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COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOG

JANUARY 2020

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INTRODUCTION

Hello again!

 

This past month, we heard you. We heard your thoughts on ban appeals and reports and decided to change it up. Lots of testing occurred this past month, especially with reports and focus groups, just trying out new ideas, but now we’re finally looking at some results. Read on!


 

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JANUARY DATA

- Overview -

 

This month, we saw a total of 194 apps handled, with 145 new players welcomed onto LotC. 

 

Last month, we saw 185 applications and 135 new players welcomed onto LotC. This month we had a bit of an increase, so we’re steadily resuming increasing our incoming Minecraft roleplayers. The ratio of accepted apps to denied apps seems to be just about the same. However, this is most likely going to change moving forward as we’ve upped our application standards. More on that below. 


 

- Accepted/Denied Ratios -

 



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- Race Specific Data -

 



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- New Player Guidance -

 



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TEAM DATA

- Application Team Data -

 



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- Other Team Data -

 



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APPLICATION KING/QUEEN

 

This month’s application king goes to… _Pan! 

 

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@_Pan

 

Followed behind by @NOZ and @_Wonk!

 

_Pan is full-steam ahead as one of our newest members!

 

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CURRENT ROSTER

 

Community Administrator

LotsOfMuffins

 

Community Managers

Armajesty

puffables

TwistedFries

 

Community Members

_Pan

_Wonk

chaosgamer_

DreamInSpace

MamaBearJade

MeteorDragon9000

Nestro_Miner

NOZGOD


 

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PROJECT UPDATES 

 

WIKI - TwistedFries

 

Since the last update of January a lot of things have changed within the Wiki-Team, including an update on the leading manager of the team, updates on the backend-side of the wiki and much more. But let’s start with one topic at the time!

 

KaleyKitty was originally the leading manager of the Wiki-Team, however, she had to step down due to personal reasons. As such a new manager was appointed, being TwistedFries. Underneath TwistedFries management a lot of projects were started, setting the new Wiki-Team of to a good start.

 

With the new Team being back in shape they started to work on several projects over the last month, resulting in over 660 edits throughout the whole team, with most of the Wiki-Team-edits done by Ragnio (546 edits/actions), TwistedFries (85 edits/actions) and Language (19 edits/actions). Most of those changes took place due to one of our major projects, being the ‘Uniformity-Update’.

 

The ‘Uniformity-Update’ was planned and executed by Ragnio and TwistedFries, focusing on Updating the major backend-side of the Wiki, including all of the Backbones, Code-Templates (For Navtables, etc.) and general ruleset and guideline of the Wiki. Each of those pages got updated, reworked and some outdated and unused ones removed from the Wiki, resulting in a cleaned-up backend-side for players to use from now on.

 

Our second project of the month was the ‘Account-Cleansing’-Project, which was once again executed by TwistedFries and Ragnio. Many of you, at least those with Wiki-Accounts, have noticed that their accounts were locked down by the Wiki-Team. Such an action was taken due to the number of inactive accounts that exist on the Wiki and the possible danger of people abusing inactive accounts by accessing them. To visualize such...here are some statistics:

 

→ 481 Wiki Accounts

→ 448 Inactive Accounts (No edits within the last 30 days)

→ 33 Active Accounts

 

6.8% of all accounts are actively used

 

At the same time we wanted to implement a new application system, which will handle the new creation of Wiki-Accounts from now on. You can apply for such an account here. This would allow the Wiki-Members to collect and record information about who receives an account, while also getting to them more efficiently. In the future we will continue to do activity checks, removing accounts on a monthly base, depending on if they did at least 10 edits in the course of 30 days.

 

Lastly, our team started to work on the ‘Settlement-Guide’-Project, lead by our beloved TwistedFries, Language and MamaBearJade. Throughout the next few weeks all Settlements and Nations will receive or get an updated Wiki-Guide-Page, which shall help new players to find the settlement, get some basic information on the location and also link to their forum-posts or category. By doing so we are trying to support both new players and settlements in creating roleplay-situations and activity.

 

With all that being said we would love to remind you all, that the Wiki-Team is still in dire need of helpers! To apply to the Wiki-Focus-Group feel free to fill out this application-form.


 

COMMUNITY EVENTS - Armajesty

 

Greetings and salutations from Armajesty! This month was quite slow for the events team, and with good reason. To begin, I’d like to thank _fie, Pan, chaosgamer_, Nestro_Miner, and MeteorDragon9000 for all of their hard work in the events group. I am sad to say that the Community Events focus group will be disbanding and shall be replaced with what we are tentatively calling the ‘Broom Crew’. Do not fret, though! Community Events will be returning (hopefully in March) as a team-wide project. Moving on, this month we worked hard to organize the Capture the Flag event, it being our main focus for January, this was a drastic change from the four events hosted in December. It was nice to take a step back, but also allowed us to see the flaws in our system and make changes. We promise that events will be returning shortly, and thank you all for your patience. Also, don’t forget to participate in our Events forum if there are any events you would like to see in the future! https://forms.gle/W2iAPSsBVQ8LtXPAA.


