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Milo · 01-16-2017

Posted by Bryan*

If you aren't affiliated with these groups: [ Zanza, Nightowls, Feare ] good luck having your application approved. I find Ol'West application far more suitable to find candidates than the generic questions found on iClassic's GP application. Looks very bland as well. Take a look at the difference:

• Ol'West: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...5AVVQ/viewform

• iClassic:
http://graalonlineclassic.com/gpapp.php

Any staff in Nightowls joined after they were hired as staff. Being in the guild doesn't give anyone a higher advantage over other players. The only exception of someone being in Nightowls before they were hired is Slacky.

Posted by Thallen

Why is that though? It seems strange to me that the guilds Bryan mentioned exist as half staff, half regular players. You don't think there's a certain bias given towards the players in these guilds?

Overall, the point I'm making is that it feels like some weird culture exists in both the GP and GFX departments that is preventing a lot of people on the outside from getting hired. I can name a lot of specific examples. I also think iClassic lacks staff who actually care about what they're doing, and instead just do it for the benefits offered with the position. Not many people seem enthusiastic with actually helping people or trying to improve the game. Rufus was someone who never had that problem, and even you (Jarace) seem to strive to do that. TD is another helpful GP.

There are plenty of GPs I can name that don't even seem half as helpful though, and it's confusing because there are people willing to do their job but they just aren't being considered. I hate to be calling out names, but I wonder what someone like Iron, Za Ichi, Andromeda, or Zelatko's staff day actually consists of. I can PM these people and almost never get a reply. Someone can be health hacking a 40 streak in a spar room and people can be reporting them, you can PM a GP, and still nothing. At that point, the players are basically doing the GP's job anyway. It feels like their entire job as a GP is waiting for reports to come to them, like naughty PMs or a mean word in a status. It's just confusing to me because I know for a fact that certain people apply, with well-written applications, willing to do a better job than that.

I don't think that there is a "weird culture" among staff as your see it. We're all a bunch of a random players who've developed friendships with each other

Players apply for the position unaware of what they could possibly benefit from it besides those who intend to do it for the title. So I'd have to disagree that majority of the staff do it for benefits, not discounting the possibility that there could be someone who harbours an ulterior motive.