Commander

So long time no talk. So I tested something out that seems to work but I can't make any promises what'll happen with it. As it stands, I have figured out how to swap characters around so that you could play as someone such as Shelly and freely switch back to the player. It's quite a bit of work that probably will mean I actually need more than just me working on the mod. I really want thoughts and ideas on this concept because I don't want to waste a whole bunch of time delaying Hardcore E16 if nobody is really going to use this addition since it could potentially require a massive overhaul of the game.

Believe me, I've been around on the internet long enough to know that people think it's totally okay to steal someone's stuff if they ask nicely for it. That way of thinking is only going to worse and worse down the line. I also know that if you're too lazy to go out and search for the free tilesets, you really shouldn't even consider making a fan-game in the first place. Game making of any kind is time consuming so you gotta make sure you gonna put in the work. Dual audio surprised me there and I mean who would've expected any VAs to begin with. The animations themselves were kind of static, but I've honestly grown found of that style since Fire Emblem...the good Fire Emblem games. Really showed more emotion and animation vs a whole bunch of guys just standing around talking. It's a nice touch imo, but that's just me.

I mean in all honesty, I would've been surprised if it was you since well, you've been setting everything up for a smooth path towards other people coding for Reborn over this long period of time. I do have a pretty good idea who this person who took their code is, but since I can't be certain I'll refrain from stating any names.

I know this might sound a bit over concerning but I am kind of weary how stable this is going to be. Crashes, popup messages and disconnects are going to happen. What the main games did in this situation is have a backup file restore the previous save file. Is there something in place to prevent save files from corrupting worse comes to worse? Other than that, this looks quite fun.

I think the only thing missing with your logic is giving access to the trading process but from what I see the logic feels sound. Though I feel this is more of a transfer and not a trade, which is useful, but a trade involves two Pokemon being traded from two different saves that also allows for trade evolutions to function.

