DEV BLOG #001 Greetings Citizens, It has been just over a year since you helped successfully kick start Identity into existence! We want to thank you all for your continued support by providing you all with regular updates following the development process for Identity. Engaging with our community is one of the best ways we can show our thanks, and a development blog is a perfect opportunity for us to bring you along for the ride. As you’ve seen throughout the past year, there is no game out there that is quite like Identity, and through your support, you have proven to us that Identity is a vision worth turning into a reality! Feedback has shown us that you all really appreciate our attempts to respond to virtually every question we receive on social media. Twitter and Facebook have been a huge boost in exposure for Identity, and so it is time we begin to explore other avenues of exposure to help our community understand a bit more about the game. In the coming months, our fans will see their first glimpse of gameplay for Identity! We are all extremely excited to show off our first gameplay video, which will fully explore the mechanics of apartment and housing customization. With this video, you will see that we have stayed true to our original art direction from the original Kickstarter trailer, while maintaining high standards in realistic lighting and graphics. We can safely say that we have improved many of the areas of our design that needed attention since February last year. Apartment & Housing Customization Apartments and houses within Identity will have a fully customizable interior. You will be able to change the wall paper on every wall in every room, place furniture anywhere there is space on the ground, swap out doors, windows, baseboards, crown moulding, and even wainscoting! We have made no compromise to the level of detail in which you can customize your apartments or homes, in order to truly express your sense of home decor. With this level of control, there is virtually no chance that the interior of two homes will ever look alike. There will be hundreds of furniture items available to purchase in-game in every style and design, from traditional to contemporary. Furniture in Identity can even be crafted, sold, or traded to other players, and those who wish to try their hand at crafting hand-made furniture from a variety of materials can place a crafting table anywhere they wish inside their homes! And if you wish to share your space with a partner, friend, or even a group of friends, homes and apartments will be available for sale throughout the world that support multiple roommates depending the size of the space and how many bedrooms are available. The home-owner may even grant build permissions to any number of roommates, even visitors, to help them decorate their living space. When you are finished, invite your friends over to compliment you on your interior decorating skills! If you’re anything like us, we know you will spend more time cleaning up this virtual home than you do your real one! Radio This week, our team has also placed a lot of our development efforts into building a functioning radio system that will allow you to listen to your favorite real-world radio stations through placed radio objects inside your virtual home, or car! Yes, you can flip through the channels in your car radio, which will also broadcast to the immediate area outside your car. Imagine driving down the street and having everyone you pass know you listen to NSYNC! One other major part of this feature that we are excited to tell you about is player operated talk-shows which you can personally host, or tune-in and listen to, from your car radio or home. The way we currently have this planned out for hosts, is to have actual physical broadcast stations on the map that you can enter as a player and begin hosting your own radio talk-show. Player’s listening from their car or home can browse a list of channels currently being hosted at that very moment, and listen to you live, talking about government conspiracies and UFO’s! We are really hoping that this feature will have a major social impact for Identity. Like you, we see a lot of potential in something like this for budding stars within the community. We would absolutely love to see many of you sprout a career that started in a game we developed, and ended with us listening to your lovely voice on our actual car radio! The Town Square (Social Module) Many of you already know of, and are eagerly anticipating the release of the planned “Town Square” module that is currently still in production. While we can’t give you an exact date on when that will be ready, progress is steady, and we are as excited as you are to meet you all for the first time in a virtual environment. You may already be aware that Identity is largely influenced by a landmass in the south-eastern portion of the United States. The Town Square itself is only a small portion of a larger city built into the final version of Identity called Ash Hill, a reference to Asheville, North Carolina where we had originally planned to move Asylum’s office. We picked this area of the world particularly because it offered a wide range of geographical variance. The transition between Identity’s mix of biomes needed to feel natural, and this area offered most of what we had been looking for. As for the other cities in Identity, their influences may become more clear to you now. Myrtle Beach is obviously Turtle Beach in Identity, and Roseport is less subtle, but a mix between Atlanta and New York City. When we first started, we kept everything, including the structures and world props level to the ground, a mistake we have since corrected. We quickly realized that cities are rarely ever flat, and knew that setting that precedent now would benefit Identity in the future. The next time you see The Town Square module, we are confident that you will notice the difference compared to earlier screenshots, what such a small transformation makes for immersion in a game environment. Moving Forward We want to thank our community for being so patient with us. Over the course of the past year, we’ve seen many work-in-progress screenshots of assets destined for Identity, and while we believe they serve as a sample of the work we have already put into the game, we know that many of you are still anxious to see video. Our current priority is to get things ready to show off, or more specifically, the housing/apartment customization first. We are convinced that many of you will appreciate the time and effort we have put into this feature, so that you will be able to fully express yourself through your character and virtual home. We know we’ve been pretty quiet this past year, and the criticism we’ve heard from our fans on that through social media and the forums have not fallen on deaf ears! We will start to release regular updates through development blogs and continue to find new ways to interact with our community, to show you our gratitude for your support. You yourself can become more involved by contributing to the discussion with your ideas at www.identityrpg.com/community. We’ll see you there, and thank you again! Always remember that we are gamers too and we are as excited as you are to play Identity at launch!

