The WolvHavener

The WolvHavener is a community-run newspaper for the minecraft city-state of WolvHaven. The Content of this blog is here for roleplay purposes and should not be confused with real life individuals or organisations. Anything that bears resemblance to any indivudal/organisation us purely coincidental.

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Parliament for 28/05/2017

Motions: 2

Motion 1

Discussion vote on changing the currency’s name.

Result: A lot of ideas thrown around, ultimately ending with the leader of the Party for Gardellia trying to convince the house that British colonialism was not as destructive as those of other countries.

Motion 2

Bill to regulate smaller parties. Resolved in the negative.

Points: just a lot of pro-bill filibustering with a few good points made by GreenMC.

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Wolvhavener for the 25th of May, 2017

Hello!

The Wolvhavener has seen much negligence these past few weeks so let’s spice up this feed a little! 

Latest parliament updates

http://wolvhaven.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Parliament-17Q2-3.pdf

This recent parliament session was heated as usual. The fact that only two bills were proposed did not affect the time at all, with the session still running for over one hour. 

In brief

Talon’s bill to form a Pangea canal system was downvoted with no resistance

The economy reset bill, after much debate, ended in a stalemate, with the vote being passed onto the Senate.

Wolvhaven Airport

Ground has been broken for the new fourth-haven airport project. Work thus far has been nothing short of amazing. So amazing, in fact, that a deadline for completion has been set for the 9th of May. Project works include a new island, terminal, runway, and airport express line. Work must not stall.

Upcoming events

26/02/2017 - Parliament session. 1400 UTC +0. -Relevant link- http://wolvhaven.net/parliament/

Notes- Please read and revise the etiquette section.

-Issue completed 25/02/2017-

Notes

Oxford comma included. Feel free to debate this.

Editor -Ninjabob1797 (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/boiling-ink)

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On the first week of october Metro gave to me... A massive metro cockup.

So let’s just say WolvHaveners had it kind of rough for the first week of October.

“Dear October, please be nice to me”

N O P E !

On Friday the 30th an insane metro cockup occurred, bringing the whole city to a standstill for the weekend.

It all begins when a signalling fault and track fault at Waterloo on the Bella Vista shuttle / Line 5 trains started acting up. Trains were being routed to their wrong destination.

“I am certainly ####ing sure that I boarded a line 5 train. And here I am in Bella Vista. What the ####!?”

“It seems like all the 5 trains are going into the shuttle tracks. LOL!”

This fault was apparently caused by a water leak in the tunnel due to the recent heavy downpours and soon after all the signals were showing a bright crimson red.

“Service had to be suspended while work was bring carried out to repair the signalling system. We did not want to risk any possible train collision and always put the safety of our passengers above all.” A TransHaven spokesperson said.

The signalling issue caused the loss of service on the *deep breath* 5 6 7 8 and BV Shuttle services.

Just when things couldn’t get any worse, meanwhile on the rubber tyred lines, for similar water leakage reasons, a short circuit occurred causing a “loss of traction power” to all the rubber tyred lines.

Let’s now add lines 1 and 2 to the WolvHaven (not) in motion gang.

The final blow came when Line 4 was suspended due to a person under the tracks - a result of the severe overcrowding due to the other lines being suspended.

Line 3 would have been cool since its a relatively new line and has had its fair share of breakdowns and already struggles under the rush hour crowd. But all these people jumped on the bandwagon after their mainstream trains became the most useless piece of s### on the system.

“Guess who’s not going to work today? ME”

“Can the DOT write some letters to my boss explaining why I am late cause the excuse that my train was delayed is getting real old and that your BLOODY TRAINS NEVER WORK.”

Service was resumed 3 hours later on line 1 and 2. Lines 5 6 7 8 came back two hours later.

They were later suspended again at midnight for further maintenance checks till 6am.

But just when everyone thought it was over... Line 2 encountered a train fault that caused that massive delay on saturday but that’s a story for another time.

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WolvHaven Metro Maps Over the years

WolvHaven is a minecraft city. Find out more about us on wolvhaven.net

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Why the latest WolvHaven Metro map is the best one in WolvHaven’s history so far

WolvHaven’s Metro Map as of 28 September 2016

Let’s face it. Without the WolvHaven Metro Map, those who are new to the system or use it occasionally wouldn’t know how to get from A to B. The metro, made to move people would pretty much be useless if they didnt know which line(s) to take to get to their destination.

