WolfgangDamien

Moetal~ forever my competition lol Didnt know you were a writer too. I really enjoyed this piece, and loved the reveal!

IGN: WolfgangDamien Inspired by, and done in the style of, The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft The Shapeless I was born with all the knowledge I have ever possessed. I do not know where I was born, save for it being infinitely dark and infinitely empty. There is no weather here, no terrain, nothing but endless, sightless, soundless space. I must have lived for years in this place, though I cannot account for any measure of time and I could not tell you my age. Beings must have tended to my needs but I cannot recall seeing another living being, and I have no family that I can speak of. Truly, I know not whether I am of the living, or otherwise, for I know not even what I am. In this dark and endless abyss, I have never seen light, the moon, stars, trees or grass, or even myself; and at the presence moment I do not seem to even possess a denifite, solid, form. Fleetingly, Ill be conscious of having a definite form, but it never lasts, and it's different every time. The maddening silence and darkness has weighed upon me for what seems like eons. I cannot take it anymore. With all my might I fight and struggle against my black void of a prison, struggling for an oppressive amount of time where my prison grew no brighter or smaller. The unending darkness drove me wild, and with a blinding fit of rage and a flash of light I had never known before, somehow, I had escaped my black prison. The floor was cold, hard and smooth. In the air hung a mix of chemical and smokey odors. I heard voices, and when my eyes finally adjusted to the light, I saw figures in the middle of the room. They were gathered around a large cylinder filled with liquid, it was hooked up to various scientific instruments, hoses and tubes, and electrical machines all around that whurred and purred, beeped and ticked in no particular harmony. As I walked closer I noticed there was also something inside the tank. It was about the same size as the figures outside of the tank, but vastly different in appearance. Suddenly I was overcome with the sensation of having a definite form again, and before I could assess what I was in the light for the first time, the creatures had noticed me. Their faces quickly distorted into mangled disgust and fear, they ran and screamed, dropping their paperwork, smashing into machines and each other, spilling hazardous chemicals, fearful, frantic faces whooshed passed me with terrible haste. The creature in the tank did not stir. I walked closer to it and got a better look. It was tall and thin, mostly light in color, with a dark-colored belly and a long matching appendage that shot out the entire length of the creature from its backside. There were two small horns on its head that the other creatures did not have, and its other appendages terminated in three stubby points, unlike the five slender points the others had had. Loud sirens started to go off in the background, alerting others to the presence of an intruder. Was I the intruder? I had not hurt anyone. It was only me and the tank creature in the large room now. Our solidtude would be short-lived, a lone creature like the ones that had run screaming from the room had now re-entered it. This one was calm, undeterred by my presence. He walked toward me, slowly, but confidently. When his gaze met mine he did not cower, did not show fear, or any emotion at all. I was transfixed by his gaze, so mesmorized was I that I felt my body lose its solid form once again. The tall creature smiled at me and reached out one appendage with five slender points toward me. The thing picked me up and stuffed me under the long, tattered white cloth he wore around himself. Soon I felt as if I was floating in my black prison again, but this time it wasnt nearly as dark underneath the light-colored cloth. We must have been moving, the creature was taking me somewhere. The sirens wail in the background and the only other sounds are the flat, sharp footsteps of the tall thing carrying me, against the hard, flat floor, echoing through the halls as we pass. He carried me down many long, twisting, empty hallways until we were outside of the building. Once outside I heard the return of panicked voices in the background, which soon faded as the creature did not stop. He continued his march away from the building, away from the panicking people, and away from my floating black prison forever. When he finally stopped and released me from under his coat, he propped me up on his shoulder. I saw the world for the first time, the sun, the sky, trees and grass, and the brightly lit face of my rescuer. Instantly I was overwhelmed with joy, and in this moment I uttered the first sounds that had ever left my mouth, sounds I had hoped my new found friend would recognize as appreciation and accept as a whole-hearted thank you. "Ditto!"

