[2019 Member of the Year Award Nominations]

In light of her recent return to the fold, I nominate @Zumi for Smelliest Auth

[I look up at the Stars and wonder... How much Az is too much Az?]

I thought one was already too many, but I have high hopes for the second!

 

So hi! Great news for today, in that we are welcoming two new members to our moderation team!

 

First up, we have someone many of you may recognise from the time they spend helping in the troubleshooting section:  @Starry Knight will be joining the team as a forum moderator!

Secondly, we have someone that many of you may recognise from around the discord server, chatting and spreading positivity: @Azzie will be joining the team as a discord moderator!

 

I hope you can all give both the new additions a warm welcome and wish them well!

 

Beyond this, just wanted to add a quick reminder to everyone that, with Pokemon Sword and Shield coming out in a few weeks, we will have a spoiler lock in place for a month after they do for people that don't buy the games right away, so please keep that in mind!

[Reborn Royalty 2019 Nominations]

I nominate Ame & Lía for Queen.

 

Nominate Sardines for King

[[E18 PUZZLE SPOILER] Brute force vs. the double magic square puzzle]

Now this is the kind of thing I like to read! I will point you to this post I made in the devblog before E18 released

 

 

Which was essentially the result of Ame having developed this puzzle and asking me if it could be solved. I used Ruby and wrote a very basic programme which made moves randomly and checked if I had a winning combination.

[I Can't Believe They Added This Joker [Smash Bros Ultimate DLC Discussion and Guesses]]

I never saw it coming

[HELP!: Something Wrong With These Ditto...]

Hi the only thing we explicitly ban from online is pokemon that would be impossible to obtain normally (I.e. stuff that can't be found in the game rn like most legendaries, or stuff with IVs or EVs higher than the usual bounds, or things like that.) so this kind of thing isn't an issue, so if you wana use it, feel free.

[I swear the AI cheats]

Hi so I programmed the AI primarily so here's roughly what's happening:

 

The AI doesn't cheat with regards to this stuff, it's not able to do that. It's programmed to do things like use weaker moves if they can kill to preserve PP, be aware of other pokemon it knows are on your team in case of potential switch ins, and it tries not to get stuck in loops by doing things like overhealing or overboosting, so if it's already healed a lot it's less likely to do so again. Importantly as well, while it doesn't know when you are going to switch, it does remember your past switches in the battle, and the more you switch and the more of your team you show off, the more likely it is to predict you're going to switch and attempt to counter that. Sometimes this works out and can make a very smart seeming AI that appears to predict like a human player, and when that happens we're all very happy. Sometimes it can be disastrously stupid a little off the mark, and we're working on that too

 

The tl;dr is yeah blatant AI cheating is indeed not in line with our philosophy for the game so it's not a thing we have happen.

[Is Pokemon Essential takedown reason for Reborn ending in the next episode?]

No, Reborn has always been planned to be 19 episodes long.

[E18 Battle Issue]

Spoiler

This is intentional. Everything fainted stays fainted, but everything that wasn't fainted is restored to full health. This is explained later.

 

[Script Error]

This was fixed in E18, go ahead and download the E18 community release and you'll be able to do the trade just fine! Here's the topic it can be gotten from:

 

 

[[SPOILER] Game crashes whenever I try to enter certain house [SPOILER]]

You appear to be missing a map, this should be fixed by redownloading the game.

[Byxbyson Field?]

There is a patch to fix this issue here:

 

 

[Ep18 railnet question [spoilers]]

There's a new way to get to open the second path. Keep looking and you'll find it!

[Help on the E18 gym puzzle]

Spoiler

 

If you battle the NPC at the top who tells you the tune, he gives you the answer of the notes you need to set the blocks to.

 

(The order of notes on each block, left to right, is G A B C D E F G, if you're having trouble interpreting the solution he gives)

 

 

[Cannot Get Online]

Episode 18's community release came out a few days ago, you can download that from here;

 

 

[[Known]Battle against Fern before Aya]

After much struggle, this bug has been fixed! A patched set of scripts for people suffering from the issue will be posted later on today.

[[Fixed] [Known]Wasteland Terrain Bug]

After much struggle, this bug has been fixed! A patched set of scripts for people suffering from the issue will be posted later on today.

[[Fixed] Wasteland field battle error]

After much struggle, this bug has been fixed! A patched set of scripts for people suffering from the issue will be posted later on today.

[[Not a Bug] [E18] Boss trainer ace Pokemon error?]

This is intended, as of E18. With a few exceptions (PULSE mons, Corin-Rouge) Ace pokemon are no longer exclusively saved for last. The AI is discouraged from sending them out earlier, however if it believes their ace is a SIGNIFICANTLY better decision than any other option to send out, it will send out their Ace earlier.

[Sending to Storage]

This is intentional in Reborn, pokemon don't get healed in the PC

[E18 In Between Battle Healing (Spoilers)]

This is intentional.

[[Fixed] [E18] The list of unavailable TMs isn't correctly updated]

Fixed for public, thanks.

[[Fixed] [E18] Error when choosing a move during a battle]

Thanks, this has been fixed for public.

[Locked out of items? [E18]]

Spoiler

You won't be able to go back and get stuff you missed in there this episode, but it won't be lost permanently, you will be able to get anything you missed in the Workstation in E19.

 

[is online play down?]

Yes, online is currently down. Thank you for your patience, we're working on getting it back up.