Throughout its 5 year history, every railway system in WolvHaven’s old world has at least one transit map.

With the recent opening of Esplanade Metro station, a new station at Silloner, an extension for Line 3 to Marine View and future expansion to Mechanicsburg, an update to the old metro map was long overdue.

The result - Possibly one of the best - if not the best metro map that WolvHaven has ever seen.

A history of WolvHaven’s Transit Maps

At the beginning, WolvHaven was small. Like real small. The size of the main island is about the size of 2 city blocks in the current New Wolv Haven world. What we have is a Metro System with 1 line, 2 stations and a circle line that never saw its completion. What we have? A map thats made in MS Paint. Unfortunately, this map can no longer be found anywhere as it has been wiped but picture a squiggly line mess.

In 2012, WolvHaven was in its 2nd Generation world - Wolv City (it was here where the name WolvHaven was born). The size of the island was rather reasonable, possibly a third the size of WolfMinster Island currently. At that time, we weren’t that good at digital design and had to rely on beno’s metro map creator to make the transit map of the city. The end result was this.

Wolv City MRT/CART Map - 2012

Then came 2013, this is where WolvHaven was in its 3rd Generation world - New Haven. Size of the city - eeh, quite close to the size of WolfMinster island, however most of the land was mountains and was difficult if not impossible to build on. By this time, we were still using beno’s metro map creator. But this time, it was only used to draw out the lines. The stations and the names etc. were added on later using Microsoft Word, finishing off the entire map by taking a screenshot of the map on Microsoft Word at the end. This map was largely inspired by the way Harry Beck’s original tube map had diamonds in it to represent interchange stations. The end result was:

CART Map - 2013

Pretty decent I would say, however, things get interesting when it comes to the current world. The current world has 3 versions of the Metro Map - each portraying the system at a different point of time. By then we had Adobe Illustrator and with some basic Illustrator skills, the first WolvHaven Metro Map was born - depicting the Metro in the current world’s early days.

WolvHaven Metro Map - April 2014

Simplicity and clarity set the standards for WolvHaven’s future Metro maps. This was a glimpse of what the future of WolvHaven’s Metro maps would look like. This map was largely inspired by the Washington Metro maps with its thick lines and station dots being within the lines - it was a hit when it was first placed in WolvHaven’s Metro stations as part of a trial of the Image Maps plugin.

The first time WolvHaven Metro Maps made it in-game

Soon, the WolvHaven Metro system expanded and an update was seriously needed - with the opening of line 3 and the Line 2 extension, it was time for an update again. With slightly better illustrator skills, the newer metro map become the most iconic (at the time). This, was WolvHaven Metro’s map in late 2014.

WolvHaven’s Metro Map - November 2014

It was the first map to include a background that shows the Ocean and WolfMinster island together and was celebrated as the best Metro Map at the point of time. It basically was a more enhanced version of the previous metro map - but with more details. Although the way all but one metro station’s names are all diagonal was debatable, the metro map looked pretty decent.

However, an embarassing update to the map when line 4 was built sent this map to its death. It hadn’t accounted for the space that Line 4 would take and was basically just an addon to the old map. The larger mistake was the way Line 4 was connected to University instead of Dakota. So there it goes, down the drain.

As WolvHaven expanded into Westford island, the need for a new Metro map came - However, this would not come until a few of the metro lines were operational.

The planning this time round for the map had to be meticulous. The whole map was drafted out on a piece of graph paper to mark out where all the stations would be as it would be the largest single update ever to WolvHaven’s metro map. The planning went well. The execution however, didn’t.

