Wow, what a month. It's been busy here at Asylum as usual, so let's get down to the interesting stuff! As expected, our current focus is on the Town Square so that we can get it out to you as soon as possible. We're finalising the interior of the library and art gallery (shared within one building) and adding polish to the environment. Once the clothing store interior is complete following that, the Town Square environment is ready to go. We'll continuously be adding more art after release though; specifically for house furnishings, decorations and clothing. In addition to the environment art, Miroslav (character artist) has been creating all sorts of hair assets which allow us to show hair appropriately when wearing a hat or helmet. This is a big task for him as it means making variations to match the hat options for each length of hair, but in the end it'll ensure your hair always looks as you'd expect when wearing headgear. Hair under a hat; work in progress Right next to the clothing shop you'll find a bicycle store where you can get a sneak preview of some of the bikes you'll be able to ride around in the full Identity release. We showed you a bicycle work in progress last blog post and now you can see the finished result of that below. This image will give you a rough idea of the detail level you'll see in Identity's vehicles. Ridable bicycle With more final systems coming online for the Town Square release, we now have functioning phones. Each player will start with a cellphone, although you'll be able to upgrade it with three mobile OS options available. The phone OS' each have a unique and interesting style. Characters also have a designated phone number assigned when they're created; you'll be able to get a custom number for a fee. These phones work just as you'd expect. You're able to dial up another player and speak with voice remotely. Businesses can even get a business line which, when called, will contact a member of that corporation who's online. Shot from an internal system test: advertising While the art of the billboard above isn't final, it gives you a very good idea of what you can expect in Identity for advertising. That's right, you can really publish messages around the world through billboards and other means. Corporations and those running for government office can purchase billboard space to help get their message out. You'll select a graphical template from a large list of options and then attach a brief message or other customization to make it your own. These billboards can also be moderated by the server operators. There are other similar advertising systems, too. For example digital road signs can be made to show custom messages by the current government. We can't wait to show you more of Identity, and we'll soon have that opportunity with the release of an overhauled website. Those current pledge packages are about to go away forever, and some of the rewards won't be available for purchase again after the new website changes. Also, follow us on our Twitch channel if you'd like to stop in and ask questions of the developers. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you'll find a few developers playing a random game from 4pm EST to 5pm EST. Ask any questions and they'll be happy to answer on stream. Catch some of Identity's developers hard at work and see how they make the magic happen: we'll be providing development streaming dates and times on Twitter, soon! -- John VanderZwet

We all know that it's going to be hard to get number one. For starters, if you're looking to run a business you want a lot of profits. If you're looking to drive a truck, you'll want good roads to drive on. And if you want to socialize, you'll want a safe environment to do it. Blake Gillman for Mayor. ECONOMY I offer realistic tax rates because lower taxes means more profit to business, and more profit to business means a happy and healthy economy! I also plan to focus most of the tax into government services like our roads, police departments, and firefighters. WELFARE This is not a guarantee but once I take office and see how things work, I will look into being able to get something together like renting out houses for a lower-than-market price to those who qualify. COMPETENT SERVICES I will not hire those who do not know what they're doing, and I will not fruitlessly spend the cash. I believe that the cash should go back to you the people, if you put me in the position of mayor, that also means that you're putting your tax dollars where they should be: Into the well-being of the economy, people, and the city. This is not an unrealistic dream my friends, make a good living, and have someone who knows how things work in office. Some things in the game are automated like police, so a few bad apples are going to get into government. Make sure that the most important of government positions doesn't fall into the wrong hands. I urge you all, if you're playing the game and you see my name in the elections, make the right choice. Vote Blake Gillman for Mayor.

Yeah, the devs can't be rushed, that is why No Man's Sky was so bad. People complain about this game taking so long to release, and it being like No Man's Sky when ironically, a complaining community that doesn't understand that game development needs the predicted time multiplied by 3 because you don't know what will happen on the way, that community is one the big reasons why No Man's Sky and other Indies have flopped. This keeps happening to indies, don't let it happen to such an amazing game as Identity.

Half-Life 3

I'll make ammendments tomorrow!

Offline hours do count, but when you make me think about it 45 days is long! But... as Governor I want people to fear the punishment of their crimes! What sentence lengths do you recommend?

Jail in the game isn't like what you may think! You can break out, start riots, etc! It's really not as bad! That would be the sentence, but don't forget the one for one on good behavior! The people placed in jail won't be there longer than 7 days top! If you're willing to murder someone then I'm sure you're willing to break out of prison!

Yes, jail time is the only real punishment!

Yes, "days" refers to Real Life Time!

C: Devs abandon the project with the money they made kek I'm kidding, but fr though they need to make sure the first module releases within the next couple weeks, or else I'm actually going to be upset, which some impatient people already are.

Q&A!

Yes, this is the political party foundations for the game. Some aspects of the party won't apply to the game. But, they'll still be listed! This refers to places outside the island!

No, I'm curious where you see a relation between the two?

That's always the mission! Thanks for your positive feedback! Any comments, questions, literally anything is free to be discussed...

