Ways To Look Pro
Number 1- Use good enough grammer.
Number 2- Be respectful
Number 3- Enforce your rules
Number 4- Have forums or website
Number 5- Try not to use hamachi
Number 6- Dont trick yourself out using all this rigged gear go for simple gear like [Gamemaster hood] [Gamemaster Robe] [Gamemaster Slippers] these are simple, and look professional but totally optional. To get them type .lookupitem Gamemaster should give you the 3 items in a list with IDs.
Number 7- This goes with be respectful, dont mess with players using .kill, .summon all that its annoying.Number 8- Dont make your server look a mess with people asking "GM can you help me blah blah blah"either use a ticket system or make a channel like GMhelp or something like that.
Number 9- [OPTIONAL] Dont have T6 in your mall or w/e start them off with T4 or something and make them work for 5 and 6.
Number 10- Dont go crazy with events but have one atleast once a week to keep players on your server and occupied.
Number 11- Dont give everyone GM positions get atleast 10 or less depending on your population.
Number 12- Make sure you help players as soon as you can.
Number 13- Monitor places that are very populated using .invisible command to find hackers and such without them knowing your watching...Give them a kick for warning write them on a list and if they hack or w/e again bam ipban.
Number 14- Watch for spams for other server ads, or plain spams.
Number 15- Make a macro to tell people to vote for your server if your on a top100 site or such.
Number 16- Dont give free gear!
Number 17- Monitor your GMs for overpower, or misuse of powers.
Number 18- Include a list of rules that is on your homepage or wherever is noticeable on your website/forums.
Number 19- Make some custom area people will enjoy to keep your server up and attractive.
Number 20- Setup a PVP place in gurubashi arena or the Dire Maul arena for your players to be entertained.
Number 21- Inform of anything new on your server.
Number 22- Practice your commands before opening your server to public.
Number 23- Dont overpower your friends on the server who arent GMs.
Number 24- Dont go soft on any invaders of your rules.
Number 25- Make something Unique about your server.
Number 26- Try to get your server a good rank on XtremeTop100.com - Gaming top 100 list lots of people swarm in from there.
Number 27- Be active on your forums/website.
Number 28- Get the best GMs not slackers, lazy people, or anyone of that such; get ones that will get the job done no talkbacks or anything, get the most active, nice people.
Number 29- Be strict but not too strict get some humor in you tell a joke every now and then give your players a good time.
Number 30- Make a nice banner to represent your server.
Number 31- Dont interfere with someones raid group or w/e they are doing its just impolite.
Number 32- Restrict bugged areas.
Number 33- Dont tolerate people who exploit a known bug.
Number 34- Stay organized.
Number 35- Have your GMs monitor certain places.
Number 36- Let people know of known issues.
Number 37- Dont use a channel to talk to everyone use .announce or .wa to speak.
Number 38- Always do this .gmon.
Number 39- Get your GMs to not put fancy pantsy armor on go with the basic Gamemaster armor.
This is the end of this guide will be continued in a different post in this thread if I have the time!