New story, need help
 

There are so many things possible that could be added on Zone, so many ideas floating around, we should really get more stuff done. One thing is the story.

Let's write a new background story, a new history for Zone and put traces of it in the maps. It should involve real player names, think of stuff like a letter on a table in some tent saying 'The aliens are coming closer and closer, we try to protect our base but are losing more people each day. I don't know how much we have left. Commander S. Knorr' (or replace aliens with the 'evil empire' or so). We can put letters, pictures, statues, destroyed buildings and more into the maps. We can even put 'copyright' messages like 'Hover 1.01 Build By Mastermind Corporation'. The different story parts should be somehow connected but don't need to be too serious, it's mainly about having a good time and put some trace of yourself into the game so that you can be proud of it being part of it.

Zone needs to pick up where GK left off, so the gold servers have a little bit in-common

"Eons ago, our kind mastered the sea. Ruling the waters and land alike, with steel swords and wooden warships, our kind was unchallenged. We mapped the ocean. We navigated the dungeons. We pleased the gods and built impenetrable castles. Our kind ruled the world from a tiny archipelago. At our command, we have hoards of men and legions of bomies. Until one day: The moon fell. We continued to try and hold our once powerful castles from the enraged creatures that now inhabited our land, and from the enemy forces just across our waters. But it was a losing battle, every day we survived against other armies was just one day closer to the end of the world. So we did the one thing we could do: We took to the skies. we found new lands to conquer, new planets to rule, new wars to fight."

Which ever planet represents Earth (?), throw some castle ruins or something like GK's underground dungeon in. Rename all these stupid factions/teams so they reference GK, or at least something Graal related. Warhammer 40k does it nicely with Warhammer Fantasy lore, the Elder are aliens based on elves, Orks being orcs, etc. Make a "space pirate" faction, a generic "galactic federation", a barbaric group of Neptunian aliens and then a high-class regal aliens.

Zone needs some kind of deep plot, and GK is setting right next to it with a useless plot. Put two and two together. Without the big plot, Star Wars would just be a generic Sci Fi special. You need to have a story that at least makes it seem like the game goes beyond just what you're playing. On top of that, make the faction/team your part of permanent. Once you join "Sweep Fleet" (which should be renamed), you're a Sweep Fleet soldier. If you keep having the option to switch who you're fighting for, it doesn't make much sense. And don't go and use some "oh we're fighting aliens". That's not going to work because there are no aliens on Zone.

We are pretty much all aliens on Zone hehe
We will need to decide though which kingdom has won the final war, or put hints/traces that make people think which kingdom was ruling or so (but put another more hidden hint somewhere else which could make though think that some other kingdom or people was actually winning or destroying or escaping to another planet, put some graal2001 story in it with the flying moons and bomy planet?)

But like I said before I would perfectly happy if the story is not related to kingdoms, that could restrict us too much and then people will not really be interested in helping. Everyone could add his part of the story but we should not really care too much about a common canon.

Nice idea, I'm interested in reading some of the stories :)

I think you should develop an individual storyline for Zone, unrelated to both Graal2001 and Graal Kingdoms. It is quite hard to move stories forward on servers when they've got additional servers that rely on them as a backstory.

Yes it can be too restricting. Will be more fun if everyone has the freedom to invent some cool stuff, like speak about a rebellion some hundred of years ago led by his anchestors which ended the tyranny on alpha planet.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..... NO JUST KIDDING!

i think each planet should have a background to it, i think this would be easier if they where given names, "Born on planet Deathmatch" for example, isnt right.

ive noticed that as zones gotten older, the weapons have changed a lot and the games become less skill based, so a kind of "The might of one warrior is history, and higher technology dominates the battlefielf" area for the story would be nice.

