About us

Becoming a member of the staff team
Mycena Cave recruits staff as necessary to fill needs within the team. Oftentimes, when we are looking to fill a position, we put the information and application in a stickied post in the Annoucements forum.

Some staff policies
These are a few policies our staff follow in order to keep things fair and clear:

• Staff keep stable usernames. Any username change is announced in the forums
• Staff can participate in official Mycena Cave chats/forums/blogs, but do not participate in public unofficial Mycena Cave chats/forums/blogs
• New information is released publicly via the Mycena Cave forums and staff cannot release or talk about information that has not been made public with non-staff
• Staff treats all players fairly (e.g. staff cannot accept bribes, make coat/item requested privately by players, make rule exceptions for specific players, release information to only some players, etc.)

Staff participation in site activities, such as events and raffles
Prior to becoming part of our team, many of our staff were active players. As such, we allow our staff to continue being a part of the site as players whenever their involvement will not unfairly impact our community members. Oftentimes with site activities, rather than prohibiting staff from participating, we create restrictions or amendments to account for their participation.

For example, should a staff member win one of the grand prizes in a raffle, we will provide another grand prize for a community member to win.

Staff compensation
Staff are compensated for their services in USD and not in site assets or benefits.

Outside of compensation, there are a few staff-only features. Most of these are mainly cosmetic (e.g. non-standard pets, identification labels on the forums, etc.) or required for carrying out staff functions (distribution/management interfaces, forums for communication, etc.). As much as possible, staff compensation and features are designed to be fair and undisruptive to regular gameplay.

Staff non-standard pets
One staff-specific feature you may notice are the small non-standard creatures that some staff members own (example here). These pets are account-locked and purely cosmetic; apart from their appearance, they function the same as any standard pet (e.g. putting them through the sprout queue will result in a standard Mycenian species offspring). You will occasionally see them show up as pseudo-NPCs in official forum events.

Contact
With our growing staff team, you may at times find yourself unclear on whom to contact for assistance. Here is a handy list of which staff is best equipped to respond to your questions or concerns:

• Something serious happened on the forums - Use “Report” feature on right hand corner of post.  All mods will be notified as soon as you submit the report.
• Something serious happened in Discord chat - Use the “report an issue” channel to create a ticket.  All mods will be notified as soon as you submit the report.
• Deleting double posts or other minor forum concerns - Can use Report feature or echo mods individually.
  • Echo moderator Amaterasu
  • Echo moderator Firkasa
  • Echo moderator KeeperGreymuzzles
  • Echo moderator Dash
  • Echo moderator Paradoxical
• Questions relating to forum content, trading, or site rules - Echo a moderator (see above)
• Questions related to new updates - Feel free to ask in the announcement’s thread, but if we miss your question, you’d like a more detailed response, or feel it is better fit to a private echo, contact Dove or Crow
• Questions related to roleplaying - Echo Dove or Crow
• Questions related to events or gameplay - Echo Dove or Crow
• Typos/errors or questions about item descriptions or Mycena Cave story - Echo Prose
• Art errors - Echo Myla

• Price estimate on future customs or questions about future customs* - Echo Mycenangelo!
  (*You do not need an estimate before you submit a custom form; this is mostly used optionally by people who can’t get an accurate estimate using the form check boxes and want to know how much they need to save)

• Questions about game, site, & event mechanics/statistics -  Echo glitch or Myla
• Bugs, glitches, or payment issues - Echo glitch
• General site questions - Echo Dove or Crow

If you have a question not covered by this list on what a particular staff member can assist you with, please feel free to echo Dove or Crow.