Friendship and Happiness! Evolution Stones, Unown Problem and more!

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

Fundraiser Continues!
The fundraiser continues on this week, the first 1% took a loooong time but the second % took only 3 days, maybe things are picking up, only 98 more to go! Let's look at more information for the fundraiser, if you already read it then feel free to skip ahead since I didn't add anything new this week. This is mainly for those who haven't read anything on it and to remind you that we are still doing this. :)

Sam & Dan Games: Fundraiser! Phase 2
Our Goal: $50,000
Raised so far: $2,700.84
Percentage so far: 5.401%
Total Funders so far: 2834 (Number drastically increased due to new ways to donate!)
Last updated: 2/20/13 (5:44 PM EST)

What is this fundraiser about?

Dan and I love making games and we want to continue to make them. If you are reading this then I suspect you have enjoyed PTD and PTD2 quite a bit. Right now Dan has another full time job since we don't make enough to support him. I work full time on the games, relying heavily on ad revenue from the trading center/blog and a part of the SnD coin sales. While those sources provide some help they are far from steady. If ads and sales go down it could potentially lead to me having to stop making games or spend considerably less time working on them. Meaning less updates for you guys. We really don't want it to get to that point so we decided to humble ourselves and ask you, the fans, for help.

The 50k amount might seem like a lot but in reality it is the bare minimum we need to be able to keep working on games for the rest of this year.

Do I get anything for funding?

Yes! Absolutely! We always want to reward our fans when they give to us. Like I mentioned before on a previous blog we will have many prizes for those that donate to us. Some of the prizes include:
  • Cosmoids Creatures for your PTD2 account
  • Shiny Legendary Pokemon only available to people who help us fund
  • Special Exclusive Creature for Cosmoids
  • Special Titles for your Trading Account
  • Access to the early Alpha version of Cosmoids
The current announced prizes are the following:
  • Donate any amount - Access to the Early Alpha Version of Cosmoids with Sam's Graphics
    • Just for donating you will get a code that will let you play Cosmoids and give feedback on the game before anybody else. Note: The Early Alpha Version is not released yet.
  • Donate $5 or more - Shiny Legendary Rayquaza for your PTD2 account + Previous Prize
    • You will get 2 Shiny Rayquaza for your ptd2 account. Note: These will be given out next week.

What is are the Phases?
Since we are constantly working on updates for you guys we have to take everything we do little by little. So the funding will have different phases.

Each phase will come when new prizes are announced. Regardless of when you donate if you have donated enough to qualify for a prize you will receive it once the prize is available.

Sounds good! I want to support you guys, how do I do it?
Thank you! To support us just click on the donate amount below and enter the amount you wish to donate. We will send you the activation code for your donation in an email.

Is there a way to donate without needing a credit credit card?
Yes! You can now watch a short video to donate a few cents and get access to the rewards. You can also complete free offers and surveys to donate. Go to the Pokemon Center's Funding Rewards page to watch the video or complete the offers.

Questions?
If you have any questions at all, email me at support@sndgames.com

Common Questions:
  • What if my paypal email is different from my PTD2 email? How will I get the prizes to my PTD2 account?
    • Easy! When you make a donation we will reply with a code to your paypal email. On your PTD2 email you can use the code in the near future to activate your prizes. So the paypal email does NOT need to match your ptd email since you will just need the code itself.
  • It has been more than 24 hours since my donation but I haven't received any emails?
    • First check your Junk Folder for any emails from us. Second if you have nothing on your Junk Folder or you accidentally deleted it then email us at sam@sndgames.com with your paypal email and we will get you your code.

Please allow us up to 24 Hours to process your donation. Cosmoids Early Alpha will begin next week. Hold on to your codes until then. If you haven't received your code and it has been more than 24 hours then check your Junk Folder for the email. Also add orders@sndgames.com to your contacts so that it won't enter your junk folder.


Friendship and Happiness!
One of the most requested things to add to the game is a way to evolve pokemon that need a high friendship value to evolve. This week I hope to bring that into the game.The way I will implement it is that you can buy a friendship item in the pokemon center using snd coins or daily coins to increase their happiness. Once their happiness is high enough you can evolve that pokemon without having to level up!


Evolution Stones
Just like happiness it's time to add in Evolution Stones. These will also be acquired using daily coins or snd coins.


New Daily Coin Activity
Because we are adding new items to buy with daily coins we will be adding at least one new daily coin activity that you can do to earn your daily coins. I don't have the exact details of it figured out yet but I will talk about it more as the week progresses.


An Unown Problem and a Hidden Power Solution
So Story wise on PTD2 the next spot is the Ruins of Alph which feature the mysterious Unown pokemon. In the original games you would have an Unown for every letter in the alphabet and for ! and ?. The way PTD2 is coded does not support having these different forms so I run into the problem of how I'm going to do it. Unown also learn only one attack called Hidden Power. This move changes depending on the Individual Values of your Pokemon. IV is something that I don't have in PTD2 either. So here I am with two things that don't really fit what I have here. One solution is to add these features into the game but that will take a long time and it's not something I had planned to do. So instead I came up with my own solution. Many might not like it but it is how it's going to be.


