Wrynn 1349 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Hey everyone, About a week ago the admin team had a ‘Call to Agenda’ which essentially is a fancy term for ‘What’s everyone doing?’. It’s pretty useful as we can make sure that nobody is slacking on the team and sitting around eating Cheetos all day. Now that we’ve held this ‘Call to Agenda’ and we all have agendas ready to go, we thought that it would be a good idea to share what we’re working on right now with you guys! Each of the admins has agreed to share their agenda with the community to provide a little transparency to what the admin team actually does. Therefore below are each of our agendas and hopefully you will see some of the things in-game in the near future that we’re working on. We know that just showing are agendas doesn't show work done - however hopefully you'll be seeing some of these checked off soon. Harold Spoiler Tutorial Island, i’m working with Ang and Vaynth to deliver something good. This got left behind by the last team, and I want to see it used. It’s nearly there. This is my own personal project, and it’s going to get priority. Helping with voting on, promoting, and then also training a new GM Director. Removal of the Contributor System. This system didn’t work as intended, and adds another level of bureaucracy onto our staff that really doesn't need any more red tape or positions. They were initially brought in without PEX, but slowly they gained Vanish, warp and other associated PEX. GM’s should be GM’s, and there should be nothing in-between. GM-Secretary, as a rank has also been removed, along with the title and rank of Manager of the Game Contributors. Finish the Training Documentation for GMs, started by myself. It's been used extensively to train GM’s since I finished up being a Game Manager a few months ago. This is my own project. Removal of the old Trial GM Application and its insane amount of vouches and other guff parts. You don’t even need three character references for a real job. Z3m0s is on this as of now. New Ban and Appeals System, this is rather early on. This is going to be a massive update to how we deal with bans and appeals, for GM’s and the regular players. For too long, the whole process has been bogged down in procedure and policy and in reality, the way we do things hasn't changed in years. Me and Z3m0s are working on this when we can, but it will take some time. Overseeing a project named GM-HANDBOOK4REAL. We haven’t had an updated handbook since Pandann, and in reality, this isn’t conducive to having a working team that knows what it's doing. You can only rely on cheat sheets for commands for so long. Working with the GM-WAR team to handle new Raid and War rules. This has been one of the toughest projects i’ve overseen in the past few weeks and without Nazdus and the team helping out, we probably wouldn't be anywhere near where we are now. The community feedback has been particularly brutal, but we are working towards a system we’re all happy with at the end of the day. Working with the GM-REGION team to create 6.0 documentation to revolutionize the way we handle regions and charters, with the help of the entire team under the lead of Malinor. Operation Freebird is a project team looking into Freebuild, with the solid help of the community into how a system can be put into place and achieved. GM-ACTIVITYPROJECT is looking into how nations can be assessed for activity past their point of accepted application. Working with the GM-ECONOMY team to create 6.0 documentation and rollout systems such as GM Shops, Voting, and other things. Since Harold was working as an acting GM Director - a lot of this work will be passed onto the new GM Director. Wrynn Spoiler Managing Feedback Organise a system where feedback can be easily given a gratified response and is taken into consideration when making decisions in the future. Show feedback to respective teams and ask for a response. Post response on feedback. Take any further questions. Decrease the amount of time it takes for feedback to be responded too. Clean up the feedback sub-forum. Community Meetings Offer community meetings more regularly. Hold a community meeting soon to take in questions especially about the new map. Asking for Feedback on Current Teams Hold several your views to see how the community feels about the current staff teams. Show results to the respective team and provide input on how to improve their team based on the feedback. Hold a your view for the Administration. Talk with other administrators about the feedback and how we can improve the team based on the feedback. Utilize the Public Discord More Actively stay in the public discord to allow players to easily talk if they need to do so. Host community meetings in the Public Discord. Actively engage players to come and talk in the public discord through broadcasts in-game. Combat Gear and its Crafting Discussion Regarding the previously held discussion about combat gear and it's crafting, hold a your view on the forums to get a community opinion on the direction they would like to see it go and also offer solutions on how to fix it. Keep community feedback a priority when making decisions about Combat gear and it's crafting Discussion. Villain Team Continue to work on Villain Blacklists to bring them up to date and make them a system that actually provides benefit. Enact the ‘Villain Rehab’ system previously talked about. Clarify what a blacklist prevents/allows a player to do. Update Heists if needs