Just a bit of a tip...

Servers seem to not ask for help when needed (such as iEra) and others could benefit from being more open toward community contributions.

Set up Trello boards, server managers. Ask for a little help, wether you think you need it or not. Things will go faster and more smoothly for you when small things are handled by the community every now and again.  

sssssssh, do you hear it? thats the chants of server devs saying that this is a voluntary job and it don't pay the bills.  

The problem is dealing with a sort of "freelance" situation ends up being a bigger job than just making the graphics themselves. First off only graphics mostly can be used. After that, you have to review submissions, sometimes edit/fix them up, and then track and manage submissions/compensation. Then you have to deal with stolen graphics and alll of that drama... Guess what happens when graphics are stolen but already released? They have to be redone by staff.

It easily gets very overwhelming and turns into a job almost as time-consuming as making the graphics themselves.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

sssssssh, do you hear it? thats the chants of server devs saying that this is a voluntary job and it don't pay the bills.

Atleast pay them with gralats, 1k a day? 500?
I don't think this isnt good do to the fact that some of the admins are kids.  

This is Graal, opinions are irrelevant!  

iera is not graal  

I am Graal  

I agree many times its said graal is a 'player made game' yet staff primarily set themselves out to do the work(in sections i must add, lvls/gfx/scripts/ganis - even when some can do more) Contest etc is always good to see and help as a bitpart update while working on other stuff.  

How do I post on a forum  

Posted by G Fatal

I agree many times its said graal is a 'player made game' yet staff primarily set themselves out to do the work(in sections i must add, lvls/gfx/scripts/ganis - even when some can do more) Contest etc is always good to see and help as a bitpart update while working on other stuff.

It is a player made game.
Every single staff member is a player, and was not staff at some point.
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I agree it could be better, but as mentioned above: there is tons of drama and issues when 'just hiring people who want to help.'
If you disagree there would be drama, purchase a server and see how it works out. Been there, done that.
It's not as simple as you think it is.  

There needs to be a published list of things that need to get done and where anyone can submit solutions regardless of staff or player role.  

Posted by hosler

There needs to be a published list of things that need to get done and where anyone can submit solutions regardless of staff or player role.

sounds like progress
nah  

Posted by Fysez

It is a player made game.
Every single staff member is a player, and was not staff at some point.
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I agree it could be better, but as mentioned above: there is tons of drama and issues when 'just hiring people who want to help.'
If you disagree there would be drama, purchase a server and see how it works out. Been there, done that.
It's not as simple as you think it is.

Ik that, I meant that when they become staff they set themselves aside don't ever really get help off others..and are happily just doing the holiday rota (that players would rather see content/new stuff)

At the hiring anyone who wants to help comment, I said contests for i.e we need weapons! makes some awesome ones and you could get in game! tbf on zone for instance there nature shop is probz best ive seen on zone itself.imo. (just cause they staff doesn't mean they wouldn't steal work-pretty sure someone did that in the past)
p.s. people should be hired on there helpfulness/knowledge/intentions+can make stuff in good amount of time not cause they friends or spar buddys etc pps. graal pc dead even if you hired professionals it'd fail(unless you spend years and years on it).

Posted by hosler

There needs to be a published list of things that need to get done

I direct you to a Classic 2012thread, longlivethatthread.pointstillvalid.
http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12277  

I thought every server did this except iClassic

To be honest though like Dusty said, it's a job on its own to go through submissions, change/correct them, test them, make sure they're not stolen etc. that it's just better off and easier to do it ourselves. It can probably be managed by the newer, smaller servers but when the server has thousands of players and for example, 1/3 of the community submit a piece for a contest, it takes a lot of time.  

I dont see no damn copyright saying i own this script. In my eyes a stolen script isnt stolen unless its a blantent copy paste without credit to the original. If its similar and does the same thing but uses different variables then its just simpily a mod of a script.
If this is really such a big damn deal then why has no one done anything about it and create something like an anti plagurism filter on turnitin.com that does all the work to see if its plagurism or not. Only this one would be for graal scripts? I really seem to find that 99% of staff excuses on why we wont do this are absolute bs like this one.