Game Op Expectations and Rules

[Vitoc]

Things you can't do:
1) You can't play competitively.  If you're consistently in the top 10 every push and want to remain that way, you're probably not a good candidate.
2) You can't hold limited items (period)
3) You can't create items for people (limited or not) including yourself, except when absolutely called for (eg. items that poof as a result of bugs)
4) No doing favors for friends (examples: adding exp, teleporting to specific rooms, etc.)
5) Try to be as objective and as fair as possible in making decisions about in-game drama.  This is why I don't want someone who's playing competitively as an op.  It clouds judgement and creates bias.
6) You can't have competitive players in the gang you're in (including your own)

Things you can and should do:
1) Handle in-game drama and be the authoritative decision-maker on any actions taken.  You can appeal to me if you have questions or want another opinion, but you'll probably be more informed than I will.  I'm open to helping out though and bearing the brunt of fallout on any controversial decisions.  I'm already a FIEND in the eyes of many here. :D
2) Moderate public conversations to the best of your ability.  You're not expected to be at the keys all the time.  Warn/suspend/ban per our rules.  The point isn't to be a censorship nazi, but just use your best judgement. When in doubt, warnings are probably in order at a minimum.
3) Routine sweeps; lims on inactive character tracking, monitoring hoarding, etc.  I recommend using Gardner's utility which takes advantage of game op features.
4) You're welcome to warn/suspend/ban cases of excessive profanity, griefing, racism, hate speech
5) Get progressively more heavy-handed with repeat offenders.  We wants realms to be fun and enjoyable for everyone, not just for a group of a few people that delight in conversation that offends most others.
6) Help plan for, gage interest for, and manage/monitor resets
7) Recommend any other ops
8) Call me directly if the game crashes, freezes, or goes down. You're not expected to monitor yourself at all times, but if someone notifies you and you've confirmed it's down don't hesitate to call me.  I hate down-time worse than being woke up at 3am.  This may evolve into being given a login on the server and restarting it yourself.  We're likely moving GreaterMUD to the cloud within the next few months, pending success of the other game I'm working on.
9) Track and prioritize bugs or new features, work through them with me.  Depending on technical ability, you may or may not be given access to the source code repository, but if you're not already a developer, you will probably be exposed to and learn code and programming logic
10) Clear non-ganghouse rooms that have become ridiculously stacked

You're there for the good of the players in the realm.  That's your purpose in that realm.

Disclaimer: You *will* find yourself unpopular at times.  People will shit-talk on you.  People will publicly lie about you, name-call, and smear you and your decisions all over the place.  You've got to be a bit thick-skinned about it and not lose your shit.  You'll also find that there are still good-natured mudders out there.  They do exist.  That's really why we're here. ;)

If I've missed anything please don't hesitate to point it out in this thread.  Suggest, recommend, criticize.  I will edit this post as necessary.

[mad]

vote mad for mudop

[jim gilmore]

I really do not think anybody here considers me to be competative here....
as for limiteds a short spear works for the first 25 levels quite well.
I really don't know anybody here that would slant me in favor of anybody.

[mad]

torque and his short spear fetish

[jim gilmore]

strike two....
again I am not torque....

[mad]

ever manage to figure this one out?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

http://www.greatermud.com/forums/index.php?topic=5056.0

yeah vote jim mudop 100% ☺

[mad]

strike two....
again I am not torque....

never said you were :D but thanks for volunteering that information

[jim gilmore]

torque and his short spear fetish

I thought you were implying it here ???

[mad]

you seem to take real offence to those references and feel the need to defend yourself even with ambiguous comments,

why is that?

[mad]

I expect this:

read-only emulation available with an unlimited backscroll log. So we can basically all go and view what our beloved mudop is doing.

Then they could play as competitively as they wanted knowing we can all see whatsup

Or just create a 'gardner bot' to do most the mundane tasks like stripping people, etc, and the odd monthly room sweep.

[Crabster]

i think u found ur man....what time do I start?