Hello everyone! Welcome to the nineteenth 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!
A few hours ago, our Head Map Developer mitchiii announced a set of changes to Anax, our map development server. In short, Anax will be moved to our new server software, SportPaper, which will drastically improve reliability. Permissions, including the whitelist, will now be handled through our permissions system. For more information, read the full post here.
This follows an announcement outlining how to make maps future-proof for Operation Ares. You can read his thread here.
Our developer Cobol72 wants to know: what are your gamemode ideas? If you have any ideas, or you just want to see your friends' ideas, check out his thread here.
Over the past two weeks, the Operation Ares UHC part of the plugin has received a number of updates. These are the most relevant changes:
and cs_ have started putting together the GraphQL API for our backend. The plugins and our website will use this to read and write all the information that we'll be holding centrally. halfmaster1 is now working on the website, and awesomelemonade has been working on CTF. Lastly, expect regular UHC matches on Operation Ares by the end of this month!
During the past two weeks, the following maps have been added to the public servers:
came back as Trial Developer
and Skatole were promoted to Map Developer
stepped down as Referee
stepped down from Marketing
The DTC meta is broken, how can it be fixed? Qwuiblington has written an extensive list of possible solutions to address the many problems in the gamemode. Check it out here.
Do you want trees on your map but you find vanilla ones boring? The custom tree connoisseur himself has made all his trees public. Check out rockymine 's thread here!
This week, the administration had a big announcement: ShinyDialga is taking a step back from his role in daily network management into a more advisory position, so he can focus on his work and education. Shiny has been committed to Stratus for the past two-and-a-half years, and will remain involved with business decisions and larger plans for Stratus's future.
We've also brought in Anthonny , who has been working with us for a while behind the scenes, to be more closely involved with our network goals and business plans in Shiny's place. You can read more about this here.
On this issue, we ask: what is your favourite gamemode for mammoth maps?
That's all for this time!
Thanks for reading this week's issue. See you all next time!
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