Linkshell Recruiting | Altruistic Knights | PST~EST |

[myoozek]

*** We are no longer recruiting at this time, apologies for the delayed responses to interested parties. **

Greetings!

As an opener:
altruistic |ˌaltro͞oˈistik|
adjective
showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish

History/Intent
Created sometime in Spring of 2011, merged with Materia Lies linkshell around December of 2011.

I founded Altruistic Knights a few months after game launch for many reasons, chief among them was to foster a kind, helpful, while still skillful kind of environment that included all of its players. Although this idea is easy to put down on paper, I found it to be difficult to execute.

In both XI and XIV linkshells I've been in, I found myself in this paradox: as a new player, you tend to get sidelined or 'benched' while the senior players go off and clear the path, but in order for you to become senior, you have to participate, which can be very hard to do, because you are new. It can be very frustrating trying to force your way into the 'in' crowd of an established linkshell, and let's face it, not all players are that assertive.

As a leader, I've always been incredibly involved with ensuring, over anything else, that the linkshell is healthy and fun! Cliché as it is, fun is such a critical element to a game, especially one that is so heavily dependent on teamwork and cooperation. That being said, it is my on-going mission to ensure that no player gets left behind or neglected, and that we have a kick-ass time in Eorzea.

Schedule / Time
AK is primarily PST centric, with many players from EST joining in during late nights (typical event times or times when most active are between the hours of 5PM PST ~ 11PM PST). We have a loose schedule currently in place: SUN / TUE / THUR. Like many other linkshells, we've no set time frame in place - if there are enough to form a run, we run.

Events
Everything the game has to offer. Recently we've been hitting Cutter's Cry (a few wins in already), started Aurum Vale this week (win should be by week's end) - EDIT: got our win in last night actually, as a result of some minor tweaks to our approach, and got numerous drops, including darklight boots! - as well as the older content (Ifrit, Moogle, Darkhold, World NMs, Strongholds, Spiritbond/EXP). Something of note around events is during scheduled event nights, you are more than likely going to participate. Save for the leader or two to actually lead the event, leaders or more active players tend to have less priority, (willingly! mind you) because we're just awesome like that. I will personally sit out on events to ensure spots are open for those who can't raid every night of every day of every week. Rest assured we are not the type of linkshell to work off 'merit points' or 'seniority status' or 'attendance' of any kind.

Participation/Invitation
Historically, AK is very conservative with inviting members. We tend to shy away from blind invites in favor for players that at least a few of us are confident in bringing into the linkshell.

That being said, our invitation model is as follows: run with us a couple of the nights, make sure to interact with at least 3 out of the 5 leaders (we're on very often) and show some willingness to participate and show some skill. If lacking in the latter, show some willingness to learn and improve your skill.

We are more than willing to take the time out of our day to teach/coach/spar, but you need to show decent signs of competency and improvement. This was given serious thought, as inviting blindly without any insight into your skill-level could mean hours wasted if brought to an event, and wasting members' time is not our business.

We are not a social linkshell, we are an end-game linkshell, just with out the douchebaggery.

As a member, it's absolutely acceptable for you to be active in other linkshells, however we are expecting your participation on scheduled nights.

We discourage players that log in just to ask for resources. Friendly as we are, our resources are reserved for own, and should not be taken advantage of.

Dynamic
Just a quick note about the linkshell dynamic. We discuss everything, from how the Packers beat the Suns during the Stanley Cup with a bicycle kick on the 18th hole - or sports for those of you who aren't familiar with what I was just talking about, to cars, music, movies, cupcake type pastry things, other video games, computers, food, all that jazz (jazz included), as well as constantly discuss all the new game changes and mechanics (spell casting, positioning, abilities, effectiveness, weapons, alchemic items, food items, materials, synths, etc.)

We are a self-sustaining linkshell, but to tap into our resources, you'll need to be dedicated and loyal knight, not just any geek of the street; gotta be handy with the steal, if you know what I mean. Earn your keep!

We use teamspeak mostly for our events, but also use it often to just be lazy and not type. A few of us have game parsers set up to gauge player effectiveness (we are not crazy Nazis about this, but as I alluded to earlier, we do still strive to be on top of our game and skillful in all that we do).