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to have a look around. Welcome to CORE Transport, we are a Bus, trucking and Delivery corporation, focusing to become your main and #1 in public transport. Trucking and driving coaches is a specialty for us, all of us at Core Transport are enthusiasts of the road ahead, we make promises that we will keep and ensure our service is of the highest quality and wont be beaten. We are already hiring staff which will eventually begin work in the proper application number in-game. I hope you enjoy this comprehensive description of my corporation. Core Transport is a corporation who's main focus will be to become your #1 in transport. Not everyone will afford vehicles in Identity, so we want to give people the opportunity to travel with ease across the Island, the system below is a beta prototype and we will be trying a lot of new things to see what brings more satisfaction to possible future customers. We are happy to be the first announced transport corporation on the old forums, and we had the pleasure of having the first business post in this section of the forums. We are dedicated to our community and we hope to co-work with you all so that you too can build a transit system you would like to see. I started Core Transport because i have a passion in all things moving. A lot of my family are in the logistics and public transport business. Core transport is based on real world collected data, we have several written documents describing how our logistical and public transport system will work on identity based on the information that we have right now, and a special thanks to @Motown for answering a lot of private messages on the site which in turn helped shape Core Transport. We have some exciting news and updates coming shortly, so keep an eye on this section of the forums to be the first to find out new and exclusive information about Core Transport The following is a prototype of our system and how we would like to start off in Identity. ------Description of our Coach / City bus price lists and description of our system------ Once in the game I am planning on making the tickets BASED around these prices: ((CITY / CITY OUTSKIRTS BUS LINES)) - City service -Regular [$3.50]* (The ticket price may vary depending from where to where you are travelling) -Return [$6.50] (This ticket allows you to travel to your destination, and be able to travel back without buying another ticket, the price may also vary) -Day Saver [$25.00] (This ticket allows you to travel as much times as you want PER DAY in a specific ZONE, such as city, or countryside. The price may also vary) -Collaborative [$15.00] (If you are staff or part of a company that are partners with CORE Transport, you will get this ticket, with a discount instead of the Day Saver) -Weekly Bus Pass [$150.00]* (If you do the calculations -per day- this ticket will save you money if you travel with us a lot, the price may also vary.) -Event Pass [$450.00]* (Hosting an event? need transportation for ALL your guests? hire a CORE Bus with one of our bus drivers, and make as much trips as you want, from anywhere to anywhere in ONE day, this deal may have discounts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ((INTER CITY/COACH LINES)) - Inter City service -Inter City One way [$39.00] (Priority boarding = extra [$5.50]* -Inter City Two way [45.00] (Priority boarding = extra [$10.00]* -Inter City Worker pass [$100.00] (Unlimited trips for TWO Days.) (Priority boarding = extra [$10.00] -Inter City Collaborative [$26.00]* (Priority boarding = extra [$10.00]) (This is the city worker pass, at a discounted price for Co. Partners) One baggage = [$4.50]* Two baggage's = [$8.50]* Three baggage's = [$12.00]* (Prices may vary from time to time) (Special offers will be held for ALL of the above*) On-board meals will be served free of charge if travelling over 80km2* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (DAILY SPECIAL DEALS, OFFERS, AND MILES) If you travel daily with CORE Transport, for every mile you earn on your membership card, you earn points, point can later be redeemed to have free bus trips, free meals, free priority boarding or free baggage's. Every week, CORE Transport has a Friday and Sunday special which offers you a TWO WAY trips with any Inter city coach, for only $35.00, price includes vat, baggage and parking (if any) -----------Description of our Logistics system and how it works----------- Logistics - Deliveries and their cost: The way we will be calculating our deliveries cost is not by weight or type of goods but rather by how much room it will take in the truck trailer / van. Space in the truck trailer and van are divided into 6 zones, the costs would be as followed: SPACES 1 = 50$ | 4 = 400 2 = 150$ | 5 = 750 3 = 250$ | 6 = 1,000 Prices will be negotiable, and this is all a prototype. all feedback is much appreciated. Roles and procedures of the Logistical Driver. (1) The Depot: Drivers will collect their asset (vehicle) belonging to the C.T. Corporation at the start of their shift after the yard master / secretary* gives them their Driver Reference Nr and permission to depart from the Yard, once the driver receives his/her instructions then departure is permitted by the Security Guard. (2) The warehouse: The warehouse operators would be loading the truck before the driver arrives. Small vans or other truck drivers would be assigned to bring smaller goods to a company owned warehouse where the customers goods would be distributed to their final location. But it is possible to deliver directly from Factory > Destination if the payment reaches minimum for that process to occur. Its an important job to ensure that goods are loaded efficiently and effectively. (3) Secure Driver Procedure: When any driver enters a yard or distribution centre a driver number must be given, along with the vehicles registration plates and what kind of cargo is being transported. Core Transport is a 100% legal company and it is up to the Security Officer to ensure that no illegal contraband is ever transported. Heavy fines would apply for any contraband that would be attempted to transport. When trucks arrive and depart they are heavily checked by security officers to ensure the safety of the driver and compliance with the law. Dockets would be printed out for drivers with ALL the information they need to take off. This is not the finalized version of the C.T. system description. a logo and the full description will be uploaded in weeks to come.

