How To Join The " C:\>| Older Than DOS |.exe " FAMILY.


Thank you for your interest in joining the Older Than DOS FAMILY. To ensure that all members are mature and have moderately proficient playing skills, we require that all potential members submit an application for consideration before joining.


We are looking for the following in a New Family Member:
  1. Maturity - Good sportsmanship, good attitude, and a sense of humor.
  2. Playing Skill - The PERSON, out measures any of their playing skills.
  3. We are a FAMILY, we are only looking for long term committed Members willing to grow and evolve with the {OTD}Family.
  4. Born before DOS.
    * Younger than 21?
    Explain in your application why an exception should be made in your case.
    How do you demonstrate the maturity of someone who can fit in the Family?


To apply, please complete the following. This is a simple 6 step process:
  1. If you belong to another HL2 or TF2 Clan, Group or Family.
    Please go Play with them! {OTD} is a one TAG FAMILY.
  2. Accumulate a minimum of 72 Lifetime hours on any of our servers before applying.
    Do not skip this step. Yes, we check. Applications submitted before you have done this will be denied. Check ingame time here, look yourself up.
  3. If you have not already done so, sign up to use our forums using the forum registration form.
  4. Make a new thread, in the "How to Join - Famliy Applications" Area. As the subject of your post, use your ingame player name, followed by a dash and the word "Pending".

    For Example: "Mr Smith - Pending"

    In your post, include ALL of the following information:

    1. The nickname(s) you use while playing.
    2. Your Steam name which people can use to add you to their friends list.
    3. Your Steam ID. Find your Steam ID here, look yourself up.
    4. You have READ and can FOLLOW The Family's Rules & Policy
    5. Do you have a mic ?
    6. Have you used TeamSpeak ?
    7. Tell us about yourself... Where are you from, your interests, gaming history, where you are at in life, etc... Introduce yourself to those who may not know you yet.
    8. Tell us WHY you want to join the Family.
    9. Your Age. (If Younger than DOS, Why exception?)
    10. List the names of some current Family members who can vouch for your maturity, and to a certain extent, your playing skill.
    11. Let us know which of our servers you play on regularly so that we can be looking for you.

  5. After you have made your post, family members will reply to your thread to discuss it and, if they are willing, they will say that they endorse your application or "vouch" for you. This process can take several weeks, so please be patient and do not post in your own application thread unless asked to. If you've only been playing with us a few weeks then most people will not know you well enough to vouch for you, so it would be a waste of everyone's time to submit an application so soon. It would be best to wait. There may be additional questions for you, so please keep an eye on things.
  6. When the discussion is complete, a "Founder" member will mark your application as approved or denied. If they tell you that your application has been accepted, THEN you can add the {OTD}[R] TAG to the front of your ingame name.
IMPORTANT! - Please do not ask people to vouch for you, and there is no need to thank people for doing so. We do not want family members to endorse your application for any reason other than those outlined above (maturity & skills). Asking for endorsements will just make you look very silly. You can let people know that you have an application pending, so that people will know to pay attention to your playing habits and make their own decision, but campaigning for endorsements is not allowed.

Once again, thank you for your interest. We look forward to hearing from you.

TIP: A well thought out application goes a LONG way towards demonstrating your maturity, also it would not look to good to have your first post to our fourm your application.

Last Update: 7/8/11 - {OTD}Cuz