Welcome
To our last blog of 2022.
We have briefly summarized the progress of the individual teams here.
Builder Team
The Builder team was working at full speed this year.
Many small as well as larger construction sites were completed.
In Bad-Spencer a monastery, as well as the entire village center was completed in medieval style.
The neighbouring village of Wiesental, where there are farms and single-family homes, was also terminated.
In Rödau, the Chamber of Crafts and a villa district were completed. Finally, a post office will be built, which is currently still under construction.
In late summer, our second major construction site was started with the project name "Ossistadt".
This city, which has received the name Sankt Priel, is built with prefabricated buildings in the style of the 50s to 90s. Sankt Priel has a tram and an industrial area. The industry is built in the style of the "black pump".
The route network was designed in cooperation with the GIRC network team.
Railway embankments and terraforming were/are built in hours of teamwork.
The high workload this year was handled by the GIRC Builder team, which got a lot of offspring this year. It currently consists of 22 active builders.
Modeler Team
The Modeler team, which makes an important contribution to the project, was particularly diligent this year.
With 6 active modelers, including 3 new candidates, many new freight, railcars and passenger cars have come into play this year. So that these can be moved accordingly, electric locomotives and diesel locomotives were also modelled. The vehicles appear in a server's own livery for GIR.
Next year, we will also use the new IR versions on the server so that the already installed features of the vehicles can be fully exploited. This will make the gaming experience even more immersive and you can fall in love with the details.
Stay tuned, our Modeler team will introduce many more models next year. We will inform you accordingly in further blogs or posts on the website and on our Discord server .
Network Team
After a rebranding and merger of the infrastructure and track planner teams, the planning and construction was also diligently carried out here.
Among other things, Rödau was connected to Sankt Priel over 3 routes this year.
These include a branch line, high-speed line and a connection via Bad Spencer.
The network team had diligently found and tested "bugs" and features during the first open beta test of the signal box extension of the Signalmod.
This helped the development team in the further development of the Signalmod.
In Rödau, the tram crossing control has been under development since the beginning of the year and was put into operation after troubleshooting and extensive tests.
The network team plans for the year 2023.
There will be further planning for the expansion of the route network in 2023. However, the existing routes will be signalled and designed in the first half of 2023.
In addition, small branch lines will complement the route network.
Developer Team
The development team has done a lot of work this year.
The developers are working on the Signalmod and have reached many milestones.
Among other things, many signal types were added, which were desired by the community as well as by the team. In the middle of the year, the first prototypes of the interlocking system were added. (Then it was time 😊 to fix the bug)
In addition, they also worked diligently on the Utillitymod, the Wireless-Redstone Mod and the Invisible Lightsmod. These were developed in parallel to improve server performance and create new opportunities.
In order to inform our passengers and train drivers, Der_Zauberer had designed the PIS system. This can display delays, unschedules and much more and serves as passenger information.
Der_Zauberer has already demonstratively presented his system on discord with real timetable data.
Part of the programming team now continues to work independently on the mods. These now also run under a new name. The support and further information about the mods can be found on the new Discord server.
Public Relations (PR) Team
PR has created several blogs and posts this year and shared them on social media channels to keep you up to date on what's happening on the server.
On 17.09.2022 the first stream went live to allow the German-speaking part of the community a server tour.
The PR will also inform you about news from the server in the following year and have any surprises in store for you.
Outlook for 2023
We will continue to work on our projects in the new year. Rödau is completed after 1.5 years of construction and planning. Many buildings and several kilometers of railway embankments are erected to improve the quality of the server.
The GIRC team thanks you for reading the last blog entry in 2022 and wishes you a happy new year and a start into 2023.
We hope to see you here again next year, goodbye.
A special thanks from the team management to:
MrTroble for the development of mods and Der_Zauberer for the development of our server plugins.
