Hello everyone! Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Stratus Status, the official biweekly newsletter. Are you interested in recent network changes and what the community has been up to? If so, read on to get up-to-date about all things Stratus!
Since the past issue, ALM added a way to create banners on the website through the admin panel, replacing the previous method of hard-coding them. Operation Ares received a very large number of updates, which are as follows:
Added complete objectives API:
<interactive>true</interactive>
in the XML to override this)Most of these changes were implemented before the Alpha test was conducted last Sunday, which was available to staff and players with Cirro. If you were able to play, use this thread to report any bugs you encountered. If you couldn't because your rank is lower than Cirro, don't worry! Our intention is to hold more donor tests in the near future.
Over the past 2 weeks, the following maps have been added to the public servers:
, by Rixiot and Cosmologix
, by AlmightyBread
, by CheetoPuf
, by Valky
Additionally, Punch bows have been replaced with Power 1 bows on 9.5th Law, Bastion Hill, Deepwind Redux, Fairy Tales 2: Redux, Fourchette, Golden Drought IV, Gridlock 2, Kytriak, Kytriakk, Levels, Ouroboros, PixelMix, Poise, Race for Victory 2, Ranch, Smog, Tenebrous, The 4th Law, Thunderstorm, Turf Wars, and Xion. This should mean all punch bows have been removed from all Capture the Wool maps.
We remind everyone that the map making contest is accepting submissions until 4 March. Read the full thread here.
The server rotations were also updated last week which saw the addition of 35 brand new maps, 31 returning maps, and the removal of 56 other maps. The main attraction of this update though was the complete rework of the Micro rotation that now exclusively features maps which are specifically tailored for periods of low player counts. You can find the full details on this huge change in Jexel 's thread.
came back as Referee
, CincoDeMayo , Campeh and _shrp were promoted to Junior Moderator
Have you ever wanted to know when your favourite maps are being played? unixfox has made a browser extension which can be configured to notify you when the selected maps are being played. Check out his thread!
Following the theme of Sunday's Operation Ares test, we ask: what PGM feature do you think must be kept in Operation Ares?
That's all for this time!
Thanks for reading this week's issue. See you all next time!
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