Jazz
Retired Admin
After yesterdays admin meeting we've discussed and made several decisions to improve and raise the standard of this server with one goal; Make it even better than it used to be. In the end, it's us admins trying to give you an enjoyable roleplay environment by spending our freetime here, so a little patience and help from YOUR end wouldn't harm as well. We're a community here, if we want to have a better server, we ALL need to work on it. There are things that only admins can change, but then again there are things that only players can do! I will not make a list of things we ask for to be changed by the players, that's something you should think about yourself. One little hint; It would improve the RP by (I'll just kick in a value) 70% (I'd say) if you all just thought about what you would do IN REAL LIFE before RPing something in game.
"What would I do if I was in this situation?". That's it. That would help staying realistic and lowering the powergaming rate on this server. Believe it or not.. I've seen this before.
With the last admin meeting we had we decided to change several things within the administration itself. Promotions and the way we're going to handle non-rp situations in the future, plus the way head admins are going to handle punishments for other administrators as well. We hope to improve step by step together.
One more thing I'd like to say regarding the admin complaints and those who tend to complain about literally everything: Think twice or even more before making a complaint. Those of you wh are known well in the admin team for making ridiculous complaints for the smallest things while 90% of the complaint is just (sorry, but..) BULLSHIT, are not taken seriously anymore. I mean it. You should first think if the admin complaint is going to improve things or not, but unfortunately most of the players in RC-RP just want to see an admin being punished. Let me tell you something, I don't know HOW but the playerbase somehow got the idea of equality between admins and players. Of course, we are all regular people, but everyone should know, and I actually wanted Alec to post this but you will hear this from me now: We are all just human beings (with a few exceptions I might say, TommyB is not a human for example). The rank administrator automatically gives an admin more rights on the server, we can do things like going OOC or messing around whenever we want to (with restrictions, see below).
WHY? Simply because we are spending our time here assisting people and dealing with all kinds of players, some are easy breezy to handle, some are just killing your nerves with an axe. Reducing our stress which we relate to the IG happenings, we tend to go run around and have some fun, and nobody has the right to restrict us from this, except the thing which we discussed on the meeting; The location for OOC fuckery. Administrators will be doing this far away from any players now. But if you see one in the city screwing around, don't go rush to the complaint form unless it disturbs and seriously fucks up someones roleplay. Send it to me directly then..
Administrators need to be respected, if I see a player not respecting a moderator or administrator, he/she will hear from me. Same thing will happen if you don't respect each other.
If an admin is on duty and you see him on the streets and you start shooting at him or punching him, driving him over, trying to kill him, expect a punishment any time, it's completely up to the admins judgement from that point on. And if you are punished, don't rush to the forums or start crying, it will be your own fault. I'm sick and tired of people seeing your blue nametag as an invitation to go OOC and fuck around! Stop that!
Oh and those who want to become admins, one little hint; don't PM ANYONE (or ask on TS) for such a position. Your chances will be lowered by ~70%. Oh and those of you which think they are smart to go to Alec directly will be redirected to me anyway, so if you can't resist and want to get some information on how to become an admin, just come directly to me.. Saves everyone the work.
I hope this topic doesn't look like a rant topic, just a few thoughts from my end including the opinion of other administrators. The aim of this topic was to show that things are being worked on, but we need your support to do it. (we could do it alone but that'd take more time and could be a little unpleasant for some of you).
PS: We'll also be more strict with the punishment of players to raise the RP standard, you should be prepared for that.
Laaaaaaaast but not least, I want to thank all of you who still support and help improving the server. Including the administrators!
"What would I do if I was in this situation?". That's it. That would help staying realistic and lowering the powergaming rate on this server. Believe it or not.. I've seen this before.
With the last admin meeting we had we decided to change several things within the administration itself. Promotions and the way we're going to handle non-rp situations in the future, plus the way head admins are going to handle punishments for other administrators as well. We hope to improve step by step together.
One more thing I'd like to say regarding the admin complaints and those who tend to complain about literally everything: Think twice or even more before making a complaint. Those of you wh are known well in the admin team for making ridiculous complaints for the smallest things while 90% of the complaint is just (sorry, but..) BULLSHIT, are not taken seriously anymore. I mean it. You should first think if the admin complaint is going to improve things or not, but unfortunately most of the players in RC-RP just want to see an admin being punished. Let me tell you something, I don't know HOW but the playerbase somehow got the idea of equality between admins and players. Of course, we are all regular people, but everyone should know, and I actually wanted Alec to post this but you will hear this from me now: We are all just human beings (with a few exceptions I might say, TommyB is not a human for example). The rank administrator automatically gives an admin more rights on the server, we can do things like going OOC or messing around whenever we want to (with restrictions, see below).
WHY? Simply because we are spending our time here assisting people and dealing with all kinds of players, some are easy breezy to handle, some are just killing your nerves with an axe. Reducing our stress which we relate to the IG happenings, we tend to go run around and have some fun, and nobody has the right to restrict us from this, except the thing which we discussed on the meeting; The location for OOC fuckery. Administrators will be doing this far away from any players now. But if you see one in the city screwing around, don't go rush to the complaint form unless it disturbs and seriously fucks up someones roleplay. Send it to me directly then..
Administrators need to be respected, if I see a player not respecting a moderator or administrator, he/she will hear from me. Same thing will happen if you don't respect each other.
If an admin is on duty and you see him on the streets and you start shooting at him or punching him, driving him over, trying to kill him, expect a punishment any time, it's completely up to the admins judgement from that point on. And if you are punished, don't rush to the forums or start crying, it will be your own fault. I'm sick and tired of people seeing your blue nametag as an invitation to go OOC and fuck around! Stop that!
Oh and those who want to become admins, one little hint; don't PM ANYONE (or ask on TS) for such a position. Your chances will be lowered by ~70%. Oh and those of you which think they are smart to go to Alec directly will be redirected to me anyway, so if you can't resist and want to get some information on how to become an admin, just come directly to me.. Saves everyone the work.
I hope this topic doesn't look like a rant topic, just a few thoughts from my end including the opinion of other administrators. The aim of this topic was to show that things are being worked on, but we need your support to do it. (we could do it alone but that'd take more time and could be a little unpleasant for some of you).
PS: We'll also be more strict with the punishment of players to raise the RP standard, you should be prepared for that.
Laaaaaaaast but not least, I want to thank all of you who still support and help improving the server. Including the administrators!