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Aug
01
Letter from the Co-Lead
by Navarr
We have just completed the first third of the 2nd quarter! Let's review our goal.
As you may or may not recall from the last letter, our goal this quarter is Community Interaction. I am pleased to say that with the return of the Annihilation sandbox, our staff has done an enormous job of increasing community interaction and fun events.
I actually went through the difficult work of tracking these events for you, and this month we had:
I mentioned in the last letter that there were two big pieces of our roadmap we're targeting for this quarter: 1.12.2 and a Gold Rush alpha. In that vein, I'm happy to announce that we now support Minecraft 1.12.2! In regards to Gold Rush, we may not be releasing an Alpha in the method we originally planned. We've been discussing it and we're not sure a limited alpha is the best way to get the sort of testing information we want. Your best bet for information on Gold Rush is to watch our Twitter account, here on the forums, and subscribe to our mailing list if you haven't already.
That is all I have to say this month. Please let us know how we're doing in regards to our Community Interaction goal in the comments, and how you think we're doing maintaining our improvements to transparency. I'm working hard to keep this ship sailing folks, and I need you to let me know if any leaks are popping up in the hull
Until next time - Thank you for flying Shotbow.
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/FXrKQ6A.png)
Hello! This is Mistri and welcome to this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon!
Updates
Network Updates
Quite a few things have happened to the network as a whole this month, including:
This month on the Discord, we cleaned up a few categories and the organization of our channels.
In addition, Chat Bot also got a new command called !forums. You can use it by doing one of the following:
MineZ Updates
Something is coming... but all we can say for now is that work is being continued on the Second Part of the Origins Update.
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Summer season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
MTA Leaderboards for July 2018
Combat:
Staff updates:
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
DocCodeSharp
Doc has continued his work on MineZ and around the network in general. On the network side - we launched support for 1.12.2 this month which was in part a huge effort from Doc. Thanks! In particular news with MineZ, it was revealed that some pretty interesting work has gone into improving the combat system, with many early testers saying that they enjoy it a lot more than the currently live one. Doc has been working hard on this project for a while now, and he hopes to be able to get a public testing server up in the nearish future.
Robertthegoat
Robert has continued his work on Gold Rush, as well as effort being put into potential future games on the network. Such efforts are still a good ways away from realization, and unfortunately that's really all we can say about them due to that fact.
Jeroenhero
Jeroen spent a good portion of the month working with and exploring customization of Mob AI. Custom Mob AI has huge implications for possibilities in games such as Slaughter, Gold Rush, and When in Rogue - so efforts made here will have huge effects on our games for months to come.
Navarr
Navarr (myself!) worked on a few small improvements to the network as well, working with Doc to bring back Bug Submissions and moving the scheduled maintenance period to a less interrupting time period - and working with IvanDoomy to bring the ability to view recent activity and wiki history to all potential wiki editors.
Expanding Team
In addition to those reports, we've been talking with potential Jr. Developers. While nothing is 100% yet, I do know we have at least one good candidate we're hopeful to bring on in the next few weeks.
Are you interested in a volunteer development position at Shotbow? Contact DocCodeSharp (on Discord or the forums) with a development history (such as jobs or other projects) and an example of a Spigot plugin you've built. Our goal with the latter is to see how you code, what you know, and how you use that knowledge - so heavy use of the Spigot/Bukkit APIs is encouraged for such a sample.
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. Thanks for flying Shotbow!
by Navarr
We have just completed the first third of the 2nd quarter! Let's review our goal.
As you may or may not recall from the last letter, our goal this quarter is Community Interaction. I am pleased to say that with the return of the Annihilation sandbox, our staff has done an enormous job of increasing community interaction and fun events.
