Courtesy

Julia is a child. There is no kinder way to put it I feel. Her gym is the Reborn Power Plant. Such an extremely important place for the city is the absolute last place one should be lobbing explosives in. This is of course where the fanatic sets up a gym, and proceeds to throw streamers all around the place, causing various fire hazards, and then setting off explosives next to the sensitive equipment. When I expressed concerns, she nonchalantly said "it'll be fine" and asked me if I wanted to challenge her for a badge. Well. I did. I just hoped not to do it there, of all places. Her team was very imbalanced. She had 3 different Voltorbs in it. Luvuli nearly fainted from all the chaos. The fight was long and arduous, but in the end we did win. After she presented me her badge, we went back to the pokemon center. Luvuli deserved a good rest after all of that. We opted to wait out the storm so that she and Villarica could enjoy some sun on their exosceletons. We watched the news, "On The Hunt", and talked to other trainers. Most of note was Victoria, whom passed by as the storm was ending. She reported that in the Obsidia Ward, some very terrible stuff was going down, and she was on her way to help. She suggested I should come too. I agreed, and went over there immediately. Aside from a few fools that wanted a taste of Vallerica's poison stings, we had no problems reaching the ward. Getting in however was a different situation altogether. The guards refused to let me in. Despite my assurance I wished to help with the problems they were facing. When I was about to give up, Rini spotted me, and deciding I could likely help her, asked the guards to let me in, before giving me a full briefing on the events going on. Basically, for some reason tons of plants started growing in the middle of the park, and before long they took over the entire city. We needed to get to the park, scout around and figure out what the problem was, and then fix it, somehow. Rini admitted she had no idea what this would involve, but seemed to think that me, being a bug trainer, and her a grass trainer, meant this was likely in both our realms of specialty. We then fanned out, looking for a way to reach the park. Of course before I started that search in ernest, I looked around the obsidia ward. I'd never been here before after all! I went into the Critical Catch: a pokeball store that sells specialty balls. I was very glad to see they sold netballs, which are rather important to me as a bug trainer: and I bought 20 of the fuckers immediately. Father always said one should use the best balls for the job. It's one of the few places the two of us could agree on things. Of course my Mother insisted that only pokeballs should ever be used to capture. My father and her used to argue on this type of thing for hours at a time. It usually was decided by whom hit the hardest. I probably didn't need 20 balls. But I've gotten used to bulk buying, because normally my mother hit harder. Reborn also had this rather lame "Devon Corp" building to remind me of my mother. The guys said some pretty shady crap, and their selection of stock was pretty crap... just like home. I'm looking forward to never going back. I visited the salon on accident. Normally I'd not bother to mention such an event, but I felt a need to complain in my journal of the behavior of one particular lady. One of the ladies in there made the claim that my pokemon hate me! I've never been so insulted in my entire life! I build a relationship with my pokemon built on neutral trust for each other: I rely on them to do their job, and they rely on me to feed and train them. It's very clean and cut relationship with very little to debate about. Love is a meaningless concept, CARE is what a pokemon needs. This I provide for Luvuli and for Vallerica. Once I'd calmed down about the salon, I started searching for a way to reach the park. After a bit of asking around, a small kid told me I could go through the slums, south of Obsidia. It seems like a bad idea: The building I was suggested to go through might not even connect to the rest of Obsidia at all! Regardless, it was my best bet. I promised Rini to help, so I was obligated to try. Victoria did not really like that answer though. Victoria was guarding the route to the slums. She informed me that the slums were a very dangerous place to go, and she felt it was only right to stop anyone from going further unless they were strong enough to beat her. It was a bit amusing, I eventually got her to admit she was really just trying to train her pokemon so that she was strong enough to get through herself. But she insists it was also to protect others, including me. You know, I actually believe her? She seems the type. It's always nice to have people around that genuinely wish to protect you. I know I'm going to get along great with Victoria in the future. Oh, and of course, I beat her. Going through the slums was an experience. Aside from the homeless, it was falling apart. I had to jump over chasm's that had formed in the building on several occasions, and at one point, i was mobbed by a hoard of pokemon. The good news is I tracked down one of the fools that robbed me of my yen earlier. He told me where I could find a man he sold it to, after he'd stolen it from the previous gits. I hate fetch quests. It's probably not even a bug. It's a waste of my time. The worst thing about the journey through the slums is I'm not even in the Obsidia Ward anymore. Now I'm in some Coral Ward, and the police won't let me back in. Just my luck. I guess I'll head into the Coral Ward for a while... http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13455&hl=%2Bobsidia+%2Bslums#entry299968 Hey, small comment based on this thread I found: He has his pokemon visibly in the world: I didn't know we could do that! How did he do it? I might do it with my own story telling.

