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Welcome to the Sam & Dan Games Developer Blog! Let's begin!

Blog updates
I want to apologize for not having blog updates the last few weeks. As my wedding get near things start to get hectic and I have less and less time to sit down and work and so by not doing blog post I saved those precious hours, however things seemed to have calmed down a bit and so I plan to continue with blog updates every week like before. There is much to talk about.

Fundraiser lives on!
The fundraiser is alive and kicking. The last few weeks I made it a point to add new ways for you to donate and the fundraiser has gained dramatically from this. If you haven't heard about the fundraiser basically we are asking you guys to help us keep making PTD2 and Cosmoids while giving out great prizes. Some of the prizes include access to the Cosmoids Early Alpha, Shiny Rayquaza and Cosmoids Starters for your PTD2 account. Instead of going over every detail here on the blog we have made a page exclusively for the funding. You can find it here. Check it out, if you feel like we deserve to stay alive making games then give us a little help.

Phase 3 of the Fundraiser
Today we start Phase 3 of the fundraiser. What does it mean? NEW PRIZES! For funding $10 or more you will receive in the near future your choice of one of the 3 starters from Cosmoids (you can check them out in the Early Alpha). You will get to pick your favorite and they will stats and move set similar to other starters in pokemon. They won't however evolve right away since we don't have the graphics done for the evolutions. You will also receive 2 of the one that you choose so that you can trade it with somebody. Lastly if you are wondering they will not be able to breed with each other or with any other pokemon.

Cosmoids Early Alpha Released
I'm super excited to announce that for those who funded us any amount now have access to the Cosmoids Early Alpha. If you don't have access and would like to check it out it is very simple. Go to the Pokemon Center's Funding Rewards page and watch a video ad to fund a few cents to us and get access.

Okay so now that you checked it out I wanted to talk about a couple of things that you might have noticed. First of a lot of the graphics are not final and some are close to final. Mostly everything is not final except for the creature units. Those are pretty close to the final graphic besides a few tweaks on size and some minor details. Another huge thing is that there is a lot missing. The UI which is always important is not set up yet.

So you might ask what is the point then? Well there are plenty of points. What I want you to check out is that you can put units in any spot on the map, units have different ranges depending on the attack they are doing. Also unit's attack speed will be based around the base speed of the creature. In PTD I always wanted to do that so that electric pokemon would attack very fast and slow pokemon like slowpoke etc would have a long time between attacks. The problem with pokemon is that attack stats are not balanced around speed since speed in pokemon only means who gets to go first. For cosmoids I do want the base speed to affect attack speed and so we will be balancing around that. In the alpha you can see that the chameleon has a high attack speed but doesn't inflict as much damage. While the koala has a lower attack speed but does more damage per hit. All the numbers still need to be tweaked so the balance is not there yet but it should show a little of what I want to accomplish for this game which is...

Cosmoid Creatures should feel different from one another
I think long and hard about the games that I'm making. On one hand I have PTD a game that I have already established so I don't want to add too much or remove things. Then on the other hand I have Cosmoids which is something new. I don't have anything that tells me how the stats should work or what levels and creatures I need to have. This is both a curse and a blessing. Mostly a blessing in my eyes. So I started to think about what Cosmoids is about and in the same thought what is PTD about. Is the whole point of the game to just capture all your favorite creatures? Do you just set a unit down and watch it all unfold? I thought a lot about it and came to some conclusions, but most importantly I came to the conclusions as to what I wanted the game to be about. I want the game to be about you discovering new creatures, trying them out in battle and picking the ones that suit your playstyle and taste and using them to beat the challenges that I lay in front of you. Using the combination of attack speed, attack ranges, defense, hp and attack stats to create very unique creatures that all play a little differently. I hope that the alpha can give you a little sense of how I want to make each creature feel a little different.

Pokemon Tower Defense 2 updates!
Many of you know that I've always wanted to make a Pokemon MMO but obviously I would need the copyright to make it happen. Cosmoids is a way to creature my own original creatures so that I can still make a creature MMO in my lifetime. Cosmoids is very important to the future of Sam & Dan Games cause it make it our first truly original game that we distribute to any place we want. Steam, Android, Appstore etc. So in many ways Cosmoids is going to get a lot of my attention from here on out. That doesn't mean that I'm not going to be working on PTD2. I will continue to do updates for PTD2 but with a slight change in focus.

