Make your voice heard in our staff meeting! by hasl November 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM UTC

What has already been brought up/what's already going to be discussed?

I'm already a staff member, but from what I can see:

1. What on earth is going on with the dev team?
2. Why are mods so inactive?
3. What is being done to resolve these questions?
4. Why are there so many seniors when the average is generally 3-4? We now have 6. Why?

definitely need to discuss making avicus great again and getting rid of atlas

I'm already a staff member, but from what I can see:

1. What on earth is going on with the dev team?
2. Why are mods so inactive?
3. What is being done to resolve these questions?
4. Why are there so many seniors when the average is generally 3-4? We now have 6. Why?

Fix stuff 

then advertise

popularity needs to rise before new devs and staff come here

dont even bother with the tourney either because if it's not gonna be high quality its A waste of time

I'd have to agree with Snow. No one wants to come to a server with no active Devs, very few active staff at all, along with lots of glitches. If I was looking for a server and I found Avicus I wouldn't stay. There is never a Dev on, which from a new person perspective means no development is happening what-so-ever.

Player count has been increasing slowly, so that should not be a top priority. Keep doing what ever we are doing there.

Developing and updates should be faster. There's been many glitches that are brought up in topics all the time and nothing gets done about them, and now with the most active Dev gone that is going to be even slower.

Staff activity... I have no clue why so many staff are inactive, but that's going to be brought up in the staff meeting already. I know I don't see everyone online because of timezones but I'm on  most of the day for myself. This includes the beginning and end of a few different time zones and 99% of the time I'm on alone or with one and sometimes two other people. I know school is a pretty big factor with activity along with just life in general, but from what I see the active staff that I see everyday or almost every day are myself, MyWorld, Junr, Abusive,PieZ, Para, Badger, and Prodigy. For having 32 staff members (including Seniors and Admins) that is sad. (Those are only ones I know are on everyday or pretty close to it. There are probably a few that are on but I just don't see.)

Now onto things I know a lot of people are curious about and things I've thought of:

-Rules.
     *There are a lot of "rules" that aren't in the rules. 
     *There are also a few rules that don't make a lot of sense. For example the gap between names and chat behavior. You can't have a name that isn't appropriate for all ages, but chat is allowed to be vulgar and sometimes it can get sexual. I understand certain things but if there's a rule for something it shouldn't be allowed in other ways. It just doesn't make sense.


(I will add more as I think of them.)

Please add these topics:

• Maps: Put Quintus, Ternio, Halcyon, and Dust Devils back on Destroy1 server
• Maps: Find Gladiator and put it on Deathmatch server
• Message: Welcome message for new or kinda new players (logged in less than 10 times). Have an announcement say Hi to them, so more veteran players can say HI too and welcome them. 
• Walls!
• Tags: Update the command /list that could list all the players and include the player's team tag if they are on one.   example:  Murphh [Gold] [HOME]

Thanks for reading!

Please add these topics:

• Maps: Put Quintus, Ternio, Halcyon, and Dust Devils back on Destroy1 server
• Maps: Find Gladiator and put it on Deathmatch server
• Message: Welcome message for new or kinda new players (logged in less than 10 times). Have an announcement say Hi to them, so more veteran players can say HI too and welcome them. 
• Walls!
• Tags: Update the command /list that could list all the players and include the player's team tag if they are on one.   example:  Murphh [Gold] [HOME]

Thanks for reading!

Addressing the recently high turnover rate of the Map Development team. 
What methods will be used to attract more people to become Map Devs?
What methods will be used to keep more people on the Map Dev team in the long run?

I'd have to agree with Snow. No one wants to come to a server with no active Devs, very few active staff at all, along with lots of glitches. If I was looking for a server and I found Avicus I wouldn't stay. There is never a Dev on, which from a new person perspective means no development is happening what-so-ever.

Player count has been increasing slowly, so that should not be a top priority. Keep doing what ever we are doing there.

Developing and updates should be faster. There's been many glitches that are brought up in topics all the time and nothing gets done about them, and now with the most active Dev gone that is going to be even slower.

Staff activity... I have no clue why so many staff are inactive, but that's going to be brought up in the staff meeting already. I know I don't see everyone online because of timezones but I'm on  most of the day for myself. This includes the beginning and end of a few different time zones and 99% of the time I'm on alone or with one and sometimes two other people. I know school is a pretty big factor with activity along with just life in general, but from what I see the active staff that I see everyday or almost every day are myself, MyWorld, Junr, Abusive,PieZ, Para, Badger, and Prodigy. For having 32 staff members (including Seniors and Admins) that is sad. (Those are only ones I know are on everyday or pretty close to it. There are probably a few that are on but I just don't see.)

Now onto things I know a lot of people are curious about and things I've thought of:

-Rules.
     *There are a lot of "rules" that aren't in the rules. 
     *There are also a few rules that don't make a lot of sense. For example the gap between names and chat behavior. You can't have a name that isn't appropriate for all ages, but chat is allowed to be vulgar and sometimes it can get sexual. I understand certain things but if there's a rule for something it shouldn't be allowed in other ways. It just doesn't make sense.


