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Stratus Status #15, 2019-03-11
Hello everyone! Welcome to the fifteenth 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!
Tournament News
This weekend, we saw the qualifier stage of Stratus: Into the Gamemodes. Congratulations to the top 8 teams who made it into the invitational stage!
If you missed the streams or you want to re-watch them, make sure to check out our channel on Twitch. Shout out to 
The invitational stage will take place next weekend, 16-17 March. Good luck to everyone! You can check the accepted teams, the format and other information, such as roster repairs, in the information post for the invitationals.
Development News
Significant progress was made in Operation Ares during the last two weeks. Here are the most important changes:
- DTM and DTC were further developed, with mostly the same syntax. Both gamemodes share all configuration attributes, except for leak distance. DTC now supports water cores
- Modes were re-implemented, completely overhauled from PGM
- A condensed wool display was added, for rounds where all the wools won’t fit on the scoreboard
- Observers can view inventories belonging to participating players and containers
- UHC was implemented, and now supports a lobby with XML configuration
- X-ray notification system for hosts
- /helpop
- An API to alert developers of missing translation strings has been introduced
- Locked and unsharable item support
- Group colours now support additional styling such as underline and bold
- Settings commands can now be tab-completed
- Observers are now in creative
- Applicators now warn on a delay and don’t spam players who repeatedly enter a protected area
- A warning is now shown to map makers when cores are missing a liquid
- Players can pick up all wools again
- Death messages no longer have decimals
New Maps
Over the past 2 weeks the following maps were added to the public servers:
- Conquest: Hide from the Ogden
, by
JcNumbers and
Qwuiblington
- Dry Outpost
, by
mitchiii
- Grassy Mound CTF
, by
- Zip
, by
BrettOgden and
MySquishyTurtle
Additionally, the following maps were also added as part of the Winter Mapmaking Contest. These will be tested numerous times and then judged by our team of judges, and you, the community. Good luck to all the authors and their submissions!
- Canyon
, by
Xerocoles
- Ceasefire
- Clay Soldiers
, by
__BT
- Cottage
, by
Skatole
- Crystal
, by
- Flumine
, by
_shrp
- Moor
, by
Tywnis
- Moor RAGE
, by
- New Realm
, by
kroest
- Outcrop
, by
- Rocky's Bane
, by
Obelistics and
DoomyBoy
- Royal
, by
- Ruediger's Golftron
, by
Ruediger_LP
- Ruediger's Octawool
, by
- Ruediger's Real Garden
, by
- Settlement
, by
AlmightyBread
- Sloped
- Sprout
, by
Slowbro
- The Bug
, by
- Urban Sprawl
, by
rockymine and
- Woodlot KoTF
, by
- Wooled War
Shared Account Crackdown
Yesterday, 
Staff News
drakos_
and
Fulanito were promoted to Referee
pat2424
,
Campeh ,
CincoDeMayo and
Lucaslyoko have been promoted to Moderator
D347HxD
is no longer a Map Developer
Epicness
stepped down as Referee
halfmaster1
is no longer a Junior Moderator
Community Spotlight
What is your favourite ItG moment? We can't pick a favourite, but check out
Do you want film recommendations? 
Biweekly Question
This issue, we ask: what's your favourite tournament map, and why?
That's all for this time!
Thanks for reading this week's issue. See you all next time!
A full list of past issues can be found on our profile page, and if you have any feedback about Stratus Status please let us know below.
Conquest: Smoke, Desert or Ascendance. Nartica too.
CTW: GD3 or Gobi
DTC: Wallop 9000 and Fractal
CTW: Gobi
DTC: Spaceship Battles
conquest: ascendance II & smoke
ctw: golden drought 3
dtc: ssb
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