- IGN:jonhjake999
-Age14.
- Time Zone/Country:I am currently living in the Philippines, which has a timezone of GMT +8 (Western Australia is also held in this timezone).
- What makes me a good candidate for the position: -For starters; I have experience. I have been a staff member on multiple servers; ranging from large member communities (500 slot server with about 200 players on at any time) to Modified Servers (Servers running Tekkit and Custom Mod-packs)..
Here is more information regarding my previous server experience.
Firstly, I would like to name a server that I was a staff member on for nearly 6 months. I joined the sever (Named BioCraft, I believe it is still going strong, holding top spots on mulitple Minecraft server listing websites.) during December, 2011 as a regular player before it was released (It's a little bit of a un-needed story, but I joined only by chance). At the time, it was a small 2 GB server with plans to upgrade to 6 GB once everything was configured. Before it was released (About 5 days after I had originally joined), I became a Moderator on the server (Along with 2 other people). Months passed, the server grew at a steady rate 2GB-6GB-8Gb-12GB... etc (I think it is 64GB's now) and I became a Head Admin; the highest rank at the time. After about 6 months after first joining, I left (Though, I did leave on good terms, I wasn't asked/forced to leave). I don't think it will be to hard to find the server with a little "Google"-ing. My duties varied from general management to help in development.
The second server that I would like to list is a Tekkit server that I was brought in to Administer on. It was a 6GB server (Along with a 4GB server partner) that had about 45 slots. I remained with this server until about 1 month after I first joined because of lack of funds. The name of the server's name was RelaxedCraft (It might be making a revival, though I am not part of it).
Lastly, I would like to name a server that I administered/moderated/owned for about 2 months. It was a group of servers (totaling about 24 GB's, all 3 servers combined) named PandemoniumPvE. I was brought in to Moderate on the PvE server, and excelled to become the Owner of 2/3 servers (RPG and PvE). The server continued to morph and eventually formed into a Custom-mod pack server, which I Co-Owned. After that, the server slowly faded away due to lack of players and funding (I did not take part in advertising the server, I was the "General Manager" owner).
I have also held a staff position on other serveers, though I think it is not needed for a paragraph to be wrote about them, since I believe enough info about my capabilities have been shown already by those above. My un-named servers ranged from Bukkit to Tekkit servers.
-Secondly, since I have been playing for quite a while now (see bellow) and have a rather large background on server administration, it's almost impossible to avoid having experience with plugins. Since I have been an administrator/owner of multiple servers, I have had more than one chance to configure a lot of the server's plugins. I have spent multiple hours configuring permission plugins (e.g. Group Manager and Permissions), popular plugins (Like Heroes, Essentials, Etc.) and custom plugins (From being an owner on PandemoniumPvE). I am also easy to teach and have enough ingenuity to find out how to configure plugins I am not familiar with without much problem.
-I also have basic talents that many people tend to neglect. I will try not to go into to much detail, since it should be mainly self explanatory. Firstly, I have decent syntax. I don't name this as a perk just because it makes me look more professional (though, honestly, if accepted, I will represent the server; I don't think you'd want me act like a non-professional idiot), but because it helps me in getting what I want people to hear across; preventing miss-communication. This would be able to prove useful when communicating with the average player to marketing the server on server listing sites/forums. Secondly, I have common sense. While this seem like something not worthy of being listed, I advise you think again. While almost everyone has ingenuity, a lot of the Minecraft community fails to put it to use. Surprisingly, a lot of problems, mainly player-player/player-staff disputes can be solved with mainly common sense and knowledge of your factors (i.e understanding the problem to it's full extent.
-While I know how to do plugin management and basic website management, my main strong suit is social disputes. While I admit that I am not a master at coding, building, and redstone, I am rather good at solving social problems and managing the player base. The player base is the life blood of any server, and one must keep them 'happy' in order to keep the server going. I believe that I could bring a whole lot of player satisfaction to the table.
- I have played Minecraft since: I have been playing Minecraft since late alpha and have been scouring servers since mid-beta (About 1.6).
- I have this much free time to devote to GameMode.org:I can devote about 3-6 hours a business day and 8-12 hours Sunday/Saturday.
- I confirm that I have multiple working microphones and look forward to a spoken interview via Skype.EDIT reasoning: Small grammatical errors that escaped proof reading. I apologize for that.
