About the Owner
To start, my IGN is Xanderpitz. I'm the owner of the XPCraft Network, but also a co-owner of our network's build team, the other being nightnday. I'm a 21 year old Master's student in Piano Performance who, after purchasing Minecraft in 2012, saw the potential for great things to emerge in the years following. Now it's my goal to bring it to life in every facet of the game I can.
As for my experience as an owner, well this is my first network. We've been through some trial and error, but are on the steady course for success. As a builder, I've taken part of several fantastic teams including Wizry (now defunct) and Athapix (still going strong). That being said I know how the business works. I've been involved with teams long enough to know how to delegate projects to members, organize team efforts, and establish connections. You will be in safe hands!!!
Introducing Our Team
The team itself contains 3 ranks (Build Team Owners excluded).
Build Team Jr.:
Build team Jr. ranks are the equivalent of a trial rank. After the initial trial once you are accepted the team, you will conduct an additional 1-2 week trial to ensure your cooperation with other members, dedication, efficiency, and other factors. Generally, these can be done through:
- Building sample or tutorial plots around our spawn plots in the creative server
- Building a factions spawn, KitPvP arena, Hub, or other spawn area that would be suitable for a potential client (you will get commission for that build, even if you're not fully on the team yet).
- Building a small arena or similar build for use in one of our gamemodes.
This list will vary based on what can be or needs to be accomplished at the time. Build Team Jr. ranks will have chat moderating privileges and access to build team worlds, but will not be able to edit other player's plots.
You will NOT be able to work on commissions yet, with the exception of pre-made builds.
Build Team:
Once your trial is completed and you have proven your ability to meet our standards, you will be promoted to a regular build team member. At this point you will have full permission to work on commissions and the ability to edit other player's plots. You will also be invited to the XPCraft Slack page, where we organize virtually everything that goes on on the whole network. (Think Skype with multiple chat channels + Apps integration). As a build team member you will be allowed to work for other build teams or networks, but because you will have a quota to meet, this is discouraged. Treat this is an on-demand job: though it's not full-time, the opportunity will be too good to pass up.
At this point it is expected that you partake in either commissions or build pre-made spawns/hubs/arena/etc. We ask that you maintain activity at all times and give us advance warning of any leave of absence you will be taking in the near future. Failure to do so may result in being kicked in the team, depending on the circumstances. Build Team+ members will be in charge of monitoring quota completion, along with taking part themselves. They will actively be ensuring that progress is made at all times.
Currently, the quota for Build Team members is:
- 1/week: Completion of a server-related project or task.
- 1/week: Recruitment of a potential builder.
This quota will expand and change as we do, with a final quota for Build Team members being decided upon later.
Build Team+
Ah, now we get into the real meat of things. The Build Team+ rank is reserved for those who have taken their work as a normal member up to 11 and proven extreme dedication and organization. At this point, your build quota will be reduced to allow for more managerial duties. You will be placed in a private build team channel on Slack with other BT+ members, Nightnday, and myself, where we will discuss as a team our current progress, upcoming opportunities, commissions from clients, general organization, Build Team member statuses, and more. Consider this a job at this point because there are now even more opportunities to earn money, albeit with a more leadership-based role and more work
BT+ members have the same privileges as BT members on the server, but will also be able to rank up BT Jr. members to regular BT rank. The quota is currently the same as Build Team members and will be finalized later.
Commissions
A fundamental part of fueling our endeavors is....well, compensation. While we're not driven by money, it is a necessary evil. That being said, we utilize a simple approach to divvying up money earned from commissions. Clients will pay 25% up front for commission work, so you can expect some payment for what you do, regardless if they cancel the commission.
Pre-made Builds
Since these builds are already complete and can be sold an infinite number of times for the same amount of work, they are easily one of the most viable sources of income for the server...a one-and-done deal so to speak. Due to this, the split will be 90% for the builder, with 10% going to server costs and endeavors. This split is set in stone and will most likely not change.
Client Commissions
Clients will only pay a set one-time price for these types of builds. Because of this, the opportunity to make money from them is much more limited, and thus we felt it'd be most fair to all members to pull more funds for the server here than other builds. Because we are a young server, our current split will be 15% for server costs, 10% to whoever lands the commission (only available for BT+ or BT owners), and 75% for everyone else. Once we're able to establish a decent income from the server, this will change to 5% for server costs, 5% to whoever lands the commission, and 90% for everyone involved on the project.
Although only BT+/Owners earn money for landing commissions, keep in mind that nothing is stopping you from finding and earning 100% on any commission you look for on your own. We aim to provide normal Build Team members with ample commissions and money-making opportunity in the first place, with BT+ members being compensated for not being able to work as much on commissions due to their work back-end.
Server Work
Some of our gamemodes will require an assortment of maps, arenas or a gigantic map that will require a large amount of time and work to complete. When it comes to things like these, the build work can be quite repetitive, tedious, and tough to organize. With that in mind, we will sometimes provide compensation to members working on these builds. It will be filed under "Server-related" work in the quota, however, so it does not replace commission work.
Conclusion/TOS
Overall, the environment we aim to provide is that of the highest quality of building set among an active server community, friendly and sociable build team members, with a large opportunity for payment, MC community fame, and connection. To finish here's our Terms of Service (just so you can't say we don't have one):
- All builds created on the XPCraft Network server are property of the XPCraft Network. You MAY NOT redistribute builds created on the network without explicit permission from a BT+ or BT Owner.
- You will be paid for pre-made work for every purchase it receives.
- You will be paid a percentage of commission work you do for clients, even if they cancel the commission.
- As a normal BT member, you are allowed to be part of multiple teams as long as you fulfill your quotas.
- As a BT+ member, you are NOT allowed to be part of another build team.
- When you apply for the team you accept these T.o.S., even if they change over time (in which case we will update them on Slack).
Application
Please post all applications to me here on MC-Market!!!
IGN:
Age:
Skype:
Email (required for Slack):
GMT Time Zone:
Portfolio (include links to as many of your best builds as you can):
Previous/Current Teams or Servers:
Favorite Style? (i.e. gothic, medieval, fantasy, etc):
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Current Members
Build Team Trainees
Havocked
Build Team Jr.
hi_im_r0by
jbuilds
sarcastic_bacon
Lazurecks
Build Team
Muzzman256
superfat2009
Build Team+
Barteldvn
LordDeathShadow
Build Team Owners
Xanderpitz
Nightnday
Build Team Trainees
Havocked
Build Team Jr.
hi_im_r0by
jbuilds
sarcastic_bacon
Lazurecks
Build Team
Muzzman256
superfat2009
Build Team+
Barteldvn
LordDeathShadow
Build Team Owners
Xanderpitz
Nightnday
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