It's taken MANY years for era and classic to become as popular as they are, considering they started on PC, as zone did. Zone definitely has more potential than any other iOS server. Also when you say not everyone likes the futuristic theme, it seems to be a pointless comment. Obviously not everyone likes that theme, same goes with classic, era, and any theme in the world.

As with zone improvement, the development aspect is hard right now. A new tileset is the #1 needed thing right now, considering first-appearance and quality is what hooks players in to continue playing. It needs to be more appealing to the eyes. Everything else will fall into place after what we currently have becomes of quality.

To be honest, I think the player submission thing is a crap idea. For one, I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons Zone is dead is because it doesn't have any style whatsoever. How will this idea help with that issue, other than throwing that issue away to ignore it? I just don't think it's a realistic thing to do. Also, this idea can really backfire once the server comes to rely on players so much. Before the implementation of this idea, I think any possible outcome should be analyzed thoroughly in order to create solutions as a backup sort-of plan.

This is probably the most crucial fact of practically any artform, including video games.

I agree and disagree. Zone definitely needs a style, and one of the biggest problems is zone's GFX quality. Many player-made hats are ugly as hell, and many staff-made hats are ugly as hell. However, if the player submissions are utilized properly, as a way to relieve the dev staff of some of the holiday work, rather than to use them as an addition to the shop, it can allow dev staff to focus on other things such as big projects. I can go through and find hundreds of GFX that need to be deleted from the server or edited a lot because they're so bad, which would be the problem of player-submitted GFX. They have to be chosen very carefully. Either way, it's somewhat a lose situation.

can u just delete this sorry excuse for a server

What you guys need is a bottle of vodka..

We have a lot of projects that are being heavily worked on and getting a lot of nice artists to help us out. Major updates to come but I can't promise it to be soon.

I do agree right now the tileset we currently have is messy and just this server does need a revamp. We're trying our best to improve but with Christmas around the corner it's pausing our current projects so we can come up with the holiday stuff.

Dropbox is empty. If you have ideas or anything feel free to drop it here.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lbx952p0s...ND_UOyUra?dl=0

Come on now that's not cool man, we're trying our best to improve the server and rude remarks like that does not help. I've worked with iZone for over two years and the management always had amazing ideas but with the team we had and still currently have we just can't produce those kind of projects. But that is changing soon because we are being provided with talented artists.

A few suggestions:

1. The music. I downloaded the app the other day and the music hurt my ears. It sounded like a song you would hear in the background at the end of a YouTube video or rave music or something. It's obnoxiously loud and I automatically mute when I hear it.

2. The map. The map is, as it is now, just bad. Sooo many styles clash. The candy canes do not at all match the tileset, neither do the Christmas trees or presents. Map layout is not great either. If you want to get somewhere, you basically follow one path to get there. The thing that makes exploration games fun is trying to find different ways to get somewhere. On zone, there's a specific path that takes you where you want go and basically does not encourage much exploration.

3. Delete anything that has nothing to do with a futuristic theme. Why are there oak trees in space? Why is there fishing? Why is there a casino?

YES PLEASE

here are small ideas to at least make the "appearance" better:

remove roads
bring the old sound track
make those floating engines gif
make trees/grass gif?
add some bright stuff (like guns. Most of the guns that pros use nowadays look like guns that belong in era ;/)

> players want to help improve iZone
> manager sets up dropbox
> folder still empty after two days
> ???.jpeg

some of those who want to help lack artistic abilities to contribute to the dropbox, but they can contribute in other ways

im just here to give ideas

^^^
If I never mentioned it, I actually think this is quite a nice idea to get the community involved.

Shame no fker with talent cares bwt graal as a game.I've give lots of idea on multiple threads, I guess its just finding someone who actually will bother putting that effort in. I.E like for a cool space themed tileset I think they should have big statue with there name/s ongame(personally think that would be really big prize as would forever be on server)


Just a sidenote I think also there is lots of little things that could improve zone, like changing the sea/sky to spacelike and clouds into shooting stars etc


also instead of 'removing stuff like fishing because not really on theme how about adjusting/changing it to say like a magnetic tool that draws in rocks with different stuff stuck in them(just an idea of topofmyhead probably could be something better than that.)


