Yo, I'm Valtos, the headcoder of White Dream and I want to explain you what does it taste like. But before, you need to take the red pill:
I - The Rise and Fall
First server of russian Animus community, potentially intended for beginners, experienced a lot of variants of its existence, including that it was not originally based on /tg/station (it was set during the guidance of MasterOfDmx, which allowed to accumulate dozens of newcomers). After long local undercover wars, the main build of White replaced by Green Miracle codebase, which led to the departure of many players, due to sudden change of the codebase. Then, Animus finally fell apart into separate Onyx and Yellow servers in 2019.
II - Breathe or Die
The Yellow server has always been a testing ground and in order to keep White Dream one great guy named NFogmann, before the collapse, just put a separate /tg/station instance on it, which allowed to collect some of the remaining players. After a while we changed server name back to White.
III - Backstab
After moving to a new host (station13.ru), separately from Animus, we were doing great, new players come, community expands. And my friend suggested me an idea how to speed up expansion - buy placement of server join link on the main page of ss13.ru (Animus). The fact is that ZloFenix sold us the place and we stayed there for about a month, which brought us an incredible number of new players, because at that time the game was reviewed by a famous youtuber in russia named Wycc220. But on the other hand, we literally squeezed online of Onyx to zero values, lol. After some deliberation, they decided kick out us from the main page and close the forum completely.
IV - Helping Hand
It hit us hard, at one time we even thought about closing the server, but after creating a post about a possible closure, MasterOfDmx offered me the option of transferring the server to the FunClub community and full coverage of all expenses and any other help. Without thinking twice, I agreed and the server started growing back to the point you can see now in the BYOND hub.
Now, it's time to take a brown pill about development:
Course
We are a server for russian-speaking players who are just getting to know the game, but at the same time having all the possibilities for tricks, because of /tg/station codebase. This is an our unchanging policy that we strive to comply with. Also, almost most of the text in the game is being translated or translated to russian, so, for you, this server is probably unplayable, this is why I don't post here.
Another stolen and translated interface for techfabs.
Codebase
Some initial time, we were downstream /tg/station, but after Combat Mode commit, we had to switch to cherry-picking/copypasting changes from upstream. God bless intents. But in general, our code consists of copy-paste from different repositories, because of BYOND code adaptability. Sorry if we steal your precious assblast cannon mk3000.
Playerbase
Is mostly CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Quite toxic, but generally tolerable. I love my playerbase, all my friends inside it.
One of round aspects just put everyone in this room. Another buffed damage to x3.
Nazi?
No, we against this in every possible way. https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#banned-content
Furries?
No, we against this in every possible way, but we have lizards.
That's all I wanted to write, you can ask questions if you have them of course.
V - The Unification
Coming soon.
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