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Yes it's a genuine event normally but the mayor of the city is working for team Xen so THIS TIME it is a set up. I mean somebody with the power to sign you all up did it and the mayor seems like the prime suspect. And those 2 are new characters very likely involved with Xen as well. Also the hospital is almost certainly involved with this whole fiasco with the stone turning so it looks like everything leads back to Xen at the end of the day. Even team Bladestar which seems to oppose Xen had a Rift mon so it gets even more convoluted. And I don't think there's any point spoiler tagging since V9 has been out for quite a while now.

What about Lin? Also, was Bennett ever a leader and if not, how do we even know about his IRL existence? (Edit: Herp derp, I guess so since I just watched the playlist you linked. Ignore that question.) I wonder if any of these people are still on the forums. It would be absurd for not a single one to have stuck around. Still reading these stories is really interesting even though I've heard most of it before. It's always fun learning new tidbits of information. Ame should totally write a book about this after she's done with the game.

My money's on the whole thing being a set up by team Xen. They're probably trying to get you all in one place so they can do something which means it will probably never conclude. Perhaps they want something similar to Blacksteeple with everyone panicking and fighting. Or to capture Melia, the gym leaders and the other main characters.

I am extremely biased on this since I started reborn way earlier and had been playing it for years before Rejuv. I have like 200+ hours on it of me running around doing sidequests, breeding for perfect (or near) IV shinies, EV training, replaying, speculating etc. It's also the OG and has Luna in it. Rejuv meanwhile has some great gameplay elements added such as the help centers and another way it differs from reborn is that it has a small group of characters that you are pretty much always traveling with so it's a lot easier to get attached to them while in Reborn, even the more frequently occurring ones are gone for multiple episodes at a time only to show up for a bit and then disappear for another few episodes (looking at Shelly and Florinia). I get that Ame is trying not to shaft the other character so she's making sure they get their screen time but it creates a different type of feel than if you were traveling with the same bunch. Reborn mostly feels like you're traveling around alone (especially recently). Rejuv also isn't as far along story wise while Reborn is close to concluding so it's not very fair to judge them on that basis. In conclusion, both games have their strengths and weaknesses but as for right now, I would have to say I like Reborn better but this could definitely change in a few years when Reborn is done and Rejuv is getting further into it's story (assuming it keeps being as good). I have to give a mandatory mention to Desolation here as it definitely has the potential to rise above both of these games when more episodes get released. Slightly off topic Rejuv spoiler bellow

Ok.

Thanks, I got the mega ring now.

lolz , I went to her first and even thought "Hey, maybe you should take this Jigglypuff instead" but obviously the event didn't trigger. Thanks

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Design 6, outfit 4.

Do you also go for perfect IVs or are you talking about them just being shiny? My shiny Milotic has 31 in everything except speed because I got bored and I don't really need speed for anything. And of course I wanted the female sprite so lets just say I've got some 10 boxes full of Feebas right now. I'll check out your thread later. It sounds interesting.

Ok that makes more sense but it's not like I'm skipping all the sidequests either nor am rushing through the story. Obviously if I start breeding mons it's gonna take way longer and I have bred several shiny mons including Milotic in my main save file. Since I know all the gyms already, I doubt I'll get stuck anywhere unless Ame made some massive changes to them.

I'm definitely going to do another run so that I can get all those character affinity points which my current save doesn't have. But a month or two? Christ, it'll take me a couple of days at most to clear it unless I decide to do some serious breeding in the middle of my playthrough. I don't care about Gen VII so I probably won't be using anything other than maybe that grass starter. Wish there was a way to port my bred/EV trained mons between save files though.

I don't know all the protagonist names but if Aevis is the default white male protagonist that I'm playing as, I like the old one better. The new back sprite is fine but the rest not very much. Maybe just let us pick which one we want at the start? It already asks you to select your appearance so we could just have multiple ones for the same race/gender. Or I guess make it an Easter egg as long as I can do it early on without having to alter game files.

@Felcatty I don't know how this quote system works or whether it's still broken but whatever. I tend to stay away from fan games not on the Reborn forums since this is my quality check and they tend to be pretty bad from my experience. But Apex does look somewhat interesting so I might check it out regardless. On a different, I had no idea that Reborn hardcore had this level cap system already implemented. If you ask me, this feature actually makes the game easier since my mons won't level up mid battle so I'd suggest either implementing it globally or perhaps make it a toggleable option like the battle set/switch. Or at least something you can select at the start of the game. The current system is mostly annoying rather than an actual hindrance. While we're at it, I also want max repels in the first shop and they should cost 1$ because absolutely nothing is added to the game by making you run from 50000 wild Pokemon when you have no interest in battling them anyway. Or even better, a nice key item that you can turn on/off and it's just a permanent repel.

"In this new system, passing the level cap is not possible. The Level Cap is 20? No matter how many battles you do before breaking this cap, no Pokemon will exceed level 20." YES. THIS. I've been wondering for years why nobody has implemented this instead of the annoying Pokemon not listening to you bullshit. If all my mons are at the cap before I battle a gym leader, it's almost guaranteed that at least one will pass the cap and start disobeying me in the MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE. What sense does that make? And no more spamming reverse candies after every trainer battle either. Just yes. I just assumed that since none of the fan games had this extremely obvious feature, it was just really difficult to implement but i'm glad someone is finally doing it. I hope the developers of other fan games will follow suit.

I'm kinda conflicted on the status bar thing. On one hand I do enjoy glancing at it every now and then to see how far development has come but on the other hand, the people complaining about the bar not moving and slow development are extremely annoying. I might prefer just *POOF* new version out whenever it's done. Especially if it would lessen pressure on you and help you work better. Still, I respect your decision and am glad to see development is that far in already. Also that you have a dev team now, congrats. I assume that ??? bar is the new thing you're going to talk about? I'll keep an eye out for it and good luck!