WolvHaven’s Metro Map - Janurary 2016

WolvHaveners were disappointed with he way this map turned out. Complaints flew in over many different aspects of the map and it was like the map had taken a step backwards in terms of design rather than forward. Complaints such as the way the East West Line (line 3) had a sharp 90 degree turn at Renaissance, lines being too thin, fonts too small and the lack of standard as some of the lines had curved edges while the others did not. But the largest offender of all was the way westford island was depicted as a larger island than wolfminster. It didn’t meet  the idea of simplicity and clarity. The map looked like an utter mess, as well as the inefficient usage of space and the incorrect portrayal of the shape of westford island quickly sent this map to the guillotine in terms of approval. WolvHaveners would have to be stuck with this ugly mess which they could not feel proud of for the next few months.

During these few months, there were service pattern changes and this meant that the map would need an update again. Using the feedback thad was given previously, the new map was faced with the challenges of exceeding the standards set by the maps before and avoiding a repeat of similar mistakes.

The result, this beautiful masterpiece.

WolvHaven’s Metro Map as of 28 September 2016

What makes this map the best one of all?

The way it combines both the old and the new. It has thick lines that can easily be seen on the map along with station dots that are equally spaced out between sections, making the map clearer to view. The size of the font for the stations has also been increased and it looks even more organized than ever.

It’s like the April 2014 Map and the November 2014 Map had a baby.

The most radical change to the map would be the way the interchange stations are shown. Gone are the days where the interchange station is depicted by a white-black blob. Each line has their own dot in the interchange station which makes it more organized as well considering the City Hall, Waterloo and Primerose blobs from the January 2016 map.

This change enabled the lines to be drawn in a neater fashion as well since they all can be spaced out equally. Compare the City Hall - Waterloo section in this map and the Jan 2016 map. The lines in the current map are easier to follow as they aren’t all jumbled up togethr but rather a small gap spaces them out.

The Legend and Metro Services section is also much clearer and provides more information than the previous one.

The best part of all - it’s mechanicsburg ready. The map can easily be extended once the sections in Mechanicsburg are complete so this map is pretty much futureproof.

Though not perfect, WolvHaveners were clearly pleased with this map, some hailing it as “Perfect” and the “Best one of all” with many saying its “Easier to read and understand”. This map fulfills its goal of showing people how to get from point A to B and does it in Simplicity and Clarity at the same time. A clear winner.

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Metro Line 7, 8, 9

WOLVHAVEN - Metro Lines 7, 8 and 9 are inspired by Westford, if not Mechanicsburg. Here are some information about these lines.

(M) (7) 

Status: MANUAL

Metro Line 7 is a local line running from City Hall to Primerose. Esplanade would be the terminus for Line 7, but has been postponed ever since. Here are the list of the stations.

City Hall (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (S)

Waterloo (5) (6)

Waterfront

Promenade

Primerose (3) (6) (8) [(5) at Marine View, a few blocks away]

Passengers who want to ride 7 MUST ask a driver, as the line requires a TRAINED driver.

(M) (8)

Status: UNDER CONSTURCTION

Metro Line 8 is under consturction, a express line mostly running with Line 6. The station and platforms are ready, however, the trains are not ready for operation. When it opens, the line will be automatic. Here is the list of the stations on 8.

WARNING: Line 8 is with Line 6 except for Bella Vista.

Primerose (3) (6) (7)

Little Italy (6)

Bella Vista (S)

Passengers must wait for Opening Day for Line 8 date. For Bella Vistaers, please take the Shuttle. For the rest of (8), please take Line 6.

(M) (9)

Status: AWAITING APPROVAL FROM GOVERNMENT

Metro Line 9 will be a line that WILL be in Mechanicsburg, but can expand to the Mainland. The list is coming soon.

(M) (S)

Status: TEMPORARY, AUTOMATIC

The Bella Vista Shuttle, Line S shares the tracks of Lines 5 and 8. It is only temporary, so passengers taking the shuttle will be noted otherwise. When Line 8 opens, the shuttle will discontinue. Here is the list of the stations.

City Hall (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Bella Vista (8)

Thank you for reading this information. This stuff can also be found on the wiki!

-awesomeguy1003

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Ferry Promenade is now opened!

Welcome to Ferry Promenade!

Ferry promenade is now welcoming visitors in our various shops and our Promenade Walking Park, which includes a nice playground. There are public toilets available here with a usage fee of 1$. If you are a shop owner and interested in owning a shop here, contact autobus22 in-game for rules, regulations and possibly your very own shop spot!

