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StrayaGaming Monthly News Bulletin

THE HEADLINES

The year is fast drawing to a close and what a year it has been. New servers have been added, and now with over 10 000 registered members StrayaGaming continues to cement its place as Australasia’s number 1 online gaming community.
From all the staff at StrayaGaming we sincerely wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

XMAS ADVENT CALENDAR
We want to celebrate the festive season with you and what better way to do it than with giveaways! Over December StrayaGaming will be holding a number of events across all servers with plenty of wicked prizes, including Steam gift-cards, donator perks and Xbox 360 subscriptions. 
The more events you take part in, the greater your chances of landing one or more of the prizes.

ALTIS LIFE
Enhancements have been rolled out on the Altis Life server. Altis Life v11.6 and Altis Life v11.6.1.

INVADE & ANNEX
Some exciting developments are about to be unleashed on the Invade & Annex Altis server - we can’t say much just yet, but, maybe Freedom!

SPACE ENGINEERS
We were very excited in November to announce that StrayaGaming officially added two Space Engineers servers as full and permanent fixtures to our service line-up, joining our existing Arma3 servers with full service status. 
As part of this we are offering a modded Space Engineers server, to join our current unmodded survival server. Check out the full details below:

WASTELAND
We're looking for some Wastelanders to become part of the team responsible for moderating our Wasteland server, and maintaining the smashing reputation and experience that players have learned to love on our Wasteland service. Up for the challenge? Then follow the Discord link below:

CHANGES TO HELPDESK SUPPORT
As we diversify StrayaGaming, we will be making three distinct changes:
 All Issue channels (e.g. 'Altis Life Issues', 'Wasteland Issues') for the TeamSpeak HelpDesk section will be combined into one channel ('Issues & General Info - Join Here').
We will be involving the discord support section more and more. A lot of options from the Forum Tickets will be soon be possible through discord. Space Engineers is currently trialling this change.
We will soon be implementing additional features for the TeamSpeak HelpDesk section which should see response times to issues increase dramatically for those waiting for 5 minutes or more.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Support Team.

STAFF NEWS
Congratulations to the following staff who have been appointed or promoted in the staff team in the past month: Knoah - Trial I&A Moderator, Matty B - Trial Space Engineers Mod, Wyrmstooth - Community Team, Pantha - Trial Wasteland Moderator, Scorpion - Senior Wasteland Moderator, AidanC - Senior Moderator Wasteland, Mr Chu- Moderator Altis Life and Bad_Apl - Trial Moderator Wasteland.

DONATORS
Finally, but most importantly, many thanks to all those who have donated in the last month - it’s your support that helps keep StrayaGaming the greatest online gaming community in Australasia! @Rocky, @GrimReaper, @[IV] M3rKin, @HollowFox, @MattyB, @Mr Chu, @Corrupt, @deadly_ranga, @thesecondjtm, @AidanC, @Jiggz, @Dizzy, @Pathfiner 13 and the many anonymous donations as well.

Greetings fellow Space Engineers!

To celebrate Space Engineers going to full-service on StrayaGaming AND the introduction of our new modded server, we will be hosting a demolition derby on the modded server at 20:00 Thursday 28th November 2019.

Rules:

• Small-grid rovers only
• No power source allowed as this will be supplied
• Turrets and missile weapons not allowed 
• Can use gatling guns
• Ship tools not allowed
• Nanobots not allowed
• Rovers may have horizontal thrusters
• No vertical thrusters
• Upon arriving a reactor will be placed on your grid followed by the shield mod
• You will be eliminated when/if your grid is destroyed OR you lose your reactor

Prizes:

First place - 1xZonechip and 2x ZPM

Second place 1xZPM

Third place 10k gold ingots

Time:

20:00 Thursday 28th November 2019 on the StrayaGaming Space Engineers modded server.

If you can't build a rover one will be spawned for you but may not be as good as others.

Please join in early to ensure your rover is ready to rumble!

If you have any question please contact @bodyboarder2528, @cherpychicken, @Humaine or @Noskire.

Good luck!

Warlords Weekend: RHS Edition - Battle of Morut Pass

Created by Snohman

Operation Objective:

Two teams will start in bases on opposite sides of Lythium, one of Arma 3’s finest maps. Between them lie towns and strategic locations populated by enemy NPCs. Your mission is to clear out those locations, capture territory and gain credit - thus allowing you to spend that hard-earned credit on new units and assets which will assist your advance to the enemy territory until their home base falls. This is a persistent real-time operation that will run over the entire weekend, and you can join at any time.

