The UPs and DOWNs - Zone is released!

[DMRenegade]

as quoted from a fellow player

"i'd play here just to laugh at the characters"

and I wholeheartedly agree.

[Blue_Dragn]

Originally posted by Milkdude99
I for one did not inspect this PW and the only one that did I know for sure of is Spark. Stefan liked it and thought it had potential, I agree the GFX are not bad but for my taste, ehh its not for me. But I don't judge PWs on whether I like it or not rather will the players like it and have plenty to do. Boredom is the worst enemy of any PW , my personal feelings on Zone don't mean squat if the Owners want it up and who am I to object to what they want? I want to see all Playerworlds do good because I realize the work that goes into one. I would like to see Zone add much to the PW to make it worthwhile going there to play. There is a lot they can do with a space theme , the ideas for it could be endless. So I hope they take advantage of that and make Zone much more than it currently is.

I guess I understand but what I am wondering. Players who make servers are expected to have so much more to offer on launch. Not to just have "potential". I guess you can see my statement there, I believe it speaks for itsself.

[thesaiyan]

For the ones complaining its hard to learn the controls or what to do. There IS a place in the start that lists the commands and everything. Big letters. "HELP INFO."

Plus its not that hard to figure out what to do. Took me a few moments to learn what buttons do what and all. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure this stuff out.

[Thak2]

Yeah, the game is pretty simple to understand. Easy as pie.

Maybe some graphics didn't load up for you guys or something, just reconnect again, and you might see those HELP boxes.


Also, about Zone 'losing all its players in a couple weeks, etc'. Well, Zone isn't a community server - unlike most others. Its a fun action game. You can jump in whenever, and join games. I doubt I will play this game with huge dedication, but will instead load it up whenever I want to enjoy some nice fun killing guys and ctf action.

Don't play Zone expecting quests and playerhouses.

[sage_scooby]

I would agree it may be fun every now and then , but I doubt that unless you put some serious time into it first. As soon as you log on with your 5 hours of experience someone is going to walk up to you with a huge weapon and kill you. Die warp repeat
Untils you give up or earn money to buy you a new weapon after knifing the bad men with the laser gun and plasma sabre. But to all have your fun but I agree 30 days and the count will go down. I personally dont think graal was meant for a game like that.

Kill people to make money. Make money to buy bigger guns and augmentations. Kill more people.

Wow, that's deep.

[CasanovaCanavi]

It's alright.. I like playing it if I have friends playing with me.

[Crono]

Originally posted by dlang



if you started a new game on Halo... and they just put you in some hallway in the Pillar of Autum without a gun... while the ship is being attacked and expected you to go fight the invaders and didn't tell you how to do anything or how to get a weapon.


~Inverness

I can do that, give me something to wack the enemy with and I would make it out alright !


Another big.."flaw" on the Zone (no not zone.com) is that they dont have hotkeys. So if you run out of ammo you have to press Q, go to the fist, then equip the lightsaber and knife. By the time you do that you'll be dead. In other words, hotkeys=good, otherwise knifes/light sabers/pistols are useless.

[superb]

I played it 10 minutes. That's all I could stand. Definitely not my cup of tea.

[Xeross]

Someone on the early posts say it has a unique Body system... well i remenber a similar body system of a server before the graal.net come up, it was UC server with Era, maybe someone remenber name it was fun

[Milkdude99]

Originally posted by Blue_Dragn


I guess I understand but what I am wondering. Players who make servers are expected to have so much more to offer on launch. Not to just have "potential". I guess you can see my statement there, I believe it speaks for itsself.

Much more is required for the Classic tab than the 3rd tab and I really think all new PlayerWorlds need to start on that tab but that is my opinion and I do not speak for all the PWA on that. Unless a Playerworld is a really exceptional Playerworld the 3rd tab is the way to go. You don't need as much and you are still developing your Playerworld but it gives you the opportunity to see how the players will perceive it. I for one do not agree with jumping any Playerworld straight to the Classic tab but as I said I do not speak for all the PWA on this, this is just my thought on it.

I believe all PlayerWorlds need to be treated equally and fairly as regard the qualifications for them to be visible either on the 3rd tab or the Classic tab based on quality and content not on who they know. I have posted before I don’t have to like it for me to judge it any different than one I do like, just because I may not personally like the theme of it doesn’t mean it cannot be successful on Graal. I like a Playerworld to have much for the players to do and have good quality levels, graphics and scripts. I don’t think this is unreasonable to expect and we do have the responsibility of making sure Graal’s quality of PlayerWorlds are going up and not down. The 3rd tab is for the Playerworlds with potential and have some to offer but are not yet ready for the Classic tab with it's much stricter requirements.

[Kadar]

Zone is alright but there are a lot of exploits and bugs that be abused.

It is laggy mostly because of it being a gmap, its a nice server and all but the developers of it shoulda waited a while and fixed somethings before it was released, There is not really much fun because of newbies dont know how to play.

There should be training grounds or something to train the newbs.

It feels weird when i play because i dont know what do do most of the time and theres not much to do, killing people and getting money isnt much of a fun.

[protagonist]

It's pretty good, now that I have it working.

[Blue_Dragn]

Originally posted by Milkdude99
I for one do not agree with jumping any Playerworld straight to the Classic tab but as I said I do not speak for all the PWA on this, this is just my thought on it.

I guess this is a disagreement point, I believe if they put the work into it, and it is worthy, it should go up. Moving it to this new "third tab" does nothing. If Gold/VIP Players wanted to log on it, they would have already. Being in this Third tab will not significantly affect playercount in any way.

I believe all PlayerWorlds need to be treated equally and fairly

Yes all playerworlds should be treated equally, its only fair and good for buisness.

as regard the qualifications for them to be visible either on the 3rd tab or the Classic tab based on quality and content not on who they know.

Hrm, I would hope this was not the case for Zones being public. But Stefan had made global messages accross RC saying that he was playing on Zone once at least i am sure of.

I like a Playerworld to have much for the players to do and have good quality levels, graphics and scripts. I don't think this is unreasonable to expect and we do have the responsibility of making sure Graal quality of PlayerWorlds are going up and not down.

Right, and in theory this is not bad to expect. I understand the policing of the UC playerworlds is so you guys dont get occasions of the "Corrupt Person" which happens often on aspiring new servers. I guess if they wanted a server just to play on, that is what they got.

The 3rd tab is for the Playerworlds with potential and have some to offer but are not yet ready for the Classic tab with it's much stricter requirements.

Yeah, I know all about playerworlds on the classic tab, I did have control of one for a brief time. However like i refrenced to above, this evolution to a Third Tab will not in theory. really accomplish anything that isnt already in place.

[Genesis]

Zone is really fun to play when ur bored at 1:25 am = )

[Kadar]

i play it at 1 am and usually get bored in an hour ;( or less

it needs to be more funnnn