Is there a end-date to this event, or can I continue playing the game freely? I know some event pokemon and item locations have an expiration date before they can't be done.

It doesn't exist in 14.1 either. Are we sure this isn't a new location? If I'm supposed to get something I don't here, how will that get corrected in the future?

No. I just got here. It's a new data. EDIT: Could it be related to version 14.6? I decided to try going to an earlier version just to check if it was there earlier, but in 14.6 this room/path doesn't even exist.

Yeah I updated to Version 15. Not sure when it broke, if there is no pre-requisites for the egg to be there. What makes the egg be there?

There isn't an egg in that basket though. I didn't get anything in here.

I found this room that is after a small puzzle, but I can't actually find anything in here? What is it for?

Set it up like an event on particular trainers, and have them "use" a revive once they get to their final pokemon. skipping a turn. It would probably be easier than actually coding them to do it and make a "decision"

Actually I, too, want trainers to use Revives. Personally, I tend to use revives after a battle. an item could revive a pokemon with 1 HP, and it would still be the same as max HP to me, since I'm just picking up my poke's inbetween fights.

That's a silly argument though: at the end of the day, cotton candy will not "win" anything we don't already cheese. People will still destiny bond El's ditto, they'll still cheese field effects, etc. If people don't want to improve, they will always find a way. Removing tools from ones belt only stimulates improvement to a certain extent though. I make stronger teams without being able to lean back on left-overs, hyper potions, and all the super competitive hold items. That does indeed make us better: and players have to do a LOT of improvement if they ever hope to advance past shade. But after a certain extent, you are less attempting to make players improve, and more request them to tear down trees with their bare hands. Even though it's a task that can be succeeded at, one has to ask at some point "are we having fun?". And if you reduce the tools available to players too much, than the answer for more and more people will be no. I love this fan project to death, despite how late I've joined your community, it does not reduce my love. I don't think reducing the effectiveness of that item is the best choice though: re-evaluating it's price, to create a feeling of exclusivity whenever one is used or even purchased, would better create fun and add difficult choices for the player (Do I buy cotton candy? Do I buy this useful battle item from the market instead? Decisions!) Presently cotton candy is too cheap: Even though players could just run around using pay-day if they desired, raising the cost would better balance it's effect than just chopping the item down into redundancy-ville. Players can just as easily change system times and spam the lottery if they desire grinding items: pricing has quite a bit of effect on what items players want to use. Let us never forget pokemon gold's Lemonade.

here is my own feelings on things. If difficulty is too tightly controlled we lose many of the things that allow our community to have such diversity: including the ability to do monotype runs for many of us. Not all of us are the best players of all time: if you take away some of the advantages that are available to us, we crash and burn. I'd be very unhappy to see cotton candy go, because having options that are powerful is important to players having control over their own progression. Buffing it's cost to 10000 or 20000 pokedollars is better than just destroying it's existance entirely, because then we'd think before we pop one.

I wasn't aware of that. Does Ame do anything outside of the opening, or will that opening bit be all I ever see of that character?

Red was a player character and as such was clearly a prodigy. I only have one expectation with the elite four, and I'm not at all surprised if I get let down on it. I've a feeling Ame might be one of it's members or the champion.

Truly, Meteor is a step above Magma. By the time we stormed through their stronghold, the fools had deleted everything we could possibly use to track them. They pushed us into a pointless fight, and once we won, they escaped in the chaos of everything. Julia, our beloved phychopath of an Electric Gym leader, opted to blow the place up after. This resulted in a very unpleasant jog, and now I am out of breath. What's more, Julia apparently expects me to visit her gym soon. I'm going to need stronger pokemon to fight Meteor, so I guess I have no choice but to take the League challenge, simply so that I can even stand a chance against these Meteor goons. Julia seems a little bit unstable. She's always talking about blowing stuff up, but she's at least nice. I don't think we can find much common ground through, she jumps around, and talks about explosions and parties, cupcakes and warheads... you know, Girly stuff? Honestly I'd love to introduce her to my Mother, it would be a rather interesting event to say the least. I stand firmly on my opinion that blowing up that factory was entirely unnecesary, but I just know Julia would never have had it any other way. Rini was very robotic. Fern jokingly called them "Flobot". Julia insists that Rini is a better name though, and I personally agree. Thusforth her name shall be Rini from now on. I believe that she is the leader of a Grass Gym that some day I shall have to take on. Her pokemon seemed fierce, and she commanded them with firm and calculating bravado. She also hacked into a computer mainframe for us, and generally just seemed alright. Very business oriented, and I look forward to working with her once again, even if Father would approve of their company. Then we have Fern. Fern continuously talked about how amazing he is, and how lame I was, the entire time, even while my pokemon did most of the work in our double battles. In the end, he contributed little aside from annoying jabs, and hurting the pride and concentration of the Meteor Grunts we faced in battle. Fern, despite his claims of being prestigious, is not a Gym Leader, and I hope this means I will never have to deal with him again. His type was always unpleasant to converse with before, and I doubt that is going to change anytime soon. All of them seem to be related, which makes them the second most dysfunctional family I have had the displeasure of knowing. When these are the types of individuals we look up to as Gym Leaders: some of the most powerful masters of a particular kind of pokemon, I find myself with little question of why this region is in such disrepair.