So basically the solution is that your Unown will not have a specific form. His form will be randomize every time you play the game. So when you log in the Unown will pick a random letter and become that form while you are playing. Next time you log in it will again randomly pick which form. The same thing will happen with the move Hidden Power. It will change it's type and attack power randomly when you start a battle. So every battle you could get a different type and power but once the battle is going it will stay the same.

Mystery Gift Shelmet
Last week you guys choose Karrablast as your Bug Mystery Gift but as many of you know and mentioned you need Shelmet to make Karrablast evolve. So this week we will get Shelmet and evolutions will be possible! All rejoice!

Funder's prize Shiny Rayquaza
So Rayquaza won the poll and this week I will work on giving those out at the end of the week. Stay tuned! 

Cosmoids Evolution
Cosmoids is still under development, I think when I say something like that a lot of you might imagine me and our artist putting many hours into it but the reality is that there aren't enough hours in the day to really give each project a lot of time. The development that is happening for Cosmoids are different conversations about how the game should play. What changes do we want to make from the PTD formula? How should we present changing moves during a battle? Talking to artist about needing a specific designs, getting updates about their progress. The actual work going on is me making some graphics and starting to put together the basic programming for the game that will be the foundation for the project. There is so much to do but so little time, especially when I'm working on PTD2.

Other ways to donate
UPDATE: You can now donate by watching a short video ad or completing free offers and surveys. You get access to the Cosmoids Alpha once that is released and you can eventually accumulate enough to earn other rewards.Go the the Pokemon Center's Funding Rewards page to watch them or complete the offers.


So let's look at the specifics for this week!


Weekly Progress
My Status: Not Working.

PTD 2 Alpha v1.34.1 Released!
  • Mystery Gift- Shelmet!
  • Added Shelmet and Karrablast Evolution when traded for eachother
PTD2 v1.34 Released!
  • New Pokemon
    • Graphics
    • Stats
    • Move List
    • Evolutions
    • Add to Breeding Center
    • Add to Trading Center
    • New Attacks
      • Dark Pulse
      • Detect
      • Metal Claw
      • Bone Rush
      • DoubleSlap
      • Bide
      • Struggle Bug
      • Mega Drain
      • Hidden Power
      • Acid Spray
      • Double Team
      • Quick Guard
      • Twister
      • Crunch
      • Hyper Voice
    • New Abilities
      • Justified
      • Hydration
      • Overcoat
      • Sticky Hold
      • Air Lock
  • Fixed 1v1 Ekans Battle
  • New Story Level
    • New Map
      • Ruins Of Alph Outside
      • Ruins Of Alph Inside
    • Battle Layout
      • Unown Map
      • Police Map
    • Battle Waves
      • Unown Map
      • Police Map
  • Testing New Moves and Pokemon
  • New Daily Activity - Breed a pokemon!
  • Friendship
    • Implementing item in-game
    • Implementing in Pokemon Center - Item Store
  • Evolution Stones
    • Implementing item in-game
    • Implementing in Pokemon Center - Item Store

Cosmoids PreAlpha v0.01 Progress
  •  Level 1 (0%)
    • Graphics (0%)
      • Backgrounds (60%) 
        • Title Screen (100%)
        • Authentication Screen (0%)
        • Room (100%) - Movie Scene
        • Island (100%) - Movie Scene
        • Level 1 (0%) - Island Path Area
      • Units (100%)
        • Boy (100%)
        • Caterpillar (100%)
        • Moth (100%)
        • Man (100%)
      • Attacks (0%)
        • Bug Repellant Bomb (0%)
    • Programming (30%)
      • Framework (100%) - Basic code that handles changing screens, adding popups, mouse clicks, keyboard input and running the game.
      • Title Screen (100%)
      • Authentication Screen (0%)
      • Movie Scenes (100%)
      • Tutorial (0%)
      • Level 1 (0%)
        • Attacks (0%)
          • Bug Repellant Bomb (0%)
          • Tiny Bites (0%)
        • Waves (0%)
      • Win Screen (0%)
      • Lose Screen (0%)
      • Pre-Level Information screen (0%)
So that's what we have coming this week! Keep checking back to see how I'm doing during the week! Thanks for coming! As always let me know what you think!

Comments

  1. What things do you want to see done next week?

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  2. The notificaton bar at the top of the page if you get a trade in ptd1+2


    and make it so you can change your email account?


    :)

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  3. I'd like to see some TMs get implemented, personally. One in particular I'd like to see is Headbutt, for Dunsparce.

