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Title: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: 1cec0ld on August 30, 2013, 12:26:46 am
August 29th 2013

We will not remove the Bukkit/Forge hybrid server mod in exchange for plain Forge server.

The elite 4 will be maintained the same way as the pvp server, with order, challenging, and time outs.

The elite 4 does not have a level cap, nor a type restriction.

The elite 4 must declare and maintain their intended party for official battles, if you are caught using a pokemon without the declared level and species, you will forfeit.
The challenger must do the same, and not change level nor party composition (changing order is fine) for the duration of the challenge.

All elites and champion are allowed to have 6 pokemon in their party.
Items can be used by both sides during the battles, and the challenger is allowed to heal between the fights.

Gym Leaders can only be challenged if Pokemon in your party are no more than 10 levels higher than the Gym Leader's max allowed level.
Example, if the Pewter Leader is allowed to use pokemon from levels 10-15, the Challenger can only use pokemon with levels less than 25.
Reason: We want people to lead gyms, not ragequit because they are being curb-stomped by level 70 parties.

Scamming is illegal. Duckox, I'm looking at you. Bjz/Rewas, you aren't innocent either.

All fossils given by admin will be grown immediately with the admin present, or they can be grown later with no admin, but then the risk is yours. The fate of the fossil is up to you alone, and we wish you luck. Admins should mention this each time they give a fossil.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: eyoung12ftw on August 30, 2013, 01:18:53 am
daa challenger cap is b.s no thx no1 likes it exspect gymleaders uggg  :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on August 30, 2013, 01:35:06 am
I am also currently working on chat channels which are in the testing stages and probably made public later this week or early next week. I'll be busy all weekend so I won't have to much time to work on it.


daa challenger cap is b.s no thx no1 likes it exspect gymleaders uggg  :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 


Guess now you have to use strategy instead of brute force (https://www.pokemonserver.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fhfblackhat&hash=5ee7db16b3f18f1d299fe3ca546282e8)
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ~Ali~ on August 30, 2013, 02:34:39 am
The challenger cap thing is quite unfair (For trainers who were waiting for a cinnabar leader). The cinnabar gym was leader-less all week until today, and if it didn't I'd probably have all of my badges by now. Is there any compromise for this?
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Duckox on August 30, 2013, 04:04:27 am
I think the challenger cap thing is reasonable. I'm not completely against or with it, though.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: oddy on August 30, 2013, 05:37:08 am
daa challenger cap is b.s no thx no1 likes it exspect gymleaders uggg  :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

The challenger cap thing is quite unfair (For trainers who were waiting for a cinnabar leader). The cinnabar gym was leader-less all week until today, and if it didn't I'd probably have all of my badges by now. Is there any compromise for this?
the fact that people could just face roll kanto with 0 effort is quite stupid, I for one am excited to actually have to make some sort of effort.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Daanor on August 30, 2013, 07:28:00 am

The challenger cap thing is quite unfair (For trainers who were waiting for a cinnabar leader). The cinnabar gym was leader-less all week until today, and if it didn't I'd probably have all of my badges by now. Is there any compromise for this?
 

Gym leaders are players too. If you don't give them a chance to win, why would they want to be leader? I thought this was the reason that Cinnabar has been without a leader in the first place, along with many leaders leaving their positions.


But I still don't understand one aspect of how the Elite and Champion works. According to the rules, if there are Elites, but there is no Champion, then the Elites have to wait for a challenger to beat them; this challenger becomes the new Champion. Why not just move all the Elites up? Should the Champion quit or be timed out, have the 4th Elite become the new Champion and so on. This gives an incentive to stay in the Elite. If not, they'll know that by staying in the Elite, they will never have a chance to advance further than the 4th Elite position. Several times I watched players on the pvp server quit shortly after getting into the Elite so that they could rechallenge for Champion. I think this is part of the reason that the Elite wasn't full much of the time.


Also, was any decision made on rules about crafting?
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Z4X3R on August 30, 2013, 08:16:18 am
How are we deciding who gets elite out of the many players with 8 badges?
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: 1cec0ld on August 30, 2013, 08:51:41 am
Recording is up, beware the 2.5 hour long duration, it's the longest one we've recorded yet.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: 1cec0ld on August 30, 2013, 08:53:34 am
How are we deciding who gets elite out of the many players with 8 badges?

Same as pvp server.

Champion is Archie, he got them first.

