Current State of Affairs
With the recent activity in the forums surrounding the Tripwire Ladder, we at Tripwire felt we needed to make sure everybody understood what was happening with the Ladder. Our goal with Tripwire Ladder has always been for it to have heavy community input and administration, and that has not changed. The staff has always consisted of unpaid volunteers who have willingly giving up their time and resources to help the community, and we thank all of those that have served in that role both past and present. Now we help select that staff from those who volunteer as due to the nature of their role they may be informed about Tripwire plans and information that isn’t public and are thus put under a Nondisclosure Agreement with Tripwire.
The staff lays out a yearly proposal to Tripwire of activities to pursue and how much funding they would like to use as prizes for those. Tripwire then evaluates that proposal and either accepts or rejects items on it and passes it back to the team for execution of those activities.
However as the Ladder has progressed we’ve found that the backend was not as robust as it needed to be to support many of those activities, lacking features and critical bugs that needed to be addressed. The staff has indicated to us their problems with the site many times and we have attempted to have them addressed. This led to a string of community based web developers who all contributed, but then left the project (some with no warning or communication, one done properly with warning well in advance). The staff also indicated to us that they were not comfortable running some events without having the proper backend to support it, and as they are volunteers we have respected that choice (more on this below).
Our Goals
Recently the team has started a push to bring more clans into the ladder and make it a more inclusive place to play Red Orchestra 2 (and Rising Storm) competitively. As part of that the team has started to experiment with others styles of play outside of the current norm as well as asking the opinions of groups of both current and noncurrent (and those who have never participated) ladder players. If we find new sets of rules that a large enough group will participate with, then we will likely build a new ladder/tournament set around them. This doesn’t mean that the old rules and styles of play are going away. It does mean that we are looking to find out if there are more we can add to bring new players in.
At the same time we have hired a professional web developer to take over production of the Ladder site and bring it to the state it should have always been in. However while this is being done we made the choice not to start a new season until we had all the tools in place this time. Many of the problems in the past seasons were caused by missing features and bugs in the backend, however most of the blame was laid on the volunteer staff. We did not want that to happen again.
Conduct
Adding on to this there has been some personal conflict that has been acted out both in private chats (with others who were not involved) as well as our forums here. We would like to remind everyone that both the staff and participants here have code of conduct as well as forum rules they have agreed to. We will enforce those rules in full. Short version: Keep the conversation civil and keep it going. Both the staff and Tripwire are reading. If you have a personal issue with a member of the community or volunteer staff, raise it with one of the Tripwire employees here on the forums via PM. We always look into these, even if our findings lead us to disagree and we do not take action.
How you can help
With that in mind, we are always looking for volunteers to help us make Tripwire Ladder an even better place, through both ideas and administration. If you feel like you can help out, be sure to apply! (And I mean really apply. I've seen a few posts where people have said they have applied and we never saw an application....)
And as stated earlier, always keep the conversation going. Just keep it civil and be mindful that not everybody will always agree with you and their may be competing opinions.
With the recent activity in the forums surrounding the Tripwire Ladder, we at Tripwire felt we needed to make sure everybody understood what was happening with the Ladder. Our goal with Tripwire Ladder has always been for it to have heavy community input and administration, and that has not changed. The staff has always consisted of unpaid volunteers who have willingly giving up their time and resources to help the community, and we thank all of those that have served in that role both past and present. Now we help select that staff from those who volunteer as due to the nature of their role they may be informed about Tripwire plans and information that isn’t public and are thus put under a Nondisclosure Agreement with Tripwire.
The staff lays out a yearly proposal to Tripwire of activities to pursue and how much funding they would like to use as prizes for those. Tripwire then evaluates that proposal and either accepts or rejects items on it and passes it back to the team for execution of those activities.
However as the Ladder has progressed we’ve found that the backend was not as robust as it needed to be to support many of those activities, lacking features and critical bugs that needed to be addressed. The staff has indicated to us their problems with the site many times and we have attempted to have them addressed. This led to a string of community based web developers who all contributed, but then left the project (some with no warning or communication, one done properly with warning well in advance). The staff also indicated to us that they were not comfortable running some events without having the proper backend to support it, and as they are volunteers we have respected that choice (more on this below).
Our Goals
Recently the team has started a push to bring more clans into the ladder and make it a more inclusive place to play Red Orchestra 2 (and Rising Storm) competitively. As part of that the team has started to experiment with others styles of play outside of the current norm as well as asking the opinions of groups of both current and noncurrent (and those who have never participated) ladder players. If we find new sets of rules that a large enough group will participate with, then we will likely build a new ladder/tournament set around them. This doesn’t mean that the old rules and styles of play are going away. It does mean that we are looking to find out if there are more we can add to bring new players in.
At the same time we have hired a professional web developer to take over production of the Ladder site and bring it to the state it should have always been in. However while this is being done we made the choice not to start a new season until we had all the tools in place this time. Many of the problems in the past seasons were caused by missing features and bugs in the backend, however most of the blame was laid on the volunteer staff. We did not want that to happen again.
Conduct
Adding on to this there has been some personal conflict that has been acted out both in private chats (with others who were not involved) as well as our forums here. We would like to remind everyone that both the staff and participants here have code of conduct as well as forum rules they have agreed to. We will enforce those rules in full. Short version: Keep the conversation civil and keep it going. Both the staff and Tripwire are reading. If you have a personal issue with a member of the community or volunteer staff, raise it with one of the Tripwire employees here on the forums via PM. We always look into these, even if our findings lead us to disagree and we do not take action.
How you can help
With that in mind, we are always looking for volunteers to help us make Tripwire Ladder an even better place, through both ideas and administration. If you feel like you can help out, be sure to apply! (And I mean really apply. I've seen a few posts where people have said they have applied and we never saw an application....)
And as stated earlier, always keep the conversation going. Just keep it civil and be mindful that not everybody will always agree with you and their may be competing opinions.
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