For almost 8 years, I've been running a server, and it has had it's fair share of abuse, such as drama, the community dying a few times, map resets, and more. So, you can imagine, this community I've struggled to run has been through a lot.
We relaunched back in June with a new brand and style and it was a pretty good successful relaunch. Our old players came back temporarily and enjoyed it, and new players that joined from the minimal advertising we did, enjoyed it too.
However, back in September, two months after the relaunch, I got a new job and I became inactive. While I had admins and moderators (and still do), the lack of leadership and new updates killed the server. The last month or so, the server has been sitting at 0 slots, even though our Discord has 100+ people in it (When we relaunched, we also did a discord reset - we decided to entirely start from scratch)
With a ton of research and feedback from our players on Discord, my admin and I are slowly fixing some issues that turned players off, and going with another reset with an improved setup. Even after 8 years, I'm still learning what players expect and want when joining a server and I try my best to use that knowledge.
Anyways, with my new job, even though I'm at my computer working, I can't focus on the server and for the next 6 months, I can't see myself being as active as I once was.
I need to find a way to make this new improved server self-sufficient, before we make it go live, where I can have a team of admins that are able to improve the server, run events, communicate with players, and more without needing me. If I'm relied on, the server is good as dead as I just can't be active.
Any ideas how I can meet that goal? If you run a server, how do you organize your staff teams? Do your admins have different roles for different parts of the server?
We relaunched back in June with a new brand and style and it was a pretty good successful relaunch. Our old players came back temporarily and enjoyed it, and new players that joined from the minimal advertising we did, enjoyed it too.
However, back in September, two months after the relaunch, I got a new job and I became inactive. While I had admins and moderators (and still do), the lack of leadership and new updates killed the server. The last month or so, the server has been sitting at 0 slots, even though our Discord has 100+ people in it (When we relaunched, we also did a discord reset - we decided to entirely start from scratch)
With a ton of research and feedback from our players on Discord, my admin and I are slowly fixing some issues that turned players off, and going with another reset with an improved setup. Even after 8 years, I'm still learning what players expect and want when joining a server and I try my best to use that knowledge.
Anyways, with my new job, even though I'm at my computer working, I can't focus on the server and for the next 6 months, I can't see myself being as active as I once was.
I need to find a way to make this new improved server self-sufficient, before we make it go live, where I can have a team of admins that are able to improve the server, run events, communicate with players, and more without needing me. If I'm relied on, the server is good as dead as I just can't be active.
Any ideas how I can meet that goal? If you run a server, how do you organize your staff teams? Do your admins have different roles for different parts of the server?
