Colonial Meeting VI: Sunday, February 9, 2003/2091, 4PM

arkducky> Alrighty...
arkducky> now that we are all 20 yrs older after waiting for this to
load...we will start the meeting :)
arkducky> First on my list:
arkducky> If anyone has logs from the last meeting, I would appreciate it
if you could send those to hitekcommander@hotmail.com
arkducky> These will be listed on our colony history page and in the
news for future reference.
arkducky> Also, I have some great news!
arkducky> For those who may not know, WitchEva will be returning to
the colony very soon!
arkducky> She is out of the hospital and just catching up on things she
has missed while out of commission.
arkducky> As soon as I can find out what is preventing her from
accessing Cybertown, she will get return as the Chief Events Officer for
the colony!
arkducky> Second:
arkducky> All hoods are now open as of last monday. This also means
that we are currently not hiring any more neighborhood leaders.
arkducky> I expect all neighborhood leaders work together in providing
the best experience within your respective hood.
arkducky> Also, from the mayor's office, no more hoods or colonies will
be opened until further noted.
arkducky> The addition of neighborhoods just joined colonies on that list,
btw.
arkducky> With my point on my expecting all staff to work together, this
leads to the next thing on my list...
arkducky> The Low-Density plan
arkducky> This is the most important thing to go in effect right now as
this will allow us to provide the most content to the residents within
Cybertown and also have active hoods due to the low population in the
city.
arkducky> This will increase the likelihood of someone sponsoring
Hi-Tek and thus increasing the possibility that more residents can be
sponsored and thus have their fees waived.
arkducky> As you can see, this is very important!
arkducky> Here is some description of this plan:
arkducky> To do this, we simply open free spaces along the roads of the
blocks - maybe 25 houses per block total - then thats it. We consider the
block full, and we open another.
arkducky> With decreased density, it will be easier for NDs to take on BL
positions as well if we can't find any new workers.
arkducky> When we hit 7-10 blocks per hood - thats it, the hood is full.
arkducky> If there are free spaces in a certain block and someone really
wants in, we should let them in. NLs should offer this service.
arkducky> Please refer to Section III of the guidelines located at
http://www.cybertown.com/places/hi-tek/content/guidelines.htm for the
target population numbers in the hoods and in the blocks.
arkducky> Also, I am allowing, for those who want to, hold more than
one colony job.
arkducky> There is one exception!
arkducky> If for any reason, you are unable to perform your multiple
duties in the colony, I expect you to release yourself from one or more
positions until you are able to perform all tasks.
arkducky> Otherwise, those positions will be released for you. :)
arkducky> I will entertain any questions about the low-density plan after I
have gone through everything on my list. :)
arkducky> Forth:
arkducky> The employment desk will shortly be wiped clean!
arkducky> Every application that is in there will be closed and deleted.
arkducky> This does not effect your account in the employment desk.
arkducky> Just the applications placed.
arkducky> Also, before any one is hired, and I mean any one, an
application must first be filled out in the employment desk!
arkducky> I will do my best in setting up each neighborhood leader an
account in the employment desk to check applications.
arkducky> Also, I will allow each hood one neighborhood deputy to have
access to assist in this hiring process.
arkducky> You can consider him/her your hood employment officer. :)
arkducky> I will also entertain any minor questions about what I have
planned for the employment desk at the end as well.
arkducky> Last, but not least:
arkducky> Neighborhood websites can be placed on the
http://hitek.arkducky.com website.
arkducky> I will have to manually upload the files since I do not feel safe
allowing 17 people, including myself, have access to the colony server
acct.
arkducky> I would highly encourage this as it centralizes the hood
websites.
arkducky> Neighborhood leaders, contact me at
hitekcommander@hotmail.com to get this setup.
arkducky> Now, the Q&A session. Simply send your question in and I will
post and answer them in the order I recieve them.
arkducky> receive rather.
arkducky> I take it everyone understood everything I said?
arkducky> I must be really good! hehehe :)
HolodocDR> It's just a coincidence about you wiping the employment
desk. As a new NL I have not been given any information on accessing
prospective applicants, and view their education and experience and
strong/weak points for consideration. I would have liked that.
arkducky> A: All the applications are at most 3 months old.
arkducky> To ensure all applications are up to date, this is required.
arkducky> Contact me at my e-mail and I will setup an acct for you.
tinas> in my opinion there is a weak point in the low density plan: since
we are not allowed to delete houses some hoods (the ones from
concourse A and B) are filled up with "dead" houses (last login mid
november, lots of 50 exp. houses etc) - thus I consider the l.d. plan to
only apply for "active houses", is that legitimate?
arkducky> Until I can find out who has paid and who hasn't and given
those who havn't paid time to gather money and return, this ban will
remain in effect.
arkducky> Hawk stated in his RAQ, that member that have paid would
not have their house deleted. There currently isn't a way to detect this so
I am playing it safe.
