I'm very much with the idea of just showing people, that you donated, but not acually getting any advantages.  Oh, and seals (the sparkly pokeball things) should be avalible to everyone, just those, wo donated could get maybe more advanced or diffrent ones.

Well I kind of meant it in that way. A special one that a person who donates would get.


Then again that still leads to the slight thought of "trade" which might be illegal.

Quote's Team:


1.) Gallade
2.) Charizard
3.) Glaceon
4.) Dusknoir
5.) Absol
6.) Starmie


Blue's Team
1.) Blastoise
2.) Alakazam
3.) Nedoking
4.) Umbreon
5.) Scissor
6.) Arcanine


If legendaries could be use, which they can't, I'd use Mew. Only Mew. Kyogre is cool, and one of my favorites, but mew is god tier.

Waiting for this game just makes it that much sweeter when it finally comes out.

Yeah I know what you're getting at, and you're right, but the SYLPH SCOPE MANNN
THE SYLLPPHHH SCCOOOPPPPEEEEEEEEEEE





Seriously though, I always presumed that there was only 1 sylph scope. Therefore only 1 person can give it to you. If there are, indeed, multiples then I guess anyone could.

Quote from: Raikt on June 02, 2010, 03:22:22 PM

Not really as grey as you would think. Donating, of your own free will and without reward, is fairly standard. If we start offering things in exchange for these donations, we have done the equivalent of an equal trade. Which, by all means and standards, is us selling a product.

It may be slightly grey, but it would definitely be clear cut enough for an action to be taken.

^^That.

Yeah that's what I was basing my "it might still be illegal" situation on.

In case you don't want to read the whole thing I made a delicious TLDR'd version just for you guys. (Too long didn't read for you people out there.)

TLDR; Pokemon are not animals. They are only shaped like them some of the time, and so you think they are. Just because they are on all fours, and eat pellets, doesn't mean they're animals.




My 2 cents:

Why don't all your pokemon come out when you're at your house? I mean, it's at your house, you gotta lay back. Be cool, and throw your pokeballs in the air and somehow catch them all when they come back to you. That's how the cool kids do it. Haven't you seen the television show? Gosh, guys, you gotta learn dis.



No, seriously, keeping them as pets is kinda silly.
1.) You're never going to be home. That's like in an MMO where you're always in your starting area.

2.) If they somehow make it to where crap revolves around your house, and you're always near it and can go to it, I'm pretty sure that just having all of your pokemon around the house would be just as good.


To keep a personal pet would be silly. Besides, pokemon are as humanistic as, well, humans. They understand the (insert language) language perfectly, can nearly communicate with humans with simple actions, are quite civilized to make their own cultures in some areas. I mean sure, they are animals, I guess you "could" say but calling them "animals" is like calling a human an "animal."

Technically humans are animals, but we refer to ourselves as humans. Why? Because it's insulting to be called an "animal" because it almost demeans us. I'm pretty sure a pokemon, which has emotions just like a human, would probably feel the same way.

If you've watched the show they aren't treated as pets. They are almost treated as children. The only reason they're treated as pets is because of their form, which usually shows them on all fours, and the food they eat are some kind of pellets. Which, if you watched, people like to eat too.

Now lets look at mister mime. A pokemon, in ashes house, who has hands, feet, and can maneuver as a human. He's treated like a maid correct? I always thought of it more like a child doing his chores. The reason he looks so "humanistic" is because of his anatomy. Because he is shaped like a human your mind registers him being treated as one, I would assume. This is not the case.

Watching the show people say how the pokemon they have are like a child to them. Sure some pet owners are like that, but in this show it's more like your family.




Besides. You can only have 6 pokemon at a time. The reason ash has some at home is because his mom is there, and technically they're hers. I would assume that at least.

If you could have pets you could have infinite at your house. Which means if someone pokemon dueled you at your house you'd GANK THEM WITH HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF POKEMON.
BIDOOFS. BIDOOFS EVERYWHERE.


Wow, for some reason I sound slightly butthurt. Huh. Wow I didn't know I'd turn that into a rant.
Oh well 2 cents deposited.

Battle scarred pokemon. It's pretty basic.
I'm not sure how it would work. Perhaps you could only catch them that way, but then again what's to say your pokemon couldn't get battle scarred battling with you.


However, I shall still say the idea.
Battle scarred pokemon would be kind of like shiny pokemon, but instead be battle scarred.
I mean it wouldn't be much. It'd be like a cut up, badass, Onyx where his rocks are chipped and cut from previous fights.

There's also be like the Marowak face having a huge gash, and his bone club being slightly chipped.

Although I wouldn't want this to all pokemon, probably the more fighter/agressive ones, but then again at the same time it would mean you'd have to create them as well.
Oh well I just thought I'd throw this idea out there.

Fusion attacks:

I have no clue how this would work. Yet I could see moves like

Agility + Double team = This would lead to your pokemon moving so fast to where, literally, he'd be a damn blur.

Quick attack + Psycho cut = Holy poop-super fast-psycho cut anyone?

Quick attack + Double team + Night slash + Psycho cut = Ahem.....I do believe I'm everywhere hitting you.

But no, seriously, I could seriously see moves being combined from your own pokemon. Nothing like flame thrower and flame wheel, because that doesn't make sense. Something more like

Bounce + Fire punch = Meteor punch?

I mean basic stuff that, when used in conjunction, could make some deadly stuff. Obviously not all moves can combine, and I have no clue how it'd work. I just thought I'd suggest it.

This also reminds me of another idea: Follow up attacks.

Like doing firepunch into flame thrower.
I mean if you just decked a pokemon in the face, and he's right next to you since your fist is indeed attached to your body, who's to say you can't blast him away right there? Why wait?
This would implement a more realistic, and more versatile, field into which trainers could fight.


I'm pretty sure no one is going to like either of those ideas, because it breaks away from the reality of previous games, but I kind of like the idea if the mmo was less "turn based" and more the show. Where they had a guy get his water and fire type and cause a tornado of destruction. Granted, that move didn't make sense because of the fact it's water against fire which would just cause steam, but still it shows that it is possible, and I believe if done right it could be epic.


Ignore it if you wish. I'm just tossing out my 2 cents.






Ignore this one if you want but

Basic attacks
Ok this one is standard.
Think about it: "Pikachu forgot tackle"
What the f.... You forgot tackle?
You, seriously, forgot how to run into a pokemon and hit it with your body with no natural abilities added.

See "I forgot how to sit" from family guy for more deails.
But no, seriously, should some moves always be with you, and unable to be forgotten? I mean the ones that are basic like slam, and tackle, and headbutt. Not moves like zen-headbutt, of course, because that move is more then basic. Yet attacks that take no skill, take no element, take nothing but you jumping on the enemy with nothing special added should be always there.

You can say "What's the point of it" and all I can say is "It makes more sense." seeing how forgetting how to tackle is like forgetting how to run.