I have thought that it would be fun to make a ROMhack that only had the worst-liked Pokemon available. Make players use the terrible ones. But finding official listings of what Pokemon are least liked is difficult. As is making ROMhacks.

I tried doing some ROMhacking, but it ended up being too much for my brain to handle easily. It might have worked better if I had tried to join a team to get experience first, but that never panned out.

I definitely wrote some other breakdowns like the above in other places, but I'm not sure where they are off the top of my head. You can look through my comment history if you want to find them, but I don't have an easy way to narrow that down much.

And good luck on your own breakdown! I think that having individualized strengths and weaknesses makes the most sense lore-wise, but with over 1000 Pokemon at this point I think it would be too much work and not enough gain to realistically do it, even in a fan project.

I haven't played Scarlet and Violet, but I know a bit about it. (I haven't been able to bring myself to play a mainline Pokemon game since Sun and Moon, since the quality has gone down so much, in my opinion.)

As for Scarlet and Violet, I think the paradox Pokemon are more of a representation of multiversal shenanigans than time travel. The games give conflicting information about it, implying that no one really knows, and neither the ancient or future versions of paradox Pokemon really seem like they come from other times, but other worlds entirely.

That's my take anyway.

Of course it should be indefinite. A two day blackout does nothing. You need to make reddit regret their decision.

It's an interesting idea. If you have a link to wherever you're collaborating I'll take a look, but I'm not sure I have to time to be a full collaborator.

I hope it's permanent.

After the AMA, I have no hope that Reddit isn't going to force this through. I refuse to use their shitty app, so I'll be logging off tonight and not logging back in until July 1st, just to see if the 3rd party app I use still works.

I'm planning on making a Lemmy community, since I still like the Jumpchain community. No idea if it will take off, but at least it'll be something.

Fuck it, I went ahead and made a community. https://lemmy.world/c/jumpchain

Absolutely shut down, but do it indefinitely. I certainly won't be back if they shut down 3rd party apps.

Should've remained a commercial failure.

Don't pussy out. Go dark indefinitely until Reddit backs down.

I disagree with your choice, but ultimately it doesn't matter. If Reddit goes through with their plans, I will no longer be using the site, as I use mobile for 95% of my browsing and I refuse to be strongarmed into using their terrible app.

I've had similar ideas in the past. In many ways it would act like modern western comic books, where multiple authors are collaborating on a shared universe.

But, therein lies the problem. To set up such a world, you need the authors to all agree, or else you'll run into mismatches. This can be relatively easy if you only have a few authors, but will get messy quickly once you add more.

You also have to consider the issues of using characters established by other authors. Half the fun of a shared universe is seeing how the characters from one author interact with characters from another. To do it well, you either need to have each author get veto power over actions taken by any of their established characters, or set someone up as the "loremaster" of the universe that can object to different characterizations.

An alternative way to set up such a universe is the SCP route, where anyone can collaborate, but there is no canon (or, there is no official canon). In this way, individual authors could take what works for them from the established stories and ignore what doesn't, creating their own story derivatives. I'd honestly be intrigued to see how that might turn out in a more narrative-based structure, as opposed to how SCP does it.

A third idea I've bounced around is a kind of "creative commons" story. One person writes a story, and any one else is allowed (and encouraged) to branch off from the story, creating their own plotlines or alternative plotlines. It would get real messy real fast, but that is part of the appeal in my eyes.

Couple of thoughts.

1. Not sure if this is a bug, but the planet never actually gets destroyed in my games. It just keeps exploding every time it gets hit and brought below 0 hit points, but the hit points never change and I can still do things.

2. The prices feel too high for such an easy-to-destroy ships. Either all the ships should respawn once constructed, or the proces should be significantly reduced, or the ship's durability needs to be buffed.

3. There should be a bigger pause between rounds, for the player to be able to build things.

4. I'm not sure the ships should be able to move. Part of the fun of tower defense is setting up a build and then seeing how well you planned things out. When you can move the ships around, it doesn't have the same feeling. Maybe you could add sattelites that orbit the planet/station to act as intermediaries between ships?

5. There desperately needs to be a speed up button. Having to wait for the slow ships is terrible.

6. Likewise, an upgrade to increase the speed of your own ship's weaponry would be a good idea.

This is clearly an early sort of build, and thus it feels very bare bones. Lots of potential, but it needs work. As is, there's not a lot of longevity at the moment. I played for 20 minutes and I feel like I don't have anything else to try.

Looking forward to an update!

As another 3rd party app user, I also cannot access the poll, but am firmly in the "blackout indefinitely" camp. I will not be using the official app regardless, and thus no longer be a member of any community past June 30th.

Go dark, not just for a few days, but indefinitely.

I support an indefinite blackout unless reddit fully backs off of these plans. I certainly won't be here after June 12th otherwise.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm treating Reddit as dead to me on June 12th unless they universally reverse their decision. I use RiF for 98% pf my browsing, and I'm not using their garbage app.

Go dark indefinitely until they reverse the proposed changes.

I've been on-again off-again working on a Genesys hack that is based on this concept. Really pare down the crunchyness of the game, limit the number of Pokemon people can have, and make the moves less concrete.

I request participation. And full participation, not just the 3-day strike.

Don't be a pansy. Go dark indefinitely until they rollback the proposed changes.

It better. And not this 3 days shit; go off indefinitely until Reddit admins back down.

Pretty much. Lived on the east coast my whole life, and this is the first time I can remember wildfire smoke.

It's really eerie personally experiencing it after only ever seeing pictures and videos of it from the west coast. Sure am glad to be alive at the end of the human race.

Yessss, I love that this is still being worked on.

Good.