My focus now is more on getting more attacks and more creatures into the game each week. You might have noticed I'm doing giveaways the last few weeks starting with Luvdisc and then Litwick. These particular giveaways are a sort of experiment. I'm curious to see if eventually these 2 will be common among users as more and more are breed. Luvdisc will take longer in my opinion because right now it can only breed with itself. Another way I'm adding more pokemon is by starting to allow PTD1 transfers over to PTD2. Each week I want to add at least 3 new families that will be able to transfer. Also I want to reach the mighty level 100 soft cap so that most of the attacks are added in the game and will make transferring from PTD1 and adding new creatures faster as more attacks are added. Also this week I'm adding the Dusk Stone and the Reaper's Cloth so that you can evolve your recently new Ghost Pokemon. The story mode is still very important to me and even 1v1 is important. But these take a lot of time to create, this week I won't be doing a story mode level but next week I will.

So let's look at what I will be working on this week.

Weekly Progess

PTD2 Alpha v1.36.1 Released!
  • Mystery Gift (100%) 
 PTD2 Alpha v1.36.1 Released!
  • Testing! (100%) - Super Important to test out things before I hand it over to you guys. 
  • Bug Fixes (100%)
    • Rough Skin Fix (100%)
    • Flame Burst AOE Fix (100%)
    • New Evolution Items (100%)
      • Reaper's Cloth (100%)
      • Dusk Stone (100%)
    •  PTD1 to PTD2 Transfers (100%) - Pikachu, Sandshrew, Nidoran Female and Nidoran Male Families
    • Soft Level Cap Increase to 25 (100%) - 37 New Moves!
      • Mirror Move (100%)
      • Roar (100%)
      • Mega Punch (100%)
      • Stockpile (100%)
      • Swallow (100%)
      • Spit Up (100%)
      • Sweet Scent (100%)
      • Horn Attack (100%)
      • Thunder Fang (100%)
      • Fire Fang (100%)
      • Rock Blast (100%)
      • Baton Pass (100%)
      • Cross Poison (100%)
      • Water Pulse (100%)
      • Protect (100%)
      • Crush Claw (100%)
      • Amnesia (100%)
      • Chip Away (100%)
      • Assurance (100%)
      • Psybeam (100%)
      • Metal Sound (100%)
      • Dual Chop (100%)
      • Imprison (100%)
      • Toxic Spikes (100%)
      • Silver Wind (100%)
      • FeatherDance (100%)
      • Air Cutter (100%)
      • Smack Down (100%)
      • Bulldoze (100%)
      • Steamroller (100%)
      • Echoed Voice (100%)
      • Refresh (100%)
      • Torment (100%)
      • Swagger (100%)
      • Revenge (100%)
      • False Swipe (100%)
      • Slash (100%)
    • New Pokemon (100%) - Pichu, Dusknoir, Chandelure, Aron, Beldum
      • Graphics (100%)
      • Stats (100%)
      • New Attacks (100%)
        • Electro Ball (100%)
        • Nasty Plot (100%)
        • ThunderBolt (100%)
        • Magnet Rise (100%)
      • New Abilities (100%)
        • Heavy Metal (100%)
        • Light Metal (100%)
        • Clear Body (100%)
      •  Evolutions (100%)
      • Add to Breeding Center (100%)
      • Add to Trading Center (100%)

    That was a lot to read! Thanks for sticking with us and let's make Cosmoids the best that it can be! As always let me know what you think!

    Comments

    1. Any comments on Cosmoids so far?

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    2. I really want to play cosmoids but can't donate money so im working on doing surveys and things. so i'll give you my opinion on cosmoids when I can! woo. otherwise geat job with PTD lately. loved the special 500 only giveaways.

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    3. from what I have seen on cosmoids so far, its pretty good in the early stages of the game. hope to see some more features added soon :)

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    4. Soft level cap increase? 39 new moves total? More Pokemon able to be transferred over? Dusk Stone and Reaper Cloth? Works for me!

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    5. I sent a feedback loaded E-mail! It's Looking good so far keep up the awesome work Sam!

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    6. watch one video should give you access

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    7. Could we get Flame Burst fixed please? It's currently only hitting 1 target at a time instead of the intended multiple targets... though it is only affecting Litwick currently, later it will affect Charmander at 28, Vulpix at 23, Growlith at 28, Magby at 22, and Slugma at 23. Just hate to see such a good move go to waste lol.

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    8. Hey Sam, there is a bug about of Gible family's abilities "rough skin"... when a pokemon faints for the damage made by this ability the game freeze (I tried it with the guard's Crobat and happen every time)
      I hope you could fix it...

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    9. It hits one , does 1/16 to adjacent.

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    10. I've never been able to watch one.

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    11. Sand Arena (Trapinch's) does not keep enemies in the maps
      The combo Pluck + Pickup isn't working.
      Swift is supposed to hit multiple targets.
      Taunt stops all non-damaging moves.

