Role of PWA?

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

I don't know. The PWA wasn't too very helpful when I wanted help with my server, or trying to get ahold of them for inspections for the hosted list (most spent less than a minute, didn't do any quests, didn't do any events, noting, and then tried to tell me there wasn't enough to do).

Maybe if I had been their best buddy, things would have been different.

Did you make your quests in such a way that they didn't have to wander all around to find them? In the case of an RPG type server I would have a tutorial quest start when you first login that shows you the ropes, then it would point you in the direction of your first real quest and things would go on from there in a chain.

Originally Posted by Bell

Thats cause Era is so speshul Dem.

The short bus kind of special, right?

[TheStan]

Originally Posted by Inverness

The short bus kind of special, right?

That smillie is so ridiculously funny.

[excaliber7388]

I don't know. The PWA wasn't too very helpful when I wanted help with my server, or trying to get ahold of them for inspections for the hosted list (most spent less than a minute, didn't do any quests, didn't do any events, noting, and then tried to tell me there wasn't enough to do).

Maybe if I had been their best buddy, things would have been different.

[Exhausted]

When server management fails, call a global!

[Frankie]

Bell is the only one that resolves tickets on Era.

Vulcan doesn't log on for weeks at a time.
HoudiniMan logs on at crazy hours (2 - 5am) and when he does, he's probably not resolving tickets. If he's on Era because of a ticket then he must be really furious.

[Spark910]

I think it may be hard to see what the PWA do now, because the position has somewhat changed. For example, when I was PWA Admin a lot of visible change occured (most notably, the ability to pay for a playerworld which kept us all entertained with masses of content being taken), the support centre was established, more playerworlds were launched and moved around, anti-graal were probably more visible (not paid attention to say for sure), graal security was lower (allowing more script kiddies to mess around) and potentially even ghost accounts were kicking around when I first joined.

Now, with certain things no longer a big issue for the PWA it may seem little is done. But even if their role was diminished to a support center role (which it hasn't yet), then it'd still be productive, just different from what you may expect.

Roles change, so we can't look at it from the job description of 2-3 years ago. However, even if the PWA did little, that would be a good thing rather than a bad thing - as it'd mean everything was going fine! Of course, if that was the case there would be other issues to consider, but I am sure they are doing as Houdini mentioned.

[Bell]

Ok, I confess. I do nothing all day but sit and type on my computer for 6 to 12 hours and jump from playerworld rc to playerworld rc to make it look like I'm doing something. I'm guilty so throw me in jail now and throw away the pc.

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by Bell

Ok, I confess. I do nothing all day but sit and type on my computer for 6 to 12 hours and jump from playerworld rc to playerworld rc to make it look like I'm doing something. I'm guilty so throw me in jail now and throw away the pc.

Who would care if you really did?

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Who would care if you really did?

Anyone who wants to see playerworlds succeed appropriately, that's who
Without the pwa, I am afraid to think what some playerworlds would be doing....

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

Anyone who wants to see playerworlds succeed appropriately, that's who
Without the pwa, I am afraid to think what some playerworlds would be doing....

I know, right?
I might still have one.

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Crono

What exactly is the role of the PWA team?

to do staffwipes.

[WarriorCam]

Personally, I would prefer if the PWAs took it upon themselves to remove managers who aren't enforcing quality standards on their servers rather than enforcing their own quality standards. If a staff member on Valikorlia steals something from another server and lies about it they are fired on the spot.

Plus, it would be easier to watch over the management than it would be to try and enforce quality standards on all of these servers. It's pretty simple: just make sure someone who is honest and trustworthy is in a position of power and you shouldn't be having issues like this.

On a sidenote, I see lots of PWAs talking about how they moderate content on all the servers, but, (not to step on any toes here), I don't even remember the last time a PWA was on Valikorlia. The only global that even occassionally logs into Val RC is Hell Raven, and he isn't a PWA. Maybe I am misunderstanding though, and they're only really logging on UC servers. Or maybe Val just never gets complained about for stealing content.

[WanDaMan]

I've always found that the PWA have helped me in a timely manner via the Support Center in regards to any problems I've had in the past!

[Crono]

Originally Posted by WanDaMan

I've always found that the PWA have helped me in a timely manner via the Support Center in regards to any problems I've had in the past!

Same here.

[Inverness]

Valikorlia has the most unique graphics of any playerworld I would say. We're too good to need to steal.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Valikorlia has the most unique graphics of any playerworld I would say. We're to good to need to steal.

A shame all that graphical talent can't be channeled, every talented artist on that server really only wants to make good graphics for themselves. The few who do become GAT and actually work have different styles and wind up having unmatched tilesets and such.

SO MUCH POTENTIAL.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

I agree, Crono. I wish Wyand was still around...

[Crono]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

I agree, Crono. I wish Wyand was still around...

One of Graal's best yet underrated and practically unknown developers.