An eccentric billionaire has a private island with all kinds of different Pokemon running around, but with so many Pokemon, it’s inevitable that one of the species will start to get out of control every once in a while! He needs trainer’s help urgently to catch some of the Pokemon overrunning his items to bring back to the mainland Not only that, he’s even willing to pay if you catch something amazing on your trip!
Catching contests are basically the equivalent of the bug catching contests from GSC/HGSS, and are a super enjoyable part of the game. I did my first one yesterday and had a super fun time. There are just a few problems that I have with them:
You have to progress in all 4 of the regions to get to all the places necessary to catch any given Pokemon during a catching contest.
While I can see some efficacy in this, in that it encourages people to progress in the game, I do have another solution to this which I will explain a bit later.
They take up a lot of mod resources.
Mods have to be online to receive potentially hundreds of submissions, and go through them, and dole out the prizes. This is a lot of work to do every day and they don’t get to participate themselves.
You have to PM a mod to submit your submission.
This is impossible to do on some devices (Android TV etc)
There is a large learning curve to this for some users, whispering people isn’t very straightforward on Android devices and a lot of people don’t like to ask for help.
You can only submit one Pokemon.
While I conceptually agree with this as a whole, it kind of sucks that you have to submit either the highest or lowest Pokemon, and you could submit a Pokemon towards the highest and lose but unknowingly actually have the lowest Pokemon and could have won 4th place instead of nothing.
You have to be online at a certain time to participate in them.
This one is self explanatory, a lot of people are working at the time that these catching contests and miss out on the opportunity to take part.
They add new rewards points to the game, I assume artificially without a member buying them.
This costs the server a lot of money over time, and could mean that someone that was going to buy RP won’t now.
The new catching contest is even more similar to the bug catching contest from Johto than the current catching contests are, with a few key differences.
A man with an Abra in the Pokemon Center would teleport you to the location necessary to catch the Pokemon. This man will give you a Key Item that will contact you with a popup whenever a contest is about to happen.
Each region would have a new map added to it that is similar to the Pal Park go to for the contest. Because there is a Pokemon Center in (almost) every city, everyone will be able to participate in the contests. The only progress lock there is to participate in every region’s content is getting far enough to travel between all of them.
If you are in a contest that requires you to surf, you will be teleported in on a surfing Pokemon for the duration of the contest, so you do not have to bring a surfing Pokemon (for those that are early in the game, this is a good way to get a water type Pokemon.)
There is an entry fee which the devs would decide upon. This is to offset the great Pokemon that you can find in this area which could help you progress in the game, and a stipend of pokeballs (type and amount would be decided by the devs) that are given to you before the contest. These aren’t the only Pokeballs that you can use here, but they will help new players to be able to participate in the event, without giving them something potentially valuable for nothing.
Every Pokemon that you catch would be automatically scored for you and sent to your PC, this means that players no longer have to go through their PC and flip between the screens to find their best/worst score.
After the event, the prizes are doled out to the winning attendees, even if they caught the winning Pokemon and left the event. The prizes would come in the form of Pokeyen (amount to be decided by devs), and potentially other items like cosmetics or special Pokeballs (cherish ball pls).
Whatever the main Pokemon is for the contest will have a large swarm in the area you are teleported into, this will function the same as in the overworld. These will mean that everyone has a fair chance to get a good IV Pokemon, and will allow those who don’t have time for the full contest to quickly hop in, toss the dice a few times, then head back to whatever they were doing.
You would be teleported to a certain section of the map and walled in to finding one type (not species) of Pokemon. Lots of different kinds of Pokemon will spawn, so finding the one you are looking for will be rare (more rare for some species than others), but the swarm should help offset that slightly.
The benefits that I am seeing from adding this are:
A new activity to participate in to earn money in early game all the way to endgame.
A fantastic money sink.
Would ease the difficulty curve slightly because you will be able to get all different kinds of Pokemon from different contests.
Does not add new RP vouchers to the game, but does allow they winner to buy them from the store if they win enough. This starts decreasing supply, which increases demand and could sell more RP vouchers for PokeMMO.
Eliminates the need for judges to be on standby and check through tons of submissions.
You are scored for both highest and lowest, so you don’t miss out on winning one just because you submitted for the other.
I think a lot more people would take part in the catching contests if they were low stress and didn’t require you to interact with people to do them.
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An eccentric billionaire has a private island with all kinds of different Pokemon running around, but with so many Pokemon, it’s inevitable that one of the species will start to get out of control every once in a while! He needs trainer’s help urgently to catch some of the Pokemon overrunning his items to bring back to the mainland Not only that, he’s even willing to pay if you catch something amazing on your trip!
Catching contests are basically the equivalent of the bug catching contests from GSC/HGSS, and are a super enjoyable part of the game. I did my first one yesterday and had a super fun time. There are just a few problems that I have with them:
The new catching contest is even more similar to the bug catching contest from Johto than the current catching contests are, with a few key differences.
The benefits that I am seeing from adding this are:
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