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Hi everyone,
Summer - the time of freedom - has benefitted us a great deal. Freedom over time for you to enjoy everything our community has to offer, and freedom for us to finally develop and launch a major interactive server update of a scale unseen since last year. And in difference from last year, we have had plenty of time to lay the foundation for this update and the enthusiasm around it - we've optimised the server, defeated CrashRP, and fixed numerous bugs and exploits. One concern has been having enough administrative staff for a growing player base, but we have worked hard to hire more diligent people to the team, and hope anyone of you who want to contribute and feel confident will consider applying.
Update 4.0
4.0 - the update you all have heard and seen much of, was finally launched two weeks ago. It featured the long-planned "Real-Estate System" which lets you invest in ownership of properties for a month, that you can rent out to other players - both when you are online and offline.
It also added a new layer to the resource and crafting elements of our game mode - factories. In combination with the real-estate system, you can invest in factories and produce refined materials required to craft items like weapons. MonoMarket has been improved, and the idea is that there will be an economy through it based on supply and demand that empowers weapon crafting and distribution.
In subsequent updates, we will introduce a furniture system, where you can purchase permanent furniture that you can save and place in your accomodation.
There are so many more changes this update brings - a revived "Bounty Board", a new EMS and medical system, a new interactive emergency report app, new farming features, new gorgeous UI elements, fixes, optimisation and important adjustments that improve your experience. And of course, the map switch to Paralake. It's a large, well-optimised map with proper roads, water and plenty of opportunity.
We have intensely fixed broken parts of the update since its release, and the server is quite stable at the moment. However, please make sure to report any issues that you come across on Discord and the forums, and please suggest adjustments to improve the changes! Surely, with all new systems coming in place, your contribution in creating guides for other players will be immensely helpful to the community as well. In fact, we will give out a month's free Premium to one author of an exceptionally good and useful guide created from now until the 10th of August!
Summer Sale
To celebrate this update and summer, we have decided to launch a major Premium sale until the 6th of August. Head over to the Store page and enter 'SUMMER18' as a coupon on checkout at the Store page for 50% off one month of Premium Membership.
We also want to give a big shoutout to all current Premium Members. Since July last year, we have gained over 37 000 USD (after payment processing fees are deducted!) by their support. Their collective contribution is hard to underestimate - not only does it pay the bills and keep our community alive, but it also allows us to invest in larger and more ambitious updates for the community. I'm confident that our most ambitious and significant updates/projects are still in the future, and only with your financial support, will we afford to make them a reality. There are some truly amazing opportunities ahead, and if we're successful, you all stand to experience something that's clearly on a whole new level in due time.
Premium Giveaway
Time for a Premium giveaway! This time we're giving away a month of Premium Membership to 5 people!
This one is real simple. To participate you need to follow these two steps:
1. Join Monolith Servers' Steam group here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MonolithServers
2. Click on 'Invite Friends', select 'All' friends, click 'Invite to "Monolith Servers"'
We will see every individual invite you send out and whether it's successful or not. Your chances will increase of winning if you invite many and if the invites are successful in making people join. 10 August, we will announce the 5 lucky winners!
Summer Events
With the spare time that comes with the remainder of the summer, we have the capacity to plan and host some major events on the server. These will involve the whole server, and hopefully be of a both competitive and proper RP nature - interesting storylines and intense gameplay with high stakes. Stay tuned!
Map Development
We also want to give you an update on codename "Monoford" - our custom map. Its development has been going too slow, and we're really not satisfied with that fact. With that said, we haven't given up on it. In fact, there's some solid progress and hopefully the speed of its development can increase considerably in the future.
Going forward
Something truly unique and revolutionary that challenges the status quo for the benefit of all you players. That's what this project and its vision have always been about. Starting it involved significant risk and there were many doubters - including at times, ourselves. We're no longer an underdog among Garry's Mod communities, but a leader in our scene. Our vision and mindset remains the same nevertheless. We refuse to take our success for granted or become complacent, and look forward to take on new risky frontiers and continually challenge ourselves and the established. As we head forward on this journey now, it's not just me and a few developers walking the road alone like in our early days; but a large, vibrant community with a strong culture valuing aspiration, achievement and tenacity - strengthened by the challenges and experience that we have endured together. We are well-positioned to embrace this journey, and look forward to continuing it with you support!
