Hello Colonists,
Since our last news, we have seen and been made aware of some questions and comments we would like to address here. Thanks for your support and have a good read.
Where is my server?
You may have noticed that several official servers have been taken offline recently. We have taken this decision with our partner G-Portal for 2 main reasons:
1) to lower the cost of operation of ROKH while the active player base remains low. We are consistent with our limited resources attribution for the game and want to keep focusing them on fixing.
2) to avoid burning more hardware from G-Portal. Indeed, G-Portal is an incredible partner for us who has been supporting us greatly with hardware and software. But the game not being optimized well causes some hardware crashes and we agree to try to limit that to a minimum.
That’s why we have taken some servers down (or more exactly not reactivated them following many hardware failures). But we will keep the current servers up for you to enjoy the official servers provided by G-Portal.
What is the project status?
As mentioned in our latest update, 2 teams have taken over the project to fix it. We were working to get a clear roadmap of development to be shared with you in September but it turns out that getting onboard and working on someone else’s code and design takes more time than expected. Especially when this game is as complex as ROKH, with a lot of interlocked systems and network layers. We have audited the code and architecture to make sure to work on the optimization side of things as well.
Therefore, we are still working on the roadmap and milestone plan. We are moving as fast as possible to provide you with a first test environment update. We will bring you a further update on our development process in 2 weeks and in the meantime, we’ll be introducing the new dev teams over the next weeks, make sure to stay tuned!
See you soon on Mars.