Sorry I don't look here as often as I would like to, but I want to add to this thread which is interesting to me.
We (at Exodus) don't probably have enough admins around, but we also have people looking at the game from IRC. I often check it myself to see if there are abuses or cheating, and I act promptly when needed. The problem is that I can't be there all the time, obviously.
We've had lots of admin requests, which were for the most part rejected, and I would like to let you understand why.
About 90% of the requests are from people that just like to have that power, or wants to use it for selfish reasons. Of course having a good game going without annoying people and cheaters may be considered as selfish too, but it's also for the good of the rest of the players.
The problem is when people clearly ask admin to apply their own rules. We had people like them and had to remove their admin status, and now we want to be more cautious about it.
To make sure the new admin is trustable, we need to follow him and see how he behaves. That's really time-consuming, and may be a pain when you have so small time left from your real life, as we're not that young anymore so life is taking over most of it.
We usually choose the admins ourself, and that's another reason why requests fails most of the times. It's hard to do so because players often change their nick, or they play at different time-zones than the current staff members, but we're doing our best to identify good people and we currently have some of them dedicating their time on moderating our servers (and any other they have an admin pass for).
Admin abuse is worse than annoying players imo.
Oh and I've seen requests to allow public voteban in the servers. Well that would fail. I've seen servers taken down by people votebanning everyone to empty them out, and I surely don't want to see that.
We (at Exodus) don't probably have enough admins around, but we also have people looking at the game from IRC. I often check it myself to see if there are abuses or cheating, and I act promptly when needed. The problem is that I can't be there all the time, obviously.
We've had lots of admin requests, which were for the most part rejected, and I would like to let you understand why.
About 90% of the requests are from people that just like to have that power, or wants to use it for selfish reasons. Of course having a good game going without annoying people and cheaters may be considered as selfish too, but it's also for the good of the rest of the players.
The problem is when people clearly ask admin to apply their own rules. We had people like them and had to remove their admin status, and now we want to be more cautious about it.
To make sure the new admin is trustable, we need to follow him and see how he behaves. That's really time-consuming, and may be a pain when you have so small time left from your real life, as we're not that young anymore so life is taking over most of it.
We usually choose the admins ourself, and that's another reason why requests fails most of the times. It's hard to do so because players often change their nick, or they play at different time-zones than the current staff members, but we're doing our best to identify good people and we currently have some of them dedicating their time on moderating our servers (and any other they have an admin pass for).
Admin abuse is worse than annoying players imo.
Oh and I've seen requests to allow public voteban in the servers. Well that would fail. I've seen servers taken down by people votebanning everyone to empty them out, and I surely don't want to see that.