The F.R.I.E.S Institute "Building Tommorrow Today" Policies: Taxes: Tax Policy goes as follows, $0-$25,000: No Tax $25,000-$50,000: 2.5% Tax $50,000-$100,000: 5% Tax $100,000-$200,000: 7.5% Tax $200,000-$300,000: 10% Tax $300,000-$500,000: 12.5% Tax $500,000+: 15% Tax Jobs: All buisnessess, small and large, have equal opportunity in buissness. Minimum Wage is $15. Healthcare: Basic Healthcare is $1.25 Million in medical coverage, Medicine covers $300,000. Premium Healthcare is $2 Million in medical coverage, Medicine covers $500,000. Basic Healthcare: $125 a month for Lower Class. $225 a month for Middle Class. $325 a month for Upper Class. Premium Healthcare: $225 a month for Lower Class. $325 a month for Middle Class. $425 a month for Upper Class. Crime Policy: Murder - 50 Days Robbery of over $5000 - 25 Days Robbery between $1000-$5000 - 20 Days Robbery under $1000 - 10 Days Grand Theft Auto - 20 Days Illegal Drug Possession - 20 Days Possession of Illegal Weapons - 15 Days Gun Policy: Military grade weaponry and automatic rifles illegal in the market. Regular grade weapons legal with a gun license. Drug Policy: Pharmaceutical Drugs, Tobacco, and Alcohol are all legal. Police Force: Strong force with an aim on keeping the citizens of, and the city of Identity safe. LGBTQ+ Rights: Freedom of Expression. Questions: If you have any further questions about my policies please feel free to ask below.

Hey guys! My name is Cloey, mhm! Pronounced like the more common "Chloe"!~ I'm very interested in this game although I think that it will be a while before it comes out, I'll be here to support it one hundred and ten percent! :3 I'm also super duper active on forums so you'll probably see me out and about if you're as active as I will most likely be! Can't wait to see where this game goes! Anyway, it's nice to meet cha' all!~

*Disclaimer: I get that my business may not work in game but hopefully.* Whopper Garage™ About: Whopper Garage™ ~Since 2012~ Car Customization service in the Forza Horizon franchise and Identity. We Specialize in: Performance Tuning Cosmetic Enhancement and Design Showroom Quality Cosmetics and Painting Detailing Repairs Pricing(Price not available until release): Performance Tuning on Stock Car - $XX Depending On Car Performance Upgrades - Depending on Upgrade Cosmetic Modification - $XX For Body Kit Cosmetic Custom Design - Depends on How Complex Positions Available: Mechanic (4 Spots) Painter (2 Spots) Cosmetic Designer (2 Spots)

I will be starting a radio station soon under the name, Identity Radio. We will be playing all sorts of royalty music to create a universal radio where youtubers could enjoy music without getting copyright strikes for their channel. We are still unaware about how the radio will work but we will be operating soon! HIRING NOW! We are looking for radio DJs 0/2 Starting rate: $20/hr We are looking for a CFO (Manages our funds and donations) 0/1 Will talk about salary when accepted! We are looking for Events Scheduler 0/1 More Jobs will be coming soon! Please PM me if you are interested. P.S Please have Skype or Discord for an interview Our current shows Our current shows that will be running - Meeting The Governors (Coming soon) We will be arranging an interview with the various Governors running for the title Governor in Identity Island! Meeting people such as Lucious Times and Thomas Hetch. We may also have some special guests such as people of Identity very soon! More shows will be coming very soon! How will we stay afloat? We will be relying on donations by the community (In game money) and sponsors so that we can succeed on having the best radio stations in Identity. The cash will be going to pay the salary of the employees and improving the radio experience! For example, we can host giveaways and appear at events all around Identity Island! Donations: I don't know how the donation work in the game but i will figure it out! Sponsors Please contact me via through PM or comment in the forum so i can work with you. Well that's should be everything that i need to cover for but there is a surprise is that the Identity Radio will be functioning before the Town Square module, it wouldn't have much though as the shows will be available when the TS module is out (Sorry ) but the music should be fine. It may run 24 hours but usually there will be blank spots from time to time so what are you waiting for? Hurry down and catch up on the latest news and trendy music on Identity Radio! LINK TO RADIO: I need time to setup. Update: It's going take a long time to set up a radio though so......it may not be before TS module

Hey there fellow people! I'm here to give my opinion on this. I don't want any argument and I ain't here to complain as I don't really care about when it will go out or whatever, I got all my time. I'm a bit disappointed with their interaction with us though. What about those weekly tweet answers we used to get? And all those videos we got promised? I mean.. I've been working on a game for two months now, I'm a one man team, I work on modelling/programming/texturing and much more everyday and i still got the time to make two 20 mins videos to present all the gameplay mechanics and interfaces we've made (2 months and we got game mechanics and interfaces ready for final release) so I'd just like to know.. Is it pure laziness or is it just that you guys REALLY have nothing to show that could be intereting? I personally released a video on test gameplay mechanics and people loved it so.. Yeah. What do you guys think? I'm still hyped for the game, don't you worry.

There are very few Mayor candidates... so you have a chance to stand out!

