Guild Updates!
It's that time again revolutionists! As the guild continues it's journey through beta testing, it's been a group effort to find and report bugs such as missing abilities, moves, items, and broken mechanics. Thank you all for your continued contributions to the guild! Today we have a TON of new updates ready to go, so hold on to your Ponyta, because the Mods of the Revolution have been working hard for the past month or so to get this update together.
Balm Mushrooms:
In light of the recent poll, we are currently no longer allowing Legendary Moves to be learned via Balm Mushrooms. However, this case isn't closed just yet. We will be making a poll or two in the near future to completely resolve the issues that are still at hand, so keep an eye out for future announcements and polls regarding this. Those of you who have Legendary Moves in your pokemon's learnset may keep them for now, we are trying to determine how to handle that issue presently and it will be the focus of our future polls.
Item Updates:
New Items:
Battle Recorder: Effect: Used to customize NPC Teams with any combination of pokemon. Note: Can be used for 5 NPC battles, still costs 15 posts per NPC encounter. To Obtain: 30 Posts Locations: Any Black Sludge: Effect: When this item is held by a Pokémon, if the holder is of the Poison-type, it restores 1/16th of its maximum HP each turn. If the holder is not a Poison type, it loses 1/16th of its maximum HP each turn. Blue Shard: Effect: Combine five to create a blue flute To Obtain: 10 posts in a Desert or Ruins of Alph Red Shard: Effect: Combine three to create a red flute To Obtain: 10 posts in a Desert or Ruins of Alph Yellow Shard: Effect: Combine three to create a yellow flute To Obtain: 10 posts in a Desert or Ruins of Alph Blue Flute: Effect: When played, wakes a Sleeping Pokemon To Obtain: Combine 5 Blue Shards Yellow Flute: Effect: When played, snaps a Pokemon out of confusion To Obtain: Combine 3 Yellow Shards Red Flute: Effect: When played, snaps a Pokemon out of infatuation To Obtain: Combine 3 Red Shards Black Flute: Effect: When played, attracts one wild pokemon of choice from the available list of pokemon in the area the flute is played. Note: The item is consumed after one use, and still costs Wild Pokemon Post counters to battle. To Obtain: 10 Posts in a Cave DNA Splicers: Effect: Can be Used to change Kyurem to Black or White Kyurem Note: A DNA sample must be taken from another RPers or your own Reshiram/Zekrom for the Splicing to be Sucessful To Obtain: 30 Posts Locations: Giant Chasm Dowsing Machine: Effect: Reduces item post counters by half (rounded down) for 24 hours. Note: The item is consumed after one use. To Obtain: Event Item Only Expert Belt: Effect: When this item is held, if the holder uses an attack on the opponent which is Super Effective, its power is increased x1.2 To Obtain: Event Item Only Explorer Kit: Effect: Creates an Excavation Site for 7 days, allowing anyone in the area to find fossils for 30 posts each. One fossil a day max To Obtain: Event Item Only Fashion Case Effect: Contains one Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Pink Scarf. To Obtain: Event Item Only Focus Sash Effect: Prevents the Holder from a KO, leaving them with 1 HP To Obtain: 10 Posts Locations: Any Note: When a KO is prevented, the item disappears. Scope Lens Effect: Increases the chance for moves to critically hit by 1/10 To Obtain: 30 Posts Locations: Any Luck Incense: Effect: If held by a pokemon while breeding, this incense increases the chances of a shiny pokemon being produced. See the Breeding Center for More Details. To Obtain: Event Item Only Sea Incense Effect: Boosts Power of Water Type Moves by x1.2. To Obtain: 30 Posts in a City with a Port Note: Causes Azumarill and Marill to produce an Azurill Egg if holding this item while breeding. Rock Incense Effect: Boosts Power of Rock Type Moves by x1.2. To