Staff Mechanics

In the Staff Control Panel, you have the ability to promote, demote, praise, scold, assign tasks to and adjust salary of your staff.

## Assigning Tasks

The main reason to hire staff is to distribute the workload by assigning various tasks to the staff. Each task has a required time to finish, and staff may or may not finish them in the required time.

Tasks can be cancelled after assigning, and when assigned again the progress will continue from where it was left off. Cancelling is essentially the same as pausing if the task is cancelled and assigned again on the same staff.

Each staff position has certain tasks they can or can not do, and some has advantages on some tasks where others do not.

## Praising/Scolding

You can praise or scold a staff at any time you want, and whenever you do, it will affect the behavior and stats of the staff. You should be mindful of when to praise or scold, or else you may end up negatively affecting your staff.

If done correctly, praising and scolding will boost performance of the staff, improve their behavior by making them learn and ultimately leads to increased staff satisfaction.

If done incorrectly it will negatively affect their work and behavior, as they will lean towards tasks and behavior they have been praised for doing so or not lean towards those they have been scolded for.

### Praising Conditions

Staff should be praised if:

1. They are dealing with tasks quickly and effectively,
2. They have positive community reviews,
3. (Autonomy only) They are helping other staff or taking on appropriate tasks without assigning.

Too much praising whether correctly done or not, will be seen as hypocrisy by the staff and affects behavior negatively.

### Scolding Conditions

Staff should be scolded if:

1. They are slacking off (which can be noticed by slowed down or paused task progress),
2. They have negative community reviews,
3. They are trolling the server or being mean.

You should only scold if you are sure the staff is acting inappropriately as it will both negatively affect their behavior and make them unhappy.

## Promoting/Demoting

You can promote or demote staff depending on their time worked and performance, as well as behavior.

### Promoting Conditions

Staff members will need to have enough skill points to be promoted, which can be acquired by training them. They will not however promote automatically when they are trained, but you will have to promote them.

You should promote staff when:

1. They are doing a consistent good job,
2. They have been working for a while without issues,
3. They ask for it.

If not promoted in time, staff may be upset. This will affect their behavior negatively as they will feel undervalued even though they have been doing a good job, and may eventually lead to destructive behavior and even quitting.

If promoted in time, staff will be happy and their behavior will be improved.

Promoted staff will ask for higher salary.

### Demoting Conditions

You can demote staff members if they are not acting appropriately and as required.

You should demote staff when:

1. They are not doing a good, consistent job.
2. (Autonomy only) They are not assigning tasks to themselves, or assigning inappropriate tasks.
3. They consistenly show inappropriate behavior.

If not demoted when needed, staff will have over time tremendous negative effects on the server and on other staff.

Demoting a staff when they do not satisfy above conditions will upset them even more, and may eventually lead to destructive behavior and quitting.

## Adjusting Salary

You can adjust salary of staff members. As you progress further, you will need to have more qualified staff as well as train current staff to be more qualified. In both cases, staff will demand higher salary.

When salary is increased, staff member will be happy and their behavior will improve, especially more so if they have asked for it and satisfy the requirements for a salary. The opposite goes for when salary is decreased, but if they deserve the newly adjusted salary more, they will be less affected by the negative outcomes.

If you do not adjust salary appropriately, staff will show destructive behavior and quit, especially when salary is lower than demanded.