Admin Monthly Update

[Wrynn 1349]

 

August 2017

Hello everyone!

This is the Administration’s first every monthly update (i think) and I’m glad that we’re starting to do them! It’ll simply mean that there’s a lot more transparency between us and you. Since there’s only 4 administrators at the moment - each member will be given a section of the post to discuss what they’ve done in the past month, what they’re doing currently and what they plan for the future! Also sorry for it being a few days late, we had a few hiccups with the post, however we are all good now!

 

I hope it’ll give you a bit of insight as to what we’re actually doing and also show that we are doing work.

 

Wrynn

Spoiler

Hey c: Recently I’ve been taking a large focus on feedback and how it can be handled better and how it can get a response quicker. It’s important that your feedback is taken into consideration when any staff member goes to make a change on the server as it ends up being you (the community) who sees the product of what they’ve been doing. If you look in the feedback subforum you’ll notice that feedback is now sorted depending on what team it is for - this way I can make sure that each team director is managing the feedback that comes to them so that they can try and improve based upon how you guys feel. Other than that I’ve also been working to get these monthly updates a thing; Asking each of the other admins to provide a statement so that you can see what’s happening. Currently I’m still working to make our feedback system better as I do feel it’s important, however in the future I’ll be planning to make sure your opinions regarding 6.0 are taken into account and as 6.0 comes closer making sure that you are all informed about it. I also intend to make sure boots  are given to those who may not have such comfort for their feet.

 

Harold

Spoiler

 

This month, i’ve been focusing on several things. The best way to describe most of what i’m doing right now is change, and how things will look like in 6.0 with systems, plugins and staff. Some of the specifics I can share are listed below.

 

• We released Tutorial Island earlier this month. I’ve also been talking to the community on how they want this to evolve, you may have noticed the Fast Travel to the island has recently changed to be more noticeable. We are also looking into spawning new players there when they first enter the server.
   

• Getting more involved with the community by hanging out in the Open Staff Hangout in the LoTC public Discord, listening and giving answers to community concerns and worries in real-time.
   

• Looking into Voting and the rewards offered, and how they are measured against the rest of the server economy. These will be increased in the coming days.
   

• Discussing several key areas with 501warhead for 6.0, in which we will be looking into getting Your Views up in the coming weeks.
   

• Working with the Developer team in a Moderation insight capacity, and looking into the exciting things they have planned.
   

• With Arockstar28 going on administrative approved leave, a new ET Director had to be promoted. This was headed by myself and all procedure was followed to empower a temporary Director. Luka has taken over the reigns, and will be in the post until Arockstar28 returns.
   

• Getting more and more involved with the World Story for 5.0, and how this is being rolled out and managed due to the temporary Director.
   

• Involved heavily in the four step process of selecting a new Director for the Forum Moderation Team, we are currently on step three and a new Director will be in post in the next week.
   

• Working with the Application Team, looking into how we can further increase the retention rate of new players, and how to make the experience better for new players on joining.
   

• Keeping involved with the Game Moderation Team, and Lore Team / Magic Team in a check and balance capacity.
   

• Looking into creating more for the server, advertisement within all avenues, and mediums.

 

 

501

Spoiler

Greetings! A lots been going on in my life as of late as of a week ago I finally found myself with fulltime employment after a 3 month long search. It's been pretty hectic to get use to a standard 9-to-5 after my sleep schedule has been out of whack for a while but I'm getting it together. While this does impact my activity I'm spending a lot of my free time after work doing what I've been focusing on for the longest time - getting 6.0 up to the best state it can be along with the world devs. We're currently working on Cloud Temple in 6.0 and moving into the future we're going to be fleshing out the road structure and working on populating the map with various secrets to explore and discover. In addition, next month we're going to potentially be putting out more media content related to 6.0 so you guys have an idea about how we're doing what we are doing and where we are in that process.

 

Telanir

Spoiler

Telanir is currently on hiatus and will be more-so dormant throughout the month, however hopefully he will be returning soon.

 

[mmat 7460]

Essentially what this is saying, is that 2/4 admins are out of commission (The tech admins no less, Telanir has been gone for ******* ages). That's not really very good. Call me a cynic and this might be wrong, but a significant amount of this just seems like waffle to me, minor things added to the list simply to appear as if activity and constructive things have been done.

 

The fact is that overcomplicated aengudaemonic world events have been done again, when the community said NO, keep it simple, keep it so the playerbase and not the magico ascended clerical groups can fight it.

 

The fact is that Nexus STILL exists after months of people saying no.

[_Sug 2809]

For 6.0 I beg that all the inactive nations don't receive land. They'll just take up land for possible new nations and groups and prevent an area from having an active roleplay environment.  

[Narthok 10416]

Why is the new map being released at the end of summer rather than the beginning, seems like a rather strange decision.

[KeatonUnbeaten 1103]

half the admin team = not there?

good team.

[_pr0fit 3084]

When can I give plus ones again, so that I can upvote the people who call out the admins on their bullshit

[Archbishop 1784]

Most of the stuff listed in things said admin has done can literally be done in less than a day so...

