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Hello All, Today we bring you the Third StrayaLife Podcast Myself , Big Kev & Tonic have decided to make a podcast for Altis Life Players & Staff we will be trying to push these out as much as we can. This week we invited James32 to speak on the server at the moment and the upcoming updates after the wipe. I Hope you all enjoy and please leave comments if you agree or disagree on any topics spoken on also please let us know if these is anyway to improve our podcast and who we should invite on to our next one... 

Greetings everyone, I have planned to leave at the beginning of the month, but I have ultimately made this public post now? Why is that? Well, I have been to busy to retire, now isn't that ironic ;). Also I am just submitting this right before work so i dont know how complete this is... I want to be as frank and straightforward as possible with what happens behind the scenes. Communication between the staff team was extremely difficult initially, however it is slowly improving which is great. Toxicity and backstabbing each other is probably the biggest reason as to why things go wrong (not just from staff members) - this point was not relating to the very recent forums mess when I wrote it a month ago. Working through the ranks from support team I was apart of groups and we always managed to find something negative about the higher ups and their decisions. When we got asked about it, or could have spoken out about those issues we never did, instead keeping it to ourselves until we exploded. Sadly, this is still the case at times. My tip would be to talk it out with them, instead of fuming and going off to the next manager. As for Red, well... (The aforementioned image may be taken out of context *cough*) (EDIT: let me re-iterate, this is a joke) He is great - he does things which are necessary even if they seem abrupt or 'out there'. He deals with those noone else would be comfortable with and I must say his occasional 'spring cleanings' were a real treat. I will still be there to maintain my documents, and may return if I end up having more time (Not before Dec.). It was a pleasure to be here with every one of you (unless you went and broke some google docs, because I like google docs). I hope everyone enjoys their time and have a good rest of the year!

I'll Miss you Nev You've always been one of the most sane and insightful people around here and whilst we didnt always agree and debated ideas endlessly I have immense respect for you. Good luck with your IRL commitments. Come back to us soon

Also @geera as much as you may personally dislike mitch, or you say the community dislikes mitch, there are two things that are not needed. - You naming him in every post, if everyone dislikes him as much as you say, you won't need to name him. - you REPEATEDLY latching onto ONE example of his misconduct, and also making baseless allegations. I'm yet to see any evidence of this heli incident. Myself and @Mitch may not have gotten along very well in the past, but like I said in my previous comment, at the end of the day he is a person, he deserves the same respect as anyone else. If you don't like the way he staffs, runs the APD, or acts, do what others have done for different moderators in the past. Get evidence, make sure it PROVES what you are asserting, and then SEND IT TO HIGHER UP STAFF. DO. NOT. POST. IT. PUBLICLY. In regards to his style in running the APD, yes it is harsh, yes he may not contact people that get punished, but he has plenty of experience and I don't doubt that without him as dep. commissioner that APD would probably be in tattles at the moment.

110% agree with what @Michael Steiner has to say. I remember way way back, a couple months before I even registered my forums account, you'd be able to just jump in TS and have a yarn with ANYBODY. The highest of staff, the highest ranks of the APD, it didn't matter. Because at the end of the day, your positions in the staff team/on the server didn't really matter - you were still a person. We were all FRIENDS and we were part of a COMMUNITY. Now people hold certain positions (some moreso than others) to pedestals, and make them think it means they are more of a person, and worth more than other people. With it becoming easier and easier to attain certain staff ranks, you get people who really shouldn't be in those positions, in said positions. I have also (while browsing the forums recently) seen some macabre comments that would NOT fly 1-2 years ago (get you banned REAL quick). You also see plenty of racist/homophobic slurs in game chat now that would've got you community banned last year. As to what @Pezza said when referring to the cop reset, I was chief inspector at the time of that reset and I got re-set with everybody too. As a bit of personal anecdote, I remember when I applied for support TWICE, got denied TWICE, reapplied a third time and under mentoring from the current STL and SM, finally made green tick. I sat at green tick for about 7-8 months, and never made red tick (for good reason, I simply wasn't ready). I made a moderator application while I was green tick, it got something like 20 or so likes and like 300 views, everyone told me I would for-sure get it, but it was ignored and eventually denied. Point being it used to be incredibly difficult to get to a staff position, and in an attempt to bolster staff numbers, the bar has been lowered WAYYYY too far.