Obtain: 30 Posts in a Cave Note: Causes Sudowoodo to produce a Bonsly Egg if holding this item while breeding. Lax Incense Effect: Raises the holder's evasion by one stage in battle To Obtain: 30 Posts in a Cave Note: Causes Wobbuffet to produce a Wynaut Egg if holding this item while breeding. Pure Incense Effect: Boosts Power of Normal Type Moves by x1.2. To Obtain: 30 Posts Locations: Slateport City, Driftveil City, Coumarine City, Sandgem Town. Note: Causes Chimecho to produce a Chingling Egg if holding this item while breeding. Wave Incense Effect: Boosts Power of Water Type Moves by x1.2. To Obtain: 30 Posts in a City with a Port Note: Causes Mantine to produce a Mantyke Egg if holding this item while breeding. EXP Share: Effect: Holder gains an extra 1/2 EXP boost equal to the EXP gained from each battle up to level 30. Note: Trainers may only have one EXP share active at a time. If the EXP share is removed from the holder, it will break. To Obtain: 50 Posts Locations: AnyItems Undergoing Changes:
The Quick Claw's ability has now been limited:
Quick Claw Effect: When held by a pokemon, each round the holder has a 1/3 chance of automatically moving first. To Obtain: 30 Posts Anywhere Due to the addition of breeding incense, The Rose incense and Odd Incense are currently undergoing some changes, as they a completely different function that what we had them listed as previously. If you have a Rose Incense or Odd incense in your inventory, DONT PANIC. The previous uses of these items are now being transferred to new types of incense, so the solution is simply to change the old incense to it's new look and name, and quote a mod to let us know that you've made the change.
The Rose Incense is now going to be listed as:
Rose Incense Effect: Boosts Power of Grass Type Moves by x1.2. To Obtain: 30 Posts in a Forest Note: Causes Roselia and Roserade to produce a Budew Egg if holding this item while breeding. The old Rose Incense function is now transferred to this new incense to take it's place:
Sweet Incense Effect: Wild Pokemon from your current location's wild pokemon list will appear every RP post for 24 hours without reducing post counters. Changing locations will not cancel out the incense's effect. To Obtain: Event Item Only Note: Consumed After UseThe New effect for Odd Incense is:
Odd Incense Effect: Boosts Power of Psychic Type Moves by x1.2. To Obtain: 30 Posts Locations: Saffron City, Ecruteak City, Mossdeep City, Hearthome City, Anistar City, Dreamyard Note: Causes Mr. Mime to produce a Mime Jr. Egg if holding this item while breeding. And this will be the replacement for what Odd Incense used to be is now;
Mysterious Incense: Effect: Generate a number 1-18 with the numbers assented to the pokemon types ( Fire, Water, Grass ext ) For 24 hours when you activate this incense, any unevolved Pokemon of the type that you rolled will appear as frequent as you want them to at Level 10. To Obtain: Event Item only Notes: Consumed after use. Only one pokemon per post maximum. 1- Fire
2- Water
3- Grass
4- Electric
5- Psychic
6- Ice
7- Dragon
8- Dark
9- Fairy
10- Normal
11- Fighting
12- Flying
13- Poison
14- Ground
15- Rock
16- Bug
17- Ghost
18- Steel
Achievement Updates:
New RPer Achievements:
Achievement Title: Millennium Member Club
Description: Make 1,000 Posts in the Guild
Rewards: Event Item of Choice
Notes: You can track the number of posts you have made in the guild by checking the "Guild Members" tab.
Achievement Title: Penthouse Member
Description: Make 5,000 Posts in the Guild
Rewards: Event Item of Choice
Notes: You can track the number of posts you have made in the guild by checking the "Guild Members" tab.
Achievement Title: To the Fourth Power
Description: Make 10,000 Posts in the Guild
Rewards: Legendary Summon Item of Choice OR Event Item of Choice
Notes: You can track the number of posts you have made in the guild by checking the "Guild Members" tab.
