It has come to my attention over the past few weeks that many Guides and Renamers don't do anything, do very little, or just idle for long periods of time and don't answer questions very often. This makes the game look inactive when there are Guides on, a newbie asks a question, and their question is not answered. The possible abuse of Renamer has also been brought into question multiple times.

Guides and Renamers should:

-Play to play. If you idle a lot, don't be a Guide. We only want Guides who will be active when they are online.
-Treat Newbies well on nsay. You can kill them and get cubed all you want, but on nsay you have to be civil with them.
-Answer questions whenever they are asked, in a timely manner. If you're in the middle of training and might die to a dragon or something, you don't have to stop healing yourself to answer a question within two seconds of it being asked, but you do need to answer it when you get a chance.


That's basically it. If you would like to be a Guide, please PM me. Renamers, due to the fact they have a little bit more power, will be chosen by me and the admin team. If you are currently a Guide and/or Renamer, don't be surprised if it disappears suddenly as we evaluate current position holders and possible choices.

Icon Checkers will more or less stay the same, but we may look into that later.


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Just tell guides that if they idle they need to make themselves no show up on NWho. That should solve that problem. If they don't do it you can take things from there.

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We tried that in the past, and no one did it. There's more to this than that as well.

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I was specifically referring to that point, I know there's more in the post. You can just easily remove their guide if they don't follow that rule. There's no reason to make guide be a hindrance on their gameplay, it'll only deter people from wanting to be a guide.

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Locke wrote:Icon Checkers will more or less stay the same, but we may look into that later.


pretty sure icon checkers are moderated by the head icon checker (oondivizin) not head admin.

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Locke wrote:

We tried that in the past, and no one did it. There's more to this than that as well.

Isn't that your fault then for not doing anything about it? Just do your job and problem solved.

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Icon checkers have specific requirements and have guidelines on how the job should be done. Seeing as I have years of experience with working on icons and actually checking them for FFO and Gaku actually had appointed me back on the old forums as head icon checker, with the ability to add whoever I see fit to check icons and approve of icons, probably am the best decision for the job. Regardless of what you say, anybody, I have the most knowledge on unique icons, only people being equal to me in that aspect are Cea and Gaku. I run tests on people's icon checking abilities and do my best to not overlook any errors (Very few have gotten by me).

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If you guys know of any Guides who were removed and are still active that I might have overlooked, feel free to let me know in this topic. Also, if there's anyone you know is a Guide and is inactive, post that as well. I'm not infallible and I could miss people.

Also don't worry about Cea. He was just part of the initial cut and I already gave him Guide back.

On a side note I might as well use this topic to point out that, if you're a Guide and planning to idle, you need to turn off displaying your Guide status.

No I'm not going to get mad at Cea for it right now, hes probably been idle since before I gave it back to him.

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