STAFF RANKS - Explained!

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Hello,
 for quite a while I've received questions from both players and staff about what each staff rank represents and Powerwarp once intended that a post like this was made but he never got around to it before he retired as a manager. And this is to also explain the different prefixes you might see ingame.

 

 

There are currently four members in the management group and I think it's best to start with us before diving into the staff group, as our duties and responsibilities wary a lot. So in descending order we've got:

 

This is brunyman, he is the sole owner of Craftersland and he mainly performs the maintenance's we have twice a week - on mondays and fridays - consisting of anything from refunds, rollbacks, command requests, password resets, sometimes rank transfers. He has unlimited access, hence the "Owner" part and can therefore perform all duties. Some that he shares with Yusixs and myself. There are a handful of things that only brunyman can do however:

 

- Password resets on Network

- "Fixing" major hiccups with server

- And some donation issues

 

 

This is me, my permission level is the same as Yusixs and it consists of full server access with file and console, as well as buycraft. While this allows us both to do essentially everything there are a few things that we don't do due to uncertainty, lack of experience or to await judgement from Brunyman. While our permissions are the same our duties wary as we have split what we both can do. 

My duties include managing staff, creating applications, picking new helpers, dealing with promotions and activity checks for staff. Helping with everyday staff incidents. I also develop new servers for Craftersland, while in the past both me and Yusixs have created DW1.10, DW1.12, SF3 and Revelation I am currently working "solo" on a network project that some of you guys might've seen in the server menu on Network. 

And by "solo" I mean without Yusixs, but I still have a team of 9 people.

I maintain the servers and also deal with donation issues, such as command requests and rank transfers, as well as general issues. 

 

Do note that the prefix Brunyman, myself and Yusixs chose can be bought in our donation shop and it does not reflect our permissions as it is just a prefix. Check the buycraft store if you are interested, it's labeled " Fancy Animated Tag 

 

 

Dragonlady is the newest addition to our Manager team and is a some-what new concept and we like to call her a " Super moderator". What her permissions are is that she has full PEX or Luckperms access- meaning she can grant players permissions or assist with staff permissions. This is very helpful for us since that means she can help out a lot when there are rank transfers, promotions or helper applications. On top of that her ingame rank is GM, but what sets her apart from all the other GM's - except what I just mentioned above - is that she is GM on every server. Meaning that she can be available to help regular staff issues anywhere and in no time at all!

 

Now, that's all for the manager team and let's briefly go through the staff ranks, some of their permissions and duties.

 

This is the GM+ rank and unlike the rest of the ranks this one is very special and has a bit of a story behind it. 
The original requirement to be promoted to GM+ was that needed to have extremely good activity on the server(s), discord and forum. This was meant as a very competitive rank as one server could only have 3 GM+'s at the same time and would you slack off one month you could easily be switched out for someone who was previously a GM. It was meant to be a very fluid rank and to encourage activity when you reached GM, however it wasn't achieved very well, since everyone who was GM+ and had to go down to GM felt that as a demotion while in reality that was how the rank was meant to work. 

It was a very difficult rank to work with and for many other reasons Brunyman decided a year or so ago that we would slowly remove this rank from all of our servers. At this rate we no longer have any GM+'s on modded servers but we still uphold the GM+ on network since it was so hardcoded into Staff's mind and was something many had set as a goal a long time ago- I wasn't about to take that away from them. 

 

The permissions and duties are the same as GM and all ranks below, plus the right to request staff permissions like spawn bypass and worldguard. On network they also have permissions to change loot chests and add new ones, as well as make changes to the to the map itself(Not on CTW, but for ACV1 for example.)

 

GMs is in most other cases the highest rank as staff and has the duties to moderate the servers, moderate the forum and discord. But what stands them apart from Admin is that on some servers they have access to the entity profiler, which essentially is what let's us scan the server for chunks that are laggier than others and address them. They can also perform ingame money refunds.

They also have permissions to reset passwords and on some servers also the ability to perform manual restarts- Which we never advice for since the plugin we have automatically detects if it's laggy and restarts.

 

Admins has the duties to moderate the servers, moderate the forum and discord. It is also the first rank in which Worldedit is given, as well as the ability to reset nicknames on donators - for profanity reasons. - They are also the first rank which has access to "Mytown Admin" which lets them edit anyone's town, adding members manually for example or disbanding abandoned bases(Notice: That if you request a base to be disbanded the base will also be /regened)

 

Moderators has the duties to moderate the servers, moderate the forum and discord. Moderator is when you start getting access to the fun stuff- You get things like /vanish as well as the ability to tp to players or positions, spawning in items - for refunds - and to check offline player's inventories and also edit them. They can also Moderate the auctions and Marketplace if needs be.

 

Judges has the duties to moderate the servers, moderate the forum and discord. What sets Judge apart from Helper is the ability to Jail, kick and tempban players. While they don't have very much use for ban since most of the rules which results in bans needs a moderator+ to investigate. But this is the point where we gradually start adding permissions to staff.

 

Helpers has the duties to moderate the servers, moderate the forum and discord. Here is where we all began, everyone that's in staff was once a helper - well, apart from brunyman. - even myself. This is the most basic rank and for many reasons stands as the "trial" for staff. Often to test if the player in question is committed enough to be active until they reach the higher ranks. So for these reasons the helper's permissions are somewhat limited- They have access to check IP's and see who's ban evading. They can check offline inventories but not edit, they can talk in staff chat and they can warn and mute players.