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Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions
Last updated: January 20th, 2021
These Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and Star by Star Gaming ("Company", “we”, “us”, or “our”), concerning your volunteer services on any of our services and or platforms such as and not limited to, our websites, game servers, any other media form, media channel, console or PC application, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto. You agree that by posting this application and or responding to application question (1.) with "Yes, I do agree to these terms and conditions.", you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these terms and conditions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM APPLYING FOR A VOLUNTEER STAFF POSITION AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE YOUR APPLICATION PROCESS IMMEDIATELY.
You accept and understand that you are not any form of an employee, contractor, or agent of Star by Star Gaming. You accept and understand that the volunteer services you provide will be a donation and under no circumstances will you expect wages, salary, or benefits from Star by Star Gaming for the services provided during your time as a Volunteer Staff member. We reserve the right to remove or let go of any volunteer staff member for any reason and at any time at our sole discretion.
Any and all actions, including and not limited to, player and or user punishment, such as issued bans or otherwise on our game servers, websites, or other platforms, as well as any statements made by you, or any behavioral misconduct, does not express the views of Star by Star Gaming and are conducted at your sole discretion. You agree that all of these are of your own and you withhold full personal responsibility. Your actions, behavior, and or statements will be taken or given at your sole discretion and you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, contractors, volunteers, volunteer staff, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand due to the outcomes of your gross negligence, willful misconduct, actions, statements, and or behaviors or any other conduct on your behalf, which cause or may give rise to criminal liability while performing volunteer staff services for Star by Star Gaming.
IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, VOLUNTEERS, VOLUNTEER STAFF, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR VOLUNTEER SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
These Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions can and may be updated at any time without notice at our discretion, so be sure to frequently check back for any updates to these terms and conditions. An effort to inform you that they've been updated will be made, but not promised, so it's your responsibility to periodically check back. By posting this application and or responding to application question (1.) with "Yes, I do agree to these terms and conditions.", you are accepting and agreeing to these terms and conditions indefinitely regardless of any changes or amendments to these terms and conditions unless or until you are no longer a Volunteer Staff member. If at any point you no longer agree to these terms and conditions, you must immediately resign from your Volunteer Staff position and cease to continue your volunteer services immediately.
Please do not remove or delete these terms and conditions from your application, otherwise your application will be considered and declared void.
Applicants Steam ID - STEAM_0:0:497072597
(1.) Do you agree to and accept the Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions? If so, please answer with "Yes, I do agree and accept these terms and conditions." - Yes, I do agree and accept these terms and conditions.
(1a) What is your most recent or commonly known in-game name or alias? - Larissa Biscuit.
(1b) What is your current acuity level in-game? (MUST be at least Acuity 7 to apply.) - Prestige 8 Acuity 4.
(1c) List any alternative Steam accounts you may have - N/A
(2.) In which time zone do you reside? - NZDT
(2a) Please provide the hours of the day that you are the most active on the Galaxy of Magic server according to CST (Chicago, US), so the managers and staff know when they can expect to see you. - Mostly between 12:00pm-5:00am CST which is 5:00pm-10:00pm my time.
(3.) What is your age? - 24
(4.) Approximately, when was the first time that you joined our Galaxy of Magic server and how did you initially discover it? - I started playing on the HWRP server almost 2 years ago. I saw a YouTube video that featured the server and had to give it a try.
(4a) How can we be certain that you will remain active on the server upon being accepted for a volunteer staffing position? - I am always active, I log in almost every day and having a staffing position would only increase my activity. During my trial as GM I logged in every day. I have always been interested in Mythology and am excited to see where the server is heading.
(4b) Do you understand that you can be let go at any time for excessive inactivity at our discretion? - Yes.
(5.) Do you understand and agree to not only comply with, but also enforce the rules of the server when necessary? - Yes
(5a) Please explain each of the main server rules and what they each mean, to convey to us that you understand and comprehend them wholly.
1. No fail RP: Fail RP is doing something that your RP character would not do. This can involve anything such as helping Void while playing Celestial, force revealing to PVP and breaking job boundaries.
2. Be respectful: Disrespect within RP is allowed but if you find yourself questioning if what you are about to do or say to another player is crossing the line then it would be best just to not do or say it.
Hatespeech also comes under Rule 2 and is taken very seriously. Do not say anything racist or anything of the sort as it is not allowed on the server.
3. No RDM: Do not kill other players without an RP reason to do so. You cannot kill Void that are not revealed and you cannot kill Celestial while in their safe zones, doing so can also come under Rule 1.
4. Obey staff and RP leaders: You must obey your RP leaders, not doing so may result in detainment if you are a student but if you do not follow this rule as a job with more responsibility you may get in trouble. If your RP leader is telling you to do something while a staff member OOC is telling you otherwise then you must follow the staff members instructions.
5. No free-spelling: Casting spells without an RP reason to do so may result in you being detained, if you are playing as an unarrestable job you are not allowed to free-spell at all.
6. No metagaming: Do not use knowledge you yourself know that your in game character would not. Examples of metagaming is using a players job title to determine whether they are Void or not, using the chat to ask for help while snatched and even using some server rules to give yourself an advantage can be considered metagaming.
7. Do not mic spam or chat spam: Playing music through your mic is mic spam, screaming and making excessive noise through your mic is also not allowed. Playing audio clips of any kind and even poor mic quality can be considered mic spam.
