Application: Clockwork

[Clockwork]

Introduce yourself. Who are you? What do you do? Where are you known? Why do you play Graal?

Hi, I'm known as Aeko in Graal, mostly Zone, and various unhosted servers such as Symphonia, and Utopia. I mostly create graphics, but possesses the ability to lat, gani, and sfx when needed on those servers.


Experience with "online-only" staff teams, including playerworld work here on Graal.

I have worked with many staff teams! Within Graal itself, I have worked for:

• Zodiac
• Symphonia
• Utopia
• Endora
• Many Dev servers, and several short term jobs at places such as Ol' West.

While also, outside of Graal I have been a Gamemaster for games such as Rose Online, and Ragnarok Online. I have owned my own private servers of a few online games and have before owned servers with a steady player count of around 100. Before all this though, I was an avid MUD player and admin. Mostly into building them, and coding them before I got into Graal.

Assuming you have piqued our interest with your qualifications, what makes you stand out as an applicant?

The qualities that would make me stand out as an applicant is my being a pacifist, I do not get into arguments, or get angered easily. I try to apply myself at anything I'm being given the chance to, and generally make friends with anyone I meet.

While I did review other applications that have been turned in, and they all listed that they have a unique timezone, I believe my timezone would allow me to see and help the most players as I live in EST timezone.

What is your education level? Are you employed? What amount of time can you dedicate to Graal-related duties each day?

I am currently a 12th grade senior in high school. By the time this application will likely be pooled in with the others though, I will be a high school graduate, and be working towards a bachelor's degree in Japanese and English, with my TESOL.

I am not employed, but plan to get a job by mid-July. On the weekends, I can usually dedicate 5-6 hours daily to Graal. On the weekdays I spend a little less, with around 3-4 hours a day.

What do you see that needs changing in Graal's playerworld policies?

One of the first things I could recognize for changing would be regarding trials and having advantages over paid accounts. For awhile now, the line between trial and paid accounts have been blurred with recent updates.

The policies themselves need to be more readily available and easier to find, while currently a copy of them is not even available in the forum rules and documentation thread (Despite the title of 'Forum'), and a search in Graal.net for 'policy' or 'policies' ends up with no matches.

Show us some examples of your good judgment in certain situations.

In the past I have saved playerworlds like utopia by conversing with Pwa's and respecting their decisions as I removed stolen content. While also on the same server, days later, I had been asked to edit stolen graphics. I have since quit utopia...

One last example was to fire people who had abused on the first offense. Once I had fired a man who I later found out was running an anti-graal website with many server files posted on it.