So i have made a GTA crew for my club in the hopes to give my club something to do while we await the games release and also to give members a chance to get to know eachother. This club is open to all BCR MC members but id also like to open it to all the other MC's out there so we can all get in a ride together. Let me know if you and your club would like to join us and just pop me a PM with your GTA username and ill add you in. Hope to ride with you all soon, even if its not in Identity. https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/bcr_prospects_

Aria Wheeler Aria is peppy, bubbly, 19 year old. She was born September 26. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but she moved to the Identity Island to pursue her dream in acting...or writing...or whatever she decides her mind on. She's not so sure about what she wants in the future. She likes in the in the present and the present only. She is very active and maybe annoying to a few people. Although she has a very colorful personality, she doesn't let anyone change her. That's all people ever wanna do to her. Even if she's nice to everyone, she doesn't have much friends. None, really. At the age 12, she lost her dad to cancer. She wanted to tell him that she'd cure it, but she never really wanted to be a doctor. So, she told him she'd cure ANIMAL cancer. She kinda regrets that because she's not showing any dedication at all. She says it just felt like "He was deleted from the world." After his death she didn't even want to be Aria anymore, so she started acting. She wanted escape her life and be someone else. But years later she began to accept it. In school she was the teacher's pet, even though she wasn't that smart. She wasn't even friends with the teachers, she just helped them around. They were kinda using her. She only had one friend but they grew apart over the years, like most friendships. So, she was alone. But it didn't bother her. She'd listen to her music, jump around and dance...by herself. She didn't care whether she had friends or not, she was gonna Aria Wheeler. Never change for anybody. After high school, she was tired of boring old Toronto. She needed a new life. A new life in identity _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BASIC INFO Name: Aria Wheeler Age: 19 Gender: Female Ethnicity: Mixed Race Sexuality: Heterosexual Occupation: "Seeking" _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ APPEARENCE

