We've gone ahead and moved into our second season of RP for the RP Nexus community. This season will be more heavily focused on the roleplay, storylines, and establishing an overall backstory/timeline for the community.

The servers have been wiped so everyone will be starting fresh. Passwords have been changed and if you are not yet whitelisted, make sure you post an application to join us!

Be sure to tell your friends about us too... now is the time to join up with everyone starting from the start again.

This has been a fun filled week. I've been extremely busy with work, but keeping up with the server on a daily basis. Even had some solid game time in there. ;)

I have made a few forum announcements that are worth taking a look at. If you haven't been playing on the server as of late (things have come up, new game launches, etc) then I think you should take 5 minutes or so to read up:

State of the Community - http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/topic/218-state-of-the-community/

Latest Patch - http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/topic/216-new-patch-out-90mb/


I'm also beginning to feature community submitted screenshots and videos. You can find out about that here:

http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/topic/213-screenshots-or-videos/


We now offer a private channel on Discord and a special Discord usergroup for clans/guilds with at least 5 registered users:

http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/topic/212-discord-channel-for-groups/


I've also posted a couple events on the calendar. One is an event this coming weekend involving a treasure hunt. The other is a community meeting where we will all meet and discuss changes to the community, events, and take questions:

Treasure Hunt - http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/calendar/event/1-treasure-hunt/

Community Meeting - http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/calendar/event/2-community-meeting/

I'll be adding more events over the next 24 hours.


I will be adding some lore to the website with a section giving a basic backstory to the servers. I will be adding events that will tie into the lore and progress the storyline along. But I want your everyday interactions to help guide this story. As events and interactions happen in-game, it will vastly affect the outcome of the overall story and I will update the lore as we progress. Which means you will ALL have the opportunity to affect the lore.


I know some of you had some server performance issues in the beginning of the launch. I worked with our host and they were unable to resolve the issues. Because of that, we switched our host. This new one has been amazing. I have been monitoring the servers and can recall only ONE single crash. They've been so solid that I've now pushed back the 6 hours restarts to become 12 hour restarts. So every 3am and 3pm EST, you will see the servers briefly come down for restarts.


Lastly... population. We've had a fluctuating number on the servers and sometimes dropping to just a couple at a time. There are a lot of factors that come into play here and being experienced in server management and community managment... this is something I watch closely. The biggest factor as explained in my State of the Community has been the number of servers vs the number of players. It's completely unbalanced. That will change over time when these other servers start closing down. I guarantee we'll be the last one standing and you're going to be happy you stuck with us.


Thanks again everyone... and I look forward to seeing you all in-game!

Some exciting stuff here:

http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/topic/58-dev-interviewdiscussion/

I'm talking to the Community Manager and will be sending him a list of questions. If you have any you'd like to see answered, post in that thread.

I may or may not be able to post tomorrow with some dinner plans, so I wanted to give you guys a wrap up of this week in the RP Nexus realm.

I have been hard at work behind the scenes on the website and have added some new features to it. Eventually, you'll be able to access a store to donate to the community which will in turn grant you special "abilities" and "access". More to come on that.

We've had a substantial increase in registered users as a result of the giveaway. I'm hoping that at least 10% of those users join us by whitelisting. That would be pretty exciting for the server. The giveaway is almost over, if you haven't gotten your name thrown into that hat, be sure to visit the forums and do that.

Whitelisting is going well in terms of application speed and response. The whole process takes all of 2 minutes for you, the user (which grants you access to our two release servers), and we've been quick to respond to apps as the staff. If you haven't whitelisted yet... what's wrong with you?! Hehe, go get whitelisted. Conan Exiles is going to be amazing.

I am almost ready to start accepting staff applications. If you're interested in that, you WILL need to be whitelisted first. So be sure to do that. Staff opening will be for the Support Team and you can move upward from there.

If you haven't joined our Discord server... then you are slacking. Here's a direct link:

https://discord.gg/PGGnHgU

Be sure to join us!

Other than that... the forum is slowly filling up with content. Drop by and say hello... there's even an introduction section. We want to hear from you and hear your story.

I am giving away a free copy of the game, no strings attached. Take a look at the announcement here:

http://forums.rpnexus.org/index.php?/topic/35-giveaway-of-conan-exiles/

Be sure to post a reply to that thread if you're interested!