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Don't think I can vote. I'm alright with all of them except the HP one. Now I have to adjust all my team's HP. crying I'll do it. It's just bothersome. What HP do they start out with at level 1 exactly? The others are fine, though. They don't really apply to me on a role play level just yet since none of my Pokemon have those things.

I'm also gonna poke at the HP change, although I agree it was needed for the long run. Depends on whether Tackle got a nerf from doing 50 damage or not, since that kinda makes most encounters at the start a matter of first one to move wins. Other than that... Guess that means people might need to spend those 15 posts toodling around before trying to fight something. *shrugs* Ah well, at least it's easier to find alternate ways to fix that problem for the low levels than it is to struggle through absurdly long fights at higher levels.

Edit: And after looking over the moves - or at least the normal type ones - that's... Pretty much the only complaint I have that isn't overly nitpicky. If I wanted to nitpick, I'd gripe about Return's nerf, and more because it means I should have waited another happiness point before teaching it to the Eevee since I replaced Tackle with it. XD Mostly because I'm that oddball that decides to track her Pokemon's happiness even if it doesn't evolve through that or isn't going to learn Frustration or Return, just in case I decide to teach it to them later. Because honestly, the game tracks it whether or not you'll use it, so I don't see any reason to just change one more set of numbers on the posts I qualify to do so. And, to be honest, I'm perfectly fine with the nerf, especially since a basic run through the other normal type moves shows it's still on par - if not better than overall - with the heaviest-hitting moves of its type. Takes a lot of work to get it up there (or, you know, some of those berries/Sweet Hearts I have stocked up), but I'd rather have this than a move that does 40 more damage but makes you wait the turn after. Or does more than double and makes the Pokemon faint. >.>

True. And heh, I see this after I make the long edit. XD But yeah, I'm probably going to be annoyed at Poison Sting's raised poison chance later, considering I (and Sythril, and Lucifer) am in Viridian Forest and we've been having a plague of Weedle, Kakuna, and Beedrill for a while. XD

It's fine. :3 And yeah, I can get that. Doesn't mean I'm gonna enjoy the back and forth between Pewter and the forest. XD Although, to be honest, I still grabbed a Weedle anyway a while back. >.> I just like Beedrill, and I think Mega Beedrill looks awesome. Poison Sting is just one of those moves that I look at replacing when I can, that's all. Doesn't distract me from the Pokemon that gets it. :3

Didn't I just adjust all the HP? scream

Most of the changes are alright, but my only issue is with the HP and Mega Stone changes.

Admittedly, HP is more of a minor annoyance, just because I don't quite see the need. I dunno, 10 just seems kinda low, even if it's not that far from 20.

As for the Mega Stones though, I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the power swap between them and the gems. I understand why, since it seems more balanced that one-use items would be stronger than a permanent buff, but from an RP standpoint, the numbers are just weird.

Mega Stones are supposed to be this "super item", for lack of a better term, that brings out the most in a pokemon's hidden potential, or at least that's my understanding of it. Just seems really weird that it's power would be lowered to that. I dunno, 1.5 just seems like a smoother number to work with. Maybe it's just me, but I just think it's an odd choice of numbers.

We apologize for the inconvenience. >: We tried to make it a fairly easy adjustment since the new HP is essentially just 10 x your pokemon's level, or half their current HP. I'm really sorry if you just changed all of that D: The length of upper level battles were just proving to be incredibly difficult, with an actually rped out battle taking several pages when the pokemon levels started to get high.



Thank you for your feedback x3 I'm glad you like the HP change!



The adjustment was made mostly because of how incredibly long the battles would take, as well as matters like Dragonfly mentioned, with HP recovery moves. It makes things a bit simpler, in the long run, and more manageable, so that people who are training can still battle stronger pokemon without spending hours on a single NPC battle, and Gym Leader battles won't take quite as long, as well as being easier for the mods to look over, avoiding minor mistakes, and expediting the process overall : )

As for Mega Stones, that was made because of the compounded effect it could have with several of the abilities that came with some mega evolutions, such as Mawile's Huge Power, or Charizard's Tough Claw, which could boost all, or some, attacks substantially. The numbers were just getting ridiculous when we calculated out some hypotheticals, and we decided it would be better to lower it slightly so that we didn't have pokemon dishing out enormous amounts of damage. This way, though, they're still getting a pretty fair boost to all attacks, making them still useful, and better than most items because it applies to all attacks.



I'm glad you like some of the changes! x3 We definitely had a lot of discussion over the downfall of the lower level pokemon, but we hope the one-hit-KO opportunity will make training easier to assist in compensating for that D:

You're definitely right, on that the 10-20 damage isn't a lot in the beginning o ~o It's hard to balance things out when you have to consider how high things can get with level buffs and items, but we'll try and take another look at that to see if there's a way to raise the initial damage to level things out a bit, without making the move do to extreme an amount of damage : )

And again, thank you for your feedback >w<


In fact, thank you all for your feedback! We try and keep things in mind and look over everything certain matters come up, but regardless of what we think, it's ultimately the guild as a whole that will decide how things end up as, so getting feedback, both positive and negative, tells us what we might need to adjust, take to the polls, or just outright remove altogether. So thank you guys! The feedback is very much appreciated! emotion_kirakira