Hello everyone. While some of you may know me from the business forums as the founder of Arachne clothing I'm here to start a party for the people who are more liberal minded. While the Conservative Coalition party is advertising towards those who are more conservative minded I'm here to see who would be interested in a liberal party. I don't have a name or a platform except for a few ideas. 1. More gun control: While the second amendment to the constitution (This is an American province i believe) does give us the right to bear arms people who own gu s have the power to hurt others and that power can be abused. So we need gun control to keep us safe from people whose aim is to do us harm. While some may see gun control as a way to "take your rights away" I see it as a way to keep us safe. Remember it takes restricting freedom to get more freedom for you. That's the basic idea of any government. 2. More federal government control: While local government is important as is our rights we need more governmental control. The federal government can standardize things and make it easier for everyone to understand and get proper restrictions on things to keep us safe. While I don't believe the government should have all the power the people should still have a difinitive voice. While we can get the details changed and more details created though a discussion. The liberal minded people should come together to form a party. My apologies if this isn't formated properly as I will be on mobile until Monday night (July 11th).

A cool idea that I just got, so we do know that people can get sick and people can get other people sick, one big thing that you can take out of that is that mass diseases can happen and quarantines can follow with high alerts of the sickness everywhere, so with that would it be possible to have a CDC who try to contain the virus and make a cure. The job could involve running simulations to see how the virus will spread and doing tests to figure out the cure. Also, you only have a limited amount of the virus to test on because in reality you don't really have an endless supply of the virus to test on, so people will have to go out and collect some of the virus without getting sick themselves. Pro cations could be taken like wearing a hazmat suit and keeping yourself clean, but there is still the small change that the person can get sick. Was curious what other people thought of this idea.

glory to the pc!

I couldn't have said it any better!

Yeah you're a bit weird I'll give you that

That's the dumbest and most bullshit post I've ever seen, period!

Welcome man

Dirty Peasant. Jk and Herzog I'm getting GTA V very soon so i will join you as soon as I can, I can join on social club now tho because before I had PC I played the game on 360, I'm about level 30 ish

No no no they said nothing about console release in late 2017, don't say something that hasn't been said

My secuirity company will give you a job bro

I haven't heard most've that. I'm 99% sure half of those bands were around before I was even born.

Nah you're not a girl, guys and gals type differently and it's actually fairly easy to tell.

Ooooh a revelation!! I thought you were gonna keep that one on the downlow Herzog

Oi Oi Saveloy!

Ye buoy that's the official worst game ever, but chances are most people here haven't played that so would choose something else.

@Shimozukachi No Shimo look Maybe he/she sells components, and considering I bought most of mine from there I am glad you are here Aria. I said you bait because your profile is posing as a girl when I know downright you're a guy, making you bait.

Here you guys go, I've made a discord page about well Identity, it has some of the same pages the community forums have and i'm hoping that people will use this to talk to each other because there is also the voice channel function on it so people can actually talk to each other if they want. If your interested here is a link: https://discord.gg/dJxrbpc Can't wait for the community to start getting together in many more ways leading up to the release of the game.

A police officer.

I want to be highway patrol

I'd love to see a Discord server! In the meantime, I'll periodically poke my head in to see if anyone is around this Teamspeak. I'd love to chat sometime!

I have an idea to Start My own Insurance Agency. It could insure Retail stores for protection on stolen goods. Trucking goods, to ensure deliveries arrive smoothly. And even illegal businesses for insurance on their drugs and what not.

