~Well I think people have covered the bases of how the staff team itself lacks in comparison to other iServers. The only reason iZone has updates is because Stefan does them tbh. The team itself is unorganized, there is barely anything to do because no one takes charge. Seriously the only update the team itself did that did not involve Stefan while I was there was the hat shop. This is due to Stefan being a little too over protective, and no one taking up initiative and getting a group to work on something.
~Also, power hungry driven tactics. iZone is handled like the iZone sub-forum is moderated. Say something Matt doesn't like and it's deleted, I've heard of a few cases of people saying a few words a staff didn't like and they were warned. Myself personally was warned for feedback not to broadcast so much.
~Zone is fun, and it is fun because of the low player count. I think that is the only reason I go on zone rather than era now, era is too crowded, zone is barren and you actually know %80 of the people on the server. However, some components of Zone was made to utilize a 500+ playercount such as the planet taking maps and the spars. There is honestly too much to do for such a little Player Count that eventually it's only 2 people doing a thing at a time.
~Too many GP's, not enough Dev's. I always said each player would soon be able to have their personal GP, whereas the Dev team was always lacking. You see more hiring for GP thread than all the other Dev fields combined.
~Also you should look into why people are leaving and fix that so more people do not leave, like with the level's team, more people come in and out of that then ever before. Is it because the head is unfit? Is it because the work is simply boring? Is it because the team is unorganized and has no real sense of what work should be done? Things like this should be considered. I for one, think that a person who will cry and proclaim to quit when someone says "know your place" is not strong enough to be a head.
~The rules on Zone are far more strict than those of Era or Classic. Best outlined by the brief declining of .gif heads. Mess with someones customs, you mess with their identity, and no one wants to be on a server where they can't use their head that is special to them.
~People already have their names on iEra and iClassic. For me, I am known on iEra, so most likely I would have stayed there if I was not inactive before I was hired on iZone. No one is eager to drop what they have already built to start new. You have to make them want to.
~All in all, zone still has my support, and the things I listed would be just a small list of things that would need improvement. Zone has so much potential, and day by day I see people leave, be it players or a staff member. I don't think the question is why don't we play zone, the question should be what can YOU do, as a staff team, to get your crap together and make us want to play.