[Moderation Update] - War, The Roster, and More

[squakhawk 14038]

Hello meows.

 

I wanted to go over a quick roadmap of the next two weeks (ideally) with you guys just for transparency, and a curt-generalized moderation update.

 

 

WAR

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War is something thats kinda been in limbo for months now, and something that has had an outcry from players (and staff) alike to have done after being stuck in admin-hell. War Rules are something over the last week Moderation discussed and shopped rules on, and have overhauled and added some important clarifications, niche-rules, numbers changes, and a new section entirely on the spirit of war.

 

Some may ask, based on the Where Are The War Rules post, why it was not as simple as a numbers change. During the discussions, we came upon pain-points that were glossed over some by admins, some by mods alike, that may be future points of contention. We've corrected those and clarified some niche circumstances, as well as adjusted the numbers and raising bonuses for pillaging-type warclaims.

 

The only large grandstanding change was sent for thoughts to Realm Leaders, who in vast majority voted alongside moderation in the proposed revision, regarding how many warclaims are done per-tile, and the defender having choice in how they fight for those tiles.

 

War rules I would say are likely to be approved by Administration and posted this week. Ideally, war is up and online by Friday.

 

As for the mechanical aspects of war, there's two things I want to be touched on - The War Server, and Item-costs. As for The War Server itself, we are going to be running a stress test of the war server this Saturday, February 7th, at 3pm EST. We will be providing free kits and non transferrable gear in/out of the server with test factions and a new battleground to play with. Item costs are something that have long since launch been a pain point by players, and have continued to be an issue even after the merging of nodes to nation mines and halving of costs to some gearpieces. Even still, fights are being stalled or avoided and players vent frustration into the sheer unengaging grind from getting some gear. Ultimately, this is not something moderation itself has the purview to change, but it is something that we are opening discussion with Tech team about adjusting in the near future.

 

 

 

Warzones, Naval Battles

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Warzones and Naval Battles are two projects which were promised some time ago, but for one reason or another fell off the truck. I talked with mods briefly on the latter, and Naval battles are a heavy maybe (Particularly a low-importance thing now given the totally land-centric nature of our map), but are something I want to start getting to shop on. More dominantly, Warzones are something I want to explore after our Warclaim test is marked successful.

 

Warzones are something mods shopped up some rules for but couldn't really do and didnt have the perms (or ruleset) for, and did not quite seem to move upward admin-wise. I'm going to prioritize these in neartime, likely with just some basic rules and parameters where the presiding mod manager/warmod can set up something fun to do for an afternoon.

 

I'm toying with the idea of limited-time warzones to encourage players to hop on in a specific boundary of time, or maybe doing an event timed once a day/week where players are encouraged to perform in a certain way to get mild bonuses or benefits, like a stack of leather or something. Entirely speculative, nothing set in stone, nothing put to paper other than the old draft which hasn't been looked at yet seriously by me or the team (Though likely will).

 

Once War is properly started, Warzones will be the next focus by me/the next mod admin.

 

 

 

Moderation Roster & Recruitment

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The Moderation Roster has been a little bit woeful for some time with a lot of people in training for very extended periods and apps taking quite some time. Managers right now have worked together to start sending out verdicts early this week to start getting our onboarding process onboard. I want to stress some key factors we're looking into is activity, temperament, critical thinking, and judgement. Something else we are talking about too is how we want to prioritize problem solving and conflict resolution from a more agreeable scale rather than how common it can be to weaponize mods, mod rulings, or be obstinant to yourself, others, or moderations in some scenarios. Ultimately doing the right thing is the right thing, and that involves leaving everybody happy as much as it does making sure everyone is playing fair.

 

We'll be sending out app responses and beginning the onboarding process this week. Some apps will be denied otherwise, others may be held as we watch for any change that's preventing us from adding someone on now.

 

I'll be shopping up an admin package as I continue to monitor internally who the leaders and top performers are on the team and who follows the above mentioned criteria as well as they do demonstrate it and endorse it to others. We got some strong players, I think we're going to get mod to be stronger than it ever was before in soontime.

 

[Spoopy_Duck 3217]

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[xDisarray 552]

Great post! +1

[frankdh 2418]

Wow go team!

[trinn 5128]

wheres my credit for my intellectual property

[Seva 624]

/me moderates

[wowj 9747]

im a moderator

[Borin 7645]

Who knew it took a rebellion to get consistent admin posting. We should rebel more often.

[Tainga 521]

Glory to Moderation

[spaazmatism 1017]

coool! open lair apps now?

[Dyl 2088]

nice

[wolfdwg 2677]

does this on the one saturday I have to work... @squakhawku hate me...

[squakhawk 14038]

1 minute ago, spaazmatism said:

coool! open lair apps now?

 

lair apps are open now with realm apps but anything remotely associated with you im going to deny purely because im vindictive and evil xox

[Phantuhm 193]

Yeah I'm also curious when Lair Apps are likely to be reopened. @squakhawk

[spaazmatism 1017]

2 minutes ago, squakhawk said:

 

lair apps are open now with realm apps but anything remotely associated with you im going to deny purely because im vindictive and evil xox

it doesnt matter. i dont CARE