Helpful The Crafti Council

The Crafti Council is an official Discord server used for communications between the developers and the playerbase. It encompasses all Minecraft servers owned by CraftiGames, one of which is PikaNetwork. This thread provides a comprehensive overview of the council's purpose and systems.

► Overview

The council is used for reporting bugs and providing feedback when developers ask for it. Bug reports are similar to the reports on the forums.
Council members have an exclusive opportunity to suggest features when an update is planned, allowing the developers to make the gameplay better.
Please note that council members do not decide when which gamemode gets updated! This is fully up to the developers and owners.

Furthermore, council members can take part in beta tests for their gamemode. The tests are announced and monitored by the developers.
They are usually done a few days before a major update or reset. They allow players to test new features, report bugs and provide feedback.
The developers then use that information to fine-tune the update or reset. Major changes usually cannot be made during this phase.

Finally, the Crafti Council is a great place for getting to know other players and interacting with them.
Most of its channels serve a specific purpose, but there are also off-topic channels which can be used for almost anything.

► Roles & Hierarchy

Select players, staff members, developers and more are all members of the council. Each member gets a role which clarifies their responsibilities.
An overview of our roles and responsibilities is provided below. Each subtitle represents a category of roles.

Crafti Team

• Owner - CEO and COO of CraftiGames. They own PikaNetwork and the other servers.
• Manager - We are responsible for staff management, moderation, player support and more. Not gameplay, however!
• Lead Developer - They lead the reset & update processes and do other important development tasks.
• Game Producer - They coordinate the other developers and lead the council to ensure a smooth gameplay experience.
• Developer - They are the programmers of CraftiGames. Coding is their main job.
• Configurator - They set up several gameplay features and cooperate with the programmers to make good updates.
• Quality Assurance - They assess the gameplay and bugs to assist the rest of the development team in improving our gamemodes.
• Gamemode Manager - They act as a line of communication between the players and the developers.
• Discord Developer - They are responsible for developing all networks' Discord bots.
• Anti-VPN - They are responsible for stopping bot attacks and malicious connections to the servers.

Staff members

• Server Staff - Experienced staff members hand-picked to manage the council. Managers also get this role.
• Sr. Staff - In the context of PikaNetwork, this role is given to Admins.
• Staff - In the context of PikaNetwork, this role is given to Moderators and Sr Mods.
• Jr. Staff - In the context of PikaNetwork, this role is given to Trials and Helpers.

Players

• Council - All council members get this role. It is used to manage general permissions.
• Pika, Jartex & Snapcraft - They indicate the player is a council member of their respective server.
• Gamemode roles - They give permission to view the channels and vote on nominees related to that gamemode.

► Member Selection Process

It is not possible to apply for the Crafti Council. However, that does not mean we are not accepting new members.

Each council member can suggest nominees that they believe should be part of the council for their gamemode.
The Game Producer will then allow other members of that gamemode to vote on the nominee.
Finally, the Server Staff will invite the nominee if the votes show they should join (unless they have a very bad reputation).

Please note that we are currently not accepting nominees for the following gamemodes:

• BedWars
• Lifesteal
• OP Lifesteal
• Practice

This list will be updated if we start accepting nominees for one of these gamemodes again.