HolodocDR> Re hood websites. I can understand since this is a
personal space. Why not have the main splash page of a hood site on
yours and have it link to a site elsewhere. Make it a main portal page
which people can remember or visit and it will take them to it?
arkducky> That has been a consideration. If you do not want to hassle
with me doing all the updates, I can simply put in a redirect and do it that
way.
arkducky> Send me an e-mail if you want either system installed.
Ghost1alpha> can you eplain the density plan in further detail Ark?
arkducky> What would you like to know? Any specific questions?
arkducky> Actually, I will create an online format of the low-density plan
for viewing purposes.
Borg7_of_9> I believe it was announced at the Town meeting yesterday
that we would be allowed to start doing some deletions sometime next
March
arkducky> That will be up to each colony leader. Right now, I am not
comfortable with deleting houses even if it affects the statistics and I
don't have a set time to begin deleting also.
arkducky> It is a day-by-day basis and we are working on ways to find
out who has paid or not, etc.
tinas> oh, dont get me wrong - not criticising the delete ban, just pointing
out that its causing and disadvantage for the hoods that opened first if
the l.d. plan applies to them the same way
arkducky> Don't worry too much about statistics but what the residents
actually feel.
HolodocDR> regarding inactive staff (idle Jan 6 and prior). I would like to
point out that although we cannot delete homes, we should be able to
have titles removed from homes which are not active staff. How can this
be arranged?
arkducky> That will involve a lot of work on the Com. Tech. team, simioni
and coolkama
nick_316> Hood message boards. You might have talked about this but
what can we do with them?
arkducky> Read the guidelines at
http://www.cybertown.com/places/hi-tek/content/guidelines.htm
arkducky> Ty for the notice Maestro in my mod window. I will look into
that :)
arkducky> A quick note:
arkducky> I have recieved a lot of notices on poaching and stealing
people etc. since day one.
arkducky> I am fully against poaching.
arkducky> Stealing is another issue. People have their own decision on
where he/she decides to go.
arkducky> I will review the reports on a case-by-case basis.
Toila> could you give the actual description of poaching ark?
arkducky> Going into other colonies and placing a message to attempt to
get members to move to another colony.
arkducky> Avoid posting on city boards as well.
arkducky> I will allow simple messages that you are looking for staff on
the colonly message board but don't get carried away.
toxic_rebel> no questions about the low-density plan, but I do wonder
when the new houses will be available, they were promised for the
beginning of januari
arkducky> The houses have been submitted to Hawk for his final
decision.
arkducky> He has been extremely busy and he will get to them as soon
as he humanly can. :)
Toila> could you post a list of acceptable places to advertise?
arkducky> The colony message board and employment office
HolodocDR> About the low density plan regarding double jobs. Often this
does compromise performance when we talk about colony jobs. A BL
who can handle more than one block should probably be an ND. Maybe
some redefining is needed. Like ltd BDs and NDs
arkducky> If it effects your performance and no action is taken on your
part, I will step in and you may not like the decision. I expect everyone to
take responsibility for your actions :)
HolodocDR> Let's be frank we have about 3-7 blocks while other hoods
have 30 in CT
arkducky> That is true, but we are still in launch phase.
arkducky> Our goal is to provide the most content possible in Cybertown.
In my opinion, we have already provided more than most colonies.
arkducky> I know seven has an update on security.
arkducky> I will let her give that now. :)
Borg7_of_9> Notice for all: Hi-Tek Security has recently been renamed
"Hi-Tek Colony Defense Team" but we will still be providing the same
high level of protection as before!
arkducky> Seven and her team should be thanked for all the great work
they do in making our colony safe!
Borg7_of_9> of course I will answer any questions regarding safety and
protection in Hi-Tek
Borg7_of_9> thank you ark!
arkducky> I don't see any questions..
arkducky> Thank you for the update seven.
arkducky> :)
Borg7_of_9> yvw!
arkducky> Is there anything else?
arkducky> If not, I thank everyone for their attendance and patience.
This meeting is now adjourned! :)