KittoKatsu

I started Hoenn myself and I can assure you it's not that hard, nothing a little leveling and pokemon capturing won't fix.

I WILL BE THERE!!! <3 Cacnea!

Lmao.T_T Yeah, it's not clear what he means... he's saying he wants "the option to "ban" on android, if the option is available on PC it should be available on android" ... is there, like, a block option on the PC that isn't obvious on android? Maybe he wants to block someone...

I understand where you are coming from, I'd like to see Johto too - it would have been my starting region but I settled for Hoenn. Here's hoping!

Maybe you could get them from meeting in-game conditions and they be entirely vanity, I think that would be good. Like, beating Blaine 3x would net you "Red Hot Challenger" and Misty might be "Eternal Blue" or something. Catching more than one shiny could be "Limited Edition". They'd be like achievements kinda.

As someone who played the original red and blue during the early days of the internet, and actually saw this rumor as it first emerged... ...Lmao. I love you.

Understood, thank you. ^.^

You should probably get familiar with the game and its workings before committing to anything so grandiose, but I totally understand wanting to find friends. You might also be better off finding a pre-existing team that interests you, there are a lot of them. Welcome to the game. ^.^

I'm new too so don't quote me on this but I think the reason Johto is not in (...yet) is because it was deemed to have a lot less to offer than the other regions seeing as its pokemon and items and such all appear in the other games. I'm not sure if it has ever been definitively said that they will NEVER do it but it isn't a priority for sure. Welcome to the game. ^.^

You're just in time for the Gen 5 SINNOH UPDATE! YAY! Welcome and I hope you have fun, nugget. ^.^

Not something I'm planning to do RIGHT NOW but just wanting to ask: I know some players host tournaments with prizes on the line to stimulate activity from time to time. Do prizes offered HAVE to be PokeMMO related or can they be, like, Steam games or Gift Cards or...?

"I don't know if I would fully consider the time is money argument. They do put work into the game that is highly valuable in the current job market. However, they are still probably working their full-time jobs, and are doing this on the side in their free time. They also do not put enough work into this game to consider it a full-time project." Yes, but you see, even if they are only working part time... the amount this game makes does not exceed what is being sacrificed. It is precisely because they work full time REAL jobs that the spare time they spend on this is so important... it's time they could be relaxing from their actual work or spending time with family or expanding their project/professional portfolio or skills (you aren't going to put "developed for a blatantly copyright infringing fan game" on a resume, so this project does NOT count). They are simply not making what their time is worth. In so far as P2P being buffed, you have to also consider that they are trying to make the game feel fair and not pay to win, which is a noble goal imo...

Okay, fair enough I will believe that you genuinely just don't understand and want to. I am sorry for my tone. - Listen, baseline here: developers with the skill set needed to work on projects like this make at minimum $50,000 a year working on just about any other full time project. That's -one- developer. A lot of developers make in excess of $70,000 a year. So already, if you take what I said about time being money (gained or lost) for developers, you can begin to understand where this is going. Now I'm telling you as a matter of fact, there is no way the hosting of this service is also any less than $1,000 a month. I'm being generous here. Given the team here must have at least 2 - 3 developers, and a reliable and reasonably fast hosting service, we're already in over $150,000 a year (I'm counting time as money here again, these skills ain't free and aren't easy to achieve so rightfully a developer is worth this much). Now how many players do we have here? I don't know but I'm guessing ballpark 5,000 to 8,000 on a good week (wild guess) and the vast majority, I guarantee you do not and will not donate. 10% maximum might. If we say the average donator, at %10, spends $20 a month (being very generous here) that comes to about... what.... $10,000 (500 x 20)? $20,000 at best? Of which $1,000 - $2,000 automatically goes to hosting cost. $18,000 - $150,000... is -$132,000....

To the ears of me, someone who actually understands the costs the developers are incurring both tangible and intangible, and to whom it is clear that you DO NOT... ...understand that you just sound like a horribly misinformed/willfully ignorant freeloader who just wants everything to be magically free and doesn't care that the service being granted to him actually costs more than PokeMMO could ever actually make in donations.

As someone with A) development experience, B) a computer science degree and actual game/web site hosting experience and C) a basic understanding of economics... *breath* ....AHAHAHAHAHAHA! ...Firstly, you possess no understanding of the term 'profit', you are confusing profit with revenue. Secondly if you think they are making a profit here YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND. When you take into account costs, not just tangible ones like hosting and development funding, as well as intangible costs (time for instance, which for experienced devs, like the ones who work on this, is money and it's money lost... they could be doing something else) - then it probably costs them at least as much as they make. The donations we (I have donated and will again) provide are just that - donations. They keep the game you enjoy playing and incentivize the developers (who could be earning way more doing something else) to do work. They also incentivize people with money who may be on the fence to part with their money. What is the point of this post, OP? Trolling?

Welcome! I am also relatively new (like a week old) and I started in Hoenn too. I'm four badges in though, and I've been to Unova also! Feel free to add me as a friend in-game, I'm chatty (game name same as forum name).

I can't find them in an easy to spot place, so I'm just going to ask outright: what are the alt rules and character interaction rules here? I'm the type to possibly create more than one character for fun, but I don't want to accidentally run afoul of unknown rules here (say, if I gave my alt money and then suddenly it's, like, BAN). I don't want to be seen as cheating, and also I've already donated heavily so getting banned would suck. I want to ask BEFORE I make an alt.