Staff wages

Hello
Since I’m an Ex-staff member I might be able to explain how staff payments work and make things clear.
If helpers/mods/srmods meet their chatreport & minute requirements they are awarded with a 10$ mcc store coupon. Staff of the month gets his/her 10$ coupon + a 15$ bonus coupon. The top minute staff member gets a 15$ coupon as well. The top chatreports staff gets an ancient key, and so does the top forum reports staff.
I hope this answer your questions, have a nice day

 

Since the owners have to pay hosting services (which are very expensive) and as all staff members are always volunteers i dont think that’s ever going to be added. -1

 

tbh, i don’t think this is anywhere near a good idea. as mentioned above by gui, staff are rewarwed with buycraft credit if they meet their requirements. also, if staff got paid wages like any other job more than just losing money for hosting would go into play. this would mean possible further development could slow down since less money could be going to that and other similar deals like that...
i mean there’s so many factors to why this wouldn’t work out... im not too too familiar with how to explain it and how it fully works... but if you want, i can send you some through discord (poopoosaurus#5963)
overall, i don’t see this idea ever going into play, there’s so many things wrong with it (ik i only listed 1 or 2... but there’s more than that)... n’ all tha’ good stuff // -1

have a great day!
~pup

 

Hey ImConcerned!

I see where you're coming from with paying staff, but it's still a -1 from me.

On top of what the user's mentioned above, the whole idea of "Not paying staff" adds character to their work. The ideology behind BEING a staff member is the willingness to serve and the sheer desire to help the community. Adding payroll to the equation limits that character quality that is so highly desired among staff members. The BuyCraft rewards has already given the staff enough drive to meet their goals on TOP of their own desire to help the community and help Markey in a voluntary way. If people are given payment, it might completely change a motive and the staff team will no longer consist of people who are just born with the amazing desire to help others. If somebody joins the staff team JUST for a paycheck, you could see how that would create problems. Some people who work harder than others would feel like their pay was unfair due to lesser work being done by people that were being paid the same amount. Or, people would just complete their requirements and go no higher than that for the month just to get said paycheck. The people on the current staff team always go above and beyond what is expected of them simply because they joined the staff team with a desire to help and knowledge that they would not be paid for their work. Nobody currently joins the staff team JUST for a $10 BuyCraft card every month, BUT it's plenty reward enough for somebody who does this voluntarily simply because they love working with others in the community.

Have a nice day/night!
-Zguy2000

 

Hey!

I can assure you, this will never happen. This will cause people to apply for the wrong reasons and it even states in the application, this is a volunteer position. Remember that its quality > quantity. We can have a staff team of 100+ players that are lazy and hardly do anything, or have a team of around 40+ that work hard and dedicate time to the server.

Plus, as Guih said already, we do get rewarded with either Buycraft, Keys or positions like SOTM, which is enough to drive motivation on a game. Don't forget, this is still just a game.