Posted by Alphus

I have made 75% of xmas stuff and I got paid 30k
L M A O

So like 3 items?  

Posted by Alex Damian

There are Pro's and Con's to restarting Zone iPhone. But FRIED RICE and I are really trying hard to produce a lot of new things for iZone. In all honesty you can't blame it on management, if you have seen how hard we work, especially FRIED, he has worked so hard to come up with new projects the will improve iZone.

about removing it from the appstore for a while and actually make the game amazing with nice sounds, background music, a nice gmap, an actual nice solar system with nice planets and baddies/aliens to battle off. Even planets with other towns and shops with special items. Yes it sounds like an amazing game but it would be a long time to create it into reality.

FRIED is also in the process of making a system that helps players send us ideas and talk to us about their ideas but it's in the work and I don't know much about it.


But expect many updates coming to Zone. I cannot promise you any dates that it will happen and don't get your hopes up that they will occur soon. Nice updates don't come easy. But I promise you They will be worth the wait.

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I have an open mind and I try to get players to help out with iZone. I was starting to do more graphic submissions because we were lacking in graphics made by our own team which was sad. ones who did submit graphics did a nice job and I will release a shop filled with their things soon enough. I like having players join in on the help, it helps iZone which I want iZone to succeed and having players help sounds like a fun and great idea but I don't think the idea of having them 'overthrow' zone or whatever some of you guys said would be a proper idea.

But really, if you do have an idea for iZone that is actually reasonable that our team could produce the graphics for and things like that I'd love to hear it. I am open to any idea really just shoot me an Email with the subject 'iZone Idea'. My email is [email protected] I'm sure many of you have amazing ideas.

The thing is there is ton of ideas that are reasonable to do, just that it may look alot to do when put in big list but these stuff can be worked on job by job personally if I was in management id scrap the lesser known events that come up and stick to just (valentines day/easter/halloween/christmas) Rest of the year round work on these jobs and get it finished..


[main reason all servers barely have quests/new activities is because they spend too much time on this] to allow even more time do these contest on graalians(previous didnt like here because everyone would bash on zone-but now is your chance to get more of a community than shutting yourselves off)


some ideas:


big:
-Tileset
-spaceship mission(go out into actual space-can mine from rock/spaceship attacks/battles etc)
-small maps like how classic did nexus space but zone could do for new planets just using floor tiles and walls(basically like iricia etc but different kinds-have different design idea for all)


smaller ideas:
-create unique bigger characters for npc's
(like space troops or Alien creatures-depending how the story of zone is going to be[as now its just platform in atmosphere-not even space X_X]
-new couple of maps/levels for new showdown maps
-to add onto that make showdown have its own ldrboard(player wins=1win) to incourage more of a solo acheivement as majority of stuff is guild based..this would make lots more play it again imo(also should be nearer to start)
-new overdue by yr zonecoin items weapons etc Do a contest HERE if you must.


P.s at frieds idea of creating a system to get ideas etc you have a dam forum and forums with bigger community here stop wasting time on useless stuff(whether it such hard work) it makes no sense to do that when you already have it  

Posted by metal

So like 3 items?

No idiot, npcs, morphs, furniture, hats..
n o o b  

I remember when Zone was going for a story type game play that took you across multiple planets and universe. Ahh the good ol days
Then tash became mgr, and all we did was events all day lol.  

Posted by Alex Damian

There are Pro's and Con's to restarting Zone iPhone. But FRIED RICE and I are really trying hard to produce a lot of new things for iZone. In all honesty you can't blame it on management, if you have seen how hard we work, especially FRIED, he has worked so hard to come up with new projects the will improve iZone. We are trying to get our playercount back up. Sometimes the staff we MANAGE just don't want to cooperate which is difficult for us.

But don't think 'restarting' iZone has come to our minds because it has. I never thought of a full restart such as removing everyones accounts because that wouldn't work after all the money you have all paid for Zone but I was thinking about removing it from the appstore for a while and actually make the game amazing with nice sounds, background music, a nice gmap, an actual nice solar system with nice planets and baddies/aliens to battle off. Even planets with other towns and shops with special items. Yes it sounds like an amazing game but it would be a long time to create it into reality.

