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Contents 1 GameMaster Ranks 2 GameMaster Roles 2.1 Customer Experience GM 2.1.1 Wedding GMs 2.1.2 Guild Advocates 2.1.3 Premium GMs 2.1.4 Race Champions 2.2 Development GM 2.2.1 Sub-Teams 2.2.2 Systems/Guild Teams 2.2.3 Worlds Team

A GameMaster or GM is a member of the Simutronics staff involved with in-game creation, events, policy enforcement, and more. GameMasters can be separated into two primary categories: Customer Experience and Development. While these categories denote a GM's principal responsibilities, it is common for GMs to contribute in many areas outside their main focus.

GameMaster Ranks

GameMasters progress through a series of ranks as their experience and responsibilities grow:

• Assistant GameMaster (AGM)
• Full GameMaster (FGM)
• Assistant Senior GameMaster (ASGM)
• Senior GameMaster (SGM)

GameMaster Roles

Customer Experience GM

A Customer Experience GM handles most customer interaction. This interaction ranges from answering questions about technical issues and basic gameplay, to running merchant events and major invasions or storylines. Some Customer Experience GMs also work with Weddings, monitor the public message boards, perform liaison duties between the players and the Development team, and handle all types of player concerns and feedback.

Wedding GMs

Wedding GMs along with Wedding Coordinators communicate with players who pay for a GM Assisted Wedding.

• Coordinate wedding time and date
• Create custom items for the wedding including wedding clothes, food, drink, and party favors
• Add room messaging during the event
• Create temporary custom titles
• Provide party invitations

Guild Advocates

These advocates will have some duties previously associated with Liaisons, as well as other duties previously associated with Guild Gurus and Assistant Gurus. As members of the System/Guild Sub-teams, they will help maintain the sense of continuity for their "home guild" and keep things going in the right direction. The Guild "Liason" positions were eliminated in January 2008.

Title	GameMaster
Advocate Lead	Maece
Barbarian Advocate	Aurdun
Bard Advocate	Vaeldriil
Cleric Advocate	Grejuva
Empath Advocate	Reexa
Moon Mage Advocate	Bursaal
Necromancer Advocate
Paladin Advocate	Maece
Ranger Advocate
Thief Advocate	Tiesse
Trader Advocate	Adera
Warrior Mage Advocate	Wythor

Premium GMs

• Host monthly Premium (aka Estate Holder) meeting
• Create new benefits for Premium members
• Alter items through LTB scrolls
• Create custom titles and personal messaging through LTB system
• Provide special merchants and alterers

Note: GameMaster Rinae has been the head of the Premium team almost since Premium was first established in July 1997.

Race Champions

These are GameMasters who lead development and direction of a single playable race (Human, Elf, Rakash, etc...)

Development GM

A Development Team GM does not generally work directly with customers, choosing to focus mainly on creation and system coding. They are the designers of the game, and participate not only in the implementation asnd development of ideas, but also in the physical creation of them. This can be something as simple as the simple addition of a new verb to something as complicated as a massive change in the core game mechanics.

Sub-Teams

In the past, the Development team was broken into two distinct entities: the Guild teams and the System team. As of January 2008, these two groups have been merged into one team with four Sub-Teams. Namely: Lore, Magic, Survival, and Combat. These teams will be responsible for those guilds who share a primary skillset, as well as developing content within that skillset for other guilds. For example: The Magic team will focus on Clerical, Moon Mage, and Warrior Mage development, in addition to handling general magical development (i.e., devices and such), Bardic Enchantes, and spells for the other magic using guilds.

Systems/Guild Teams

Title	GameMaster	Responsibilities
Producer	Solomon
Development Manager	Dartenian
Guild/Systems Lead	Dartenian
Guild/Systems Lead Asst	Nehros
Combat Lead	Ssra	Barbarians, Paladins, and Combat Systems
Lore Lead	Dartenian	Bards, Empaths, Traders, and Lore Systems
Magic Lead	Armifer	Clerics, Moon Mages, War Mages, and Magic Systems
Survival Lead	Zeyurn	Necromancers, Rangers, Thieves, and Survival Systems
Core Systems Lead	Paklin	Backbone systems such as EXP, death mechanics, login/logout mechanics, direction, front ends, etc.

Worlds Team

Title	GameMaster	Responsibilities
Producer	Solomon
Development Manager	Dartenian
Worlds Lead	Danalae
Worlds Lead Asst	Bartlebee
Areas Lead	Danalae	P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, and quest area design
Culture Lead	Bartlebee	Libraries, Races, History, and Languages
Logistics Lead	Zadraes	Premium/Platinum, ALAE, Events (coding), quests (coding), and Mentor/Host/GM tool development
Structures Lead	Obseden	Houses, Boats, and Orders (coding)
Sentients Lead	Obseden	Creatures, NPCs, Pets, and Tasks

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