We have had very little feedback about applications for this role after having applied a long time ago and the contact between community and staff seems to be a bit poor if i am honest. No formal warnings for wipes, when we only expect a map wipe we get BP wipe also. Not always a problem but it gets a bit confusing.
Following on from this; i dont mean to offend but i have a bit of an issue with on of the choices of staff. The new admin that has been chosen [not Fuel] only has 13.1 hours on rust from what i can find evidence of. I really find it hard to believe someone with so little contact time with the game can be in a position to staff a server effectively. I honestly doubt this person has much knowledge of the games' dynamics, development or servers/command usage. I also find that the chosen person has a very limited activity in the rust forums, in a time when we should be really pushing it.
I'm not angry because i wasn't chosen, i am just a bit confused as to the logic of the choice..?
I don't think I need to answer really, but non-the-less After reading some comments in here, Kieran Rhead has decided to step down....
I'll be frank, he was on a week trial, and now its gone because people can't be patient.
Fuel and Stoneman are both leads for the Rust Project,
Fuel is a very determined member of this community who dedicates so much more than time to what he works on, he's is the easy logical choice.
Stoneman, Aside from his amazing video's Stoneman has already been working on a rust community, but has taken up the helm of leading ours. He's already experienced in running popular modded and vanilla servers, along with his social experience in advertising and media content creation, There's nothing that can be faulted on this.
The rest of the apps are still being looked at, and with respect, the first apps we looked at so far were people we know, we need to create a ladder before people can climb it. Rust is a very sensitive area when it comes to administration, Everyone wants active admins, and everyone wants balance and equality...
There are servers out there where "staff" are not allowed to raid, purely because they're staff and it cuases more issues than its worth....
The leads haven't even got most of these applications yet, but thank's very much in already pushing one member of the team out because you find it "confusing"
No formal warnings for wipes, when we only expect a map wipe we get BP wipe also.
Originally, we were following a "forced wipe only" policy, however in order to keep things fresh and fun, the leads are working on ideas about keeping retention of players, most people seem to get raided and leave, they quit, they're done....
In regards to the BP wipe, the XP System was expected at the begining of the month.... it never came and instead they only forced a partial wipe...
The Official Team run Server should be beginning on Thursday, which, rumors one again state, should be the XP System.
I feel ashamed as management I haven't been able to stay on top of this band-wagon. I've been working endlessly on other things regarding Altis, being active ingame, and dealing with the endless enquiries I receive over teamspeak..... this is on top of trying to keep a social life....
With Stoneman and Fuel in place, the only thing I need to do is keep them happy, and they're going to be working effectively to keep you happy.
I'm going to thank Kieran for trying to take up the reigns of moderating the server, he's now experienced first hand how "cut throat" being staff can be sometimes.
