I am not going to draw light to attempts to gaslight me either, character assassinate me to draw others in as unwitting fools, the community against me or attempts of active/inactive people to insert themselves into the issue, confuse the issue, or try to draw out details in which to attack me. I am clarifying further in light of recent staff comments sent privately to me, the following so when if you see an official response from staff, you will see points already addressed and clarified. I am also expecting to discuss this privately, however a public report is the only method I have to ensure it is discussed. That way this matter can be closed quickly:
Payment for staff includes helpmes. I did receive payments for being a mod over a year ago, despite being quite low. Historically, positions and jobs have been paid, however it is the incompetence of staff in an economy server not to provide this consistently to players anymore, including those memorable city demo jobs. This is about the loss of time as well as money and respect for players. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “Remember time is money”.
I would also like to clarify that the community largely enjoyed the highway, especially when using it. No-one seriously criticised it. However, people have made comments regarding Cudley’s highway in RC, which is a different highway and is 3-laned. Off the cuff remarks by 1 player does not represent the community and if staff cared, they would have polled people, not just themselves. The admin responsible for this had a conflict of interest and even allowed myself to work extensively on the underground part of the network under his own city but never addressed with me his final intentions to get a quick three decision vote to gain full control of it and just destroy all the work. When starting on the project staff had largely supported it and had complimented me on all of it and said we can protect this for you and refund you all your blocks. I had said on multiple occasions I wanted someone to work on this as a job, but noone could agree on how much to pay players for jobs or payment was pitifully low considering server inflation. It was agreed after much discussion that this job would be paid 140k (Government Job - Eastern & Western White Gate Bridge Connection - #7 by 4K606). Much more work has gone into my project with this motorway system and really should be around 280-300k plus mats. Staff had expressed to me that the server could not have infrastructure jobs like this anymore due to the size and other servers that had large infrastructure motorways are world edited in and as I agreed with staff, world editing shouldn’t be done outside government cities, with the exception of events which require this. I honestly can’t see the community saying that jobs shouldn’t be provided and the millions in government coffers should never be touched and noone, not even players themselves can suggest ways in which it can be used and budgets given (which actually was the intention of my congress project as stated multiple times). Not giving gov jobs and just world editing in the map and new highways instead of managing an economy server, is staff apathy and new players get a sense of this very quickly. This is the first time I recall world edit being used outside of gov cities, with the exception of events and restoring the wild or chunk fixes and sets a dangerous precedent for gov jobs.
It would not have been possible to have got the permission from all the relevant parties involved and to have spent the time waiting to evict plots if it were a 3-laned, although some have said it should have been. This would have been up to staff if they wanted to expand it and as reported above they did when they wanted to extend even Cudley’s design. The size of the 2-lane one was also about making it realistic, accessible and playable with plugins.
I would also like to clarify that up until the point of its entry into RC, it was 100% carved out with terrain including mountains and tunnels all prepared for its connection to Cudley’s highway at RC. Again a lot of work.
Whilst I accept staff may steamrole over what they want and don’t want to be considered historic/past, to do so in this way is the problem I have highlighted in my complaint.
This is the principle of someone doing a lot of work on a project, that was part of one of their highway projects, spending time and money to build on such a huge scale, with a system where staff can’t get their act together and run an economy server properly and then to just without notice yeet all your work. Whilst I can calculate the amount of blocks used, this has not been considered at all when being yeeted without discussion or community input.
It would not have taken much to have said, we are going to yeet all of your work you did freely, we really think you should be compensated if we do this seeing as you allowed us to region it. How much time did it take to do it all? Or we really have seen this required effort, here’s some money based on that. We’ve done a quick /count on all the blocks of your motorway, here’s the money for that. Where do you want the design to start and finish considering you have your city regions both sides and across the motorway and a roundabout interchange.
Instead:
Just yeet, no discussion with anyone. Not even a courtesy warning, no discussion about what parts are actually mine, just taken off regions and city regions yeeted. Some regions were co-owned.
Discussions and negotiations regarding payment will not be discussed publicly, this report is made through the correct channels and discussions and has been highlighed to Tedde through a private communication channel as this involves a report against staff collectively as at the end of the day it really wasn’t necessary to destroy so much.
Yes I may have been angry at what you have done to all that work, but a request for compensation from a player is not unreasonable, especially at the standard cost for these type of projects, which post-2020 has not been possible. Before this, you used to require construction companies with multiple players and a proven track record and a bidding system but as the community largely consist of barely double digits at peak time, this is where we are. And, I wonder why.