Can someone just tell whether there's a Scarlet route and what I'm suppose to do to get. I think I got all her points, I gave the stone to Shiv and I saved her from jumping off the roof but it looks like I still got cucked by Connor while Ava is being nice to me. So did I fuck up somewhere or is this just how it's suppose to be? I can only think of giving the stone to Nova and maybe being as mean to Ava as possible? Or maybe not saving Scarlet and seeing where that goes but replaying the game right away would be so tedious since I can't skip forward and have to battle 50.000 trainers. I'm not gonna do it unless I at least know there's a point so can someone just tell so I don't have to search through the 149 pages. Anyway, I love the game but I will say there's way too many trainers everywhere even though all 6 of my Pokemon are at the level cap. Also the grass in pretty much every city is annoying. It's enough dealing with that on routes but right in front of the ranger center? Just why. Leave the grass, just make it so Pokemon don't pop out.

I figured you were taking a break after the Ver 9 release but I didn't know you were dealing with real life issues other than the computer thing. I didn't experience any problems while playing through the new content but if there were bugs, you really shouldn't let that get you down. Just fix them in a patch or the next release if they aren't game breaking. I don't think anybody's holding it against you. As for people complaining about development taking too long, just fuck them. Ignore them, what else can I say. I'd rather you take your time and release a good game than you overworking yourself and getting sick or dropping the whole thing. If it takes another year or another 3 years then so be it. I'll probably still be here. I'm sure others will too. So do whatever you need to do and I'll look forward to the next release.

I said "Safe space". You clearly haven't been following current events in the US very closely. Maybe Google the term. Although it seems funny at first, it's really quite frightening that this is happening to our society. I never said anything of the sort. I said they are most likely hypotheses at best. Mine is a hypothesis at best too. I never made any claims comparing the two nor did I assert any kind of likelyhood on their validity. Creationism for example is also a hypothesis at best. (I say at best, because a hypothesis usually assumes some experiments could potentially be done to confirm or disprove it.) Abiogenesis is also a hypothesis. Obviously these two are worlds apart in terms of how likely they are to be correct. It could very well be the same for whatever you proposed. That would still not stop it from being a hypothesis unless it's already become an established scientific theory. It depends on how you define "Spirituality" I guess. Scientific naturalism assumes everything is subject to scientific inquiry. So that would have to apply to whatever "spiritual" thing you are claiming exists. Certainly if you could confirm it's existence then it would just become a part of nature. I have no doubt that future scientific technology will seem like magic to us, so in that sense the supernatural could exist but it would simply become part of nature when we find it. So yea I'll go look at your posts eventually and I hope you clearly define "spirituality" in it at the beginning. It is a very vague word that has different meanings to different people.

First of all, I don't even know what you consider an argument. Is the problem just my tone or am I not allowed to question people on here at all? Is this a safe space? As for the actual topic, for any belief we hold, there has to be some reason why we hold it. Even in philosophy there should be some reason why we concuted those specific beliefs and not different ones. I think asking somebody why they believe something is the first step to a discussion. "Why do you believe this and why should anyone else believe it?" On this specific case, I wasn't completely sure whether this was role playing, theory crafting or actual beliefs. That is why I asked. My little scenario was just an idea that should be discussed and expanded upon. I certainly do not believe that this is actually true, not do I expect anyone else to believe it either. I am a Darwinist and an atheist. I believe in no Gods and in scientific naturalism. But by all means, tell me why an omnipotent god wouldn't want to erase his memories and power to avoid going insane from boredom. There would be nothing left to learn or experience so I came up with a possible solution. If you have a better one or a reason why mine is bad I'd love to hear it. I didn't post it (although to be fair that was not the whole idea, it was meant to be a teaser or something) because I wanted people NOT to give their honest opinion and expand the topic. Oh and my scenario is not a theory, it is a hypothesis at best. So is the one I replied to and I imagine everything else on here as well. I might go back and read some of your posts or make my actual post eventually but probably not soon as I am very busy with my studies at the moment.

Christ. . . I actually read that whole thing. Let me just ask what i the purpose of Earth again in your scenario? Why would you care about helping anyone on Earth if it's all virtual? Shouldn't we all just kill ourselves and go to Cerri ASAP? The laws of physics clearly don't apply up there either so what laws do apply and where did people/life come from. Now for the more serious questions. Do you actually believe this? If yes, how did you determine any of this to be true and what method can we use to independently confirm what you're saying? And the more philosophical question. Why would anybody want an afterlife that you are forced to live in forever with no hope of ever dying? I certainly don't feel like dying just yet but can you imagine hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years have past and you are still alive, no closer to dying than you were at the start. Infinity is a long time. Anyone would get bored eventually and probably wish to die. I guess your coma thing works as some kind of break from living and I have considered things such as erasing oneself from existence for a while (simulating death) and coming back eventually. The ONLY way I would accept any kind of eternal life is one where I have to option to die whenever I choose to. I understand the fear of death is what drives these religions to promise eternal life but the second you start to think about it, the idea becomes abhorrent. Anyway, this thread looks interesting. I might post a scenario of my own about what an all powerful, all knowing God would do (or at least what I think he would do having all that knowledge). It involves relinquishing his knowledge and power so he can experience all sorts of emotions (including negative ones like pain and simple boredom) in preset worlds. So no knowledge of being God. No powers either depending on the world. Obviously he would do this since otherwise he'd just sit alone in the void with nothing to do, learn or experience for all eternity. Only other option would be erasing himself from existence as mentioned earlier. An infinite amount of worlds to explore and he could even do the same one over and over since he'd have no memories each time he started it.

Thanks, I have a good idea where the next one goes so I'll try and find it myself.