PA Team

PATeam are volunteers who give their time to running the game for Jolt Gaming. The team was created in Round 4 (please verify) to replace PACrew.

Originally PATeam was lead by Zeus until the takeover by Jolt (between Round 8 when Planetarion went bust and Round 9) after which Spinner took over, followed by MrBrick until approximatley the end of Round 10 and A2 from then until between Round 12 and Round 13 Many people have been part of PATeam over the years including:

A2, Appocomaster, Aryn, Ashknight, Azrael, Biffy (Jolt), Blixxard, Fudge (Creator), Harshak, Ice-Lady, Jakey, JammyJim, JonnyBGood, KaneEd, Karmulian, Kal, Keef (Jolt), Kloopy, Konsul, Legolas, Lunar Lamp, Mist, Mit, Mong, MrBrick, Mushroom, NB3, Noctu, Oreo (Creator), ph8, Phil^, Pishmishy (Jolt), Prince, Spinner (Creator), TheRealMig, Wakey, Vish (Creator), Xontas, Zeus (Creator), Zokum,

Current PATeam

Kal - Strategy, Marketing and People & Organisation Manager

Appocomaster - Development Manager & Multihunter Manager

Kloopy - Coder

myk - Coder

DaffyDuck - Coder

Mushroom - IRC

Jammyjim - Forums

Marv - Support Manager

biffy - Jolt Liaison

Structure

This has varied over time and some have accused the team of spending more time on internal politics than the future of the game. Initially Zeus was in charge with other members at least one level below him. Post-takeover the balance of power shifted between Spinner and the newly appointed creators Kloopy and Prince who had both left the team by the end of June 2003 (end of 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+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 work on the game but to date has done very little. 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 generally means that members of PA Team do not actively play in the round except from the 1:1 admin galaxy. However every round there have been accusations of PATeam favouring one alliance over another. These accusations are usually from the alliances diametrically 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 accounts, to starting and stoping the ticker, and finally being able to configure the entire universe setup. Admins can only access these admin tools through clicking the logo in the top left of the page, something which only is clickable for admins, so when something catestrophic happens to the game the admin response is limited until someone who has root access to the server appears to fix everything. Members of the multihunter team also have access to parts of the tools in order to gather evidence and determine whether or not to close a planet and the support team have access to the ingame support part of the admin tools to assist players having trouble. In order to maintain impartiality no-one with access to admin tools where the access level allows them to view, edit and close all details for planets - is allowed to play the game except from 1:1.

Length of Service

Time spent in the team varies depending on performance within the role and whether the person gets on with everyone else. At the end of Round 12 the members with the longest service so far are JammyJim, Mushroom and Aryn

NDA

NDA's (Non Disclosure Agreement) were insisted on by Jolt towards the end of Round 10 after various incidents of 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, mod and #planetarion ops under the system, but these have so far been rejected.

Membership

PATeam members have generally been selected by the current members based on who they know can do the job, and since the takeover by Jolt, who is willing to sign the NDA. At various points the team included all of the forums moderators and #planetarion staff. The group that includes the mods, #planetarion ops and the #support staff are more commonly known as Planetarion Reps or the 'reps'.

Note

Due to harrassment by certain lowlifes within the community, this page has now been locked and will continue to be so until I am content noone is going to %*$& around with it. --Squidly