Community Manager

Proposal: BattleMaster would benefit from having a Community Manager, like most large online games have, to maintain good communication between the players and the development team.

Responsibilities

The Community Manager will have two main areas of responsibility:

1. Feature Requests - Act as a moderator for discussion of feature requests on the mailing list. Help to flesh out vague requests, narrow down broad requests, keep an eye on game balance, etc. Organize feature requests and their status on the wiki for easy reference.
2. Rules and Policies - Organize and manage all game rules, policies and guidelines in a central location on the wiki. Make sure that policies are clearly worded (but not too specific).

Restrictions

• The Community Manager does not create feature requests! Feature requests come from the community, the Community Manager just helps to present them to the dev team.
• The Community Manager does not make the rules! Rules are made by Tom, the Community Manager just makes sure that they are laid out clearly to avoid confusion.
• The Community Manager is NOT a programmer and does none of the programming work to implement new features.

Other Requirements

• Must be a "people person"
• Be good at presenting ideas clearly and directly.
• Be able to organize ideas logically in a way that makes sense to both programmers and non-technical people.
• Have some understanding of programming concepts to know what is and is not practical in code and database design.