 

TUTORIALS - puffables

 

Over in the projects focus group, through January we have been slowly but surely pushing forth progress! The Guides Maintenance section, as you've probably seen, has been transferred over to our new focus group now, the lovely broom crew ? The tutorial island prompts are still going strong and we have been powering through with the nation prompts - NL's/Stewards, be on the lookout for prompt requests and advice queries being sent your way soon!! With our quest board project, speed has now been picking up - we have gotten some good work done on it, and progress will only further continue into the next month. All in all, the month of January for the projects group has been pretty successful - looking forward to bringing out the completion of some of the projects for you soon! ❤️


 

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JANUARY’S DIRECTION

 

Last month, you guys were very vocal about your thoughts on the ban appeal system. During our latest administration meeting, I brought it up, and we discussed it. Essentially, we came to the conclusion that CT members just aren’t moderators, so inconsistencies in the way they viewed appeals, odd verdicts, and lengthy response times just weren’t worth it. And so, appeals are back with moderation. 

 

Despite our appeal move, things haven’t been as fast as we’d like with recent projects and ideas due to the server being somewhat broken. However, as that should be fixed this month, we are still moving forward. 


 

Last Month’s Goals:

  1. Playerbase Engagement / Feedback

 

We got loads of feedback about reports. These are going to be changing. We tried doing more Your View’s alongside interviews, though reports in general have caused a bit of burnout given how lengthy of a process it is. Our next plan is to test out doing a Your View as well as each CT member doing 2-3 interviews. Assuming we have 16 members due to staff downsize no longer existing, that’d be 32-48 interviews plus responses from the Your View. The first test run of this system is happening this month, so hopefully it goes well. 

 

  1. Moving Forward with Projects

 

The quest board and tutorial island projects are moving ahead, as well as our guide overhaul. Each project is still going on, despite the lag. However, we aren’t really planning on releasing anything until the server is fixed. 

 

  1. Guidance Overhaul

 

The lag did not slow. We are still dying inside. 


 

This Month’s Goals:

  1. Playerbase Engagement / Feedback

 

The overhaul is continuing with reports. As stated above, we are trying out a new system, so we are aiming to continue with improving playerbase engagement / feedback over the course of the next month. 

 

  1. Discord Overhaul

 

Coming this next month is a huge overhaul of the discords. Although I won’t go too much into it, I doubt it’s going to be a change anyone will hate. Keep looking for some upcoming changes. 

 

  1. Focus Groups

 

A shift in focus groups occurred last month, though yet another change is coming. As spoken about above in the community events update, community events is turning into a new focus group entirely. This group will take over the guide overhaul that the projects group was originally handling, as well as the monk guidance overhaul. It will essentially be in charge of handling projects that don’t involve collaboration with other teams, unlike the projects group. This change will occur this month, hopefully encouraging more CT projects to keep moving forward.


 

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If you have any questions or comments about the direction that we are going in, feel free to leave a comment down below or reach out to a team member.

 

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50 minutes ago, LotsOfMuffins said:

This Month’s Goals:

  1. Playerbase Engagement / Feedback

 

The overhaul is continuing with reports. As stated above, we are trying out a new system, so we are aiming to continue with improving playerbase engagement / feedback over the course of the next month. 

Really feel as if this goal was acomplished, thankful for all the work that has been put towards the community and to hear players ideas and feedback, keep it up – you all are rocking it! 

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When will the team be properly trained to actually read applications? Neon blue eyes, 80 year old Elf born in Aegis, etc. It’s not a format issue but it’s just the team not being trained to read applications properly. Will that be fixed? It’s been an issue for months now and has never really been properly addressed other than a “message a manager” every now and then.

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11 minutes ago, Luminaire said:

When will the team be properly trained to actually read applications? Neon blue eyes, 80 year old Elf born in Aegis, etc. It’s not a format issue but it’s just the team not being trained to read applications properly. Will that be fixed? It’s been an issue for months now and has never really been properly addressed other than a “message a manager” every now and then.

shut up, pex abuser,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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13 minutes ago, Goblinberg said:

shut up, pex abuser,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

how to meme on valid feedback for attention 101

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3 minutes ago, Luminaire said:

how to meme on valid feedback for attention 101

thank you very much

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27 minutes ago, Luminaire said:

When will the team be properly trained to actually read applications? Neon blue eyes, 80 year old Elf born in Aegis, etc. It’s not a format issue but it’s just the team not being trained to read applications properly. Will that be fixed? It’s been an issue for months now and has never really been properly addressed other than a “message a manager” every now and then.

yo, yeah dw the application standards have been mega raised, ct members have all been informed to be harsher, we’ve been setting clearer guidelines, etc. especially with things such as poor skins. 

 

if the issues persist, we will be having a redo on application training for legit everyone seeing as that means the training wasn’t effective in the first place. i just finished rewriting the application guide to be more coherent than the previous, so hopefully that helps, too.

 

but yeah we say to message a manager because there’s no way for us to know 100% of the time unless we’re told. we take a look at most apps that come through, but of course, we can’t check on every single application, so if you guys find one that isn’t acceptable, just shoot one of us a pm so we know it’s still happening. this meeting of ours happened like a few days ago so apologies if something happened before then

2 hours ago, Milenkhov said:

Really feel as if this goal was acomplished, thankful for all the work that has been put towards the community and to hear players ideas and feedback, keep it up – you all are rocking it! 

bruh thank u, we’ve been trying to include more fun events and your view’s to kinda make sure everyone is heard. glad to hear you’re liking it! if you have any suggestions on how we can do better, bruh im here

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5 hours ago, Milenkhov said:

Really feel as if this goal was acomplished, thankful for all the work that has been put towards the community and to hear players ideas and feedback, keep it up – you all are rocking it! 

I love you. :')

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