Application staff review and approve or deny applications both on the website and on-game. Applications are read through by this team of individuals and discussed, then weighed against the balance of the game and existing characters. Providing the character seems feasible and a good 'fit' for the game, appstaff will then either approve the character if it's already ready for the game (perhaps with requests for things to change in chargen, or deny with feedback on how to adjust the character to be a better fit for the game.
Please do not take concept denials personally. Not every concept will work in the XMR setting.
This team is also responsible for dealing with any character upgrades or updates that are requested by players on-game. Upgrades are additions to the +char sheet giving the character additional powers/power facets, flaws or specs (special abilities). Updates edit existing traits already on the +char sheet. Both of these are used after a character has been active in RP for a while and has been working toward gaining these changes via RP (i.e. he's been testing their super strength over the last four weeks and logs of scenes of him working out in the gym with increasing weights support this, so the player updates his upper limits from 300 lbs to 400 lbs.).
Keep in mind that the time of play and how logs support these additions will vary depending on what trait is being applied for.
The Appstaff Team: Currently, the application staff team consists of Alice and Hraun with some part-time help from others, such as Soho.