Server Direction part II - Staff Meeting Update
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Greetings all, Tpickles here to provide an update on what was announced in the recent server direction post.
On Sunday 10/15, a staff meeting was held for two hours over voice, and 8 of the current 11 staff members attended (@Caoimh, @Dorakhan, @Goddess-of-Spite, @its_a_fire, @Lence, @Flom, @Seisan, @tpickles) to discuss the following:
1. Staff Restructure
We will be restructuring the team to improve accountability, transparency and communal involvement. The new structure will introduce an administrative or leadership team that is expected to handle policy changes, enforcing policy and community interaction (voting, etc). This leaves the DMs to focus on world building and story. We plan for the first round of community voting to elect five community members to that leadership team so that they may steer subsequent changes.
2. Team Step Down
None of the eight staff members at the meeting rejected the idea of personally stepping down, but we did discuss challenges to that process: training for new DMs on the tools customized for Narfell and the handover/training on our existing development. Our goal is to transition without interruption to DM plots, development projects and other initiatives that keep the server functioning for players to enjoy.
3. Community Voting
We discussed the necessity of fairness and transparency in the voting process and the importance of ensuring that active players are heard without fear of vote manipulation. Because community voting will require huge institutional and technological changes, we moved this conversation to the staff forums for ongoing discussion.
4. Server Meeting
The proposed server meeting will be delayed until we are able to confidently announce the logistics of community voting. Players are welcome to use the existing threads for further discussion.