We employ guildwork to meet our website needs, but may switch platforms to a different hosted tool.


tl;dr?
WEBSITE: ak.guildwork.com
VOICE SERVER: Teamspeak3®
GAME SERVER: GUNGNIR
TIMEZONE: PST~EST
SCHEDULED NIGHTS: SUN | TUE | THUR
LINKSHELL TYPE: AWESOME, KICKASS, AMAZING
LEADERS: MOMO MOCHI | TEZZ XIVECTRO | LYNDRIA ATRA | AVA PUBLIUS | XEONA ATRA |

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[ChickNorris]

Nice post^^

[TempestReve]

lol chicky. How IRONIC that the both of us wander in to this one ne~ *will be stalking (lovingly) the AK's to try and join in for mergey goodness*

[Xoo]

Also interested in these guys. Very nice group I ran AV with last night.

[TempestReve]

Lol. my whole social is migrating NOOOOOOO *kidding*

[myoozek]

Thanks for expressing le interests, folks. As mentioned, yes please come find any of the leaders when you are on and let them know you're interested. We don't have an application page, but perhaps we will before day ends - I'll discuss that.

As a side note, I won't be in game until this Saturday - I would encourage you to check out our website, meet and greet with the leadership, run some events (THUR/SUN) and simply express some interest.

I personally like to 'background' check and ask what linkshell you come from and why you're leaving, in addition to 'front ground' check insofar as asking what you are looking for and hope to achieve in a new linkshell - but that's just me.


**Xoo, apologies for last night's debacle - we fixed our glitch I believe, and should you re-run AV with us, more success shall be had.

[TempestReve]

^.~ will be stalking the leaders for sure (er while im in game). Xoo actually pointed me your way as we are all in a social together and he said he had a fair bit of fun with your group last evening.

I'll be around.... sporadically. Unfortunately my computer decided to die on me a good 3 weeks ago and i have been borrowing my husbands. As he's back from his trip, i will be on much less then usual ^^; Is there any way i could convince you to part with a general time frame for when you generally host events on event days? It would make my stalking much simpler and give me a time to toss my spouse ^.~

As for the BG checks and such, did you prefer to do them on here or . . .in er person as it were XD

[myoozek]

^.~ will be stalking the leaders for sure (er while im in game). Xoo actually pointed me your way as we are all in a social together and he said he had a fair bit of fun with your group last evening.

I'll be around.... sporadically. Unfortunately my computer decided to die on me a good 3 weeks ago and i have been borrowing my husbands. As he's back from his trip, i will be on much less then usual ^^; Is there any way i could convince you to part with a general time frame for when you generally host events on event days? It would make my stalking much simpler and give me a time to toss my spouse ^.~

As for the BG checks and such, did you prefer to do them on here or . . .in er person as it were XD

We have the scheduled nights just to give people kind of a time frame with which to plan around - but during off nights, if there are enough people, or if people need help with things (IE spiritbinding, exp, PL -meh- , or AF armor) we assist for sure. Also, we may still raid on off nights also, but we are trying to reserve those nights for our strategists so that we can better direct and explain scheduled night events easier (as opposed to figuring it out and confusing everyone while IN the raid). So by all means, contact us whenever.

Regarding BG/FG checks - I really don't want to/plan to formalize any of it. It's just friendly chat, so you could send me a /t, forum message (don't even know if the forums supports that), or guildwork message works best.

Sign up for the website if you do plan on joining, though by all means, make sure to vet us out as much as we vet you out.

Vet me out, vetting you out, vetting me out....

\m/

[Xoo]

I will be directing my wife, Ember Thorn, your way as well. Extremely helpful, nice, and competent player. She's been behind awhile due to lack of interest, but plays daily again.

[ChickNorris]

lol chicky. How IRONIC that the both of us wander in to this one ne~ *will be stalking (lovingly) the AK's to try and join in for mergey goodness*

Ava seems like a fine person to stalk. I think is safe to assume that this being their representative, you not only will be in good hands, but also will have conversations that don't fall in to an infinite regression. Both things I think would be good for you^^