Hey everyone,
It's been a rough couple of months, and especially the last 2 weeks. I wouldn't know much or anything about it however, as I have been super busy with life. As you may (or may not) have noticed, I have barely been in the general chat and TTT. Life is busy between my relocation, work, future aspirations, and some software I'm working on.
To start off, I cannot comment intricately and offer opinions on what has transpired recently. Players talking about the "last 2 months," I have no clue what that means. What has been happening in the community? The past 2 weeks I know about, but I don't know every in-and-out, and I still find myself getting lost following the conversation in Discord chats. All I know is TTT pop was down, and I had no clue why. I still don't know even right now. For the past 2 weeks, do I think things could have been handled better by everyone? Yeah of course, but I can't speak to it because I'm just too busy with life and don't know everything about what transpired. My new project site for work is a rollout, meaning we are replacing all of the business's old software (42 separate systems connected to an IBM mainframe; half COBOL, half Visual Basic) with a set deadline our company never misses. Bonus time is common (I've already clocked bonus time in less than a month, and it'll only become more), and last Friday and today I found myself in 4 meetings, each an hour-long. Prior to this, my last project site was production support (fixing bugs, adding features, tweaking things, etc.) and bonus time was barely a thought since the software was rolled out and stable. While I was still strapped for time, it worked.
Along with that, I often found myself developing for a community I know little about now. All of the little niches or "IYKYK", I don't know. I often just came home after work, hopped into my local development server, and knocked out bug reports, suggestions, etc. You could find me on the staging server, but the only time I really hopped into the public server was when we were rolling out an update. I barely even had time to play on the server I was developing for and it saddens me; I feel so disconnected from the community, unlike STTT/SGM and even AHG, where I was always in the loop with the community. There have been nights I'm late to a Discord call with my friends back home on Saturdays because I was in a dev meeting or busy pushing a hotfix for our production server (October 2025 being a key one).
Finally, that software I mentioned. I made a tool for myself and other technicians (mechanics) while at the dealership to help recommend regular maintenance (spark plugs, air filters, transmission/diff fluid, etc.) following our manufacturer's factory schedule. It's a script that would inject itself onto our dashboard, read the entire vehicle's repair history, mileage, etc., and offer a dropdown of all recommendation history, a button to quickly recommend with auto parts pricing, and more. My manager said I really should consider making this bigger and I never did until the past couple of months. I've now built a web portal with individual dealership manager logins, a base schedule for each brand I maintain, with a difference popup for every manager who signs in on what they want to import, etc. etc. No more will it be a JSON file I maintain by hand and upload to my web server. It's gotten to a point where I'm 80% happy with the software and its functionality. I'm now coordinating with my friend who works at an SEO company, my mom who owned a business, and my old manager at the dealership (Who I will be stopping by this weekend on my vacation when I fly back home to check in with him and get his input, suggestions, etc.)
That software, if even only 100 dealers use it (my old dealer is STILL using the old version 2 years later), that's enough to either reduce my American Airlines Cadet Pilot Academy from ~$80,000 loan to $20,000, or even less. It's just something I cannot ignore. Once stable, the price is cheap (for dealers) and it has low maintenance, only requiring me to add new models for each brand whenever they release. I can set it and forget it, which is perfect for flight training as I can focus on my 6-day-a-week program that'll take about a year + flight instructing for another year up to 1,500 hours to get to a regional airline. All this to say, this software I'm working to make into a SaaS is damn important to my dream since I was 5 years old.
So what's the future? I had a meeting with Jabba, Chou, Veri, Virunas, and Pierogi, and I've picked "successors". No longer will everything be centralized and revolve around a TTT developer. Chou will take over as a web developer (including the Pointshop WebView that is in-game), scrum manager (handling importing bug reports and suggestions from forums and putting them into the respective board that devs see), and sys admin (all the powerhouse stuff that keeps everything running that nobody sees). Veri will take over as TTT "lead". Veri will mainly put their attention towards working on features, bugs, etc. that are in the TTT scrum board. Splitting these tasks up will avoid the task saturation that I experienced, allowing for everything to continue chugging along. Hitreg will come out; the testing went well with almost no issues. A knowledge transfer will take place over 2 weeks where I guide Veri and Chou with the whole setup and their respective roles, though they are already well acquainted with everything.
With that, I said it in my announcement post and in #general, but I am so sorry for the data loss that occurred. It was my fault, and this is a shitty time for me to head out. Last week (especially with those 4, hour-long each meetings), I came home, wanted to clock out, but had to clean up the mess I made with the data loss. I caused the issue and now it seems I'm running away. I can't really offer anything else other than I've been overworked, surviving on about 5 hours of sleep on average, relocated 3 times in 9 months, and have a great opportunity to make my dreams come true by lowering expenses.
I love you all, and hopefully with this I'll be more active in Discord.
