Stratum Engine: A World That Waits for Your Move

Field notes

Stratum separates player intent from authoritative world facts: clients submit actions, while the server validates them, advances the simulation, resolves effects, and sends only witnessed results. Its unusual timing model groups actions arriving within 200 milliseconds, creating real-time behavior in busy rooms and turn-based pauses in quiet ones. The homepage also describes a separate world-data channel so large 30 MB cells do not queue behind ordinary movement or combat updates.