Grand Theft Minecart

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

Dear players

Due to the drop in playercount in 2018, we've decided to close down GTM 2, 3, 5 and 6. GTM 1 and 4 will stay up (and will be renamed), and we have been working on a transfer system so that you won't have to start all over again.

When will this happen?
We are whitelisting the closing servers as we speak
When we are done setting everything up (should take a maximum of 6 hours), we will unwhitelist the closing servers and allow you to transfer your data to GTM 1 or 4.

How does the transfer system work?
You will be able to join one of the closing servers and use /transfer <target>. Your data on the target server will be replaced with data from the closing server. To be clear: you will LOSE your old data on the target server.

For example: you have 300k on GTM 2 and 500k on GTM1. You go to gtm2 and use /transfer gtm1. You now have 300k on GTM1. The 500k you had before is now lost for all eternity!

What data will I be able to transfer?
The following are transferred:
- Permits
- Ingame money & bank balance
- GTMRank (e.g. Godfather)
- Backpack contents
- Cheat Codes
- (Tags) I'm not sure about this, so if this matters to you do not use the transfer system before I update this thread.

The following are automatically sold:
- Houses & Premium Houses & purchased Trash Cans (you will receive 100% of the buy price)
- (Vehicles (you will receive 100% of the buy price)) I'm not sure about this, so if this matters to you do not use the transfer system before I update this thread.

The following are not transferred and as a result LOST:
- Items in houses/premium houses
- Houses/Premium houses
- Player Inventory
- More: anything that hasn't been explicitly stated will be LOST during the transfer

Why will I lose everything on the target server if I transfer my progress to it?
To prevent the economy from crashing, we will not allow you to 'merge' your progress on one server into the other. We know that you have worked for your money/items, but we have to do this to limit the amount of wealth circulating on the remaining servers.

Why can't I transfer my houses or the items in it?
Unfortunately, this is a technical limitation that we can not work around. We have taken a few measures to limit your losses.

So what do I do with all the item's I've gathered over time?
All items that you can buy with ingame money (non-rare weapons, armor, houses, vehicles) will be able to be sold at FULL buy price, instead of the usual 50%.
Some rare items that can't normally be sold in trashcans (katana's, wingsuits, ...) have been given sell prices. See the full list and their prices here:
Some rare items have not been given sell prices because they are too rare/expensive to be sold.
As for any items that you can't sell, you will have to transfer them using your backpack. Do NOT keep them in your inventory, your inventory does NOT transfer.

How long will I be able to transfer my data?
The closing servers will be up for about a month. After this period of time, all data that has not been transferred from the closing servers will be lost for eternity.

Which server should I transfer to?
The remaining servers are GTM1 and GTM4. We've decided to name these servers differently to accomodate the change:
GTM1: GTM MineSantos
GTM4: GTM Sanktburg
GTM1's community consists of mostly English players, while GTM4's community is mostly German. Consider this while choosing your target server.

This sucks!
We've taken this measure to improve your gameplay experience, by increasing the concentration of players on the remaining servers. I'm sure you don't enjoy playing on a server with 10 people on it, and this is the only way we can fix that.

Thank you for your understanding, and I hope you realize that this measure will only make GTM stronger and more fun to play.

Prez <3

• 1000 Tokens.
• 100 Crowbars.
• A temporary special discord rank.
• A temporary special place in the staff room.
• Permanent forum post here showing others the date that you made a mark in GTM history.
• And, lastly a special GTM badge that will fit as your discord avatar and/or can be used for whatever you want.

For the month of June year 2018 the senior team has selected these amazing staff members.

For the month of July year 2018 the senior team has selected these amazing staff members.


For the month of August year 2018 the senior team has selected these amazing staff members. The senior team would also like to thank a very hard working staff member this month SkylixMC as an admin has taken large strides in helping the team become better!