      These are issues that probably need fixing, although it isn't too major. Please add it to things to add/ change in the future list. Sam, thank you for taking the time to make the game and read this. You deserve a good reward.

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    12. Since Sam updated the blog, I'll re-post this.

      Ok everyone, listen up! I've found a way to re-use the stones and friendship dolls. First, give the item to the pokemon you want to evolve like you normally would. Next, put a phanpy with pickup (ability) in the team. Next just start the battle like you normally would. The pokemon will use the item and evolve. Then phanpy's pickup will pitch in and take the item. Make sure phanpy doesn't have an item to begin with! Maybe you knew this already, I just said this cuz I don't think Sam intended this. Use this while it's hot before Sam fixes it!

      P.S. It really works! Trust me!

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    13. You might want to look into it too, Sam, like I said, I don't think it's intentional.

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    14. Well, it's currently not doing any damage to adjacent, or the floating combat dmg isn't showing it anyway. It might be worth re-wording the tool-tip if that's intentional. It's currently worded in PTD:G as The user attacks all nearby targets with a bursting flame.

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    15. Something
      weird happened, I was training a Phanphy and it got to level 15. I had a
      Gastly at level 12 beforehand. Then I went to the Pokémon center to release
      some Phanphy (I caught too many). After I released some, I couldn't find my
      level 15 Phanphy and my Gastly was strangely level 15. So I went back on to my
      account, but that level 15 Gastly was like a regular Gastly (stats, abilities,
      etc.). The weird thing was, that level 15 Gastly had all the attacks my old
      level 15 Phanphy had (Rollout, Flail, Defense curl, and Odor Sleuth). In the
      end, I had a weird level 15 Gastly with Phanphy attacks, and a missing level 15
      Phanphy. It's okay I guess, since I could just train another one. What
      happened? I don't want it to happen again (like on a level 100).

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    16. hey sam, really great that the transfering between the 2 generations move on^^

      anyway can you also add the pokedex bug i mentioned before to the update list. if you only put up a pokemon for trade it also disappeared from the pokedex. its kinda frustrating that my pokedex now misses some pokemon i traded away.

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    17. just tested it and so far it looks great :D

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    18. will you be updating the pokemon tower defense for the blackberry10?? need those new levels aha! please let me know

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    19. Oh it's 5$ for ray but any amount for cosmoids? that's cool i'd love to follow thisgame from V 0.01alth way to whatever it ends at.

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    20. I didn't put that in there so there is no way for me to update it, you can send a message to the person who put it there to grab the latest one if he wants

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    21. The Cosmoids game looks cool! Would there be techno or instrumental music?

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    22. I think it is intentional.

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    23. I think glitched Pokemon would be valuable...

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    24. Cosmoids music.

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    25. There are a few moves that are incorrectly coded. Sam will change them in PTD2. Hopefully.

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    26. please dont do more of those give aways. people with mulitple accounts are cheating and not letting other people get some of those pokemon too. one of my friends has four accounts and he got a bunch of luvdiscs and litwicks with them and wont trade them.

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    27. same i love the ideas ive seen for cosmoids (ive been planning a creature training game of my own ;p) but when can will the cosmoids starters be availible and have names ( i love the chameleon) and Camiel will be what i name mine.

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    28. Sam already knows that. He did a second 500 giveaway late at night for Litwick so the total population is like 1000+. People are breeding them as we speak.

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    29. Couple quick things.

      1) Cosmoids might end up on steam? That would be cool, but would that mean it would cost money?

      2) For the funding videos, is there any method as to when they appear? I keep checking to see, but there never seems to be any on.

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    30. sam please make these pokemon available to be transfered from ptd 1 to ptd 2

      1 vulpix fam 2 growlithe fam 3 horsea fam 4 poliwag fam i really want them

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    31. soon enough my friend soon enough

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    32. 1. most likely the game will end up as a free to play game which steam supports
      2. I have no idea how often the show up, I don't control it

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    33. thanks, I hope pretty soon

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    34. it's hard to limit it I will see if i can check the IP also

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    35. not sure yet we don't have somebody for the music yet

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    36. yeah the pokedex bug worries me, will look into it when I get the chance once I do fix it it will refill stuff that you might or might not have had based on your evolutions

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    37. thanks for the information

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    38. I'll look into it, possibly limit pickup to enemies only

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    39. I think trapping them in the map might be way too strong
      I'll check it out
      Swift won't change
      Taunt works differently in ptd :)

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    40. is this still happening, I thought I had fixed it in the last update, I'll check it out

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    41. thanks, yeah much more work to be done

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    42. Pablo Labra FernandezFebruary 27, 2013 at 12:28 AM

      Yeaaaaaaaah!
      I liked Cosmoids a lot, i hope you make a whale monster :)
      PS: What level will be the next? idk cause i haven't played any pokemon game

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    43. Pablo Labra FernandezFebruary 27, 2013 at 12:32 AM

      I tried it, i love what you're doing :D
      But, i want a whale monster!