"As the Mighty warriors slowly succumbed to time, there greater skill overshadowed by the prolific knowlage of the revered alien scientist of the Oozaru clan, The Oozaru clan took their might weapons to the uninhabited planet of iricia, where they set up bases and quickly established their technological superiority by obliterating the planet known as alpha. The Hayashi Clan, who have dominated the universe for centuries with their army of puissant warriors and indomitable skill, took note of the growing animosity and power of the Oozaru Clan and set out on a mission to silence them.
A Great battle ensued over many years through out the universe, but showed the might of the hayashi clan was slowly proving to be no match for the Oozarus ingenuity.
One by one, the greatest warriors of thier time fell in battle; the trademark appirces of the Hayashi clan, weilded by superior skill, where no match for the ultimate destructive arms created by the greatest scientist in relevent history.
Hitherto, the Hayashi forces fought with all their might and power but eventually it would come to be that the clan dies out, and a tyrannous rule of greater technology began. However, few survivors of the Hayashi clan lived on, to form a rebbelion and stay true to the former way of the warriors, losses of such great warriors such as Storm, FireBox, Jin and Siwin left a gaping hole in every true soldiers heart.
The spirit of hayashi lived on, and rebellions where formed, former fighters came out of the darkness of the technological oppression, which was being spearheaded by daniel and his minions. (sorry dan, but since your the new boss, lets make you a figurehead in the story) Warriors such as Bahamut, Tenchry and Bigtime came foward, and raised a resistance army on each planet, their main forces sent to the origional warzone on the arctic planet Iricia, where the rebel faction Storm Riders (named in memory of a fallen legend) fought constantly against the tyrants known as the Sweep fleet, and this war still wages on....will you join it?"

its not perfect, but i actually enjoyed righting it, i think this sort of storyline would be good for zone because it actually kinda reflects the true history of zone. :P

There should be a huge map strictly for single player things, like a futuristic city (like Era's naub map except futuristic) and you can enter buildings and try and kill a mass of aliens, they could be spar bots with alien attire.

Basically missions and "quests" like on other servers.

And finally, staff realize we need something new on Zone because the average playercount is 3...

Deathmatch could be a planet owned taken forcefully by the new tyrant ruler, to force rebels to take part in bloodsports as punishment and high-class entertainmant -little extra snipper of info added to my storyline :)

What are the races (of aliens) on Zone? Storm Rider and Sweep Fleet don't exactly sound like breeds of aliens, maybe try renaming them.
Replace Hayashi with Xanadu, just because its more widely known.
Zone hardly sees more then 10 players these days.

I support Steve's idea. and I'm gonna contribute some things to it.

We can also more or less explain the origin/planet of each race we have on zone already (the races in the outfit terminal hehe)

like, Green Aliens, the Revo race, was born in the planet known as Wild Cross, a planet with alot of vegetation and secret bunkers. etcetc.

Red Aliens, the Tenchry race, habitants of the planet KOTH. a planet with lava rivers... and open space?o.o'.

and of course, different races could join any clan. =P

in my story, storm riders and ect where names given to factions of fighters in the rebellion. Hayashi stays because hayashis role in my story is history, and better yet, truthful history, most of my storly line fits in with zones actual player related history, which is why i said it.

Deathmatch could be a small moon owned by the bigger organization and used for gladiatorial tournaments

that was kind of what i said worded differently.

Why does it need to be the playhouse of tyrants punishing rebels? Have you never watched wrestling?

well im assuming you know what a tyrant is; such a person as a ruler would proberly love to see his enemies killing eachother infront of crowds for entertainment, like gladitorial games. so i assumed this tyrant would own this deathmatch planet.

Hmm....How about Iricia was onced owned by a Humanoid/Wolf like creature (xd b/c thats who really owns it..) And that were exstinct from two waring nations, The Resistence (Storm Riders to me they seem for rebel like...b/c more nubs play on that team...) and the other nation The Imperials. And there could be like a guild system for each server where when they start a account that account becomes that faction unless that account pays a fine and needs permission from a Guild Official to leave the Nation...

Turning Zone into a RPG in hopes of gaining a better playercount than doing actual updates! YEAH!

None of this has anything to do with turning Zone into an RPG, how does having a plot change the type of game? Do you even know what an RPG is?

Why even have a plot when no one on Zone even knew there was a plot or care for that matter. I can see some RPG people coming on Zone seeing it and actually try roleplaying. Then the dutchies and frenchies would join them that would end up causing total annihilation to players who actually do something on Zone.

Every game has a plot. I think even Tetris was retconned to have some purpose. And Zone's plot sucks. That has nothing to with roleplaying.

"Duchies and Frenchies" can't do an English roleplay. If they are able to, then there's no problem. Actually, there's no problem even if they couldn't do an English roleplay, because Zone wouldn't ever become an RPG.

