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Pokemon -
The initial opening of the game will have two generations of Pokemon, which are gens 1 and 2. Other Pokemon will be included for assorted reasons, such as Magnezone for being part of the Magnemite line, or some dragon-types so that gym leaders won't be Flint in D/P.
Shinies are present in this game with their original chances of 1/8192! Every Pokemon will be available Shiny, and a certain few Pokemon will automatically be found Shiny, including a very particular famous one. Shinies don't only have to be found by chance, though! There will be events in which users will get a shiny Pokemon of their choice, even if they already caught it and leveled it up.
Pokemon are caught in an incredibly simple way. They are found in the overworld and you just throw a Pokeball at them when they're close; the hard part is finding the legendaries. When/if a new battle system comes along, this will be changed.
I am not planning to have a level cap on Pokemon, but I have yet to decide how fast Pokemon will level up and what will be high or low.

Battling -
Battling will not play like the Pokemon franchise. It will play in a way that the trainer sends out their Pokemon and puts them on "attack mode". Any time this Pokemon comes into contact with another Pokemon that isn't the same trainer's, the Pokemon will deal damage to it. And obviously, when a Pokemon reaches 0 HP, it is KO'd. To move the Pokemon, you simply click and it will walk in that direction.
This battle system may not be permanent, but I remember it being liked and if it stays that way and there is little to no demand for change, I will not change it.
Leveling up will simply be a command where your character will sit still and the Pokemon will gain EXP over time. However, this will also be changed if the battle system changes to something where I can fit EXP in.

Trainers, Gym Leaders, Etc. -
Ah, this is one of my favorite parts of the game. Gym leaders are not NPCs; in fact, they are other players! These players must hit certain requirements; a particular amount of Pokemon that are that type, and a particular level must be hit (or total level, I'm not entirely sure yet). If they become a gym leader, their sprite changes into someone else (depending on the gender they chose in-game). Becoming the rock gym leader and being male will turn you into Brock, where being female will turn you into Roxanne!
These gym leaders will be responsible and will give the badge if someone beats them in battle. If they give the badge to players who haven't earned it, or didn't give the badge, their rank will be stripped and they will no longer be allowed to become a gym leader. It's just as easy to take a rank as give a rank.
Elite Members work the same way as gym leaders. However, they will have higher requirements; higher levels and more Pokemon of their particular type. Aside from that, they work almost exactly the same.
There are no requirements to battle a gym leader. However, you must beat 8 gym leaders to challenge an elite member, and you must beat 4 elite members to battle the champion (if any). There will be a gym leader for every type, plus one assorted gym. I'm not entirely sure how many elite members there will be as of now, but there will be more than four.




EYECATCHING RED FONT, READ BELOW
I am allowing people to design their own maps for this game. They will need to have particular requirements, though:

1. They MUST be made with a Pokemon tileset.
2. Must have a lot of room so wild Pokemon can be implimented.
3. If it is a town, it must have a gym with a note telling me what gym it may be.
4. Nothing too complex, please.
5. If you make a town, it'd be pretty cool if you would make interiors of buildings BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO THAT'S COOL
6. sixth rule if i want anything else


Screenshots are not made yet due to lack of content as of now. If a screenshot is 100% required no questions asked, I will make a screenshot.


Feel free to ask questions or make maps.



Kuro Korner
This is where I'll just type stuff up when it's on my mind/I'm bored!

sounds cool, but could you explain the experience mechanism?

can you get a working prototype going soonish so you can upload a video of the battle system? im not entirely sure i understand it.

the EXP mechanism is incredibly simple right now because it's well-liked and i have no good way to impliment EXP by other means. so, for now, all you do is basically click a button repeatedly for pokemon to gain EXP. this is a placeholder unless people really want this to stay.


it's pretty simple, i could take a video of it even without the battle system and explain it, really. people find it enjoyable (but to be honest it's just clicking around)

i'll make a quick video right now. and, as i said, it's really kind of beta and it'll be a placeholder unless it's liked enough. never got any complaints though and enough people played on the old MMO so eh.

EDIT: shablam 5-minute video of simplicity

so I can make my pokemon lvl100 by clicking "train"

sweet

well it's about the same as putting them in the daycare
obv. as i repeat many times, this is only temporary unless asked to stay

NEW POLL GO AND VOTEVOTEVOTE

Also battle system is up and running.

Update regarding, well, mods, battles, and gyms.

Added a new poll. I'm still planning to work on this; I just haven't been at it. ^-^ I will get to it sooner or later, I promise!

I'm gonna bump this and I'm gonna want some ideas for this. I thought of a way to revamp the battle system to get type matchups and stats more involved. What are your guys' thoughts?

EDIT:


IVs work perfectly!

I've come to the conclusion this game's name is awful.

In my opinion (and another staff member's) this name sounds like something a child has come up with and we decided to rename it. We're locked between many choices, actually:
Kunzite
Jadeite (pff don't look at me the other person found these two and she doesn't even like tales)
Luminescence
Recurrence
Amethyst (On the fence about this one since it's overused)
Radiance


We're having trouble. I'm trying to contact another member and she's not responding, any suggestions?

there are literally so many pokemon fan games that i cant even come up with one that wasn't used already.

the name should relate to whatever the game is about (like, pokemon emerald's "main focus" i guess would be rayquaza i guess? so the game's name was emerald like rayquaza's color)

as much as i'd like that, the game has little to no pre-set plot at all, since the game's player-run. :c

alright so i did a bit of snooping around on byond and i found a turn-based battle system
it's barebones but with tweaking i could get it to do some nice stuff. however, if i use this, it will sacrifice the multiplayer concept of player vs player, however only temporarily.

hey. i know it's been absolutely AGES since the last update (or me even touching this game), but i need to be in a pokemon groove in order to work otherwise i just get nothing done

i've messed around with a script i found which makes turn based battles, as i probably mentioned before.

i found out how to mess with the encounter rate as well, so now pokemon will have a 3.6% chance of being encountered. now, normally this is actually somewhat below average (it's the rate of a "semi-common" pokemon in Pokemon games) but i'm unsure how to get it to work any other way, so rarer pokemon will be able to be found consistently. the exception to these are legendaries.



i'm considering how to make encounters work, but i've got a general idea. now, as i've stated, gyms can be done in any order. i am considering looking towards the Pokemon Origins anime of doing things and making the gym leaders "check" how many badges their challengers have. depending on how many depends on what they can use, and how many they can use. these will be rental pokemon, and doing this allows not only for someone to be FORCED to lock into their specialty, but it will make the difficulty of battles steadily increase instead of having an erratic curve to the point where battles are literally unbeatable because gym leaders start before you.


also, i have thought about how encounters will work as well. since gyms can be done in any order, i can't have only level 50s around one gym's city/town and level 5s around another one, because that gives the sort of illusion that gyms are supposed to be done in a certain order. to fix this, i am going to have areas that are around a gym leader's town have lower level pokemon (2-4) and as the player gets further and further away from the gyms, stronger pokemon will appear.


i am also thinking about how i will make battle themes play. i might do it by generation (running into a gen 3 pokemon causes gen 3 music to play) which would be neat.