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I’ve been really busy (that’s why I wasn’t at the GSM too!). MIssa_Solemnis covered me on the minutes during my absence. Work takes a lot of my time but nevertheless, propaganda must still be written.

Laying it for the Community

KittyCat11231 proposed to deregulate spaceports across the server. Staff ended up a compromise:

• Deregulate all decorative spaceports for all ranks. S
• Allowed to have one warp in spaceship Starbase 1 (Space world) from the town’s spaceport
• Spaceports don’t count against air facility allocations for Senator/Governor

Yours truly proposed enabling /mvtp for all members. This was accepted! All members can now /mvtp <world_name>. This means that you can teleport to all the different worlds on the server without needing to go to the spawn portals.

Department of Transport

Minecraft252 proposed a canal near their town of Bristol. The route was altered (but approved) to go directly west instead of going around the town of Kaloro Harbour (owned by Needn_NL). Staff did stipulate that they would like to see a cross section of canal design before they give w/e’s for the canal.

Melecie proposed to upgrade the B255 to A255. This was approved.

Racing toward the Finish

HarborRandom852 proposed the Great Northwestern Race. This will be ran in similar fashion to Formula MRT (another event that Harbor has ran in the past). The funding was approved and scheduled for Late October/Early November.

From Skyscrapers to Rail Lines

Mojito1014 and Skelezomperman are extending the Mesa Line (MLX4)! The line will be extended from its current terminus in Tembok to Rizalburg.

A La Carte

Melecie proposed upgrading the EElevators in Space World. Staff approved this and asked Melecie to coordinate with Tom_Pairs on the upgrades.

MinecraftYoshi26 was given special perms to update the Editor’s Hub/Featured Articles page on the wiki. Yoshi cares deeply about the wiki and has kept it in great condition. We greatly appreciate the work he does on the wiki.

We will see y’all on October 24th for a Special Staff Meeting. The agenda is closed so you will not be able to submit topics. Private Portion starts at 17:00 UTC (5:00 PM UTC) with public scheduled to start at 19:00 UTC (7:00 PM UTC).

After that, we have a SpOoKy ISM on October 31st at the normal time of 7:00 PM UTC.

Cheers!

-Sese

Pretty short meeting if I say so myself. Not too many topics so this will be a short one to write 🙂

Moving the People

PtldKnight‘s proposal to start a bus service to connect all the major transit hubs in Central City was approved. Staff approved Ptld to start service with his own company for now but stipulated that the service should be integrated with CentralLink once cleared up with AP_Red.

CodyHM/DNAmaster10 proposed the A892 Phase 2 and A980 extension. This was approved. A892 Phase 2 will connect the two termini in Winterville and Rank Resort. A980 will be extended from Niwen and intersect the A892 near Rank Resort.

HarborRandom852 proposed the B95 extension and the creation of B963. B963 was approved fully and B95 was approved up the B963 intersection near New Miu Wan. Further north extension of B95 was denied given the lack of established ranked towns.

Riding along the Lakeshore

autobus22 and his staff sponsors (hvt2011 and DintyB) have finished the Zephyr North/Lakeshore extension! The stations along the extension have been allocated as follows:

• ZN41: Oparia Seaport
• ZN40: Oparia Downtown
• L0/ZN39: Oparia LeTourneau International Airport
• LW1/ZN38: frogggggg
• LW2/ZN37: _fwis
• LW3/ZN36: ModernArt
• LE1: Not requested, will become available to claim on a first-come-first-serve basis after the ISM.
• LE2: _Ludus
• LE3: EliteNeon (pre-existing town of New Mackinaw)
• LE4: HarborRandom852
• LE5: CodyHM

And that’s it. We’ll see you at the October GSM on October 10th!

-Sese

And we have hit September! We had the GSM and we got results to tell ya about.

Mod-y Mod Mod

For this GSM, we had one candidate for staff. Results of that vote were the following:

Livin in the Community

Staff rejected a proposal from chiefbozx to move Sections 6 thru 10 to a “Consent Agenda“.

Avaneesh2008‘s proposal for an “official” MRT History Museum was denied however they can build an unofficial one in Central City on the plot and ask for official designation/warp hub permissions upon completion.

Staff established guidelines on Flag Park based on a proposal from PtldKnight. The outcomes are the following:

• chiefbozx will be the “caretaker” of Flag Park
• Flag Park will be extended to include the back half of the MRT Mail Center plot.
• An established MPO or town on the town list may build a flag in Flag Park.

