STAFF APPLICATIONS
Interested in joining our team?
The following information will help give you an idea of what we're looking for and what we expect from our staff members.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing your application!
The following information will help give you an idea of what we're looking for and what we expect from our staff members.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing your application!
- Be friendly and kind. We're looking for people who are not only willing to work behind the scenes, but to also engage with and help moderate our community! As a largely Discord-based game, we want staff that can represent us at our best.
- Be active. We don't expect you to spend every waking moment on the game, but it does require quite a bit of checking, rolling, and updating!
- Be flexible. Railbirds is a growing and evolving game, and is sure to encounter many updates and tweaks over time. As a staff member, you will be part of the core team of decision-makers, and should be willing to be flexible in learning new mechanics, giving feedback on proposed updates, etc.
- Be comfortable giving feedback. Due to its complexity, corrections are often needed in player submissions/requests. You should be comfortable confronting any issues that may arise in a professional manner in order to get things back on track. This includes things like miscounted points, incorrect info, etc. - large-scale conflict resolution will be left to the higher-ups, but you should be comfortable addressing minor things!
- Applicants should be detail-oriented. The spreadsheet is a big ol' wall of numbers, and those numbers coincide in ways that can easily be skewed if something gets deleted or incorrectly entered. We're looking for people who are generally comfortable dealing with and updating a large spreadsheet like this!
- Familiarity with the game mechanics is a must. Yes, this means lots of reading! You don't need to memorize every single detail, but you should at least be comfortable with how various mechanics work. This will help you not only with your duties, but with assisting players as well.
Overall, the duties of Railbirds staff members are not particularly difficult, but they do require you to be patient and attentive.
Most of the admin duties consist simply of rolling, pasting, and inputting, and should not take you more than 1-5 minutes individually depending on the task. These duties are split between the whole staff team, helping to distribute the workload and streamline the process. While it is a complex game, the behind-the-scenes work consists mostly of simple upkeep and updating.
A full guide on how to do everything (schooling/xp, breeding rolls, etc) is provided to staff members, so you'll have a much better idea of how everything works step-by-step. We also have a staff-only channel where we can questions, help each other out, and so on.
To apply, please fill out the form below! <3