be. The previous rule change didn’t change a lot with heists so if community feedback alerts to something that needs changed - work on that. X-rayers Ban them all. 501warhead Spoiler Work with passionate people to ensure 6.0 is one of our best maps to date Several passionate community and staff members are continuing to work to make 6.0 one of our best maps ever. With the assistance of the Administration the design team is working hard on creating an immersive world for players to roleplay in Work with the Development team to add more mechanics that promote roleplay Reviewing plugins & mechanics with the assistance of the Development team to see which systems need to be changed to promote a healthy roleplay environment Personally working on and pursuing a complete crafting overhaul to address many player’s concerns with Nexus Crafting. Tentative details (SUBJECT TO CHANGE.): Creating alternative incentives to level crafting skills Moving away from mechanics such as +% damage and -% slowness Pursuing alternative benefits Move crafting away from Menus Open world crafting ideas such as sharpening a sword on a whetstone to improve its damage Investigating possibility of utilizing 3x3 crafting with the new crafting changes in Minecraft Uncertain if most players like the new crafting guide? Might be impossible to have “custom crafting items” - e.g. Gold = Butter to the recipe. Very bad. Addressing fishing’s poor state Create youtube content Our youtube is heavily under utilized and is a prime location to showcase both elements of our server and provide video guides to assist aspiring players learn more about our game Require additional assistance, likely will open community incentives to do so. Create twitch content Twitch is heavily underutilized and has the potential to allow us to showcase content in a more discussion prone environment Utilize the public discord more The public discord is a personal project of mine, I would really like to see more players there! It’s a great place to meet new people, introduce players to our community, assist people who need help, and get an idea about what players want. Open discussion is positive for our future! Expanding LotC’s income* LotC is in the financial positive but needs more work To expand our server to it’s fullest potential having additional income would allow us to pursue outsourcing work to expand our server with the work of competent individuals Looking to overhaul our store page Investigating additional perks for higher VIP ranks Assist the ET & LT with creating Server Story The ET & LT are focusing on creating an immersive and enjoyable storyline for all players to enjoy In order to assure that the story Telanir Spoiler Complete rule-rewrite based on Origin_Lark & Danny’s proposed document. Organize admin google-drive. Complete staff protocol v2 (rewrite). Shed as much fluff as possible. Prepare a people-friendly summary for staff who neither have much time nor understand all the big words. This way rather than being a big show it is about our staff being on the same page. Initiative to clean up toxicity and excessive memery on the forums. Take staff applications forum more seriously. Increase focus on serious roleplay aspect of LotC. Admin Directives Add a category section for organization when filing a directive Create a way to organize directives by category, perhaps use a certain page for it. Future: Restart discussion regarding opening directives back to general public for transparency, the idea behind directives was to open admin doors to the community & staff and allow them to see what work we are doing. Allows people interested to stay up-to-date on LotC leadership. Admin Protocol During a meeting, go over protocol with all administrators (hopefully w/ Wrynn as well). This moment can be used to clear up any discrepancies with protocol. Ensure staff & admin protocol are met. Run director nomination processes. Manage team/staff conflicts. Clean up anonymous staff reports. Team Directives Prepare directives for Game, Forum, Development, Event, Wiki, Application, Lore teams. Organize, define responsibilities, and set borders for each team. Draft directive for team. Review and revise directive with current team director. Review and revise directive with admin team. Confirm directive with current team director. Completion by mid-July. Discuss opening up powers to directors. Handle all matters regarding Crowns. Discuss permissions management limited to only administrators. (not talking about group management used by directors, only specific perms) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfamousGerman 1553 Share Posted July 11, 2017 step in the right direction good job Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmat 7460 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Quote Expanding LotC’s income* LotC is in the financial positive but needs more work To expand our server to it’s fullest potential having additional income would allow us to pursue outsourcing work to expand our server with the work of competent individuals Looking to overhaul our store page Investigating additional perks for higher VIP ranks If you make the server enjoyable again, I believe that this server will financially solve itself. Quote Work with the Development team to add more mechanics that promote roleplay Reviewing plugins & mechanics with the assistance of the Development team to see which systems need to be changed to promote a healthy roleplay environment Personally working on and pursuing