FRIED is also in the process of making a system that helps players send us ideas and talk to us about their ideas but it's in the work and I don't know much about it.

Knowing that iZone doesn't have a high playercount can also tell you that we dont get many applicants so we don't have much of a hiring list. But we now have people that will really help us out.

But expect many updates coming to Zone. I cannot promise you any dates that it will happen and don't get your hopes up that they will occur soon. Nice updates don't come easy. But I promise you They will be worth the wait.

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I have an open mind and I try to get players to help out with iZone. I was starting to do more graphic submissions because we were lacking in graphics made by our own team which was sad. So I made a contest for players to submit graphics. We have a low playercount which means a low amount of people that even make graphics that play Zone. But the ones who did submit graphics did a nice job and I will release a shop filled with their things soon enough. I like having players join in on the help, it helps iZone which I want iZone to succeed and having players help sounds like a fun and great idea but I don't think the idea of having them 'overthrow' zone or whatever some of you guys said would be a proper idea.

But really, if you do have an idea for iZone that is actually reasonable that our team could produce the graphics for and things like that I'd love to hear it. I am open to any idea really just shoot me an Email with the subject 'iZone Idea'. My email is [email protected] I'm sure many of you have amazing ideas.

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Zone is the future

The Zone Staff team will try to make it a bright new future for all the players. Give us time. We have many nice ideas.


Have an amazing day

Ok you seem desperate af for staff so heres a reasonable idea. Make a drop box for players to submit projects for graal, staff go in and test it, edit it, and copy paste the data into the game. For the love of god make this game 100% player drivin, no more of this staff team bullcrap. Content comes out way to slow and there is not enough people commited to put in work for graal because it is a volunteer thing.

Here is how to stableize izone in its current state. 1st off REMOVE ****ING HIT TIMERS. They are the upmost dumbest thing in the world. Set them hit timers to 0. Buff all jobs back to how they were. Rebalance the weapons to how they were about a year ago.

From there have the players create content, if they have ideas tell them to make it. You should focus on the core roots of izone. Warfare planets like irica and ctf should be what this game is balanced out for. Remove spar, it takes 0 skill at all. Increase bullet speeds to 2.5 unlike the 1 its at now.

Seriously just make the game 100% player drivin, no staff, if they want it, they provide it. The tools are free and its not very hard to get them.  

I agree with ghetto on the playerdriven thing, the staff team is possibly the most lacking atm since zone realise(not that some arn't gd just they can't manage the workload or get it out in decent timeframe)

allow a player driven community to upload file/s of work(multiple levels/graphics/images etc) to some database would be good place to start would just need an over review of it and edit etc but will give you time to arrange something out, I'm sure atleast 1person would end up creating something fun with allowing that-even that would make zone better in short term but the long term things like tileset and final map should be priority for staff.  

I have faith in you guys so here is a link, upload anything you want. Notes of your ideas, images, whatever you want. I will look at it everyday and read/view anything that is put in there. I trust that no one will remove stuff so just in case, have them saved on your own computer, don't rely on having them be kept safe here.

Here is a format you can follow so we know who is who.

WHATEVERITIS_YOURNAME_GRAAL#

Example:

hat_alexdamian_graal123456.png
questidea_alexdamian_graal123456.txt
idea_alexdamian_graal123456.txt
bike_alexdamian_graal123456.png
etc

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lbx952p0s...ND_UOyUra?dl=0

Every day or so I will disable that link and comment a new one. Be sure to check back every now and then

Love you players! Have a spectacular rest of the week  

So are we allowed to drop box in full scripts, tile sets, levels etc  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

Second iZone is the server that has the most potential over any other server on igraal by a longshot.

Come on, please be a bit realistic.
Not everyone likes the futuristic theme.

It does have potential, but other servers have proved to be way more successful.  

Hey can you show me the links to do guns  

Posted by Anero

Come on, please be a bit realistic.
Not everyone likes the futuristic theme.

It does have potential, but other servers have proved to be way more successful.

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.

Posted by PigParty

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A new tileset is the #1 needed thing right now, considering first-appearance and quality is what hooks players in to continue playing.

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

Posted by TWIZ

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.

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..