News: The Crescent Order to open Hero's Journey branch

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Hail Hero's Hall users,

The Crescent Order (TCO) was a guild originally formed for SWG, some years before SWG went live. It was one of the early SWG guilds that the original SWG dev team leader, Raph 'Holocron' Koster famously said wouldn't last beyond the game's launch. In reality, the group still exists five years later and still has an active presence in SWG. We actually outlasted Raph ;)

Of course, everyone already knows the issues that SWG has gone through over the years, so TCO eventually branched out into other games. Some it merely dabbled in, like City of Heroes, A Tale in the Desert, WoW and Guild Wars, while others became "official" TCO games, sitting alongside SWG. These currently include EQ2 and EVE, which both boast healthy memberships.

One of the key reasons for TCO's success over the years has been the fostering of a family atmosphere. It almost pains me to use that term now, because "family atmosphere" has become one of the most used and abused terms in guild recruitment. Back when we started, no one spoke about family... they just spoke about being uber and hacking and slashing their enemies and all sorts of other largely unfounded and unverifiable nonsense. But not us.

We set out to be different. We were different. And we're still here today :smiley:

Presently, I am working with the guild's council to create a presence for Hero's Journey inside TCO. This will be, essentially, a guild within the guild and the proposal suggests it will be administered by myself, Dirk Gently (who you already know from these forums, too), and a third member, Leo, who you will get to meet soon when she finishes some study.

I guess I just wanted to give you this initial heads-up for a few reasons:

(i) Dirk and I are becoming regular posters here and if you enjoy our company, or our comments, or our feelings on what makes a guild a fun place to be, or anything at all about us, I do want you to be aware that we're in the process of pulling a guild together.

(ii) To let you know that, while some people think that guilds which form pre-game are bound to fail, TCO is living proof that this isn't always the case. By choosing the right people, and staying active pre-launch, a strong, tight guild can be born... and prosper.

(iii) Of course, we already have the guild forums at www.thecrescentorder.com/forums and you are more than welcome to join them now. Upfront I will point out that 90% of the forums are only available to members, so you will only initially see a few forums where you can post and as we haven't verified our recruitment process for HJ yet, it could be some time before you progress beyond that point. But, as I say, the forums are there if you are interested.

(iv) It opens a dialogue here for anyone who has questions, or is interested in knowing more.

TCO has a long history of role-playing within MMORPGs and a reputation for being fair and just allies to like-minded guilds, and honourable adversaries to guild's which find themselves on the other side of the fence. Typically TCO aligns itself with the good side of things (eg: Rebels in SWG, Qeynos in EQ2, etc), although we sometimes create alts "on the other side" for fun role-playing and a little game diversity from time to time. But we aren't a "dark" guild.

We set tight, but not impossible, guidelines for recruitment and in doing so, seek to weed out the immature, the 133t speakers, and all the other types of people who are more than welcome to play the game... but not in our guild, thanks. We're really firm on that kind of stuff.

Rest assured, if you enjoy role-play and your idea of a good guild is one where people come together to socialise both in-game and out-of-game (no, we don't go for BBQs at each other's house, I mean socialise in a virtual sense via our forums), and you actually log into a game and CARE about other people and what they're doing, rather than just whether you can level or get another title for your character, I have no hesitation in recommending TCO to you.

At this stage, if you're in any way interested in us, I invite you to drop either myself or Dirk a message - or simply post below - and we can talk. As I said, we are still in the process of pulling the infrastructure together inside TCO, but that doesn't stop us chatting, getting to know each other, and pulling like-minded people together sooner, rather than later.

Cheers,
blur, aka Rob
 
That's... bizarre. I have no idea how that happened.

More than happy for a mod to close/delete the other one.

Sorry guys...!!!
 
Ahh, I see you made the post whilst I was not payin attention.... tricksy Blur... tricksy.

I guess that makes me the Dirk Gently of whom Blur spoke.
And yes, toss any questions at us, should you have any, or swing by TCO forums. We're fun at parties, good with children, 100% hypoallerganic and packed full of vitamins and minerals.
 
blur said:
That's... bizarre. I have no idea how that happened.

More than happy for a mod to close/delete the other one.

Sorry guys...!!!

NP blur it happens every once in awhile with these forums do to lag.

Your guild sounds great and hopefully we'll be seeing you in mass in HJ.:smiley:
 
Or even just in the game at all! Any plans for going in en masse are on hold until we can at least get a good core up and running... that's the real strength and heart of any guild, I reckon :smiley:
 
Just poking my head in here.. if you have any questions whatsoever about TCO, don't hesitate to ask, we'll be set up on our own boards soon enough (hopefully) and a lot of the paperwork is being done now (we're a stickler for orderliness, or at least I am). Hopefully things won't take too much long on our end but at least we can let you all know that things are underway and we'll be looking to expand our ranks soon so keep an eye out and get those character bio's ready for submission ;)
 
The Crescent Order looks like a great organization. You might look into joining the 'Hero Council' on the Official Site, if your group is intent on calling Elanthia home.

From the Official FAQ

Q. How can I get involved in Hero's Journey?
A. Have your guild leader join Hero's Journey's Hero Council. The Hero Council invites gaming community leaders to come together and act as representatives of their player communities and express their desires, thoughts and ideas for game design. In this manner, Hero's Journey will continue to be developed with a broadened range of input and more accurately depict what the player population wants. Ideally, it is a mechanism by which ideas can flow from the community to the community leadership to the Hero's Journey developers, eventually reaching a stage where these ideas can be considered for inclusion into the game. If you do not yet have one, you can create a free play.net account and then fill out the Hero Council application form here.
 
Yes, that has been something on our radar. It's such a great idea and our three leaders will channel into it through one representative well, I think.
 
Just wondering is Hero Council still active? Haven't heard anything about it in quite some time. Maybe if they write back to ya u could let us know
 
cordy said:
Just wondering is Hero Council still active? Haven't heard anything about it in quite some time. Maybe if they write back to ya u could let us know

The Hero's Council is still active. Not as much as the regular HJ forums, but they're active.
 
WatchMaker said:
Let me know when/if you guys get a IRC channel set up.
That'a an interesting thing... we've never had a dedicated one... given that 2 of our 3 "official" TCO games were SOE-based and we have a chat channel between EQ2 and SWG, which has kept all those members talking. As our third game, EVE was never all that big, so it didn't seem too "bad" that they weren't in the loop... and everyone uses IM, too.

But yes... hmmm... it's an interesting thing, actually, perhaps Leo, Dirk and I should look at an IRC channel for TCO:HJ (ie: the HJ branch of our guild)?
 
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