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State of Matecraft #7 | Staff, SkyBlock & Member+ Quiz - Sequacious - 01-13-2021
Hey all!
The last SoM post I made was very short but a lot has happened since then so I'll get right into it!
Member+ Quiz:
We've received a lot of feedback from players that the quiz wasn't fit for purpose. A LOT.
Be it due to outdated questions, questions about inactive servers, poorly worded questions & answers, broken buttons, you name it.
Let me take this opportunity to say, the buttons are NOT broken, in ANY way. Phew... now that's out of the way...
With a HUGE thanks to Sansy0703 [Sam] & aboov, a bunch of the quiz's questions have been either rewritten, or completely remade.
Now there are still some questions on there about Enchanted and some Aether servers that aren't quite back yet, but you have full permission to ask staff to help you through these questions until such time as the servers themselves are actually live.
Staff:
We've gotten some questions about why Helper applications aren't currently being accepted even though there's only 4 Helpers.
I'm going to answer this in 2 parts.
Firstly, there are 23 current staff members. That is a huge number when compared to our active daily player base.
Our average is 10 concurrent players, although the past week has had double that [mostly due to SkyBlock's launch]
Secondly, Experts still count as Helpers. I genuinely can't remember if we openly announced that change to the staff tracks but I'll do my best to explain it here;
Helper - Helper is the entry level rank of staff. Members in this rank have pledged to do what they can to help players. There are no extra permissions granted in this role. From Helper, you can progress in one of two ways;
Expert - Expert is a Helper with enhanced mod tools. Experts have the ability to lookup player activity and perform temporary punishments. People in the Expert role are still expected to fulfil all roles of the Helper.
Apprentice - Apprentice is what Expert used to be, which is a Moderator in training. You can be promoted to Apprentice from both Helper & Expert, & anyone in Apprentice will progress to Moderator once their training is considered complete.
From there nothing has really changed.
SkyBlock:
So SkyBlock has launched [Yay!] & we've already managed to squash a ton of bugs and work out loads of balancing issues. As well as that, we've re-enabled the Store category for Aether and fixed voting for Aether & ES [Still working on the 'dupe keys' issue].
You may be wondering what's next, well;
- SkyBlock will continue to receive bug fixes and quality of life improvements
- There are a few major features planned, one of which I can talk about today; We ARE indeed planning on introducing player to player trading and selling. This will take the form of a centralised area where players can build and control their own chest shops. We will work on implementing this in a very smooth fashion, ensuring it continues to fit the SkyBlock feel we've established with the 7.0.0 update.
Aether:
Let's talk the rest of Aether.
SkyGrid is currently being worked on and will be the next to return. Please be patient though as, with the more issues that arise on SkyBlock, progress slows on Grid.
After that, AcidIsland, CaveBlock & OneBlock are due, followed by Enchanted [& hopefully Prison & Orion down the line].
Orion:
Alright alright, I've been pretty dark on what Orion actually is, so it's sharing time.
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Hope that clears things up a bit.
That's it from me for now, until next time, Happy Matecrafting!