I actually went through the difficult work of tracking these events for you, and this month we had:
- 1 Gold Rush event
- 4 SMASH events
- 1 Network Q&A Session (you can view that here)
- and 33 Annihilation Sandbox events
I mentioned in the last letter that there were two big pieces of our roadmap we're targeting for this quarter: 1.12.2 and a Gold Rush alpha. In that vein, I'm happy to announce that we now support Minecraft 1.12.2! In regards to Gold Rush, we may not be releasing an Alpha in the method we originally planned. We've been discussing it and we're not sure a limited alpha is the best way to get the sort of testing information we want. Your best bet for information on Gold Rush is to watch our Twitter account, here on the forums, and subscribe to our mailing list if you haven't already.
That is all I have to say this month. Please let us know how we're doing in regards to our Community Interaction goal in the comments, and how you think we're doing maintaining our improvements to transparency. I'm working hard to keep this ship sailing folks, and I need you to let me know if any leaks are popping up in the hull
Until next time - Thank you for flying Shotbow.
Hello! This is Mistri and welcome to this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon!
Updates
Network Updates
Quite a few things have happened to the network as a whole this month, including:
- We added support for 1.12.2 clients to connect
- We have once again opened up the ability for the community to report bugs at https://shotbow.net/forum/p/bugs/
- Weekly scheduled maintenance has moved from 7AM US CT to 7PM US CT on Mondays
- All shotbow.net users now have the ability to view recent activity and history on the wiki
This month on the Discord, we cleaned up a few categories and the organization of our channels.
In addition, Chat Bot also got a new command called !forums. You can use it by doing one of the following:
- Use it in a gamemode-specific channel to get a direct link to the gamemode specific forum
- Use it in any non-gamemode-specific channel to get a direct link to our general forums
- Use it with an optional argument (e.g. !forums anni) to get a gamemode-specific forum in any channel
MineZ Updates
Something is coming... but all we can say for now is that work is being continued on the Second Part of the Origins Update.
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Summer season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
- 1st - Acstes (1156)
- 2nd - Ingavar (1133)
- 3rd - _BrightDarkness_ (1127)
MTA Leaderboards for July 2018
Combat:
- 1st - VenomousChewy KDR: 178:1 (178.0)
- 2nd - Famicoro KDR: 671:7 (95.86)
- 3rd - nabe4975 KDR: 68:1 (68.0)
- 1st - Sitnown Arrests: 119.0
- 2nd - The556 Arrests: 88.0
- 3rd - CraftPik Arrests: 86.0
- 1st - Shorp Experience gained: 55276.0
- 2nd - MESLEG Experience gained: 50865.0
- 3rd - Famicoro Experience gained: 23138.0
- 1st - Viral333 Minigames won: 118.0
- 2nd - KillerBrezel Minigames won: 86.0
- 3rd - iyami_ Minigames won: 56.0
Staff updates:
- Dange joined the SMASH Mini Admin Team
- A total of 89,830,696 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 4,010 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 673 on July 7
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
DocCodeSharp
Doc has continued his work on MineZ and around the network in general. On the network side - we launched support for 1.12.2 this month which was in part a huge effort from Doc. Thanks! In particular news with MineZ, it was revealed that some pretty interesting work has gone into improving the combat system, with many early testers saying that they enjoy it a lot more than the currently live one. Doc has been working hard on this project for a while now, and he hopes to be able to get a public testing server up in the nearish future.
Robertthegoat
Robert has continued his work on Gold Rush, as well as effort being put into potential future games on the network. Such efforts are still a good ways away from realization, and unfortunately that's really all we can say about them due to that fact.
Jeroenhero
Jeroen spent a good portion of the month working with and exploring customization of Mob AI. Custom Mob AI has huge implications for possibilities in games such as Slaughter, Gold Rush, and When in Rogue - so efforts made here will have huge effects on our games for months to come.
Navarr
Navarr (myself!) worked on a few small improvements to the network as well, working with Doc to bring back Bug Submissions and moving the scheduled maintenance period to a less interrupting time period - and working with IvanDoomy to bring the ability to view recent activity and wiki history to all potential wiki editors.
