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| March 13th Announcements; Simplify. | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 13 2011, 10:39 PM (376 Views) | |
| PokéFiends PC | Mar 13 2011, 10:39 PM Post #1 |
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Okay, guys, this is Mizu here. PokéFiends has been slow. We all know it, we've all felt it. Whether it's because of school or because of Shiay and mine own personal laziness, because sites don't typically stay up and happening without their staff, it's happened. But PF is also mine and Shi's baby, so it's not something we're going to shut down and run away from. My point, basically is, because both me and Shi are getting ready for University and I'm looking for a job, we're looking to make PF a lot less reliant on its staff to run. While we like our nifty item system and the playing of Wild Pokémon, we feel it will be easier on our members to edit and do away with these systems. Story has greater value than mechanics, and we've always kinda felt like PF should be more of a story driven RP than one that relies on the items or mechanics of the game heavily. We're thinking about doing away with staff having the play wild Pokémon completely (letting members play them). A member would pick three from the list for that area, we randomize which you get than then said member is free to play it out themselves. (This would allow members to fully control how their Trainer meets their Pokémon, even.) The item system, we want to narrow it down to just money and Poke Balls or do away with it all together. I'm tired of forcing people to have to buy items when they hardly do it anyways, or of tallying up threads when it shouldn't be about that. If people wanted money and items, they would go play the games. Herp. Also, we're thinking about removing the region/timeline lock all together, too. PF always prides itself on offering regions like Almia and Fiore, but nobody uses them because they stay in Kanto. Yeah, this might mess up some people's timelines, but that's their affair to deal with, not ours, really, and if they want to RP their character in two places at once, then that's their boat to float. Who are we to say otherwise? We've always said PF is lax, so, really, we want to make it even more lax in hopes that PF will be the kinda go-to-board for an organized RP area with fewer item-regulation and wild Pokémon-regulations like you see on some other boards. That being said, what are your thoughts, guys, if anyone even still reads these? |
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| BoriBam | Mar 13 2011, 10:59 PM Post #2 |
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I can see this being helpful to PF. Removing limitations that the members have on them will allow them to further express themselves, develop their characters, and expand even further on their RPing capabilities. The staff will feel less stressed about things, too: such as the ones who fall lax on playing Wilds because that's all they ever do. And it will remove their co-dependency on other staff members when they want a Pokémon for their trainer. Or a badge. Or something. We can still keep the events going for those unique Pokems, too. And with their need to fulfill canon roles, the staff bots (like me, lol) can help with the constructing of such events :D Yay~! Getting someone to play an unclaimed canon could be a general request with this, too. I would say so much more if my brain was at its peek functioning ability. But for now, Bori says that he's in support of this idea and will do whatever he can to aid you with it. Though, I would suggest keeping a post on registered character profiles showing what badges and blah blah they have. Makes things quick and easy for people who just looped themselves in a role play with the fella. eue |
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| MizuJakkaru | Mar 14 2011, 12:06 AM Post #3 |
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Here's where we are currently. We're 100% turning over the play of Wilds to Members. We can never keep enough Frangers or active ones (Bori is a complete doll, though, because he is both active and one of if not the best Frangerto ever come our way) anyways. It would give people the ability to customize the story their Pokémon have with their Trainer without Frangers having to feel like they're playing a role/taking cues from the Trainer. We're getting rid of the money and item system in the numeric sense. Items will be limited to 1 out of the kinds that heal HP and 1 out of the kinds that heal status ailments in a 1 ~ 3 Pokémon battle, and 2 out of the kinds that heal HP and 2 out of the kinds that heal status ailments in a 4 ~ 6. People are also more than welcome to call an item clause if they like the method of no items in a battle. The posts on each profile for badges and ribbons will stay (probably we'll remove Key Items. Who are we to force people not to own a Bike or such?). Region lock/time lock staying or going is currently 50/50. I want it gone because I don't think anyone is going to outright abuse it not being there anyways. I want people to have fun in their own fashion. If that means their timeline doesn't match with mine? Fine. I simply won't RP with them, haha, or I'll find a character of mine that matches up. I've seen more success from boards that let their members make use of all their areas rather than ones that restrict it. |
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| Jechocochan | Mar 14 2011, 09:52 PM Post #4 |
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Sounds fine to me owob |
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| X-Nebula | Mar 16 2011, 04:49 PM Post #5 |
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I think it sounds cool. giving the memebers some greater freedom of wild Pokémon would be good and it will allow the stroy to flow smoothly as we don't have to wait on frangers as bori said. I'm in favour of what ever you guys decide to do. |
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