So, sorry if this question has been asked a million times and folk are sick of hearing it/answering it. I'm a super casual player who comes and goes every 2-3 months as and when motivation to play reaches fever point. So, I'm not sure what the current state of a lot things are. I've tried a quick search, but haven't found anything relevant, so...
But like the title says, has there ever been a precedent for getting an award base race/thing just from an application or some other process? Without having to get a character to 30, etc and sack it off?
I only ask, because... well. As I said at the start. I'm a super casual player. Between busy work and life, I don't get a lot of free time to play, so I know my lot in Arelith-server-life as it were has to be relegated down to the role of background character or comedic relief 'one off' moments of RP. I simply don't have the time commitments to try for anything major on the server (in terms of joining factions, making big waves in any circle, etc). But I'm fine with that, and happy with that. I love that type of RP really.
Having said that though, there's some character concepts (namely one) that I'd love to play in this manner, but simply feel like there's a barrier to ever playing simply due to my life circumstances and not having the time/patience/commitment to grind up to 30 and sacrifice characters.
I know it's a selfish thing, and there's obviously a system in place, and special treatment doesn't have to ever be given out, but I'm just curious if there's ever been some manner of ... circumventing (?) is the wrong word, cos it implies some underhand nonsense, but just some polite lenient way to just let someone play a certain race or whatever award thing (within reason, obviously) without the (real) life sacrificing manner of gaining it?
Sorry again if this is a topic that's been exhausted to death.
