Suggestions thread (Formerly: We're listening...)

[salesman]

Originally Posted by 12171217

Who's the manager or co-manager? Finding it incredibly hard to contact the right people.

Kinetaro is the manager, Dargaro is the server admin. Kinetaro's internet has been out for about a month, but he's supposed to be back on the 9th. Wasser (sonniku4) is the acting server admin until he returns.

I have no clue what happened to Darg.

[scooter123]

Originally Posted by Dnegel

From : Guys Suggestions ( That no one watched on... )
Enjoy.


First I wanna thank the group Survivor for giving me the good music, while I write this.

These suggestions is just me giving Era Staff some work.

Unstick me / OSL
Well, here's my suggestions for Unstick me ;
1. I have always wanted Unstick me to be a nice place to stay, not a place with roads... It would been nice if it were more benches, chairs, tables and more grass there. Bringing the place more to life.

2. I bet some of you know there's a little sewer level near the ATM in Unstick me. Wouldn't it be nice to maybe make more rooms there, with a little hospital and a gun shop, that sells guns that aren't in shops anymore ( Yes. ).
In my opinion it's just odd that f.eks a Glock 18 aint in a shop, it aint like that. There are many Glock 18's spread around in Real Life ( I know it's a game... ) It's just my opinion though.

Mall
Yeah, suggestion about the Mall ;
1. The mall is a great place to show off your items to people passing by, which can give you a good chance to sell it if the player really wants it.

I send in a Ticket about the price that it need to be changed, I got a reply back from Cbk1994 saying he had changed them to 50 $ for a Stall in 5 minutes and 25 $ for 15 more minutes. Which made me pretty happy, because then I was pretty sure more people would use the mall than "Massing" all day.

Well, I said to people that it was lowered. Many didnt belive me, but some did hopefully. So they started using the mall, but after One' week or more they stopped using it. I dont know why, but it had to be something.

I ran around in Mall when people were there, until I found out that like 80 % were Trials selling flowers, rocks, cigarette packs and other items which is worth little... Also the "Rich" people had so much items, that they could only put on Five items, so they would rather Mass...

I really like the Mall, and would love that every "Masser" would use them, seeing many people in one building thinking Two things, Having a good time & Earning some cash.

This wasen't even a suggestion im sure... But atleast now you guys know what my opinion is about the Mall.

Cars and other transport things.
1. Cars should really be used more, im sure Era would become VERY awsome with everyone actually "Using" their cars, instead of just having them.

One week ago, I walked down the street to my locker in South Rigde. Then I saw Two noob looking people with a car, then one of them buyed it. Then the other guy said : cool! ( He had the white head, and two shotguns. A fresh noob. ) :P
Then I walked to the person that had buyed the car and said : Press F to open the doors. :-)

He opened the doors, then the friend walked near the car and pressed A. Then when he got in the car he said : lets drive to free zone

Then they drived up the brigde, fast.
After I saw that, I felt good. And it looked so awsome having a car, then I wanted to get my white car back. :P

2. Motorbikes and Scooters would been cool. Let us say, like in the GTA games you can drive and shoot if you have an Uzi. ( Giving a hard suggestion here. )

Anyways, if they were made you could drive around. And then you could shoot with uzi to Left or Right, that would been freaking cool!

Also the Scooters and Motorbikes had diffrent attributes.

The Motorbikes are fast, but bad acceleration and bad handling.
While the Scooters are slow, but got an decent acceleration and great handling.

Era Suggestions
I've seen pictures on the Graalonline site, then I see after 2 days they got a new weapon. And after 1 Week they get more buildings and Land Mass, which is pretty nice.

1.MANY houses on Era is empty, and give NO sense. The Gas Stations f.eks just there, no "Link" to a new level. Exept the one in South Rigde ( It got the level finished, but nothing in it... ) Also the Arcade shop at Beach is nothing, and the house east of Gun Point.

Era's houses should give sense, and have a level. If not then it shouldn't be there.

2. Im pretty sure this will not be tolerated, but im still going to say it.
There's a Chinese Stylish house South West of Unstuck me, it would been a great place to talk about new things, Like politic. ( About 50 $ to the enter each time. )

Time : It starts at about 8 PM on Fridays.

Requires : Atleast 2 Staff Member, preferably Squirt or Crish Vimes.

The spot is good because, it's near Unstuck me. And it is there for NO reason, well it is a PK area though.

It would give also Noobs a chance to give suggestions, and say what they mean.


Okay, that was mostly it. *Phew*

Credits

Writer : Rjax Shizibz ( Me )

Music : Survivor. :P

Special thanks to : Graal Forums, My Gelats,
Fox Shatz and of course Era!

Yeah I wish Unstick me was kind of like a park or maybe based off a park in real life.

[Meph]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

Not to mention that after the SG552 was released every other gun in the game had it's freeze basically halved to match up, so players are certainly more agile than they were in the past. Remember when Meph wanted to go back and add that freeze back to the guns? I'd rather achieve the same result by just increasing the bullet speed a bit.

Saying that it would ruin PKing is a bit far fetched. You would still easily be able to dodge and weave, but you'd just need to readjust a bit, just like we had to after the new movement system came out.

I still say the guns need to be slowed down. I saw some guy at unstick the other saying, literally: "I own so much. This Shipka makes it to where I don't even have to try." That tells me that there's a problem- that a guy seriously thinks he "owns" because he has a weapon.

Back when guns were level, there weren't as many "good" PKers as there are now; simply because it required more to master PKing back then than it does now.
1) You couldn't guard two directions at once, and keep your opponent in a corner.
2) You couldn't ride your opponent's ass firing without losing walk speed.

