An Update!

[Pandan 1452]

An Update!

 

Hello all! I’ve got some interesting little pieces to keep you informed today. Read through, comment and all the good stuff.

 

Admin and GM roles.

 

So, recently we’ve better defined GM roles and made better correlation with the admin roles. This was inspired by the seemingly lacking direction of a lot of the roles and how they all didn’t fit together very well, along with filling in the gaps. So without further rambling I present these nifty infographics I whipped up a week or so ago, points to whoever notices the spelling mistakes.

 

 

 

Most the roles will remain the same and if you were not aware; Telanir is systems, Read is community, Tsuyose is creative and I myself am HR.

 

Changes within the staff.

 

As many have most likely noticed, a few roles have been shifted around recently.

 

Firstly, with leads. James has since taken up the role of MAT lead for the foreseeable future and Tahmas has been handed leadership of the WT. Although the first was slightly more feasible due to James longer time upon the GM team, I won’t be one to deny the unusual circumstances regarding Tahmas’ promotion. However due to the sudden and unexpected need for a new lead alongside his experience both within management and also the WT he seemed like a solid pick.

 

Regarding trials and departures, Aeriel and Wrynn both passed their trials and this month we’ll be delaying slightly to evaluate the need for more GM’s, and to avoid overfilling the team. However it seems likely more will be accepted due to some of the team's recent losses, including Mitto, Cracker, Dizzy, Supremacy and Gigarum. We’ll see!

 

5.0

 

I won’t be saying much regarding 5.0 other than it is being worked on within the background, we’ve many people painting for us currently in order to avoid having a reliance on one which has caused us issues in the past months. Again, nothing more will be said regarding details/a release date. But, I thought you should know that we’re trying our best!

 

The idea of a temp-map

 

Now, this brings me onto my next point. Temp-maps have always been a subject of a certain controversy within LOTC and no, this isn’t an official announcement. Infact this isn’t anything more than gathering your opinions on the topic, so once you’ve finished up here if you can go to the following thread and fill out a survey for me. That’d be great!

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/142822-thoughts-on-a-temp-map/

 

PaymentWall

 

Just a small note form Tythus here, and don’t panic this isn’t a payment wall within traditional sense where you’re required to pay to access something. This is infact a new payment system to replace the slightly fiddly paypal that isn’t effective for all, to quote the man himself.

 

“Paymentwall partnered with global payment providers to help you reach more than 200 countries with over 120 payment methods.”

 

Aha, see how much better that is?

I’ll also note whilst I’m here we may be changing some donation stuff around soon to become more EULA complacent. We’ll be sure to make posts as they happen, so do keep an eye out for that!

[L0rdLawyer 2272]

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[WuHanXianShi14 0]

oo pretty.

[Cat Evocation 3728]

This is great, I like this.

[Nathan_Barnett36 1564]

Ok now that 5.0 is in the work we need a storyline for Vailor or whatever this map is called so the leaving event would be logical. An event where it floods or something is **** and we honestly need a better one like anthos leaving event.

[Tom_Whiteman 949]

Bring back an Elysium-styled map only a smidge bigger.

[jak8pak 7]

maybe we could have some sickness or curse or something that is spreading across the land and we have to leave the sick behind and leave before the sickness/curse spreads 

[jak8pak 7]

23 minutes ago, Nathan_Barnett36 said:

Ok now that 5.0 is in the work we need a storyline for Vailor or whatever this map is called so the leaving event would be logical. An event where it floods or something is **** and we honestly need a better one like anthos leaving event.

 

[ThumperJack 927]

9 minutes ago, Nathan_Barnett36 said:

Ok now that 5.0 is in the work we need a storyline for Vailor or whatever this map is called so the leaving event would be logical. An event where it floods or something is **** and we honestly need a better one like anthos leaving event.

Anthos was a flood. But I agree, something logical and interesting and not 'OoooOooO The boogie mans come to take our world!' or 'Oh dearie, here comes the waters. C'mon kids! Pack yer bags, we're movin' realms!'

[501warhead 1796]

12 minutes ago, Nathan_Barnett36 said:

Ok now that 5.0 is in the work we need a storyline for Vailor or whatever this map is called so the leaving event would be logical. An event where it floods or something is **** and we honestly need a better one like anthos leaving event.

 

Anthos leaving event was a flood.

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

If we leave Vailor I'd rather we do it via some sort of natural disaster as opposed to yet another big scary god-dragon thing wanting to kill us allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Like there are only so many magical world-ending supervillains I can live through before my suspension of disbelief is shattered.

[Rassidic 470]

35 minutes ago, Pandan said:

I’ll also note whilst I’m here we may be changing some donation stuff around soon to become more EULA complacent. We’ll be sure to make posts as they happen, so do keep an eye out for that!

 

This part worries me greatly, as someone who has sank a reasonable amount of money into the server for certain perks. Could you perhaps elaborate what you mean by this?

[Pandan 1452]

2 minutes ago, Rassidic said:

 

This part worries me greatly, as someone who has sank a reasonable amount of money into the server for certain perks. Could you perhaps elaborate what you mean by this?

 

I'd imagine a more detailed post will come out when relevant, however the issue of it comes from far above LOTC within the depths of Mojang/Microsoft. In any case we'll attempt to refund the value of donation perks should any come to be lost. 

 

Edit: To clarify, I don't mean refund in terms of monetary refunds but replacing perks with others.

[James 425]

43 minutes ago, Tom_Whiteman said:

Bring back an Elysium-styled map only a smidge bigger.

 

This, or the fringe. 

[Jonificus 2741]

What kinds of perks are we talking about? The ability to finally describe items?