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    44. Arena Trap and likewise Shadow Tag in the normal pokemon game is overly powerful too. There's a reason a lot of tourneys banned Wobbuffet.

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    45. Yes, but in the game battles are one vs one (or double battles or triple battles). Tower defense games are completely different, and there is rarely a notion of one pokemon vs another, except in trainer battles where I think sand arena works. But it wouldn't make sense for it to apply to hundreds of passing pokemon.

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    46. I agree a full on stop would just break the game, they'd show up on screen and never progress. I was just stating the fact that the abilities were overpowered in the normal non-TD games.


      Perhaps a slow aura given off from the pokemon with those abilities would work and not be game breaking.

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    47. I'd rather see ditto to make breeding a little bit easier, lol. As long as sam intends on keeping the "Ditto can breed with anything" rule anyway.

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    48. It's too easy.


      Just kidding, I know that's not what you meant. I really like the idea of being able to place the creatures anywhere. Will you implement path re-direction at all? That's one of my favorite things of more grid-based tower defense games, where you can block the paths of enemies so that they have to go the long way round or simply attack your towers. Perhaps that would best be implemented as aggro in this game. Something like that would be awesome though!


      And I hope the wedding planning goes well! I'll be getting married in June, so I definitely know how that (and just the relationship) can take a lot of time and investment. I'm sure things will just get more hectic before the end. It's always nice to hear a word from our beloved developer, even if it is only to say that he is busy with life :)

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    49. The games mechanics work differently than the 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3 combats from the main series too. AOE moves should have a little more power in a tower defense game imo.

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    50. I agree, the limited giveaway pokemon are quickly becoming excessively valuable. Even the non-shiny babies that are up people are asking for sets Shiny Johto starters, Rayquazas or Shiny versions of Riolu/Golett. Perhaps these giveaways could be added to the adoption lists a week after the giveaway or when the next giveaway is passed out.... just an idea.

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    51. Sam I beg of you. Please stop these first 500 only giveaway. I can never get them. The users who have them, breed them and ask for shiny starters and other very rare pokemon! Sam do one of the following improvement to it :-
      1)Stop the first 500 only giveaway

      2)Instead of a giveaway, you place 1 male 1 female of that pokemon in the user's pickup area and if they do not pickup in 24 hrs, those pokemon gets deleted

      3)Make them a giveaway with the regular giveaway but without any limit on it. (2 give away per week!)

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    52. Sam i am often getting this msg at pokemon center -

      Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [mysqli.mysqli]: (42000/1203): User sndgame_dv already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/sndgame/public_html/games/ptd/database_connections.php on line 13
      Result=Failure&Reason=DatabaseConnection&Extra1203

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    53. I disagree. The point of a giveaway is suppose to be limited. Of course not everyone will get it. If everyone had one of each pokemon, the value would be meaningless.

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    54. Sam, you said your wedding is drawing near, how about giving away Pokemon pairs during around your wedding period? Like Plusle + Minun, Illumise + Volbeat and etc.?

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    55. thats good to hear, cause i also traded me the whole bulbasur family to my ptd2 account, but now i traded all except the last evolution. now i only have venusaur in the pokedex.

      anyway keep up your work sam, you are doing a great job :)

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    56. same here. now i could log in, but everything was really slow then :(

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    57. Hey, uh, Sam? Why is Shadow Punch listed among the moves to be added to the game? It's already in there, Golett learns it. Also, is it possible you might add the Metal Coat (and, by extension, Steelix), as long as you're already adding evolution items? I mean, I'm in no particular rush to have Steelix added myself, not until the PTD1 transfers are up to Onix, because I intend to have my set of level 100 Onix become Steelix, rather than the in-game trade Onix here, but I'm just wondering.

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    58. Sam, I'm having some problems with the Pokemon Center page.Yesterday, I couldn't play PTD , and today I couldn't complete a trade because the page is much too slow.

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    59. what if your pokemon is able to learn a move between lvl. 20 - 25 but it's a higher leven, is it able to relearn it? I mean, when you go to that pokemon its page, and press on relearn.
      By the way, you're doing great Sam, I love how you've made the game :D

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    60. and maybe it's an idea to ' adopt ' the pokemon that were the mystery gift for that week, I missed the gible mystery gift cause I had vacation and I wasn't home. And that you make them 500 daily coins. Yeah I know you can also trade them, but it's hard to find someone who doesn't want a rayquaza for it.

