Development Rewards

**Divey**

Edned Wrote:I've been quite distant from the community since the map was changed to San Ranevo, but I'm glad to see things are heading in the right direction in regards to respecting community decisions and the development teams.

In my opinion, this does feel like a "monopoly money" sorta concept, as jhayw said. Are you sure the "open discourse" with the team wasn't just them thinking "well it's better than nothing"? I've seen the community cycle through devs kinda quickly in the past and I witnessed the previous team who made LL and ditched the community. A lot of the current dev team are very talented people. Alongside the community, these are the guys that have contributed a lot toward the fact that FL is still going nearly 10 years from its launch.

Admins/mods don't get 10k every time they attend an @ call, the logistics don't make sense to me. Yes, the money rewarded fluctuates based on the "importance" of the update, but there's a lot of factors such as the personal time of these people being used (especially for contributors/developers), their skill sets and more that you really need to think about.

I know that the funds are not as much as they used to be due to server upgrades and less player counts (donations), but there's many options such as more legacy items & commands (we have them for donators & admins, why not devs?), shares in donations (after the base rate for server costs are revoked from this number), "pension plans" if you want to call it that, for veteran devs, and more.

Just take a second to think about it lads!

Anyway, just my 2 cents on this.

Hi Edned!

As I stated in the thread there was indeed an open discourse. As soon as Soul stated he would be open to the idea in a discussion thread I contacted him and then I contacted the Development team and as the opening paragraph suggests, the majority of the team wished for physical money to be spent on tools the Developers used - Which Soul has been supplying (as you may have noticed we've gone under a lot of maintenance recently, this is due to us updating our systems which were at the Developers request).

They then stated that they'd be happy with in game rewards, to which I believed was fair too. They came to me and stated that 50k would be enough and from that I built upon that as the standard rate and that it could go higher depending on the size of the update.

On the topic of why don't staff get payed. At the end of the day, if I am speaking openly - a lot of people want to be staff and with that they get a lot of rewards. Before I became SA, devs did not have an ability to extend their proplimits, etc. and so we've aimed to make the admin and developer ranks equal in all ways. However, where FL is perhaps falling behind on in comparison to other similar gamemodes is the rate of Development. Our current Development team is extremely enthusiastic, as can be seen with their wish to make a public road map, etc. and so to attempt to make it even more of an incentive to bring out updates, we've brought out in game rewards. Developers can't be as easily replaced as Administrators and also it would be extremely hard to deem what would be acceptable to reward staff members in terms of @calls, etc.