What is Hope Valley?
Hope Valley is the result of many attempts to find somewhere to call home. We found places where it seemed commitment to the community was lacking and we saw people form friendships, begin stories, and invest time into supporting those communities and not be appreciated, or heard. At Hope Valley we hear you, and we always want to hear you. We had a very successful Beta phase in Q2/Q3 of 2023. We were able to take a lot of the feedback and bugs found and fix things, improve things, add things, or make changes to things.
Why Hope Valley?
Our community is a family and Hope Valley will always be built with community in mind first. You are only limited by your imagination, we love ideas and feedback and welcome it always. We have a great foundation that has been built to last for a long time to come. We have a very realistic 1890s economy, times are not easy folks. When you are in charge of a faction or business it is yours to run how you want (within reason). Government will step in if something is negatively affecting the economy or the community as a whole. Ultimately, If there are issues with how your business is running or how it is impacting other businesses or factions then we want as much of that handled in the county, in roleplay, as possible. If the government has to assist, we will be nudging it back in the direction of roleplay, that will always be the main focus. Here is a little bit about what you can do currently in Hope Valley. We want Hope Valley to take a life of its own.
- Law (Currently Hiring High Ranks)
- Medical (Currently Hiring High Ranks)
- DOJ (Currently Hiring High Ranks)
- Farming (We have properties ONLY available to farmers so you can take on staff and have workers.)
- Ranching (Coming Soon!) (We have properties ONLY available to ranchers so you can take on staff and have workers.)
- Blacksmith
- Gunsmith
- Mining Company (Perks of having the actual job vs a solo miner.)
- Lumberjacking
- Farming (Can solo farm but won’t yield as much as being an actual farmer with land)
- Horse Training
- Veterinarian
- Saloons (Customize your menus, work with farmers and ranchers for produce and meat supplies to keep your stock up.)
- AND MUCH MORE!!!
- Whitelisted Gangs (declare a color, name, discord role)
- Robberies
- Moonshine
- Black Market
- Grave Robbing
- ALWAYS OPEN TO IDEAS on how to expand our criminal life!
• We will NEVER be a pay to win or pay to gain an advantage type server. We are about serious roleplay above everything else.
• We will always remain transparent with the community on changes and expectations. You give us your time and your creativity and we want to respect it, and if you do not feel like that is happening, we want to know about it.
• Our tickets are ALWAYS open for ideas, feedback, conversation, the staff of Hope Valley are here for you and your ideas.
Is there a Whitelist or is it Public?
We will NOT be whitelisted at launch, it will be a discord allowlist. After the first few weeks we will leave it to the community to decide based on the experiences and interactions they have had. We have a clear rule system in place with an outline detailing what will happen when people break those rules. The rules will be standard ones that you have likely seen in many communities, but will be updated for OUR community as we grow together based on YOUR feedback and what our community needs are.
We are an 18+ roleplaying server. If you have been around REDM before you know what that means, so act accordingly. It really is that simple. If you are new to REDM and roleplaying that is okay, we don’t expect you to understand everything right away, any person in the community will be happy to help. If roleplaying, slow burn, creating stories, memories, friendships, and lives in the 1890s is not what you are looking for then we will likely not be a fit for you.
Join our discord today! Put in a business, law, medical, or DOJ app there are plenty of businesses available and positions available.
The most important thing we need is YOU 
. Come and join a community who is passionate about REDM or if you decide to take the train in and make it the home of your character, we welcome anyone.
Thanks for reading about us, we hope you come check us out and tell us about you!
Hope Valley 1st Annual Pride Ride Twas a Success 
Hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July!! Sorry we did not have some sort of event, we had a good reason. 
Friday, July 7th, SOFT RELEASE - We will be opening the county on Friday 6PM CST. A soft release gives us the opportunity to have you all get in get your characters made and if any big issues are found get them fixed before the Full Beta Release Saturday.
Saturday, July 8th, FULL BETA RELEASE - We will be announcing this date on public forums as well as giving the server a little boost on this date to bring in new people to Hope Valley. Coming in on Friday, getting your character made, getting jobs, etc will help us be prepared for that.
ALL CHARACTERS/ITEMS/ETC Will be wiped for the start of BETA.
If you won a horse on the trail ride we will be in Friday to make sure you get it and the ticket will remain open until everyone has claimed theirs.
Things we need from yall:
RECIPES - we are going to have basic recipes until we get input from the citizens on what you want. The links for the recipe form to submit new recipes and the ingredients list you have to work with will be listed at the end of this post.
COUNTY BOARDS - We will have Saint Denis and Blackwater for right now. As those are the first towns that will have any sort of population (Those are the ones we had the most interest in as far as business inquiries went so that is why we chose them.) YOU MUST be in these towns at the board when you post your announcement in these channels. We hope to soon add a POSTER script where you can post actual images etc while in county, this is just not something that we focused on for Beta so isn’t in yet.
HOUR with zurv4n and Bryson !!! (5:30PM PST - 6:30PM CST - 7:30PM EST)
6PM CST 
CART RACES - FRIDAY 9 PM EST
1st, 
2nd, 
3rd places prizes.
