Dear Players!

You may have noticed that when you visit a different ranch or the Town, it may require a significant amount of time to load the location, if there are a lot of players there. This happens because currently the game doesn't load the items in the most efficient way, which mainly affects character outfits and horse armor. We've recently discovered that it's possible to significantly reduce the waiting time by loading in-game items in a special optimized way. However, at the moment we don't know for sure if there are any potential drawbacks. Therefore we decided to conduct an experiment, and today we've applied the new loading method to those in-game items which we added in the recent years. The more complex the item's model is, the more its loading time is going to improve. In particular, it should be noticeable when switching between high-poly armor sets in your inventory (such as the reindeer armor), as well as visiting a location where players are wearing high-poly armor or outfits.

At first glance this optimization may not seem very important, as modern computers are able to process Alicia models quite efficiently anyway. But the thing is, if we manage to optimize and significantly increase the speed of processing the models in the game engine, it will open up possibilities for improving the quality of these models in the future, which, in the long run, would allow us to make the game elements more detailed, as well as to use modern approaches for rendering the Alicia game world.

Please inform us about any issues with displaying the character outfits or horse armor. If the experiment goes well, this optimization will be applied to all in-game items, which should reduce the waiting time when you enter a new location or load a racetrack.

By the way, the Christmas event is going to last till the 21st of January!

Happy Racing!