Had no idea where to find a Surskit, but I planned it to be on my team in the end, so I'm super glad to know where it is, thanks!

I'm not sure sending me here was the most loving thing Father could have done. I find it doubtful he knew nothing of the state of the region, or of the town itself. There are more prostitutes than I can possibly count, a very visible and troubling homelessness and gang activity problem, and on my way out of the pokemart, this man stole 500 of my dollars from me. I chased him all over town, and in the end, only wound up another 500 dollars deeper in debt. Frankly, I'm not sure what I'd been expecting, what with how the rest of the town is. I was finding it difficult to locate any pokemon, but right when I'd given up hope, I found this girl whom had a kricketot she desired to give away. I gladly accepted her offer. I also met a kindred spirit in this world; a gym leader by the name of Shelly. She's young, but she appreciated bug pokemon, enough to know what the Krickitot needed to feel nice and loved. More importantly, for me at least, she told me where I could locate some bug pokemon, naturally, being a bug catcher myself, I had to go immediately. Satisfaction seemed a bit sad, but I sent them to a close friend from the Hoenn region: He'll take good care of her. It wasn't long before it started raining, and then it started storming. Once I found the garden, and convinced the old man, Crest I think his name was, to let me into it, I went about seeking out a good bug pokemon. Unfortunately, pickings were slim. There were Caterpie's, Wurmples, a few Ledyba, and I found some Spinerak. I have a pretty good eye for potential though; and none of them really seemed up to my standards. After a long time searching, I nabbed this Spinerak that I named Villarica. Luvuli, my krickitot, whom I now consider my starter pokemon of the region, evolved shortly after we found Villarica. The three of us seem to be getting along great, and fortunately, they seemed to love the rain. Eventually while I was exploring the town, I stumbled across this curious fellow by the name of Fern. He's the classic jerk. Full of himself, and thinks he's better than everyone else. Then, of course, he challenged me to a battle, which I thoroughly trounced him in. He acted like he doesn't care, but I've a feeling he now considers me a rival, which is just unpleasant to even think about for me. I wish it had been the last I'd seen of him today; but that would be wishing to much, wouldn't it? This region also has a team of villians, and somehow, I got roped into fighting them by Julia. Can you believe that? It's just like Team Magma, all over again;I just want to nab som gym badges and become a league champion, and then this set of "villians" shows up and I have to fight them first? Well, that's what I was thinking at least. These guys, this is different. I'm not certain if the gym challenge is even important to me while these guys are around. They bombed my train, they've threatened to blow up a power plant, and worst of all: They scared away all the bugs. Team Magma was a thorn in my side, but this "Team Meteor" lot? They are a blight on the entire region. They pose a real threat the to lives of everyone in the Reborn region; including myself, and must be dealt with before I continue pursuing the gym challenge. https://youtu.be/1uQU0SF1pgQ (Here is a link to me fighting Fern and the Meteor Base)

Those pathetic 15 points matter a lot to bugs tho, at least when you're using the weaker bugs. :x If it's replicating initial functions that closely, than yeah, I unfortunately will have to just power through.the brick wall of IV hunting to proceed. It's just doubly frusting with Wurmple because even once I find a good one, I don't know if it's a dustox XD. Cheers.

Is there -any- way at all to speed up finding a pokemon with good IV's? I go four or five hours before I find an acceptable (120+ total IV's, speed IV isn't single digit) and then the Wurmple is a silcoon so it's worthless anyway. I'd really like to speed up the process. IV's imho were always a terrible game concept because it just adds a rediculously high level of grind to an already frustrating process of EV's, eggmoves, and shinyness/natures. Frankly if I could I'd just do away with the concept entirely.

I'm sorry I was under the impression we -don't- bump seven month old threads here: would you prefer me to use that one?

I think it was replaced with the 14.6, which you can fine here. http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12905

Topic.

I know you have that warning when the game loads, about excessive flashing at times, and stuff. But I'm not epilectic, and I've never had an epilectic problem. But the lightning storms in this game make me feel very... sick. The lightning goes off -very- frequently, and suddenly, and it's a very bright contrast from the dark colours of the wards. Is there any way I can tone down the lightning, or at least make it strike less frequently? Sometimes, the lightning strikes 10 times in 10 seconds.