Retrospective, platform migration
We moved to FiveM.
RAGEMP announced its closure in May 2026. We ported the whole server across, pushed launch back by a month to do it properly, and opened the city on 3 July 2026. This is the record of how that went.
The move is finished. The city is live on FiveM.
This page was originally a platform announcement written on 29 May 2026, while the migration was still in progress. It has been rewritten as a retrospective. Roleplay Project has been open on FiveM since 3 July 2026, and nothing here is a pending plan any more.
How it happened
Six weeks from the closure announcement to launch night.
May 2026
RAGEMP announces its closure
The platform we had spent a year building on announced it was shutting down. A heads up from another large community owner meant we were not completely blindsided, but the timing was not ours to pick.
26 May 2026
Migration cutover, three hours of planned downtime
Between 14:00 and 17:00 BST the RAGEMP server was taken offline and the stack was moved across to FiveM and CitizenFX on port 30120. The status page reported red during the window because its probes were still pointed at the dead RAGEMP listener. They were re-pointed at FXServer afterwards.
29 May 2026
The delay is announced
Launch moved from 3 June to 3 July 2026, a one month extension. The reason given was simple. Most systems ported over easily, some did not, and the team was not willing to launch something it was not happy with.
12 June 2026
First FiveM playtest
The Friday playtests that ran through the RAGEMP development cycle carried straight on, this time on FiveM. Open to everyone, no whitelist required to attend.
3 July 2026
Launch, 21:00 BST
The city opened on FiveM on the revised date. No further slip. A launch wipe cleared the closed pre-launch test data so the economy started from zero.
Now
Live and running
Roleplay Project has been open on FiveM since launch night. Applications are open, the property market is trading and the departments are staffed.
What actually changed
A platform change, not a project restart. The world, the rules and the systems are the ones we had been building. The layer underneath them is different.
How you connect
The RAGE Multiplayer launcher is gone. You join through the FiveM client, either from the server browser or by direct connecting on port 30120.
The codebase
The server core was ported to CitizenFX. Most gameplay systems came over close to unchanged, but the client layer, the natives and the spawn pipeline all had to be rewritten against a different API.
Health checks
Status probing moved to FXServer's own info and players endpoints, which is where the live player count on the status page now comes from.
A platform with a future
The honest headline reason. RAGEMP was closing. FiveM is actively maintained and has the larger ecosystem, so the city is no longer built on something with an end date.
What carried over
Every piece of account progress, every paid extra and every administrative record survived the move intact.
- Your account
- UCP login, email, password, two factor and the Discord link. All unchanged.
- Your application
- Accepted applicants stayed accepted. Nobody had to reapply.
- RPP+ subscriptions
- Remaining subscription time was preserved. Gift and multi month plans kept working.
- Project Points
- Account level balances and every RPP store purchase carried across.
- Cards collection
- Founder cards, pack purchases and marketplace history. Same database, same cards.
The one exception. In-city progress from the closed pre-launch tests was cleared at launch so the economy started from a clean slate. That was a launch wipe, planned from the start, not something the migration caused.
The statement at the time
MelonDisrupt
Founder, Roleplay Project · 29 May 2026
As many of you have been aware, we had the same news that RAGEMP was closing. Thanks to some prior warning from another large community owner we had an idea this may be happening, but not this soon. As a result, we have automatically begun transferring everything over to FiveM. There are many systems that were easy to transfer, but some that have taken considerable time.
I originally was incredibly confident with this change. The switch over to FiveM should not be complicated, and it is not. It is just a lot of manual faff and labour.
I currently have limited time. I am due to fly out soon for a business trip, and Java on top of this maintains a full-time job, leaving fatcattuxedo as the only solo dev while we have been busy. It is not fair to leave the entire server launch on one person. Nor do we as a development team feel confident in launching something we are not 100% happy with. I hate, and I want you to know this, absolutely hate delaying things. I would do anything, including hiring another 5 to 10 developers, to bring the server up to speed so we could launch on the original date. But it really is not that simple.
As a result of this, and to give us time to bug-fix now we have moved to FiveM, RPP will now launch on 3rd July 2026. This is a month extension. We are happy with this, and it allows us time to ensure the experience you get is the best we can give you.
Lightly edited for punctuation. The commitment held. The city opened on 3 July 2026 as stated, with no further delay.
What this means for you now
If you are new
Nothing about the migration affects you. Install FiveM, apply through the UCP and connect. The whitelist process is the same one described everywhere else on this site.
If you were with us on RAGEMP
Your account, application status, RPP+ time, Project Points and cards are all still there. Log in to the UCP with the same details. You will need the FiveM client rather than the RAGEMP launcher.
If you tested pre-launch
Thank you. Your test characters and their assets were cleared by the launch wipe, but everything attached to your account survived. The bugs you filed shaped what shipped.
Comments on the original announcement are closed. Thanks to everyone who weighed in on the move.
The city is open. Come and live in it.
Applications are open, the property market is trading, and six public departments are recruiting.