Bruh staff wont do ****. They proved it already with the dwindling playerbase in a once strong growing game. Staff wont save izone at all, they frankly do not care. Who will save izone is the players if we put our mind to it.  

It would be less work to scrap the server and create a fresh idea.  

As much as we want to scrap it we cant. We can though completley rehaul it.  

Posted by Yogurt

The problem was lack of coordination on projects and higher ups not having enough quality control or caring enough about development in general. Everything slowly started getting half-assed and if a project didn't hit it's deadline it was completely scrapped.

Don't expect me to go back anytime soon.

Same  

It'd be a big risk to invest a lot of your time into iZone. I mean, sure, it has a lot of potential and you can do a lot with its theme, but realistically the changes might only bring 100 new unique players - if the work is finished at all.

If you do want to contribute, then by all means go for it. There's a lot of ideas in the Future Improvements sub-forum such as the One Month Long Mega-Event or The Network that are very inspirational concepts.  

Its not hard to get zone back on the right tracks actually. If weapons were redone to be harder hitting and 2.5x bullet speeds and gun freeze (like your average movement time should be around .15 seconds) we would have an entirely new game on our hands. That would be the driving stake that seperates era combat from zone combat and the two would be nothing alike. You would need to entirely relearn how to handle weapons. Then you just make places with huge battlefields like iricia and ctf automatic bot events that happen every time a battle ends and anyone can join in at anytime. You would be set, bang almost a whole new game on your hands.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

Its not hard to get zone back on the right tracks actually. If weapons were redone to be harder hitting and 2.5x bullet speeds and gun freeze (like your average movement time should be around .15 seconds) we would have an entirely new game on our hands. That would be the driving stake that seperates era combat from zone combat and the two would be nothing alike. You would need to entirely relearn how to handle weapons. Then you just make places with huge battlefields like iricia and ctf automatic bot events that happen every time a battle ends and anyone can join in at anytime. You would be set, bang almost a whole new game on your hands.

ie this thread is to get you hired again?

Just kidding, though I agree, getting guns back on track would improve what the game already has by a lot. PvP/PvE is pretty much all you can do on Zone, guns being broken doesn't help. Still, a broader range of activities are needed to suit a larger playerbase.
It's sort of funny though, the higher staff don't seem to give a **** about the quality of the server. The short term focus is events, which keep the players' attention, and the long term goals are the holidays shop, which keep players 'looking forward' to something and take their money. We can complain about aspects of Zone, but they won't listen because hey, it keeps us logging onto Zone. IMO they won't approve of any long term, productive commitments and concepts because they'd get in the way of holiday shops.  

Posted by Platinum

ie this thread is to get you hired again?
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No not at all. In fact if this were to happen it would require making a new gun code from scratch, there are other people better qualified for the job, they can have it. Im only good at stats. The point of this thread is to see if everyone as a community wants to completely storm izone, and make it an open player project meaning ANYONE can contribute to the game and we fix the issues that staff wont cause staff is lazy as ****. Our staff would be like 5 people tops and they would just reciEve data, edit the data, then copypaste the data into the game. Sorta like project M but on a smaller scale.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

The point of this thread is to see if everyone as a community wants to completely storm izone, and make it an open player project meaning ANYONE can contribute to the game and we fix the issues that staff wont cause staff is lazy as ****. Our staff would be like 5 people tops and they would just reciEve data, edit the data, then copypaste the data into the game. Sorta like project M but on a smaller scale.

That sounds really interesting! I don't know how it would work, but if it worked well, then that'd be fantastic.
They wouldn't change it to an open player project though, there wouldn't be enough guarantee or official commitment that projects would be completed in a timeframe/ever.  

Totally scrapping the server wouldn't be such a bad idea, but lets step out of fantasy for a moment.

What about gralat purchases or player profiles in general?

How would those be affected?

Honestly, the server died for me a loooooong time ago and I'm yet to see this place actually impress me for once.  

Posted by Platinum

That sounds really interesting! I don't know how it would work, but if it worked well, then that'd be fantastic.
They wouldn't change it to an open player project though, there wouldn't be enough guarantee or official commitment that projects would be completed in a timeframe/ever.

Thats sorta the point. Remember that izone was originally supposed to be a warfare server. It was obvious due to the insanely small gmap, no traditional spar, only iricia, and anyone can join a team in a squad war even if they arent in that squad. Because of this, izone does not need 50 million dumb holiday updates. Maybe an update for actual holidays like christmas, new years etc. if people want that stuff, they need to provide that stuff. If players want guns, they need to provide it. If people want maps they need to provide it.

Also keep in mind that this game is technically an open player project, just instead we pretend to be offical about it and have a staff team. I guarantee you that is not what stefan had in mind at all. What he had in mind was an open game community where anyone can contribute. Here the staff teams only job would be to edit data and copypaste into the game.  

Hey can you guys teach me how to make guns that work in zone because I want to help but I don't know what to do.  

I'd love to try zone style graphics ._.

Participating in their christmas gfx contest.  

Posted by Chickenpotpie

I'd love to try zone style graphics

Zone doesn't have a style  

I agree with all of this. What zone needs to do is create a new application for players to have an opportunity and hire more staff. advertisement on other servers would be great example aswell. Here is my idea to get zone back up and running. if one was to join zone they would receive a zone hat on there most played server. if they where to make a new application I would be applying to it.