Posted by TWIZ

I half agree and half disagree. That was the original plan for zone, but it didn't really work in the end. I honestly don't think the map size has much to do with the player count unless it's either excessively too large or excessively too small. I actually thought a gmap the size I conceptualized was far too large, but after thinking about it I came to the conclusion that content brings players, not the size of the map. I guess what I'm saying is that there needs to be a certain ratio of content to map size to compensate for the boringness.

I would love to start off small by simply using the level 3 of the concept, which I think would suit Zone really well, then building off of that as time goes on as not to rush in content. It isn't much different than GTA V waiting to release online multiplayer or Battlefront waiting to release its campaign.

Either that or just eliminate the first two levels altogether. It was just an application of a story. I'm just too in love with the top level to let it go, since I think it also fits in the theme GIT was talking about where it remains centralized around organized warfare.

Why have a huge map with lots of content if only one hundred people will play? Sure it may attract more people, but what will you release in the future? More map expansion? That would make for a fairly large map honestly. Start off small to compensate for the smaller player count, then work your way up as more and more people begin to play. Add more content as you go. Imagine if when Classic started they released all of the current map (Snowtown, Deadwood, York, Destiny, etc.) There would be too much for a small player count. You need to leave room for future map expansion so you can attract more players over time, not all at once.  

Or instead you dont do ****ing citys as the gmap. have a small gmap and focus on things like creating new planets for us to fight on explore etc, creating battlefields, and focusing more on combat.

Trust me you guys are wasting so much time on a large - medium size gmap. The gmap shpuld only be really the size of the last three rooms of GZ in iera. We want to explore other planets because it gives us the option to do that. This isn't era or classic where your stuck with one spot. No you can explore other planets. Make the main gmap very small so we want to go to other planets.

Posted by TWIZ

I half agree and half disagree. That was the original plan for zone, but it didn't really work in the end.

Yea it didn't work because they screwed up big time on guns and no one wants to play a game where you have to shoot the guy 10 times and wait 2+ seconds to get a kill. They also programmed the guns exactly like era so slow bullets = easy doging. That + lowdamage = absolutely atrocious slow gameplay. It would have worked if you keep the average t2k at 1.4 seconds and have bullets going 2.5x as fast as they currently are.

If you played during my 2nd admin run. I made the guns do insane damages, i tried to make the game work better for long range combat and it did. Iricia and ctf were fun because you actually had to plan your movement and it was impossible to go rambo solo because 1 mistake and thats 1/3rd of your health gone. Even with slow bullets its possible to make izone a large scale warfare game.  

Posted by CM CM

Why have a huge map with lots of content if only one hundred people will play? Sure it may attract more people, but what will you release in the future? More map expansion? That would make for a fairly large map honestly. Start off small to compensate for the smaller player count, then work your way up as more and more people begin to play. Add more content as you go. Imagine if when Classic started they released all of the current map (Snowtown, Deadwood, York, Destiny, etc.) There would be too much for a small player count. You need to leave room for future map expansion so you can attract more players over time, not all at once.

Dude, I agree with you. I was explaining the two sides of the argument in my last post, but sorry if it wasn't clearly understood.

Seriously though, I hope people pitch in with the ideas and help Zone desperately needs.  

So PD did resign? May someone confirm this for me?  

Posted by PumaD

So PD did resign? May someone confirm this for me?

I can't confirm it, but I think he just got extremely inactive so it's assumed.  

Posted by PumaD

So PD did resign? May someone confirm this for me?

not sure if he ever officially resigned, but yea, he basically did. He hasn't been on in a very long time but probably still has access to the server like Tashkin does if he did choose to come back.  

Lets pray that he never ever comes back. He gon hate this

While im here, can someone please explain the commotion about art styles in graal? Like maybe its something im missing here but im a ok with the different clashes of style. In fact i think it would benifit izone a lot since izone is supposed to take you across different planets. All the planets having one particular art style seems, i dunno, dull. I think it would be pretty kick ass if one planets style was classics fairly flat graphics, another eras heavy shading style, another being a mix of the two so on so fourth. I think that would be cool and really give you a feeling of you being a forigner in another land and you don't belong there.  

we need a manager who can do stuff
I suggest that whoever is mamager at this point spawn like a huge bomby warship and post in the news that a bomby warship has destroyed skyworld so they can make a better city.
something that doesn't look like blue garbage  

Posted by PigParty

not sure if he ever officially resigned, but yea, he basically did. He hasn't been on in a very long time but probably still has access to the server like Tashkin does if he did choose to come back.

Well.. if that kid is gone I would give Zone a try and get back to it actually.  

If unix isn't letting delteria on ios anytime soon they should come taleover with zone staff and let them show him if they can keep a playercount for ios server. Then least you'd have more scripters etc.  

Posted by CM CM

1. 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.

It is supposed to be a background music but I don't understand why you call a background music loud, lower the sound maybe?

Posted by CM CM

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.

I don't get this.

Posted by CM CM

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?

This makes even less sense. You need nature to survive. Why should fishing get disbanded on the future? I don't think fish troll magnets are going to exist. No casinos? Do you even watch Futurama?

Actually this whole thread makes no sense. Chosing Dropbox as uploadserver to make sure no one uploads a file, removing jobs to add more jobs, blaming about the tileset but not helping in making a new one, the balancing of the balance (don't get it wrong Ghetto) and blaming for everything, which can be anything but is actually nothing.

Atleast thanks for trying  

the jetpack sound always confuses me :p it should be more decent  

Stupid Question: Graal is 2D so can anyone explain these diagrams with layers?  

a LAT can probably understand :p

its a diagram as you say, to express a vision, the realization would be 2d of course lol  

But if everything is in 2d what's the point of all those layers unless there's some portal that leads to an underground layer