Furthermore the way we seem to be doing things 'dropthishere' doesnt seem that effective, I think getting other server headstaff involved would increase the likelyness i.e(could go to all ios servs) Era putting in news: Our partners from the future have found a new planet! help them by creating some floortiles etc best will get a cool weapon, if they pitched in and gave prizes for the game they already play then its a winwin playergets whatever in game he/she plays and zone gets some reviving stuff. Its all good to bring Graal together aswell! as the community is always slating each others servers probably another reason why no help comes.

I don't get an option to upload :(

Lmao they don't want my help because I'm also working on a personal project.

I actually need your email you use for Dropbox to add you access, I think you have to pay to edit permission with shared LINKS

You guys say you need help but you don't allow me anymore to work for you because I'm also working on my game. Are you sure you want to save zone?

If I didn't want to save Zone I wouldn't be working for it.

Message my Skype.

No server has the most potential all graal servers have great potential if managed properly I'm not trying to offend you or anyone but its true

Right now I'm gathering feedback from players and using my own to develop ideas that may help zone as a server. Soon I'm planning on pitching my ideas to the administration. Most of it is based on style, not so much ergonomics and gameplay, but I have some ideas for those too.

I agree with this 100%, but it's just a matter on who will actually put in time to do it.

Yeah the music is not that good I will get iMask to try and make some music for us right now, but we are also getting really talented SFX Artists so they will for surely make some good SFX for us :)

I really understand what you mean about the exploration thing, it is a good idea to make it more so the players can explore and find there way around stuff instead of just following paths, I'll put this note to the LAT's.

Good questions. I never really had intentions in the Casino or Fishing or Oak Trees, but I kind of like the oak trees in this futuristic kind of theme. It brings more nature to the theme. Have you ever walked around our map for more than 30 seconds? It's all blue, the grass and nice trees helps get rid of the blue. If you see futuristic games they have trees as well like the Institute in Fallout 4,

You can't tell me that doesn't make it look more attractive, right?

I like that idea because I really dislike our fishing job, as it has nothing to do with our theme we live in the sky and there is no water lol. Your idea does sound pretty cool I'll talk to some of our staff about it and see what they think.


Well anyways, I know I stated this before but I just want to re-state it, we have a lot of projects in the works and they won't be done too soon but they will really make Zone different in a good way. I really can't wait for this specific project to be done because it will change Zone for all the better. And after that project is done it just goes from there :) With amazing things yet to come.

IMPORTANT: OH, and I almost forgot to state that I want to implement more jobs on iZone because as you may have noticed we don't have that many jobs and the ones we do have really don't help you players earn money which I want to change that because I don't play Zone that much I just work for it but when I do I always notice how hard it is to earn money. SO, if you have any ideas for jobs on iZone I really want to hear them. Hopefully it'll match our theme. Thanks again.

Have a nice day everyone :) Happy Holidays <3

Happy Holidays on Zone.
Enjoy the stuff I made!

Maybe, but on Zone it doesn't seem to work, mostly because I think the styles of the tree and the tileset are both very different so it's kind of hard to say.

Izone still has the most potential over anyserver since it doesn't go by the standered graal MMORPG formula. It goes by a classic multiplayer arcade style shooter. Everyother server except for izone when launched was the same exact formula as classic. Izone was not though, thats why I believe it has the most potential

Also alex dont waste time with more jobs, just buff the current jobs.

hi

you get the concept

this is what one town (slums) could look like, there may be higher stages

(gmaps ontop of each other)
https://i.gyazo.com/f82b23f474a54b4d...37eddf078e.png

that may be higher in technology and brighter and more eco friendly

https://i.gyazo.com/99214c3d499bdc93...9b02a575be.png

Awesome but not graal fitting content that is wanted :( ALTHOUGH to be fair this gives decent ideas/creativity to others, love the spaceship bwt :)

elaborate?

