Hunting (Idea)

[Jerry]

You use the Science Ticket...
Ding!
Congratulations! You know Science!

If only. xDD

Hm...if players get their own 'experience,' maybe that'll be better. :| Like a stat for Pokball throwing and catching (lol). Higher success rate. xD

Well, I think that may be a good idea... but that should really really be a small increase. You have to think of the newbies. If you're thinking of increasing catching rate by a lot, it'll soon go to 100% catching rate, also meaning that newbies would have to start at a very low one, which is not fun...

Or it would be a little like in Pokemon Ranger. I mean like boosting once the catching rate, or twice only and no more.

But I think this is getting off topic...

So, as for the question of quests, perhaps little errands would do the trick like "Could you sent this message to [character in PU] in [town in PU] for me?" like the 'errands' you run in GSC and HGSS; you take a spearrow with a message from a guy in Goldenrod City to route 31, or taking the medicine from Cianwood to Jasmine, or things like that.

[Kuhns]

Well, I think that may be a good idea... but that should really really be a small increase. You have to think of the newbies. If you're thinking of increasing catching rate by a lot, it'll soon go to 100% catching rate, also meaning that newbies would have to start at a very low one, which is not fun...

:| I thought that was the point of being a Newbie. Being weak, Freshmen-like, and having low everything. Besides, having a 100% catch rate would ruin about a fourth of the point of any Pokemon game.

I mean like boosting once the catching rate, or twice only and no more.

I was more talking this.

So, as for the question of quests, perhaps little errands would do the trick like "Could you sent this message to [character in PU] in [town in PU] for me?" like the 'errands' you run in GSC and HGSS; you take a spearrow with a message from a guy in Goldenrod City to route 31, or taking the medicine from Cianwood to Jasmine, or things like that.

The whole point of "Hunting" quest types are to allow the player, should they be in a tough bind or just lazy, to fall back on something they can repeat--after a certain number of whatevers. "Errand" quests usually begin chain quests, leading the player from one "significant" point to the next, which wasn't the goal of this quest idea.