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    61. I know! Everything is loading very slow! I cant do trades properly and all! Hope sam fixes this soon!

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    62. Ok but do you say that it is right that the people who missed the giveaway have to give very rare pokemon to get those giveaway pokemon which sam gave for free? i had to give a shiny bulbasaur to get a luvdisc!

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    63. I think you should make it like a time thing rather than numbers, like a day or something. People living on other side of the globe cannot get any giveaway of sort.

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    64. But it is extremely unfair for people who are, like, somewhere further away. Their time does not match Sam's, and it is therefore hard for them to get the giveaways. Although I disagree with Santhosh, I don't like the giveaways, either.

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    65. i can give you a gible bro... do you have litwick or vannilite?

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    66. if the soft cap is at 20 and it goes for 25, the pokemons from higher level can relearn it... just press the button relearn xDD

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    67. litwick I want to, and I only got 1 female vanillite so I could breed. But it's more an idea haha. Oh and by the way I'm not a ' bro ' lol :P

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    68. my bad.. sry :S could you breed vannilite i change it for a gible ;D 'sis' xD

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    69. some of my pokemon who should be able to learn moves that sam has put in the game aren't able to ' relearn ' it

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    70. hahaha, do u also have riolu? :P

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    71. no i don't :S i missed only those two mystery gifts... i have already a zorua :P

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    72. Better idea! How about Sam takes time off to focus on his fiance and their wedding, and we don't pester him about it?

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    73. Like who? Remember that evolved pokemon learn moves at higher levels in general than their pre-evolved forms, so that does change things a bit.

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    74. Sam i don't know what is happening but i can't access my pokemon center page :S
      i want to try my cosmoids early alpha :O :O

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    75. Well, Sam wanted to actually see if we would breed the pokemon and they would become common. So although it is meant to be initially limited, it is not meant to be limited in the long term.


      And guys, as Sam said, this was more of an experiment than anything else. I didn't get either of the giveaways as well, but I managed to trade only pokemon that I got in previous mystery gifts for a shiny litwick by simply paying attention to the trade requests of other trainers. You just need to keep trying. It also helps to search for the non-shiny versions, as they are becoming more and more numerous.


      My final point is that the giveaway pokemon, like the mystery gifts, are bonuses. They are in no way intended to be necessary to complete the game. Moreover, without the giveaways, you'd have to wait much longer to get the pokemon than if you simply missed the giveaways but they still happened. So even with missing the giveaways, your situation is better than before. Thus I wouldn't feel too bad about missing them, and I suggest that the aren't as horrible as you might think.

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    76. just wondering at about what time will you be able to transfer legends like mew or mewtwo these are the ones i really want to transfer

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    77. If I had to guess I'd say the server has been over populated and can't handle the load. The game's popularity has exceeded it's funding and development team's ability to cope. Give Sam a break.

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    78. Will the avatar chat come back?

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    79. Sam are you going to patch the Rough Skin Game Crash Bug?
      Dude, I forgot about the wedding that was coming up. Now I kinda feel bad about pestering you when you've got more pressing matters to deal with.

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    80. sam, when is metal coat going to be added? we can get an onix for a bellsprout, but cant evolve it yet?


      and the code thing isnt fair, people using many accounts, time zone differances, and time of starting(ie late night early morning) makes its unfair to alot of people, maybe do per day, or 1 pair per account(have it do an IP check or somthing to sort out cheaters), because you cant realy trade for them, people asking for level 100s or ryquaza for lv1 egg hatched :(

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    81. I'm going to have multiple giveaway at different times so people in different timezones have a chance to get them, also I'll be announcing it before hand so that you can get a shot at getting them, even though I feel sorry for the servers when it is time

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    82. the giveaways are unfair completly, sure people breed them, then ask for shinies that YOU HAVE TO BUY OR RYQUAZA, for the lv1 eggy

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    83. not pestering me at all, I'll look into rough skin

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    84. possibly, no guarantee though

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    85. those are last in line but hopefully we can get to them quickly

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    86. server can be slow if a lot of people are trying to get to it

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    87. Took Shadow Punch out, sometimes my list isn't updated correctly lol, metal coat will come out next week

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    88. Congrats on getting married :) we have a wedding planner so it helps a bit but it's still very hectic

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    89. Oh, you're getting married, Sam? I usually just skim over your blog posts, so I might not have noticed it if you mentioned it earlier. Anyway, I usual don't comment here but I wanted to congratulate you! Thanks for keeping up working on your games despite this being a hectic time! :D

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    90. i have all mystery gifts except the 500 limited ones

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    91. Beldum is winning, with Aron in second place, while Klink is lagging far behind. The sad part is, this doesn't surprise me. My suggestion is, Sam, maybe you should occasionally do Mystery Gift polls that include some of the contestants from previous polls that got very little in the way of votes. Klink, Trubbish, Shuppet, that sort of thing.

