Quote Originally Posted by Mjollnir View Post
An educated guess would be that they collated all of the applications, split them by region and then divided those again between high/required spec PCs (as per the application) and then invited a given number from each subsection, determined completely randomly.

Activity/inactivity/Legacy/forum post count/character name shouldn't play a part in selection.

Just a guess though, based on the application process and what we know is being tested in this phase.
Wow somebody actually thinking logically on the lodestone, that's rare! I agree, after seeing the application it's pretty clear they want as wide of a variety as possible, regarding both location and pc spec.