Summer - the time of freedom - has benefitted us a great deal. Freedom over time for you to enjoy everything our community has to offer, and freedom for us to finally develop and launch a major interactive server update of a scale unseen since last year. And in difference from last year, we have had plenty of time to lay the foundation for this update and the enthusiasm around it - we've optimised the server, defeated CrashRP, and fixed numerous bugs and exploits. One concern has been having enough administrative staff for a growing player base, but we have worked hard to hire more diligent people to the team, and hope anyone of you who want to contribute and feel confident will consider applying.
Update 4.0
4.0 - the update you all have heard and seen much of, was finally launched two weeks ago. It featured the long-planned "Real-Estate System" which lets you invest in ownership of properties for a month, that you can rent out to other players - both when you are online and offline.
It also added a new layer to the resource and crafting elements of our game mode - factories. In combination with the real-estate system, you can invest in factories and produce refined materials required to craft items like weapons. MonoMarket has been improved, and the idea is that there will be an economy through it based on supply and demand that empowers weapon crafting and distribution.
In subsequent updates, we will introduce a furniture system, where you can purchase permanent furniture that you can save and place in your accomodation.
There are so many more changes this update brings - a revived "Bounty Board", a new EMS and medical system, a new interactive emergency report app, new farming features, new gorgeous UI elements, fixes, optimisation and important adjustments that improve your experience. And of course, the map switch to Paralake. It's a large, well-optimised map with proper roads, water and plenty of opportunity.
We have intensely fixed broken parts of the update since its release, and the server is quite stable at the moment. However, please make sure to report any issues that you come across on Discord and the forums, and please suggest adjustments to improve the changes! Surely, with all new systems coming in place, your contribution in creating guides for other players will be immensely helpful to the community as well. In fact, we will give out a month's free Premium to one author of an exceptionally good and useful guide created from now until the 10th of August!
Summer Sale
To celebrate this update and summer, we have decided to launch a major Premium sale until the 6th of August. Head over to the Store page and enter 'SUMMER18' as a coupon on checkout at the Store page for 50% off one month of Premium Membership.
We also want to give a big shoutout to all current Premium Members. Since July last year, we have gained over 37 000 USD (after payment processing fees are deducted!) by their support. Their collective contribution is hard to underestimate - not only does it pay the bills and keep our community alive, but it also allows us to invest in larger and more ambitious updates for the community. I'm confident that our most ambitious and significant updates/projects are still in the future, and only with your financial support, will we afford to make them a reality. There are some truly amazing opportunities ahead, and if we're successful, you all stand to experience something that's clearly on a whole new level in due time.
Premium Giveaway
Time for a Premium giveaway! This time we're giving away a month of Premium Membership to 5 people!
This one is real simple. To participate you need to follow these two steps:
1. Join Monolith Servers' Steam group here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MonolithServers
2. Click on 'Invite Friends', select 'All' friends, click 'Invite to "Monolith Servers"'
We will see every individual invite you send out and whether it's successful or not. Your chances will increase of winning if you invite many and if the invites are successful in making people join. 10 August, we will announce the 5 lucky winners!
Summer Events
With the spare time that comes with the remainder of the summer, we have the capacity to plan and host some major events on the server. These will involve the whole server, and hopefully be of a both competitive and proper RP nature - interesting storylines and intense gameplay with high stakes. Stay tuned!
Map Development
We also want to give you an update on codename "Monoford" - our custom map. Its development has been going too slow, and we're really not satisfied with that fact. With that said, we haven't given up on it. In fact, there's some solid progress and hopefully the speed of its development can increase considerably in the future.
Going forward
Something truly unique and revolutionary that challenges the status quo for the benefit of all you players. That's what this project and its vision have always been about. Starting it involved significant risk and there were many doubters - including at times, ourselves. We're no longer an underdog among Garry's Mod communities, but a leader in our scene. Our vision and mindset remains the same nevertheless. We refuse to take our success for granted or become complacent, and look forward to take on new risky frontiers and continually challenge ourselves and the established. As we head forward on this journey now, it's not just me and a few developers walking the road alone like in our early days; but a large, vibrant community with a strong culture valuing aspiration, achievement and tenacity - strengthened by the challenges and experience that we have endured together. We are well-positioned to embrace this journey, and look forward to continuing it with you support!
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