Chat spam is posting excessive traffic into the chat. Having a long conversation while typing is not chat spam but if you continuously spam to grab attention or to annoy then you are chat spamming.
8. Telemail is for RP purposes only: Telemail is used to stand out from OOC chat and is used for RP not casual conversation. Examples of proper TM will be advertising the sale of a student, informing students to attend class and what spell they are getting, reason for detainment and for events.
9. No ERP: Erotic roleplay is not allowed on the server. Doing anything of the sort will result in detainment and continuing to act inappropriate may result in warns/kicks/bans.
10. No exploiting or cheating of any kind: Do not use something not for its intended purpose, glitching out of the map and even visual glitches that offer no advantage are considered exploiting.
(6.) Tell us a little about yourself and why you would like to be accepted for a volunteer staffing position on SBS. (100 words or less) - I have always loved creating things and this server is the best way for me to do this. I find it incredibly satisfying making a build or hosting an event and hearing that people enjoyed it.
(7.) In your opinion, which quality of yourself do you feel that you need to improve on the most? - Going off my previous time as trial GM it would definitely have to be my confidence. I would always get very anxious before doing an event and I found myself often waiting until it was late in the evening and the server was at lower pop before doing an event. This caused me to struggle at organising large scale events or hosting events with a large server pop.
(7a) In your opinion, which skill set of yours do you feel that you need to improve on the most? - Multi-tasking. Again, during my trial I would get a bit flustered during an event and make mistakes such as forgetting to reset classes or inform event participants of an important event specific rule. To improve on this I will have slower build ups for my events where I can iron out all of the creases before the actual event begins.
(8.) How would having you on our volunteer staff team benefit our server and what qualities set you apart from the rest of the applicants? - I am very active and passionate about the server, I love design and I am always thinking about the next thing to build. I put great care into anything that I create and ensure it is clean and perfect, I spend a lot of my spare time building, each build that I make is able to be used for multiple purposes. My events have a bit of a dark theme to them which people tend to enjoy and they are mostly oriented and catered to allow for the involvement of everyone on the server if they choose to attend.
(9.) Have you ever previously maintained a game server staffing position, or currently are, on any other Garry's Mod servers? If so, which ones, and in which staffing positions? (List them if possible) - N/A.
(10.) Have you ever previously been banned on any Garry's Mod or SBS servers? If yes, then please list approximately when, how long, and the reasoning(s). - N/A.
(11.) In your opinion, are the server staff or the players of more importance? Why? - They are equally important, without the players the server is less interesting and without staff the server can become chaotic and unfun.
(12) How would you rate your skills overall out of 10 (E.g., patience, response time, etc.) -
Patience 10 - I am a very patient person and when I am dealing with difficult people or situations it takes a lot to get me even close to being angry.
Response Time 7 - My response time in regards to sits is very quick but I would say 7 because if I was busy with passive RP or building I would be slower. I did not take sits during my trial while an event was ongoing unless it was serious or event related and I would probably remain that way.
Compassion 10 - When people have come to me with their problems I always take them seriously. I can see where each side is coming from in arguments and misunderstandings and find that I can resolve these situations easily because I can understand them.
Creativity 8 - I can find a story in almost anything, many of my event ideas are from listening to music.
Approachable 9 - Players I do not know or have just met often talk to me which I am very happy about. I play on this server to have fun and there is no point in excluding anyone from that.
Moderating 8 - I took sits as Trial GM and I will continue to do so. As Helper I also learned a lot and found where I sit in regards to strictness, I am relaxed and do not issue bans just because the player has reached the warning threshold.
Originality 8 - I feel like my event ideas are original but there is definitely a theme that all of my events seem to sit under. I struggle to to have a wide variety of events gameplay-wise but I do always have new ideas for the style that I do have.
(13.) On a scale from 1 to 10, how familiar are you with Garry's Mod's default tools, context menus, and utility menus? - Probably 8/10. I have spent a lot of time in sandbox learning new things while building but there is always something to learn and always a new problem I need to figure out how to get around. I have asked others to teach me tips on how to build and I have also taught others and given tips on how to build.
(14.) Provide us with at least two detailed examples of events that you would orchestrate and how you would proceed with organizing, operating, and constructing them. - My events are listed in the Google document below. I wrote these events down a long time ago as I was planning to apply earlier but have been busy with IRL stuff. Events with HP themes to them have not been updated, they are all still compatible and just require some simple changes to work on the current server.
I am slowly going through all of my events to update them for the current server.
Events!--> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y3G6...swSbU/edit <--Events!
(15.) Do you have any prior experience using ULX administrative system or sandbox building on Garry's Mod? - Yes.
(16.) You both understand and realize, that by applying for a volunteer staffing position on the server, you are sacrificing the complete freedom of being able to role-play and or socialize freely all the time without any interruptions, and are obligated to handle all server issues and or volunteer staff position tasks at hand no matter the situation and to the best of your abilities? - Yes.
(17.) Please provide a list of all previous volunteer staff applications, provide a link to them if possible, and list any reasons why they may have been locked. If they were previously accepted, please provide a short explanation of why you are no longer volunteer staff at the time of this application. (Disregard if this is your first application) - Helper x3 (requires renewal monthly) - Trial Gamemaker, Failed trial.
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