Recent content by Algiers

Should the game ever come out of beta status, I think a good idea would be to "freeze" the beta world so people can still play in it, but subsequent updates are only applied to a fresh new server - what do you think? It doesn't wipe progress while encouraging people to migrate over to the new...

Excellent! Seems like there's been nice and meaningful change, which is great - shows PWO is not declining still. I'll be eager to play with the new features once I have more free time, I just checked in for a quick peek this time.

I've been away for a year or two, not sure how long exactly (I think the client version was still 1.8.x at that point). I was just wondering if anyone could give me a little recap of all the important changes that have happened to this game since then. I see there are now apparently EVs and...

True that. I'd like to see sources for that piece of statistic. Also, no. While I don't know exact statistics, experience shows that many people don't appreciate having all their work wiped out. There is also no point in resetting while it's still a beta. We can start thinking about resets when...

I suspect there is a mighty mess of a spaghetti code behind PWO which is probably part of the reason why development is fairly slow and fixes for such apparently simple issues are considered hard. I wish I could have a peek someday, but you know. ;)

...Exeggcute. If you wanna make a joke, at least do it right!

0,01220703125% for free players. 0,048828125% for members.

Does point #7 mean that people who accept Pokes from others knowing that the Pokes were obtained through scamming will get punished and the Poke actually returned?

Partly because botters are just like real-life criminals. The small-time crooks using poor methods get caught and destroyed by the police, but the criminals who make it really big, the businessmen and politicians in sterile suits and a really dark past prosper while their secrets aren't...

How is it possible to tell the difference between a Pokemon gained legitly and one caught through botting? If it has legit moves and everything as usual, with only the owner having used an automated script to catch it, I don't realise how one could tell the difference. Forgive me if I don't just...

You still underestimate the significance of the 1000 hours required. This game's been out for quite a few years now. How many people have surpassed 1000 hours altogether? How many of those spent all 1000 hours hunting for a single Pokémon? I still think a negligible amount of people will even...

Spending 1000 hours (which, for most people, is more than their entire playtime so far) to reduce the chance of meeting a shiny rare from... say, 1/100000 to 1/25000? No, I don't think this will put a significant dent in the prices of anything. And who the hell does that anyway? It's just...

Boy, ain't you the philosopher king...

Re: Why is the server always Crashing? And what are the upda I use the singular 'they', generally, since people get all freaked out when I start using "shi", "sie", "ze" or such. Since English does not seem to have a language development committee, though, it is modified as dictated by popular...