I think you just don't know what a roleplaying game is. Zodiac and Era are hardly roleplaying games (read: They are not). In fact, GK isn't even really one anymore. Having a plot doesn't make it an RPG, nor does it make it Zodiac (and being a Zodiac-type server does not make it an RPG either).

Put Zormi on Zone.

Why always pick on the aliens*crys* , they can be very nice!

Long ago, worlds destroyed each other... The Great War was infamous throughout most of the universe. Just as soon as the story would get there, war would break out on the planet. "Iricia...Koth...Wild Cross.." old stories were told, "other planets whom hadn't even had names were taken up into the great stride of things. Become simply planets of death and bloodshed.", the stories would usually finish with. These war-hardened fighters that had put in ruin so many other planets, have recently been sending waves of their warriors to our home-planet. Attempting peaceful communications only results in "the desendants of the mighty zormites" declaring that we shall all, indeed, die.

Our people have able to hold some of them off with our best fighters...though, many were lost. The Mastermind family, lost. The head of the Oozaru family, gone. The Knorr family rarely seen anywhere. Guilds are becoming common,though are appearing and dissapearring to quickly to make a vast difference. We have hope though. New weapons are being developed, planned from the ground up. We have mastered the arts that electricity and our scientists explore the vast uses of laser technologies. The beam rifle, photon rifles, weapons are becoming less merciful as Dr. Jesse works with our top fighters Desear and Ixi on what works in and out of the battlefield.

Others work on new medical advances. The military has stopped issuing cookies to our soldiers and have been since issuing medics to the battlefields with medpacks.

...to lazy to work on more unless you guys actually like it.

Omg, this sounds like what I suggested.

337 years ago, a catastrophe hit the planet Earth. This catastrophe was known as the Great Black. Back then, Earth was divided into three colonies. Colony Noi, Mythril and Knorr. Each colony was lead by a heroic *super soldier*; Ace lead Noi, his heroic exploits in the Icelandic field were legendary. Then their was Lieutenant Storm Leonhart, he lead Mythril which was the smallest of the 3 but, although their Colony was the smallest, they had no problem easily matching the largest colony of Knorr. Knorr was lead by Stefan, although Stefan wasn't a great warrior, he was incredibly intelligent and lead the largest, most advanced civilization. These three great warriors were said to have abilities which are equivalent of todays soldiers through advancement and genetic enhancement. These three Colony's were constantly at war with each other, until it happened.

At 9:45 AM, on April 24th, 26XX it happened. The Great Black came, no one knew what it was but when it stuck, it struck swiftly. It's known as the Giant Black because it was literally a giant black planet, it was roughly 3/4 the size of earth. Giant black rods came crashing down into the earths oceans from this giant black planet, within a month the oceans were dried up and the planet began to become unstable, so the leaders created a plan, and with the combined efforts and advances in science made by Knorr, they were able to create the very first mass space craft. And within no time, they created 74 space crafts. These massive crafts sent approximately half a billion people into space, the left were left to die with the planet.

After finding planets with suitable living conditions, the three leaders of this united colony founded homes on them, they called the area of these planets the "Zone". Only 42 of these ships have ever been accounted for. No one knows where the other 31 are, but alive or dead chances are they're out there. One of the ships that weren't accounted for was the leader Storm's ship. It's rumored that through genetic alteration he has managed to survive for 300 years. After having lost all ties and becoming just one united, the people of Earth began to combine their efforts. 220 years ago the first space station was created, there people were able to live instead of having to stay on the planet. A safer means if anything. 100 years ago scientists discovered away to be reborn, even if killed. Although it will only last as long as your body is able to handle itself. With this invention the Zonians were able to have some interesting combats, in order to keep diligent, in shape and combat ready encase something were to ever come back.

Today we Zonians enter constant battles to test our abilities that drive us to the next level of battle. We're always fighting to be ready if the ancient enemy were to ever return. Everyday new planets are found and processed for battle. We never know what might await us on those planets. Our conflict will never end and every day is a challenge. Hero's rise and fall every day and who knows the next hero, could even be you.

Storm, Ace and Stefan :(
I would have gone with Storm, Siwin and Stefan :D
No offense to Ace, but Siwin is a NPC D:

1337 years ago!

>;( I made a thread on how the storyline didn't make sense!

