Grand Theft Minecart

Last week, we overhauled all of the weapons to have more character, do more damage and bring back the fun part of PvP. We opened our discord to public feedback using the #weapon-test channel and are still seeking your gameplay opinions.

This week, we want to publicly introduce a versioning system so players can keep up to date on what changes are happening over the next few months. The screenshot of our MOTD below shows how we introduce patch numbers directly to the server list.

https://gyazo.com/814314b518ac7f58dd371e1aca49f45b

Following up on the massive updates last week to ALL guns, we feel that we missed the mark of adding a unique identity and feel to the SHOTGUN class. This week we hope to capture the true feeling of the shotgun.

[General Changes]
-/suicide can no longer be used as a means of clearing your inventory before you are killed. Your items will now no longer be cleared. Therefore, players abusing this glitch before they are killed by another player will still drop their items.
- Applies a small fix to players not always being able to see their scoreboard.

[Weapon Changes]
- Explosive/Launcher/Throwable weapons that have scaled damage now do 100% base damage if they are 90% accurate. Before the damage would always be scaled down to 90% accurate. This is to reward players for being mostly accurate.
- Players can no longer use stun guns while using a jetpack or wingsuit.
- Fixes issue with Homing Launcher not showing locking/locking cancelled.
- Fixes issue with players able to use the melee damage of snipers/other disallowed guns while in a jetpack/wingsuit.


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Global Voting
We have reworked our backend systems to use user state transactions when processing votes, allowing offline voting to still reward players with vote streak increments, vote streak rewards, and still get credit for the monthly vote wars.

Reworked user vote storage to be more efficient and more detailed. This caused us to lose vote histories according to the old table. On the first of the month, all users that have logged in since the new update will be given a free 10 voting steak.

Various Backend Changes
Cleaned up various backend storage systems, taking advantage of caching calculations, reducing stress on the MySQL server, with hopes to improve server side efficiency.

Introduces mutex contention for loading/saving players.

With the closing of GTM2, GTM3, GTM5, and GTM6, we've introduced some variables into the game that allow us to control some settings on the live network as it's played. This includes turning off PVP, trade, npc interactions, and more.

Server Death Tax
Introduces server death tax, which will take some of the money a player drops and removes it completely from the server. This scales according to preset variables we have, and can be a minimum amount. Currently the flat tax rate is 20%. Therefore, if a player dies and "drops $50,000", they will actually only drop $40,000.

Weapon Changes
- All weapons backend calculations have been changed, including how accuracy is determined, how revolutions per second is calculated, how fire rate is calculated, and adds additional variables that we can change going...

Dear Community

I have decided to allow banned players to purchase unbans. I have three reasons for doing this:
1) To create funds for GTM's expansion
2) To give players who have made a mistake another chance
3) To decrease our admin's workload of having to approve and deny appeals

Before purchasing the unban, you must be approved by an admin through a support ticket in the new department: Purchase Unbans. Your application is guaranteed to be approved for bans due to hacking, advertising, spamming or similar breaches of our rules. However, this does not mean you are exempt from following them. You will not be refunded if you are banned again. Each player is allowed to purchase 3 unbans. After the third one, you will never be allowed onto GTM again.

Love,

Prez