MOD-TECH ANNOUNCEMENT - Introducing Map Team

[Josh3738 3137]

Map Team

@Daisyand I are pleased to announce the creation of the Map Team, a specialized co-op formed through collaboration between the Moderation and Tech Implementation teams. Much like the Mod-ST co-op work, this is another step in trying to simply or cover gaps between the things our teams oversee, and it's our hope that we can continue to bring improvements through closer work with our counterparts on Tech moving forward. (A big shout out to @Cheezboi9, @Crunchiest_Leaf, and @Adelemphii who have already put in a ton of work fielding our requests and recommendations for things like Surge cost reductions and mine adjustments).

Purpose

A couple of main ideas went into this, but the co-op was ultimately established to provide more focused oversight of the world’s landscape and infrastructure. Its purpose is to maintain key features that often fell by the wayside—such as roads, soulstone pillars, and significant builds—while ensuring the map remains clean, immersive, and functional over time. Just as importantly, the team serves as a line of continuity for the knowledge, assets, and lessons from this map’s development so future maps can be built with greater efficiency and quality.

Responsibilities

Their duties include:

 

• Restoring or ruinizing neglected world scars to maintain a clean and immersive environment.

 

• Constructing new DLC areas in coordination with story requests and  the admin team.

 

• Relocating and maintaining roads and soulstone pillars to improve accessibility and prevent folks from blocking main roads.

 

• Performing continual map beautification, enhancing terrain, structures, and natural scenery.

 

• Serving as janitors of biome and weather datapacks, ensuring environmental consistency and immersion.

 

• Collecting, organizing, and maintaining assets for future map development.

 

• Responding to moderation and implementation team requests for map-related tasks as needed.

Structure & Oversight

The Map Team operates under a designated Lead, @Fimlin, who reports directly to both the Tech and Moderation Admins. The group itself consists of a selection of moderators and implementation team folks with an eye on looping in others.

 

[River 555]

[Pepto 677]

[Cpt_Noobman 1954]

[Fimlin 1997]

place block break block place block break block

[Seva 624]

Pleased and glad to be a part, ensuring that the map we create is seamless is the most important step to ensuring that our world is recognized as a breathing, shifting space

[LoTC's Next Top Model 1626]

inb4 this team does literally nothing and all builds story team request are done by the story team builder team that already exists lmao.

or the even worse hypothetical- now all event builds require going through literally every manager and admin in every team before they can get built lmao.

[Ardory 2978]

So can I get my pocket dimension yet.

[MailC3p 2403]

Welcome back World Team

[Unwillingly 18113]

close enough welcome back world team

 

in all seriousness though im a little confused. its a mod-tech project led by the story team build manager? and the expected duties are mostly if not all things the build team already does, idk, just seems a bit redundant no?

[JoshBright 3014]

15 minutes ago, Pepto said:

mtg is a based game 

[Mescaffier 6197]

WORLD TEAM RISES AGAIN

When do applications open..

[Wand 1220]

[Josh3738 3137]

3 minutes ago, Unwillingly said:

in all seriousness though im a little confused. its a mod-tech project lead by the story team build manager? and the expected duties are mostly if not all things the build team already does, idk, just seems a bit redundant no?

 

Mod-Tech project led by one of the main organizers of the physical build for the current map being brought in to maintain it and cache things for next time. What he does extra is up to Squak.

 

And as far as expected duties, these things are either mods (landscars), implementation (datapacks), or just don't happen due to confusion on who between the two handled what (road blocking, pillar moving, etc).

[Metamancy 1768]

its still not entirely clear to me what the purpose of the map team is