DarkRise: War of the Houses Seeking Staff Manager

KeithSt0ne

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A Little About Me
I’m a 39 year old stay at home Dad, I homeschool my kids (9 and 11) and finish up with their schooling around 2-3 pm Central Standard Time. They are currently out of school for their summer vacation,.

I’ve been an avid gamer for many, many years

! I’ve always been partial to fantasy action based MMO’s (not tabbed target games like WOW). My all time favorite game is Darkfall and my server project is highly influenced by it.

Introducing DarkRise: War of the Houses
DarkRise is being developed as a Factions mmorpg and has been a work in progress now for over 2 years. DarkRise is a combination of ideas from games like Ultima Online, Eve Online and Darkfall mixed with my own custom ideas.

What all of those MMORPG games have in common and are already working in DarkRise are:

Territory control, capture and own pre-designed bases (Bases can’t be destroyed, yet like in most Faction servers, however they can be lost)
Deep political meta-game, allies, enemies, wars, betrayal, etc
Persistent world that never get’s reset (resources replenish on there own)
Deep crafting and enchanting systems (DarkRise has full 100% custom way of crafting and enchanting)
Item based enchanting system, you'll need items found in the world for enchanting similar to how crafting of items works
Regional and local resource distribution
- In DarkRise there are super nodes that reside in and around Faction bases that have a higher chance to drop rare crafting materials, this is what players will be after when they raid Faction bases.
Deep economy systems that allow players to trade through an in game marketplace by listing items for other players to purchase
Player Housing, housing that players are able to rent with in game currency

This is not some big dream that I have to someday have a Minecraft MMORPG server. I’ve been working with a 3rd party dev for the last year and have many features already coded and ready. (I have the source code for all my plugins) However, with any project there is always room for improvement and there are plenty more plugins needing coded. The work never stops!

The world of DarkRise is being custom created within WorldPainter using a very strategic map system similar to concepts found in strategy board games like RISK.

Very short video demonstrating what I can do in world painter:

A Few of the Custom Features Already Coded:

War of the Houses, a meta-game within DarkRise that allows Factions to join one of several houses and fight over control points around the world
Economy system that allows for storing any type of custom items in a database, this ties into many other plugins that retrieve from this database
NPC vendor plugin that hooks with citizens and the economy plugin for setting up GUI menus and shops
Custom voting plugin with some enhanced features over the publicly available ones
Crafting/Enchanting plugin that hooks with the custom economy plugin that allows for a full 100% way of crafting, it is not the default Minecraft system and allows for an unlimited amount of ingredients in unlimited quantities
Encumbrance system that creates a classless system, the more heavy armor you wear the less you can do with archery and magic
Player housing, allows players to rent houses
Resource node allocation for handling 1000’s of resource nodes, my small demo world has 9,500+ resource nodes.
This is only a partial list

What I’m Looking for

I'm looking for an individual that will be able to recruit and maintain our staff team of helpers, moderators and builders
As this is a very large project there are always tasks needing worked on. You'll be in charge of helping with these tasks and training our senior staff on how to setup our systems in game.

Requirements

TIME. Need I say more? Something to consider, I am based out of the U.S
General hours: 15-20 per week
Mic and TeamSpeak 3 required (this is a free download and will be our primary communication method)
Dedication to the server. If you are actively helping on other servers, disregard this post.

My responsibilities include: (these will also be shared with whoever comes on as my partner)

Maintaining our website/forums
Advertising (when the time comes)
Community Manager
Configuring our custom plugins and features to work in game
World Designer (I use World Painter for this)
Managing staff
And anything else needed

Application:

Code:

1. Age
2. Do you understand that this currently not a paid position?
3. What is your in game Minecraft name?
4. Do you have a mic and are comfortable with voice communication? (TeamSpeak 3 will be our primary voice communication method and skype for text based chat and keeping up with staff)
5. Give as much detail as you can explaining why you feel you would make a good candidate.

You can contact me on Skype for more info: dirty.diggler