Popular Post OrangeManiac Posted February 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2022 Hey, it's another one of these again. No, please don't run away yet. As the title implies, this post is to initiate discussion about the current event system in PokeMMO. My concern (that I've been feeling for a good while) has been that the events in PokeMMO have been far too identical to each other to really be interesting anymore. Another tournament, just with a different shiny prize. Another catch event, just some different specie to catch. Another Scavenger Hunt but apparently we haven't been catching Flying-types yet. People who have been around for a while know that this hasn't been always the case. PokeMMO used to have a plethora what we used to call "gimmick tournaments" with custom rulesets, some of which were great and some that... could have used some more thought. But in both cases, I've come to realize those kinds of events were the ones to keep the game interesting. It utilized this game's uniqueness - the MMO aspect. Having nothing but automated tournaments doesn't really set this game noticeably apart from, let's say "Smogon tournaments". Rather than spectating the games with just username, you have a customizable avatar to watch games with. That's how it feels, really. What I'm suggesting you could do is to revive what we used to call "gimmick tournaments" at least in some form and host these events somewhere in the overworld, in an actual location in the game. If you need ideas, I mean there were all kinds of attempts (STAB-tournaments, monotype-tournaments, trivia-PvP combinations etc) so there were plenty of things that were fun that could be revived. And I wouldn't even care if you tried something completely new, even if it is something silly, just to try out if a concept works. Even unsuccessful attempts of something "weird" would keep this game more interesting. It is clear this shift happened largely due to automated battle system. There is no doubt the successful implementation of both automated tournament system as well as matchmaking improved the quality of this game by a lot. But it also slightly killed the soul of the old PokeMMO, which is what I've come to realize initially kept me in this game to begin with. If this soul could be demonstrated also to new players, I think it could improve the player experience by a lot. I've participated in this kind of discussion briefly in some unofficial conversation channels and a common concern against these kinds of non-automated events is that people don't really read PokeMMO Forums, so automated tournaments are the only way to get a reasonable amount of participation in today's PokeMMO. But I think a way to avoid this is to implement a functional event calendar inside PokeMMO client that lists all the upcoming events of PokeMMO (not just PvP-events) and it directs to a forum post that explains the full ruleset to players and directs them to signup. This way players do not have to active forum readers to take part of these events and they can get the information of events already from in-game client. I do also recognize having custom rulesets have become less implementable because the average playerbase of PokeMMO doesn't speak just English anymore. But these events could be hosted to all kinds of language groups in the game. Even just a couple of custom ruleset tournaments per month would keep this game far more interesting than it is now, in my opinion. Also, I am aware this requires effort from staff members to happen. In order to have these events, there would be staff members to have willingness and time to host all of this and I recognize it isn't small work. But just come up with any event idea you as staff members consider fun and different and I'm sure it will be well received by the playerbase because as I said, I think we really need something new and different to this game. That's all really, thank you for reading. P.S. You don't have to link me "event suggestion thread", I know it exists. This post isn't just about specific event suggestions but about far broader topic - the whole philosophy behind current event system which I think could use some of the aspects from "the old PokeMMO". ZeroGamerOO, KaynineXL, Edwardinho and 35 others 31 4 2 1 Link to comment
Tyrone Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 @Tranzmaster should have a couple of original ideas like: "Equip Choice Band only or pretend to hold it" or "Pick and ban system to teambuild before a duel" or "School of Brock" Seems like OG staff were just more original with event ideas. Link to comment
KaynineXL Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Mono-type Metronome Randoms 1v1s Little Cup (pls no "we dont support... we made our own LC before there was even an option in duel request) Triple Battles CatchMMO Team Scavenger Hunts Airborne Tourney A FREAKIN SEASONAL LIKE WHAT WE USED TO HAVE Ubers Actually anything with tag team is hype. Also props to the tournaments nowadays, I know they take a fair bit of effort and I've never seen so many being created on a daily basis, so I can't bash that. ZeroGamerOO, OrangeManiac, EricTheGreat and 4 others 7 Link to comment
Platoons Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 1 hour ago, KaynineXL said: GEN 1 Metronome Lets get it. Link to comment
KaynineXL Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 6 minutes ago, Platoons said: Lets get it. lmao your sig tho Platoons 1 Link to comment
EricTheGreat Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 wheres the flavor Link to comment
Draekyn Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 8 hours ago, KaynineXL said: lmao your sig tho He is the metronome champ I can attest to that -- On topic, if you're out of ideas, older MMO staff had plenty of great ones some of which have already been mentionned, recycle those if necessary If you're short on staff willing to host non-automated events, hire more, broaden your recruitment parameters even if specifically for that purpose, it's worth it 10 hours ago, OrangeManiac said: I do also recognize having custom rulesets have become less implementable because the average playerbase of PokeMMO doesn't speak just English anymore. But these events could be hosted to all kinds of language groups in the game. Even just a couple of custom ruleset tournaments per month would keep this game far more interesting than it is now, in my opinion. To that point, I'd argue that (chinese aside) the game population is broadly the same. Some used to learn English through the game sometimes solely for the purposes of participating in forums discussions & those kinds of events. The game itself adapting to its various language groups is a net positive, but that + automated copy-pasted simple tournaments + a growing population has made the community feel a bit more fragmented. There are obvious solutions to that issue though, either as Orange suggests here take the time and effort needed to translate those rulesets (you do have a Chinese counterpart to these forums so it's not outside the realm of possibility) or as I'm seeing in the Doubles UU discord server, language representatives will step up and do it themselves if allowed. nethatar, hannahtaylor, Kace and 4 others 7 Link to comment
caioxlive13 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 6:40 PM, KaynineXL said: Mono-type Metronome Randoms 1v1s Little Cup (pls no "we dont support... we made our own LC before there was even an option in duel request) Triple Battles CatchMMO Team Scavenger Hunts Airborne Tourney A FREAKIN SEASONAL LIKE WHAT WE USED TO HAVE Ubers Actually anything with tag team is hype. Or something weird and new that our creativity is limit. Like: - 3vs3 Team Sequential Battle - When 3 players form a team, to fight against others in Consecutive matchs(Only one match happening, but when someone loss, other from same team must replace it and battle against the same opponent, and keeping the process until a team doesn't have anyone more to fight.), needing to remove from your team any defeated mon, if win. - Gift League/Gift Cup - Only Storyline gifts that are obtained after 2016(when they changed IVs from him to flat 15.) are allowed. - Eeveelution Cup - 3x3 battle however only eevee and your evolutions avaliable on MMO are allowed. - Thematic Mon Cup - A regular tournament but you need to put on your team the mon that are the image of tour. Example: Pikachu's Cuteness Cup , in this tour, all trainers must bring a pikachu on their team. Tournaments to bring will depend only of our creativity. But i want that someday this different type of tour can be automated. ZeroGamerOO 1 Link to comment
Raederz Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 10:19 PM, Suneet said: Bring back @Raederz hi awkways 1 Link to comment
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