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losing to a gym leader
TheGr8:
--- Quote from: Raikt on July 03, 2010, 08:39:24 AM ---Phew. Topics move fast around here. (Or maybe I'm just slow...)
I was actually just thinking about this the other day after reading the newest posts in the other Gym Leader thread. It's like you guys here always know what is on my mind. I consider that a good thing. Anyway, to answer your question, I'm for a wait period in which a player cannot challenge a Gym Leader again. My thought was around ~2 hours. This gives them ample time to go train, learn, try out some new combinations, but without being overly annoying. (If you ask me.)
It also stops one, crucial thing; power leveling. There would be, unless we did something odd like giving you no experience, no way to stop someone from power leveling their Pokemon by just losing over and over again while still accumulating experience. Trust me. People would do this; in fact, I can guarantee it would happen unless we impose some form of limit to Gym Battles.
The battles are already going to be hard, to stop people from breezing through them. I'll make sure of that myself. (Talent trees, IV's, and movesets if you will.) So, I can pretty much assue you that, unless you know what you are doing, the Gym Leaders aren't going to be anything like in the handheld games. I think people will enjoy it more this way. C/D that with me, but would you really want an MMO you can beat in like a week?
Another thing I think is that, once you beat a Gym Leader, there will be a wait period before you can challenge the next one. One to two days, at the most. Again, some people might see this as a drag, but with seventeen gyms, this will add a lot of playability while giving you incentive to explore and try other things out.
I think I started to ramble, lol, but I hope that answers your question. That's what I intend with PU, and I'll bring it up when we come to it.
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Going to agree with everything except the no exp from gym battles. Then that would mean wild battles and other trainer battles EXP have to be raised right?
Frenchfry:
--- Quote from: TheGr8 on July 09, 2010, 04:14:10 AM ---Going to agree with everything except the no exp from gym battles. Then that would mean wild battles and other trainer battles EXP have to be raised right?
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Then you're still agreeing with everything.
--- Quote from: Raikt on July 03, 2010, 08:39:24 AM ---There would be, unless we did something odd like giving you no experience, no way to stop someone from power leveling their Pokemon by just losing over and over again while still accumulating experience.
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lucifer:
I like the waiting period between Gym losses, but I think that two hours is too short. Way too short. I'm thinking it should be delayed by eight hours between challenges. That way, it gives those who are actually playing respectably a chance to take what they learned during the Gym Leader battle and train to overcome what killed them.
I also like the idea that the Gym Leader's Pokémon should provide no experience on knockout. That negates the power leveling problem.
And I think that a time limit between a Gym victory and a challenge at the next Gym is a good idea as well. I think the waiting period there should be measured in days and not hours, though.
boyben10:
I think hours is good enough, like make a person wait only a few hours, because time is longer while waiting.
ghostman50:
I think that first attempt losses should only be penalized with an 8-24 hour wait period.
WHile a second loss to a gym leader should be penalised with loss 30-75% of money (goldz) or valuable items and an even longer wait period.
If a player were to lose a third time, all of the previous penalties plus the loss of a poke'. (possibly the weakest in the line-up.)
and etc.
Punishments as strict as these are more realistic than infinite battles with the only penalty being a wait period equivalent to one's bed time.
The harsh penalty also deters power leveling and any other perk one may have from losing to a gym leader.
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