22-01-2017, 04:19 PM
Hello,
We're happy to announce that after weeks of working and discussions, we are introducing some major community changes as well as our new forum. This is our first major update with more to come in the future, any feedback and suggestion is greatly appreciated.
The ranking system has been completely changed, we removed the previous ranks and added a couple more which will hopefully strengthen our community's management team. Ranks/roles may be subject to change depending on the feedback and statistics we receive from our new administration team. I will try to fully explain the ranks below.
Owner: Like before, owners will be entirely in charge of the community. They are responsible of keeping the community up, managing the high staff team necessary, making major changes to the community, dealing with the community's outside relationship and other things. Any major community change will have to be approved by the owner.
Global Manager: Global managers are responsible of helping the owners run and manage the community in every aspect. They are mainly responsible of overseeing the management & administration team, making community changes, assigning or removing administration team members, managing the community's gameservers and forum, setting up new gameservers, among other things. This role is very broad and as such, may have a lot of responsibilities. Members in this rank are to handle every task given at them.
Head Manager: A head manager's role is similar to a global manager's, although it is more specific and will not cover every area. Head managers are responsible of overseeing the administration team, managing or administrating the servers/forum when required etc.
Forum Moderator: Forum moderators are in charge of globally administrating the forums and keeping it clean from spam and abusive behavior.
Server Manager: The server manager rank is a server-specific rank, meaning that a server manager would only manage the server he is assigned to. Server managers are responsible of managing their gameservers, this includes: Installing and configuring plugins/mods, changing server-specific rules, adding or removing server admins, adding or removing maps as well as handling server reports and applications.
Server Admin: The server admin rank is also a server-specific rank but may be assigned to more than one server. Server admins are responsible of administrating the server and keeping it clean from cheaters and abusive behavior. Server admins are required to follow administration rules set by a server manager or high staff member.
Server Moderator: Similar to the server admin ranks, server moderators are responsible of administrating the server and keeping it clean. This is the rank where accepted applicants will be placed in for two or more weeks to prove their administration knowledge.
Sponsor: This is a paid rank coming soon when we introduce VIP packages.
Elite: This is a paid rank coming soon when we introduce VIP packages.
Member: This is the default rank where everyone is put in upon forum registration.
Notes: Regardless of thehierarchy, high and low staff members will still communicate with each other before making any changes. For example, a server manager is to be consulted before changes are made in his server or administration team, etc.
As most of you may know, we have recently migrated all of our servers and services to a dedicated server in UK. This migration allows us to expand our community as the new dedicated server is more powerful. Apart from the server migration, we also have a new retakes server and a surf server in the works.
We have set up the forum from scratch and installed a couple of plugins designed to make the forum more enjoyable and comfortable to use. Below is a list of main/most interesting plugins installed so far.
Forms plugin: From now on, every application or report will be submitted via forms. This makes everything easier and more manageable, every submission will be posted in a specific board and when applicable, a prefix will be assigned to them for organization purposes.
Help documents: This is a default feature in mybb which we are now using to keep our members up to date with rules and information.
Reputation System: You can now issue positive or negative reputation to anyone using the forum. Invalid reputations will be removed, please follow the rules.
Servers Board: Yay! We now have a servers board in which you can view all of our community servers, their player status and more.
Steam integration: You can now link your forum account with your steam profile, members will be able to see our steam status in your profile as well as postbit. We will soon have a steam users sidebar.
Credits system: Credits system has been added to the forum. You can now earn a specified amount of credits for every post or thread you make. Credits can be used towards buying lottery tickets or for playing RPS (Rock, Papers, Scissors) with your fellow forum members. We have a credits shop planned. Visit this page for more information on credits system
Awards system: A new awards system has been added to the forum but is unfortunately not yet finished, we will make an announcement when it is.
Shoutbox: Hooray! You can now chat with other online forum users!
Username history: This is a moderation tool that will show username change history behind every user. A limit to username changes is applied.
Advanced referrals: An advanced refferals plugin was added with more features behind referrals, we will have rewards for referrals in the future.
Edit history log: This is a moderation tool that will show us every edited post.
Apart from the plugin installations, as most of you have seen, we have also created boards from zero and re-assigned every thread to different boards. This is a huge step towards forum organization and easier administration, useless/spam threads have also been removed.
