Board Thread:Modded Servers/@comment-26236093-20151230224421/@comment-26172435-20160109195813

Excuse me for interrupting, but I've been witnessing this shameful display in last few days, reading it all, trying to figure out what's going on, understanding motives and behaviour ... and I feel I could offer just a little bit of advice that may be helpful for ToA:

Regardless current ToA staff and community behaviour and all the immature quarrels exposed on this wiki, I think ToA has an inherent risk of corruption, abuse, jealously and quarrels because of the way the server game- and roleplay is 'organized'. Although I am not involved and only building a bit (more or less accidentally, as I had no intention of staying ... until I saw this awesome building spot), I can quite simply observe that the current system does not separate in-character from out-of-character, both regarding roles and communication, and it does not separate powerful staff positions and powerful roleplay positions. Even with 'standard' roleplay objectives (not involving gods or angels and dedicated kits), a lack of distinction between ic and ooc, and staff and rp roles, already poses a threat to staff and community trust and stability. With a server like ToA, that clearly aims for roleplay involving Valar and Maiar, and does not have any clearly communicated roleplay behaviour rules in place (like on meta-, power- or godgaming), nor separate chat channels for ic and ooc communication, and people with both high staff positions and divine powers in rp ... it's not a question if things will turn sour, just a question when ... and in this case, it all went rather quickly. On top of that, the initial stages involved a huge amount of builders capable of enriching themselves and creating a 'creative' server culture (instead of roleplay survival) ... circumstances that only increased the risks of things running out of control in a later stage.

So, regardless what will be done with staff, this server needs a major overhaul, or beter still, a conceptual redefinition of objectives, rules, management systems, etctera.

Good luck!