[Ryan]

A question I have for you though is what makes you unique to becoming an admin? There are currently 3 other admins that the community has. What’s missing in the team currently that you believe you could fill the void of? I'm curious of this answer as I feel there needs to be a purpose for adding an additional person to this role. 

Hey bryan, these are excellent questions that Ill answer in two parts.

The first one is easy: Ill bring different ideas and opinions to the table. Many of them drawn from my time spent in other communities. I'll be trying to bring in ideas and practices from those communities to try an improve what we already have (things like demoting inactive staff). I believe that it wouldnt be beneficial to the community to have someone trying to bring in these new ideas so the server feels less stagnant.

The second one is a bit more complicated: I cant pretend to know what happens behind the closed doors of admin discussion, but one thing has seemed pretty apparent from some of the public posts; the infighting. There is way too much tension in the tone of some of the posts made, and it needs to stop. I dont know if I could help, but I'd like to think there is some way to ease that tension from within. As for what I can bring that is missing; training new staff. New staff get promoted and dumped into the server as as they are. There are many tmods and mods to help them out, but it is my belief that something more formal is needed. I'd like for there to be a 10-15 minute mini-training session while we wait for Dinkleberg to promote staff so that we can gauge their experience and where they may need support when starting their new role.

You mentioned the lack of updates and not enough happening in the servers to make people want to hop on (especially veterans in the community). One idea I've proposed before, verbally, is a different way to do seasonal events. Rather than have boxes with seasonal cosmetics and skins, I'd like to make them achievement based. It would look roughly like this:

Common Item 1: Get 50 headshots with the rifle
Common Item 2: Kill 50 people as a Tratior
Uncommon Item 1: Spend 50 hours on the server
Uncommon Item 2: Kill 20 Traitors
250 Premium Points: Survive 30 rounds
Rare Item: Kill 250 people
Legendary Item: Kill 10 people in 1 round as a Traitor

Now these would have anti-RDM measures such as not counting kills against the same team (inno on inno/D or T on T), and would have time limits for how long you can obtain the items. This would create a sense of urgency for anyone wanting to collect the more rare items. My only issue is that I dont have the technical knowhow, currently, to turn these ideas to reality. I have never worked with Pointshop2 behind the scenes, nor have I ever worked with our Skins manager.

I hope this answers your questions! If you have anything more detailed to ask me, or need any clarifications to my response, feel free to let me know.