[Prozac]

graal offers a wide selection of skills to become better at:
level insides, level outsides (some are better at one or the other usually), npc, graphics, ganis and so on.

You would not want to hire someone who claims to know everything, becasue that means they have done a little bit with a lot of stuff. For better quality, you want someone who is really good (ask for a sample of their work) at one or two specific tasks.

You want staff who will spend time on your server, making whatever it is that they make. That means they would give up staff positions (other than gp or faq) on another server in order to work on yours.

This also means that you have to convey a sense of excitement about how great the plan for your server is. It is a rare thing for a video game to go through every required stage of being constructed - which is what building a server basically is - and to have it all done becasue people believe in a dream, and have no return on their investment besides having fun.

To attract the kind of staff that are good, you must become a good server manager - develop good people skills yourself, treat people in a kind manner, and then observe how the people you hire treat yourself and others.

If you don't care where your server is going - or if your staff dosent care and just starts their own projects without asking you - then your server may turn to chaos. Much like the way a director filming a movie has to convey the sense of emotion to the actors, so a manager has to get across the style, idea, and theme of the server, to their staff, so that the ultimate story can be told through people knowing what to do, because they understand what they are told, and then actually doing it.