Expanding Team
In addition to those reports, we've been talking with potential Jr. Developers. While nothing is 100% yet, I do know we have at least one good candidate we're hopeful to bring on in the next few weeks.
Are you interested in a volunteer development position at Shotbow? Contact DocCodeSharp (on Discord or the forums) with a development history (such as jobs or other projects) and an example of a Spigot plugin you've built. Our goal with the latter is to see how you code, what you know, and how you use that knowledge - so heavy use of the Spigot/Bukkit APIs is encouraged for such a sample.
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. Thanks for flying Shotbow!
Jul
01
Letter from the Co-Lead
by Navarr
Does it feel like this month moved too quickly to anyone else? We’re closing out the second quarter and it’s time to review our goal.
I think we managed to do fairly well. There was a lot of positive feedback on the forums - albeit also some negative. Most of the negative feedback focused on some interesting specifics of opening up information on ban appeals and other such things. I’m sad to say that we can’t currently fulfill those desires, but it is a takeaway that I’ll keep in mind for the far future. On several fronts the staff have been encouraged to communicate with the community and I’ve definitely seen some of that occurring. I hope we can continue this forward pace of community feedback and increased openness as we move forward.
That said, we’re bringing a new theme into focus - and this quarter it’s Community Interaction. We want to spend more time communicating with, playing with, and otherwise having a blast with our community. There are a few ways we’re going to go about this:
In addition to Gold Rush, the big pieces of our roadmap this quarter are 1.12.2 support - there’s only a couple other high priority tasks in front of it and I hope we can resolve those soon - and we’re hoping to release MineZ Origins Part II before the end of the year.
On that note - please let me know how you think we did in regards to our focus of increased transparency in the last quarter - and also let me know what kind of staff interaction events you want to see in the coming months!
That’s all for now - and as always, thank you for flying Shotbow.
Hey guys, this is Mistri. Thanks for reading this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon! Please enjoy
Updates
SMASH Updates
This month, the SMASH Team has been working on redecorating the lobby in celebration of Independence Day in the USA.
Also, a new Media Map (Event Map) has been added to SMASH: Ice Rink! Stay tuned on the Shotbow Twitter and Discord if you want to participate in SMASH events!
MineZ Updates
The new location Torchbar has been added to MineZ. Keep up to date with all the MineZ changes which we post in the official MineZ Update Changelog!
Gold Rush Updates
Lots of development work went into Gold Rush this month, and we held multiple playtests with active Emeralds, Obsidians, and subscribers. A stream of one playtest was recorded and uploaded here:
If you would like to participate in the next exclusive Gold Rush test, purchase subscriber or upgrade your rank to Emerald or Obsidian in the Shotbow Shop!
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season has just finished, and the results are in:
Mine Theft Auto
MTA Leaderboards for June 2018
Combat:
Staff updates:
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
Hi all, Navarr here! I did a less than stellar job of being on top of the developers this month for updates. As such, we don’t have a lot of juicy goodness for you to read. That said, here’s the reports I got:
Robertthegoat
Robert spent his time this month working on Gold Rush and participating in the development stream. He also worked on a couple secret items that we hope to reveal to you in gameplay within the next couple quarters.
DocCodeSharp
Doc spent a lot of this month working on infrastructure projects such as tackling issues with servers coming online and modernizing our deployment stack. In addition, he continued his work on refactoring the MineZ codebase for performance, stability, and general bugfixing purposes.
Skillerfox3
Skiller continued his work on Gold Rush this month, including some initial work on balancing general gameplay. You’ve heard Murg refer to a large issue of “snowballing” where when one team is in the lead it becomes far too difficult to take it from them - this is one of those core balancing issues we’ll be focusing on both before and during the alpha testing phases. Skiller also worked on some admin tooling - improving our staff’s lives so we can improve your experience in the games.
And that’s all I have! I hope to tell you more next month, but until then - this is Navarr signing off!
