Recent content by Rigaudon

The game came out in late 2008. It is over 10 years old, was made by volunteers, many of them minors. Of those that weren't minors, many of them did not have any experience with game design, even when it came to critical areas like programing. PWO was one of the first games of its kind and as...

I'm so sorry to have let anyone down. This was a project between a mapper, a dev, a scripter, and I. Everything was completed excluding the remaining half of the quest when the scripter had life circumstances get in the way. I personally had to leave after my dad got cancer. Before then I had no...

We were going to divide the lower tiers into better time chunks based on feedback. To do this, T5 was going to be split in half, so there was a T5 and T6. This way you have "event" pokemon rarity like Stary and "easy T5" stay T5. Meanwhile, very difficult pokemon like Bagon would be indicated as...

Smaller playerbase is going to mean goods move more slowly. The game needs a stronger influx of players trying to climb their way up so that potential buyer/seller pools don't stagnate. It -is- an actual issue in PWO. Most likely the primary issue. :P

Whoops. There is a lot of potential for human error in this system. I looked at sheets until my eyes bled and apparently I saw numbers inaccurately after all this time. It's easy to put one number off when resetting back from a swarm, which is what I suspect I did. As for testing things -...

Join the Pewter City Museum for the event. Go upstairs and talk to the Bird Party Butler to join in.  If you're stuck in Johto, talk to the Event Transporter in Cherrygrove City and she'll take you there. Just be sure to follow the invitation code! Anyone that doesn't have 6 bird Pokemon in...

I'm importing a few exotic species to the Farside Valley map. Be there or be square.

Things like multiple types of unown, Rotom, etc. More examples can be found here: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_with_form_differences

I don't think we could directly do SOS battles for the same reasons Isguros suggested, but I'm intrigued by the idea of unique/different wild pokemon battle formats.

I want to clarify that scripters can't set spawns on maps, that is a map GE specialty. : ) The main problem with just finding more qualified people is that, when it comes to scripting, I find they tend to not show off. Those that do show off will only settle for Dev and/or have behavioral...

> its not uncommon for her to pick someone out that she thinks would be a good fit only for the GM staff to find issues with, say, farming starters. You would be surprised with how many people I have gotten banned or nearly banned this way. I'm glad that somebody finally brought up...

Thank you, PWO community!  We've reached our goals for emergency funds. From now on, whenever there is an excess of donations, proceeds will be given to the Child's Play charity. But that's not all. Chimchar, Piplup and Turtwig will be made available on the token store indefinitely. Like...

One thing to consider: How does a small group of people having some now-unobtainable Pokemon prevent others from engaging/enjoying with the game? Unless you're in the top %, it isn't going to affect you. Yeah, it's not ideal, but neither is completely wiping the game. Even with 28+ IVs, you can...

I don't normally post these, and in fact I didn't start doing swarms as an official thing, but here's a heads up. They're established enough for me to have to say this.   For context, Swarms started as a spontaneous way to make people's days brighter. Once every weekend, I would make something...

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