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From Local Development to a Real Server

Claim the Range takes an important step beyond the local development environment.

A rider overlooks a lit frontier settlement at dusk.

For much of development, Claim the Range has existed primarily on our local machines.

This milestone moved the project into a dedicated staging environment, giving us a more realistic place to prepare and test the game before public launch.

We established the server environment, deployed the application, configured its database and scheduled operations, and verified the backup and restoration process.

Staging also gives us a place to test deployment procedures without treating development data as permanent player history.

Claim the Range is not publicly launched yet, but establishing this environment is an important part of preparing it for that eventual transition.