Supporter Newsletter - May

Hello to all of our beautiful supporters! Happy May everyone and I hope you all had a great April. This month has been pretty quiet besides us hitting a new massive milestone of 20,000 members in the Discord. This is an incredible feat and we wouldn't be here without you.

As I mentioned, during April it was pretty quiet. We spent most of our time setting up and preparing for the 20k celebration event, Pixelmon Server creation, and FiveM 2.0 creation. Pixelmon is in the very early stages still and is at least a month or 2 out from release because we're working to create a completely custom map which is going to be amazing! FiveM is nearly finished with possibly about 2 weeks left but we'll give more info the closer we are the launch. (Hoping before the end of this month.)

This month was all the average charges and we've even brought on a new social media manager to help grow us across all social platforms. Please note that all of these expenses does not include any extra revenue Requiem did not spend. A lot of our money goes to Staff Benefits (52%) which includes staff payments, team giveaways, officer of the month, sot officer plunder passes, etc. Our monthly normal savings (23%) which goes towards our quarterly charity events and taxes at the end of the year. Another normal expense is our Server Hosting/Maintenance (15%) which goes towards our VPS, Dedicated Machine Hosting, Premium Bots, Website, etc. Our last monthly expense is our Giveaways (10%) which goes to exactly what you'd think.

I'm sorry this newsletter was a few days late but we put a lot of work into these and unfortunately I (Lukian) got a little behind this month on some things. From here on out I'll continue to make the best effort to have these out on the first of the month. I hope you all have a great month and I'll talk to you next time!

Admin - Penny

Happy May,  

For those of you that don't know, my name is Penny and I'm the Social Media Lead for Requiem. Though, as you may already know, we have recently onboarded a new social media manager named Trip! He is here to help us take our social game to the next level and we're very excited to see it so go follow us. Throughout April and for the foreseeable future I will continue to work on the launch of our merch store as well as looking for new members for our social media team. Your talent is needed and super appreciated so please feel free to reach out to tell me about your skills. Thanks for 20,000 members!  

Love, Penny.

Admin - Mookest

Yo Supporters!  

I'm Mookest the Partnership Liasion, Coolest Member and the Best Admin(in my opinion)!  Its been a busy month here. A lot of stuff has been happening IRL for me. Kids back in school, restrictions lightening up, people getting vaccinated for Covid-19 and yet I was still able to get work done here on Requiem. A lot of it is boring paperwork creation and stuff like that, but not all. Shortly, we will be announcing a new partnership with another community. So keep an eye out for that.  If any of you would like to see us partnered with a specific community or just have general questions or suggestions about partnerships, please feel free to DM me directly. I would love to help you out. Thank you all, your support means loads to all the staff. Catch ya later!

Admin - Spylon

Hi there, Spylon here!   

For those that don't know me yet, I'm Requiem's Creative Director and Development Lead. I'm the guy responsible for anything to do with our branding, the technical challenges we have to overcome, and new projects that will bring change to our community.  This month I've once again spent the vast majority of my time on management.   

To start off, I'm guiding Dash through his trial for Development Lead. If he passes his trial, that means he'll take over the Development Lead position from me. That would allow me to put a lot more focus on giving creative direction for Requiem. If everything works out, you might just see some more creatives join our team in the months to come.

On the subject of onboardings, Dash isn't the only person I've brought onto the upper staff team. With the rapid expansion of our Discord server, we thought it would be time to step up our social media game as well. I just finished up the onboarding of our brand new Social Media Manager, Trip!  
Keep an eye on our social media channels for a fresh supply of memes, sneak peeks, and everything else he has in store for you guys.   

Finally, I've spent a whole lot of time in meetings, managing teams, doing code reviews for our developers... the list goes on. We're making big steps on some of our ongoing projects! Interested in those projects? Check out our recent newsletters, or shoot me a message!   

Kudos if you made it this far into the newsletter.

Moderator - Tenebris Kane

Tenebris has had to take some time away from Requiem for a short while due to some personal reasons. We're supporting him completely during all of this and can't wait to have him back with us fully again!

- Lukian

Moderator - Roesch21

Howdy Supporters!  

I'm Roesch21 the Recruitment Lead for Requiem. Recruitment has been moving along as usual. The growth of this community has been amazing! I'm still looking for a few key members to join the Recruitment Team. Specifically people interested in helping build our Minecraft servers and our FiveM server when that launches. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in please shoot me a DM.   

Thank you to each and every one of you for supporting and allowing us the opportunity to build a community like this. You guys and gals are the best! <3

Moderator - Judgementreeper

Judgementreeper here,   

I just want to give you all an update on some things my team an I have been working on over the past month. I will be making our event schedule public so members of our community can stay up to date with current events. We've also added three new Officers to the Event Team, and we have been working hard to improve on existing events, as well as working to create some new events.   

I have had the privilege to work with the Support Team as well to ensure they have all the tools needed to help our community. This includes a recently revamped FAQ Pinned in the Help Chat text channel. We also have a new method of cataloging suggestions to ensure they are all heard and brought up during our monthly town halls. To ensure questions and tickets are answered quickly and efficiently, we have added two new Officers to the Support Team.

Moderator - Kakarot

Yo Kakarot here,  

Just so everyone knows, I am the MC Lead. Alright so I'll be honest with you, Minecraft has been having a lot of setbacks lately. Mainly Skyblock and the Pixelmon servers. Work on the pixelmon server starter earlier this month and it sounded like it was gonna go great and be amazing. We had to let some people go from the team and that pretty much put us at square one for that. Work on the server is still going just very slowly at the moment and I'm sorry about that. More updates on that coming soon hopefully.  

The Skyblock server hasn't had any work on it since we were waiting for the dev of the plugin to push out an update that basically resets the whole plugin. That update was supposed to happen at the beginning of April. It's now May and it's still not out. So with that we will be looking into other skyblock plugins so we can actually do some work on that server. Once again this is mainly my fault as I should of been looking for a new plugin to replace this one a long time ago but just didn't, so I'm sorry about that.  

Finally the Towny and Faction servers! Well, no real news on these honestly. We have such a small team on the Minecraft side right now that it's hard to config, update, and maintain 3-4 servers at a time right now. I've said before that I was gonna work on the Towny server first and get that revamped but that process has not been going well because of people stepping down from the Minecraft team and such. Once again hopefully I can give more updates on these servers in the near future.

Moderator - Yassinator

Hi, I'm Yassinator. I'm the new General Moderator.  

Over the past month I have been working to make Officers' jobs easier. For starters, I have created an updated soundboard to make server setups run more smoothly and efficiently and revamped several Officer tools to help with their success.   

I have also been helping to catalog the suggestions you guys have made, and can't wait for them to be brought up in the upcoming Town Hall.

Moderator - Dash

Hey guys, I'm Dash! You've probably seen me around, as I'm transitioning into the development lead position.   

We've had a great month with bringing on some new developers and have more to interview!   

There are some neat projects in the works right now, including a Discord karma bot and we've begun testing a new platform for our user support system.   

I've been working on fleshing out our status page and writing some guidelines for standardizing our processes and procedures but that's been slowed down while I wrestle with medical issues. We will get there, though!  

I'm always looking for feedback and new ideas, so my DMs are open for suggestions.