Increasing the bullet speed wouldn't solve these two problems; and yes, I identify them as problems.

Take raiding, for example. I remember single-handedly going into a base and being able to, literally, take out four people. Effortlessly. Two things are true here:
1) Everybody sucked back then. It required more to be good.
2) Nowadays, two people can produce more bullets-per-second than four could back in 2003.

It's not the bullets' fault that we screwed up the guns and our players are just too addicted to effortlessly being good at PKing to accept it as a problem.

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by Meph

I still say the guns need to be slowed down. I saw some guy at unstick the other saying, literally: "I own so much. This Shipka makes it to where I don't even have to try." That tells me that there's a problem- that a guy seriously thinks he "owns" because he has a weapon.

Back when guns were level, there weren't as many "good" PKers as there are now; simply because it required more to master PKing back then than it does now.
1) You couldn't guard two directions at once, and keep your opponent in a corner.
2) You couldn't ride your opponent's ass firing without losing walk speed.

Increasing the bullet speed wouldn't solve these two problems; and yes, I identify them as problems.

Take raiding, for example. I remember single-handedly going into a base and being able to, literally, take out four people. Effortlessly. Two things are true here:
1) Everybody sucked back then. It required more to be good.
2) Nowadays, two people can produce more bullets-per-second than four could back in 2003.

It's not the bullets' fault that we screwed up the guns and our players are just too addicted to effortlessly being good at PKing to accept it as a problem.

I still like to claim "It's not the gun you use, it's how you use it."

That statement is still true in some certain cases (Ex: I flawlessed JKL my mp5 vs his m1, and I can still flawless him my uzi vs his mp5), but not enough anymore.

Era has certainly lost it's skill factor due to the guns being the way they are. The goal being changed from 'practice to get better and win' to 'buy _____ and you win'.

So yea, all guns could be slowed by a percentage of speed or totally changed around (as I know Wil/GC wanted to do in their combined week as 'Gun Admins') to improve gameplay. But we all know it'll never happen and even if it did it isn't enough to save Era and blah...

[Tim_Rocks]

Idea: lets just go back to using an uzi, shotgun, handgun and ak47.

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by Tim_Rocks

Idea: lets just go back to using an uzi, shotgun, handgun and ak47.

Unfortunately most of the players from that time period have quit over the past few years (managements). So you'd get MUCH more 'Whaa...' than 'Yaya!'.

Also, to simplify back to that would probably require a reset, which would kill whats left of Era since nothing has been done.

[deathbarrier99]

Originally Posted by Tim_Rocks

Idea: lets just go back to using an uzi, shotgun, handgun and ak47.

Going back to that system would remove Era's diversity (removing gang guns, etc.). I just think some guns are in need of an intense nerf, there needs to be SOME sort of freeze. Come on, logical thinking please.

[Demisis_P2P]

I remember NYChris using famas when it first came out and he'd do practice spars where he'd try and land a hit with every single bullet he fired. I don't think there is a single person that plays now that could do that.

Metal Storm used to have 0.15 freeze and 0.35 fire rate and it was considered one of the best guns at the time

[Sinkler]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

I remember NYChris using famas when it first came out and he'd do practice spars where he'd try and land a hit with every single bullet he fired. I don't think there is a single person that plays now that could do that.

Metal Storm used to have 0.15 freeze and 0.35 fire rate and it was considered one of the best guns at the time

I really don't think it's the guns that are overpowered rather that the mentality has changed to laming the individual rather than actually being "honorable" if you will in the Erian fight to the death.

[scooter123]

Originally Posted by deathbarrier99

Going back to that system would remove Era's diversity (removing gang guns, etc.). I just think some guns are in need of an intense nerf, there needs to be SOME sort of freeze. Come on, logical thinking please.

We could give gang guns special modifications of certain guns used in the game to prevent too many weapons. With a small amount of weapons that are still balanced we can give some modifications for gangs

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by scooter123

We could give gang guns special modifications of certain guns used in the game to prevent too many weapons. With a small amount of weapons that are still balanced we can give some modifications for gangs

You don't need to have a small number of weapons to have them balanced.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

You don't need to have a small number of weapons to have them balanced.

Easier to balance tho.

Also this thread is funny.

[Zeross]

More players to PK, everyone plays instruments and mines, its boring

[bloodykiller]

y do u all talk about this nychris as an amzìazing pker? when i quit (around 2007) he was a mediocre player...

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by Sinkler

I really don't think it's the guns that are overpowered rather that the mentality has changed to laming the individual rather than actually being "honorable" if you will in the Erian fight to the death.

Era pk == laming.
Also, gangs see more fit to play the game of /points rather than Era. This needs to be changed around, it's a huge buzzkill when a gang has 10 members online and refuses to raid for hours so they can keep their lead or because '____ said not to'.

Originally Posted by Crono

is funny.

Made me smile, .

Originally Posted by Zeross

More players to PK, everyone plays instruments and mines, its boring

Maybe if the game play was improved and players didn't require a Mp5 to pk... (at least that's the mentality, they'd rather idle than have fun because they don't want to 'die')

Until then, maybe you should start sparring rocks with a guitar.

Originally Posted by bloodykiller

y do u all talk about this nychris as an amzìazing pker? when i quit (around 2007) he was a mediocre player...

Chris was good back when Era required skill. I don't remember him being that good either though.
And what do you consider an amazing pker? Mister 'lame doors with sword and run'.