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. We love to hear your feedback!
by Navarr
Does it feel like this month moved too quickly to anyone else? We’re closing out the second quarter and it’s time to review our goal.
I think we managed to do fairly well. There was a lot of positive feedback on the forums - albeit also some negative. Most of the negative feedback focused on some interesting specifics of opening up information on ban appeals and other such things. I’m sad to say that we can’t currently fulfill those desires, but it is a takeaway that I’ll keep in mind for the far future. On several fronts the staff have been encouraged to communicate with the community and I’ve definitely seen some of that occurring. I hope we can continue this forward pace of community feedback and increased openness as we move forward.
That said, we’re bringing a new theme into focus - and this quarter it’s Community Interaction. We want to spend more time communicating with, playing with, and otherwise having a blast with our community. There are a few ways we’re going to go about this:
- We’re working with the development team to make the Anni Sandbox available so we can start having regular Annihilation events again - even before the end of the tournament
- It is our goal to release Gold Rush this quarter into a restricted alpha. During this intensive testing phase, our staff team will be playing and looking for a lot of feedback.
- I hope to have at least one live Q&A in the Discord this quarter - and I look forward to fielding your questions - hopefully alongside my partner Murgatron - at least once
In addition to Gold Rush, the big pieces of our roadmap this quarter are 1.12.2 support - there’s only a couple other high priority tasks in front of it and I hope we can resolve those soon - and we’re hoping to release MineZ Origins Part II before the end of the year.
On that note - please let me know how you think we did in regards to our focus of increased transparency in the last quarter - and also let me know what kind of staff interaction events you want to see in the coming months!
That’s all for now - and as always, thank you for flying Shotbow.
Hey guys, this is Mistri. Thanks for reading this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon! Please enjoy
Updates
SMASH Updates
This month, the SMASH Team has been working on redecorating the lobby in celebration of Independence Day in the USA.
Also, a new Media Map (Event Map) has been added to SMASH: Ice Rink! Stay tuned on the Shotbow Twitter and Discord if you want to participate in SMASH events!
MineZ Updates
The new location Torchbar has been added to MineZ. Keep up to date with all the MineZ changes which we post in the official MineZ Update Changelog!
Gold Rush Updates
Lots of development work went into Gold Rush this month, and we held multiple playtests with active Emeralds, Obsidians, and subscribers. A stream of one playtest was recorded and uploaded here:
If you would like to participate in the next exclusive Gold Rush test, purchase subscriber or upgrade your rank to Emerald or Obsidian in the Shotbow Shop!
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season has just finished, and the results are in:
- 1st - _BrightDarkness_ - 10,000 XP
- 2nd - Jiren_ - 7,500 XP
- 3rd - Mr_L115 - 5,000 XP
Mine Theft Auto
MTA Leaderboards for June 2018
Combat:
- 1st - iinsu KDR: 66:0 (66.0)
- 2nd - The556 KDR: 65:0 (65.0)
- 3rd - Wafuuu KDR: 29:0 (29.0)
- 1st - AVAchqn Arrests: 93.0
- 2nd - iinsu Arrests: 57.0
- 3rd - Groover0321 Arrests: 32.0
- 1st - Lil_Klorroxxx Experience gained: 28972.0
- 2nd - nanacoro Experience gained: 26718.0
- 3rd - MESLEG Experience gained: 25666.0
- 1st - Deviant_Android Minigames won: 85.0
- 2nd - nanacoro Minigames won: 73.0
- 3rd - Groover0321 Minigames won: 56.0
Staff updates:
- Carrots386 was promoted to GG Co-Lead
- DJ_Pedro joined the Full Admin team
- Pinefrost64 rejoined the Full Builder team
- Mistri joined the GG Mini Admin team
- A total of 70,516,496 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 3,339 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 638 on June 10
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
Hi all, Navarr here! I did a less than stellar job of being on top of the developers this month for updates. As such, we don’t have a lot of juicy goodness for you to read. That said, here’s the reports I got:
Robertthegoat
Robert spent his time this month working on Gold Rush and participating in the development stream. He also worked on a couple secret items that we hope to reveal to you in gameplay within the next couple quarters.
