I do agree with you, whenever I get in from school and have a check around there are normally just some issues that only staff can resolve and there are never and moderators online until around 5pm GMT.

Miner, i agree with you, how-ever this has been brought up a few times and nothing has been done so-far.
a few weeks ago when we had the spammers problem, i spoke to ineed, he agreed with me that there should be an Australian/pacific moderator, but nothing has been done, all of the moderators are either from America or the UK.

I have spoken to some other moderators (Geo mainly agrees with me) and they are bringing up the issue and trying to resolve it, but in the past nothing has been done so far.

The key link in the moderator grid is the pacific times, the American mods are not online, the exception is tidalmewmew; who is up until like 5AM her time and licksterboy, who is the same (i'm pretty sure).
I say we wait abit for a decision to be resolved.

and i know this is not any of my bussiness, but for any mods that do read this, Ineed especially, when you go to choose a new moderator, do not chose one from America, we have enough moderators from there.

Personally I think the metaphorical scale is unbalanced in terms of our staff team.  I am the only European moderator, while the rest of the moderators including our head moderator are from the USA and surrounding areas.  We are in dire need of a moderator from the Australian timezone as when the American mods go to their beds, there is no one online to help people (Considering I'm from Europe and I go off before the American moderators.)  Our administrators are British but Long_Cat isn't on much and Fatnoob and Itslawrence are usually very busy.  The additional help from Waterworth does help lighten the load of individual strain I recieve from handling the players alone in my Timezone.  So an Australian timezoned moderator would be a good priority.  We used to have an Australian moderator named Ringburn but he left in V3, (Last summer) and we are long past due a new moderator from his timezone.  I fully support this.

Personally I think the metaphorical scale is unbalanced in terms of our staff team.  I am the only European moderator, while the rest of the moderators including our head moderator are from the USA and surrounding areas.  We are in dire need of a moderator from the Australian timezone as when the American mods go to their beds, there is no one online to help people (Considering I'm from Europe and I go off before the American moderators.)  Our administrators are British but Long_Cat isn't on much and Fatnoob and Itslawrence are usually very busy.  The additional help from Waterworth does help lighten the load of individual strain I recieve from handling the players alone in my Timezone.  So an Australian timezoned moderator would be a good priority.  We used to have an Australian moderator named Ringburn but he left in V3, (Last summer) and we are long past due a new moderator from his timezone.  I fully support this.

I know this sort of thing shouldn't be the main part of moderator lives but what about taking shifts. If let's say tidal come on at like 1am then at 4am lickster comes on. Maybe something like that would help although it can majorly affect a moderators personal life.

One big problem in this is that the admins don't want to make someone mod they don't really know or trust. If they're not on as much in that timezone then of course they don't know many people in said timezone, therefore the people they can choose from in the timezone are very limited and they may not trust anyone they know to actually be a mod.

That's just my two cents though.

Personally I think the metaphorical scale is unbalanced in terms of our staff team.  I am the only European moderator, while the rest of the moderators including our head moderator are from the USA and surrounding areas.  We are in dire need of a moderator from the Australian timezone as when the American mods go to their beds, there is no one online to help people (Considering I'm from Europe and I go off before the American moderators.)  Our administrators are British but Long_Cat isn't on much and Fatnoob and Itslawrence are usually very busy.  The additional help from Waterworth does help lighten the load of individual strain I recieve from handling the players alone in my Timezone.  So an Australian timezoned moderator would be a good priority.  We used to have an Australian moderator named Ringburn but he left in V3, (Last summer) and we are long past due a new moderator from his timezone.  I fully support this.

Good that you are in for getting more mods from England, Scandinavia or Australia

That is a wrong assumption. Myrf himself has said that the only reason you need to speak English is that the moderators cannot understand other languages and therefore they cannot moderate in that language. Myrf allowed at least one person to talk Spanish because he could understand it pretty well to know if they were doing anything.

If there are moderators that know Dutch, well then they can easily moderate if people know Dutch and speak it. Of course they could only speak it when that moderator is online, but still.

The rule of speaking English is there so we can understand and prevent things from happening on the server.

So bac onto the topic of moderators I think anyone on at those times will just have to deal, anything wrong you can report in the report section and if there are spammer /ignore them, it can be that simple. No need to push for another moderator, we already have tidal playing almost all day it seems so 1 moderator is usually on at least. If there isn't a mod on then people will just have to learn patience and wait for another mod to come on.

Jay i promise you we need more then Australian Moderators, cause around 6am - 1pm in Norway their is rarely moderators on and that is when little Jayjay is sleeping

I don't sleep until around 2am on school nights and sometimes never on weekends. I was probably at school or doing something else.

I'm sure we need an Australian moderator more than any other because we have Joe, James, Geo and Matt who live in Britain.

We need 1 Australian and 1 Scandinavian more in my opinion :-)

We need 1 Australian and 1 Scandinavian more in my opinion :-)

I don`t understand that, why exactly a scandinavian mod? The Netherlands, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, ... they are also in the same timezone. There shouldn`t be to many candidates from Scandinavia anyway, so the staff would have a lot more candidates to choose from if they included all european candidates.
Australia makes sense because there seem to be no other applicants in that timezone than Aussies so there are no other countries to mention. But Europe has plenty of applicants, why limit it to Scandinavia (or England).