regarding Starters and Baby-Making

[these_balls]

Three things:

1) SO WE HERD U WANTED SOME OLD STARTERS.

There are now 140.

In addition, because Larvitar are pseudo-Legendary pokémon, they've been given a cap of 10. We've never actually had ten as starters so this should be alright.


2) We've also added the bugs from the swarm-plot to the Availability List, as well as the two found at the Ruins of Alph. You no longer need to contact us about what to find there! We've linked what's there and probably someday maybe we'll find a better way to add it there but until then have that link.

3) PEOPLE WHO BREED, GET OVER HERE!

Two things:
1) Would you all prefer a breeders-specific community in order to keep free eggs and whatnot in order instead of using the OOC community? If so, any ideas for a name or would you like one of us to think of something?

and 2) We've heard from numerous people that there's an excess of eggs. Because of this, it will be capped. Although, we don't want to cap it too high or too low, so I had a question for you guys: How much do you think is too much? This can be in terms of too many eggs per pokémon, per week, from pokémon each week? etc. Anything you can think of, go ahead and list, and feel free to discuss amongst each other as well!

Comments

[these_balls]

The reason we thought of using a new community was so it would be more organized and have all of the breeder-related things in one place. If not enough people want a second community though, we could always make a new tag. But if we did pick a new community, we'd announce it and link it with the acceptance and on the profile so people could find it. There's always a way for either to work! I'm keeping tabs on the votes.

A per-pokémon or per-trainer/breeder cap seems to be a more likely decision! (Everyone seems to like that idea, that's awesome.) I like the idea of restricting the rarer ones to less eggs a month, so that doesn't seem too hard to add at all.

So with Ken, if he had two pokémon breeding six, does he go around three each? Or does it switch depending on circumstances/pokémon? I'm trying to gauge a bit of an estimate.

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

I mean, to some extent, it's a good idea. I just think it might become a little redundant if there's going to be hopefully fewer breeding posts. I think a breeding tag on 006 might be just as effective, but that's just how I feel.

Oh, per pokemon per month. Sorry, I might not have been clear. That means he has all of twelve available each month, if they breed. Six Cubones and six Bulbasaur at max. I think the first time I had four Cubones available, maybe five. Really, I think it's something we should already be policing ourselves on, but that doesn't appear to be working. If limits go down based on rarity, I'd personally drop my max amount of eggs to four for Cubone, since they're classified as uncommon, and two or three for Bulbasaur because they're classified as rare.

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

OH AND IF YOU DO IT just for uniformity I think route_366 or route_3665 would be cool :|a

[these_balls]

Oh! I see, so six per pokémon per month. /jots that down

The limit might not necessarily mean the amount of posts goes down, just that it might decrease the amount in each post. But it probably depends on if people like to post them all in a batch or break them down a bit and how often each person posts. SO MANY CONDITIONS, MY GOODNESS!

...I like those names! /notes them too

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

But, oh man I keep reiterating this, I really feel like the limit should go down depending on the rarity of a pokemon.

And, really, it won't cut down on flist spam, since one way or another you're going to watch it. It's like putting intros on a new comm--one way or another, people are going to see it. It'll just be under a different comm. And if people just don't friend it, it kind of takes away the point of breeding, because no one's going to see it. Maybe moving egg posts to the spam comm might be a better idea than OOC, but adding another comm might just kind of. Make TOO MANY COMMSSSSSS. We're not really a comm-based game, or I could see setting up another one. It really is all journal based.

[these_balls]

Thirding (or fourthing?) a rarity based limit? This we could probably do.

I wouldn't want it to move to the spam comm because, egg posts are more based on changes to the actual game, unlike memes and random videos and whatnot. If we end up making a breeder's comm and it doesn't work as well, we could always switch over to the OOC again. Nothing's going to be fully set in stone just yet!

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

Like I said in my first comment, it just makes sense. There has to be a reason they're so rare in the wild. And aside from climate issues, I think breeding issues would be a logical reason. Like... pandas are rare because they don't have a lot of babies! Chickens do.