/wave Looking for membership.

[OldFatherTime]

Hi there, I'm looking for membership mainly to become part of "The Old Garrison" on Dunemaul. WoW.

However,stumbing across the site, it seems there are old folks everywhere on the fibre optics! I also play BF2 and DOD, though I have given up playing anything that moves at a faster pace than that. ie. Quake, Unreal etc.

Unfortunitely I'm in a bit of a situation: I dont, technicaly, meet your entry requirements. I'm only 21. I understand that you have entry requirements that you must uphold, however I shall make my case for an exception never the less.

I feel I'm more mature than most people my age, mainly because in the small village I come from all my friends were a lot older than me, so grew old before my time!

I feel like an old fart every day. Retired from my younger days of partying all weekend. (started on thursdays and finished on tuesdays) I now much prefer to stay in with my long term girlfriend at my house, with a DVD and a bottle of wine. followed shortly after by tea and bed!

In WoW I play at weekends and when i finish work at ten o' clock at night and really would like to party with some people who are around then. I have been in several guilds and am, to be honest, sick and tired of all the politics involved. I'm tired of joining 'pick up parties' only to have them ruined by the all too common "My mum is making me do my homework.." or "My dad say's i have to go to bed" and I'm tired of whining kids on teamspeak all the time.

I would like to hang around with like minded people online and I really enjoy the social aspect of a guild and helping each other out.

I lead the sort of life layed out in one of your recruitment posts( i think it was on a dunemaul site.. cant remember..) ie. Work.relationship.house.mental problems.dependancy issues and some time set aside for gaming [really enjoyed that post btw. whoever wrote it] however I'm 3 years short of the boundry...!

Please don't resign me to partying with kids and idiots!! I really have had enough of it.. and I dont want to have played all this time and give up because of politics and frustration!

you may have seen my looking for guild macro.. "no kids.no ninjas.no idiots."

Anyway. If you've got this far and actually do feel a little sympathy towards my plight heres the details:

60 human rogue.
Only blue gear, no epics.
attuned to the core. never been.
done ZG a couple of times
herb/alch

Thank for reading my Blurb!

Edit: Oh and I'm honest too! I could have said I was 25

Sorry to say but the stringent entry criteria mean that you can't join us just yet. TOG will be around in four years.
Come back in four years

[Rickety]

Hiya mate!

It's not the first time we have received such a request - but sadly, we do have a no exceptions policy on our age requirement. Even though we know we have people in our community over 25 who are perhaps 'less suitable' than some of those who are not yet of that age, this entry requirement is one of the few things we have that distinguishes our gaming community from many others.

The administrators (including myself) have often discussed relaxing the entry rules for cases such as yours, but we believe that if we do it once, it will create many difficult problems for us. We will then have to assess many applications to try and make some determination of the maturity of the poster - something that is far too subjective, very difficult to be consistent in, and ultimately liable to upset some people.

So I'm very sorry to have to say no. There seems little doubt from your post that you would be a welcome addition to the community - we hope you'll consider us when you turn 25 if you have not already found an online gaming community to settle in by then. Even if you have, I recommend and hope you revisit TOG; we are an ever-growing community and as such can offer many different things to different gamers.

My last comment, as you are an RPG player: many
TOG members don't mind grouping up frequently to game with people outside our membership - you are welcome to continue to use our public forums (the MMORPG one, for instance) to liase with the people you have developed ties with - I'm sure they would continue to enjoy your company in-game, even if communications are restricted by the rules that have been established over who can join our channels/guilds/outfits, etc.

Thanks again for your polite enquiry; best wishes for in the games and out of them.

[OldFatherTime]

Thats O.K. I had a feeling I was going to be turned away, but i understand.

Take it easy.