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-Prozac, Former owner of Sanstrata
A few reflecitons on what it was like to own Sans
making the levels/npcs
-the most fun part, being offline, not distacted by Pm, just letting the creativiety and programming flow.
keeping them updated/fixed once online
-when you fix stuff, you are on RC, and if you are on RC peopel will send you about 5 PMs a minute, each one wanting a diffrent thing form you, gimmie gimmie! You cannot fix stuff online AND answer all the PMs. whcih leads to:
you cannot go it alone
-get a good staff, and delegate authority to those you have trusted for at least a month. If you are even a bit suspocios, or hear a rumor form more than one person about them being a hacker wor wanting power, DO NOT give high level rc or ability to edit atributes, if any rc at all. most rumors of his sort tend to be true, fomr my expernice.
hackers
-These people have a stick up their crap hole so long its gotten them poo poo brianed ideas, that hacking a server is ok.
they should all die horrible painful deaths.
Yet, they will always be around.
Use RC to get their IP, ban the aswipe, and warn everyone you know about that acoucnt name/ip range.
Do not listen to their childish taunts or threats, they are loosers with nothing better to do and deserver to burn in heck for eternity.
staff requests
"l like yous server, can i be a gp?" or "i am a good gp, can i be LAT admin?" you will get these, make sure to have in your system NPC it checks a server string when they say "are you hiring? it does a say2 command on that string, so they have no reason to PM you about it. use RC to edit that server string.
peoples comments "this sux"
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Consider it briefly, have you heard it before? if not, screw the arrogant bastard.
If you have heard the same commnets many times, talk to staff about possible change.
Security: use the IP range on the RCs, ban what RCs are not in use by anyone to try and provent hacks. it was our GAT admin who hacked and brough Sanstrata down, next server i run i will use this IP list and the baove steps to e more careful.
Only give 2 or 3 people at most full upload/download rights.
If you get stressed out, delegate a co-owner and take a week off, then remmeber how much fun you have made your server. take a graal break , everyone needs one. its a game! relax.
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