As the staff is in search for.. well new staff, I guess it should be a good idea to discus some things wich might be a subject for this:
Link to the Staff sign up topic
In my view there are more easy sollutions to the current problem. Lets say introduce moderators ingame. I know as i recently started exploring on a private server with some friends that well you can easy set moderator functions. Ak people who can have limited admin commands. other sollutions could be to adjust to the rules for PoB and change some of the useless and time consuming rules for factions like this rule:
Quote:4.10 Official player factions may request that the reputation of a player's ship be changed to hostile with respect to their NPC faction.
its something you cannot uphold, yet you spend time on it wich is just a bloody waste. The ones who are FR5 can easy rep themselves back and just let admins waste their time which they can use in a much better way for the community.
If things like these are not changed the new 'batch' how some might see and call it even will also get burned out before you can say CHEESE. Its not bad as I think every community suffers from certain problems which can be fixed with mostly good teamwork and communication.
An Admin must not be liked, some people know that others don't. You must be objective even towards the people you meet ingame and get to know over the time you play this game. I guess Zelot is one of the people who knows, as he was always there to be blamed. Not sure if he liked it or not. But as far I know he could be a good and valuable asset to the admin team once again. (at least if he wants into that seat again.)
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Second amendment gives the right for people to bear arms, yet not all of them can hold Bazookas. Point is, server rules don't matter much if someone goes wee-woo in RP ~ For instance, A faction that cannot engage in piracy does so because the other individual is happend to support a faction that is at "war" with them.
Most rule breakers are veterans as oppossed to newbies, newbies are more likely to follow the rules.
(08-07-2013, 12:36 PM)Tel-Aviv Wrote: Most people who get banned are bitter veterans as opposed to newbies, newbies are less likely to incessantly troll each other and the staff.
(08-07-2013, 12:36 PM)Tel-Aviv Wrote: Most people who get banned are bitter veterans as opposed to newbies, newbies are less likely to incessantly troll each other and the staff.
Fixed that for you.
You forget to edit in because no one listens to us and it's the only way to get any sort of attention.
"THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THESCIENCEIS LEAKING OUT!"
The server needs a strong admin team, willing to take the heat for all the problems. They need to be willing to sacrifice time out of their day, to ensure all is well. It's never going to be a simple task, nor will it be really a.. well, desired task. For it's a job, a responsibility. But as the name pool shows, those people are willing to sacrifice their time, for the benefit of the server.
Being a king is no honor. It is a curse, a blight. But there must be someone there to lead the troops, there must be someone there to give moral, and hope to the people.
Glass you speak wise words, but you forget some things. For example 2 on the list you meantion are rule violators. They both know who i mean, 1 did contact me why i didn't say he would be a good admin. Im pretty sure he might be, but as many say things what happened in the past projects how someone is in the future. Not only that but how he for example justified himself by telling that some admins he knows does it too but on a more higher scale. This only provokes people (mostly vets as they see it during a longer timeperiod) to break rules more and more often. As why should players keep to the rules as the ones who enforce them do not hold to them neither?
Also rules like FR5 are useless. As i did meantion before it ONLY consumes time and the players can easy laugh at the admins who TRY to endorse an FR5 and the player can easy rep it back within the game mechanics (bars for example with bribes).
So what does Admins need to do? Keep to the rules and enforce rules which CAN BE enforced to the players. Admin breaks a rule its should have the SAME punishment as an player. But now it end up in some graveyard and none cares. Yet players are sanctioned for much more less violations and some are even false.
Before someone tells conspiracy, sadly i wished this was different. Because then the server would be more enjoyable.
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Im going to try and FR5 Golanski but given he has strings in the COF that won't go through because guess what, it's the magic B word ~ FR5 is useless in general and it only drives more anger.
(08-08-2013, 09:05 PM)Tel-Aviv Wrote: Im going to try and FR5 Golanski but given he has strings in the COF that won't go through because guess what, it's the magic B word ~ FR5 is useless in general and it only drives more anger.
Wat.
You're not an official faction leader. Good look FR5ing someone who is.
Nop the server needs strong Dev team that implements game mechanics that remove the written rules.
Strong Dev team is a way more important then strong Admin team.
The admin team as sanction/controlling function is kinda redundant if the Dev team manages to incorporate the spirit of the rules into the game mechanics actually.
Forum staff combined with the faction leader votes should decide about stuff actually. If the community focuses on two stage based development instead of administration everything would change for good. We need Dev team full with around 10 Head devs each of them controlling different important section. Each head Dev should have its own volunteer team full of players that do the grinding for him, so there would be no more hidden development, there would be no more this is not possible (read I have not enough time to make it).
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
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