Regards, autobus22

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1.8 is soon to be here!

It is not long until Wolvhaven is upgraded to 1.8, this exiting new update means that WH users will be able to enjoy new blocks and features that come with 1.8, it also means that for a short period of time, WH will be up to date with the latest version on minecraft. This update will cause some server downtime around new year. As some things will become broken (including many signs) the owner of the server asked earlier at a press confernce for all Citizens of Wolvhaven to report any bugs via /m [Username], to Silverwolv or any other Mod or Admin. In the past a reward of WH$1000 has been offered to report bugs, this may or many not apply now. Many of Wolvhavens Citizens cannot wait until WH finally is upgraded to 1.8.

-Blibo 

Editor’s note: Apologies for the late article accept

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Celebrate WolvHaven’s 5th anniversary this Saturday, 2 April 2016 at 1:30PM UTC!

Spread the word and invite your friends!

More Info: http://wolvhaven.net/index.php?threads/whg2016-wolvhavens-5th-anniversary.150

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National Library opens

The centerpiece of the National Library - Circles of inspiration

WOLVHAVEN - The National Library (NatLib) has recently opened its doors to the public. The brutalist styled building has a capacity for over 5000 different titles and over 45,000 individual books. The NatLib has been a hit with the WolvHaven community within its first few days of opening.

Popular titles such as “Qixians” volumes 1 to 4 and “Everyone is dying” have made their way into the shelves of the library, along with some non-fiction titles such as “The Airbus A380″ and “Driving right”.

The books are authored by WolvHaveners themselves and the library’s collection is slowly growing.

The library has 10 floors including a basement to store extra copies of the books should the original copies of the library be lost or destroyed. Any Citizen of WolvHaven may walk into the library and borrow one of its many titles and read it outside of the Library and return it at the library’s bookdrop later.

For prospective writers who wish to contribute books to the library, there is a writers’ corner located at the top floor of the library with spectacular views of  the WolvHaven city skyline which provides free book and quills for authors to write their new novel or memoir.

New books can be contributed by dropping the books at the contribution bookdrop located right next to the returns bookdrop outside the library. The book will then be reviewed and be given the appropriate rating should it be needed and added to the collection.

NatLib is one of WolvHaven’s many innovations and was built to commemorate WolvHaven’s wooden jubilee, WH05.

One of the many future titles that will be introduced to NatLib will be “1825 days of WolvHaven” which is a memoir by WolvHaven’s owner himself. The book will go through the history of WolvHaven for the past 5 years since it was founded in 2011.

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Wolv haven mod results

Hello WH mod results and welcome to our new mod Endermat96. We would also like to acknowledge our outgoing mod Autobus. Thank you for serving us with an iron fist. That is all Glory to wolvhaven

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January Moderator Elections

During January, WolvHaven will be holding its mod elections. Here is the information as directly taken from the WH website. Election Candidates Endermat96 Ninjab00b1797 VincentLUMCFan Election Information To vote, you must be ranked [Citizen] and above. Each voter will be able to cast 1 Elimination Vote and 1 Nomination Vote If the voter does not cast an Elimination Vote, he/she may not cast a Nomination Vote 1 existing moderator may be voted out in this election Should there be an existing moderator voted out, the candidate with the most votes will be voted in to be moderator. All votes are confidential. The Department of Elections and server staff are strictly prohibited from releasing any information regarding specific votes to the public (e.g. xxx voted for yyy) Any attempts by users to enter the vote counting room is an offence and can result in their rank(s) being revoked and a penalty of up to a perm ban. Votes are counted using the alternative vote system. Voting Information There is only 1 polling station - Wolv Haven City Hall You may get a ballot at the polling station Read instructions on ballot carefully Ensure that there are no spelling mistakes (Not case sensetive) Do not write anything else on the ballot paper unless instructed to. Voters must sign and close their ballot for their vote to be considered Voters who dropped in unsigned ballots are able to submit another ballot Voters who dropped in signed ballots with errors will have their votes considered as spoiled votes. Voters who dropped in multiple signed ballots will have all their votes considered as spoiled votes. Election Timeline 3 Jan 2016 - Release of qualification test 8 Jan 2016 - Qualification test closes 15 59hrs UTC 11 Jan 2016 - Announcement of qualified candidates (to be edited into this post) 11 Jan 2016 - Beginning of campaigning week 15 Jan 2016 - Voting opens 17 Jan 2016 - Voting closes 18 Jan 2016 - Election Results Please do drop by to cast your vote. Yers sincerely Ninjab00b AD: Would you like to see a sincere, honest, friendly and reliable staff member on WolvHaven? Then vote #1 Ninjab00b1797 in this month's upcoming moderator elections!