New Character Achievements:
Pokedex:
Achievement Title: Excavation Expert
Description: Catch all 21 Fossil Pokemon
Rewards: Megastone of Choice
Notes: The Fossil Pokemon are Kabuto, Kabutops, Omanyte, Omastar, Aerodactyl, Anorith, Armaldo, Lileep, Cradily, Cranidos, Rampardos, Shieldon, Bastiodon, Tirtouga, Carracosta, Archen, Archeops, Tyrunt, Tyrantrum Amaura, and Aurorus.
Achievement Title: Babysitter
Description: Catch all 18 "Baby" Pokemon
Rewards: Luck Incense
Notes: The Baby Pokemon are Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Togepi, Tyrogue, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby, Azuril, Wynaut, Budew, Chingling, Bonsly, Mime Jr. , Munchlax, Happiny, Riolu, and Mantyke.
Achievement Title: Rock Collection
Description: Catch all Stone Evolution Pokemon
Rewards: 1 Megastone of Choice
Notes: These do not include Eeveelutions. Stone Evolution pokemon are: Gallade, Honchcrow, Mismagius, Aegislash, Chandelure, Arcanine, Ninetales, Simisear, Exeggutor, Vileplume, Bellossom, Shiftry, Simisage, Victreebel, Clefable, Wigglytuff, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Delcatty, Musharna, Florges, Roserade, Togekiss, Cinccino, Whimsicott, Heliolisk, Lilligant, Sunflora, Eelektross, Raichu, Ludicolo, Simipour, Poliwrath, Cloyster, Starmie.
Achievement Title: Unstable Evolutionist
Description: Catch all the Eeveelutions
Rewards: 1 Megastone of Choice
Notes: Eevee, Jolteon, Vaporeon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glacieon, and Sylveon
Achievement Title: Dragon Ball - Z to GT !
Description: "ITS OVER 9000 !!!"
Rewards: Draco Plate
Notes: Own 15 different dragon type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: Batman
Description: "Im the goddamn batman!"
Rewards: Dread Plate
Notes: Own 15 different dark type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: ClayFace
Description: "Hard to really know the good guys from the bad guys sometimes."
Rewards: Earth Plate
Notes: Own 15 different ground type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: SuperMan
Description: "Its not an S. On my world it means Hope"
Rewards: Fist Plate
Notes: Own 15 different fighting type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Human Torch
Description: "Flame on!"
Rewards: Flame Plate
Notes: Own 15 different fire type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Emma frost
Description: "This is the X-Men, Mystique. Not Alcoholics Anonymous."
Rewards: Icicle Plate
Notes: Own 15 different ice type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Spiderman
Description: "With great power comes great responsibility."
Rewards: Insect Plate
Notes: Own 15 different bug type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Colossus
Description: "Victory is OURS, comrades!"
Rewards: Iron Plate
Notes: Own 15 different steel type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: Poison Ivy
Description: "It took God seven days to create paradise. Let's see if I can do better."
Rewards: Meadow Plate
Notes: Own 15 different grass type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Professor Xavier
Description: "A new species is being born. Help me guide it, shape it, lead it."
Rewards: Mind Plate
Notes: Own 15 different psychic type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Hawk Eye
Description: "When you talk to the cops about this, tell 'em Hawkeye was the good guy willya? I don't need anymore bad press."
Rewards: Sky Plate
Notes: Own 15 different flying type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: Aquaman
Description: "Nothing quite as invigorating as a saltwater dip."
Rewards: Splash Plate
Notes: Own 15 different water type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: Dr. Fate
Description: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Grundy. I am Dr. Fate"
Rewards: Spooky Plate
Notes: Own 15 different ghost type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Thing
Description: "Okay, I'm sure this's interesting and all, but if we don't actually fight the bad guys, we'll lose our hero license!"
Rewards: Stone Plate
Notes: Own 15 different rock type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: Joker
Description: "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
Rewards: Toxic Plate
Notes: Own 15 different poison type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC: Shazam
Description:"SHAZAM!"
Rewards: Zap Plate
Notes: Own 15 different electric type pokemon
Achievement Title: Marvel: Wasp
Description: "HI! I'm the Wasp! And you've just been STUNG!"
