The Future of AL Development - A thanks to Connor

[James32 823]

Hey everyone,

Today I wanted to share some sad news with everyone, and then offer some insight into the future.

 

Due to personal reasons (particularly centered around ongoing health issues), @Connor. has elected to step down from staff/development position for Straya/Altis-life moving forward.

This doesn't mean Connor wont be contributing at all in the future, but he will be moving to doing contracted work on a project by project basis should we need it in the future. As for day-to-day AL Dev and the options as I see it for dev moving forward.

In the short-medium term I'll be taking over a large part of the day to day AL Development work such as updating miscelaneous systems/functionality changes Altis-Life senior staff will be doing all the map and a large part of the config changes such as accessibility of weapons ect so that our development cycle can continue in between more major changes that we recruit Connor for!

To be very clear AL dev should not stall following these changes, it will just become a bit more diversified/will have an actual structure to it instead of Connor shouldering all the hard work.

 

We are also open to people writing code for the mission however this will be blind (without access to the entire mission file) to ensure the security of the mission file. As such what I'm looking for, for anyone who wants to contribute, is stand alone systems/features built by you to improve AL gameplay, if @Mitch and his staff approve the addition and the code is of sufficient quality I will then work on integrating your standalone content into the existing AL mission file. In order to minimize wasted work if you have skills in this area I would suggest contacting Mitch in order to be given features that are more likely to be approved/that staff want.

 

Even though this news is sad and Connor will be missed greatly as a regular member of our staff team I hope everyone will give him recognition for his years of hardwork and dedication; and from everyone in staff I would like to wish him the best in his future endeavors! He has added a huge amount of quality content to AL, including back end security with a leading anticheat system that has protected us from over 500 hackers in the last year, along with countless performance improvements that allow the server to sustain far more clients at a playable level than it used to! For all of this and more we will always be grateful to him.

If anyone has any questions about anything related to how things will move forward in this post i'll leave it open for replies so you can ask them.

[SilentKiller 45]

miss you mate hope you still play us still

 

[WickedGamer57 35]

Sadness, cheers Connor!

[bouda118 349]

Its a sad day for AL, But nothing is more important than your health, Best of luck Connor and thanks for everything you have done for this community.

[Nuu Rushean 259]

Big ups to you Connor, you have done an absolute shit ton for this server and it wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today without you. You have an amazing talent with coding/developing and I see it getting you far in life.  I wish you luck in the future regarding your health and your future endeavours in life

[Michael Steiner 603]

Goodbye @Connor. I hope the absolute best for your future and hope all your issues with Health are sorted out! You don't get enough credit for all the work you do.

Goodluck in the future man! 

[Jesse Wasabi 94]

Will be missed man, hope everything only gets better for you from this current point in time. Cheers for all your hard work developing legend 

[Havoxa 84]

Coonner,

 

Thank you for the work you have done for the server and i hope that you dont be a stranger and i hope to see you soon

[DJ_JoozBrorg 825]

https://youtu.be/wVyggTKDcOE?t=73

[jacob potty 66]

[Chadd 1040]

cya gamer girl xo xo

[Nevetos 511]

Truly amazing work that you have done here Connor!

Not only developing AL solo, but also in conjunction with your health condition you powered on doing what most other large communities have big teams of developers for.
That is no small feat and deserving of a much bigger praise than anyone here can give you.

I wish you all the best in the future.

Just remember to register your contracting group on the forums for a free TS channel 

[Jamiec 38]

Cya Connor, You have done well and I hope you have a great future.

 

[Paulb 36]

Cya Conner,

Hope to see you get better man,

[Axle_Tiaky 415]

3 hours ago, Paulb said:

Cya Conner,

Hope to see you get better man,

Paul its Connor 

 

Catch ya round, nice having ya here for a few years, and def a great guy to talk to.

[SouLGenetic 3]

cheers for all the hard work put in @Connor. best of luck with the future, hope to cross paths with you again someday ♥

[Omiua 103]

respect