DocCodeSharp
Doc spent a lot of this month working on infrastructure projects such as tackling issues with servers coming online and modernizing our deployment stack. In addition, he continued his work on refactoring the MineZ codebase for performance, stability, and general bugfixing purposes.
Skillerfox3
Skiller continued his work on Gold Rush this month, including some initial work on balancing general gameplay. You’ve heard Murg refer to a large issue of “snowballing” where when one team is in the lead it becomes far too difficult to take it from them - this is one of those core balancing issues we’ll be focusing on both before and during the alpha testing phases. Skiller also worked on some admin tooling - improving our staff’s lives so we can improve your experience in the games.
And that’s all I have! I hope to tell you more next month, but until then - this is Navarr signing off!
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. Please let us know what you think about the New Moon in the comments. We love to hear your feedback!
Jun
01
Letter from the Co-Lead
A follow-up by Navarr
There’s not a whole lot to say this month - we’re still chugging along on GhostCraft, and I’m doing my best to keep what small marketing engine we have running. One of the tests I ran this month with that was live streaming the Annihilation Tournament games to Facebook (as well as our many other platforms).
While we did not get a lot of live viewers on Facebook, we did get a lot of views and likes on the videos afterwards. While we may not continue live streaming to Facebook (due to cost), it’s very likely I’ll get back in the habit of cross-posting our videos there.
If you haven’t yet, please like us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/ShotbowOfficial and several or all of our various games’ pages. We’ll be expanding what games have pages depending on popularity and request.
In the same marketing vein, we also launched our newsletter this month. If you haven’t signed up you can do so at http://j.mp/shotbow-signup. This was very important to us as our previous system for getting out news and information just wasn’t working. If you haven’t yet, please do sign up. As of right now, we’re sticking true to sending an XP code with every newsletter send to the list.
As for transparency - I guess I don’t have much I can say here. I’ve certainly noticed some of our developers reaching out to the playerbase on the forums more often for ideas, comments, concerns and the likes. But as for how we’re doing - I’ll need you to tell me. Please leave a comment on the forums telling us how we’re doing in regards to our goal of more transparency. Please be constructive - if you think we should be more transparent in some way, tell us what that way is.
Thanks for reading, and as always - thank you for flying Shotbow. I leave you now in the capable hands of Mistri.
Hey folks! Hope everyone is doing well. For those of you with finals, good luck! I personally just finished mine (hence why the New Moon is a few hours late), so the next few weeks will be dedicated Shotbow time! Please enjoy this month's New Moon.
Updates
Annihilation Updates
This month, the Annihilation clan tournament continued, and was livestreamed here:
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
MTA Leaderboards for May 2018
Combat:
Staff updates:
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
The feedback to last month’s developer corner was pretty good. I’m happy to see that many enjoyed reading up on what exactly it is our developers are doing.
One of the hardest parts of writing this is deciding how much we can or should say about what our developers are doing. For example - when someone is working on anti-cheat type things, we can really only say that we’re improving admin tools, or the game, or something else - and likewise that’s pretty much all I can say when I get a “we’ve fixed a ton of small bugs in x.” I’m doing my best over here.
As always, your reminder that we’re not making promises as to how soon or long it will be until we release anything mentioned here. Developers move about different projects as needed/desired.
That said, we are currently pushing for Gold Rush to hit an Alpha as soon as we possibly can.
Murgatron
I’ll be honest, I’ve never really considered Murgatron a developer - but he keeps sending me monthly updates, so I guess I’ll talk about what he’s been doing. Let me just look over these notes.. Hmm, yeah.. Can’t really say that out explicitly.. Maybe I can reword it? Ah, yeah, here we go.
