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Haven't given an update here in a while, things are slowly but surely coming along... If you couldn't tell already, my work ethic is basically non-existent lmao. No matter what though this mod will get done, I'm not gonna just abandon it after all the work I put into it

indeed

btw im back and my house is fine, fortunately an entire can of mtn dew wasnt enough to break my hard drive so i didnt get set back at all dont really have an update on the mod itself though, its hard to find motivation to work on it after being gone so long lol.

So... My sister spilled soda on my hard drive, and it’s completely destroyed... So unfortunately... This entire mod is........ sitting in a google drive until i can get to it again :D house is fine, dont know when im going home though because the roads are flooded.

Got issued a mandatory evacuation because of hurricane Florence, so this project is halted until I'm able to come back. I live in a very flood-heavy area, so there's a good chance my house wont be habitable if the storm is as bad as they say. I'm taking my hard drive with me so everything mod related is safe, but wont be able to work on it for a while.

Hey sorry for the late reply, I'm not going to be updating this until v11, so it would be better to wait until then! I'm also going to release one for Reborn alongside it, for those who want to try either of them.

Haven't had much motivation lately because its all just tedious work, but basically all thats left is the pit of 100 trials.

Hopefully the replay value of this mod becomes immense because 99% of pokemon are usable in a team, the only ones that really arent are Unown and most legends. In my own test playthrough, I had a different team basically every gym and I enjoyed it a lot. The only problem I can see right now is that it may be too hard xD. Personally, I love having to come up with an entirely new team just to beat a specific gym, and think of strategies on how to beat it. I'll probably add easy grinding areas so this is made easier, perhaps even with EV-specific sections of each one so you can multitask grinding and EV training.

I've had a slight change of heart, shortly (hopefully) after the release of e18 I'm going to release a "bare bones" version of this. Basically only the trainers, pokemon, some moves, and maybe some encounters will be edited. I might also include the Pit of 100 Trials thing, since it would be my own map and much easier to slap into an updated version. My reasoning for doing this is so i can address things that will need to be balanced with the full release, and... because I'm really bored

So funny story, i thought i had already said what i'm about to say like 2 months ago... but apparently my message didn't go through and all this time i was under the impression that it did. But anyway, this project will likely not be completed until after reborn is. The reason being that I realized updating between episodes is... basically just remaking the entire game each time, with all the events and stuff I have planned. So yea... as unfortunate as it is, its just not worth me redoing every time. Fortunately i believe e19 is the last episode, so hopefully the wait wont be too long.

Alright so after a long and much needed break, I'm finally back. Although I'm gonna do a play through first so I can re-familiarize myself with the game.

Love the detail in the hair.

Got kinda burnt out on this so I've been taking a break, all thats left is the Pit of 100 Trials thing, encounters, and stuff that i need to actually edit on maps. also im addicted to fortnite please help its consuming my life

Tbh i forgot i even made this xD and i guess i'll update it if i get around to it, kinda busy with irl stuff and im addicted to fortnite even though im trash

lmao i feel like they're all gonna get blown back by the PULSE Tangrowth.

Good because I'm making it happen I've got even more ideas, every 5 floors will have a terrain change so I can change the field effects in play frequently. I also found out recently that you can give trainers Pokemon with more than 510 total EV's, so I'm definitely going to have some fun with that... Some other things I've been doing is buffing some moves, like Double Slap - 25BP hits 2-5 times and is changed to Fairy type. And Spike Cannon being the same, but Steel type.

Atm I'm making a list of things of things I'm going to add as stuff to do on the side. I've got a couple of good ideas so far, for example I'm going to make a "Pit of 100 Trials" as a post-game challenge. Basically it's a challenge based off of a "dungeon" in Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door, where there's 100 floors you must conquer each with a single enemy in it. This will work essentially the same here, 100 trainers, 100 floors, but in my version there will be bosses every 10 floors. Healing will also be limited to just items in your bag, and after every 10 floors there will be a shop that gets more and more expensive as you go deeper (This is designed to break you before you reach the bottom), the shop will sell Ethers Potions Revives etc. Also I'll probably place a PC every 10 floors too, and you technically could heal with a PC, but you can only have as much fun as you allow yourself to have, so it doesn't matter much. Anyways, everything is slowly coming together, I should be ready for a release within a month or two.

Sloooooooooowly but surely getting the pesky trainer file done. Also got a bunch of good ideas for moves I can edit, like Gust (40 BP priority) and Acid (70 BP works like freeze dry, but on Steel types)

Well its already organized, I'm just redoing everything I have in the organized style that they have now. Essentially I'm just gonna copy/paste every trainer one by one and make tweaks to them that make it look like I started off of the e17 trainer file. I honestly don't know how long it's going to take, I don't want to rush things because I want it to be a quality mod, but I guess I'll say 3 months and maybe more if testing doesn't go very well. Every Pokemon got a buff to the point where I would consider it a "broken" Pokemon, so yes. And as for Liquid Voice, I believe it doesn't currently do that, but I might give it the same boost that Aerilate/Refrigerate/etc. gives.

So after taking a look at the new PBS, the trainers file looks... Very organized. I might just redo all the trainers... again. It sucks but if i redo them now in this way that its organized it will make my life 100000000000000x easier whenever i update to newer versions. This will also make it easier to keep it more like e17 and not e16, because in e17 a lot of leaders and trainers were tweaked and I honestly was going to keep it the way i had already edited it because it was going to be easier, but this will definitely be better in the long run.

Yeah the PBS files are gonna be in the games folder, the pokemon file can just be opened with notepad and you will be able to see everything i changed.

I did in fact give it Aura Sphere, although quite late in its learn-set.

Finishing up my playthrough and waiting for a handful of bugs to be fixed, and then I'll be back on my grind.

Alright so I just finished playing e17 and I noticed a handful of bugs that definitely be fixed, so I'm probably not gonna start working on this until the full release to ensure I don't have to update all my stuff multiple times, It'll just be a hassle I can avoid by just starting later. Also I'm probably gonna have to replay the entire game again just to re-familiarize myself with everything, along with finding any new things that could be useful to me.