Preamble
I am appealing this as this is wholly unfair. The situation is complicated with a long history that I can outline in a report if this keeps going on. Essentially, the highway was created originally by SUD without proper due consultation with nearby cities over its design and how it would reasonably connect leaving an eyesore where a year ago they were asked to lower it and they didn’t. I was a manager of one city and now an owner of both.
Timeline of events
2022 - Highway left unfinished.
Mid-2023 - I raised ticket complaining about how highway left unfinished and being an eyesore (ticket should be accessible by staff - if not, question why). Told by Luc it would be sorted soon and if not it can be eyesored.
31st Aug 2023 - Discussion with Cakey and Gurb about highway. No commitment, just empty promises.
12th July 2024 - I made complaint to nightemperor about a 2nd year of no further progress affecting how I would connect to it
17th July 2024 AM Nightemperor mentions my complaint to Fel, doesn’t raise with staff as far as i can tell, calls it nagging to fel
17th July 2024 PM (see logs provided by fel) - Permission given to lower highway by nightemperor
19th July 2024 (see log in report) - Unaware permission given, Fel starts discussing highway with me and I mention potential height and that it could go higher and fel responds with “probs” and that “it could be done”, however he realises he would have to lower his connection and do some more work, which was always gonna happen if it was lowered. He also mentions that omnie factory is going and being evicted so I took this as not something I had to factor into my work. I gave the option to have it slope but Fel did not take this as was being obtrusive in logs and insincere in discord DMs.
24th July 2024 (Earlier) - I raise a ticket with staff directly in infra to have the highway network eyesored. Vik responded in ticket saying it was with staff. Ticket mysteriously deleted after fel reports. Staff deleted the whole channel
24th July 2024 (Later) - Revenge report from fel for eyesore ticket and for a bridge only just built.
3rd Aug 2024 Second ignored ticket chasing deleted one. eventually i closed it
Fel knew by the 19th July that I was going to be lowering the highway so why did he build a bridge? Was it to plan making this report? Why start working on something knowing someone was going to be lowering that and it needed to be lowered anyway and he said factory was going also.
Permission given
I was given permission by nightemperor as you acknowledge to amend the highway height. As this was the only definite discussion had, this was all I had completed. I wasn’t going to do further work on something SUD should have done already until discussions were had further. All amended parts of the highway are within render distance of Ferobanke and Dove Valley.
Permission was not sought to modify the bridge that Felipe had built, nor was it sought to modify the ownership of the region. The change made by thendil failed to satisfy the purpose that he was aiming to achieve with the highway. It can clearly be seen that the goal is to have the road lowered to flow with the terrain instead of float above it. Instead, the modification resulted in this:
- The whole region is parented to Ferobanke and with me added as owner.
- All amended parts of the highway are within render distance of Ferobanke and Dove Valley.
- It was always expected highway would be lowered as per agreement from Nightemperor.
- Any changes, including bridges were a result of having to lower highway. I gave the option to have it slope
- Nightemperor did not explicitly say to avoid all parts of the regions, which are next to both my cities or implicitly state that the bridge was staying. If so it would have been floating above the highway.
A lowered, but still floating road, with the natural terrain left ruined:
- Work was paused during the report phase so as not to antagonise the situation further.
- Any changes, including terrain, bridges were a result of having to lower highway. I gave the option to have it slope
- Work not recommenced due to no contact from nightemperor to determine tunnel design, who else might work on it, outcome on my complaint and 2 tickets.
- By the time Nar had decided to character assassinate me, wipe my highway and rail connections I had lost all motivation and felt bullied and feel this is a mitigating factor for why some of the terrain isn’t done.
- Not a single time in 2 years did any the other parties in this make ANY effort to do anything to resolve eyesore/unfinished highway.
- No timescale on project.
The remainder of the highway needs to have substantial progress alongside this to be at or just above the surface in the coming weeks or it may face removal.
- As per my deleted ticket and ignored tickets/complaints and the promise you made a year ago that it could be removed if no progress made, I put it that the whole highway must go NOW as there has been no consultation with us. Cakey started discussing last year that he was going to do stuff but made no commitments to us over design or progress.
As you previously evaluated to give them extra time and a year, re-evaluate now to remove please.