Rewards: Pixie Plate
Notes: Own 15 different fairy type pokemon
Achievement Title: DC Vs Marvel
Description: "The real questions isn't who would win but who wouldn't die ..."
Rewards: Megastone of Choice
Notes: Collect all 17 DC Vs Marvel Achievements including the DBZ-GT achievement.
Misc:
Achievement Title: Free Willy
Description: Catch a Wailmer, Evolve it to a Wailord, and then Release it.
Rewards: Mystic Water
Notes: Provide Links for Proof
Achievement Title: Don't be a Drag, Just be a Queen
Description: Own a Female Mr. Mime, Geodude, Machamp, and Male Sylveon, Gardevoir, Milotic, and Lopunny
Rewards: Fashion Case
Notes: N/A
Achievement Title: Partner of the Century
Description: Level a Pokemon up to level 100
Rewards: Any Non Event Hold Item, Consumable Item, or TM of Choice
Notes: N/A
Achievement Title: It's Evolutionary Dear Watson!
Description: Evolve a Pokemon for the first time.
Rewards: One Evolutionary Hold Item of Choice
Notes: N/A
Achievement Title: Friendly Rivalry
Description: Battle Against another RPer
Rewards: One TM of Choice
Notes: Please provide Links to the Match
Breeding:
Achievement Title: Hatching Beginner
Description: Hatch a Pokemon from an egg
Rewards: 1 Big Mushroom
Notes: Egg must have required posts to hatch in order for this achievement to count.
Achievement Title: One Man Hatchery
Description: Hatch a total of 5 Pokemon from eggs
Rewards: 1 Breeding Incense
Notes: Eggs must have required posts to hatch in order for this achievement to count.
Achievement Title: Sunny Side Up, or Down?
Description: Hatch a total of 10 Pokemon from eggs
Rewards: 3 Big Mushrooms and 1 Lucky Egg
Notes: Eggs must have required posts to hatch in order for this achievement to count.
Rules and Guidelines Updates
Communications List:
-Any and all legendaries have the POTENTIAL to communicate telepathically if you want them to or would like it to be canon for your character's legendary specifically.
-All pokemon with the move Psychic or the ability telepathy can communicate with humans
-Trainers who have been given permission to have telepathic abilities or the ability to communicate with pokemon via an element of story plot may communicate with pokemon of their choosing.
-All psychic and ghost type pokemon can communicate telepathically, however Rotom, though a ghost, may only communicate via electronic devices.
-Some Fakemon are telepathic or able to talk. Read the Fakedex entries and talk to the creators to find out more about Fakemon that can communicate.
Other Exceptions:
-Riolu (To trainer only)
-Lucario
-Chatot (able to mimic and repeat words over time)
-Murkrow (able to mimic and repeat words over time)
-Honchkrow (able to mimic and repeat words over time)
-Porygon
-Porygon2
-Porygon-Z
-Zorua
-Zoroark
-Ninetales (After Learning a Psychic or Ghost type Move)
Evolving Pokemon
For the most part, this is pretty cut and dry, but there are some points that need to be clarified:
-Pokemon that evolve by friendship require a minimum of three FP before they can do so.
-To evolve Inkay into Malamar, RP out your character's Inkay being flipped upside down in some form or fashion when it is level 30 or higher.
-To evolve Sliggoo into Goodra, bring it near any body of water and RP out the weather raining with Sliggoo out of it's pokeball at level 50 or higher to have it evolve.
-It is the RPer's choice whether their character's Wurmple evolves into Silcoon or Cascoon.
-There are three hold items that can be given to Tyrogue to hold in order to evolve it into one of it's three evolutions; a Defense Band, and Attack Band, and a Balance Band. Check the Pokemart for more details.
-Eevee can be evolved into Glaceon by leveling up while holding an Icy Rock, and into Leafeon with a Leaf Stone. We know this is different than in the games, but we didn't want to require people to go to the specific locations, and weren't sure how to specify the rocks within those locations, so we adjusted the evolution system slightly.
