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A Year of New Day RP
One year ago today, we publicly announced New Day RP, a Wild West RP partner community. New Day was created to bring serious roleplay back to the GTA RP scene in a big way, and over the past year we have built an incredible community from this goal. New Day has grown larger than I ever expected that it would have, quickly becoming one of the largest roleplay servers in the world. Over the past year, we have went from an idea to a community with nearly 5,000 Whitelisted members and over 13,500 characters created.
Much of this has been covered in our Year in Review post shortly after the New Year, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made this community into what it is. From the Staff Team who have processed over 8,500 Whitelist applications and 15,000 Support Tickets, to the community members who create unique, interesting and impactful stories and roleplay, thank you for your continued support.
When New Day RP initially launched, we began using the framework that we're currently still using, which was a bit thrown together with some duct-tape, glue and a talented development team. Our framework has done great for us, but we are ready to move to a more boutique framework, one that is built from the ground up to be performance-friendly and user-friendly.
With that being said...
New Interaction System
Our current method of interacting with prompts (floating 3d-text) will be replaced with a new UI-based prompt system. Not only is this nicer looking with much more functionality, it is provides much higher performance compared to 3d-text prompts.
New Inventory and Item Drops
Our 2.0 Inventory features a variety of changes, and a UI re-work to make the experience cleaner and more user-friendly. This new inventory expands functionality for item splitting, giving items to others, destroying items, stacking unique items, and numerous other feature improvements.
Additionally, item drops now appear as a physical item, rather than a floating arrow.
New Character Selector
Our new Character Selector brings all of your characters together in a small scene, where you can hover over your characters to play/delete them. There will be room for 9 total character slots.
New Apartments System
Unlike our current apartments system, the new 2.0 Apartments will allow you much more customizability with your apartment choice. You will be able to choose from different apartment locations and various themes to fit your character's tastes.
And much more...
As we continue our development of the 2.0 Framework, we will share as much as we can with the community. We ask that you refrain from asking "what about ____", as many things are currently planned already.
2.0 Development Timeline
We are currently aiming for an April - May release of New Day RP 2.0, however with all timelines this is subject to change as we get further into development. We have created a graphic of our development plan which you can find below.
Funding of New Day RP 2.0
Thanks to the incredible generosity of the community we have been able to fund the entirety of Phase 1 development as well as a significant portion of Phase 2 development, however we will need to fundraise to cover our development costs. This new framework is being designed custom rather than cookie-cutter resources and carries a higher development cost due to that.
All surplus donations to the regular Trailblazer campaign (which is currently being used to cover monthly costs, as well as current development costs, etc) will be put towards 2.0, however we will be opening up a donation campaign for New Day RP 2.0 Phase 2 / 3 development costs. We expect that a majority of the paid work on this project will take place in Phase 2 / 3. That donation campaign can be found HERE.
Final Thoughts
I want to personally state how excited I am for New Day RP 2.0 and to see how we as a community move forward and grow. We will have more details for you all as they become available, and we will do our best to be transparent with the development process (including streaming resource development when possible). I want to thank everyone who has made New Day RP their home for everything they bring to the community - we have an incredibly diverse group of roleplayers here that make New Day RP the best GTA roleplay community.
-New Day RP Staff.
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