Please promote players who are active in the mornings (eastern)

That is good to hear! I am glad the server is not desperate and will not just promote anybody.

if you guys really want, I can come on very early before I go to work

Sorry I didnt mean to appear to be trying to convince you to promote me to mod before you think I'm ready, or even before you're ready. I don't want to force you into something like that. I know what can happen when a mod is promoted prematurely. I've seen it happen 3 times before that I can recall off the top of my head. None of them went well. One resulted in a perm-ban and one resulted in a falling out between the mod and admin involed. Anyway, I digress.

I just wanted to voice my concern about this time of day. Mod or not, I still care very much about this server and its players. I dont want a lack of staff to result in the players getting hurt from fighting or losing interest because they feel no one is listening.

i am on early and no mods really get on until like 3 eastern i will get on at like 9 and not really see any mods until 3 its a shame D:

I understand that many staff members have updated to 1.3, but if they were truly dedicated and wanted to stay mod, they would not have. An important trait of a mod is putting the well being of the server before there own liesure, even if it means putting off an update as hyped as this one for 2 weeks.

Cake, don't over-work yourself, get rested and well before work

JackTurbo95 it's ok I don't really get much sleep anymore anyways

Well you should get sleep -.-'' Sleep NAO!

This is such a great server and the Staff is working hard as they can. We really do not need to put any more pressure on them.I really don't want Moderators to think they are being forced to be on at certain times. I want this server to remain fun and not someone's part-time job!

Rhyno, during my course on this server I did get on practically everyday from the moment I got Moderator. I understand how hard it is to be a staff member, maybe more than most people do, I remember when I first started out and had to split my time between Mutiny and a classic server which is no longer running so I can name it, Patrick Schwarz / AlterGaming. I had the role of SuperOperator on there, and honestly? It was incredibly hard. The staff need to take rests, no doubt about it.

But if we have a problem with staff getting on, not saying someones own problem, I mean a server-wide problem, then we may have to change some things like the Titans and Legends getting different priviliges (i.e ranking to citizen, kicking / muting players from I dunno, Miner down?)

The staff here are the best I have ever worked with, there are incredibly pressured into making a right desicion when it comes to it, and 9/10 they do.

I think things are working fine the way they are. By no means do I expect at least 1 Moderator to be online at all times. If you had to help moderate 2 different servers and got burnt out that was your choise and fault. I am not sure if Moderator's have certain rules about how often they must log in, but very rarely have I been on and at least 1 staff member was not online and willing to help.

It just sounds like some of you are trying to make it sound like the server is short handed with Staff and you want to be considered to help pick up slack. If that is the case, you need to put in a Application and speak with Jigsaw.

If that was directed at me Rhyno, I don't have much desire to become a staff member again, I have no reason to. I have been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. I am pretty much saying that the more respected layers (i.e Titans and Legends) should have certain abilities. Maybe not so mcuh Legends, but Titans were ranked by a staff vote. The staff have a certain amount of trust in them.

I don't know how it did come across that I myself was looking for a staff position. I have posted an application, but even if it did get accepted, I doubt i'd accept it. I don't want Moderator again, much less Support-Admin.

No, it was not directed towards you personally JackTurbo. I am just making a statement based on observation of what some people have been saying.

I want a t-shirt!

There are more and more hours during the day when I don't see staff. This time of day usually has at least 2 mods on. Today, however, I log on for help with irc and theres 30 players- no staff.

Put in a PE if you have an issue and someone will help you soon as they can. Quit complaining on here, Staff is doing the best they can! Since the latest patch some Staff members have been playing 1.3, so if you can get through the next few days until the server updates I am sure they would appreciate it.

What if a fight breaks out or a spam team joins? A lot of damage could be done while you wait for staff to log on. I've played on many servers, and those with highly inactive staff ALWAYS shut down soon after staff went inactive. One server was popular enough to have a constant 10 players on. A 2-week delay in updating to beta 1.6 resulted in a decline in staff activity. It became barren in only 1-2 weeks after it finally updated. The admin promoted 2 new very active staff members, and it went back up to a constant 5 players, but always the same 5, which included the same 2 staff. The server shut down 2 weeks later and never came back. I do not want to see this painful downward spiral happen to this server. It was painful enough seeing it happen to a server that was my favorite for 2 months, so I cant imagine how painful itll be when its a server that has been my favorite for 8 months. My main concern is that a decline in staff coverage never ends well.

Russ, this just seems, to me, that you want to prove to staff/Jigsaw that you should be staff. The original message was that you were on for 4-7 hours without any staff on except a few mods popping in. You then go on to say that mods should throw out their schedule and put minecraft, a video game, before everything else. Then, you continue to add stuff to your original message after being told by Jigsaw and by many other people that staff are looking for new moderators and that the mods are doing their best.

The staff are not inactive, and we try to be on as much as possible. If you have a problem with a mod(s), PM Jigsaw.
Sorry if you think I was to harsh in this post, but I wanted to say my opinion.
~Cowttrim

Cow that was very well said my friend!