I agree, please stop hiring Delteria staff. In fact, fire them all. Carlito was a good example of why to not have staff from other servers be positions in a game they don't play.

I disagree. If they are capable of doing their job, what's the problem? My only problem is when the manager isn't from iZone because he can't possibly know enough aspects of Zone to know what decisions need to be made for the server. ZPs, GFX, Levels, Coding, all of those departments should be capable of working for Zone if they never even played zone (levels being the only exception sometimes, although leveling doesn't take much skill..)

So if I asked Nikki how much an -insert gun name here- costs she would know? Zps need to be knowledgeable about Zone for a reason. Levels, Coding, GFX, and all the other positions could apply instantly, idc. I think they should just be quizzed about Zone before being instantly hired.

Why wouldn't she be capable of going to the store with that gun and finding the price? I'd hire someone who would use their resources and not currently knowledgeable than someone who plays zone, but would simply reply "Idk" to questions they don't know. I was hired as a PR on iEra and I literally knew nothing about the server, but when I was asked questions, I went and looked for the answers, or asked other staff so I could answer the player.

Because most staff on here aren't even capable of replying with a question. I already asked her a question 3 weeks ago and she didn't reply. Most of the ZPs on here are only interested in hosting and then calling it a day. The only ZP that actually answered questions from me was Idarkness, who got fired by Carlito.

Oh no you did not just say that..........

Leveling takes as much skill as graphics do. You need to work with a tileset given to you, and if the tileset has a high skill level you need a high leveled lat to work with it. You need to work with the tiles, to add them in the right combination to fit the occasion. You can't make a castle all huddled up, while you can't make a hut all gorgeous and big and clean. You need to make the players feel what they are playing, and you only have a limited ammount of tiles to work with. Unlike the graphics artist who have every single colour and shade they need. We have to see if new tile combinations clash, how we can combine new things and create something inspiring. We have to make sure all dimensions fit correctly and the npcs match what you currently are building. I put my heart into every single level I design, I think about every tiny dot I put up somewhere in that level. I give it a heart and I give it a mind. It takes me a long time to create a fully detailed and perfect level. But I invest that time, and oh you it takes a lot more talent and practice then you would expect. Yet if you have a tileset like Zones for example, you have to build the very same buildings every bloody time. You can't change 'em up, cause they can't be changed up. They are made like that on the tileset, I can be done with a Zone level in a few minutes honestly. But leveling with a good tileset is not easy, my friend :P

Most of the ZPs have experience on iZone, though. Sounds like a management/hiring problem once again, rather than simply hiring ZPs from other servers being the problem.

We got access to the server last week :)

I made levels. I'm aware of leveling skills requires. My statement about leveling was pertaining to iZone. I never leveled with other tilesets. I did try actually with classic's, but that was early on and I didn't try long. I admit classic's is much harder. Zone's is a peice of cake and requires no skill, just awareness of the locations of different tiles on the tileset. The only skill needed is coding for NPCs. Yet iZone still has a **** load of messed up tiles where corners aren't right and all that. I have an eye for detail, so that part comes naturally to me, making sure it all connects right. Didn't mean any offense when I said leveling takes no skill, because I meant leveling on Zone takes no skill.

Regarding the "make zone great" idea, staff will always talk about how great they're doing and stuff, but idk how yall expect people to believe that when this game is still full of bugs that should've been fixed ages ago, we never get the vip stuff on time, most are really inactive or don't do much, when good ideas come they're just ignored, and the miniscule ones are done asap, yall don't answer pm's, yall have these really screwed up priorities, poorly planned and rushed ideas, yall fire the useful people, and don't respect other staff members nearly as much as yall should. This is all fact from my experiences here, and many others can agree with this as well. What needs to change is yall need to stop lying to us, and especially stop lying to yourselves that you're doing a good enough job, yall need to really step back and see how yall are operating things. If yall cant change how yall work, then this game can't change for the better. At this point, things are getting bad to the point where i had to pm alex on my player acc to get somethings nerfed and changed up because it just needed to be, and i'd even accept my job back just because someone needs to do it, and do it right, but there wouldn't be any point to me coming back if this all keeps up since itll just restrict me from doing my job, i had so much good things coming and that all shouldnt go to waste because im being held back, or fired, when trying to do it.

