LAB/04 — FIELD LOG

Recent work

Experiments that made it out of the lab and into production.
HOSTING
First managed Rust server, moved and live in a day

A running 2x server transferred onto Paradox managed hosting: files, wipe schedule and plugins carried over, BattleMetrics reconnected. The owner kept playing; we kept the pager.

Zero data lost. Live the same day.

SERVER SUPPORT PLAN
One panel for every server we look after

Lag graphs, console errors and plugin reports for each managed server in one place, so a problem is found before a player reports it. Built in-house, runs on our own hardware.

Every server reports in every few seconds.

AUTOMATION
A storefront and client portal, built end to end

The site you are reading. Product store with card and PayPal checkout, licence issuing and hardware-locked activation, a customer portal for jobs and downloads, quote intake, invoicing, and an admin board behind it.

Store, licensing, portal, quotes and invoicing in one system

PRIME
Prime: one bot that runs the whole community

Chat bridge, event logs, tickets, giveaways, account linking and map-vote wipes from one managed bot per server. Owners sign up on the site and get a bot; no VPS, no scripts, nothing to host.

One managed bot per server, nothing to host.

DISCORD BOT
A Discord bot that records customer calls

When a quote comes in, the bot opens a private voice room for that customer, records the call, and files the recording with the quote. Nobody has to remember to hit record.

A private room per customer, recorded automatically.

RUST PLUGIN
The Pet line: Bradley, Heli, Scientist

Three tamed NPC companions built on one shared base: a Bradley, a Heli and a Scientist that follow you and fight for you. Sold alone or as the Pet Pack, and updated together.

Three plugins, one codebase.

RUST PLUGIN
The Power Trip suite

Five Rust plugins built against the Power Trip update, which made the powergrid decay-based and cooperative. That works on vanilla PVP and falls apart on everything else. The suite puts the grid, the recyclers, the crude oil chain and the satellite crashes back under server control.

5 plugins covering the grid, fuses, recyclers, crude oil and satellite crashes

RUST PLUGIN
LagSnitch: naming what is actually lagging

A server performance profiler that attributes lag to the player, the grid square or the entity type responsible, instead of reporting a frame time and leaving the admin to guess. Profiles the runtime and the network layer and reports to Discord.

Attributes lag by player, grid square and entity type

DISCORD BOT
A Discord bot wired into the job board

Creates a private support channel per job, tells the customer when their job status, notes, invoices, payments or deliverables change, and delivers licence keys by DM on purchase.

Per-customer support channels and six automated customer notifications

PAYNOW THEME
A twenty-theme PayNow storefront line

Twenty PayNow store themes built from scratch, from a free starter to a premium tier. Every one ships the complete template set, including all six PayNow modules, and switches its whole colour scheme from a single dropdown.

20 themes; 18 of them ship 4 or more colour skins; 58-65 store-owner options on the premium tier