[Guest]

Dear Sean, how's it going? It's been little while now, I've been kinda busy, but I wanted to ask you when my VIP would be resolved? Like, I understand you're busy, the vastness of that paragraph above signifies that and it's as clear as day that you are preoccupied. But maybe we could both benefit from you just typing a single command or clicking a check mark on the forums to give me my Gold VIP back since this forum update or some staff member accidentally took it away.

 

Your friend, Eli

[monkeypoacher 8055]

Read through this post, it doesn't look like you guys are doing much of anything, which isn't bad. People are going back to school, people have work, minecraft is less important than both of these things. What bothers me is when the admins fluff out paragraphs full of hollow business weasel words to try and hide the fact they aren't doing much of anything. Please quit LARPing as businessmen. LoTC isn't a business. Stop.

[Xarkly 17299]

Choose a fifth Admin to replace the others we lost.

 

This is an especially good idea given certain Admin's are taking breaks.

[Sky 0]

But not everyone has been contacted about land into 6.0.

[idiot 502]

Limit sub land plots further like you promised and then failed to do in Axios, we ended up with loads of baronies and things similar like last map.

 

you definitely kept to your promises like the limited fast travel too.

[Wendigo 786]

Look, I know you're not omnipotent nor can you possibly keep up with the demands of 100s of players and all their ideas. Your position is tough understandably, you're trying to appease the internet which in and of itself is nearly impossible especially when a niche such as this feels so strongly about their passion. Everyone thinks their idea is the best, myself included, and that's a lot to sort through.That being said there are a few things that are being done right now that were done in the past which brought lotc to a pretty low point.

 

This post is a step in the right direction however there are a few key issues that have been around for literal months that I can think of on the spot.

 

This post should be something professional from people running a server with hundreds of players and to me it feels like this was put together half-assed and last minute, I'm NOT pointing any fingers. As I said this post is a step in the right direction in terms of staff transparency. I could be wrong about this maybe it feels half-assed because there really wasn't any meat to the announcement.

 

The nexus plugin has been debated about for months and the general consensus of the server is to remove it. I could probably put up a post with a poll now and the answer would be the same and expected. This isn't something that 'just popped up', it's been going on for a few years now. In fact I found posts going back all the way to 2014 to remove nexus and at that point I stopped looking back. I'm aware it's being removed but to it's taken longer then necessary.

 

The new map. All of your priorities right now seem to be focused on the new map when in reality you each should be handling different sections NOT having to do with the map. You may look at me and scoff but we've been doing this for how many years now and we don't have a team to build maps? We're taking other people away from their current 'jobs' (I say jobs loosely as I'm well aware you're all volunteers) and taking up a valuable resource called TIME. It's a little too late but perhaps it's something that can be implemented for the future. If you asked you'd probably have droves of people willing to help you build a map. They don't have to build intricacies, leave that for more skilled players(secret areas, ruins, etc etc). You can have them do landscaping, even make an application process for this. Landscaping ain't that hard. Most of the current map we have are forests and mountains anyways. Lotc seems to be in a state of limbo as it waits for the map. Not a lot of effort is being put into builds as we all know a new map is coming out. Perhaps next time don't tell us a new maps coming out. Make the team and let them handle it. It'd make events a lot more interesting instead of feeling empty and the oh so typical 'the worlds ending oh no'. It'd come as a general shock and truly put us into the shoes of a people who have had their world destroyed quite literally. Obviously that comes with a host of other problems but between now and the time the next next map comes out(7.0) they should be relatively solved.

 

Stop promising things and then never follow through. A perfect example, however old, is the magic plug in. Another is the aviary plug in. These are only a instances that I can of ON THE SPOT. I'm sure there's plenty more.

 

Anatagonists. I'm not even going to bother getting into that too deeply. The consensus has been the same for a while stop making player catered antags yata yata. I literally just found out about the new aengul antag and it has been over a week since I've come back. Haven't heard or seen anything about it rply besides overhearing a new aengul was created by the Ascended. I've been playing on the server for hours I'm too embarrassed to put on the forums and I HAVE SEEN NOTHING. Yes I'm aware there was a large event but you shouldn't have to go to a huge server wide event to interact with something that should be feared on the daily. The Antag should be the heart and soul of the server and it CERTAINLY does not feel that way in the slightest.

 

This is just me rambling from what I've seen so far. Apologies if anyone feels this is too harsh but like a majority of us I want to see LotC succeed. Good luck.

 

Edit: Why isn't this posted as an official announcement? Put it up on that fancy smancy bar thingy you got there so everyone can notice and see it. I only found this because I happened to press on page 2 of recent posts on the right side of the forum.

[Wrynn 1349]

13 hours ago, Wendigo said:

-snipo-

Hey, thanks for the feedback by the way c: You also reminded me that putting it on the slideshow needs done c: thanks.

[Archipelego 2188]

wrynn is a good lad.