#tremder

Good morning pack!

It's been a very busy morning behind the scenes and we are working diligently to flesh out unfinished ideas and items in the ideas documents that are not all the way where they need to be. In talking with a very experienced coder today who we are looking to hire (since yet again the last one didn't work out quite as planned) He has pointed out that my handbook was woefully incomplete. So he is helping me streamline the module process to help coders more in what they need from the developer. So the last 2 days have been a very good learning experience for me to say the least.

We are back again looking for another coder but I have a line on 2 very qualified ones so we're talking and getting to know what the site needs and what we have to offer. It's a tedious process for sure.

CedearWolf is fully on board at this point, and is waiting for the kickstarter funds to start work. Each adult gender wolf is going to be 800$ in his very lovely style, with all the breaking up of the style into the individual files we need is going to be a lot, and I mean a lot of work. So 1600$ for the best looking wolves on a game (in my very tilted opinion.) and we are looking at offering mutations as a stretch goal but those are going to be expensive as well.

We have New admins to the team now. Moving up from Moderator to Moderator Admin is Juke. He has been with us plugging away as a moderator since November of 2017, and yesterday, thanks to his dedication, perseverance, and loyalty has earned him a rank among the Administrators.

Also moving up to the rand of Administrator is Airwave (was Neroelysium) and stepping into the role of Scribe Admin. Joining us in October of 2017, he has been a powerhouse of ideas and spell checking that I could never do myself. Always eager to correct my grammar he has become a close confidant and friend to the staff and players of the game.

Lastly New to the crew and the game as a whole, but not new to the duties of running an online community as an Administrator is Comet Aura. Comet Aura hails from the oldest Flight Rising all flights discord  Server where he has served as an administrator for many years. Patient, Kind thoughtful and reflecting. He is stepping into the General Administrative role to help out other admins and owners  in giving them feedback, a sounding board for tough choices, and will also moderate the community by helping us set standards on forums and chat rooms alike.

We are still looking for responses for the kickstarter survey going on! So please meander over to the survey and take a few minutes to give us your opinions! https://goo.gl/forms/bx69DS6MSPjd21VF2

I wanted to take the time today to explain exactly what has been going on between the development team of Feranix and the owner of Tremder.

About a week ago, Tremder’s owner posted information that we believed to be insensitive regarding the personal life of one of her former employees. While the information in this post was a matter of public record, we still believed that it was posted in extremely poor taste and without considering the sort of damage it could do to the former employee’s online professional persona. This information has since been removed from Tremder’s pages.

As some of you may know, our Artistic Admin, Miss Hades, was head artist for both Feranix and Tremder. For personal reasons and to devote more time to Feranix, she stepped down from Head Artist of Tremder. About two weeks ago, the owner of Tremder essentially fired Miss Hades for not turning in art on time, despite Miss Hades providing reasons behind her slowness. The manner in which Miss Hades was let go came off as extremely unprofessional to the Feranix team and inconsiderate towards Miss Hades herself but that is her story to tell, not mine. Miss Hades has agreed to provide screenshots of her stepping down if desired.

Due to these events, as well as some others, Finn and I, as Feranix’s owners, made the decision to cut our professional and personal relationships with Tremder’s owner. This was not done out or malice or spite but in agreement to protect the reputation of our own simulation game. We believe that Tremder’s owner’s behavior and association with us would cast an ill-light upon Feranix, something we do not desire.

Upon agreement of Finn, Miss Hades, and myself, we refunded Tremder’s owner the money she used to purchase an alpha account with Feranix. She paid $25 to Feranix to purchase it; Paypal took a small fee of less than $2 out. We returned $25 to her, minus the less tha $2 fee that Paypal takes. Feranix has screenshots to prove this was done and will gladly show them upon request. Some information in the screenshot has been blacked out to protect the privacy of Tremder’s owner.

The reason why we split with Tremder was posted in our public Discord server to allow our supporters there to see it. We decided against posting it on our social media pages so as not to further bleed drama out. However, it is my belief that it needs to be posted now.

Earlier this afternoon, Finn and I were alerted of Tremder’s owner discussing, without mentioning, Feranix and the development team in their public server. One of our Administrators and Artists, Nameria, volunteered to go into Tremder’s server to speak to their memberbase at large and explain. Finn and I gave our permission and screenshots of that conversation can be provided upon request. During this conversation, Miss Hades’s name was specifically stated by Tremder’s owner in regards to her being let go from Tremder. Otherwise, neither Feranix nor Finn or myself were mentioned specifically by Tremder’s owner.

I want to make it exceptionally clear that the Feranix development team as a whole holds no ill-will towards Tremder or its owner. We wish Tremder and its development team all the luck in the world regarding launching. However, we will not tolerate their owner to slander us, even without outright naming us, in their public server. We, Finn, Miss Hades, and myself, did what we did in order to protect Feranix and Feranix’s reputation going forward. We believed it necessary for the well-being of our website as a whole and are posting this now to allow our supporters and userbase to understand our side of the story.

If you have any questions, you are free to come to myself, Miss Hades, or Finn on Discord or send us a PM here.

We apologize for the inconvenience as well as the drama and thank you for your time.

The time has come..... to announce our (tentative) artist.

I have been following CedarWolf on FA for a long long time, and was one I reached out too months ago to see if he would be willing to help us out. As with any artist, he want paid. We've done a lot of back and forth. And with CedarWolf, art is is sole means of income.

I welcome you to see his speed paint background he did for us in about 35 minutes, new and uploaded on our demo. http://tremder.com/demo

We are currently haggling over prices for the wolf redo for the wolves on the game. His style is MUCH different than Rixons, i think you will all be very pleased. We're trying to figure out also how to get his style translated across into the files we need for the demo to keep his rich and lush realistic style of wolves. The image uploaded with this post, is his 10 minute or so speed paint trying to figure out his art style in the layers we need for the Photoshop file, to be able to generate wolves on site. Each shading layer, each marking, each highlight, all has to be on their own layer. then theirs markings and bases to concern with.

So with this, I am very sorry I've been quiet for a while. That is going to change. Current goal is plotting for the kickstarter. A survey will be going out to see what you guys want as perks and stretch Goals

Good morning Pack. I'm really glad you're all still here with us and watching us and supporting us.

Despite our hardships, despite our past issues with bad coders, people up and disappearing, and all that has happened, we are still here. I can't say it hasn't taken it's toll on me as an owner, it really has. But my art team, my writing team, and everyone else are still working in good faith that some day they'll all get paid, and we'll all get paid, and you as members of tremder will all have a finished game to play with the BEST community online that anyone could ask for.

I am so PROUD of my staff, and all of you, for watching us struggle, and giving us all the support you can muster to help us through these hard and lean times. So from the bottom of My heart, and that of the tremder team:

Thank you so much for all the love and support!

Without you all, there is no need for us to work on this game, without you, there is no feedback on our work and our struggles.

So, Onto other news. We still need to keep the money coming in so we can save enough for the down payment of another coder. I figure about 700$ should do for most things. And right now we have $0.37 USD. That's it. What little i did have saved has slowly been eaten away by server costs and paying some people for bits of artwork for the site.

For lack of a better term, we're broke as hell. Without your account purchases and your donations to keep us going, i fear this project won't get made quickly. If we don't get monies coming in, it could take -years- before tremder sees the light of day in a very basic form. It would be minus the combat, and the explore features which are going to be 2 of the biggest things to code and needs a sighted coder to do so.