Staff accepted an alternate proposal from HarborRandom852 to increase the seaplane limit. The updated count are as follows:

• Councillor: 2
• Mayor: 4
• Senator: 6
• Governor and Above: 12

Mile Marker 20

Miu Wan International Airport was denied due to the contributing towns of Kyoto and Miu Tung been deemed too far from the proposed location. Staff suggested to move the location further south to allow all towns to be included in the original proposal.

B77 by Berncow between South Canal and Seaview was approved (pending drawbridge built over the canal).

B95 extension and B963 by HarborRandom852/kingsnake was denied over inconsistencies with the drawn map and text in the proposal.

B255 between Nymphalia, Padagonia and the A360 by Melecie was approved.

Moving Hands

krisyam‘s Inactive Asset Transfer of Llewellyn was denied over unclear intentions with the town and an unlabeled map of the area.

EspiDev‘s IAB of Glenbrook was approved to allow them to work on the B750 and river terraforming.

Laying Tracks

Missa_Solemnis‘s Arctic Extension from Kaloro City – Pine Park to Bristol (AX2) is now open! All stations were pre-allocated to cities along the route due to 500 block rule.

Staff approved Missa_Solemnis‘s Southern West and Desert Extension in SW Zeta.

autobus22 requested to add another infill station along the Lakeshore extension between the “old” LE1 and Oparia Airport (L0). This was approved.

Item Basket

Staff did consider moving the GSM/ISM time two hours earlier but was tabled on whether it would actually benefit staff and questions over staff availability.

As of this GSM, staff world is open for members and above to view. Ask a staff member in-game if you would like to see it for yourself!

Hope to see y’all at the September ISM on September 25th at 7PM UTC!

-Sese

Highway to Somewhere

frogggggg‘s proposal to build the B315 and B316 were denied. All the towns involved were unranked and deemed too small. Staff prefer that towns are at least councilor before asking for approval to build A/B roads.

KIttyCat11231‘s proposal to add a rail station underneath the work-in-progress Central City Park and Ride was approved.

OriginRailway‘s proposal to extend the B287 from Celina to Origin City was approved.

Narnia17‘s proposal to have a seaplane exemption in Utopia was approved.

kingnsake‘s A54 extension was approved to continue down to Rattlerville.

HarborRandom852‘s proposal to build the B963 from Miu Wan to Ngau Ling was denied as Ngau Ling is unranked and too small.

Postcards back Home

MinecraftYoshi26 is back to hosting the MRTvision Screenshot Contest with the ninth season in Wazamawazi. Staff approved the event funding so we can’t wait to see the spectacular screenshots of around the server. Remember that the top 10 will be displayed on the website too!

Slight Change of Hands

MIKE24DUDE was approved to bypass Lanark and Spruce Hills for a Network South Central rail line.

Foote_Chicken‘s IAT of New Ashmore (owned by verytablemyner) at XE44 was approved.

Tracking the MRT

Staff approved 2 extensions to the MRT!

Missa_Solemnis will be extending the Arctic Line from its current terminus in Kaloro City to intersect the Western Line in Bristol.

Headed up by autobus22 (with assistance from DintyB and hvt2011), they will will be extending the Zephyr North and Lakeshore lines together. The Zephyr/Lakeshore lines will be extended to Oparia LaTourneau. The Zephyr will continue north to Oparia Waterport while the Lakeshore will go east to New Mackinaw.

The Little Things

The Welcome Center in Central Park will be getting a little of a facelift. Based on member feedback, MinecraftYoshi26 will be leading touch-ups to the Welcome Center. Be sure to submit any feedback to them!

EliteNeon‘s proposal to rename to Lake 31 to Lake Superior was approved! (happy chief noises)

Based off of PtldKnight‘s proposal to upgrade Spawn City Station elevators to Lift from EElevator, staff agreed to allow any member to upgrade any server-owned building in Spawn City and all MRT Stations on the Old World to Lift. We do ask to keep the same structure of the elevators (as in keeping the gold tops and bottoms).

See ya at the September GSM on September 11th!

-Sese

Wowee! We had a long GSM with lots of things to talk about. As many have noticed, we’ve promoted quite a number of new staff. In addition, we’ve had a number of changes so let’s get into it!

Sparkling Wood

With a tally of 9-0, Redwood (built by MC_Protocol) was promoted to Premier! The full text of his acceptance speech can be read below.

New Mods!

We promoted 6 of the 7 nominated candidates this GSM!

Congrats to DintyB, hvt2011, ondist, MC_Protocol, Narnia17, and MPolo455!

