Honestly having seen the systems so far, I would say my only criticism is that you're taking too long to finish it :D

Rep-1
Seriously, no one should rush things

It was supposed to be a compliment. Rep-1.

I love your tileset.
Do you have any ground, and inside tiles made?
Just curious what they look like in a level.

We'll probably reuse our OLD INSIDE TILES, just spiff them up a little and add some more stuff.

Forcing names is forcing, not encouraging RP.

Encouraging names would be fine.

What would you do if they don't rename their character? Oh right, ban them.

I'm a scripter. Character renaming would be 100% scripted, thus forced.

Forcing RP is forcing RP. Forcing names is encouraging RP. It doesn't have to be directly related to RP anyways. To force RP would be to consistently monitor and punish players while they are playing... based on their actions. To force a name is simply to avoid retarded names.

You don't want names of popular tv shows, ones with numbers, and you probably don't want something common like "Kevin" or "Nick." You want a forced ROLEPLAYING name.

Ya, a forced name. That's a forced name, that's not forced RP. If, afterwards, he does not enforce RP(roleplaying) gameplay, then it is not forced, but encouraged.

I never said that.

Both "Kevin" and "Nick" would be perfectly valid names, as would "Ziro", "Twinny", "Raven" etc. be. Examples of bad names would be "Ipewpewandyouqq", "Asdhagsd", "Immortalgod" and so fourth.

Ziro wants a forced system in which people can't call themselves retarded names and avoiding complaints.

I believe the point here that ziro is making is that crude names will not be allowed and he's warning you ahead of time.

The tileset is decent. What I think is missing from them that gives them a flat feel is shadows off of buildings. This is obviously still a work in progress so I fully expect GUI's and similar things to probably change a few times before he hits on one he likes.

The idea of an rp server is nice as outside of Val there really aren't any and this plan appears to give you a differant style of it from theirs.

When a server has a different style of gameplay I find that to be a good thing. If you are the roleplaying type of player you'll find it to be a lot of fun. Plus it has the advantage of sparring and events for when you need a break from your rp. For those of you that don't care for rp servers, you just won't play there. Anymore than a person that doesn't like the grind of leveling as is on Zodiac. Good work Ziro, keep it moving along in the direction you plan and don't alter because a few people don't like this particular type of gameplay.

Is this the server that's supposed to look/feel a lot like Final Fantasy?

I hope this turns out well- everything looks good so far.

The name-system sounds good. You always need some sort of regulation if you want RPing to succeed. Look at GK... they left things kind of open on that, and it went out of control. Even people who consider themselves RPers on GK have some ridiculous names taken from other stories,movies,games, etc.