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Welcome to the Pokemon: Eternal Revolution Updates, May 2015 Edition!

These updates are going to be fairly regular as the guild continues to progress, tweaking things, fixing our systems, changing and building to be the best guild we can possibly be, and of course that wouldn't be possible without your input! So we would like to take this oppertunity once again to ask how you, the members, feel about our guild. We appreciate your opinions, as we are still in the "beta testing" phase of the guild, and working on everything as much as we can, so your continued support, patience, and forgiveness are much appreciated, as always <3

Please vote in the poll and comment below on your opinions of the updates and the guild so far as a whole, we would love to hear any suggestions for improvement, but please keep in mind that not all suggestions will be put to action, and others will be prioritized later rather than sooner, but it is still important to let your voice be heard here, who knows? Other people may share your opinion!

Without further adieu, here are the updates as of May 22nd 2015;

We have created a new subforum for Secret Bases and Character Lodging for those of you who would like to create a separate space that would not normally be added to the guild (i.e. non canon areas, like a made up homeland or a character's house). If you like the addition, you have Sythril Vythethi to thank for suggesting the idea c:

The Achievements Masterlist has received an update as well, now incorporating achievements for characters who wanna Catch Em All and fill out their Pokedex Pages.

And speaking of filling out the Pokedex, the Pokedex Rules and Guidelines have been altered as well to identify the requirements for obtaining these new pokedex completion achievements. If you are interested in these pokedex achievements, please read these requirements, as they are imperative for when mods need to verify your pokedex and grant the achievements!

Medicinal Items have been altered in the Item Masterlist to adjust for the new HP system, as they were not adjusted previously and therefore the healing properties for some of these items were a little too weak or strong. They should now be properly balanced!

We would also like to take this opportunity to make a point of mentioning something that we feel should be addressed; Mule Accounts.

We are fine with members having a mule account in the guild, so long as a mod is notified of its existence, that way it can be monitored and made sure that no rules are being broken, and the mule accounts are not being abused by "double dipping" in guild giveaways and events, or voting more than once in polls. There are completely valid reasons for wanting a mule account that are personal, which is why we can understand. However, if we find that you have a mule account, have not told a mod, and are abusing it, that is cause for immediate removal from the guild. We want to avoid the duplicity we've seen in the past, and, especially if you have a good reason, don't mind members having two accounts to use. But please, pick a mod and let them know. You can even ask them not to tell the other moderators, but we would rather someone be informed so that the guild is kept as a friendly and equal environment for all members, and so long as there aren't any problems, we will do our best to adhere to that. But again, we already suspect some, and we would rather have honesty to avoid any feelings of deception, so If we suspect you have a mule, and issues start to arrise, you will be in danger of removal.

Onto a much lighter topic, I'm excited to say that we have many fun events and helpful updates planned for you all in the future, so keep an eye out for future updates! If you all would also please check out another Poll we have up on possibly adding Pikachu and Eevee to the selection of Kanto Starter Pokemon from Professor Oak's Lab, that would be lovely~ Thank you all for your input!

There should be an achievement section for collecting the Fakemon. Just a suggestion. So much work went into making them, it'd be ashame to not include them.

Other than that, my only complaint is the PokéDex achievements. Oh my goodness. So much work....I think I'll exile that goal to the abyss. I don't plan on catching Pokémon that are just going to be stuck in the PC to never see Maiku. Or, just to be released. emotion_sweatdrop

Sorry! We didn't realize this was never addressed, but we did talk about it, and it was ultimately decided that characters would not be given anything by the guild on their birthdays for a few reasons;

There is so much we give out already, the horoscope items every month, the holiday giveaways and little events here and there. If you wanted to host a birthday for your character and have them receive gifts, it would be very easy to just save up items and pokemon and then have your character claim them on their "birthday". Not to mention, if we did implement the birthday system, we'd have to make a list of all the character's birthdays so that we can make sure no ones cheating and shifting their birthday to an earlier date to get a reward faster, and really its unfair that people who have the time to handle say, four characters, would have more rewards than someone who can only handle one or two. Again, we appreciate the idea, but we have decided not to implement this idea for now.



That is a nice suggestion, and normally I would be all for it, however fakemon are supposed to be rare, much like legendaries, and some fakemon creators may choose to limit how often their fakemon are given away, and I also know of a few people who don't want to collect fakemon because it simply goes against their idea of a traditional pokemon RP, which is understandable. It wouldn't be fair to force people to collect fakemon for extra rewards in that case. This is the same reasoning behind me allowing legendaries to be seen rather than caught, because not only are they exceedingly rare, but some people don't believe that legendaries should be caught and owned by trainers. They are the gods of pokemon after all, it is sort of ridiculous to think they could actually be captured and owned by a trainer. Therefore, I don't feel that it is right to create fakemon collecting achievements. I hope you understand. >w<

I'm also sorry that the pokedex achievements seem like a lot of work, but it's not the sort of achievement that can be done over night, just like the badges. It takes lots of hard work and dedications to earn those prizes, but it can be done. You don't have to do it if you don't want to, especially if it's not something you feel that your character would want to do, but it's difficult for a reason, and there are nice rewards at the end. It is possible that in the future I will make some milestone achievements in between those "final steps" like smaller rewards for catching a total of 50 pokemon, and then 100, but for now this is what is available, and it's completely understandable if you don't want to pursue it, I didn't expect many to other than the obsessed achievement hunters xD I'll try for it but i'll more than likely just try and work on it slowly over time, which is the more expected approach, and rewarding more dedicated members who've actually been around long enough to achieve this particular achievement~ That's more what the achievements are set up for, we want to reward members not for luck, but for just RPing in the guild over time.



We have actually discussed the idea of an EXP share, though I can't quite remember what we ended up deciding for it or how it would be implemented. It wouldn't hurt to take a look at that again though, thank you!