This month Murgatron was happy to report that he worked together with the Development Team to help fight back cheaters with the second best tools available to us - technology! Fighting off cheaters is a cat and mouse game that requires constant attention, and Murg and the Development Team were on top of it this past month.
He was also proud to report that he continued working with the team to move Gold Rush forward. He believes we’re very close to an alpha release, which should play well with our internal goal of launching that this summer.
Robertthegoat
Robert has been spending a lot of his time working on Gold Rush. There’s lots of tweaks, bug fixes, and other things going on here. One exciting thing perhaps is that he’s very focused on ensuring Gold Rush has localization support (at my behest). This is great news, as I have been pushing since its inception for Gold Rush to be one of, if not THE first game on the network fully localized into Japanese. Our expanding localization team is standing by ready to translate - so I can’t wait for that alpha!
In addition to Gold Rush, Robertthegoat took some time to work on quality of life improvements to GhostCraft. The staff have been getting together and playing it a few times this month and after witnessing some bugs he decided he wanted to round them up and squash them like.. Bugs…
DocCodeSharp
Doc has spent a great portion of this month focused on internal processes (yes, still - you wouldn’t believe how long some of that type of stuff takes), squashing MineZ bugs and refactoring it’s code for stability purposes, and performing other quality of life improvements related to keeping cheaters off our servers.
skillerfox3
Skiller has been working on Gold Rush alongside Robertthegoat to fix those bugs and polish that game. He specifically mentioned some quality of life improvements like adding death messages and improving the existing map objectives.
Have I mentioned yet how excited I am for Gold Rush?
Anyway, here's one final thing I'd like to say: no comment from a developer doesn't mean they didn't do anything, it just means that they may not have told us what they did. Anyway, thanks for reading, and see you next month!
- Navarr
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. See you next month!
A follow-up by Navarr
There’s not a whole lot to say this month - we’re still chugging along on GhostCraft, and I’m doing my best to keep what small marketing engine we have running. One of the tests I ran this month with that was live streaming the Annihilation Tournament games to Facebook (as well as our many other platforms).
While we did not get a lot of live viewers on Facebook, we did get a lot of views and likes on the videos afterwards. While we may not continue live streaming to Facebook (due to cost), it’s very likely I’ll get back in the habit of cross-posting our videos there.
If you haven’t yet, please like us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/ShotbowOfficial and several or all of our various games’ pages. We’ll be expanding what games have pages depending on popularity and request.
In the same marketing vein, we also launched our newsletter this month. If you haven’t signed up you can do so at http://j.mp/shotbow-signup. This was very important to us as our previous system for getting out news and information just wasn’t working. If you haven’t yet, please do sign up. As of right now, we’re sticking true to sending an XP code with every newsletter send to the list.
As for transparency - I guess I don’t have much I can say here. I’ve certainly noticed some of our developers reaching out to the playerbase on the forums more often for ideas, comments, concerns and the likes. But as for how we’re doing - I’ll need you to tell me. Please leave a comment on the forums telling us how we’re doing in regards to our goal of more transparency. Please be constructive - if you think we should be more transparent in some way, tell us what that way is.
Thanks for reading, and as always - thank you for flying Shotbow. I leave you now in the capable hands of Mistri.
Hey folks! Hope everyone is doing well. For those of you with finals, good luck! I personally just finished mine (hence why the New Moon is a few hours late), so the next few weeks will be dedicated Shotbow time! Please enjoy this month's New Moon.
