What's the point of a gfx admin acc.
 

Not to sound rude but what's the point?

Because they're part of the staff team?

To harass the gp

THEY'RE ON TO US!!!

To inflate staff numbers.

Probably to host events, approve uploads, and answer questions since their staff account will generate exposure from events.

xor or anyone that manages the gfx team doesnt want to have 1000+ email spam every time they prepare for a holiday and nexus therefore giving them an acc so they can upload their own graphics and test them is better

No, that is the job of a GP.

A main Graphics staff have access to the client is to upload images to the server.

Except we do every one of those.

The job of a GP is to handle reports / gather evidence for bans, and these things too, sure, but these are reasons the graphics staff might also have accounts, or the "point of having a gfx admin account".

Do they really need an account for everyone to upload images to the server? No. So why do they give them accounts? Probably to do what I listed.

we dont do that

I think she meant higher up staff.

No one on the graphics team is higher up.

Then she didn't really answer the question... I guess we can't know unless she says so herself, right?

Only a GFX admin can answer your question (current or former)

Sarzar and Yogurt are both current iClassic graphics staff.

Well she did say 'main' gfx staff, so it looked like that.

Oh, they weren't elaborate with their posts. My two cents, they are in charge of developing designs when asked by a higher-up or on their free will. They can have similar powers as a GP except they don't look at reports possibly.


Edit: Why they have an account? Same reason a GP does. Another team to help players around and their specialty is GFX (creativity). So if you got a question regards to GFX ask them.

You have a GFX account so you can log on and get publicity and have all the noobs praise thy admians. Duh

It's probably like a clock-in type of thing. When they're doing admin type of work they use their admin account. It says on the gp application that you need to put in at least 10 hours a week, so it's most likely to keep track of how much work they're putting in for their admin duties. You wouldn't show up professionally to work without wearing the "uniform". It's kind of like that. My guess anyways.

For GFX, u honestly don't even need server access. All your doing is making graphics on a different program. Only possible reason to have access would be to upload graphics to RC or maybe to help out the GP's if they aren't online

Works differently on every server I've worked for.

It's useful to be able to log on client depending on what you're working on. I mean teeechnically, regular graphics staff don't need to have server access, but there's also nothing bad about them having it. In fact, for some things it just simplifies things if they can log on. Graphics staff can also do events and uploads just as much as GPs, so why not lighten the workload if they have the time?

Like 5-ish years ago, all graphics staff started off as GPs then got "promoted" to graphics. They don't do that anymore though...but when they did, the graphics staff could also do GP work if they had the time and if no one else was available to do so.

Also, it would just suck if you didn't get to have something like that when everyone else that isn't graphics do get to have it. Who would want to apply for graphics knowing that they wouldn't get to have a kewl staff account? Not only all that, but it's just so much easier to get around to places you need to be on client than it is on a device.

What does it matter anyway? As long as they aren't having a power trip and staying in line and doing they're supposed to do, there's no harm in it.

i have never ever hosted an event whenever i was GFX during the past 14 years lol

me neither!! worried ill mess up or even worse

people will ask me to host

upload and delete their graphics on the fly, warpto test levels to see if their **** works online, collaborate with fellow staff ingame or on rc, etc

To answer your stupid graphics question, or to basically help.
I mostly did it to test out graphics.

To give hats to friends and to not host events

Because otherwise some talented people wouldn't bother with being staff?

but gfx staff does a better job at being a gp than a gp

Are you staff? Can you really confirm this? As far as I know, you can't actually see what staff member is taking action. They're not even visible 99% of the time, unless they're hosting events anyway.

Can't really confirm either way. None of it matters, not a competition.

Exactly.

I think it was a type of admin like me "Happy Go-Lucky, Serious Admin" type, Where they want to talk to people where they want to make people stop cussing where they make cussing people stop cussing so people could be happy, where I stopped a bullying before, where I stopped a fight before, where I helped with graphics, where I had fun with vicipower for two days, where I had been fired on the first day for helping glitchers get out of the way (looking at you.), where I had basically banned my first person even do I'm just a graphics I asked for permission, Where I told a few admins to go to the Club in era because a lot of people where cussing and bullying and drama like a jersey shore episode, where- let's stop, more admins have contributed than me, but most admins I feel like are just offline and there for the money bonus which you get every month, while having that short-lived fame for me I really tried helping people even with my lack of knowledge, I even talked to people more frequently than the rest of the other people, but with that short-lived admin (me) I think that most admin just need to have fun with what they're doing. :shy:

not hating on admins but i feel that they're doing this as a full time job. :shy:

A GFX admin is also a type of GP? but a lower ranked admin basically, they can ban and make people shut up, but with the use of permission from GP's or GPA's

You don't think the graphics admin would need a staff account to see how their graphics look in game or help co-ordinate development with their graphics?

That's weird because gfx staff don't have the warning/banning tools needed to be a gp.
For classic at least.

They do on some servers, That's why the other servers are great. :love:

For iEra
> Graphics staff need RC to upload and check comments.
> Adding RC rights adds server rights too.
> It is much easier to coordinate development if a GFX can see the levels and make stuff accordingly. I mean, it doesn't make sense and is not very practical to "summon" their iOS and then tell them what to do.
> It's a nice perk and lets you communicate directly to other staff through RC and client.
> You can chill out with other admins in stealth mode B-)

and if we're going into GP duties...
> When no GPs are on and uploads are piling up, a GFX can do them.

This is what i've been trying to tell but I'm under experienced.

Well, I don't log in my staff account(s) that much.

The only time I log in client is to test images in-game or test tiles to see how they look & to check their alignment. (Easier on me.)

i think LATs are the best tho in my unbiased opinion

I am actually really glad the GFX Team has Server access. Since I work a lot with them on projects it's quite easy for them just to warp to me and see if the image fits or what image needs to be done. Doing all of that using screenshots would be a pain. It results in better quality and a faster result of graphics in my opinion :)

Also for most people this is still a voluntary job, so it is awesome to have fun ones in a while. I honestly think, that I would quit my job if I don't have fun doing it.

Why is this even a dicussion lol, excluding the fact that it is a lot better to be able to test your graphics ingame, it wouldn't be fair if the majority of staff got client access with the exception of scripters, sfx, graphics. And nobody would want to be those positions anyway if that were the case