Equipment and Resources:

The full range of Arma 3 RHS and vanilla assets will be at your disposal, yet dependant on the amount of game credits you have to purchase them at any given time. You will also have the ability to recruit AI players to your squad, also subject to game credit.

Required Mods:

• RHS: AFRF
• RHS: GREF
• RHS: USAF
• Task Force Radio
• CBA_3
• Warlords RHS Edition Mod
• Lythium
• Jbad

Optional:

• JSRS Sound Mod
• JSRS Sound Mod AFRF Support
• JSRS Sound Mod USAF Support
• JSRS Sound Mod GREF Support
• Blastcore (standalone)
• ShackTac User Interface (Recommended to have this)

When and Where?

The operation will commence on Friday 18th October at 1800AEDT /2000NZST on the StrayaGaming Zeus Event Server (#2). 

Please direct any questions to @Noskire or @Humaine

"AREA 15"

The side-mission reward could be spawned at the side-mission base.

Or you could build a mission/map for a Community Zeus event.

Money really doesn't matter when your Zeus has goats

On 4/28/2019 at 2:03 PM, Corporal Kerry said:

Lythium map only needs JBAD, and it is very nice indeed. Two huge airbases north and south, this would not require CUP mods. A perfect suggestion. It is from FFAA mod and stands out as a perfect choice, Fallujah requires CUP terrains Core.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=909547724&searchtext=lythium

This would be easier to setup. Perfect for Syria or Afghanastan scenarios.

Isla Duala needs CUP terrains core to work, same with Fallujah and any other Arma 2 map. We need to keep it simple.

It's a nice map, but combined with JBAD is around 3.5GIG. I'm not sure there would be much appetite for a download of that size for one map. Or is there?

3 hours ago, pkisbest said:

Fallujah. Give everyone PTSD

13 minutes ago, RadScorpion said:

Modded maps or vanilla maps?

The CUP Terrain mods add many of the Arma 2 and Arma Cold War Assault maps, however those mods are ****ing massive.

Isla Durant is a good standalone.

I don't think we will want to use CUP at this stage.

The Gods have granted permission for a new map to be used on the I&A Event server. Post your suggestions here.

We'll be doing a stress-test with the new features tonight - Tanoa Tuesday @ 1800AEDT

Along with CBA and Achilles. None of those mods are a requirement on I&A Altis and I&A Malden/Tanoa, although you can load them if you so desire.

However the I&A Event server requires RHS: USAF and RHS: AFRF. Join us on the event server tomorrow night for modded mayhem.

Note that with StrayaGaming recently moving to up-graded servers, your Arma3 bookmarks/favourites will now be invalid. 

Search Straya in the Arma 3 browser when you next log-in and the new servers will appear.

The StrayaGaming Arma 3 I&A community is alive and kicking mate. With two dedicated servers, and regular events each week, we are aiming to keep Arma 3 fresh and interesting for Australian and New Zealand players alike. Welcome back (I think AussieDave would be more than happy to see you as an Ironside team-mate).

Some players may find they cannot join I&A and receive the script restriction #26 message. Unloading CBA and Achilles mods should resolve this.

15 minutes until op start.

A pop-up Zeus mission will run on our event server after the servers restart tonight at 1800 AEDT. You will require the RHS: USAF mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843577117 to participate. The mod is about 1.3 gig. The event server will open at 1800 AEDT and the event will will kick off 30 minutes after that. The password for the event server is "straya".

https://store.steampowered.com/app/505460/Foxhole/

Sunday 3rd March

Server Start Time:

12.00pm AEDT

Mission Start Time:

12.30pm AEDT

Location:

StrayaGaming I and A Event Server (search "straya" to find the server, which will be active 30 minutes before the operation commences).

Password:

straya

Objectives:

An Armoured Platoon was in the process of returning to base after a mission, and was ambushed and all crewman assumed dead.

Force Longsword has been tasked with retrieving the Armour and Securing the Area.

An advanced convoy of CSAT armoured assets has been spotted by long range UAV moving into the area.

Longsword are to move and destroy the convoy with any available assets.

Intel shows there may be units moving ahead of the convoy that pose a threat to friendly armour.

Airborne units unknown.

Alternative objectives may available once the area is secured.

The operation will be based on the Tanoa map and have a focus on armoured elements.

There is no predetermined structure for squad and individual roles, so it will be up to players to organise themselves prior to attempting the mission objectives.

Additionally, the RHS: USAF mod will be required http://www.rhsmods.org/mod/2. It is a download of approximately 1.3 gig.

Any questions please contact @Noskire or @webbie.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843577117

If you are trying to join Tanoa/Malden or Altis then get kicked after joining then unload the CBA and Achilles mods and try joining again.