New Commissary Items

[rylan]

.. I WANT A CHUPACABRA FAKEMON
(j/k. But god would it be funny)

[1000]

Got another Idea...

Buying fossils for less wep than what the yielded pokemon would cost to buy. In turn the buyer has to RP out the process of getting the pokemon regenerated from the fossil.

[surge]

The whole economy really needs to be reworked. Battle rewards, the commissary, and pokemon selection in general. Things are way too easy and it ends up saturating the board along with the staleness of battles.

The biggest problems are:

• 10 wep = all the free stuff
  
• you get whatever you want real cheap
  
• all the roleplaying OUs
  
• population saturation
  
• commissary competitiveness
  

First things first, 10 wep netting you several free pokemon of your choice has got to go. You can literally sit around with minimal activity and have a fleet of advanced pokemon with little to no work. It's nice to be able to assemble your own team and make sure it fits your character but at the expansive rate the forums going through it makes things stale real quick.

I might be the only one who thinks this but I think being able to pick a specific pokemon needs to be nerfed. Whenever battles finish you always see people picking up the same pokemon based off what is banned or recently removed from them. Dragons, Lucario, Zororoakroak, and the other standard popular picks in pokemon always get eaten up. Sure, we should have some but seeing everyone walk around with top tier pokemon kills the diversity. It also hurts because not only are these pokemon really cool outside of battle but they're incredibly strong. This leads to unconventional picks being purely for flavor or very niche. Buff the price and remove them from donating to battles and I'll think it'll be fine. Those who really want specific pokemon can do it but it'll cost them a pretty penny.

To make up for the nerf to selecting pokemon you should buff the commissary. Slap in a few popular babies and fill the rest with loads of unused pokemon in their evolved form. A general first line should be something like: Crawdaunt, Hitmochan, Muk, Riolu, Noctowl, with the Riolu costing the most and the other being pretty affordable based on popularity. Makes the site more diverse and creative while still letting people pick and choose what they want. Random/Random Type would be the alternative if Commissary has nothing you like and if you still don't like it you can sell it back to the Commissary? This also opens up trading to pick up a bit instead of just being a "I have too many pokemon. Come take some!" which also comes from already being able to hand pick the perfect team.

Those were just some of my loose thoughts. I'm sure it's filled with typos and I'm probably not active enough on PRE to know what I'm talking about, but those were just some stray thoughts I had in my head.



EDIT: Also, if WEP can be used to determine winners and ensure destruction, why can't it be used to rebuild/fortify?

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[ADMINISTRATION]

... maybe we should change the title of this thread to a general "how to fix the PREconomy" thread.

Staff is in the works of discussing things to help the site's WEP economy, so if you have ideas, definitely keep them coming!

[diamond]

I like a lot of what Surge said. Maybe instead of regular statics we could just get discounts at the commissiary for getting large pots or something?

I also like the rebuilding thing that people have been suggesting.

If we allow legendaries why not let them come in for just one post? Like Arceus shows up, Hyper Beams, then peaces out because it has a million better things to do with his life.

[lou]

Lol I had a legendary event but setting up half of it was threading with Kat so I was stuck for a while until I figured out how to work around Kat's absence.

SO UH LEGENDARIES WILL HAPPEN GUISE. JUST GIVE ME A WEEK.

[tantan7]

I didn't read the entire thread but in case no one mentioned it: additional move tutor & egg moves.

[taisiya]

Those are automatic under TM moves.

...Last I checked at least.

NO ONE'S STOPPED ME YET

[sunshineari]

you can use a moveslot to get another level-up move, but any move that isn't level-up pretty much goes under buying a TM move, even if the move isn't a TM in any generation.

[1000]

Is this thing still on *tap taps*

>.>


swap out pokemon to and from your PC between battles at a wep cost

[proton]

Oct 11, 2012 0:04:53 GMT -5 CRIMSEN said:

Is this thing still on *tap taps*

>.>


swap out pokemon to and from your PC between battles at a wep cost

YES
YES
YES
I WANT TO GIVE MY POKEMON MORE SCREEN TIME AAAA

[peach]

Statics;
What if there were tiers for statics according to donation and involvement?
-- You donate 10 WEP, you get some of the statics {except} pokemon.
-- Participating in a battle + donation = pokemon, + other statics
-- Participating in a mission prior to the battle, or setting up for it + donation = other statics.
-- Missions, Battle, Donation = shiny?
-- Make people work, or rp, to redeem their pokemon/rare/shiney statics? (i.e: have them rp out capturing and meeting a rare, shiney dunsparce.)
------Just an example of what could be done; tiers of statics according to involvement (?)

As for legendary beasts,
-- They are an Deus Ex Machina.
-- What if every once in a while an official event, or battle, allows for the involvement of a legendary (that will, more likely than not) act as an Deus Ex Machina.
-- Charge WEP,
-- Another idea; after a winning side has been decided after the normal, official and standard battle methodology, we involve a legendary. Let's say there's a Nox vs Lux naval battle, and Nox are defending the shore of some random town. Let's say LUX wins the battles, so in turn they would win the 'battle'. Then, we have Lugia show up and use surf and mess up the nox troops at shore, helping Lux, justifying the win to some extent. We get to see a legendary being role playing/written, and whatnot.

[varnock]

No offense meant, but that just sounds like people using legendary pokemon as the cost effective form of WMDs. Also that seems like a lot of work to get new stuff too. I can't honestly complain as I'm not giving any ideas myself, but I wanted to get this opinion out there real fast.

[peach]

If anything, it could be more of a storyline element for the fact of involving legendaries, rather than allowing them to have any real pull on battle; but yes, in char, they would be cost effective, sentient WMDs.

[varnock]

Can't say I can really get behind the idea of using them like that. Sure having them as a storyline element sounds pretty interesting, but I can't see them being there and not having a pull on the battle. I'm all for being able to spend WEP to meet the legendary pokemon though. Least that would prevent even more destruction around the PREverse.