Just to be clear the past week and a half or so Cron has been sick with pneumonia. I thought he notified the administration (team admins (rufus)) but I could be wrong. Take that into consideration when you evaluate his 'inactivity' over that time.
Being said, I think I can speak on behalf of Cron when I say that he's appreciative of the extraneous amount of work that staff members like Door and Rufus have done over the holiday season. There were plenty of ideas that 'management' had thought of but staff members took the route of developing their own projects instead of doing what 'management' wanted. Because of that Cron asked me to evaluate what the teams were doing and improvise by trying to see that their projects were actually completed on time. I 100% supported staff working on projects that they were
intrinsically motivated to work on as opposed to forcing them to work on something they didn't like. It's more gratifying to see a project completed that you planned out.
When I addressed the teams working on them (Jazz & Door specifically (Door specifically)) I was greeted with intense hostility. As opposed to forcing my presence onto them, I just expressed myself and told them what was going on. Rest assured with a promise that they would try to do their work as they planned to, they made it clear they didn't need any "management" but their own. That was clearly wrong. Jazz was acting like stretch-arm strong and reaching from corner to corner scripting all the projects.
Being said, it is also Jazz's job to hire scripters. He can't find any and is compensating for it by scripting a lot more. He's not scripting everything, though. Let that be known lol. Crono's management can't do anything to change that. Each admin is in charge of handling their respective teams. Since Mystic quit, potential candidates to replace him have already been discussed. The Graphics team has been undergoing the same problems as the scripting team. Fortunately for UN though, graphics aren't as in a high of demand.
There are projects being worked on though. Rufus, you probably aren't privy to them because you are a "PR" team member and not a member of the development team. Your job is to appeal to players with events and manage the events team. Teams have been given projects to work on but they are constantly forgetting about them or working on other things. The last I knew about development projects, Jazz was supposed to be scripting a boss for the quest plan Crono had. Levels team was working on Castle Wars and levels for the quests. Graphics were to be supplied
as needed. As for the Developers you brought up: Gamerkid is working on Tower Defense. Bane is working on the hat abilities and planning the quest to release it. I was supposed to be handling the holidays but stepped back to let the people who were motivated enough to work take the lead and glory for the hard work they put in. Rage is still working on in-game forum updates and recently released "Neetris" updated with multiplayer compatibility.
I think I can speak for Crono again when I say that he hasn't been vocal to the PR staff team or players about what's going on because he's been friending the side of caution. I was fired for making too many promises about content and not being able to deliver. Crono doesn't want to fall victim to that same mistake.
As for the development team members who claim they don't have anything to do they are absolutely full of ****. Crono had administrative meetings about plans and was constantly pushing his quest project onto staff prior to the holidays. It's just a "coincidence" that they're forgetting about it when the manager is put under the microscope.
There is nothing wrong with Crono's management. The staff members choose not to do the work they've been assigned. As opposed to firing them, they've been given leeway to work on projects they're more self-motivated to work on. That's a management technique being used to try and at least assure some content to the player base. It's to my understanding that after the holidays staff were to resume actively working on the quest plans that Cron discussed.
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It is not our job to motivate people to be active nor push releases on individual servers.
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This is completely contradictory to why I was fired. There's no need to dance around what you really do.
Edit: Any of the development staff that hop on this bandwagon and say they have no direction directly because of Crono need to get bent. Also, PR staff should now be focusing on their jobs more since the holidays are over.