Updates
Annihilation Updates
This month, the Annihilation clan tournament continued, and was livestreamed here:
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The 2018 Spring season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
- 1st - _BrightDarkness_ (1183)
- 2nd - Acstes (1169)
- 3rd - mattu34 (1153)
MTA Leaderboards for May 2018
Combat:
- 1st - Lexio KDR: 214:1 (214.0)
- 2nd - NoHaxJustMike KDR: 164:1 (164.0)
- 3rd - Red_Flowers KDR: 334:5 (66.8)
- 1st - Lexio Arrests: 53.0
- 2nd - erai1210 Arrests: 45.0
- 3rd - Killereilite2 Arrests: 34.0
- 1st - 8ge Experience gained: 263289.0
- 2nd - Xx_wankosoba_xX Experience gained: 42950.0
- 3rd - harucari Experience gained: 42031.0
- 1st - Portoss Minigames won: 145.0
- 2nd - harucari Minigames won: 118.0
- 3rd - Lexio Minigames won: 80.0
Staff updates:
- PokeTheEye rejoined the Full Admin team
- 66tee rejoined the Full Builder team
- Wayvernia was promoted to GG Lead
- Marine_PvP was promoted to MineZ Co-Lead
- ArcticStorm141 joined the Anni team as Mini-Admin
- Mistri joined the Website Moderator team
- Camarum joined the Localization team as Slovak Translator
- Snaaaap joined the Localization team as Portuguese Translator
- A total of 71,891,263 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 3,284 players banned in the last month
- This month we achieved a peak playercount of 672 on May 13
What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.
Developer Corner
By Navarr
The feedback to last month’s developer corner was pretty good. I’m happy to see that many enjoyed reading up on what exactly it is our developers are doing.
One of the hardest parts of writing this is deciding how much we can or should say about what our developers are doing. For example - when someone is working on anti-cheat type things, we can really only say that we’re improving admin tools, or the game, or something else - and likewise that’s pretty much all I can say when I get a “we’ve fixed a ton of small bugs in x.” I’m doing my best over here.
As always, your reminder that we’re not making promises as to how soon or long it will be until we release anything mentioned here. Developers move about different projects as needed/desired.
That said, we are currently pushing for Gold Rush to hit an Alpha as soon as we possibly can.
Murgatron
I’ll be honest, I’ve never really considered Murgatron a developer - but he keeps sending me monthly updates, so I guess I’ll talk about what he’s been doing. Let me just look over these notes.. Hmm, yeah.. Can’t really say that out explicitly.. Maybe I can reword it? Ah, yeah, here we go.
This month Murgatron was happy to report that he worked together with the Development Team to help fight back cheaters with the second best tools available to us - technology! Fighting off cheaters is a cat and mouse game that requires constant attention, and Murg and the Development Team were on top of it this past month.
He was also proud to report that he continued working with the team to move Gold Rush forward. He believes we’re very close to an alpha release, which should play well with our internal goal of launching that this summer.
Robertthegoat
Robert has been spending a lot of his time working on Gold Rush. There’s lots of tweaks, bug fixes, and other things going on here. One exciting thing perhaps is that he’s very focused on ensuring Gold Rush has localization support (at my behest). This is great news, as I have been pushing since its inception for Gold Rush to be one of, if not THE first game on the network fully localized into Japanese. Our expanding localization team is standing by ready to translate - so I can’t wait for that alpha!
In addition to Gold Rush, Robertthegoat took some time to work on quality of life improvements to GhostCraft. The staff have been getting together and playing it a few times this month and after witnessing some bugs he decided he wanted to round them up and squash them like.. Bugs…
DocCodeSharp
Doc has spent a great portion of this month focused on internal processes (yes, still - you wouldn’t believe how long some of that type of stuff takes), squashing MineZ bugs and refactoring it’s code for stability purposes, and performing other quality of life improvements related to keeping cheaters off our servers.
skillerfox3
Skiller has been working on Gold Rush alongside Robertthegoat to fix those bugs and polish that game. He specifically mentioned some quality of life improvements like adding death messages and improving the existing map objectives.
Have I mentioned yet how excited I am for Gold Rush?
Anyway, here's one final thing I'd like to say: no comment from a developer doesn't mean they didn't do anything, it just means that they may not have told us what they did. Anyway, thanks for reading, and see you next month!
- Navarr
With that, I bid you farewell. I'm your host, Mistri. See you next month!
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