.

This should be enough information for most people to be able to join, though I know from experience that it is not. If your IQ is above room temperature, it probably is, so I'll save you a wall of text and direct you where you need to go now.

Join in Well of Souls
Join in GunZ the Duel
Join in Gunbound World Champion
Join in Rappelz
Join in Grand Chase
Join in Steam

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If this isn't enough information for you, I'll expand on the process a bit.

First is why we do it. Why would a gaming guild require you to apply to join? Mostly it's to ensure quality. It's not that we don't think you would be a quality member who joins us and revolutionizes the guild, we would love that. It's that we're democratic and we're one of the few guilds out there where one member COULD revolutionize the guild. It has happened before, and gods-willing it should happen again.

Making you apply means that our members can make a good hard (or soft) look at you and deem you're worthy. Nobody joins us without knowing some of our members, and the petition process forces you to meet and greet a few of them. Very often members will ask you to contact them in order to join.

This serves two purposes. The first is so you know people in our community, so you don't feel left out or alienated. Remember, if you get accepted this forum belongs to you as much as anybody else in the guild. The second is so members get a chance to see your character, something a straight petition often fails to do. Winning over people is relatively easy. If you act crazy around some, they'll love you. Others if you fake loving football/BBQ/Dancing with the stars, they'll adore you. Or you can be genuine, and they'll love you for that too.

Remember though, not everybody gets accepted. We don't have any set quota of how many people we can accept, so don't worry about that. But how boring would it be if everybody who applied for Harvard got in? That's rhetorical, don't answer that. We are a great guild, so we need our members to be great. You don't have to be great right now, but if you prove to our members you can become great, then that's good enough. If you're great now, you might want to check your ego at the door you'll probably get accepted with no problem.

In order to get accepted, you need people to vote on your petition. Each realm (game we play) requires a certain number of points to join, and that number can easily be found in the topics I listed near the beginning of this wall of text. It's you're responsibility to get voters (you're joining us, after all). Most members love to vote and love to interact with prospective members, so it's typically very easy to find people.

Specific values for voters break down like this:

Non-members are worth 0 points, barely worth mentioning but sometimes they vote to be jerks.
Worshippers and non-realm knights (they play a game for SoV that isn't the one you are joining in) are worth 1 point
Realm Knights are worth 2 points
Semi-gods and Demi-gods are worth 3 points
God, Jotun, and Kai-gods are worth 4 points (but don't expect them to vote)

Members may also vote for less than what they can be worth, for example very often Kai-gods would only vote 2 of their 4 points for you. Color of their rank is a good way to tell the difference between ranks. Dark green are worshippers, green are knights, gold are semi-gods and demi-gods, and yellow are god, jotun, and kai-gods.

Should you get no votes, don't fret. The Gunbound branch did a really good job explaining how to solve that. It's so good I can't do it justice moving the information here.

After you get enough votes to get accepted, your petition will become pending for 3 days. This will let our members who haven't been able to be around a chance to catch up on it. It's mostly a formality, but there have been cases where people would self-destruct during this time.

Once your petition is accepted, you become a worshipper, which is a trial member for one month. At the end of the month, our current full members in your realm will decide if they want to accept you as a full member (a knight), or give you the boot. Being active in-game and on the forums usually makes for an easy knighthood. Disappearing from one or both might hurt your chances. Once you are knighted, you are a full member for as long as you wish to be. Really the only way we'd end up kicking you is if we catch you hacking, something we don't tolerate. You are a member for life and are free to partake of everything we have to offer and our glorious muffin basket.

[Hesacon]

I'm going to bump this just because it seems the best thing to have at the top of the forum.