All other evolutions follow their normal methods, however if you have any questions about evolution, please quote a mod in the Questions Comments and Concerns thread and we'll be sure to help you sort out any confusion!
Literacy
We've been noticing far too many posts with only a few words or 1-2 lines of text in them, and while we can understand writers block, this trend of small posting or spam posting has caught our attention, and will be monitored closely from now on in addition to these new rules:
Pokemon: Eternal Revolution is a semi literate to literate guild, which means that posts should be made in narrative format. Please use quotations " " for speaking and do not use asterisks * * or dashes - - for actions or non spoken text. Also, as a general rule of thumb, at a MINIMUM, every post should be at least 3 to 5 decently sized lines or sentences. We understand that getting items, gaining experience, and moving to a new area and the like can require a lot of posts, but constant one or two liners is considered spamming, which is not allowed in this guild. RPing on your own is daunting at times, especially when posting for an area specific item, however you can always ask others for ideas in the OOC, or reach out for an RP partner to help add more content to posts. We will be slightly more lenient if shorter posts come every once in a while at the end of your rope or on a bad day, there are also certain kinds of guild events and time limited items such as 24 hour restrictions in which leniency will also be given for shorter posts, however we will let members know the literacy rules in the event information page so that you are made aware of what is acceptable. Otherwise, please keep in mind that writing out the math of a battle does not count as post content, only writing out the battle in RP terms counts as post content. If we get a complaint, and a mod considers your posts spamming, you will be warned, and then if the spamming continues, your RP posting will be restricted to a certain number per day for a period of time. If you post past your limit before the time is up, you will be kicked from the guild.
This sounds severe, however please understand that the mods are always open to those who ask for help. If you ask to make sure their shorter posts won't come off as spam, or check to make sure if a post is long enough, we will be far more lenient with this rule. Official warnings will only go out to those who spam post without consciousness of the fact that they are spamming. Please keep in mind that this rule is in place to keep things fair, since much of the guild runs on post counters, and there are rewards for the number of posts a person makes in the guild, therefore we do not want people spamming for faster rewards, or to milk every last bit of their bonus 24 hour exp boost. On top of that, it can also be really aggravating for people in the same thread to have their posts lost because someone else comes in and posts fifty times in one day, and if you have a habit of it, can ultimately leave people unhappy to even have your character in the same area as theirs.
Megastones
In light of the poll on megastones, we have edited a small new rule stating that only one mega evolved pokemon may be used when battling against another RPer.
Characters
I know, I know, it's all pretty awesome and fun. It may be tempting to just make all the characters you can to try all the things! However, please keep in mind that this is a pokemon guild, and as such we really try to stick as closely as possible to the anime and games of the pokeverse, which means that all characters in this guild should be human. Please do not make a Gijinka, Humanoid, or Alien as a character to RP. If you would like clarification to see if your idea is acceptable, then feel free to ask a mod, and we would be happy to give you an answer.
On that note, in this guild you may RP out your character's pokemon as if they were NPCs traveling with your character, and are encouraged to give them personalities, quirks, and character traits, however they should not be posted for separately as their own character; their actions should be posted in your main character's posts. The only exception would be in the pokemon Daycare, in which you post and RP as individual pokemon to gain extra exp.
Now, it is canon for some characters to have certain powers, such as aura and psionics, however we would like to dissuade the use of these powers in a character. We will allow minor psychic influences such as telepathy as a reason to speak with pokemon, however we will not allow this to become full blown mind reading. If you would like mind reading to be an RP plot point between a psychic character and another character, you must receive the other RPer's consent. Over time powers can develop, but we ask that nothing be used to alter battling, such as the trainer throwing in an aura sphere to do extra damage to an opponent, or reading minds to predict attacks in battle.
