Hades thank you for weighing in. I think that we all know that we have active staff but it is abundantly clear you guys are over worked. It is totally understandable if a staff member needs to take some RL time and cant tend to their assigned duties. However, this doesn't change the fact that the job still has to be done and in a timely matter. This means they should be temporarily replaced.
I personally think that the requirements for becoming staff are way to high. You can't be in a gang? That requirement right there suggests that there is no way for someone who is in a gang to be able to set aside the RP side of the game and handle a real responsibility. Aside from that I have heard multiple times in this post about how one needs to receive this god like level of trust before you guys will even consider giving them something to do. You guys are eliminating a lot of willing and perfectly capable people from helping out. Don't get so hung up on making sure the person is perfect for the job before they even start. Give them some small tasks, see how they do, then go from there. It doesn't have to be a full time mentally draining job divided between the 10 of you. It can be a part time job divided between 20 people. After all it is only a volunteer position. As I have said, I have alot of experience assisting in management of a gaming community and I am very willing to help out but I'm not going to stop enjoying altis the way i like to play it just so Olympus can have a puritan staff member.
-Fishy out