I just want to clear something up. Lin is not part of the prophecy but that does not mean she is or isn't going to die. In fact, we don't know if only one or two more people are going to die from Shade's prophecy. We just can only piece so much together. Every screen shown represents a dying soul each of which plays a very important role to something however he doesn't imply that gain is for us. The second part of "poison in vein" is a warning that these if we don't help the dying souls, something bad will happen or its the only shot we have to winning. The second prophecy: "Four screens foretold four soul's fourtunes forsaken. From foreshadowed, forsoothed, only two will be taken." (I know it's not right but close enough). Now the funny thing is about Corey and Lin's Screens and even Kiki's is that they do not show anything in regards to someone's fortune. I definitely could rule Corey's out since well...his life wasn't his fortune (Heather is debatable), but even Heather wasn't forsaken at that point in time. I don't see Solaris really prizing Lin, more like fears her, and her story regarding the whole orphanage. There is one possibility here but we'll get back to that in a minute. There is one thing that hasn't been mentioned and it's the Rotom event. And boy is this one debatable of whether or not it's a screen. It tells us that Corey lost someone, presumably his wife, and Sigmund losing [REDACTED]. While these events to fulfill the fortune forsaken part, it's very vague whether or not it means the screen predicted something since well these event happened in the past that we know of. So now that we added all of what we know together let's try piecing it into a theory. We know there are foul souls and four fortunes. What does Forsaken mean? To abandon or desert. So now that I've broke this down and thinking about it...we're going to assume that those back screens are not part of the prophecy but tie into it giving a big hint to the last screen. So let's start with the two most obvious ones. The Corey screen shows him jumping off of a cliff. The treasure he gave up is not the Ruby Ring, but Heather. The big problem with this is that it happened in the past though funny enough that Heather did get abandoned by Cain in Ametrine City to Blake so there's still quite a bit that we could use to validate this screen as being one of the four. Not much else to say. The next screen would be Amaria and Titania. The soul in the screen is very foggy but we know both the soul and treasure are Amaria and Titania I just can't necessarily pin which one fits which. I'm going to guess Amaria is the soul seeing as that see is dying on the inside seen by her journal entry at the academy and her love and relation with Titania is her treasure. Though it could also be Titania seeing her friend abandon life (a friendship like that could be a treasure). We can't pinpoint either but at least we narrowed into a very narrow option. The Kiki screen is one of the hardest. If this was indeed one of the four forsaken, what was forsaken by killing Kiki. Cal, Victoria, and Solaris were all there and could fit the picture. We'll start with Victoria. Kiki was ready to abandon her life and was passing the academy onto her desciple Victoria and we could clearly see Victoria and Kiki had a strong bond so Kiki could be Victoria's treasure. Or it could be that Kiki is the soul leaving Victoria/the academy behind and not thinking a second thought on it. You can't tell me she knew she wasn't going to die going up to that. Now onto Cal. We can see that Cal clearly was moved by Kiki and everything she had done which he would be the soul and kiki the treasure no question about it. He turned "traitor" to the academy to join team meteor but more importantly he turned against Kiki by throwing her Medicham in the lava invalidating everything he had done up until now. Turning on your master is not too much different than abandoning them. Solaris is the most ambiguous one since we don't know much about him. I put him here since he was the once to order the Garchomp to kill Kiki. Now we tie this back into the Corey screen. Maybe this event set something off of a character similar to Heather. That would be Taka which we only know so little but usually a father cares for a son and it seems Taka is disobeying team meteor or betraying. That could tie into the forsaken treasure being Taka and Solaris taking care of it. This one's a stretch, but if Solaris is the soul, I'm actually hoping Apophyll gets brought up and gives Solaris a bit of backstory. This screen is indeed a very strange one if it's one of the four. Lin's screen is perhaps the strangest one of all. Like with Kiki's death, we don't know what's forsaken here. We have to tie Lin to something but since she's such a mysterious person we don't know much about her. Nobody seems to really have a connection with her...or does someone. We learn a bit about Lin from the Saphira capture path that shows she was a girl from the orphanage who was quite cruel. However, Sigmund's actions show there's quite a bit more too this story. I have a few good guesses behind what's going on here, but this is about 5 theories saved for the future. My only guess is that Sigmund is the soul and Lin is the treasure in this screen. The only other tie is for Solaris or Sirius but that involves going into team meteor's plans and we only know so much about them. Very little evidence can be used to support and Solaris seems like Lin's a last resort to bring to any operation while he isn't afraid of front line work. She could be key to the operation meaning she'd be the treasure they need. So let's break this down into a chart by screens: Souls Treasures 1. Corey - Heather 2. Titania <-> Amaria 3. Kiki <-> Apophyll Academy/Cal/Victoria 3. Victoria - Kiki 3. Cal - Kiki 3. Solaris - Taka (or maybe Kiki) 4. Sigmund - Lin 4. Solaris - Lin 4. Sirius - Lin 4. Lin - ??? (Maybe the Keystones) 5. Corey - "Wife" 6. Sigmund - "[Redacted]" So now you're probably wondering "Commander why'd you cross a couple names off?" This is very interesting as we're about to get to really into my theory stuff. What's very odd about my list is that Corey is on one side and Kiki is on the other so no matter what, somebody still has to be taken and given Shade's role, that means they're going to die. Now let me quote some the prophecy once more: "For, forsooth, from foreshadowed, only two will be taken." All of the screen will come true and Shade just confirmed it, but I had to read this quite a few times what the two will be taken. Sure you could try saying that so-and-so fits the prophecy, but in my theory, I believe nothing has been taken yet. This is the most important thing you want to write down. I had to read it many times, but Shade is not talking about the souls, but the treasure that will be taken and you probably will have to read the line 15 or so times to get that. The screens show four souls abandoning their fortune, but that does not mean it's taken. Though what's more peculiar is where it's told and when. Shade suddenly appears after you defeated Taka and rescued Amaria. Why then? And there was also no Absol iirc. I have a feeling it's a cryptic message that we should be saying out good-byes due to the chain of events we created as nothing happened in this episode. And Shade could only appear then as Meteor would not have known Amaria had been rescued until then and ambush the player's "army." Though if we do indeed go with two souls, Corey's life wasn't taken from him since he kind of killed himself. Debatable topic. Kiki being the soul in that other screen would only work IF Kiki's fortune was her own life. Whether or not Kiki was the first part of the prophecy is up in the air, but judging from her actions I doubt her life is her own fortune given she went up there knowing she was going to die. Anyways, I can't really give much more of an answer right now as we're still missing pieces to the puzzle but maybe this theory or ideas will give some of you food for thought.

I've been part of the Hacking community (well not making hacks but reading up on news for them) for a very long while now and nothing's really changed that much since then. The Gamersjolt big takedown is a new one, but really not that surprising in the long run seeing about the Ad revenue. Believe me when I say nintendo plays a scare tactic every year to push away newer game developers. I'm honestly surprised Reborn hasn't been targeted yet for the Episode 14 era spread. Suzerain's games also haven't been affected so it's really a wait and see at this point and not to worry too much. I also don't associate the Gamersjolt with Pokemon specifically as it seemed a huge chunk of the takedowns were non Pokemon. I'm sure a large handful of those people were not even doing it for the revenue, but more for the fun of it only getting shot in the crossfire. I saw your status yesterday and I brushed it off as once you get a better understanding of the copyright infringement with hacks/fan-games, this stuff won't surprise you so much. Don't feel like going more into it other than that.

-Meteor was destroying the city looking for keystones -Player got in their way while collecting badges -Ran away with some orphans -Somehow wound up in the circus -Stopped meteor's plans even more -Reborn City has been rebuilt That's pretty much all you need to know.