It's been a rough couple of months, and especially the last 2 weeks. I wouldn't know much or anything about it however, as I have been super busy with life. As you may (or may not) have noticed, I have barely been in the general chat and TTT. Life is busy between my relocation, work, future aspirations, and some software I'm working on.
To start off, I cannot comment intricately and offer opinions on what has transpired recently. Players talking about the "last 2 months," I have no clue what that means. What has been happening in the community? The past 2 weeks I know about, but I don't know every in-and-out, and I still find myself getting lost following the conversation in Discord chats. All I know is TTT pop was down, and I had no clue why. I still don't know even right now. For the past 2 weeks, do I think things could have been handled better by everyone? Yeah of course, but I can't speak to it because I'm just too busy with life and don't know everything about what transpired. My new project site for work is a rollout, meaning we are replacing all of the business's old software (42 separate systems connected to an IBM mainframe; half COBOL, half Visual Basic) with a set deadline our company never misses. Bonus time is common (I've already clocked bonus time in less than a month, and it'll only become more), and last Friday and today I found myself in 4 meetings, each an hour-long. Prior to this, my last project site was production support (fixing bugs, adding features, tweaking things, etc.) and bonus time was barely a thought since the software was rolled out and stable. While I was still strapped for time, it worked.
Along with that, I often found myself developing for a community I know little about now. All of the little niches or "IYKYK", I don't know. I often just came home after work, hopped into my local development server, and knocked out bug reports, suggestions, etc. You could find me on the staging server, but the only time I really hopped into the public server was when we were rolling out an update. I barely even had time to play on the server I was developing for and it saddens me; I feel so disconnected from the community, unlike STTT/SGM and even AHG, where I was always in the loop with the community. There have been nights I'm late to a Discord call with my friends back home on Saturdays because I was in a dev meeting or busy pushing a hotfix for our production server (October 2025 being a key one).
Finally, that software I mentioned. I made a tool for myself and other technicians (mechanics) while at the dealership to help recommend regular maintenance (spark plugs, air filters, transmission/diff fluid, etc.) following our manufacturer's factory schedule. It's a script that would inject itself onto our dashboard, read the entire vehicle's repair history, mileage, etc., and offer a dropdown of all recommendation history, a button to quickly recommend with auto parts pricing, and more. My manager said I really should consider making this bigger and I never did until the past couple of months. I've now built a web portal with individual dealership manager logins, a base schedule for each brand I maintain, with a difference popup for every manager who signs in on what they want to import, etc. etc. No more will it be a JSON file I maintain by hand and upload to my web server. It's gotten to a point where I'm 80% happy with the software and its functionality. I'm now coordinating with my friend who works at an SEO company, my mom who owned a business, and my old manager at the dealership (Who I will be stopping by this weekend on my vacation when I fly back home to check in with him and get his input, suggestions, etc.)
That software, if even only 100 dealers use it (my old dealer is STILL using the old version 2 years later), that's enough to either reduce my American Airlines Cadet Pilot Academy from ~$80,000 loan to $20,000, or even less. It's just something I cannot ignore. Once stable, the price is cheap (for dealers) and it has low maintenance, only requiring me to add new models for each brand whenever they release. I can set it and forget it, which is perfect for flight training as I can focus on my 6-day-a-week program that'll take about a year + flight instructing for another year up to 1,500 hours to get to a regional airline. All this to say, this software I'm working to make into a SaaS is damn important to my dream since I was 5 years old.
So what's the future? I had a meeting with Jabba, Chou, Veri, Virunas, and Pierogi, and I've picked "successors". No longer will everything be centralized and revolve around a TTT developer. Chou will take over as a web developer (including the Pointshop WebView that is in-game), scrum manager (handling importing bug reports and suggestions from forums and putting them into the respective board that devs see), and sys admin (all the powerhouse stuff that keeps everything running that nobody sees). Veri will take over as TTT "lead". Veri will mainly put their attention towards working on features, bugs, etc. that are in the TTT scrum board. Splitting these tasks up will avoid the task saturation that I experienced, allowing for everything to continue chugging along. Hitreg will come out; the testing went well with almost no issues. A knowledge transfer will take place over 2 weeks where I guide Veri and Chou with the whole setup and their respective roles, though they are already well acquainted with everything.
With that, I said it in my announcement post and in #general, but I am so sorry for the data loss that occurred. It was my fault, and this is a shitty time for me to head out. Last week (especially with those 4, hour-long each meetings), I came home, wanted to clock out, but had to clean up the mess I made with the data loss. I caused the issue and now it seems I'm running away. I can't really offer anything else other than I've been overworked, surviving on about 5 hours of sleep on average, relocated 3 times in 9 months, and have a great opportunity to make my dreams come true by lowering expenses.
I love you all, and hopefully with this I'll be more active in Discord.
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