[CR8] THE CRATE
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Created: 2014-02-27
Rank
49
Score
3,112,671
Skill
535
K/D
2.100
Time
890h 51m
What is The CR8 all about?
Our mentality is best summed up with two words: Serious Fun. The “serious” reflects our emphasis on game-adapted, rooted-in tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as our maturity and collective attitude, while the “fun” stands toe-to-toe with it to ensure that everything we do is oriented towards making the most enjoyable experience possible for our memberbase.
Principles of CR8
Our group principles are the defining facets of what makes our group as solid as it is. Some highlights of these principles follow.
•Community is the key. There are many places you can go to to play Battlefield and have fun. However, if you’re looking for something higher to tie it all together, that’s where our emphasis on our community development and interaction comes into play.
•Teamwork, Maturity, and Integrity combined with a Quality-over-Quantity mindset. We hold our members to high standards of conduct, and the group experience benefits immensely in turn.
•Active community participation & interaction – the more you put into it, the more you get back. We aren’t in this to accumulate a roster of players who never actually play – if you join us, expect to see an active community that is regularly culled to remove any deadweight that might accumulate.
•Well-defined tactics, techniques, and procedures, with a group-level comprehension and proficiency of them. Our goal is to maintain a high level of tactical gameplay without having to resort to “drill sessions” or other tedious trainings. You’ll have our tactical guide as a reference as I email them to you, which you are encouraged to learn as you play, and over time you’ll see it all be put into good use in our sessions, with your own tactical proficiency and understanding increasing naturally, through enjoyable and intense gameplay.
Motivated leaders leading dedicated troops.
We strive for a high degree of competency in our playerbase insofar as leadership goes, as well as pride ourselves on how well our non-leading players will follow orders and conduct themselves in any given mission. Opportunities for leadership are plentiful, both at the start of the mission in the form of platoon commanders, squad leaders, fireteam leaders, and special group. You will find that a CR8 team member will follow you without hesitation into even the most absurdly “virtually dangerous” situations, as we’re all in it for a good time, and a glorious virtual death can be a hell of a lot of fun!
“No Bullshit” mentality.
Bring a foul attitude into the group or otherwise behave in an undesirable way and you can expect to see yourself shown the door. The group trumps the individual, and toxic attitudes are simply not tolerated.
Hopefully that gives you a good idea of where we’re coming from. That’s only part of the picture, of course.
What makes a good CR8 member?
The technical aspects are simple – anyone can download a few programs and install them, after all. If it were that easy to be a member, however, the group would never have amounted to anything. The real meat of it comes in our expectations from our playerbase. In keeping with our views of “Quality over quantity”, we are happy to sort through a dozen or more applicants to find a single quality player. We are pretty selective in who we bring onboard, and the quality of our playerbase and gameplay is a testament to this.
When it comes to reviewing applications, as well as observing the conduct of our probationary “pre-FNG” (aka ‘pFNG’) members, there are many things that we key in on. Some of the most important of those values are as follow:
•Friendly, respectful, and mature.
•Good sense of humor.
•Eager to learn and grow as a player.
•Teamwork-oriented mindset.
•Honest and accountable for their actions.
•Motivated and dedicated to making the group and our experiences the best they can be.
•In it for the “long haul” – flavor-of-the-week players need not apply.
•You’ll note that “skill” does not appear on that list – skill can be taught, after all! Who you are as a person is of far more importance to us – we look for good people with good attitudes who can add real value to our community. Attitude and personality are traits that we have little chance of molding online, and we simply do not have time to deal with people who exhibit bad behavior or sportsmanship from the outset.
Also note that we are centered around the PST/PDT timezone (UTC -8/-7), and expect our members to participate in our primary Saturday sessions which occur each Saturday starting at 7pm local. We also have Thursday sessions at 7pm local, and tend to do various other things at other times throughout the week.
Our mentality is best summed up with two words: Serious Fun. The “serious” reflects our emphasis on game-adapted, rooted-in tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as our maturity and collective attitude, while the “fun” stands toe-to-toe with it to ensure that everything we do is oriented towards making the most enjoyable experience possible for our memberbase.
Principles of CR8
Our group principles are the defining facets of what makes our group as solid as it is. Some highlights of these principles follow.
•Community is the key. There are many places you can go to to play Battlefield and have fun. However, if you’re looking for something higher to tie it all together, that’s where our emphasis on our community development and interaction comes into play.
•Teamwork, Maturity, and Integrity combined with a Quality-over-Quantity mindset. We hold our members to high standards of conduct, and the group experience benefits immensely in turn.
•Active community participation & interaction – the more you put into it, the more you get back. We aren’t in this to accumulate a roster of players who never actually play – if you join us, expect to see an active community that is regularly culled to remove any deadweight that might accumulate.
•Well-defined tactics, techniques, and procedures, with a group-level comprehension and proficiency of them. Our goal is to maintain a high level of tactical gameplay without having to resort to “drill sessions” or other tedious trainings. You’ll have our tactical guide as a reference as I email them to you, which you are encouraged to learn as you play, and over time you’ll see it all be put into good use in our sessions, with your own tactical proficiency and understanding increasing naturally, through enjoyable and intense gameplay.
Motivated leaders leading dedicated troops.
We strive for a high degree of competency in our playerbase insofar as leadership goes, as well as pride ourselves on how well our non-leading players will follow orders and conduct themselves in any given mission. Opportunities for leadership are plentiful, both at the start of the mission in the form of platoon commanders, squad leaders, fireteam leaders, and special group. You will find that a CR8 team member will follow you without hesitation into even the most absurdly “virtually dangerous” situations, as we’re all in it for a good time, and a glorious virtual death can be a hell of a lot of fun!
“No Bullshit” mentality.
Bring a foul attitude into the group or otherwise behave in an undesirable way and you can expect to see yourself shown the door. The group trumps the individual, and toxic attitudes are simply not tolerated.
Hopefully that gives you a good idea of where we’re coming from. That’s only part of the picture, of course.
What makes a good CR8 member?
The technical aspects are simple – anyone can download a few programs and install them, after all. If it were that easy to be a member, however, the group would never have amounted to anything. The real meat of it comes in our expectations from our playerbase. In keeping with our views of “Quality over quantity”, we are happy to sort through a dozen or more applicants to find a single quality player. We are pretty selective in who we bring onboard, and the quality of our playerbase and gameplay is a testament to this.
When it comes to reviewing applications, as well as observing the conduct of our probationary “pre-FNG” (aka ‘pFNG’) members, there are many things that we key in on. Some of the most important of those values are as follow:
•Friendly, respectful, and mature.
•Good sense of humor.
•Eager to learn and grow as a player.
•Teamwork-oriented mindset.
•Honest and accountable for their actions.
•Motivated and dedicated to making the group and our experiences the best they can be.
•In it for the “long haul” – flavor-of-the-week players need not apply.
•You’ll note that “skill” does not appear on that list – skill can be taught, after all! Who you are as a person is of far more importance to us – we look for good people with good attitudes who can add real value to our community. Attitude and personality are traits that we have little chance of molding online, and we simply do not have time to deal with people who exhibit bad behavior or sportsmanship from the outset.
Also note that we are centered around the PST/PDT timezone (UTC -8/-7), and expect our members to participate in our primary Saturday sessions which occur each Saturday starting at 7pm local. We also have Thursday sessions at 7pm local, and tend to do various other things at other times throughout the week.