Lol, was my Story any good?

GLAAAADIATORS!

Just saying.

Forums got realy much NICE ideas. But what Zone needs is more scripters and GFX people! Then the playercount will be higher, and a more populair game! Good work stefan you set up a application! Sorry for some grammar errors, I wrote this on my iPod touch!

Adding new content is good, but improving on what we already have can yield bonuses, too.

We don't need scripts or GFX yet.
WE NEED NEW PLAYERS! MORE PLAYERS! OLD PLAYERS RETURNING! JUST MORE PLAYERS IN GENERAL!

xD

With new updates, we will get more players ...

ive done a kind of mini-story, like a historical event in history, its just a rough and took my like 10 minutes of the top of my head.

see what u think :)

just a note i know grammer and punctuation are very bad, i typed it in an msn convo, and i always type badly in them. so please judge the material over the punctuation/grammer.

Brothers at war - basic outline

Jin/touya brothers - one a reighteos (spelling?) warriors, who went away to train in a desolate icy field of the planet iricia, the other gained supporters to his cause - total domination and the establishment of the jin empire. while touya remained obliviose to his brothers maliciose rule, he trained tranquilly becoming stronger every day, and so did jin, and jins army became the mightiest in all the land. Jin, trained under his master FireBox, turned bitter at the untimely death of his master, set about to take the whole land of his own. many supporters saw the warriors power and joined him, backed by warriors such as angelus and "snowstorm", his army soon forcefully crushed all opposition and any rebellios force scattered to each part of the planet.

soon, touya returned from irica to his home planet, to find slaves trolling the streets with giant rocks, when he asked them what they where doing, one replied soullessly, "building a statue of our lord, jin"

disbeleif took over touya, could it be his brother causing this oppression, all along he saw store houses and factories, filled with malnourished workers slaving away over weapons and food and other such items.

a month after his return, Touya saw has come to terms with the fact that it was his brother causing this distress to the people, and so vowed to stop it. and soon came into contact with rebel forces, and offered to lend them his might. soon however, they established him as leader, and they became known as team masho, led by 4 masters, and supreme maste

touya, jesse, trojan and arbiter led each faction of 5000 or so rebels each, a forbidable army they had become after years of gaining support, and so a messenger was sent to jin, challenging his army, a new messenger returned, sporting the head of the old, and a messege of acceptance. and so on the icy ground of iricia, where touya had trained, he took up his ultimate weapon known as gravitron and met his brother on the field,. there was no loving reunion, they acted as warring lords, altho a sorrowful sparkle could be seen in the eyes of the older brother, or was it the reflection of the snow?

as the armys met, touya had realise he had underestimated jins army, as it was vaster than he had ever imagined and after just a day of battle, touya had suffered many losses and retreated his reduced forces back to his home base. he called for his strategist, known as jesse, and told him that this battle would only be won by superior strategy.

jesse devised a plan, he set up a base and marked it "3" and another one marked "2" . in base 3 hid arbiters faction, in base 2 hid trojans. the he made base one, where jesse would wait. then touyas forces marched foward and met jins army at the storm rider camp, then fired upon them, before retreating, after 3 hours of retreating, they had reached there spot and saw jins army still giving chase, touya fired his flare gun into the air, to call forthe the hidden warriors in bases 2 and 3 who attacked his army with mortars and rifles, rockets and pistols from both sides, after fully engaged in battle on 3 sides, another flare was released, calling jesses faction to appear and attack the remaining open flank

jins army suffered many heavy losses , but jin did not fall, he killed man after man without being hit himself but before long he came face to face with his brother, and they battled for 2 hours, before touya fell, and jin stood victoriose. with morale at an all time low at the knowlage of there leaders defeat, team mashos numbers slowly began to depleat, before jesse called for retreat, they had been defeated, and the jin empire continued its opression.

Steve, you forgot to put "A Zone Novel, by Bahamutstevetff" xD

Would be a cool storyline for Zone though :)

its not a novel, it could easily be adapted tho.

With new updates will have maybe 5 - 10 players return, but with skillful advertisements we could have maybe 40 - 50 new players, which therefore will make older players return, and then the need for updates will come.

Omg, please use spell checker, or at least admit when you don't know how to spell a word, and google it. If you don't have anything come up, you're spelling it wrong!