Regarding staff and timezones

[Swate]

Hello all,

I just wanted to raise this matter. Way back when I was a Trusted, I ended up getting activity warnings when really all I was doing was going on at night (in my timezone). Because I'm Aussie, all of the American peeps are on in the morning (like 8AM) and so no-one really sees me.

I just wonder if there is a solution other than particular people voting if they've seen people. If anything, you should actually encourage people to come on in the off-peak hour, when half the online players don't have green names. Well, you do, but... yeah. I was just wondering if the way you see if people are active was not so much people seeing you but rather something that logs your hours and tells people if you haven't been on a certain time each week.

I think it would really help the non-American people.
~Swate

 

[77thShad]

Exactly the same boat
How dO you get references when there's no staff on?

 

[Gamefan__15]

rather something that logs your hours and tells people if you haven't been on a certain time each week.

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That is all.

..No really, if you're on (and helping out and stuff of course) a lot but not when other ops/trusteds are, that's actually good, because it means if you weren't on, there would be no staff on to.. staff. And deal with rulebreakers and such.
So (in my opinion) it would be nice to have something like this. :)

 

[ethical1337]

logs and /timeonline checks would be an easy solution

 

[DarthLego5679]

I was just wondering if the way you see if people are active was not so much people seeing you but rather something that logs your hours and tells people if you haven't been on a certain time each week.

I think it would really help the non-American people.
~Swate

I'm seeing something like TNT's /stafftime. I don't know if it is possible, as TNT coding doesn't always ----> zombie coding, and vice-versa.

 

[ethical1337]

I'm seeing something like TNT's /stafftime. I don't know if it is possible, as TNT coding doesn't always ----> zombie coding, and vice-versa.

logs and /timeonline checks would be an easy solution

 

[DarthLego5679]

logs and /timeonline checks would be an easy solution

But /stafftime is one short command, not needing to dig out logs for everyone.

 

[aperson155]

I usually do the voting based on my own opinion on seeing people or not. But then I go back and check over all of the staff members, while /whowas'ing then on the server to see if they were online recently. If they were online 1-2 days before I voted, it usually can change me and my decision. But if they weren't online for a long time, I usually mark them as Have not seen.

 

[Gamefan__15]

logs and /timeonline checks would be an easy solution

Erm, it is kind of a pain to /timeonline the 30+ staff we have every single week just in case you want to check later. I do see what you are saying but if it isn't too hard to code, /stafftime, like darth said (or something along those lines), would be a lot easier. And again, if it isn't too hard to code, there's not really a problem with having it, is there?

 

[ethical1337]

Well this is about the ops in other timezones right? The HC's really only have to check the people they are unsure of. but ya, a command like that if easy to code couldn't hurt.