• @Eriol_Eandur, for coding on all the Plugins
• @Ivan1pl for coding on the Plotbuild Plugin
• @q220 for providing the Dev server and all the help with the implementation
• And humble me, who helped those two with testing and reviewing and a bit, and wrote and collected a good part of the quiz questions (which probably makes it the biggest Tolkien quiz, well, ever)

• @QuantaCube (some may remember him as willgreen1)
• @BWOT

• Chat rules for Staff
  I reminded our staff members of the position they have and reminded them of that they do represent MCME as a whole with their actions. We tried to fine that difficult to grasp line, beyond which statements in public chat are no longer tolerable. While we, as expected, could not find that line, I simply wanted to remind people why we have these rules, especially as we had to record a few situations in the past, where staff clearly crossed the line.
  
  
• Too many Artists/Designers?
  There's a reasonable amount of promotions taking place into these two ranks and the question came up whether at some point there might be too many of either rank. I on one hand debunked this one as there is no clear tendency that the number of Artists/Designers has been rising over the last years (it may rather be that the number of online Adventurers sank and thus it seems like there's more Artists, on the other hand we try to make good progress and it is obvious, at least as long as you can organise them, that more workers equal more progress.
  I only promote people I deem capable of fulfilling the tasks the rank comes along with.
  
  
• Realism in Projects
  Multiple Designers handed in the request to invest more work and time into our projects, and a quick poll during the meeting showed that indeed the majority of Designers wants that. I pointed out some practical limitations to how realistic we possibly can get, like the limited amount of detail you can reproduce with Minecraft blocks, and also that Tolkien's descriptions may conflict with what would be realistic. We decided to organise ourselves better when it comes to realism-related topics and that we want to assemble guides and references for various types of aspects of realism that we already incorporated into our builds, as well as gather new ideas for further topics we want to respect. These threads may eventually get published in a publicly accessible forum, but first of all some of them need to be written.
  
  
• Project Organisation
  We agreed that we need to improve how we organise ourselves in terms of projects. This means we will invest more time into planning a project, so that flaws in the concept can be spotted before any building is done (and probably has to be undone) and we have to post more updates to keep track of who is doing what and how much progress is being made. For the latter we will try a principle of daily updates, respectively whenever a Designer worked on a project, conclude the sessions with a very short post summing up what he did. Artists working on projects are very welcome to join the Designers in that task, especially if you got in charge for your own village, farm or similar!
  
  
• Artist Jobs
  Multiple times we had the occasion that Designers would have had a task for an Artist, but no Artist was available, or an Artist was unoccupied and no Designer was around. We tried something similar with a Scheduled Jobs thread which slowly has died down though. The main reason was, because its so much less efficient and so much more work (Designer has to announce it, keep the date free, wait for the date to come, and still probably have not enough workers), but with Artist Jobs it would be a lot easier to do something like that, as Designer and Artists don't have to be online at the same time.
  I came up with an example google sheet that we might use to announce available Artist Jobs that can be claimed by Artists, I presented it to the other Designers to open it for dicsussion and improvement, but most likely this will be a thing by next week!
  
  
• Moria
  Currently the biggest challenge in Moria is bringing the people into the project. So far this has not really been possible for non staff members, but concrete plans are being made, and a big announcement is planned for next week's Times as of which we hopefully solved all the remaining issues with the new plugins, as we will need some of them direly in Moria.
  For the Designers I debunked the rumour that I might force them to work on Moria even though they don't want to. I stated that while I theoretically might be able to do that, it would only lead to some resignations and unsatisfying results. Still we face a big challenge: Moria is the biggest project that we don't really split into multiple projects (like Gondor into all its cities and fiefs) and thus is easily the biggest project ever attempted on MCME. Thus I really hope that as many of the community can overcome the challenge the master the Moria Resource Pack and its building style and find their to being diligent helpers in Moria. And as said, for non staff members there will be good news next week!

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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