Here's some recent Star Army news!
General Updates
I updated the following stuff:
Staff Updates
I spoke with Nashoba and we agreed that he'll temporarily step down from staff. This is to relieve pressure on him as he works on his IRL situation (he is job hunting) and I want to stress that it's intended to be a temporary change. The intent is to allow him to focus on the most important activity in the site: roleplaying. During this hiatus, Nashoba's staff banner will be replaced with a new, honorary "Retired Staff" banner I'll make. The retired staff banner will also be available to other ex-staff (e.g. Fred).
It is also my intent to promote our Staff Apprentices to full staff members by the end of April (Jack Pine and Syaoran). New staff members will be given specific roles like facilitiating RP or managing conflicts in the community.
Finance
Star Army is down to 4 donators and the donations are not covering the cost of the site. In order to keep up upkeep costs and with luxuries like getting art for people, and to avoid crappy solutions like ads, I am considering having a donation drive. If we can pass $200 in the upcoming drive, I would like to make a new order of custom patches to mail people. I was thinking the newer-style hinomaru would be good. I'm also open to other suggestions. It's kind of a tradition that we have these donation drives in March or May for whatever reason, although we haven't done one in a few years. Also, don't worry, I'd pay for the whole site myself if I had to. But some help would be nice, so stay tuned for details on a donation drive and how to get your patches.
RP Updates
April is a mandatory RP Review month, which is a fancy way of saying I'm going to make all the Game Masters do a checklist regarding how well they're keeping up with their plots. The objective is to make sure the wiki is getting properly updated, wanted ads and the list of plots are updated (new members really need these to be up to date!) and that inactive player characters are swept off the rosters. With this in mind, I need all the people roleplaying here to help your GMs out by updating your character wiki pages now, and by making sure all the plots you're in are getting posts from you so your characters don't get cut for inactivity.
I feel like this section should also have some updates on what's happening in the big picture of the RP, so let's all work on moving the overall story of SARP along. What do you need as far as getting entertainment out of the Kuvexian War? Any questions, comments, or concerns about RP?
Also, I'm currently looking for assistance with Star Army stuff, so let me know if you are able to contribute some time and effort and I'll tell you some tasks I could use a hand with.
General Updates
I updated the following stuff:
- Xenforo (forum software)
- Enabled push notifications
- Xenforo add-ons:
- 8WAYRUN Discord Integration (it's working again!)
- XenFocus Titan (style) - this was recently made the default style. NOTE: You can customize the background and other parts of this.
- Themehouse Tactical (style)
Staff Updates
I spoke with Nashoba and we agreed that he'll temporarily step down from staff. This is to relieve pressure on him as he works on his IRL situation (he is job hunting) and I want to stress that it's intended to be a temporary change. The intent is to allow him to focus on the most important activity in the site: roleplaying. During this hiatus, Nashoba's staff banner will be replaced with a new, honorary "Retired Staff" banner I'll make. The retired staff banner will also be available to other ex-staff (e.g. Fred).
It is also my intent to promote our Staff Apprentices to full staff members by the end of April (Jack Pine and Syaoran). New staff members will be given specific roles like facilitiating RP or managing conflicts in the community.
Finance
Star Army is down to 4 donators and the donations are not covering the cost of the site. In order to keep up upkeep costs and with luxuries like getting art for people, and to avoid crappy solutions like ads, I am considering having a donation drive. If we can pass $200 in the upcoming drive, I would like to make a new order of custom patches to mail people. I was thinking the newer-style hinomaru would be good. I'm also open to other suggestions. It's kind of a tradition that we have these donation drives in March or May for whatever reason, although we haven't done one in a few years. Also, don't worry, I'd pay for the whole site myself if I had to. But some help would be nice, so stay tuned for details on a donation drive and how to get your patches.
RP Updates
April is a mandatory RP Review month, which is a fancy way of saying I'm going to make all the Game Masters do a checklist regarding how well they're keeping up with their plots. The objective is to make sure the wiki is getting properly updated, wanted ads and the list of plots are updated (new members really need these to be up to date!) and that inactive player characters are swept off the rosters. With this in mind, I need all the people roleplaying here to help your GMs out by updating your character wiki pages now, and by making sure all the plots you're in are getting posts from you so your characters don't get cut for inactivity.
I feel like this section should also have some updates on what's happening in the big picture of the RP, so let's all work on moving the overall story of SARP along. What do you need as far as getting entertainment out of the Kuvexian War? Any questions, comments, or concerns about RP?
Also, I'm currently looking for assistance with Star Army stuff, so let me know if you are able to contribute some time and effort and I'll tell you some tasks I could use a hand with.