Second person challenges archie, winner is champion.
Third person challenges 4th elite, winner moves on or gets lowest rank.
Same as always.
As for if there are elites and no champion, I would say just promote the current elites to fill in the gap. But I feel like we've had this discussion so I invite other inputs.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on August 30, 2013, 09:47:11 am
 

Gym leaders are players too. If you don't give them a chance to win, why would they want to be leader? I thought this was the reason that Cinnabar has been without a leader in the first place, along with many leaders leaving their positions.


But I still don't understand one aspect of how the Elite and Champion works. According to the rules, if there are Elites, but there is no Champion, then the Elites have to wait for a challenger to beat them; this challenger becomes the new Champion. Why not just move all the Elites up? Should the Champion quit or be timed out, have the 4th Elite become the new Champion and so on. This gives an incentive to stay in the Elite. If not, they'll know that by staying in the Elite, they will never have a chance to advance further than the 4th Elite position. Several times I watched players on the pvp server quit shortly after getting into the Elite so that they could rechallenge for Champion. I think this is part of the reason that the Elite wasn't full much of the time.


Also, was any decision made on rules about crafting?

Crafting will stay as is for now.

As for the elite, I think it'd be a good idea to move each one up, because thats somewhat similar to what happened in the games, Lance became Champion in GS after being 4th elite in RB.

Currently though, this is not the case. It works more like oddy said.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: KABO000OM on August 30, 2013, 11:38:25 am
the fact that people could just face roll kanto with 0 effort is quite stupid, I for one am excited to actually have to make some sort of effort.


I gotta agree with you on this! People can just blow through Kanto now. Most people have at least above level 50s! The only thing I would change would be to make it 15 levels above the leaders, because in the game, me and my friends always challenged when we knew we were going to win!


Also, with the Kanto Elite 4, I suggest allowing the first 5 people to get the 8 badges (including archie) challenge, but for the rest of the people, to make them compete in a tournament, and the top 2 people get to challenge the Elite 4!
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Daanor on August 30, 2013, 12:42:52 pm
The only thing I would change would be to make it 15 levels above the leaders, because in the game, me and my friends always challenged when we knew we were going to win!


If you can't win with more pokemon, a type advatage, and 10 levels on your opponent, the fault does not lie with the system.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: KABO000OM on August 30, 2013, 03:47:18 pm

If you can't win with more pokemon, a type advatage, and 10 levels on your opponent, the fault does not lie with the system.


true...
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ArchieSalt on August 31, 2013, 07:53:14 am
The elite 4 must declare and maintain their intended party for official battles, if you are caught using a pokemon without the declared level and species, you will forfeit.
The challenger must do the same, and not change level nor party composition (changing order is fine) for the duration of the challenge.
A - Does this apply to the Champion?
B - I think this rule should be more flexible as people will be using their main team in Elite Battles and this rule seems to prevent them from improving their team at all.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on August 31, 2013, 09:21:59 am
A - Does this apply to the Champion?
B - I think this rule should be more flexible as people will be using their main team in Elite Battles and this rule seems to prevent them from improving their team at all.

A Yes, it does.
B In the games you have the one team for the whole elite run, and the elite have the same Pokémon for the whole run too. Although I see where you're coming from, elite challenges should be pre-arranged, seeing as there will be a forum for the current members to have their teams posted in. It wont be too hard to arrange a time to both be online at to battle. Admins are usually around.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Sweaty on August 31, 2013, 03:22:30 pm
About the fossil thing, I got a root fossil as my third choice, after i realized on the donor rank list that lileep was unobtainable. Will the be an exception to this rule?
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ArchieSalt on August 31, 2013, 04:03:23 pm
A Yes, it does.
B In the games you have the one team for the whole elite run, and the elite have the same Pokémon for the whole run too. Although I see where you're coming from, elite challenges should be pre-arranged, seeing as there will be a forum for the current members to have their teams posted in. It wont be too hard to arrange a time to both be online at to battle. Admins are usually around.
I'm not overly concerned about Time Zones but are we able to change our teams slightly if we tell admins, I don't think you should stop us from levelling because then if you start with an awful team as an Elite, you'll always fail.