Im not a fan of the required co-op because my entire team refuses to do the event anymore and no one will partner with me. My team hates the event, thinks the dungeon is unnecessarily long and takes hours to complete. I wont be able to participate now because its a mandatory co-op. :,(

I often look for things that are very scarce on the market to make profit off of its rareity, but when I start making money off of it 10 more people come in and undercut me by half. Every time! It would be nice to lower the rest of the unsold stock to compete with undercutting, even if it were for a fee (should be smaller than relisting completely, of course) so I dont have to pull my whole stock off the GTL and relist. By then, most of my profit is gone and Im costing myself money. I also agree with being able to raise the price for the appropriate fee. Id also like to add in, if you change the price listing, it would be nice if the listing time was reset. I would gladly go through my GTL listings once a week and pay a fee to change prices to get my listings refreshed, because I have a job and cant afford to play every day to keep them current, and it would just be a lot simpler. Its a bit of a hassle to have to pull all the expired pokemon into your party 5 at a time, and try to remember the prices for each one as you relist them, and if youve got more than one of the same species, remembering the order they are in.

I had an idea, if you did want to include a reference in the history mail, could you just display the image, and make it not clickable? If you receive a mail with a pokemon or item inside, you have the tiny little images inside the boxes, right? Well just show that in the history, but if you try to click on it have an error message come up like: "This pokemon / item doesnt exist anymore.", "You no longer own this pokemon / item.", "Pokemon / item not found", "You cannot view pokemon / items in your Mail History." Similar to how when you link a pokemon in chat, but an error comes up when it's no longer in that person's party. then you'll have a solid reference of what was sent that you wont have to make specific references to ID numbers and whatnot.

I think this is a good idea because in my team, we offer each other services. One team member makes her living by EV training pokemon for us. I make my living breeding and selling 5x20+ comps on the GTL. I use her quite often to ev train the pokemon I sell on the GTL. I usually keep a box full of pokemon Im selling, so I send my teammate multiple pokemon at a time and very often forget myself what I have sent her. A history would really help in this area so I could keep track on my end what I send out. Me personally, I dont need any record of what items or pokemon was sent. Due to the nature of mail, and how you cannot reference what you took out of it, I write in what pokemon I sent in the message so my team mate doesnt get the EVs mixed up. All I would want to see is the text and maybe the date that I sent the mail. Similar to how claimed mail is already shown.

please please do this it is sooooooo tedious to divide all my boxes into egg groups. 6 of my boxes are dedicated to breeders its so annoying sifting through and looking for egg groups

No one is mad at you, no one cares about the prize money. We are mad at the judges, and about lost recognition. Its about ego and pride and nothing more.

I let it get to me more than it should, yes. And Im also taking steps to learn how to color better. Hopefully Ill come back to these contests an even better artist. Though I never said I thought mine was best, I conceded to Moetal and Lyoue before judging even began. I just felt that on skill alone, my entry, Lyouie's and Moetal's stood out as the most skillful. Now that I know skill isnt considered, its less of a blow to the ego.

I just wanted to add my two cents, since it took that turn. My complaint on the last contest was purely over skill. Whether judges mean it that way or not, ranking that Breloom over my own entry is telling me Im not as skillful as the Breloom picture, and I havent produced a piece of artwork at that level of skill since I was 12. Its not saying that Breloom wasnt a good picture, as that was the best I could do at one point too, but I am better now, and it felt like a slap in the face with the judges saying "No, you are not any better now than when you were 12." with the added insult of "Moetal and Lyouie are real artists who deserve the win, not you. And literally any other entry is better than yours." Thats how I took it. I take my art more seriously than maybe I should, but Ive worked my whole life to become a professional artist, and it is a serious topic to me. Since it's been said a few times that "skill" isnt taken into account during judging, maybe I will rethink how I take the results of these contests. But I also feel like maybe that should have been more emphasized, because more than one serious artist has gotten upset over this.

hey the pictures for the areas is no longer working, and this is the only guide Ive found with the johto starter locations

Yea I dont think Ill be participating in this one. Too many other things to do, and still hurt from last time. GL SodaNaranja your entry deserves a place in the top 3 for sure!

I think adding the Crystal Onix as a "legendary" like Mewtwo and Rayquaza is a cool idea.

You accidentally gave BOTH pokemon an everstone. That is what happened. Heres some screen shots, I went and tested it for you.

Hadnt decided yet. Though I do have plans to host an art contest of my own soon.

This was actually what I was afraid of when you said that. The mailbox is super unorganized and messy and I wouldnt want to wade through something like that to find a specific note, which was my point. And in order to keep something at the top, it would have to be updated daily. Could there be a way to pin certain notes to the top then? Like, for me, having how much money in the team bank is a thing I always want displayed on the team page, but it keeps getting erased. And if the Bank note keeps dropping to the bottom Ill be just as frustrated as I am now about it being erased constantly lol That might help a lot.

