I'm an ex-story writer that was tasked with creating quests and such for Zone. While I was apart of it, I had thought of new systems and elements that could be added to enhance Zone and seperate it from the Zera image. however, as it stands, I feel like Zone is just becoming a waste of resources. Why? A lot of the content being put in is just bland while others are blatantly ripped (Casino yo). Skyworld bases are extra bland as they're very small rooms with little in ways of defense or strategy, on top of the lack of any passive defenses to add challenge ( such as bots, mines, etc.)

A lot of content being added really contains nothing of consistency as it's normally furniture, hats and little joke weapons. I feel as though even if I continued with what I was doing (Had a string of quests fleshed out with unique actions, enemies, abilities, etc.) it would have ultimately gone differently with minial creativity or completely scrapped altogether. Not because of the dev team; you guys are great, but I feel as though Tashkin would disapprove of a lot of and opt for something simpler yet closer to Era or Classic's feel.

I'm not trying to rip on Tash, but these are my thoughts and Matt, if you're reading this, then this is pretty much the reason why I just stopped bothering with it and disappeared.

Tl;dr Zone's direction is abhorrent and had has made me feel like tryig to help it would be pointless.


Also: Assuming it's fine, I can probably share some of my stuff that wasn't submitted or yet connected if you guys want. It wouldn't be a story, but a script detailing everything for how a quest would go.
Peace

- Cookie  

I feel the same way. The way Zone stands; management, organization (or lack of), and just generally how everything is ran at this point is horrid, and if it keeps going how it has been for a long time; I think it doesn't deserve to get better (and it won't). No projects have been in the works that'll actually be meaningful. No useful development has been created I'm sure, and all that I see being done now is shoving Events and Hats down the player's throats to satisfy them until they realize what a sorry state Zone is in.

Don't get me wrong, I love(d) the server. It became my favorite and was well deserving of this title. Awhile ago it was on its path to getting better; player count was rising, some interesting content was being released. Yet now none of that is happening. I don't know if it's due to the lost of interest in the Management or if things started becoming so unorganized nothing of quality was being produced. All I'm trying to say is: **** needs to get done, and done successfully. That or say goodbye to Zone.  

I can see some ex-staffs have so much creative ideas yet it wasn't continued by the management.

How the team runs for now is very unpredictable.  

Ayy yo hit me with the manager card and I'll get **** done ;)  

Posted by Shadowfox

Ayy yo hit me with the manager card and I'll get **** done ;)

Ayy yo hit me first plZ

I know the admins or 1/2 of them are pretty inactive, dunno why. But Tashkins probably busy with Graal Kingdoms, handling 2 (3) Servers isn't easy. But I get your point and support it 100%.  

Maybe Perfect Dark can at least lead iZone while Tashkin is caring multi servers  

I had original ideas for the Casino but they never were used  

make me manager hoho zone is going to be da shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
But i def agree, i don't get how or why no one authorizes expansions that actually have an assload of work put in it and are really in depth and fun. I had a buttload of those types of things in the works with guns, cookie probably had that with quests. MOst of zones **** is just really bland, copy pasta like the new skybases. Everything is the same about them with era, the flags, spawning, and overall gameplay.  

how about

we don't do anything, and let it die.  

it won't die thats the thing.  

The maps a big too big for its player count atm but it's getting there.  

put this crap in zone play, see how fast it turns into a flame war between admins and players.  

The flamewars happen on Graalians 99% of the time  

You can't avoid flame wars here.  

I can see some heads not the managers imo, the head devs though.

There were more ideas to add than revamping an old content to something shiny or more.

Adding more content and revamping an old content, though would start adding more content than renewing.