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    92. Not all people do that. As I said, I managed to find a trade that required merely a shiny chimchar (previous mystery gift, I had 6), and a zorua. Besides, you can get shiny starters or shiny other pokemon by breeding if you simply have the female non-shiny version. Use a shiny father (shouldn't be hard with all these mystery gifts), and use the shiny incenses. It may take a while, but you have a rather decent chance of the baby being shiny. You just need to be persistent. Does not take real money.

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    93. Sam, I thought of a way to make Sand Arena work. Make it similar to Roar/ Whirlwind, in that it only works once on any target. So, if a grounded target reached the edge of a map, Sand Arena activates to keep it in/ turn around, but it doesn't activate the second time that happens to the same target. Another way you could do it is for Sand Arena to make the target "flinch" for a duration of time. Perhaps half the time it takes for the target to go from one end of the map to another? I hope you like my ideas.

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    94. Sand Arena? Do you mean Arena Trap?

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    95. Hey, Sam, just want to run an idea by you as far as transferring goes. How about, make it so transferred Pokemon can keep any moves they have that are in the game, and just forget the ones that aren't in the game yet? And of course, if a Pokemon's entire moveset consists of moves you haven't added to the game yet, then it does what it does for everything currently and just gives it its base level 1 movepool. Again, it's just an idea, just wanted to see if you think it might work.

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    96. Hey Sam I have a question about transfers from ptd1 to ptd2. Well when I go to the transfer page I cant see some of my Pokemon (ex. Cubone and Ditto).

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    97. Hey Sam I have a question about transfers from ptd1 to ptd2. Well when I go to the transfer page I cant see some of my Pokemon (ex. Cubone and Ditto).

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    98. Yes, edited, thanks.

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    99. People don't vote for Aron. Vote for Beldum because he's going to distribute the runner up and Beldum can't breed.

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    100. it's limited from 1-24 until I add more

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    101. once I get more moves in I can do something like that

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    102. With breeding pikachus you should add lightball so pichu can get the move volt tackle
      that would be awsome

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    103. I guess next time around when we hit steel those will show up :)

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    104. Hello Sam ! Not sure if you read my comment in the other blog post, so here it is.

      As much as I can see, there are no required number of badges for Pokémon transferring from PTD to PTD2 (please correct me if I am wrong). Wouldn't it be better if this feature was available after some number of badges are earned ? Or maybe after completing an event, like the Game Corner in PTD which was enabled when the player had completed a certain level ?

      Moreover, I think that, at this point of the game, there must be an event that, after it has been completed, would give the hero the ability to run. The game has become big enough to have a running feature.

      I think you should do something about the in-game money. For now, we can't gain any and it isn't useful. Maybe you should put an in-game Item store to buy potions, healing items, etc. I know PokéMarts are supposed to be closed right now, so maybe a sort of character that will sell items ?

      The giveaway events are nice, even though some players will complain (I totally understand why, everyone wants to have all the available Pokémon). To the players : don't worry, you will get all these Pokémon in time and place, whether it is in the game or after their lucky owners have bred them to exchange them (note : no, I haven't got any of the giveaway Pokémon, do not ask for one).

      I like the new ways of donating (like watching a video). It is simple and everyone can do it. I sincerely hope that you will achieve your $50,000 goal.

      As always, I love what you're doing, I love PTD, I love PTD2 and I would most certainly love Cosmoids ! Keep up the good work !

      kpwbo

      Note : Sorry for my English, it's not my mother tongue.

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    105. You do make a good point. But you might have influenced people in voting for Aron when I was refreshing on the poll. Now it's neck 'n neck.

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    106. I feel shocked that Beldum is going neck and neck with Aron. I knew that Beldum would be very popular and thought it would win by a landslide, but Aron is winning by 5 votes when I checked right before posting this. It is more exciting when the poll is neck and neck, because I never know who will win with only a couple of vote differences.

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    107. Sam, would it be possible for you to add some kind of "trade alert" in the Pokemon Center?

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    108. vote Beldum cos Metagross is EPIC and as Meteor Mash :)

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    109. Yesss! Please Sam!

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    110. They never show up.

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    111. P13 I believe I offered something in one your requests. :p

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    112. Checking...
      when did ya?

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    113. Woah! Luvdisk! Female! With Gold Incense! Not shiny, but that's ok. Definitely!