My point is that if you cannot level your Pokemon up once you're an Elite or Champion, You will eventually lose your spot - Because while you're forced to keep your Pokemon at the same level, any future challengers have all the time in the world to make their team bigger and better until they challenge and kick your ass. You need to consider that the Elites/Champion on this server aren't npc's they're real players with real lives and if you stop them from levelling their Pokemon, they're going to get bored and quit.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: oddy on August 31, 2013, 04:44:01 pm
I'm not overly concerned about Time Zones but are we able to change our teams slightly if we tell admins, I don't think you should stop us from levelling because then if you start with an awful team as an Elite, you'll always fail.
i think you don't understand the rule exactly, you can't edit your team while someone is challenging, if there  is no challenge you can level and edit your team, you just have to keep the list that will be made updated, and stop leveling/changing pokemon during the challenge. The reason for this is the challenger uses the same team throughout their challenge it wouldn't be fair for you to change your regular team to try to counter theirs
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: oddy on August 31, 2013, 04:47:43 pm
It's like in the game the challenger picks the team they find best to compete against all elites and champs, since they know what pokemon they have, so your team will be publicly known and updated as you update your team,
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on August 31, 2013, 05:04:36 pm
About the fossil thing, I got a root fossil as my third choice, after i realized on the donor rank list that lileep was unobtainable. Will the be an exception to this rule?

Shoulda checked before hand. Just wait for the update.


I'm not overly concerned about Time Zones but are we able to change our teams slightly if we tell admins, I don't think you should stop us from levelling because then if you start with an awful team as an Elite, you'll always fail.

My point is that if you cannot level your Pokemon up once you're an Elite or Champion, You will eventually lose your spot - Because while you're forced to keep your Pokemon at the same level, any future challengers have all the time in the world to make their team bigger and better until they challenge and kick your ass. You need to consider that the Elites/Champion on this server aren't npc's they're real players with real lives and if you stop them from levelling their Pokemon, they're going to get bored and quit.

Basically what oddy said.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Sahaquiel_9 on September 01, 2013, 09:05:10 am
I was overhearing a fight on the server about mob drops and scamming.  Ish said that if you take the mob drops from a player who just killed a mob, it's scamming.  Is it scamming?
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on September 01, 2013, 09:27:15 am
I was overhearing a fight on the server about mob drops and scamming.  Ish said that if you take the mob drops from a player who just killed a mob, it's scamming.  Is it scamming?

Thats not even considered trading items, which means it can't fall under a scam.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ArchieSalt on September 01, 2013, 10:14:46 am
Thanks for the clarification Oddy, It makes much more sense now.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on September 01, 2013, 10:53:20 am
Thanks for the clarification Oddy, It makes much more sense now.

Further clarification in the official thread too, should you need it.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: 1cec0ld on September 02, 2013, 05:13:10 am
All it does is require that you maintain your thread during the times that you train. The Modify option is quite useful.

And yes, the champion is one if the elites for all purposes stated here.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ryancpexpert on September 02, 2013, 07:21:49 pm
the fact that people could just face roll kanto with 0 effort is quite stupid, I for one am excited to actually have to make some sort of effort.
Took effort to train the Pokémon, did it not?
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Sahaquiel_9 on September 02, 2013, 08:08:31 pm
In fact, most people didn't. They just caught some boss pokemon. *coughcough*honedge*coughcough*
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ZobTheSlayer on September 03, 2013, 06:30:37 am
In fact, most people didn't. They just caught some boss pokemon. *coughcough*honedge*coughcough*
Totally. You guys know Rarity? She was a level 12 when I caught her. She is now about level 64.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on September 03, 2013, 07:50:24 am
Totally. You guys know Rarity? She was a level 12 when I caught her. She is now about level 64.


(https://www.pokemonserver.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14FQANy&hash=51856317b4c1e8ca0dff614c6bfa095f)
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ryancpexpert on September 03, 2013, 11:19:23 am
In fact, most people didn't. They just caught some boss pokemon. *coughcough*honedge*coughcough*
Well, he had to train up one pokémon atleast, so the boss would be high leveled/
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: Tenebrae on September 03, 2013, 11:29:44 am
Well, he had to train up one pokémon atleast, so the boss would be high leveled/

Repeatedly catching bosses would mean boss levels would always be higher, eventually being lv100.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: ZobTheSlayer on September 03, 2013, 02:24:20 pm
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This is why I love you Tene.
Title: Re: Admin Meetings[ALL]
Post by: airjordanswagg on September 05, 2013, 12:47:08 am
And if u catch bosses most of them have bad moves and or cant evolve if there at 100.