Will there be a character limit for this? Because in the tabs idea I was thinking that if we could have multiple tabs, info could be more organized, and a lot more info can be shared, and I feel like just one new tab, "Notes" like you mentioned, simply wont be enough. For example, you could make a new tab titled "Contest" and put in all the info for a up-coming team contest event. My team has a bank account, so another tab could be titled "Bank" and list how much money our team fund has, what items are on the account, and a public list of whos borrowing what so members are accountable for anything they borrow from the team. Another tab could be "News" or "Updates" where the team can share important infomation with the whole team since not everyone is online at once. Im sure people can come up with tons of other ideas. I can see these tabs could become a core part of the team page and how teams share info with their members. Im not quite sure just one extra blank tab would accomplish this because like the Infomartion page, the character limit poses a problem and the info cant be organized as nicely. No one wants to read a wall of text, and right now our info page is pretty much that, a long wall of text about a bunch of different things. Unless youre talking about something like... a tab with a bunch of posts you could open, read, and add to. Though I feel like that would get really unorganized really quick. If you created a note like one I mentioned above, say the Bank tab, thats something that gets made up, posted, left alone for weeks before it needs an update. A Bank note would quickly fall down the list of notes, and no one would go find it, open it up, and read it every day. I guess one way to get around that issue is to make newly updated notes spring back to the top of the list, and maybe a little icon next to it to show its new and been updated, but I still feel like so much info will not even be bothered with to get opened. I also feel like this way would be abused, people leaving stupid notes about nothing, spamming the box with nonsense, etc. And you cant remove priviledges from one specific person, only ranks. I think having infomation in separated tabs, with a finite number of extra tabs you can create, presents information as important, its right there to view and you dont have to find it in a list of notes. Theres not much issue with spamming or nonsense because of the limited amount of tabs and the character limit inside the tab. Whereas someone could probably post as many notes as they wanted to if they had permissions. Thats just my thinking, I hope I didnt come off as argumentative.

My suggestion is to be able to add custom tabs onto the Team page, with a Title for the tab and text. These extra tabs could contain all sorts of team-related information and would be really useful overall, since the character limit in the Information tab doesnt allow for much space. I imagine devs would come up with a limited number of tabs, and each with a character limit similar to the Information tab. Also permissions set so only certain members could add or alter tabs. current page: my suggestion:

This, please. Buying a ticket to redo your whole character just to redo clothing is rediculous. Also, have all the hairstyles you can start with as options to buy and change out too.

I thought it would be kinda cool if the system messages included the usernames of the winners of official tournaments. Heres the current system message: Doing something simple like changing it to "... Congratulations to the winners: First place, Username1! Second place, Username2! And Third place, Username3!" I myself dont usually have time to watch the tournaments, and never really see who wins. I just think it would be a neat little addition.

If you go to buy reward points page, they actually accept a wide variety of partial gift card amounts, which in turn can be used for a lot of different living expenses. I imagine that helps supplement their income quite a bit.

I cant be entirely certain about the amount of hours between my log ins, I just know I logged in once on the 29th and 30th. On the 29th when I logged the candy progress was at half way, and when I logged in again on the 30th at 10pm EST the pumpking was already gone.

I dont believe so, I was online once a day all weekend and I missed Pumpking completely, he had to of disappeared in under 24 hours.

I didnt even get a chance to fight Pumpking, when I logged on LAST NIGHT, well before midnight, Pumpking was gone already. He appeared and was gone in under 24 hours, before Halloween even STARTED. I didnt get a chance to beat him last year because I didnt have a full team of lvl 100s, and missed my chance in the last hour he was around while I was lvling up. I remember Pumpking being around for much longer last year because I had time to train 2-3 pokemon up to lvl 100 before he went away. TODAY is Halloween, just so you know. Because I feel like the staff does not know this. I understand the candy progress bar getting filled up more quickly than last year... but that doesnt have a thing to do with how little time the pumpking was around. He could have stayed till Halloween was over.

Just a thought, because I got online at 10pm on the 30th and the Halloween event was already over. Shouldnt the event last long enough for... I dont know, the actual holiday it is for? I didnt even get a chance to participate. T-T