So, despite what happened last week with the ex-Aussie mods, Class A roads were still mentioned. And the answer I’ve finally waited for… how will they be done, and who will own them.
The answer, is completely not what I’ve been expecting…
The Staffers after the next GSM, will make a contract for a road from a Point A to a Point B(say from Central City to some random location). It’s up to you to accept said bid, how you will plan it out, and what materials you’ll use. If you’re picked, they will make out a contract for you. You’ll be paid in ingame money when the job is complete. Though I’m not even going to accept it.
Originally, their system made no sense to me; even when Frumple repeated it for me during the Q&A session. I didn’t like the fact I would have to send out a proposal every fucking time with the same credentials. Seemed ridiculous.
That was until Chief posted the results of the GSM yesterday and I gave it a look. Now I understand what must be done. Basically, you got to think of how you would plan the road out(turns, ramps, interchanges, bridges.. etc), as if you were doing it yourself.
You also got to list (if any) people that would help you with this project. A collaboration, if you will.
Here, I sent an email as professional as I could get it, almost to Ad status, to the staff on how “Ender Road Works will be your preferred builder”… when I now obviously didn’t have to. Even saying “Our materials have a money back guarantee not to lag your server”…. wow. What a waste of time that was. Though it was also a bit fun.
As for road ownership, the big question mark, by default it will be owned by the server, which prohibits large changes. The exception, is if you have helped build or are in an MPO, you’ll have to do another bid for ownership to legally make changes.
This to me is fair. I don’t care about owning a road anymore. Doing it for the server instead of myself now. Got pretty messy in the past anyway. This will solve it. Good plan, Admins. I like it.
But until February and the next GSM, I will remain offline as there’s still nothing (I want) to do. Yoshi last month was trying to get me to join the Mole again. I almost joined too, but remembered my promise not to.
I told him, “The only way I’ll join another Yoshi game is if you don’t kill the loser.” Seriously, in the original Mole, they send you home if you got the lowest score. They don’t fucking dump you in lava and laugh in your face. 😛