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    114. The games you make are great! But I can't donate to you, one thing that I would like to suggest to cosmoids is instead of doing levels, you can choose which town or city you want to go to and then you can mover around the city doing levels there and quests as well as enter your house and things like that. You can still have movies in the levels and certain points of the game like this and you can explore more and have multiplayer. I look forward to future versions to the games you make! Thanks!

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    115. That's true, but what my concern is, is that they'll just come in dead last again. I'd just like to see some of the less popular stuff get more of a fighting chance, you know?

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    116. make aron the secret gift cause beldum can't breed plz plz plz

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    117. you are wrong. metagross can breed with ditto. so vote for beldrum. cmon guys metagross will be awesome, thats why i voted for steel type!!!!!

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    118. thanks because i worked hard just to get them and i am really fond of them

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    119. Aggron is pure metallic epicness! He also has a good combo between moves and abilities like Double Edge with Rock Head (120 damage with no recoil) or Heavy Slam with Heavy Metal (Double Weight = More damage and with this ability only Groudon and Giratina have are heavier than him).

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    120. no he is not he is steel/rock. earth attacks and fighting attacks would directly kill him.


      VOTE FOR BELDRUM TO LET US GET METAGROSS

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    121. You're a weird guy... you just said "make aron the secret gift cause beldum can't breed plz plz plz" and now this.
      Please stop confusing us.

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    122. Must've been a Disqus glitch on your end. Met@gr0$$ is the one who said that, not Mr. X.

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    123. why am i weird? i never said that aron shoud be the mystery gift. i want BELDRUM. reading seems difficult for some people >.>

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    124. Dear Sam, I have an idea for the videos besides funding how
      about every ten or twenty videos you watch you get one SD coin?

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    125. that way you need 100 or 200 for 10 sd coins

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    126. Perhaps reading is difficult for you? There is no such pokemon as beldrum. Perhaps you mean beldum? Also, as I pointed out before you posted this, Disqus often glitches the name of the author of a post. No need to get so upset.

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    127. I agree. Both giveaways i was sleeping, and now to get even an eggy of luvdisc or litwick you have to give extremely rare shinys and even shadows pokemon to have one. I dont think it's that fair. It would be nice if the giveaway is limited for a day or 12 hours, even 5 hours! That way you give the chance for people around the globe to get at least one female to breed.

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    128. Agreement. Half of the requests for REGULAR Litwicks are for Rayquaza. Not only can we not get the shiny versions for less than exorbitant trades, but they're refusing to be reasonable about the regular 'Mons. These giveaways are crap. And since the next giveaway is freaking Beldum, how many people do you think are going to give any of those up?

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    129. and shiny Beldum Family have one of the best coloring ever

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    130. They're breeding them, but half of the requests for standard Litwick are still Rayquaza. So, yeah.

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    131. Another alternative could be, instead of making these limited giveaway Pokemon that place 2nd on the list of pokemon people want... Perhaps make them the same as the normal weekly mystery gift but with a Unique move set or ability.

      Or perhaps have the limited ones be non-shiny so they won't be considered so valuable in the eyes of most traders.

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    132. Hey Sam, I'm reporting a bug(?) -- in a wild Ledyba wave, whenever a Ledyba with the abilty Rattled is hit by Night Shade, all others in the wave with this ability is affected, even when they are too far away to be hit. I know this because I put one Duskull in the farthest tower square yet even a Ledyba who had just entered the field had its abilty triggered. It seemed only Night Shade had this effect because I tried it with Astonish and the Ledybas behaved normally (not very sure tho').

      Haven't had time to look at the Cosmoids Early Alpha yet. Later perhaps. :)

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    133. Too late, but, Metagross actually is stronger and better than Aggron...

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    134. Before the poll, I thought Beldum would likely win with around 80% of the votes... I can't believe that people like Aggron...
      We haven't received good mystery gifts since Jirachi...

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    135. night shade can hit multiple targets

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    136. we might implement a similar thing for the coins in the future

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    137. No, I mean even when the target is too far away to be hit? Like when Duskull is at one end of the field while the Ledyba whose Rattled is triggered is at the other end.

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    138. It's the same. Even the regular eggys are difficult to get. The requests are absurd. Would be awesome if the giveaways are limited by 6 pokemons per account, 3 fem 3 masc, and its up only for 24 hours. 24 hours so that no one loose their chance at having them cause they are sleeping.


      I dont know, just a thought. And now the give away is Beldum, and if i loose the chance to get it cause im sleeping, im not gonna like it hahah.

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    139. sub this guy and comment you want to enter his givaway on shiny entei's (remember to type "reffered by darkpulse99" in your comment(my username)) the more subs he get the more enteis will be given away

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    140. Sam, Beldum doesn't breed. Your distribution strategy wont work.

