Besides the river of tears here.
How many people are developing Fo:reloaded (this server I mean)?
Five people are involved in development at least from the beginning of 2015.
I heard He does all by himself. If this true, well that isnt good for anyone.
It's shit load of work and everyone needs help. It can suck out the joy of hosting this server. Development is something you shouldn't do alone.
Just saying. If this true, Kilgore should increase his staff.
But! blah blah blah What do I know. There's a reason why I'm posting this stuff here.
Nope, there are other people who do a lot of work, at least when it comes to development.
But nobody else wants to handle the community.. you can guess why. And there is a shitload of management job to do.
Why not "hire new staff"? Now lemme cry my own river.
Because who wants to handle all that mess? Answer loads of PMs on forum, on email, on irc, countless and same questions in game (mostly about things which can be easily found on wiki or forum, or silly questions like when wipe), various requesthelps in game (I died please help me, or help me move stuff from place A to B, or I rerolled leader char). When you appear in game, there are over 9000 people who immediately run up to you with their suggestions, or bug reports, and often they get angry when you tell him to post it on forum because otherwise it will be lost or forgotten or something.
And in the end, you can't even play the game normally on your nick because people will always overreact when they see you (for sure you cheat, or scout them, or spy, or spawn free shit for someone, or you are just there to be trolled to death). So if you want to play the game, then you need to use some fake name and not tell about it to anyone.
In addition, you have to deal with all sorts of assholes, trolls, people who break game rules and then make a drama or stupid excuses when they get banned or jailed, then they are back again on another nickname just to insult you. I don't care much about it, just use banhammer, but many people get emotional about such stuff and they are likely to do stupid things when they get insulted.
And the last but not least: someone needs to make sure that everything works ok. Game server needs to be working, forum&website need to be working, teamspeak needs to be working, bills are to be paid on time because if they don't, then things quickly go south. Someone needs to handle password recovery (every few days I have a message about some lost character/password in my inbox, sometimes more complex issues like tent lost due to reroll, or character stolen and deleted by a wrong buddy), make sure there is some server backup so we don't need full wipe in case some bad shit happens, and so on.
Of course sometimes I am asked about "can I become a GM?!!" but it's always some person who got bored with playing the game, so he/she needs some power over the others, then after few weeks or a month he/she will be gone, leaving even more mess behind him/her. And I'd rather handle all this shit myself than risk finding myself in a load of stupid dramas because of some GM abuse. Only me and DocAn have admin rights now and even with only two of us, some dumbasses accuse us of spawning free shit or scouting for factions when they find it suitable for their conspiracy theory about why they have lost in pvp.
All this is being done for FREE, because we don't make profit on running this whole thing. And even if all hosting and advertisement was free and all donations would land in my pocket for beer and bitches, then guess what? I'd rather go and collect empty bottles and cans and sell it for money because it would be much easier and more profitable "job"
I don't expect you to buy me a bottle of whiskey, or pray for my soul, or even feel sorry about it. Just don't make my job harder and everything will be alright.
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