(I will add more as I think of them.)

I'd have to agree with Snow. No one wants to come to a server with no active Devs, very few active staff at all, along with lots of glitches. If I was looking for a server and I found Avicus I wouldn't stay. There is never a Dev on, which from a new person perspective means no development is happening what-so-ever.

Player count has been increasing slowly, so that should not be a top priority. Keep doing what ever we are doing there.

Developing and updates should be faster. There's been many glitches that are brought up in topics all the time and nothing gets done about them, and now with the most active Dev gone that is going to be even slower.

Staff activity... I have no clue why so many staff are inactive, but that's going to be brought up in the staff meeting already. I know I don't see everyone online because of timezones but I'm on  most of the day for myself. This includes the beginning and end of a few different time zones and 99% of the time I'm on alone or with one and sometimes two other people. I know school is a pretty big factor with activity along with just life in general, but from what I see the active staff that I see everyday or almost every day are myself, MyWorld, Junr, Abusive,PieZ, Para, Badger, and Prodigy. For having 32 staff members (including Seniors and Admins) that is sad. (Those are only ones I know are on everyday or pretty close to it. There are probably a few that are on but I just don't see.)

Now onto things I know a lot of people are curious about and things I've thought of:

-Rules.
     *There are a lot of "rules" that aren't in the rules. 
     *There are also a few rules that don't make a lot of sense. For example the gap between names and chat behavior. You can't have a name that isn't appropriate for all ages, but chat is allowed to be vulgar and sometimes it can get sexual. I understand certain things but if there's a rule for something it shouldn't be allowed in other ways. It just doesn't make sense.


(I will add more as I think of them.)

Get the plugins in tiptop shape and release a wave of good new maps, not the shit that just came out, then find a youtuber with like 5-10k subs

When tournaments are in planning for several months, Devs need to recognize that hey "We might need to code some tournament plugins" especially when officials spend time getting shit organised and waking up at ungodly hours with 4 Final year assessments due that week to attend fucking meetings. It should not get to the stage where THE DAY WE ARE FORCED TO POSTPONE, developers show up in slack and say "Hey what plugins do you need done" I won't mention Elly's name here, but that made me so triggered.


STAFF ACTIVITY:
It should not get to the stage where if you want to find a mod to rescue the server from half a dozen flyhackers, 3 kids building penises, 2 spleefers/griefers and 2 kids spamming "EZ KIDS GET REKT", fuck the server, fuck the forums, fuck teamspeak, fuck slack, check the smp instead, thats where you'll have more luck. Oh and get another Aussie staff member

EZ

check slack suggestions :

To bring activity to the forums there should be a small bar or icon, like on ocn where it appears when a  media is streaming. It doesn't have to be like ocns one, it could just be a small view in the corner of their screen that you can click to enlarge or shrink! This would bring in views which can help promote Avicus on twitch as the stream will be closer to the top of the Twitch minecraft page, meaning its easier for people to see it and click it! Then people can see avicus and it can promote it if steamers stream regularly. Please put green or red

The problem with Slack Suggestions is that people start talking about it and it disappears and then gets lost in chat. We need a different system for suggestions.

Well, quite a few of the staff members on there are on LOAs. It's not an excuse - there should always be a mod on at busy times - but we're working on it.

If you're going to monitor staff activity please don't leave it up to staff with a completely different timezone. It will appear that they are inactive, they're just not on when you are.

If you're going to monitor staff activity please don't leave it up to staff with a completely different timezone. It will appear that they are inactive, they're just not on when you are.

That's not how it would work.
Talking to Pete about my suggestion of activity checks, is on minimum of certain command infractions given out (ex: a certain amount of warns, kicks, bans per month), if they go on ts or not, active or not in slack and many other stuff to influence the activity check decision.

That's not how it would work.
Talking to Pete about my suggestion of activity checks, is on minimum of certain command infractions given out (ex: a certain amount of warns, kicks, bans per month), if they go on ts or not, active or not in slack and many other stuff to influence the activity check decision.

i apologise if this is just a meeting for mods but in a mapdev meeting idk...

why are all of the maps in the rots ones that are constantly complained about when there are maps such as rend that everyone likes and that there isnt anything wrong with

https://avicus.net/forums/discussions/5671b2f86

The problem with Slack Suggestions is that people start talking about it and it disappears and then gets lost in chat. We need a different system for suggestions.

what happened to the suggestion box thing

-Fixing minor glitches in maps 
-Voting (Better rewards though)
-Double credit weekends . Adding on to that, maybe having a credit multiplier throughout Christmas until New Years?
-After someone getting a killstreak in-game (5,10 etc) it could say : "roadmanryan is on a 10 killstreak!"
- /rules command which has a link to the avicus ruleset
-Voting on a map at the end which could give feedback for the MapDevs
-Staff activity
-Maybe saying gg at the end of a game will give you 20 credits (for all ranks)

what about unbanning seuthy