I've had enough of these liberals and their communist ideas!, Therefore, I intend to run a campaign based on conservative ideas, and a conservative platform. First and foremost, I want to bolster our capitalist economy! we need to abolish the regulations burdening our companies! small, medium, large they are all feeling the burden which is overregulation! let the market regulate itself, government should not be involved in terrorizing innocent companies!. We need to relieve our population of the burden which is taxation!, the power to tax is the power to destroy! we need a minimal government with absolutely minimal tax rate, when we relieve the people of the burden which is taxation they will increase spending in our open economy. We need to praise economist such as Arthur Laffer, a worldwide respected economist, whom invented the "Laffer curve" which was the success of Ronald Reagan. Eminent domain is infringing upon our privacy rights! Another law the government is abusing to destroy our liberties, this will not go on in my cabinet!, the government will not steal your property. The rise of anti-gun laws proposed, and rhetoric, will not be tolerated! we as American citizens are entitled to bear arms! there's a reason it's the second amendment it's there to protect our first amendment! the right to bear arms will be strengthed by me and my cabinet. We will enforce those laws currently in place, but we need to protect ourselves. I put it to the people, we need to take back control, control of our own borders! control of our lives, without government interfering, with high taxation or regulations burdening our population! We will reinforce our border controls, tougher visa laws, and increase border patrol capabilities! We need to combat terrorism at home, and abroad! increase the presence of our elite troops and airstrikes to combat ISIL, increase the presence of NATO in the baltic countries and eastern Europe as a whole. Vote for a conservative bright future!, I will stand firm on my views, defending them and defending freedom, democracy, and our economy!. Vote for a Conservative future!. Vote James Merton for governor!. I've already stated this clearly but I wish for the CCP to view it, I've contacted our honourable chairman Dragon, for further discussion upon choosing me as the CCP's best candidate, for acquiring office. I hope you'll stand by me!.

You want to be Tig? Better find yourself a nice "Girl"friend

That's old news, and is why it was initially delayed a few months ago. We've already resolved that issue with the Town Square. Now we are updating shaders and materials and trying to prop out the scene to feel a bit more complete. It worried us that feedback had mentioned a difference in quality between interior and exterior shots, and so we made the decision to put more effort into our environments. This will be the first impression for many of our fans, and so it needs to look great. We simply ask that our fans here have patience. We're a small team of around 9 people at any given time (people come and go frequently) and what's important to us is that we get it right. Speed is not our priority!

I think being apart of a biker gang would be cool, would probably suit me pretty well as well. Every biker gang needs that one crazy bastard

I see pretty much all the time on twitter, those players wanting Identity for console, But i don't see why they ask it. First off, consoles don't have a good player amount per server. Identity needs a lot of players on a server to be successful and that is never going to happen on a console with there server sizes. Identity is about interaction and also the map size is huge and so far I don't see how it will work if other games failed with interaction. PC is not a master race, it might be able to run more games but it don't make pc gamers any better. GTA has 24 max players on console, the map is not filled at all. Most places are dead but it has the AI to make up for the emptiness. Identity has little to none AI, and none at all driving around and so the map will be empty near to all the time + the careers, how will you be able to do everything this game offers? 24 players, what if 1 person is wanted and then he is in the middle of nowhere and your a cop, it would be near impossible to catch them. Identity would be great if console could handle everything like 300 players per server, give us an option to join a certain server and player interaction which failed in other places, but the question is would it actually be successful or would it be a downfall? I would definately play it if the devs could make everything be the same as the pc version work on a console version but as I said above, there is little hope for it to work. (just my opinion). Please don't argue, just put a reasonable opinion of your thoughts on this. Also I know it was tasked about before but it turned into a argument. This is purely because i wonder what benefits it would give on console/ which things won't change either. Also I would love it on both but I doubt it would be for one for atleast maybe 2 years after pc release that they would be able to even accomodate it to work on a cnsole.

Leading an anarchist guerilla group, producing drugs and leading an assault against the government.

I'll be a pirate sailing the seas and robbing ships.

So I was hoping we could use some sort of voice modifier to go a long with the in game voice chatting system, This would increase immersion into the game and open new doors for roleplaying. Either one pre built into the game, or support for using a third party software.

Human voice chords are capable of changing your voice to some extent. Though in my case if I was to rob a bank I'd probably have to stay silent lol. -Okay, so someone robbed a bank... -It could be anyone! -The robber had a female voice. -Then we're down to 2 suspects. It's either that little boy who's a total noob or the only female on the server.