The senior year is divided into two parts. The first semester and the second semester. Your first semester pretty much consists on a crap ton of looking for colleges and applying which by the end of the semester you'll know what college you're going to pretty much. The second semester is basically the phase where you just want to get the heck out of school. Literally I did not try my senior semester like at all since it barely effects your transcript unless you do really really bad. There's really not that much else to it. I even came from a really jammed packed high school but most Seniors don't bully people so don't let that stereotype scare you. (Seniors mostly just hate how annoying they are...from my experience).

Wasn't poison the first Monotype run you did before the game broke? Anyways, good luck on the run and hopefully you get some enjoyment with some of the things I added. Hardcore really has come a long way since the first version.

Oh I realized something I forgot to talk about that's interesting. Remember how someone said the protagonist could die? I don't think that will happen in Reborn, but that's definitely possible to do in terms of Pokemon Essentials. It's very rare for the main protagonist to disappear and especially die within a game, but it has happened before such as Chrono Trigger. It would be kind of interesting if it did happen as to who would we play as. I could see Cain, Fern, or Victoria, but Victoria would be the most likely. It'd be a hella lot of work but once you get this initial settup it'd be really interesting. Though I see that more of a mod thing (and believe me that'd probably be one of the most popular imo if done right) should someone create side stories or such as you play as other characters. Anyways off topic, but my point is that it's possible to kill the main character, it's just not likely. Thinking about it now, Victoria is going to be the one to die, isn't she? It's always the insignificant ones who go first.

I won't tell you anything except for two hints that there are two ways to miss a certain Pokemon. You need to do that event before collecting ANY of the others. The second thing is to make sure to do everything before Agate and you know the event when you see it. Also as a quick update, I'm having war with my computer and I might need to turn it in. Hopefully I can get it up, but don't worry about Hardcore. Data wise I'm really only going to lose a little bit of progress on the fights worse comes to worse.

Honestly, I was expecting the Mega Ring in Episode 17, but to be truthful difficulty wise I can work with. Believe me when I say Ciel is probably the hardest leader to make difficult due to flying type having so many weaknesses (many of which has a x4) and being a defensive leader. The only mega that may be broken is believe it or not: Heracross. Yeah Pinsir is going to be insanely good, but it's held back by the whole low level, limited exp syndrome a lot of the lategame mons have to the point most people don't bother with them. Pinsir really needs that Return TM to hit to its max potential otherwise a good number of Pokemon can shred right through it. It's just a lot of hurdles when there's so many easier to raise and better options. Heracross though suffers the same fate, but generally regular Heracross is going to be better than the mega because that speed decrease will kill you. Its only weak point is that it's really hard to get Rock Blast but all his other moves including bullet seed are there. Due to its better tank stats, it's going to be killing way more than Pinsir and is more vialable without being a mega versus Pinsir. What'll likely happen is that the Cleffa scenario will happen here and Heracross will be axed so that players can only get Pinsir worse comes to worse. (Or the megastones will be pushed back but I highly doubt that). And seriously don't worry about difficulty as Ame and her team know what they're doing most of the time. I'm looking at all these concepts and ideas I have and there's plenty left I could do to torture people. Megas just make it a little more interesting. There's also a rule I use called "make the game as hard as you want" which means not to make everything absurdly difficult merely because one thing breaks the game. Now to respond to a couple things said: Don't agree with the Exp thing, but I really understand it. I'd be lying if the thought of shifting the entire game and level caps back 5 levels hadn't crossed my mind once or twice, but I feel what I drafted out will work nicely level wise as the CoM project brought up a few subtle ideas that seem to have been successful. It'll take a few attempts but eventually the difficulty will be there.

I believe the original purpose of this thread was aimed at allowing monotype runs that were normally impossible such as rock type which was done in the background until this thread made it official. Due to the massive amount, and usually picky, requests we've been getting, a lot of us have lost motivation to blindly fill out one after another (I don't do it as much since well I mod and go to college which both are time consuming and I have 35 save files I need to use). Your run was likely denied since this is merely asking to add a Pokemon way earlier into the game without any rules or restrictions and said mon is available quite early. Just remember that nobody here is obligated to fulfill a request and are allowed to deny one. Also due to the decrease on people who fulfill requests, I'd also like to request that people don't question why their request hasn't been fulfilled until a week has passed. Anyways, good day.

Well here you go Pyrr if you really want it. This is what happens when you fuse Leo and Hinoka Name: Commandr Boon/Bane: +Mag/-Skill Unique Class: Sky Knight/Dark Flier Castle Address: 11473-66051 67151-60219

And this here folks is a great example of why beta testers are important. What happened was that I forgot to delete the fight afterwards since I have to copy and paste a lot of things and a variable check was a little janked up. Nothing game breaking would've happened and it would've reverted if you lost (it's not an infinite loop). Just a hilarious exploit.