Talk:House Application

The process for establishing an RPCSS Noble House/Guild changed after 9/1/19 when the shard went live. The process now requires role-play establishment before an application is approved and the team set up in RPCSS. This article will explain the process in detail but the basic concept is simple -- role-play comes first.

Process Overview

We are going to talk a lot about how the role-play of establishing a Noble House can go, what the options are, and what considerations need to be made, but lets go over the basic process first because its not in and of itself complicated.

First create a guild

The first thing you need to do is rent a house and place a guild stone. You will need to recruit players able to participate in RPCSS to join that guild stone. You must have yourself and two other players to get approved. All three of you have to be active players and set up on the guild stone with RPCSS roles. It's important that you know that a player can only have one PC with a guild role in RPCSS. The guild stone will not allow a player with an RPCSS role on another character to be given a RPCSS role in your guild.

Prepare the role-play

Contact the other guild leaders in the kingdom out of character and let them know you are intending to create a new noble house and role-play about the formation will need to happen as soon as they are available. Then continue reading below on the various ways that role-play might proceed. If they have not seen this page, be sure to share it with them.

Submit your application

You can go ahead and submit your application once you have let the other guild leaders know. Your application will likely sit on the forums for up to two weeks as the role-play of its formation happens. Expect questions to be asked about the history you write for the house. Expect other guild leaders and staff to offer concerns or warnings -- you are starting a house with the intention of entering a world at war, everyone will want to make sure you are prepared and understand the consequences.

Approval

Once your application is approved, and your guild stone check, Lara will have to create the house manually in RPCSS and then link that house to your guild stone. At that time you can begin to play the game.

The Role-Play Goals

Warning #1 ...

Starting off in RPCSS with one hex, no armies, no scouts and limited gold means you are extremely vulnerable.

There are three ways for you to fictionally claim a location for your new guild

1. Another house successfully moves one or more of their RPCSS armies into a set of hexes and occupies them on your behalf.
2. The royal house grants you a set of land within the kingdom borders.
3. You lay claim to a single hex.

Warning #2 ....

Any house may consider such action to be a threat and move against you before you've even recruited any units.

Another house can send you gold or transfer armies to help you.

1. RPCSS allows one house to send another house gold, this is existing functionality.
2. A house leader can ask Mith/Lara to transfer armies and units from their house to another house. This has to be done manually and can not exceed the new houses maximums for armies and units.
3. New houses may convert in game gold into gold bars upon formation only. The cost is 100,000 game gold for 1 RPCSS gold bar, with a maximum of 10 bars. This can not be done in installments, it's a single transaction which can only be handled by Lara.
4. All new houses will start with 3-5 gold depending on the size of the fortification. At this time there are no free castles, so expect 3.