holy crap its been a long time whos still around ahahahha

I fully commend and applaud @Mitch for doing his job even with the amount of hate he receives. And yes I’ve been banned by him twice but he’s doing his job. I believe Mitch needs more respect in this community, he’s worked day in and day out to what he has achieved. @Mitch keep up the good work **** what other people have to say about you, good luck with all your future endeavours. - Woolie

Am I the only one who feels like Straya is being run like a company rather than like a community of people who enjoy playing a certain game? Especially with the current staff team I think Senior staff ahs become too confident that no matter what happens the community won't die. I feel that we as a community have lost the sense of mateship.

Wasteland Stratis Major UPDATE In the event of any catastrophic errors or problems on initial release, we may revert back to the previous version. Please let me know how the update effects your performance Development N.B. This list of changes is not everything, it’s just what I felt were the most significant changes General Changes - Added - Teambalance system, Leashes opfor and blufor to within 3 people of each other at all times. The team-balance takes priority over the team lock script however when you get balanced it locks you to the other team so it cannot be abused for free unlocks Added - Brand new token stores system, a new way to spend your hard earnt tokens! (more details below) Added -flares to pawnee's Added - Custom incoming missile alert to vehicles, mostly to benefit heli's that BI removed the warning radar from such as the pawnee and hummingbird Added - Ability to buy token vehicles at the aircraft carrier vehicle store Added -Several new vehicles to the store (rocket variants of 4WD/Offroad and a couple more) Added - Hostile Jet/s missions Added - Abandoned jet mission Added - Skyfire and DAR rockets are now fired by helicopter pilots instead of gunners as they are direct fire not guided. Added -Environmental effect toggle (animals and sounds) Added - Terrain quality options Added - A significant number of extra logs Added -Persistent global chat mute option for admins Tweak - Reworked Gun store to improve Usability When you buy a weapon it now comes with 1 clip/rocket loaded ready to fire straight away When you buy attachment you now get a prompt to automatically equip them to your gun Tweak - Reworked General store to improve usability When buying new clothes/armor/backpacks the gear in your current clothing is now automatically transferred to your new gear, removing the need to drop your items before buying new gear ect Tweak - Increased size of player item storage to allow far more gear to be stored Tweak - Moved south gun store to LZ Connor Tweak - added some battlement to LZ Connor to make hitting it from the carrier harder Tweak - Increase rate of mag repacking Tweak - Optimized several scripts and adjusted the frequency of a bunch of intensive scripts on client and server. Tweak - Increased frequency of cleanup of commonly cluttering items Tweak - Made admin mute on a player correctly persist until the next restart Fixed - Player Respawn logs showing some players at being on civ when they spawned Fixed - Broken admin panel elements Fixed - Several other edge case bugs/exploits Deleted - A bunch of extraneous spawned scripts that were bogging the client and server down Token Store System: This brand new system allows players to spend tokens on persistent rewards for those who would rather that than stronger vehicles, options listed below, these types will most likely be given teiring in the future for better options: Spawn with a better Gun: Allows you to respawn with a sting with a suppressor, aco and 3 mags every time you respawn after purchasing, giving you a small but significant edge against opponents with pistols Spawn Gear: Same as above except instead of spawning with a gun you will spawn with lvl 3 vest and helmet every respawn Extra storage: Increases bank cap by 1mil and the number of vehicles you can store by 1 for each time you purchase it (can buy multiple times Open General store: Allows you to open the general store from anywhere once without having to go to the store at the cost of 10 tokens Finding any Issues or bugs? Report your findings to our wasteland staff. Feedback/Suggestions are welcome