Exactly if you want to pledge more so they can hire more and get bigger teams so thing can go more smoothly awesome but never ask for earlier release dates because that's when games go to shit because they get released way too soon and things get unfinished and shit crashes....let the devs take their time so we can have a beautiful game that everyone can love

Its a quote from one of my favorite movies: "The Green Mile". You should watch the movie. i loved it.

I don't want an earlier release just an earlier beta because destiny was released a lot earlier than it was supposed to and it was garbage compared to what it was supposed to be, so like i said screw earlier release people can wait but I wouldn't mind seeing an earlier beta so we the people can see what is being worked on and how far you guys have come and so we ourselves and give compliments and notes so you guys can have it easier on the development because you will have the feedback notes on what needs fixing or what could use improvement or most of all what could already be perfect.

You will still be able to pre order packages for the game. But the content of the packages and the price will change.

Could be a flop, id rather spend the extra $10 or wait for steam sale, I never pre order no matter how promising a product looks. Anything can fail, Identity have already failed on 7 promises.

Thats some normie shit REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

*flicks off while backing away* F*ck yoooooou

(the only rule is it has to fit into the current storyline and be in the same forHmat as the first, I start) Time: 3:44 PM Location Roseport Heights Apartment 56 *in a messy bedroom a man lies sleeping on the bed he has a pistol in his hand* RING RING *his cell phone goes off* *he wakes up frantically pointing the pistol everywhere* *he answers the phone* "Marco Love speaking" he says

im not touching that link for that FAKE ass giveaway lmfao

Hey @KifDawg, there will be an overhaul of the whole website "soon". There no exact ETA on when the website will be launching. Along with this website i pretty sure we will get new information about the game itself. Regarding Car mods: The devs showed the follwing Video in one of her streams lately. Note: This Video is an old one (from 2015) With Town Updates you mean Updates regarding the Town Square Module? The Module will be released "soon". They are doing the last interiour of buildings and doing final polishing. Greetings, -Radack

""Marco, where the f*ck have you been. The Goodman files have been missing for two days and all you can do is sleep?!"" *disgustingly Marco sits up and has another sip of his scotch from last night* "who the hell do you think you are calling me on my day off, ive been out of the game since we iced his wife" ""Things have changed, they know about you and me. We're done for"" *Marco rolls out of bed and with a hungover pace, he puts his pants on and rests his pistol into his weathered leather holster tucked around his belt loop* "Do not call me on this line again, meet me at Mulligans at six..." "eh, bring your rifle" *Laying back on the bed marco tosses the phone across the room and reaches for his wrinkled shirt under the blankets* "This fckin shit again"

any who clicks any of those links deserves to get a virus.

my ip shows I'm in hong kong

Glad at least some one got the joke lol

Yeah, Half Life 3 reminds me of Identity because it is never going to happen either. (Sarcasm, I couldn't help but make that joke )

Hey @SpirokBr, Here is the page which is likely where the launcher will be downloaded from (But it will actually be on the new website). However Modules (Alpha will be downloaded / launched by a launcher which you will download from this site (New one), the Beta will be released next year and will be launched also through a launcher like the modules and for the full game, you will receive a email with a steam key for you to activate it on steam. I hope this helps, Best regards, LuckyDuck.

If fake credit cards and counterfeit money is invented people will find ways to glitch it to exploit it, it's going to become a game-breaking bug and will probably result in chaos happening.

My dear friend, you do not simply invest in the stock exchange! What stocks do you invest in? Do you day trade? Do you do mutual funds?

The town square module won't have that. If you are referring to the actual game, there is so much of the community that doesn't want it to be just killing, we want to start businesses, do stuff legitimately. If it does get that bad there are always private servers.

there are only 2 gender

Q&A is always available! Even juicy personal questions!

It was fun for like 20 games but then it got pretty repetetive and boring. It is just you go to somewhere in the middle of the circle and then you wait 15 minutes and then you move again.

Hello @kriller509, I can say thee devs do take the concern of their followers seriously but firstly if you mean release the game by the end of 2017 then you are mistaken because the game itself won't be released before 2018. They have 3 modules to release before the beta and only then will the game be released at some point. The 1st module will be released very soon and then the s.w.a.t. module will not be too long after. After the modules release then modules will be frequently updated as they go a long. The devs have their plans set and I am sure the game will still be popular and even more popular once it hits release as many people actually don't know of the game as of yet and it should increase with popularity instead of decreasing. Best regards, LuckyDuck.

Agree. The same goes for your company's store, it would be great to input either HEX codes or RGB codes. This will be a benefit if your company has a specific color theme.

Probably not, Project Life is aids hopefully this isn't.

I agree.

i Think he should lose his spot...because it wouldn't make sense(For Example)the mayor is corrupt and a citizen shoots and kills him it would be unfair to the citizens for the corrupt mayor to respawn and continue his corrupt ways.

This game will be all about private whitelisted servers so its not going to be a problem for people that really want to establish themselves as that is where they will be doing it. Actual children in public servers are not going to get far and wont play the game long when they realize no one wants to interact with them so once the flavor-of-the-month title wears off they will be gone, for people playing exclusively on private servers they wont know they existed to begin with.

I'd love to have a vespa.