(side note, its next to impossible to make it like this, and i would never do it even if it was possible, you guys know why)

Like that what you done couldn't really go into game in anyway unless there was loads of levels like that or was a random level of its own(idont think you meant for it to go into game tho as the characters on it etc)[also with how shooting is would change the dynamic far too much if lots like this]

i would completely tear the game apart and make it new with the original zone sprites from pc

if: the graalengine had the neccessary methods of doing such things (layers and tilesetsize mostly)

unixmad paid me well + zone revenue share

thats why its next to impossible, but he would have 10000 (if not more) people playing zone

Yeah I believe they was wanting that around the second time of zone release but apparently stefan made decision when he was here to use the other default bodys etc classic use for whatever reasons, unsure if alex would be intrigued to venture into doing that(But yeah it'd need literally tearing to scratch again cause of all the hats etc that go with classicdefault heads etc)

Omg this is exactly like one of the ideas I wanted to pitch to the administration, love it! (The top picture)

Also, is it alright if I use your spaceship design as a template for a new and cool one as an attempt to replace the ugly old one?

yes

In theory, how many gmaps are capable of being in the game? I don't know much about the actual technical side of graal btw.

PlayerCount will go back to 500-700 when hanson quits

as many as you want

Reminds me of A.I. Artificial intelligence

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...75c8f22a52.jpg

yeah i remember the scenes :) sort of, just without water

Really love the idea and art, really really good.

Yes in my opinion I liked the sprites that Zone PC used. I do remember talking to Tashkin about the idea of bringing back the old body/head sprites from Zone PC when he still managed as we had many ideas that involved making iZone different from the other servers. It's just since we already used the current head/body sprites it would be tough switching and I know a lot of players wont like these kind of sprites.

I did think of using the sprites on a DIFFERENT planet, I would have to come up with a backstory as to why the players would change their features, but I would be willing to try it out if players would like the change.

Question:
Do you guys like these kind of sprites on characters or would you rather keep the current ones? (Yes there would still be able to be customizable head/bodies


Ah, I just remembered if we did switch to these sprites we would have to restart all of our ganis since they are in a different template.



I also thought of ideas such as Skyworld had a radiation leak which caused all Zonians to move to a space craft in space where we'd live in a space craft but we were still able to travel to other planets in the solar system except for Skyworld. I want to create a storyline for the game because as of right now its just a game with no story line or purpose lol. Would be cool to have graalians living in space for now then over time our 'Search Team' is searching for planets that is survivable/habitable and come with updates on new planets that are habitable, then find some that are owned by aliens and send missions to kill them, just stuff like that - that's just be writing a quick few little sentences that came to my mind.

Maybe involve some sort of 'Utopia' or something lol i dont know. But we do have some amazing projects in works right now :) Can't wait for those to get finished.

Sweet Utopia City images

Pictures aren't showing, but I love the idea!

the sprites from PC zone are very gani-friendly since it would allow more possibilities, could also use different bases for hair or head, and giving the players the options to change both with uploads, head, hair...

even arms, thorso and legs :)

you could split the current ratio of costs from 50/50 to 30/20/10/10/10

and players wouldnt have to upload complete new heads just for hair tweaks

ontop, youd have visible armors and other stuffs you can then make, which is currently not really that easy with the graal defaults

Ah yeah thats right! This offers a LOT more flexibility with the uploads!! This would be a great update to iZone in my opinion, i just hope the other players would think the same.



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UPDATE: Just remembered that all the hats and everything we have already released wouldn't really go good with the new sprites..

I don't think players would be too excited about losing their heads, bodies, and hats lol

Unless there was a countdown for the new sprite release that required the players to 1. Make hat claims, 2. Make item claims (unless ganis were adjusted) and 3. Fully refund any custom heads and bodies

The hat claims would be the hardest, since hats are worth a lot of money in many cases, but I guess someone could spend their precious time scrolling through all the files figuring out the values of each hat based on rarity.

I personally think it would be awesome to have the OG sprites. I think it would be good for zone, a way to start fresh. But holy **** would that be one massive project.

Full refunds to everyone. Problem solved.

You wanna go through all the hats and edit them to fit the old Zone heads?
Or do you wanna go through the ones everyone owns and find the original price to refund them with? Up to you.

I believe he just means custom-wise :)

^^ lmao

Just a question, are there any plans for a basic storyline and/or backstory?

hats/heads/body is easy, no need to refund lol

save the total amount of custom heads/bodies/hats as r string within attributes, half it, and those variable would then be free uploads left :p new players wouldnt have it, or it can even be used as a reward for whatever

or:

simply make a new zone server and keep the old XD

Mira, mimeosomes and Ganglion... Man, I'm gettting some Xenoblade Chronicles X vibe over here.
Seeing some great ideas being posted here, especially the Gmap on top of each other posted by Elk :)

We need to call extreme home makeover.