What makes a good manager?

[davidpsy]

Originally posted by Kaimetsu
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A good knowledge of scriptings is a nice thing to have but having the ability to tell your staff how you want something done can be just as important if not a great deal more important then being able to do the scripting your self. Some managers cannot do everything so their ability to explain how they want things should be good. Lets say you have a manager who can script very well better then the allmighty kaimetsu, but his ability to explain things to his staff is poor. The server will have systems and be played out as he wants as far as systems and coding goes but the graphical covering and wireframe levels may not be what he ogrinally intended. Thus his ability to explain things would indeed be of greater value then his ability to script. A good manager in my mind would be alot like how you invisioned one.

[edit]attitude does matter to an extent, assuming that the basic manager has a strong will and strives to make a great playerworld and treats his fellow staff with love and respect then yes as far as the rest goes it simply does not matter. But this is not always the case I am afraid, a manager could have all the qualitys that you stated but if he does not have the will and or drive to complete his playerworld and keep it in a ship shape aka still be treating the staff with love and respect then the playerworld will come crashing down. [/edit]