My time in staff has come to an end! ::Sadface::

[Scoop]

Hey guys I just wanted to say that I'm going to have to quit TW Staff because I am very pressed for time in college and I am joining a fraternity. I no longer have time to meet the <ER> quota. Ive had some good times in staff and I hope that you guys can continue on without me ( haha : p).

With that being said, I have to say that I think favorites are played constantly and really effect promotions as a whole. There are many people who join staff and are really energetic about it for a long time. But as time goes on and these people are never given a chance to move up they get really burnt out and eventually fade away. I'm not going to lie, even if I did have time to continue with staff I don't know how long I could have continued on in such as stagnant position as I was in. I think <ER>'s as a whole are quite often given the shaft while <ZH>'s tend to be promoted much more often. I just don't think that this way of doing things is right. But I don't want to end on a bad note... I have met a ton of cool people who I consider as really good friends ( you know who you are there are way to many to name ). I really enjoyed my time here and wish you all the best!

[PH]

You'll be missed, frat boy. :P Good luck, hope everything works out.

PS: I'm moving this to SSCU Trench Wars so you can get a proper send-off. :wub:

[MirrorriM]

See ya Scoop, good luck in the frat! Hope you dont get too beat up during the hazing :P

[Ward]

Scoop just be straight forward man.. An asian-looking queer faggot named kim has fucked you over several times and promoted players to mod who joined staff well after you. You could've left on a good note saying just this.. people would understand

EDIT: ur still gona be playing right?

[Scoop]

yeah ill still be playing. thanks ph

[Twerp]

o/

[Cylor]

Favorites are not primarily a subspace phenomenon and you will encounter them for the rest of your life (especially if you're in a fraternity). It's unfair to assume that just because you are a ZH that you are entitled to a promotion to ER, and ER to mod and so on. Climbing the ladder of hierarchy seems to be an American tradition and we expect things to be given to us, that rights are owed and not deserved. I think the quick promotion ZH's often recieve has redirected the actual goal of service from altruistic good intentions to a selfish lust for More. I say this because I encountered the same frustration of stagnation and I quit mostly because someone realized my ambition was self-motivated rather than serving this community. Granted that wasn't the sole reason, but I made my individual quotas and competition my main priority and helping people was a convenient end to this. I think, as a gamer, I sought to gain mod, smod, and other priveleged positions like they were higher levels of a game I wanted to beat. Maybe this is all just a personal issue that affects only me but I think you may be in the same boat (if not, on the same lake) and I just wanted to volunteer some words of... advice? encouragement? maybe I just wanted to talk. In any case, the moral of the story is to not join staff because there are much worthier causes to devote your time towards (a fraternity or other *cough BETTER cough* community service-minded organization), and these kids will SUCK YOU DRY.

[Scoop]

It wasn't even like that though. I mean yeah I would have liked to be a moderator but mainly I had just gotten SICK of hosting. I had even asked to be put to <ZH> before last TWL season had started. I just got the generic no we need more hosts for TWL and if you host some matches you will probably get promoted. I think a major issue is that staff has and I guess any organization has is most people only want to move up and gain more power. That isn't the case with some people and they end up getting shafted. People such as myself, Duclover, and many other people ( wark anyone? ). I don't want to flame anyone and I don't want to make this thread negative so I am going to leave it at that. Overall staff does a damn good job at what they do and should only be viewed with the utmost respect.

[pascone]

If you didn't want it negative, that second paragraph wouldn't be there. Staff is a thankless job with no real perks. Ok, I know what your lag is and can ban you if you do something stupid. That's about it. Staff is really just ego booster in that you can have more information than your regular player. In the long run, you have to do more work for no real reason. It's pretty pointless to be staff.

Good luck with college. By the way, frats are pretty stupid.

[Doc Flabby]

[Shan]

Good thing is that you'll continue playing $ <3, but prolly not that much O.o?

[kthx]

Well before I go into the drama I just want to say enjoy college and get drunk alot.

But anyways Scoop the thing was I never wanted to really be promoted that much, I was happy in a niche I was good at. I thought of it as, why be another random mod and fade away from the zone, being the attention whore I am, being an ER was the best position for me, not to mention my creativity when it came to creating and hosting events. So I was perfectly happy as one of the "veteran" ER's over some "newbie mod" I guess you could say. However like I predicted several months ago, these days staff likes to try to put the pressure of hosting events for the entire zone in the hands of 2-3 people, and that is what is truly ruining things. People like Sgazer host alot or.. used to, because they are getting tired of always being the only one to actually exceed the quota. The entire zones hosting can't be done by one person for several months in a row like they tried to make Sgazer do. So basically Scoop they can't promote ER's who do their job because they are the only ones hosting events, and if they were removed from their ER and moved to Mod then there would be a noticeble decline in events for the zone. Instead, they wait for the ER to get burned out by hosting, and stop meeting their quota before not promoting them because they aren't doing their job anymore. It is a bad cycle in which good hosts who actually want to be promoted get caught up in. Of course this didn't use to happen several years ago under more capable deans which is truly what this zone tends to lack these days.

[flibb]

What's so great about being mod anyway? You have to chase down criminals at every cheater call :busted:. As ER you can host any game you want whenever you want.

[Maverick]

I must say that each staff level and role has its advantages and disadvantages.

For example, moderator - powers in every arena but you have to watch players if they are teamkilling, using racism, lagging and whatnot.
ERs - can host whatever you want, make players happy, have fun in events but you need to take trash from some players and you have to meet quota (yea, also a mod has to).

Too bad you're off scoop but good luck with college and fraternity (wtf is that?)

[Burzum]

It still seems like yesterday when I taught you the ways of the ZH...

Ah, but they grow up so fast! :wub: