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Do you have a passion for Hellgate: London? Perhaps you've focused your skills on a single class? Maybe you can't get enough PvP? Are you often finding yourself thinking of items you believe would fit the Hellgate: London universe? Or do you have a vision for how the user interface could function more efficiently or seamlessly?

If you've answered yes to any of these question, you ought to read the following document detailing the Team Advocate Program.

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TEAM ADVOCATE PROGRAM

What is the Team Advocate Program
The goal of our Team Advocate Program is to amass the feedback, knowledge, and play experience of our community to better ensure that every aspect of Hellgate: London is as enjoyable as possible.

What are Team Advocates
Team Advocates are players that volunteer their free time to assist the Hellgate: London development team by providing testing, compilations of player feedback, general feedback on proposed changes, and new ideas on ways to improve their area of the game. Team Advocates also have a secondary mission of helping to keep the player base informed on Flagship Studios' positions on issues related to their topics.

The primary objective of the Team Advocate is to properly understand and clearly and constructively articulate the relevant issues in their respective fields faced by players. Secondary goals are to perform specific testing and otherwise collect pertinent data to help determine balance issues or pertinent bugs. Team Advocates will be required to write and submit reports at intervals determined by the Team Advocate coordinator, listing the top issues regarding their associated area of the game. For example, for a Class Team Advocate, these issues may include the balance, functionality, or overall feel of individual skills, skill groups, items, or item types available to the class, attribute benefits and requirements, performance in PvE and PvP situations, group utility or viability, and bugs associated with their class.

Being a Team Advocate requires a significant commitment of time and attention that should be viewed as a voluntary labor of passion.

Available Team Advocate Positions:
-- Blademaster
-- Engineer
-- Evoker
-- Guardian
-- Marksman
-- Summoner
-- Interface/UI
-- PvE (Monsters and Quests)
-- PvP
-- Items

How Do I Become a Team Advocate
Players that are interested in applying for a Team Advocate position should email Flagship Studios' Team Advocate Program. Please be sure to include the name of the position you are applying for in the subject of your email for quicker consideration (i.e. Blademaster Team Advocate Program). Team Advocates will be selected based on many factors.

These factors include, but are not limited to:
Past history as a Test Center or Beta tester
Past history as a responsible poster on various Hellgate: London forums
Your opinion on how your aspect of the game fits into the current state of the game
Your opinion on your class's balance, if applicable, in the current state of the game
What, if anything, you would change about the aspect of the game you wish to represent, and why
The ideal candidate for a Team Advocate position will have most or all of the following attributes:
Positive attitude regarding Hellgate: London and the potential to improve your area of the game
Detailed knowledge about the area of the game you wish to represent
Ability to be a team player and work well with others
Ability to create a concise periodic report on the top issues regarding your topic
Ability to identify existing issues with your aspect of the game that may need to be addressed
Ability to collect and present supporting data
Ability to evaluate proposed changes to identify possible unintended consequences or issues
Ability to handle discussions with players, testers, other Team Advocates, and developers in a mature and reasonable manner
Ability to interact with Team Advocate coordinator and other development team members
Willingness to participate within the spirit of the Team Advocate program and remain constructive and positive
Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding all information discussed in the program unless they receive expressed consent to the contrary
Ability to maintain a neutral point of view in regards to relative balance
Significant knowledge about game elements pertaining to Hellgate: London in general
When applying, please include as much of the following information as possible:
Why you feel you'd be an effective Team Advocate
Your experience in the area of the game for which you are applying to represent
List of your level 35+ characters and their name, class, and server
List of any public Hellgate: London boards you post on, and your posting handle or ID
Your real life name and email address
Who is Eligible to be a Team Advocate
You must complete the Flagship Studios' Participation Agreement ("FSPA") and return the FSPA as described below.
You must have an active Hellgate: London subscription or lifetime account, agree to the Team Advocate guidelines, and follow all EULA and TOS rules that apply to all players.
All applicants must be at least 18 years of age to participate in the Team Advocate Program.
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Interested? Excited? Want to participate? Great! The Team Advocate Agreement PDF can be found here. To apply, fill out the information in the agreement - but first determine how you want to send it back to Flagship Studios. If by fax, you can fill it out by hand and fax it to (415) 489-1498. If by PDF/image, you can fill it out digitally (Photoshop, for example). Write out and scan your signature, emailing it with the PDF/image of the agreement.

Good luck to all applicants!
-- Scapes