Award Name: Darkwind's Guiding Light This commendation is awarded to members who occupy a sanctioned leadership position anywhere within the community. Leadership is always a voluntary act within The Crescent Order. It is never as easy as it should be, and inevitably takes more IRL time than it aught to. Those members who give their IRL time for the sake of managing our TCO community so that we all can have a place to call home have our gratitude.
Award Name: Saphire Shard Outstanding numerous demonstrations of commitment to selflessness. This is easiest described as showing a lack of pride, arrogance, trash talking, rudeness, and a self-serving attitude. A continued display of a character that promotes the welfare and nurturing of fellow members, the promotion of the guild, the enjoyment of all, of the guild and communities, with no concern for personal glory or accomplishment embodies this tenet. This is the TCO Good-citizen commendation.
Award Name: The Crescent Cluster As TCO has a rich history in online gaming, the Crescent Cluster commendation is intended to recognize a member's efforts on that front. Organizing and leading (or participating in leading if using an in-game leader class to lead the group) significant ingame events are the qualifications for this commendation. These can be adventure based, such as marquis dungeons or battle zones, or social events, or role-playing settings.
Award Name: Shield of Service As TCO has a rich history in online gaming, the Shield Of Service commendation is intended to recognize a member's efforts on that front. The Shield Of Service is awarded to members who go above and beyond the measure of standard membership by providing ingame crafted resources to other TCOers.
Award Name: Light Of The Loreseeker As TCO has a rich history in online gaming, the Light Of The Loreseeker commendation is intended to recognize a member's efforts on that front. Recipients have exceeded the expectations of general membership on multiple occasions by gathering and compiling into a usable form, information usable to TCO gaming groups. This is not simply posting patch notes or information from another website before anyone else does, thought such actions are always welcomed and appreciated. It is researching information, gathering quest data, compiling stacks of information, creating tools for players to make a game’s more tedious portion more manageable, and so on.
Award Name: Ruby Suns Outstanding and multiple demonstrations of commitment to maturity, especially during heated debates; pattern of behavior demonstrating a continued respect for this tenet is a requirement for all members. Members who can be pointed to as paragons of those values are candidates for Ruby Suns. A secondary possibility for award of this would also be for a public apology and sincere humility when situations get out of hand. In all cases, multiple demonstrations of maturity should be used to guide awarding this honor.
Award Name: Crest Of Fellowship The Crest Of Fellowship is awarded to members who spend substantial time assisting other veteran players achieve their goals with no opportunity for personal gain. This effort cannot be concurrent with what is considered "grinding" a player's own class or gaining any treasure or items beyond the nominal, as it is not considered a sacrifice of time. The veteran player(s) must benefit from this assisting period, as well. There must be distinct goals that need to be accomplished, and the player must offer help to accomplish it, rather than simply do the task for the player. There is a great difference between helping and giving.
Award Name: Shepherd's Staff the Shepherd's Staff is given to members who spend excessive time mentoring, training, or otherwise sacrificing time to help new players. This effort cannot be concurrent with what is considered "grinding" a player's own class or gaining any treasure or items beyond the nominal, as it is not considered a sacrifice of time. The new player(s) must benefit from this mentoring period, as well.
Award Name: The Order Of The Crescent - Bronze Considered The Crescent Order's highest honor, The Order Of The Crescent is given to members who, in some way, eclipse expectations for good or even GREAT membership. Members are awarded The Order Of The Crescent when there is no recourse other than to point to that member and say "See? THAT is exactly what being a TCOer is all about".
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