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Pokemon Rejuvenation Development Blog

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  1. HostGator was our old server host. It has a strong reputation as one of the leading host companies on the net. Unfortunately we did not find its reputation founded, and we had a lot of outages leading to frequent gator icons appearing on the site and informing us that it was broke as shit.

    The outages were for a time so common that that period has apparently been dubbed 'the Gator Wars'. I'm a fan, personally.

  2. As of now, we seem to be fully recovered. Thanks for bearing with us, and hopefully that's the last we have to deal with it!

    As a couple technical notes we are now running Cloudflare, as I'm sure everyone saw based on the error screen we've been fuming at for the past couple days, so this will help to prevent future issues.

    Another improvement, though entirely unrelated to this technical debacle: The alternate registration/trainer card import feature on the site has finally been updated to accept Showdown imports rather than PO ones. Thanks to Swimming for correcting that!

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  3. I usually run balanced teams but my playstyle always leans towards stall, because I don't like to take unnecessary risks.

    My favorite set-up is something 3-4 walls, some utility, and clean-up hitter.

    With an Encore somewhere in there. Encore is my favorite move by a long-shot.

    And Hilda loves battling me. <3

  4. The "Top Dog" Swaaaaaaaaaaag Jockey...how did you guys come up with that title anyway? It's hilariously douchey enough that it fits him perfectly. The wallpaper itself looks fantastic too. Who is next? Taka?

    well.

    tl;dr we temporarily adopted one of my friend's ex-boyfriends for a reason that i'm still not entirely clear on, because he was homeless and a moderate walking disaster. i mentioned the project and let him play it. on one hand, he was a hardocre rager, so you can imagine how long he lasted. on the other hand, he had a habit of throwing out random ideas every fifteen minutes. most of them were whatever, but the swag jockey comment was too golden to pass up.

    (you can also thank him for the pokemon psychologist in 7th)

  5. I love the idea but I don't want you guys spending time on it until Reborn finishes its story.

    The nice thing about having separate people working on stuff is that I can still work on the story while Kuro works on online features.

    Granted, we should probably be focusing on bugs first, this kind of just... happened.

    Oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD this looks AWESOOOOOOOME

    Inb4 people hack this game with Cheat Engine to win battles with cheap Pokemon

    It'll happen. But there's no ladder system. Ultimately you only play against your friends/the people you choose to play with. So if one of your friends is being a jerkbutt and using hacked Pokemon, it's as simple as not playing with that person until they wanna go at it fairly.

  6. The whole Community Release thing confused me a little, is this going to be a staple to Episode releases?

    It is, going forward. Probably for Starlight as well if it's distributed similarly.

    I'd like to comment on the fact that Serra and the gym AI in general are a joke. She makes literally 0 use of her field and the AI doesn't help the case at all. Also, most gyms feel like they've been needlessly nerfed . I'd strongly suggest tuning up that AI WAY more than its current status :I Feels like Reborn isn't really challenging anymore if I think back to the 1st playthrough I made.

    There's a lot of gravity in what another user said about you developing as a player too, even if you don't notice it. I've found this to be very true over the time of watching people play. You eventually acclimate to the game from the main series. Knowing what to expect in itself makes it a lot easier.

    Now that's not to say the AI is great. It's not. E14 AI is dismal. Changes as of 14.7 make singles AI passable. Doubles AI is a disaster still. We're looking at that for E16, and then in E17/18 we'll be adding code to make it actually advanced. In E19 we should be able to add field-specific AI too. It's a work in progress.

    But, it isn't being set to half. Almost every gym leader has their AI set to maximum. The code itself is just incomplete from Essentials.

    Regardless, I think we can all agree that it isn't like average Pokemon games. Leaders in the main series are jokes. Two pokemon and they're done? Nawh. Now, almost no reasonable fight is going to be unbeatable. The problem is we don't want to pigeon-hole players into a single strategy to beat each fight. Examples of this are the original Charlotte and Serra, where you either bring Rain Dance, bring Drought or Magmar, or you don't have a chance. That's not fun, it's frustrating, especially in effectively forcing players to use those Pokemon.

    While Reborn is supposed to be harder than the main series, it's not meant to be a nightmare mode. My goal with gyms is not for it to be impossibly difficult, but to make you, as a player, stop and think about how you're going to overcome it.

    If you want Nightmare-Mode Reborn, the game will be open to modding after it's completed.

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  7. Yes, this should fix most of them. At least everything that I saw reported and was able to reproduce, anyway. This includes the Jasper Water Grid (though not retroactively) cutscenes misplaying when re-entering Fiore, another pass at berry-related crashes in Aventurine, mistakenly boosted EXP, a few other scripty things, etc.

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  8. Who shalt this fractured power wield?

    At last, it's Serra's Field. Of course, this shouldn't been too much of a surprise given that I already showed everyone part of the arena in that other thread. But I'll leave you all to reflect on the implications of all of this.

    fe30.png

    Click the image above, or this link to look into the details of Serra's new Mirror Arena!

    The Mirror Arena focuses on an constructed mechanic with stacking/consuming evasion and critical hits! Her signature TM, Frost Breath, plays right into this, along with some of her Ice types' other specialties. And yet, in a field like this, missing an attack could actually be somewhat helpful.

    Personally, I'm very interested to see how you all play this one.

    Additionally, the Obtainable Pokemon page has been updated for E15. Does this mean Beta? No... Not quite. But soon...

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  9. Well, it could be a possibility that the presence of Eve and Lumi has influnced the physical apearance; ......in terms of gender presentation.

    If there isn't a clear answer, would male with an androgynous gender presentation do it, then?

    This is pretty much accurate. It isn't always Zero getting up and dressing himself in the morning. Eventually the three of them had to settle on some sort of shoddy compromise for presentation.

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