The staff team

[Fultz]

It also doesn't help that there's not much great candidates for trial mod nowadays, except for me obviously.

This is why admin apps should be opened. The applicants could have a chance to prove themselves and get past the trial if they're good enough. Right now no one has a chance to express whether they want to join the team or not, and it would be much easier to find new admins through the applications.

Mate. It's not that people don't have a chance to express it, it's just the genuine fact that nobody is good enough for trial mod anymore.

If staff applications are opened it's proving my point that FL is purely just for children now. If you wan't staff, register interest by roleplaying properly, being active both in game and forums, have a good attitude, be of mature age and have some assertiveness about you. Those qualities will get you staff.

Adding applications will make being staff on FL no longer a very special thing, although some people may already say that period of time has already come and gone.

Lower standards won't work because their administration will be terrible. Applications will just be full of people who lick ass as well.

That is an interesting concept.

What do you do if what you said is true? If no one is good enough for trial and staff isnt active, what do you do? You seem set to ride FL out until the end just the way it is to maintain a high standard for staff. Which isnt a bad thing, however refusing to adapt is just accepting the end of FL.

Same thought process goes on for your reasoning for not wanting admin applications. Although I have to disagree with your reasoning for not wanting that. You say applications will lower the standards of the admin team. I do not know how it will lower the standards truthfully. No matter how you get promoted you go through the same training and help from the admin team. And if you do not work out you get removed. If someone does a poor job, they do not pass their trial. If someone who does a poor job gets promoted that is not the fault of the person who made the application and got promoted, it is the staff team for promoting them to admin.

Everyone who is against an application system sound identical to the people who were against moderators when they were added. "lower standards" This falls on the admin team to make sure that standards are kept with new systems that allow more staff in. Out of the first moderators who were promoted. Only 2 of 5 went on to be admins. 2 were demoted and 1 resigned. We are not going to get every single promotion right. But being scared to not promote because of standards is a weak excuse.

Edit: Just wanted to add that I am full support for applications and have been for a long time. It allows players who do not have a voice to show interest and put their name out there. These people who quietly do their thing have become great staff members and were people I always enjoyed personally.