I just had to make a post about Zone. I work for a multimedia company in real life where we create interactive games and programs, so I do have some insight and experience in this area.

In the infant stages of this game I think that maybe the development is going in the wrong direction. I don't want to come off like some bitter player because my custom head was declined. I'd rather just offer my thoughts which I consider solutions.

The average number of players online in Zone is so low. The goal is to get more players to join and get hooked. Finally you made a free version. That's good.

Regarding customs: Since this is a Sci-Fi themed game. You should really have let any monster, creature, alien or robot in the game. It should be flooded with these kind of looks. Skinny, small, tall, whatever as long as there was no advantage or disadvantage with the fighting. Picture a world filled with them? That would be my vision of Zone. (of course no copyright stuff).

Another way to get more players: In the early stages of the game. Make the custom uploads free for a limited time. Or make the first 3 customs free. Something. So little to do on the game currently so why not grow the social aspect.

The environment of the game: Why would a sci-fi themed game have those colors? What I mean is blue skies and white puffy clouds? This should have the look of space. Black spacey skies with shooting stars (doesn't take much to make a pixel fly across the screen in the background) would be my design for the sky. Every where you jump to in the game looks the same. Same pale blue floors. Make it dark colors, more futuristic. Change the color scheme between places. Looks the same everywhere.

I have more ideas but probably wont matter if I list them because it wont matter anyway.

Zone rules are too strict. You don't have a player base like Classic or Era yet.

Oh yeah, (after I removed flashing eyes) the reason I was given to why my robot head was declined was: "Your head is too small". My response was: "I used the entire with of the template, all 32 pixels". There reply was: "Use the height". My reply was: "That's a square." No response.  

I actually quit Zone because the only thing they have to do is PVP. I like your idea robg it would give the game a futuristic feel.  

I 100% agree with you.

The staff lack knowledge to their own rules. The server isn't really how I expected it to be, space an stars were more of my view. The bomber game is cool, spar meh, events.. O.K if the admins kept their damn promises and give you the hat you won. They never gave me my hat when I won an event but oh well.

I'd really love some better graphics on it.  

I wouldn't go to augmenting player count for zone, having 200 players as a max is already too laggy!  

It is sad that Zone Iphone is not using the original tiles of Zone PC and the chars of them. Would change alot in my opinion.  

Ok, so here is a personal post from me addressing your issues.

First off, Robg you have a message so we can get you taken care of. (Nice avatar btw) Second off I do like some of your suggestions. I will talk to prince about making sure his staff handles uploads the right way. If anyone has any suggestions to improve the server, feel free to send a graalians PM or feedback it.

Also, to address the hat comment. That should not happen, all transactions for prizes go through a high administrator which if you truefully won an event (There are people who say that eventhough I check my own profile for the last person who killed me) contact a higher administrator with the exact situation and the host. If you provide false information, you can face a ban.  

I completely agree, zone is lacking in basic entertainment. The activities get old and repetitive after the first 40 times. They need to provide either a visual affect or more activities that everyone could enjoy. A more space like affect would definitly help the servers visuals. Personally the levels are all extremely repetitive looking. The game could use some more social activities with squads to help increase interest.  

The reason it's repetitive is because they don't have a direction to go in. The updates from what I've saw so far, are mediocre with no sight of player sustaining content.  

I quit due a lack of things to do, I really don't Ike PvP (because I'm awful at it) but I really enjoyed the missions. But everyone was too busy PvP and so there s no be to mission with which made me quit zone.  

iZone came out too early in development in my opinion.
The true problem is they came out with too little, for too much.
The only people actually eager to pay were those with high hopes for iZone.
And when they got disappointed, they went back to iEra/iClassic and spread bad ratings for iZone.
Then, when the free version was released, alot of people didn't bother.  

I used to be so into zone, I spent some bucks on it, but then I kept losing interest in it. Found myself moving back to classic more and more. And then eventually quit completely. My main issue with the server is it's trying too hard to become like Era, their Facebook page even said so as well. I saw the items becoming more expensive as well, JUST like era. I don't always get money to buy Gralats so I couldn't get the newest stuff. There isn't many ways to earn Gralats, in fact, I have never seen a gralat on zone because you CAN'T see them. The server is just going down, unless they do something about it.  

I don't like zone because 1)the prices are way too high and money takes a long time to get 2) it's too event oriented. Every time I get on I see an event 3) I don't like how it's run; everything gets removed for speaking out against the staff
I liked these things about it: 1)the pk and bounty system is nice, but maybe make bounty rise a bit higher? And 2)you can pk to get money instead of doing various but boring jobs or throwing bomb into grass  

Glazey 2013

He'll fix the ****.  

Posted by NicoX

It is sad that Zone Iphone is not using the original tiles of Zone PC and the chars of them. Would change alot in my opinion.

 

Posted by Glazey

The reason it's repetitive is because they don't have a direction to go in.

That's very true. All they are doing is recreating the general idea behind Zone PC and throwing some random crap in every so often. Nothing more. They really need to put some effort into pushing iZone in a different direction than Zone PC, 'cause the direction it went on PC led it head first into a wall.