a complete crafting overhaul to address many player’s concerns with Nexus Crafting. Tentative details (SUBJECT TO CHANGE.): Creating alternative incentives to level crafting skills Moving away from mechanics such as +% damage and -% slowness Pursuing alternative benefits Move crafting away from Menus Open world crafting ideas such as sharpening a sword on a whetstone to improve its damage Investigating possibility of utilizing 3x3 crafting with the new crafting changes in Minecraft Uncertain if most players like the new crafting guide? Might be impossible to have “custom crafting items” - e.g. Gold = Butter to the recipe. Very bad. Call me cynical, but I do not trust any solution which does not involve destroying the current plugin, and the working from the ground up, instead of fiddling it around. In the past, that has not worked. We've already reviewed it as a community. We don't need more tribunals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypoacher 8055 Share Posted July 11, 2017 glad you're being transparent but is the gm team so ludicrously incompetent that they need a written handbook to execute mineman commands you might as well just remove this pointless appendage from the staff if they can't consistently do their job but insist on voting on every single measure the administration tries to enact Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angmarzku 1251 Share Posted July 11, 2017 ill make a nice map Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sug 2809 Share Posted July 11, 2017 10 minutes ago, Wrynn said: sitting around eating Cheetos all day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowbill 493 Share Posted July 11, 2017 4 minutes ago, Tavern_Roleplay said: glad you're being transparent but is the gm team so ludicrously incompetent that they need a written handbook to execute mineman commands Okay I legit laughed at that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpodoKaiba 612 Share Posted July 11, 2017 16 minutes ago, Wrynn said: X-rayers Ban them all. :smirk: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will (TauFirewarrior) 2466 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Remove the ridiculous pots, diamond armour and reset weapons to being default. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonian 14254 Share Posted July 11, 2017 i like how there's no mention of advertising. it's a ******* wonder we're getting any applicants at all when we don't even have an mc forums page Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detective 101 Share Posted July 11, 2017 1 minute ago, Will (TauFirewarrior) said: Remove the ridiculous pots, diamond armour and reset weapons to being default. 1 Preach Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weabootrash 412 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Just now, James2k said: i like how there's no mention of advertising. it's a ******* wonder we're getting any applicants at all when we don't even have an mc forums page 0 fix the server before advertising a broken server Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypoacher 8055 Share Posted July 11, 2017 9 minutes ago, Jaeden said: I'm not sure if you've ever been a GM before. But it can be quite daunting at first when taking on trialhood. Cheat-sheets are immensely helpful when handling modreqs, as both yourself and the player whose modreq is being answered, don't want to sit there while commands are figured out. Ontop of that, the handbook is only 20% commands anyway. The remaining is information, protocol, and guides. Such as the system used to create LC regions and figure out the required payment for it. Or, the correct protocol when creating or modifying warp9's. Or even the dreaded hawkeye and its many features. The handbook's a necessity for any staff team, really. 0 Right, okay. This makes more sense - But I can't sympathize with the idea that GMs have to make modreq decisions according to "protocol." I can't simultaneously believe that GMs can't make discretion calls for simple modreqs, but get to use their better discretion when voting on major policy decisions, deciding who gets unbanned, what plugins get added, what RP happens and whatever else it is they do. I sincerely hope you can understand my knee-jerk reaction, because I don't mean any disrespect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archipelego 2188 Share Posted July 11, 2017 29 minutes ago, Wrynn said: excessive memery i have no clue what you could possibly be refer- oh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sug 2809 Share Posted July 11, 2017 10 minutes ago, Tavern_Roleplay said: Right, okay. This makes more sense - But I can't sympathize with the idea that GMs have to make modreq decisions according to "protocol." I can't simultaneously believe that GMs can't make discretion calls for simple modreqs, but get to use their better discretion when voting on major policy decisions, deciding who gets unbanned, what plugins get added, what RP happens and whatever else it is they do. I sincerely hope you can understand my knee-jerk reaction, because I don't mean any disrespect. 0 Having protocol sets a standard for the team so we don't have players saying "Well Jaeden said this." Then "Sug said that." It allows the staff to move on the same path and be on the same page about properly executing rules and enforcing them! :D Hope my little blurb helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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