Hello Everybody, It's been a while since I've posted on the forums, I know this seems like a weird idea, however, none the less just hear it out. I know I've been gone for a while, however it's allowed me to gain an insight on the opinions of the community and their thoughts on staff. NOTE: If there are any staff mentioned in this post do NOT take it personally, this is just a post regarding opinions, thus going to be subjective The post is aimed at removing inactive staff and for the Leads ( hopefully unbias ) to put "good" staff in charge of HR ( Human Resources ) and to manage the staff effectively. Nevetos was the best ( and only ) staff manager Straya had, however with rumors of his departure. There is nobody to fill the role. The current "Junior Staff Managers" ( Support Leaders ) are quite dodgy and have made decisions which previous staff members wouldn't even consider. This has changed the positioning of support within the community. It used to be a privilege and an opportunity to showcase your skills within staffing. It was a pathway to future staff, people were put into support if we could see them getting mod with the same attitude. This raised the bar of support, therefore having a higher quality. Recently the support has lowered "I only put an app in to **** around and see if they were dumb enough to put me in" - CURRENT support team member. The attitudes of players within staff has changed, including mods. It's become more of a "**** it" and "I'm never going to get that rank, however _____ has gotten it so anything is possible" these quotes are from people within CURRENT staff, showcasing the attitudes and the mindset. Overall this post was just to give an insight to the leads and people of this community what staff is looking like. The idea about resetting staff came from the idea of cop, they kept a few key members to help rebuild to what it is now. Staff would work similarly, put somebody incharge of support who is good and people actually respect, somebody who people want to work under, that they DON'T hate. Resetting staff would remove the staff that are on and off every now and then, it would improve the mindset of staff now that these positions are now vacant. Obviously there can be some exceptions to keep staff running, however this post is to try and increase the formal relationship between the community and the staffing team. If you're not going to comment anything constructive please leave. I'd love to have a discussion about this, please don't take any offense to this. As mentioned above this is a subjective post. This is just simply my opinion.

@Nevetos "The wheels on the bus goes round and round" (While spinning on the floor at SYD Hospital) Will miss them days

If you think 'rank resets' work everywhere because it worked in some specific situation, please think again... HR is more complex than you might think. As for the comment of run like a business, not a community, I will put my two cents to that after work.

u still owe me comp from vdm wtf helpdesk

Memes will be remembered.

If we get 100 can you do your nut sack ?

What If i told you that how much someone is liked doesn't have to correlate with their ability to do the job effectively

You really do need to consider the negatives for such a large move like this. "It worked before it'll work again" isn't really the best argument. A few things to note: What if you put the wrong person in charge? Things will end up worse than they are now. Who is the right people to put in charge? Regardless of who you put up people will complain, the community will be split, especially with its current state, and this might cause more issues than it solves. Furthermore, with the reset of staff you'd lose a large chunk of viable members to actually moderate the server, or helpdesk which in turn would probably turn the server into more of an unmoderated RDM fest. If there needs to be a removal of staff members, start with the ones making comments about how they don't give a shit about their jobs, or the ones with poor attitude/work ethic. They're the reason you want the reset in the first place, why not start with them?

l8er sk8er ?

Cya Mate...

Seeya Nev. You will be missed

Goodbye you magnificent person

Rest In Pepperoni Pizza

So currently i believe the server as a whole dislikes Mitch i have had countless command, ex-command, support and countless people from cop who dislikes Mitch due to him being to harash and his punishments are done with no attempt to contact the person/persons who are at fault (I am talking about the sit today where Mitch froze a person in a heli which caused him to crash and lose all his gear aswell as the people in the heli). Also due to there being majority of people in help desk high up cops (people of snr sgt or above) there is almost always an unintentional bias towards cops. This bias can be seen in a recent case of Diz who glitched and got this reply for a command member "the apd would like to have no link to anyone that exploits, BUT. Seeing as you are as young kid with great potential we are not removing you from the APD. Instead you are getting the night off cop and a watchlist for exploiting" This is significant due to Diz on multiple occasion has been called a bad influence on people in APD And then Nuu Rushean who glitched into a house to get a person who glitched into a house when a mod sit was going on got banned for 7 days I understand what red is saying when he says he doesn't listen to people who are constantly complaining about the server but Mitch being a Deputy Commisioner and a Snr Mod makes people wonder why is a person who will have such as bias and a person who has had a history and has been removed due to to his bias got the high rank of Snr Mod when there are people more liked such as Matt Ronaldo who deserve it more and is generally considered a better more fair cop and moderator So Finnally Yes i think you should get rid of all junior staff and derank Mitch to the rank or support team lead Ps: this should be done to all Higher up Cops such as the Augnov due to him unintentionally having a bias toward he will have towards cop as state in him Mod app Thanks,