How to use the Group Tool?

Hi!

I have done some searching, but all I can seem to come up with is "we need the ability to do xxx" or "Why can't we do YYY?" when I try to find info on the group tool.

I am starting to acquire a bit more land, and am entertaining the idea of rentals or other things of that nature. So I created a Group last night ... and was then shocked at all the options available.

Is there a single source of information that will tell me what everything does? If someone could point me to a link or url, I'd be most grateful!!

Thank you!

The new options on the groups window do look a little confusing at first, but they're pretty simple. For the most part, it has to do with assigning powers to individuals and/or groupings of individuals within the group at large.

It used to be that we only had two levels, officer and member. Officers had near godhood with the power to eject members, invite people into the group, promote members to officer status, release land, etc, all while being immune to ejection themselves, and members had pretty much no powers at all. The system was extremely problematic, and obviously unbalanced.

With the new system, you as the founder have complete control over how you want it to be structured, and whom you want to be able to do what. You'll find that there's a genral overview of the system's features in the release notes from 1.12.0, which was the version which introduced the change. I'll quote it here, and clean up the formatting a bit to make it easier to read:






Granted, the above is not exactly a how-to guide, but it does tell you the basics of what you need to know. Take a look at the group window interface, match up the various features with each bullet point, and you should be able to make sense of what you're looking at.


Hope that helps.

Thank you!!