[jkldogg]

Originally Posted by Cloven

Totally agree. I personally find Zombie-ish settings to be rather easy to create.

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

I'd work REALLY hard on eliminating the pattern in those tiles, like the grass and asphalt. Secondly, I'd look up some real references to urban buildings and such instead of even thinking of Era. I can tell there are some bad habits already picked up from the style Era has that has creeped over into your tileset, even when it barely makes sense. These small details are what makes it hard to see anything other than an Era look-alike, even when the overall picture was never meant to be such. What's with the orange traffic-line, by the by?

As for the post-apocalyptic feel... you don't need to sacrifice colors or make it all goth in order to create a post-apocalyptic setting. Destruction of the environment does not necessarily mean destruction of art. Color is indeed more widely associated with beauty and life, but if done well can be just as convincing as anything else. L4D2 pulled it off pretty well, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Dnegel

I agree with this guy.

The server should be very dark, scary and untamed. There should be blood and gore, there should be violence and swearing.

The server itself should be chaotic.

Originally Posted by papajchris

Nonetheless, cool idea jkldogg. Hope it works out for you. There was another server that got pretty far on the whole zombie idea, but i think the server died. I'm sure you have seen it or if not, you should. Anyways my point is maybe you can improve your server even more by talking to their previous staff members and find what ideas they had and how they set their server up.

Thank all of you for your great ideas! I intend on doing the whole dark gloomy idea of a server. And if anyone can help I'd really appreciate it. I really need people who can Animate guns.