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NYE 2015

Please come and join us for our NYE party! 11pm ish on NYE. Bring in the new year in style! GMT +8. (Singapore, malaysia, those people) Join us at: play.wolvhaven.net

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Going 1.8

WolvHaven Owner holding a double slab block infront of City Hall

WOLVHAVEN - A year after minecraft 1.8 was released, WolvHaven is finally getting the green light to update to 1.8. The delay was largely due to the endless drama that ensued with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) filed against Bukkit by one of its contributors. In addition to the delay that was caused by the controversial takedown, plugins were also unstable for a long period of time and with certain developers abandoning their projects due to the frustration, the WolvHaven staff were uncertain for a period of time about the future of WolvHaven and going 1.8.

However, as things stabilized over time, plugins which WolvHaven heavily relied on for its basic operations had found new developers or were finally updated with a solid, stable version to use. As a result, WolvHaven has decided to put 1.8 as its top priority before implementing any new features.

SilverWolv decided that upgrading to 1.8 would be an essential step to bring WolvHaven back on par after months of neglect due to unavailability. “Going to 1.8 will be the first step of the process” the server owner said in a statement, “following that, we will implement new features and make changes based on the feedback that we have received from the new feedback form which was launched a week ago.”

WolvHaven is also seeking to create a “contract with the citizens of WolvHaven 2″ which is a list of features or fixes that are promised to be delivered. This is most likely due to the success of the previous one which was done a year ago.

WolvHaveners will, however experience some inconveniences with the upgrade as all signs on the rail network will have to be replaced as these specific signs will break with the upgrade. 1.8 will also see the removal of item codes and the double slab block. Meaning that players will have to worldedit in the smooth slab blocks from now on.

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Government District

Hey all, I'm ninjabob1797 or ninja or bob and I'm a new editor or journalist for WolvHaven. Just like to make an announcement that Government District on line 4 now has an entrance (hurrah) and trains will now be stopping there. Shop space above the entrance is available for rent. Tennant have begun to move in and 2 lots remain. See you around, Ninjabob1797

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Screenshot of the week - Skyline Sunrise

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WolvHaven Building Codes

It may seem daunting at first but did you know? That each building in Wolv Haven has its own code? The code itself can vary from a short “1G5G” to a super long “1A15B09-01″

What does this code actually mean? Building codes in WolvHaven is possible due to its extremely regular grid road pattern. This allows the code to be formed.

For example, 1B10C

1 - Stands for the island number

B - Stands for the plot from West to East

10 - Stands for the plot from South to North

C - Building letter within the city block.

Island Code

Each of WolvHaven’s islands are assigned a number!

As you can see, WolfMinster Island is assigned the number 1 while Westford is assigned 2 and Mechanicsburg is assigned 3.

1,2 A What!?

Numbers that count from South to North and letters that begin from West to East. Here’s an illustration to help.

Lets say we want to find the code of the Eiffel tower....

First, let us identify the island number it is in. Since it is in WolfMinster Island, its first character is 1.

Now, let us see which letter is it from West to East. As you can see from the illustation, it is within the D area. So therefore, the second character of the code is D.

Next, we find the number it is within from South to North which in this case is 5. So the third character is 5.

Finally, we check if there are any other buildings within the plot. In this case there are none.By default, we put a letter A behind making it our last character. So therefore, its final code is 1D5A.

But Some of the building codes are longer than just that! Why!?

Those arent bulding codes. Those are postal codes.

Well, the letters and numbers that follow it are mostly the building’s own code configuration. For example building 1G10C has a tenant at the 9th floor room 10. So the postal code would be 1G10C09-10. The postal code is also used to define regions using worldguard in the city.