Hello lovely Skyblockers!

As you can see by the title, I have a couple suggestions for the command /staff.
My first suggestion I have made is in one of my previous threads that has become in active for about two month and it has surprisingly not been locked. It was when I talked about how the times when a staff was last online, it would be a big difference between typing /seen Myrmidous and typing /staff and it would say a different time than /seen. The thread can be found here.

Another (a new) suggestion I have is that I just realized this but Leeeroieee is not on the /staff list, or Noobcrew and CypriotMerks . I question why neither of them are on the /staff list. They are staff right (The answer should be yes)?

Another (new also) suggestion that I have is that everyone on /staff just has [Mod] by their name, except fun and Kerahna, which they just have [Head-Mod], although I feel like their prefix should say [Staff Manager] instead. And also, since Myrmidous is now a developer, his prefix should be [Developer], just like Leeeroieee, but again, he isn't on the /staff list for some reason. And obviously, Noobcrew and Cyp should have [Owner] and [Co-Owner] prefixes. And, I think the people who are not mods (aka helpers), shouldn't have the prefix [Mod] on /staff. They should have [Helper] or [SuperMod], because basically, everyone on that list just has [Mod], and that should be changed based on what the person actually is. Like Evux should have [Helper] instead of [Mod], and SakuraWolf should have [SuperMod] and not [Mod].

If you guys think about it, it can cause some confusion between new players.

Let me know what you guys think in the comments.

Thanks for reading!

~Gamzee24​

 

Support. I have seen many people asking why the mod titles are different in /list and /staff. It should be edited to show the correct ranks, and also should match with /seen if possible.

 

haha.

I was complaining in mc about why evux in /staff has [Mod] not [Helper].

but that was ages ago.

so...

 

I’m not talking about classic.

 

Evening, Gamzee.

Without getting too technical: The /staff command is separate from tab (or anything else) and has to be pretty carefully managed. The people on it have to be added manually and the ranks are annoying to edit. This has been on the "To Do" list for a while but keeps getting bumped for priority concerns, bugfixes and feature additions.

While having names on the Staff list is neat to see... at the end of the day I hope it doesn't change the way people feel about the team. Hopefully we still do a good job, even if sometimes things get a bit confusing on roles! Personally I appreciate the amount of positive speech and politeness going on lately; I really should thank people more for that.

Kind regards,
//Myrmidous

 

Thanks Myrm for your kind input and Emerald the disagree isn’t necessary.

I hope this can somehow be fixed in the future to cause less confusion as possible. I want our newcomers to feel like they can come on this server and be well informed on who they can contact for help and such.

 

That's because the /seen command applies only to the current server, while /staff looks at both the Skyblock and Classic servers.

Speaking for myself, it's mostly because when I'm online, I'm trying to solve a specific problem and don't want to set the expectation that I'm available to assist players with questions or issues.

Unlike moderators, whose primary responsibility is helping players, developers are primarily responsible for implementing bug fixes and new features. The best way to communicate with us is forums (especially the suggestions section, so others can weigh in and keep the discussion going even if we aren't available right away) since we can set aside time to read and respond to forums messages and posts when we're not in the middle of development and testing.

The /staff command is part of a custom Friends plugin that was ported over from Mineverse. Unfortunately, it's very old and not very well written. The ranks are hard-coded and don't align with ours, since it was written for Mineverse and we have different ranks.

Fixing it is on our to-do list, but in the meantime we assigned team members the available role that most closely describes their function, though it's admittedly not a very good solution.

The alternative is to disable to /staff command entirely until it can be fixed, but it seems at least a little useful the way it is for right now.