Cloakedsphere

Which should have the ability and power to pressure other groups to do their jobs and should offer help to the VARIOUS other teams. As both of us are prior GM's, we should both understand that we are all on the same team, even if the title above our heads is different.

I am going to be 100% honest and say that these tasks "in progress" are doing nothing to actually help underlying issues of LotC. I know you're moderation team, but pressure story team into creating more events for the whole server and not just a small select group of players to keep the server entertaining. Cleaning up the forums, Interviewing people for certain tasks, and coup rules are things that need attention, sure, but they're at the bottom of the list in terms of priority. You cant have the server sit for another 2-3-4 months or more waiting for rules to be finished writing and expect people to stick around in game. We need to pressure other staff teams (mainly story team and admin team) to push out more events and more meaningful updates to players in game. Not on the forums. The vortex craze is wearing off. The new-ness of the map is already wearing off. People are already starting to drop here and there. I'd like to see some of these types of problems addressed before ANY of the in-progress stuff you've listed. Thank you though for taking the time to break down what you're doing.

Telanir is the end all-say all for all ideas being implemented. There isnt any layer of bureaucracy. If he has an idea, he can implement it without consulting anyone aside from Tythus. People should be going to TELANIR with idea's and see if it fits in HIS vision for LotC. This is the position of a HEAD admin. Just like people bring up with the idea of "road to 500" players or w/e that was. What ever happened to that idea? Like that was his vision. Where did it lead? What came of it? Where is the foundation for this vision? Its non-existant. I am the first to preach that these guys are all volunteers for their positions. But stop volunteering if you actually have zero desire to make any change. We have a huge amount of lazy staff members starting all the way at the top and going all the way to the bottom. For a server than can only average 175 players on peak times, Why do we need 110+ members of staff? Especially when over half of the members are doing nothing.

Before, yes, we needed Telanir to sign off on the idea of free build. Even though we had a good portion of staff who thought it was a good idea and I even had 2 other admins on my side. Sadly, big changes like that in the past required his approval. It might be different now but I dont imagine it being different at all with the way things are currently running. It is probably why LotC has stagnated a lot because a lot of good idea's are getting stone walled by no response or a negative response by the head admin and nothing being implemented. But its not just Telanir. I put the blame on the whole staff. It definitely starts at the top and works its way to the bottom but staff need to be more aware that they really arent doing much. Nickrocky is the only one who's really contributed to LotC in any fashion since the new map with the release of vortex. Now the vortex craze is dying down, you're going to start to see people leave again. What are we doing? No wars? No bandit groups due to fear of being banned for what? Good bandit RP? No events happening or event lines being held by story team? No new lore? Hello? Has anyone actually counted how many staff we currently have? We have over 40 people in the story team alone. Thats 1 staff team. We should have a max of 40 staff members across ALL staff teams. Not just 1 team in general. What happened? How did LotC become so top heavy? We are easily pushing close to 100 members on some form of staff or moderation team on LotC yet literally NOTHING new is being brought to the table or nothing is getting done. Like, honestly, what is going on here? LotC needs to clean house starting from the top and wiping out all the team and starting fresh again. Go back to forum moderators and global moderators and build from there again. There is just far too many hands in the cookie jar.

Im only going to contradict your edit statement. The staff team in Aegis, although obviously fresh, were about as unbias as they could've been. Since everything was so new, relationships werent built as strong as they were today. Tythus himself is a fine individual. So was everyone else (such as shiftnative, nekodanie, mogroka, etc.) but the issues arose after we left 3.0. We started to see a huge decline in player-staff relationships then when most of the original staff had left. Tythus isnt a tyrant. Nor is telanir. But neither of them want to put any effort in anymore and only 1 of them we currently still need due to the fact he has access to the server funds to keep it afloat. Telanir, although I like the guy, needs out. A new face on the head admin table is what we need and not a pick from the current admin list. I feel as if the entire current administration team could do much better and much more than they currently are with their power in improving a lot of the server. They're all too cushy with their positions and pawn them off on the many other (40+) members of staff. Which is ridiculous in of itself. We dont need this much staff if people would just do the job they VOLUNTEERED for. Rather than VOLUNTEERING for a fancy tag in game and on the forums.

The issues today are that we wouldn't have had to have new discussions on the directions free build should take if we just built and improved on the old system from 3 years ago. Instead of scrapping our original set of rules, guides, and ideas, we should've collectively built off those but its clear the higher ups were hell bent on doing stuff another way because nations complained there were bandit groups building near their nations border (which wasn't against any rules) and that it must've been too hard for moderators to take care of land scarring. Which is an easy fix with tools like world edit and free build. We are now forced to start from scratch. I had to put up a pretty big fight and with the help of the community and polling on yhe forums while I was a GM, we were able to bring free build back. I sadly don't think the current administration team stemming from the very top all the way down have the best in mind for lotc or even care anymore. As I've said, once lockdowns are over for covid, I'm gone again. Lotc has become stagnant due to neglect.

We reinstated free build areas on the map. We took player input on what they wanted and built rules based around our findings and what the rest of the server decided (we had polls running on the forums for a week long period for people to vote on rulings) and somehow when ever staff changes hands, they always think their idea needs to 1-up the previous administration's accomplishments and inevitably fall short. LotC is in an endless cycle of rinse and repeat until someone wises up (ahem, the top admin whose been a top admin for many years now.) and sees that the people we are implementing as admins and inevitably making decisions are hurting the server more than they're benefiting it. As seen by war rules being botched, raid rules being botched, and PVP default rulings being botched. Now everything needs to be redone AGAIN. I was probably one of the biggest proponents about bringing BACK free build to LotC. It was honestly my baby and of course there will always be land scarring with free build but we saw a great increase in player retention off it. We saw settlements get built and destroyed and even some became parts of nations later on. It was easily the #1 selling point of LotC. The ability to come on here, build what you want where you want and build your own fantasy RP setting anywhere on the map. This stupid tile based system requiring mina to hang onto land and land only being handed out to ones who have the mina to purchase it (which, news flash, new players wont have enough mina for it and they're being forced into dead and stale nations) is going to ruin LotC in the long term. I commend @Hiebe for his economy system and the rest of the world team for building a nice world. But the forcing of players into nations to build or RP has never been the answer and never will be the answer. Especially considering the admin team is refusing to let dead nations finally die so a new player and a new idea and a new type of nation can be birthed. LotC is stale. Literally the only thing keeping me here is covid-19 lockdowns and the new vortex plugin which I like. Everything else is just so disheartening to see as a whole and im really surprised Telanir doesnt see it the same way nor does Tythus. Telanir being the head admin for many years now should be the first one to know as an old player from the glory days of Aegis and Asulon that the server is steadily declining when it comes to new content produced by new players and just new players in general. I dont hate Telanir and dont blame him if this is the case but it is almost as if he no longer cares about the quality of the server so long as things are still running somewhat smoothly.

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