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It's something we've talked about internally several times. From a technical perspective there is not an issue for us to support this but we lack the resources currently to re-do every single avatar texture in the game to support this. Regardless, it's something we'd like to invest into in the future.

Hello all! I am glad to announce we will be conducting our public Alpha Stress Test next Friday on August 12th! We will be opening up our alpha server to the community to connect so we can observe how our systems handle many players. It's going to be a good bit of chaotic fun! Our team will be online spawning mobs, dropping items and doing all kinds of crazy things to put our servers under stress. The servers will be open for the weekened from Aug 12 until Aug 14th. Depending on how the testing goes, we may need a second stress test. Otherwise, the stress test will officially mark the end of our alpha testing and the beginning of our transition towards closed beta. We will make a follow up announcement later next week with details on how to connect to the alpha stress test and with a link to download the client. We're also happy to announce the launch of the website! We've implemented several new features on the website that we'll slowly be unveiling in the coming weeks. Make sure to stop by and check it out https://www.roseonlinegame.com/. Hope to see you there! Event: Alpha Stress Test Date: Aug 12 - Aug 14

Hi all, this thread is getting heated so I am going to lock it. If you'd like to continue discussing elements from this conversation then please start a new thread with those specific discussion points. Regarding the original question, we did consider rewriting the project in Unreal Engine and even have an internal prototype with all the game assets imported into the engine and basic combat/networking. However, we opted not to go down this route as it would essentially mean remaking the entire game from scratch. This is not a small undertaking and would have taken years, our original estimate was 3 years to bring the remake to feature parity. Instead we opted to continue where the game was left off and slowly iterate on it. Will we ever switch engines? Maybe, maybe not, but our current priority is to revive the game and the community. It has already taken us longer than we anticipated to relaunch the game and we would not work on anything to delay that further. All the best.

Thanks for the suggestion. Removed the daily limit for reactions.

I agree, I don't think we'd want to eliminate the dense shops all together but having the walkways cleared and requiring some minimum distance between shops so they don't clip into each other would probably help make it look less like a wall of shops. Probably could use a feature to hide shops as well as they're actually a big source of performance issues.

Yes this is a good suggestions. I do enjoy having a lot of shops but when there's too many and you can't even click to move it is too much.

It's something we'd like to support in some capacity but not something that will officially available until the future.

Hi all, the latest Ko-Fi update is publicly available and not limited to our monthly supporters: https://ko-fi.com/post/Dev-Update-7--Let-there-be-art-C0C5D3XYJ . Take a look if you're interested to see what we worked on last week! PS. A glitch prevents us from editing the post so please excuse our typos and grammar mistakes

It's a good idea, we want to implement more social features like this. Did you use this feature in the other game? Did you find others to play with?

Very true, I think we take for granted that not everyone in our community is in our discord. I copied the announcements to the forum here . In the future I'll make sure the announcements makes it the forum as well!

We posted some updates to the discord but failed to post them to the forum. I am copying them here for those who aren't in the discord: May 22 May 29th

We haven't posted any public announcements recently as we are pushing through technical work to get us to Closed Beta this summer. This work is mostly low-level and not very interesting to most players. Once we have some feature updates or timeline updates we will make another update. If you'd like to follow us more closely our discord is pretty active (https://discord.gg/roseonline) and if your interested in the gamedev nitty gritty we share a technical update once a week with our supporters on Ko-Fi.

Unlikely we'll bring back the old blue EVO UI officially but we're planning to support UI customization so the community can make and share their own designs!

Adding more dungeons is something the team would like to do. Especially instanced dungeons available from the world (rather than from a menu). Thanks for the suggestions!

Hello all, We are happy to announce the launch of our ko-fi page (https://ko-fi.com/rednimgames )! Members of our community looking to directly support the development of ROSE Online can now make a contribution to our team on ko-fi. All proceeds will be strictly used for ROSE Online! Those who sign up as monthly contributors will get exclusive access to weekly development reports from our team detailing exactly what we are working on. Both one-time and monthly contributors will get special roles in discord and on our forums. Contributing on ko-fi is entirely optional! The game will be free-to-play upon release and contributions on ko-fi will not impact your access to the game in any way. As always, we will continue to keep our community informed as we reach major milestones. Join today to get access to the latest dev update and an interview with l3nn0x from the dev team. Thank you for all the support! Rednim Games (edited)

We already plan to support Mac in the future (several of our team use macbooks) but it will take some time for us to be able to support it. In the meantime, if players want to test via wine or proton then we'd be happy to make adjustments to make them work better using those emulation layers.

Did not know this about that map, thanks for letting us know!

Great ideas, I think shops can be made a lot better.