WarZ "Revival" Thread

k so I really don't play anymore because literally nobody else does but if people were to actually get on the server (old friends & teammates) then I'd probably come back, same with many others most likely. best time to "revive" the server (quotations because it probably won't happen but who knows) is right when summer starts so if you guys care about WarZ you should probably implement what I suggest here rn

1) Large scale event. not some small event like king of the hill or a free for all. I'm talking about a 1 or 2 month long event in which you wipe the elo system and give whoever gets the highest elo without boosting by the end of the time period a lifetime rank. not 1 week of elite like you guys have been doing or something small like that, because it really is not worth it. same with a month. honestly the only way people would come back is if they have a chance at getting a top tier prize.

2) free MVP. a lot of people don't play because they don't want to pay to win (which is literally 100% what this server is). if players are given MVP for all of June or June-july (summer) it would give players reason to come back and possibly get them interested in the gamemode again after summer's over. this is a must to be honest, nobody will play as a whitename because of the way you guys designed the ranking system. it's only fun when you're ranked so that's the only way people will play.

3) weekly events. like War Fun Sundays, there needs to be weekly boosters and small events on the server. 1 hour probably wouldn't be sufficient, would need to last around 2 or 3 so more people would show up and get the chance to participate (events like hide and seek, etc. not events that only last around 30 minutes. aka events that you can do multiple rounds of).

4) staff members need to stop ignoring reports from WarZ. I personally know several moderators from the time I played that made the choice to ignore WarZ reports because they didn't want to get involved in the toxic community or the server in general. that's 100% a huge problem because one of the reasons warz died was because of the immense amount of cheaters that the game held. this includes xrayers, aimbotters, all of them. it could be easy to get them banned as well if 1) you had a screenshare protocol OR 2) a competent moderator watched them in vanish for the whole duration of a fight. although fights can sometimes last up to an hour, it's important for the staff member to watch them the whole time because the cheating community on warz is a lot more subtle about their hacks than other servers, as it's been proven many times (@JayOG can probably confirm).

5) monthly additions to the map. warz can sometimes get stale because the map literally never changes. it's the same places over and over again. one of the reasons Fortnite is popular today is because they make constant map updates, adding/removing locations, updating them, etc. adding locations to the map would keep people interested. on old map (servers 3-4), one of the reasons the Alcatraz zone 6 was a failure was because it was built far north just like snow and nether. it was way out of the way, and generally wasn't worth traveling to. there need to be zone 6s more diversely placed on the map, not just far north. the new map was better at this with making army a zone 6.

6) give unranked players more perks. WarZ is generally unplayable without a rank. everybody knows that, yet little to nothing has been done to change it. the whole server is pay to win and that caused many people to quit. give all unranked players the ability to /tpa, but give them a 1 or 2 hour cool down. give them access to an enderchest, but make it so they only get a few slots to put their items in instead of the whole chest. you shouldn't need to pay to compete with people efficiently in a game.

7) safezones. give players safe zones throughout the map to where pvp is disabled. this would give players places to loot (zone 4 and below loot) without worrying about being killed. make it so you can't teleport to another player within the safe zone, and the only way to get into it is to either
-run there
-./safezone. this command would take 30 seconds to complete, and would teleport you to the nearest safe zone. this would prevent people from easily fleeing from fights.
this is to prevent new players from constantly getting killed and leaving the game because of it. there's an extremely significant skill gap in the warz community, and the reason is because new players are given no opportunity to improve in combat. there's no tutorial, no tips to make them better at fighting (they never know about comboing), and they end up quitting because they're killed by ranked players.

8) tutorial. make a detailed tutorial similar to the one on WildWest. take the new players through the different locations around the map, teach them about comboing guns, about zones, guns, etc. implement a command like "/locations" and it'll tell you the coordinates of different locations such as nether, snow, etc. (depending on the server map you're on). the maps that are given to players are often difficult to understand and glitch out constantly. this command would need to be put in the tutorial and reminded in constant chat messages to players.

@Paul (though I don't know if you still do stuff for warz)@SoCool21 (you asked for ideas) @chickenputty (owner dude)

@NMHRODMAN1SBEST @Carsonn @Yorei @Ritzy just a question would this make you more interested in coming back if these were implemented? I know the biggest reason people don't play is because nobody else does, but I still remember WarZ fights being very fun and intense whenever there was a large one.

opinions encouraged

 

sadly it's probably the only way a lot of people would come back

happened in the past when everybody was given elite and a lot of people came back

 

huge events should not really be 'regular' for every gamemode per say, but there should be large events for brawl in general (in other words switch event game modes, don't hold a large warz event regularly but hold a random server event regularly). the whole point in a lifetime rank giveaway is that it shouldn't be regularly, this event should just be a one time thing to get people back into the gamemode and the only way to make people interested is if there's a lifetime rank involved.

yeah I don't think so either I just chose Elo because it's already implemented into warz and didn't want to get Mario to add another system into the server (point system) but if he's up for it that'll be a lot better.

the thing is points per kill would not be very great because you could just camp noob towns and spawn kill easy targets, which is why the elo system is a lot better. ELO isn't that unreliable to be honest, the only thing wrong with it is elo boosting (taking off armor and killing teammates that have full diamond repeatedly) but even then it's still been countered with the /killstats command (allows you to see the amount of times you've killed a player).

changing the distance a player can track on the compass won't change the fact that you can see where they are behind a wall. the compass points you in the direction of where an enemy is, so if the enemy is behind a wall the compass will point to where he is behind the wall. f3+a should've been banned a long time ago

 

if a free rank is only given out for an hour people would only play for an hour and then quit again. the best way to make sure people stay on the server is to give them a free rank for an extended period of time in order to get them back into the game. it takes a while to get interested in a game once again, a 1 hour event will not revive the player base although it would make some people interested

 

no not every week I meant it as a one time thing to get people back into the game

i.e. for the month of June give everybody MVP so people come back and get reinterested in it

 

happened in the past, they gave out free elite for a solid 2 months and people came back.