I only have one last idea we need to hack into the servers delete the current staff and make staff accounts for us

I whole heartedly agree. And Carlito fired you because he couldn't control greed right? Will he even earn any of that money that people will spend from the "P2W" aspect?

[QUOTE=Shadeh13;702379]Lol that picture though

I disagree, Zone Patrols don't exist solely for answering player's questions. Some questions are easily answered just by going to the shop that sells the guns and you don't necessarily have to ask the question to the staff when you have a couple hundred other players to interact with.

The main purpose of this role is to look out for bugs, rule breakers and hackers and jail / ban them. ZPs can always learn about zone over time, there is no point hiring a guy who knows about zone but ends up not doing his job at all.

@Cecily "look out for bugs"? There a plenty of apparent bugs that ive complained about for months, like ALL OF OUR NEW PLAYERS ARE GETTING STUCK ON TOP OF THE SHOWDOWN ROOF AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GET DOWN, WHO WOULD CONTINUE TO PLAY A GAME LIKE THIS WHERE YOU GET TRAPPED WITHIN YOUR FIRST 10 MINUTES ONLINE? Zp weren't doing that great of a job, people like idarkness and nikki we're the few good ones.

Also, no, you cannot expect to benefit off of a pay2win aspect, especially in this game. I had a plan to prevent this and still make even more money, thats why i was so against carlito trying to add this idea in, cuz i know for a fact its not going to work, word already spread around and people are 100% against this

Only possible way I can see people actually coming to a server and staying with a high player count is a variety of guns and weapons with unique bullets and abilities, forcing a player to spend money on a item without giving them a good job to even get money for it is how u lose players, zone is unique and all but server unstable

you seriously don't think it's too hard to get gralats on Zone, do you? Zone has many jobs, more than every server, and they're pretty easy. Getting gralats is already easy, and even easier when trading is involved.

Rings a bell

You are totally wrong about this.
I was a iEra player who started playing iZone as a staff first.
Look at me now. Took sometime but I understand the game.

Also, if i'm correct, the gmap is glitched because of all the broken scripts.

Getting trash gives little play, graalian anyone can get during mission 9, killing Alien ships is a chance, delivery boxes are hard to get to destination,showdown is a chance if people don't know how to shoot, very hard for a starter to work there way up without needing the use of ZC in trade tables

West has 4 different jobs that pay up to 36-50 if you are a hard worker and has like 4 other mini jobs to do for money west is the easiest server to get money

Also when auction time comes around spending 300-400k gralats on a auction item, era auction goes high but within the 75-200k Gralat range and sometimes over just a bit depending on the item

._. I disagree with everything you say here, every jobs has its downside, you're just pointing out Zone's, every server has.

And West? You're really comparing Zone to Ol' West? Zone is literally the easiest server here, the most expensive gun is $42.5k, making money isn't even that hard, I bet you you'll get Rippers sooner doing ship repairs or scrap picking than you'll get BAR doing car missions.

>implying auction items are a necessity

Dude you DON'T have to participate in auctions, if you have the money then go ahead but you don't have to LOL.

FYI Era has auctioned more stuff than Zone has, MTAR-X cost someone $500k at one time, what are you gonna compare that to next? Pulse rifle?

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Off topic but is the server down? I cant access my account. My screen just pauses at zone's pic thing. Fyi, my wifi is not slow.

ya

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rippers a bad gun, and apperantly I am comparing it to west west has one of the highest paying jobs u can do you just have to work your way up and that literally takes at the most 3-4 days if u committed enough for the money and for auction reasons I never said I wanted to participate in zone auction what if a starter player wants a item and can't afford they can work and work gonna a whole lot of work, zone wise guns arnt worth what I would buy there not interesting to look at as for the dmg,speed, and accuracy zone prob have the best but the dmg taking is off, most of the guns needs a more solid look

Auction in zone rarely comes hard to catch one if there's no schedule to show when or a notification that gives the time

Ohhh care giving me a reason?



