Hey pre-beta guardians, my name's R. J. Whyte and I'm interested in not having to constantly team up with impatient kids (or too-busy-to-smell-the-flowers-on-Venus adults) who are more interested in rushing a Strike (or other mission/etc) than exploring, experiencing, and maybe a little fooling around. _________________________________________________________________________ If this sounds similar to how you feel, stick around. This is going to be a bit of a long post. Grab a glass of water, friend. _________________________________________________________________________ Played any other sandbox-y online games before? Then you might know how long (and awkward) it can take (and be) to carve out for yourself a new group of friends who share similar playing styles. Since most of the clan recruitments I've seen on the site have been rather vaguely nondescript, I've (impulsively) decided to see about forming one myself that tailors to my, specific, play style. _________________________________________________________________________ I'll get this out of the way first: I'll be playing Destiny on the PS4 -- yes, it's really expensive, and there's no Master Chief, but it gets beta access sooner than its Microsoft counterpart, and the experience may be (~may~ be) slightly better, performance wise (we don't have enough details -- we can only assume). In other words, I'm not a fanboy, I just want the best, soonest experience possible because I'm very excited about this new solar system based sci-fi/fantasy world. _________________________________________________________________________ About 'Joining': currently, I neither expect nor demand commitment from anyone who decides to pop into this thread and agree/talk about test driving such a clan. Commitment might begin to solidify later on if things work out -- and we can talk about that later, when it starts to become relevant to run raids, or etc. For now, we're simply exploring a possible experiment together. _________________________________________________________________________ Criteria for 'joining'. 1) In games such as World of Warcraft or Everquest, you always felt rushed by other players through the wonderful dungeons the game designers had made, always opting to skip neat aspects of the instances in favour of pleasing your more hurried companions. Now, you want to put your foot down. Now, you'd like to experience these dungeons the way they were meant to be experienced. In its most basic form, this means pacing yourself while in a Strike or Raid (assuming raids are what they appear to be). 2) You love Destiny as a first person shooter, but more importantly you love Destiny as a sandbox world. You love the world building enough that it makes you want to set out on an adventure of your own making. You want your legend to include more than story missions and PvP matches. In its most basic form, this means side-corridor/nook and/cranny exploration. This means (possibly) map making. This means venturing out into the wilderness between missions with the goal of discovery, treasure hunting, and experiencing the little things most other players usually fail to care for. 3) You consider yourself a semi-casual gamer. Maybe you don't often play video games, but then, when something new and wonderful appears, something amazing, you become obsessed with it for a time. You have work/life/family/friends offline that you care deeply about, and give a real effort towards returning to often; and that's perfectly okay. You're among likeminded friends here. Personally, my offline muse is my work -- a (currently offline) work-in-progress fantasy-novel-like (means: thick and fantastical) webcomic. I can, of a level, write and draw, and have been studying and practicing to do better disciplinarily for over 5-to-7 years. I want the comic to be big, and if it ends up being big, to speak for itself -- so I'll end that subject here. Just know that this is my personal life -- that which makes me a semi-casual gamer -- so I expect my fellow explorers to be of similar semi-casual gaming minds. _________________________________________________________________________ Fair warning: I don't know anything about bungie clans. I'm an idea man. I lead only when there's no one else doing it exactly how I think it should be done. I step up only when I have to step up -- but I do step up. If this'll be a thing, I'll need a few others to help me with leading, organization, etc. Being giddy is good, but don't be ravenously power hungry. I seek power in a way, but I'm not a 'power hungry type of person' -- believe me. ________________________________________________________________________ Currently, I'm not sure what we could call this clan. Likely something similar to: Explorers Guild (but perhaps not as bland sounding). ________________________________________________________________________ Words that describe how I feel about such a clan: Adventurer, Explorer, map maker, fooling around, experiencing the world and its wonderful minutia, semi-rowdy companionship, scientists, artists, world building lovers, semi-casual gaming, legend.