We're happy to announce that after weeks of working and discussions, we are introducing some major community changes as well as our new forum. This is our first major update with more to come in the future, any feedback and suggestion is greatly appreciated.
- Rank System -
The ranking system has been completely changed, we removed the previous ranks and added a couple more which will hopefully strengthen our community's management team. Ranks/roles may be subject to change depending on the feedback and statistics we receive from our new administration team. I will try to fully explain the ranks below.
Owner: Like before, owners will be entirely in charge of the community. They are responsible of keeping the community up, managing the high staff team necessary, making major changes to the community, dealing with the community's outside relationship and other things. Any major community change will have to be approved by the owner.
Global Manager: Global managers are responsible of helping the owners run and manage the community in every aspect. They are mainly responsible of overseeing the management & administration team, making community changes, assigning or removing administration team members, managing the community's gameservers and forum, setting up new gameservers, among other things. This role is very broad and as such, may have a lot of responsibilities. Members in this rank are to handle every task given at them.
Head Manager: A head manager's role is similar to a global manager's, although it is more specific and will not cover every area. Head managers are responsible of overseeing the administration team, managing or administrating the servers/forum when required etc.
Forum Moderator: Forum moderators are in charge of globally administrating the forums and keeping it clean from spam and abusive behavior.
Server Manager: The server manager rank is a server-specific rank, meaning that a server manager would only manage the server he is assigned to. Server managers are responsible of managing their gameservers, this includes: Installing and configuring plugins/mods, changing server-specific rules, adding or removing server admins, adding or removing maps as well as handling server reports and applications.
Server Admin: The server admin rank is also a server-specific rank but may be assigned to more than one server. Server admins are responsible of administrating the server and keeping it clean from cheaters and abusive behavior. Server admins are required to follow administration rules set by a server manager or high staff member.
Server Moderator: Similar to the server admin ranks, server moderators are responsible of administrating the server and keeping it clean. This is the rank where accepted applicants will be placed in for two or more weeks to prove their administration knowledge.
Sponsor: This is a paid rank coming soon when we introduce VIP packages.
Elite: This is a paid rank coming soon when we introduce VIP packages.
Member: This is the default rank where everyone is put in upon forum registration.
Notes: Regardless of thehierarchy, high and low staff members will still communicate with each other before making any changes. For example, a server manager is to be consulted before changes are made in his server or administration team, etc.
- Server Changes -
As most of you may know, we have recently migrated all of our servers and services to a dedicated server in UK. This migration allows us to expand our community as the new dedicated server is more powerful. Apart from the server migration, we also have a new retakes server and a surf server in the works.
- Forum Changes -
We have set up the forum from scratch and installed a couple of plugins designed to make the forum more enjoyable and comfortable to use. Below is a list of main/most interesting plugins installed so far.
Forms plugin: From now on, every application or report will be submitted via forms. This makes everything easier and more manageable, every submission will be posted in a specific board and when applicable, a prefix will be assigned to them for organization purposes.
Help documents: This is a default feature in mybb which we are now using to keep our members up to date with rules and information.
Reputation System: You can now issue positive or negative reputation to anyone using the forum. Invalid reputations will be removed, please follow the rules.
Servers Board: Yay! We now have a servers board in which you can view all of our community servers, their player status and more.
Steam integration: You can now link your forum account with your steam profile, members will be able to see our steam status in your profile as well as postbit. We will soon have a steam users sidebar.
Credits system: Credits system has been added to the forum. You can now earn a specified amount of credits for every post or thread you make. Credits can be used towards buying lottery tickets or for playing RPS (Rock, Papers, Scissors) with your fellow forum members. We have a credits shop planned. Visit this page for more information on credits system
Awards system: A new awards system has been added to the forum but is unfortunately not yet finished, we will make an announcement when it is.
Shoutbox: Hooray! You can now chat with other online forum users!
Username history: This is a moderation tool that will show username change history behind every user. A limit to username changes is applied.
Advanced referrals: An advanced refferals plugin was added with more features behind referrals, we will have rewards for referrals in the future.
Edit history log: This is a moderation tool that will show us every edited post.
Apart from the plugin installations, as most of you have seen, we have also created boards from zero and re-assigned every thread to different boards. This is a huge step towards forum organization and easier administration, useless/spam threads have also been removed.