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I can be more than happy, they got nerfed due to there speed plus all it took was running forward to get a player trapped to kill

They bad in my opion I didn't apply it to the whole server

OK is your point still Ol West > Zone?

If Rippers were a bad gun it wouldn't be used by 70% of Zone players, WAIT it is used by 70% of Zone players.

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Because it was the only high dmg and fastest gun at the time

Rippers aren't a bad gun due to them being nerfed from godtier

At this time* are you even still playing the game? .________.

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At the time, I see mostly rail

U can stop with the faces they not intimidating

rippers and stingray used to be amazing :D

They still good guns to other people

True dat. I'll agree that rippers suck. Also rail it takes no skill for the user to win a spar. All they f'ing do is spam the bullets. same with rippers but rail is worse.

Btw, is the server updating?

What r u saying? Am I supposed to intimidate you?

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In a way, also the new VIP is a spam gun as well

I said faces, u not even close

Vip is almost kinda like rail but less dmg so yea.

Yah I'm curious to see what the coming soon! Is gonna be

If I wanna be intimidating I'd be calling you a whiny bitch like I'm an uncivilized monkey, but I'm arguing nicely here :)

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I'm not arguing at all, and keep saying what you want I can care less

Yeah you probably should care even less ;D

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Nah I care enough to notice what you are saying

Oki

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<3 you put up a nice counter argument

Any staff members please tell me now if you are actually working on something that's not a holiday or item shop.

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Funny thing is, the new vip was op to where i had to pm alex and nerf it. The rippers still have a good rof, just the tap fire timing takes a bit to get used to, rail seems to be more loose yet its set at the exact same speed.

And no, at this pace, nothing new is getting added as usual

This is utterly ridiculous. I'm not going to sugar coat this anymore.

No **** is getting done. It's ridiculous.
The staff team is incapable for some reason of outputting a single, decent feature. Sure, argue all you like that the staff is made up of good devs and a functioning team, but there's no evidence. Tileset? Nobody posted it. How are we supposed to know it's in development other than your word (which we can't even count on??) People aren't going to blindly believe others just because they sorta kinda iffy-ly promised something.

It's as if they don't care. Scratch that - they don't. They just sit on their asses and say "we're going to do this" but do they do it? No! They don't! We don't hear anything about progress or effort on factions. Remember that? The staff probably don't. Zone's staff team has a record on not following promises/expectations. So get your **** together staff team and actually deliver for once.

/rant

Edit: don't mean to trash talk or anything. I respect the individuals of the staff team, however it doesn't seem to be functioning as a whole.

Also, i know they read these posts cuz one time i got in this argument because they said i was talking bad about zone, yet i don't trash talk, ill just say whats going on and if it sounds negative, then thats what it is. They have to be somewhat aware of how things are going but they act like they don't, and mainly regarding these new staff, its getting to the point where it looks like they're just screwing up zone on purpose, theres almost no logical explanation to how the are operating, like making chelt assistant manager? The levels guy who also came from delteria and is like best buddies with carlito? The guy who joined zone like a month ago and has no dev experience or general knowledge of the game? Yeah, things like this are completely illogical, there are many more qualified people for that. And then, people who are trying to do their best for the server are the ones getting the most heat or getting fired.

I don't understand how the new players start out and randomly get killed by a player with an alien knife, turns out this guy is killing every afking newbie despite the notice saying "this is the starting area, you're safe here" certainly not safe :blush:

http://i.imgur.com/1J8JRoF.png

haven't played long but i met two players that first said sorry for hitting me once
then sweared at me for no reason

fortunately for them i didn't left click while taking the screenshot so i don't know their nicknames
http://i.imgur.com/ERuDcDA.png
http://i.imgur.com/yqvpzMS.png

I also noticed that the characters on zone move too fast, i'm not sure if it's at the same speed as era, it might just feel slow because i haven't played ios graal in ages.

It makes it extremely easy to avoid bullets unless the gun has a short rate of fire

Yeah the left side of start is messed up, it's like a boosting hub.

Actually Era characters moves faster even without speed boost,

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