dendydoom wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:59 am
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:48 am
conrad wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:04 am
I'm gonna run for headmin next term and ban everyone from the forums that uses fucking playtime as a way to put someone down.
I get why the argument for hours can be bad, but at the same time, I want admins/headmins that actually play the game, even if they mostly observe. Sometimes it comes across like maintainers or headmins (mostly maintainers) have this weird idealized 1950s-style white picket fence version of SS13 in their head. (see JohnFulpWillard thinking that assistants will just queue up in line like good little crewmembers for maint access if they get maint access at roundstart removed)
I want headmins, admins, and maintainers who are in the trenches with the player base to see firsthand how their policies and contributions affect the game. You can have a high round count from years ago while also not having played a full round of SS13 in over a year.
the best thing you can hope for with a player is that they have a healthy relationship with the game. that they're not so all-in that it's all they do and all they care about. some people with ridiculously high playtimes have some of the most deranged takes i've ever heard because they're way over-invested.
i agree with you that it's nice to see headmins and admins participating in the game. it was very nice this term to see kieth pop in regularly and hang out with everyone and check out how it's all going. but more than anything i want admins/headmins *especially* to not treat the game like it's their life's purpose and that they have to fight tooth and nail for or against every change. they need to maintain a healthy perspective on the fact that it's a multiplayer roleplaying game, not a way of life. if someone is playing for 8 hours a day almost every day of the week and wearing that like a badge of honour then i am genuinely concerned for their wellbeing. please look after yourselves.
A large portion of the recurring player base.
The more of a life someone has the better.
TG as well as other servers have or used to have time gate requirements for admining, like 1000 hours or 1000 rounds. That's a lot, absurd honestly.
I will say that TG tends to favor the sort of people that play multiple rounds of this game 5-7 days a week, and anyone can look that up and verify it. It gets lower the longer someone admins but it's still something that makes people look 'good'. Does it really though?
I certainly couldn't play this game for 3-5 hours a day every day.
I only fit that mould during the pandemic for a few months because there was literally nothing else to do, and it's probably the only reason I was kidnapped to admin land. It's honestly just questionably unhealthy otherwise and I'm not interested in people or myself being that active.
Good activity to me would even be someone playing two rounds a week, maybe even less. It tells me that someone has a life, or a plethora of other hobbies, or really just doesn't live in a headspace where they might make this game into a far bigger deal than it is, because in the end it's just a game.
DNI: The dangerously parasocial terminally online and overly involved that let this game be more important than it is in unhealthy toxic ways