Hello! It's been a while.
As you may or may not be aware, there have been some developments behind the scenes here lately. Specifically, our longtime administrator Wolfie decided to take a leave of absence for personal reasons. He's worked tirelessly for the server from the very beginning of the rebuild, and we hope he'll someday return in some capacity, but for now we've got to continue on without him.
Doing this is easier said than done, however. Wolfie was responsible for a great many things in the server, including maintaining certain backend items, scripting, coding, running events, and dealing with tickets. He took an unusually large amount upon himself, and while it allowed the rest of us to moderate the work we did, it clearly took a toll on him. I'm partly responsible for this, but I'd say it's probably also due to a general hesitation to delegate matters. This has been a problem with BlackoutRO from the beginning, and while it's improved somewhat in the rebuild era, neither Wolfie nor I have been great about sharing responsibilities.
That being said, right now the staff's number one priority is to train people up to fill the various jobs that Wolfie is no longer able to do. In order to prevent this situation from happening again, we're going to spread the work around more this time. To that end, we're going to be promoting some of the current staff in the coming days. At the same time, we're currently bringing on new people for jobs that need to be done. Here's a list of areas that we're looking for people to help out in:
• ability to interact with players and help people ingame
• community relations on forums, Discord, and Facebook
• scripting
• source coding
If you want to help out and feel like you have something to offer the server, or if you're willing to learn something new, let me know via PM! And please bear with us as we readjust to these staff changes. It's taking time, since a number of us are having to get up to speed on certain things while teaching others what we already know. Thanks for sticking with us this far!
-redcar
P.S.: If anyone has any suggestions for new (and simple) event types, please post them in this thread. There's no reason you guys should sit around twiddling your thumbs ingame while we sort things out on the backend. Since we're going to be promoting staff to GM status, it's a good time to experiment with new event ideas.
As you may or may not be aware, there have been some developments behind the scenes here lately. Specifically, our longtime administrator Wolfie decided to take a leave of absence for personal reasons. He's worked tirelessly for the server from the very beginning of the rebuild, and we hope he'll someday return in some capacity, but for now we've got to continue on without him.
Doing this is easier said than done, however. Wolfie was responsible for a great many things in the server, including maintaining certain backend items, scripting, coding, running events, and dealing with tickets. He took an unusually large amount upon himself, and while it allowed the rest of us to moderate the work we did, it clearly took a toll on him. I'm partly responsible for this, but I'd say it's probably also due to a general hesitation to delegate matters. This has been a problem with BlackoutRO from the beginning, and while it's improved somewhat in the rebuild era, neither Wolfie nor I have been great about sharing responsibilities.
That being said, right now the staff's number one priority is to train people up to fill the various jobs that Wolfie is no longer able to do. In order to prevent this situation from happening again, we're going to spread the work around more this time. To that end, we're going to be promoting some of the current staff in the coming days. At the same time, we're currently bringing on new people for jobs that need to be done. Here's a list of areas that we're looking for people to help out in:
• ability to interact with players and help people ingame
• community relations on forums, Discord, and Facebook
• scripting
• source coding
If you want to help out and feel like you have something to offer the server, or if you're willing to learn something new, let me know via PM! And please bear with us as we readjust to these staff changes. It's taking time, since a number of us are having to get up to speed on certain things while teaching others what we already know. Thanks for sticking with us this far!
-redcar
P.S.: If anyone has any suggestions for new (and simple) event types, please post them in this thread. There's no reason you guys should sit around twiddling your thumbs ingame while we sort things out on the backend. Since we're going to be promoting staff to GM status, it's a good time to experiment with new event ideas.