Ryusuta

I see, thanks. And thanks for addressing my suggestion. If I may ask, would it be untoward to simply restrict trading to 8 badges? It doesn't seem like it would be an integral part of the storyline, and would give incentive to finish the quest. I'm just trying to brainstorm about this for poor little charmander. ^^;

I don't know... happiness seems a little too easy to replenish, especially after you get the bike.

Before I begin, let me preface this by saying that I'm not especially interested in alt runs, so this hasn't personally affected me yet. Though I suppose I worry that if I wanted to begin another character sometime it would cause me a world of trouble. The way I see it, the rule is quite a bit too harsh on legitimate new games, especially ones starting with charmander, who already has so many woes getting through the first two gyms (and not everyone knows about or wants to use mankey for Brock). I know that my personal strategy for any main storyline in Pokemon has always been to focus on one or two Pokemon all the way through because that's more efficient than trying to make 6 Pokemon decent enough to be worthwhile against NPCs. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. My suggestion is this: because you're worried about alt accounts power-levelling a Pokemon and then trading it back to the original account in order to speed through the game, how about instead, whenever a Pokemon is traded a single time, it will from that point on have a "traded" flag on it. When the flag is on the Pokemon, even if it's returned to the original trainer, it will disobey if you don't have enough badges. I feel like this is the solution to alt runs while being fair on legitimate ones. What do you think?

Smashboards? Oh man... That was ancient history. But yes, I was there. ^^;

Thank you kindly. It's been very nice so far.

Yes, everyone may have ice cream. All they need to do is go to the store and purchase some! My generosity knows no bounds! =)

Thanks, guys. Except Bishav. Who gets no ice cream. >=|

Much obliged. And if I may use a sophisticated, adult retort... HE STARTED IT. D=>

A fair suggestion regarding my suggestion on the suggestion forum. I have however, checked the suggestion forum as per your suggestion and my suggestion was not suggested in any other suggestion topic. =)

Thanks. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say here, but it involves a very simple way to improve the "Ash Ketchum" rule (the one where starter Pokemon disobey without proper badges) to make it a lot more fair for legitimate new accounts; particularly ones that begin with Charmander. For the record, I don't have any interest in alt runs, but it's kind of the principle of the thing.

Ryusuta here. I'm an old-school Pokemon fan, and I've played PokeMMO for quite awhile as well. Not sure what all to say about myself. I do digital artwork and comics (or try to, since sometimes motivation can be a pain to find). I'll be honest, the main reason I made an account is because I'm wanting to make a suggestion that would really help out the game a lot. But I'm looking forward to having other discussions, as well. Thanks, everyone.