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    141. Since when did Sam ever say he would distribute Beldum?
      Sure he did it with ghost pokemon but he never said the second place mystery gift would always be the next giveaway.

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    142. It's already stated in the "new pokemon" list.

      New Pokemon (0%)
      Pichu (0%)
      Dusknoir (0%)
      Chandelure (0%)
      Aron (0%)
      Beldum (0%)
      I certainly hope that it's not limited for only 500 people, and that at least is a giveaway limited for 1 day only. Gives the chance for people around the world that were sleeping in the previuos ones, to at least get this mistery gift.

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    143. Thanks, I didn't see that.

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    144. im not upset^^

      and yes i meant beldum, sorry but english isnt my mother language and im not familar with the english pokemon names, so please forgive me my misspelling :)

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    145. Sam, please dont limit beldum for only 500, each of your past giveaway was during a time when i was sleeping, and metagross is my favorite non-legendary pokemon. like mentioned before, maybe you can limit it for only one day instead of a week for the normal mystery gift. another way could be that you can do it like past mystery gift codes, that you cant use the code as often as you want. you will only be able to use the code 1 time and then get three beldum. please think about it :)

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    146. I'm not sure if you read the previous comments but Sam will do the giveaways on different timezones for us. The giveaway is more than 500 now (more like 1000).

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    147. oh didnt saw that comment before, but that also sounds like a good solution^^

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    148. Sam, later one, would there possibly be multiplayer where we can battle each other? It would be cool...

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    149. Sam, remember someone mentioned that the combo Pluck + Pickup isn't working?
      Correction: Knock Off + Pickup (Skorupi and Phanpy) isn't working.
      Pluck eats the berry and Knock Off removes the berry.

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    150. Sam next family add poliwag family , slowpoke family and king's rock so they can evolve to politoed or slowking

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    151. 12 hours i good enough. I hope sam does something about it.

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    152. I agree. Duskull was good though.

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    153. Need any other M.G?

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    154. Nope, I have all of them. I'm helping people out with their missing giveaways.

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    155. I'm currently breeding. Not sure if it will be female (if it's male would that be alright?).
      Send me a tradeID and it'll be ready by tomorrow.

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    156. I think he talks about some errors Disqus had yesterday. I sometimes see the wrong name over the post and just yesterday I saw your post with the name "Met@gr0$$"... maybe he talks abuot this. I was confused too.

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    157. i want female so i can breed more of them

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    158. Please stop making that "Mystery Gift Runner Up Giveaway", it's not fair to those who live in a different time zone. It just isn't fair.

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    159. I know, I'm only fascinated by those combos.

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    160. You obviously didn't read other people's comments.
      I just explained that Sam took care of this timezone problem by adding another 500 giveaway at a different time.

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    161. plz don't make beldum exclusive giveaway,and he can't breed too

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    162. anyway,ditto can't be found on ptd2 yet,and beldum is a lot better than aron!!!!!

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    163. I still don't like it, even if we're in the right time zone, not everyone's there every day, or every possible time.

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    164. There will be, long wait though.

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    165. And then agaim, if some had none, that would be pretty darn meaningless too.

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    166. It's genderless and we have no clue if the current system can cope with that. It could be like the Unown thing where the system just wasn't designed with that thought in mind.

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    167. The berry has to be used to work, knock off doesn't use/ consume the item.

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    168. I agree, you cant be all day stuck to the computer.Making the giveaway limited for one day and giving you 6 pokemons only (just one use system, like the mistery gift a while ago) would be awesome and i think the best system. Like this, everyone at least can have one, and not only 500 people, or the ones that are awake.

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    169. YEAH! HAS TO BE 24 HOURS OR ONLY SOMEWILL GET IT!

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    170. Just like Skydoesminecraft's wedding, never even knew about Sam's untill I looked in the comments...

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    171. I can give youz a female! Still shiny!

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    172. if you could just breed me a zorua!

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    173. would be better if it was 4 of each gender!

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    174. make sure that legendaries can also breed! Then I can trade it to someone who did'nt get it.

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    175. Pluck EATS the berry you dumb dumb.

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    176. Oh Sam I remember a post somewhere about how there is no way to get Shadow Unowns and how you were going to have to do a give away or something, but I is am are having the better idea. Why don't you do something fun with the hole in the Ruins of Alph map like you did with Sentret on Route 29's map hole.

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    177. Since he said that he was going to distribute Runner ups, and Beldum was the runner up -_-

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    178. I am waiting for the new giveaway! :D i hope you will release it in the next 30 mins, i have to go to bed .. lol

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