Exactly, why is this discussion about GM that can only warp people, in my honest opinion we need more GMs period, then u can use ~GM command and get an answer faster assuming what you are asking is something that GMs do. Now that wouldn't be so hard to recruit even 10 more GMs, but it's a problem is to find qualified people to do that. With how big royal right now i'm sure there good people around that can fulfill this job. Royal has so many bugs and glitched that interfere with gameplay that it could use substantially more GMs per online users than GMS also it makes the experience alot more fun.
The source has a lot of problems, since they are working on fixing it, I don't think there is a high demand on new gm's. Even if enough qualified people, just hiring many at once doesn't work, if you just check guilds in game, when you invite a large amount of people that don't know each other it will most likely not work, slow is the best approach.
Haha the thing about the guilds is a very good example, and as i said, it might be a problem to find qualified people. But is the royal staff currently working on recruiting more qualified members of the community as GMs? is there a feasible number of GMs that you would like to achieve? I think the community would like to know.
It's quite simple. Look at the Staff applications board. There are a good handful of applications which are considered open right now. Does that mean they are being considered? Depends. I could probably go through that list of open applications and deny half if not more due to them being rule breakers, not active enough, not trustworthy based on some experience, etc. To be staff, you need to be someone that the admins feel comfortable giving power to. People say only friends of other staff members become staff. Is that true? Quite possibly and it has nothing to do with nepotism. If someone on the staff vouches for you and tells the admins you would make a great staff member, that's certainly going to help your case. Quite simply, the number of people who apply who meet the trustworthiness/activity/personality level that the admins feel is important, is quite low. I think the best way to summarize this thread is several here are looking for quantity over quality. Whereas the staff would like to maintain quality over quantity. It's been working for us since 2013, so why change it now?
You also need to remember that the members of the Staff have lives too. They aren't at their screens 24/7 waiting for someone to ~gm. GM's are people. They live like everyone else. They're putting their free time into making the game a better experience for everyone. They aren't our babysitters. I can see that it is a problem for people who boss frequently, (or need helms, rings, pendants, books, etc) but as said above, most of the lag won't be a problem post-new source (hype ). All we can do is be patient and put our trust in the staff who work hard to keep this server running. I think most people know by now that due to the lag, there won't be a 100% chance of a re-warp. Just my two cents tho #NewSauceHype