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Wild Swarms vs. By Location
Topic Started: Apr 29 2012, 09:21 AM (174 Views)
Posted ImageJohtoTrainer
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I was thinking and what if, instead of running Wild Swarm events, we just decide on Pokemon that can be found in each location and let trainers pick a location to catch Pokemon from?

This could be better, as it would allow people more variety, and it wouldn't put pressure on them to jump at the opportunity every time a new swarm pops up. It would also keep new players from missing old and (sometimes) important swarms. For example, Smog Torkoal have proven to be extremely useful, however not everyone had the chance to get their own.

Here's an example of what I mean:
Route 1
Pokemon:Levels:Moves:Rarity:
Vulpix4-7[Ember] [Will-O-Wisp] [Confuse Ray]Common
Growlithe4-7[Ember] [Tail Whip] [Bite]Common
Ponyta5-9[Flame Wheel] [Stomp] [Attract]Uncommon
Magby7-12[Fire Punch] [Mach Punch] [Toxic]Very Rare


Then when someone gets one of us on, they simply choose the location, and we'll randomly pick a Pokemon from there.
We could even include two versions of a Pokemon, like one with reg moves as common, and one with better moves as...say...rare.

And, we could still run swarms. However perhaps make them a rarer event. We could reserve swarms for Pokemon with special movesets, or even Pokemon not normally found in the region.
Such as...
"A pod of Lapras have been seen swimming around Whirlpool Caverns!"

"A gang of Shinx and Mareep have been causing trouble in Bubble City!"

"Larvitar have hatched and surfaced in Rock Temple!"


So, yay or nay?

p.s. if we don't go with this, could we at least bump (by moderation, as opposed to by auto-tool or posting) the Map/Events topics when we do make a new swarm? : P
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Posted ImageSamzy
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Can do, although swarms were going to repeat every so often ;)
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Posted ImagePokeFan Gen. 1
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I was under the assumption that once we cycled through the list of fires then we would start repeating and probably more often like changing swarm once a day once we start repeating. I think the issue with area-specific is that we'll have to be double checking where everyone is to make sure we grab the right swarm not to mention we could be changing between 5-8 pokemon every few minutes if people are spread out over different zones. Keeping to two pokemon at a time across the zones limits how much we have to change between when running a swarm.

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So we never got back to this.....are we doing this idea or not? We're my thoughts considered? I'm wondering how we are going to run swarms now.

I also have questions regarding when we allow people to catch a pokemon from which zone. Right now I'm running water zone Wailmer/Typole but someone was asking if we still run Ponyta/Houndour. Are we running them simultaneously? I guess it's dependent on if we switch to Johto's system? Let's discuss how we are going to proceed with swarming. :)
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