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Originally Posted by Supaman771
You mean time frame? Or 'era'?
Just about all of them... the staff team of late has been huge in comparison. There used to be a few admins and small team of devs. The same core staff over the past 3-4 years has been probably 20+ people. There's people who simply login once every few months and get a RC multiple times for no reason at all (Exolia, Reese, Fewyn, Zach, etc.)
Then you throw in that ETA gets RC now, and they split GBA into 3 seperate ****ing positions when the whole thing together wasn't enough work for me and I had to be PRA too while handling half of the ETA duties (actually lol'd when I saw them get separated). There's individual admins for LAT, Gani, GFX... they even hired sound guys again to do :themes. Honestly, all this work can be outsourced or done by one guy. The PR team used to be tight knit with maybe 4 active people there for years per term.. now they hire 8 new dudes every other month.
Hell they gave Nas a job, Amber is PSA, and they summoned me and told me to go on RC like a week ago.. no one has asked/assigned me to do anything yet. 
Awhile back MD would hire anyone who gave him 5 bucks (literally).. and Fidel had free reign to be a dictator because the PWA are MIA.
3 years ago, GC got fired within 12 hours for trying to actually build a decent team... Chris Vimes ran the server with legitimately 4 RC'd staff members (it looked like GK) and there was a average player count >125 still.
So naw.. I've never seen the team bigger or more free-run than in the most recent administrations; which ironically boast the lowest player-counts.
Let's be realistic here, I wouldn't expect a Graal# to have played with me prior to 2008 anyway. |
Tim specifically asked to hire you to work on the new GMAP. If you aren't doing that, then I don't know why you're around. I was pretty sure he'd assigned you to work on some inside levels. If you have nothing to do, I have no problem removing your RC.
Exolia was hired to help take periodic backups of the server because he was always good at getting the files out quickly. It's tougher to do on a Mac (which like all of our current admins use). He's also been helping with some levels in his spare time. Considering he's willing to work without any of the rights that got him in trouble before, I'm not too concerned about having him on.
Fewyn isn't staff o.o
Reese has been pretty active as PR, and Ice made that switch just before leaving (he switched Fal for Reese). Reese is more active than Fal was. Now Ulti makes all PR decisions, so someone is actually in charge of reading applications (no more surprise PR hirings).
Nas' job is LAT. He's never once been in trouble on any server for spawning or server destruction, so I don't see the problem. All he does wrong is curse a lot and throw the N-Word around. He also doesn't have the most positive attitude. None of those are very strong reasons to not let a person develop IMO (though he certainly will never get any powers that can affect player experience without proving himself).
Amber's been around for freaking ever. She's owned PT for the better part of a decade, has been ETA for a long time, and is almost always #1 on the "Most Popular" players list when she's online. I have a tough time seeing why her being PSA is a problem to you either.
GBA is split into 3 pieces now because it's 3 separate logical functions and all 3 are being performed as part-time functions of PRs. If one person controls gangs, guns, and businesses, and has no obligation to the players at all, you end up with someone controlling all major aspects of the game who could care less what players think of his/her work.