Launch Day February 2026

Entry posted by badhbh in Community Updates · 2 hours ago

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Hello again gang,

You may have seen my announcement on discord yesterday, if not - here it is again.

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I wanted to start by saying a million thank yous to everyone for their support, not only for those who've joined us for pre-release and provided valuable feedback on areas that required some tweaking but also to our development team who've genuinely been working around the clock - jamming in some fixes, and changes to make sure we can provide everyone with the best experience possible on launch. We're excited to announce that we will be opening the server for you all to join us Saturday, 28 February 2026 18:00 (GMT)/7PM server-time!

We also want to clarify that we will be updating the UCP prior to the public launch to allow for transfers from your SAMP funds to RAGE. The maximum that will be allowed will be a one-time transfer capped at a value of $2 million on SAMP and will provide you with $250,000 on RAGE. We've heard your feedback that you do not want to grind jobs, and we will also be providing approximately $200,000 over your first 40 hours of play-time per character through social welfare payments to ensure that you have the freedom to roleplay whatever you'd like without worrying about being able to afford rent. (Must be nice). We've also automatically refunded anyone who has previously played 40+ hours with the welfare payments you'd be missing out on - you should find a payment of $180,000 in your banks upon login. We'll announce this UCP update once it's live.

Again, I'd like to thank everyone from the general community who've stuck around and supported us over the years and to the staff and development team who've been working tirelessly to get this show on the road. We're all extremely excited for the general community to have server access, and see the new and the improved features available. I'd like to note that we've crammed as much of the work our development team have been doing in before our public launch, but we've also got features currently in the pipe-lines to be tested and added to the server. We'll have a lot of exciting announcements and updates coming throughout the next few weeks and months.

I'd like to remind everyone that while launch day can be exciting, that the server rules will still apply. The staff team have received alot of feedback about quality of roleplay throughout the server, the prevalence of death-matching and unrealistic behaviours etc. We will be taking a firm stance on rule-breaking and the standard of roleplay across the server, so please try to work with us and be on your best behaviour once you gain access. We want to make this experience fun for everyone, but that requires some cooperation from the community too.

Many of you have been wondering what's new, and what's changed - we've been busy compiling and publishing the feature documentation, which you'll find here: Feature Documentation. This collection will be growing throughout the day to allow you to get familiar with the many of the features available before getting in-game this evening!

I also wanted to thank everyone for the incredible amount of interest in illegal factions. Our list of unofficial factions seems to be growing by the day, with some extremely tenured roleplayers making a reappearance. As some of you may be aware, Official Factions were given the opportunity to directly transfer their Official status to RAGE. I'd like to also announce the official factions which have joined us. A massive shout out to E/S Playboys 13 (formerly 38th Street), Valenti Crime Family and Hell Runners Motorcycle Club. We've also selected several factions as Verified, which may be a new concept to those who've only experienced SAMP, if you'd like to find out more about faction advancement, please follow this link - S/O to Delegation of Tribe Rukn, Los Renegados Motorcyle Club and The Mexican Mafia. We're so excited to see the roleplay that comes out of these factions, and all of the unofficial factions who've joined us pre-launch.

Finally, we will be limiting access to staff/developers only from 2PM GMT/3PM server-time to allow for the final updates, restarts and general cramming that needs to be done before opening the doors at 6PM GMT/7PM server-time.

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kaibr 251

Posted 2 hours ago

Extremely keen for the launch! Been mostly mapping during early access but from what I have dabbled in, it's shaping up to be a healthy launch! Thank you so much to all the people that have spent thousands of hours collectively to get this server in tip-top shape, you are absolute angels.