About/History

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ONX Roleplay went live at 7pm EST on the 9th of December, 2023.
The server took a steady, gradual approach to opening, with a randomised queue enabling staggered logins for whitelisted players to slowly trickle in until the player cap was reached. Players waiting for their turn were able to enjoy other FiveM servers in the meantime, thanks to ONX's browser-based queue.
==Server Milestones==
10,000 State IDs — March 16th, 2024
10,000 MDW reports — March 26th, 2024
==Applications==
The ONX website opened for the submission of applications on August 14th, 2023.
For the first seven days after submissions opened, applications were not reviewed. After that week, all applications that had been submitted were shuffled in a random order and queued for review.
===⸺ Optional Purchases ⸺===
On the 3rd of December that year, just days before the launch date, application priority was made available for purchase that would pull applications out of the main queue and place them into a shorter queue for faster review. 72-hour and 14-day options continue to be available on the ONX community store, for $50 USD and $20 USD respectively. The money received from these paid application boosts would primarily be given directly to the application review team, with the remaining amount allocated to offset development costs. Boosts do not guarantee application approval, they only speed up the process of receiving an outcome. Each boost is a one-time purchase and may only be used to boost a single application once.
An ONX supporter package was also made available at a cost of $30 USD per month, which provides niche benefits such as a special role in the official ONX Discord, a 'pause' feature which can hold your place in the server queue for up to 30 hours at a time, access to additional features on in-server social media 'Twinsta' such as the Snaps (photo feed) and Reels (video feed) sections, custom license plates, and more. This is a subscription intended to support development, reminiscent of a voluntary donation.
Boosts and support subscriptions are still available for purchase via the ONX community store. Neither application boosts nor the supporter package constitute pay-to-win practices: both are entirely optional purchases.
===⸺ Applications Overhaul ⸺===
On September 17th, 2024 free applications closed for the first time and the applications system was overhauled. Active applicants were moved to the front of the queue, enabling the team to focus on processing applicaations more quickly from people who were still interested in playing on the server. All applicants waiting to be reviewed were notified of this change via Discord and are able to mark their application as active by signing into the ONX website, which would restore their original position in the queue.
Free applications reopen for a short period of a couple days at the beginning of each month to ensure a stable and manageable workload for the volunteer team working behind the scenes to clear the backlog. Once the existing backlog has been processed, free applications are intended to be reopened.
With this change, a new tier of application boost was made available on the community store: $10 USD for a 30 day turnaround. This much more widely affordable option provides applicants interested in a fairly prompt review the opportunity to cut down their total wait time.
==Promotion==
In the months prior to ONX's launch, two videos were released to promote the server.
===⸺ Application Trailer ⸺===
On the 14th of August, 2023, a teaser video titled 'GTA 5 FiveM ONX RP Application Trailer' was posted to the ONX YouTube Channel.
Mysterious and motivating music provided by Epidemic Sound accompany 3D animated visuals of a character model slowly materialising amidst a dark voidlike space, punctuated only by pink, purple, and blue light effects. The ped model was provided by Ceptar4 and is a nod to one of GTAWiseGuy's previous roleplay characters, The Puppet Master.
Applications to the server were advertised on-screen and in the video's description, encouraging anyone interested to submit on the official ONX website.
===⸺ Gameplay Trailer ⸺===
The full cinematic trailer for ONX, titled 'GTA 5 ONX RP Cinematic Gameplay Trailer', was uploaded to YouTube on December 1st, 2023.
Produced by ONX devloper GTAWiseGuy (GWG), the video showcases a host of features including cinematic storytelling tools, redesigned buildings and locations, injury mechanics, career progression systems, real-world integration for the in-game phone, and more. Against a funky synthwave-inspired soundscape once again provided by Epidemic Sound, voiceover and in-game footage and audio portray a vibrant and opportunity-rich environment. In keeping with GWG's passion for cars, game footage of vehicles feature heavily throughout, and more than 400 new vehicles in addition to the range of assets from the vanilla game were teased.
The final moments of the trailer revealed the server's release date: December 9th 2023, just a week and one day from the date the video was posted.
==Development==
The ONX Roleplay server has been developed over a span of many months, with the help of a team of developers and other community members.
===⸺ Assets ⸺===
ONX's developers have released several significant updates to its assets over the lifespan of the server.
On March 22nd, 2024, a major update was released that doubled the number of player model faces, enabling a more diverse-appearing population with over 45 new head models and a complete remaster of vanilla skin textures. Existing characters could visit the hospital for plastic surgery or tweak their features at the barber shop. Players were given the option to blend new faces with existing vanilla ones, or create an entirely custom appearance for their characters. A trailer was released to show off these changes.
Additionally, on the same date, it was announced that ONX would be offering a number of their custom assets to other servers in packs available for purchase. The income from this would be used to supplement development costs and enable further dev work. Both code and 3D assets, including peds, are available from the ONX Community Store.
File:Multiplayer blendable ped faces pack.png|link=https://community-store.onx.gg/package/6187602
File:Emergency services clothing pack.png|link=https://community-store.onx.gg/package/6187491
A trailer for the emergency services clothing pack is available to watch on YouTube.
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