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Anyone I hire is going to be communicating with me regularly. If someone was so extraordinarily legendary and they just absolutely didn't want to get AIM, yeah, I'd probably make an exception. In fact, the exception would've probably been orchestrated by one of the admins who work above me, like Misconception or Cloven.
My assumption regarding this forum, though, is that the people who read it don't have the legendary status the people you named have. That means they're going to work to my guidelines. This is, in fact, how you "break in" to a lot of things. There is a legend at my university that states a retired Professor who was a candidate for a nobel prize would teach class barefoot, every day. This is clearly outside of convention and probably an informally enforced dress code, but he was good so he did whatever the hell he wanted. Most professors here are not that lucky. They have to wear their dress shirt, slacks, dress shoes, and tie to class, every day. Same principle applies to this microcosm of a playerworld. If you're looking to earn the level of a fame that Chandler or Skyld have, a good way to do it is on a server that is much, MUCH more established than many of the servers here, because it's a hell of a lot easier to build a "portfolio" on a server that is already on the list. If you want that opportunity you generally have to do it my way. If you're already established, feel free to go over my head, but I am telling you now we are not accepting just anyone.
I think we have a difference in opinion and convention here, it's probably best to drop it. If you want to work for Delteria but don't want to work under me, go see another admin. I seriously don't mind.
Uh and to answer your question about elite specialists in one discipline, I don't really see it as practical. A legendary LAT would probably know the script to apply a custom tileset in GS1 and GS2. A legendary NAT can probably mess with tiles enough to figure out their special properties and arrange them in a somewhat-pleasing order. That same NAT has probably had to make custom GFX for fun NPCWs. Most GATs should understand fundamentals of level creation well enough to know how their GFX will work in conjuction with a level. There MIGHT be an exception with GFX knowing scripts, but even then -- setting a door, or editing lights, is not very hard. I seriously doubt the situation would come up; savants like that are very, very impractical.
In the event it did, the decision to hire you would not be mine alone anyway. Does that answer your question? |