I agree with this however it would have been better to do it from the start. It's whatever Zero wants to stick with. We kind of build ourselves up around ZM/ZE and it's what we are known for.
Agreed. I'll be going through this wednesday night and all day thursday.
Something that I have noticed on other servers are those maps are banned on weekdays and can only be nominated on the weekend or by admins. This is something we will most likely implement.
This something I have been pondering about. I know I want this system on ZM. A combination of 1 or 2 human and zombie skins. I've been thinking also about WCS and maybe have a double exp feature for new people. It would be a nice way of saying, "Hey, thanks for donating! Here are some perks!"
A new ranking system is currently being developed with a complete rank wipe in mind. Not only will this bring a kind of fresh start back to the server but will also encourage winning on escape maps. An example would be if you won Predator as a human you would get bonus points. Incentives for gaining rank by tagging people is also being kept in mind as it would diminish the whole idea. We're working on and we'll let know soon with what we come up with.
Zero is one man and can only do so much, you are right. Some of the clan are getting together, including myself, and will be making plugins and trying to help overall to lift that burden. With that in mind, plugins from alliedmodders will also be added soon to hopefully give zm a little bit of a fresher feel.
Comments I have already read from the survey have already been helpful to kind of give a direction. Many have expressed what you are feeling. Please wait a little bit longer until the results are collected and discussed among the members. If you know an admin that hasn't taken it, please encourage them to do so. ADMIN ONLY: LINK FOR IT IS HERE
I spent some time in the WCS server the other day. People there said it does see traffic but certain people and races empty the server. I know I've certainly left because of it. I've been trying to make my way around the servers to see if any of them has issues.
Least I could do for someone who donated. Hope you'll come back some day.
Events are the best for for the server to learn maps. We simply can't get everyone to learn them when we play them for two seconds, fail, and rtv. Try hard map do work because we we're able to beat Predator for the first time. We completed Shroom forest with a full server for the first time also. What we'll do is reserve those maps for the weekend though so they don't pop up on the normal rotation during the week days.
It's in the works of getting changed and stats will be wiped.
If we do add chat colors, they will not be all crazy like GFL. I'm working on a plugin that will identify Clan, ULA, Admin, and Donator in chat like GFL does with colors to signify. Pay-to-win might still be on table however it would not give donators a huge advantage over everyone else. If this was implemented, donators would not be OP. Anyways, it was just an idea tossed around.