As far as the number of characters you are allowed to have, everyone starts with a one character limit. However, after you've been a part of the guild for a month or two and received two badges or one contest ribbon with your first character, you may ask the mods permission to be allowed a second character. However, please keep in mind that if you have been inactive in the guild, your request can be denied. If you would like to make more than two characters after spending some time with your first two, you may do so, but please try not to bite off more than you can chew, so to speak. If you do find that you've grown bored of a character, or have too many characters than you can keep up with, we do have a system for character reducing.
A Note On Character Reducing: In P:ER, if you ever lose interest in a character but don't want to lose the items and pokemon that you have gained, you do have the option to reduce your character down to their items and pokemon, then distribute those possessions to other characters, or make a new character to replace the old. Post counters will all be reset, FP will be reset for all pokemon, but the EXP counters, Egg Hatch Counters, levels, and items will all be transferable. This may only be done every 6 months and you must notify a mod for approval before reducing a character and distributing their possessions.
NPC Battles
NPCs must now be rolled for to determine the pokemon in the team. You may either have a choice of generating a number from 1-721 for each pokemon on the NPCs team to form a randomized team, or generating the type of pokemon your opponent has using the usual 18 type rolling chart, either for the overall team, or for each pokemon individually. If you generate a legendary, if you would like to roll again, then you may, however generating and battling a legendary this way will also count towards "The Stuff of Legends" achievement if you provide the link. Any questions involving wanting to use re-occuring NPC rivals and similar issues may be taken up with the mods as a case by case basis. We would be happy to discuss options with you.
All of the NPCs pokemon must know at least two attack moves, if they don't have two attacks available at their level, then it is acceptable to give them one, or none if the level is that low. For instance, fighting a Ralts at level 3. Otherwise, the moves these pokemon have must match their level, for instance a level 30 Charmeleon isn't going to have ember and scratch as their primary attack moves, it would have Fire Fang and Dragon Rage. Additionally, please note that if mods notice any abuse to NPC battles, such as the pokemon battled never using their attacks, you will be asked to roll for the attacks of the NPC's Pokemon.
Location Edits
The train in Lilicove has now been moved to Mauvile.
Elite Four:
We currently have some of the Elite Four finished and are currently working on other regions. When they are finished, we will create a new thread in each region containing rules on challenging the Elite Four and information on the Elite Four.
Move/Ability Updates:
The attack and ability list is going through some major changes. We will soon be updating descriptions to either clarify what certain moves and abilities do, or add in effects that were missed, or mis-quoted from the games (such as King's Shield lowering attack by two stages, not one). We will make an announcement when the full update comes to the attack and abilities list. When we do, please check your pokemon's moves to make sure that they are current with the guild's attacks. There are far too many individual updates to list, so we urge you to take it upon yourselves to manage and edit your attacks and abilities if they are changed in the upcoming update, and we apologize for any inconvenience this causes you.
However, while we cannot list all of the attack and ability updates, here are a few major changes that will be taking place:
Counter - Now only works on moves that make contact, and will not include type effectiveness.
Sketch - Can only be learned by Smeargle, Balm Mushrooms will not allow it to be learned. Sketch will not be allowed to copy Legendary Moves, only one sketched move can have a base power higher than 100, the rest must be 100 and below. Otherwise people can copy moves with any method they want.
Healing Moves - Morning Sun, Moonlight, Milk Drink, Recover, Slack Off, Heal Order, Synthesis, Roost, and Heal Pulse now have been limited to a maximum of 5 uses per Battle.
Serene Grace - The chances of a move having a side effect are increased by 1/10 instead of doubling.
Contest Updates
The contest pages have been rewritten and organized to clarify and detail the various levels and stages of contests.
Obedience has also been adjusted to reflect the details added to the system, so that there are less level jumps between stages of obedience.
NPC's have been added and will continue to be added to! Contests are also being expanded beyond Hoenn, though for now, that only includes pvp and p v NPC contests, not including Contest Leader challenges, which are still restricted to the Hoenn region. We will continue adding to the information for Sinnoh, and hopefully soon Kalos, so keep an eye out for that if you're interested! To see these updates and read about the contest system, check out the contest thread, where items, NPC trainers, and other information will first appear as it's added to.
