PA Team

PA Team (or admins) are volunteers who dedicate their time to running the game for Jolt Gaming. The team was created in Round 4 to replace PACrew.

Current PA Team

Appocomaster - Head administrator and developer

Cincinnatus - Coder and co-developer

Markb - IRC

Lunar_Lamp - Servers

Fiery - Head of support

Ace - Head multihunter

Structure

The structure of PA Team has varied over time and some have accused the team of spending more time on internal politics than on the future of the game. Initially Zeus was in charge, with other members at least one level below him. After round 8 the balance of power shifted between Spinner and the newly appointed creators Kloopy and Prince. Both Kloopy and Prince left the team after round 9.5.

MrBrick took over and ran the team in a similar style to Zeus until disagreements with the team caused his departure at the end of Round 10 (Christmas 2003).

From then on the team was split into departments under Karmulian (public relations), Mit (coding), Phil^ (support and multihunting), JammyJim (forums) and A2 (IRC and internal team management). At this point biffy was employed by Jolt and became the liason, replacing Keef.

Towards the end of Round 12 Kal took over the reins with xontas taking over from Phil^ in multihunting and Ice-Lady taking over in support. Pishmishy was brought in as a Jolt coder to assist but never really contributed.

Later, when Ice-lady left due to illness and xontas was fired, Assassin took over the multihunting and Appocomaster took over support.

Alliance affiliations

Traditionally, members of PA Team have been required to leave their alliances prior to joining in order to maintain impartiality. This means that members of PA Team do not actively play in the round except from the 1:1 admin galaxy. However, during many rounds, there have been accusations of PA Team favouring one alliance over another. These accusations are usually from the alliances opposed to the ones supposedly favoured.

Admin Tools

Different members of PA Team have different levels of access to the admin tools that can be used to control the game. These range from being able to set the Message of the Day, to searching for and dealing with cheating, from starting and stopping the ticker, to being able to configure the entire universe setup.

Members of the multihunter team also have access to parts of the tools to gather evidence and determine whether or not to close a planet. The support team have access to the ingame support part of the admin tools to assist players having trouble.

NDA

Jolt installed an NDA for PA Team members during round 10 after various leaks or team members speaking out of turn on the forums. All new members and multihunters are required to sign one. The issue had been known to bring the team to the brink of destruction. There have been plans at various points to bring the entire support team, the forum moderators and the #planetarion operators under the system, but these have so far been rejected.