Mod Rules, Guidelines, and Expectations

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RULES

1. Mods are required to follow all basic rules of the game, found here.
2. Mods may not alter reward/limit amounts or types without admin approval. (I.e., if you think a Sidequest should be rewarding more cards, or the Mercenary's Guild limits need adjusting, please present your suggestion to an admin for approval first.)

QUARTERLY TIMELINE

• A new quarter begins in December, March, June, and September.
• Ahead of each new quarter, admins will post the Mod Job Claims.
• Mods will claim their tasks, and be responsible for that task for the duration of the quarter.
• Mod pay goes out once a month based on tasks completed.
• At the end of the quarter, bonus mod pay goes out to mods who have met all their deadlines for the quarter

ACTIVITY EXPECTATIONS

As the game is meant to be fun for mods and admins as well, there will be no penalties for missing deadlines or the dropping of mod jobs, beyond of course the reassignment of the job to another mod if needed. You will not be pressured to fulfill jobs you do not have time/energy to do—we will either find a backup for you, or issue an apology to players for a missed event.

Instead of activity penalties, we will offer extra reward for mods who have completed all their tasks at the end of the quarter without missing any!

If you feel you cannot meet any specific deadlines, or if you need to hand off your entire job claim for the quarter, please do the following:

• post to the mod community with the specific tasks and dates that needs coverage.
• or, if you have already arranged for coverage via PM with someone, please also still post the change to the community so everyone on the team is aware of the alteration

This will be the procedure when a mod misses a deadline without notice:

• after a single missed deadline, the mod will be given one week to either contact the team about their absence, or to post their task late
• if, after one week, we have not heard from the absent mod, a backup mod will begin filling in
• if, after a second week passes with no notice, admins will release the job claim to the team for new claiming
• should the absent mod return, they will be welcome to fulfill backup and support mod tasks, however they will have lost their job claim for the quarter, as it will have been claimed by someone else at that point

Delivery of rewards to players in a timely fashion is considered part of the job claim.  You can find the complete list of deadlines, including the individual reward delivery requirements, on the full mod game schedule.


LATE TASKS

If you must be late in posting a task, we prefer that the schedule integrity take priority over making up missed events.

Example: You are modding Community Thursdays, but you miss your Thursday post. You are able to post on Saturday instead, however. Rather than change the posting date to Saturdays, the current round will simply be a little bit shorter, and the next post will go up on next Thursday as scheduled.

Another example: You are modding Community Thursdays, but are unable to post for many days. Rather than post extremely late and have a round that only lasts for a couple of days, go ahead and skip that round, and post the next round on schedule the next Thursday instead.