It’s all in the Community

We had an hour discussion over the current plagiarism rules based on a proposal by autobus22, Frosty_Creeper10, and CaptainObi. The discussion was how we can modify the rules to keep the intent there but ease the burden of record keeping from town mayors. At the end of it all, Staff agreed to roll back requiring town mayors to declare copied builds and moving to an affirmation that the town mayor has acquired the required permissions. This will be updated on City Rank forms to a checkbox on town promotions. Final wording is a still a Work-In-Progress in staff channels and will get public feedback when ready.

autobus22 proposed rewarding voting up the server on server lists. Staff were interested in it and requested for auto to look into how we should reward without breaking the experience for members who don’t vote up the server. There shouldn’t be an advantage for players that vote up and ones who don’t.

sesese9‘s proposal to open the super-secret Staff World was accepted. All staff (former/current) will have one month (until next GSM) to remove private stuff that they do not want others to see from Staff World. After that, members can freely come, on request, to the Staff World and see why we say it’s not that interesting.

With the advent of threads on Discord, chiefbozx proposed removing the #media-discussion and #event-discussion channels and using threads on the announcements channels. Staff settled on a compromise solution where threads will be enabled in the -announcements channels while keeping the -discussion channels for now to give a trial period. Staff will re-evaluate whether to actually remove the -discussion channels at a later time (roughly in October).

After the events of Vulpicula’s departure, autobus22 proposed a Miranda Rights for members/staff when talking to admins or server owner. This was approved and expanded to included conversations with any staff member. The text is the following:

Members and Staff can request another staff member to be present at discussions which would otherwise be one-on-one in order to make sure they feel as safe and comfortable as possible.

__7d submitted a proposal to modify the airfield rules. This would have done the following:

• Set a gate limit (suggested was 20-22 small gates)
• Raise block limit from 7.5K (limit would be chosen by staff)
• Set minimum length of airfield runways to 100m
• Set minimum width of airfield runways to 9m or 11m

This proposal was denied over the fact that staff don’t want to mandate dimensions over an airfield. If members want to build bigger airfields/airports than we would encourage you to build toward Governor.

We are enabling /mspt on Beta, based on a proposal from __7d. This will allow staff to evaluate its worth and possible enabling on main server. Similar to /tps, /mspt will show the number of milliseconds per tick.

Getting You from Here to There

EliteNeon‘s proposal to build a Central City Park and Ride Bus Terminal was approved. The terminal will be built to the west of Central City NW MRT Station.

RadiantRanger26‘s extension of the B844 to Norwest was approved.

Freskooo‘s B341 was approved between the B34 and Nagahori

_Z3NO_‘s proposal to build the B680 was approved between Welchett and Cactus Springs

Make the Money Flow

HarborRandom852‘s Formula MRT will return again with Season 2! Staff have approved their funding request so be on the look out!

Moving Hands

HarborRandom852‘s Inactive Asset Transfer (IAT) of USSRgrad (built by BrokenKidney) was denied however staff have given them limited permissions regarding the area. Harbor can build within 300 blocks and connect the town to outside roads from Harbor’s neighboring town of Miu Wan.

autobus22‘s IAT of Jeeka (owned by mustang_guy) was approved due to their neighboring city of Wazamawazi.

EliteNeon‘s IAT of a Cessna Citation V design (created by Keks63) was approved. Similar to past topics, Elite will be the point person of the design however the design is free and open for anyone to use.

Working on the Rail

Circulating the discord and ultimately at the GSM, autobus22/Missa_Solemnis proposed PUNS (Project Unshuttle the Shittle) which would have extended the Marina Shuttle from its current terminus at AT – Merchant City – District Center (XE8) southwest to Central City Inchmuir (A0). The joke of extending the shuttle has been here for a while and auto wanted to make it a reality.

However, staff denied extending another MRT Line into Central City. Chiefbozx iterated that he would have liked to see the Marina extended north to possibly serve New Phoenix/Hendon. Other staff/dissidents voiced that the MRT should be used to serve more of Zeta and disagreed with auto’s points that the MRT isn’t really used for transportation anymore but more of a landmark of where you are in the world.

godzilltrain has been employed to fix a new redstone bug in current MRT stations. With the update to 1.16, singular pieces of redstone dust can be change to a dot or cross mode. This is an issue as a single block of redstone dust sits below the fast departure button and can be modified by anyone (including guests). Godz volunteered his services to go to every single station and add another block of redstone dust, making a line of redstone dust. This blocks the cross mode of redstone dust which would block the departure bay from working. The picture below shows the bay with the new additional redstone dust.