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  4. Sam, a question- will one be required to actually trade Karrablast for Shelmet, like, with another player, or will one just be able to put them both up for trade and take them back, and they'll be evolved, like with other trade evolution Pokemon?

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  5. a way to get the generation 2 legendary's (like a.001% chance of showing up in certain waves) or moves like Surf, Headbutt, and Rock Smash. and the old rod

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  6. I believe you can trade yourself a karrablast for a shelmet

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  7. so to answer, yes you have to trade one for the other

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  8. i have absolutely no problem with unown form or hidden power.

    Friendship on the other hand is different. SnD coins or daily coins to get a lucario or a crobat? not fond of it

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  9. Roughly how long would it take to code IVs? I would be willing to wait even a month for that.

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  10. The insides of buildings!!! Please don't keep putting this off.

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  11. I don't like that buying SnD coins or doing the daily activities every day for coins so I can buy evolution stones and happiness. In PTD1 you earned money by beating pokemon, and with that money you bought evolution stones, why isn't that the same in PTD2?

    Or you could do it like in the games, well I did not played the crystal game and whatever, only pokemon platinum but there you have an explorer kit and then you can go underground and be able to find evolution stones. Maybe that could be an idea? Cause otherwise I have to complete a lot of daily challenges or buy SnD coines, and Im not allowed to do that

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  12. Oh and another thing, why can trapinch --> vibrava --> flygon, only learn 2 moves? bite and sand attack if I'm not wrong.

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  13. You aren't allowed to do daily challenges?

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  14. the soft level cap is at 20 so you pretty much get any moves that pokemon would learn if it could only reach level 20

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  15. Are they even worth having? Having to endless try to capture the best creature, attempts at people hacking the values, no way of knowing what the traded pokemon has. Not so appealing to me. Glad you are okay with Unowns.

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  16. Another solution is to have them evolve like regular pokemon

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  17. Like I've said before they are empty due to the story, once the story reaches the point of having people come back to the towns they will

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  18. Yeah I like the game better without EVs/IVs

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  19. does that mean that we then have 2 daily challenges and that we can earn 20 coins a day? or will the trading challenged be replaced?


    Btw i dont think its a good idea to buy evolution stones with daily coins. you should really let us earn money like in ptd1 (but please try to avoid that its hackable) and spend this money on items ;)

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  20. It's possible there might be 2, money is really easy to hack, daily coins helps pay for the game

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  21. Yeah the video would probably help a little since me or my parents don't have any credit cards. Good job Sam.

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  22. Not sure how I feel about the unown thing, but as long as you can work it into the story well I think it will be great!


    About the happiness/evolution stones, I'm reserving judgment until I know how much they will cost. I feel like they are such basic functions for the game that they have to be relatively cheap. The good thing about PTD was that evolution stones were expensive at the beginning, but toward the middle/end of the game were comparatively cheap. A system like that where it becomes easier to get the evolved forms as your team naturally gets stronger is ideal. The daily coin system doesn't seem to have room to grow like this, but if it is sufficiently cheap and the daily coin tasks interesting, then I can see it working. One possible solution would be that the number of daily coins you receive grows as your number of badges grows. I would just caution you not to view evolution stones or happiness as another source of income, and more importantly as a basic functionality of the game.

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  23. I think the "I'm not allowed to do that" applied only to buying SnD coins, and otherwise he was complaining about having to complete a lot of daily challenges, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

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  24. i want to keep 1 shadow please sam

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  25. Hello, Sam, here it goes:

    1- About Unowns, it was a very clever way to go through the problem. I feel comfortable with that. (Although, it would be really amazing having to look for 28 different Unowns!)


    2- Cranidos and Rampardos look simply AMAZING! Actually, good job on all the artworks.


    3- There are some pokémons disappearing from mi PokéDex. Not a big thing, but I thought you should know it...

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  26. that would be cool. if you implement more than one daily challenge to earn daily coins, i would also agree with buying items only with snd or daily coins. but isnt there a way how you can implement money, which isnt that easy to hack. i mean you already patched a lot cheat engine hacks, so why not this one? sorry for asking but i dont know much about coding or patching things. just wondering that it isnt patched ;)

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  27. Oh and i forgot one thing. will we also be able to buy rayquaza with snd/daily coins later on?

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  28. It's no fair that you have to pay real money to buy evolution stones! It's like paying to get a growth spurt!

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  29. Sam, spread attacks only have 75%, right?

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  30. Daily coins are not real money. Let's wait and see how Sam implements it exactly, and how many daily coins we'll need to buy a stone.

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  31. Add not just the evolve stones but the king's rock and metal, etc. so we can have steelix :D

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  32. Sam, I enjoy the soft cap lvl going up fast, but since we are supposed to go to all 5 regions that would mean that by second region every pokemon would be level 100 so that would be no fun. Also its not fair that we need daily coins and or SnD coins to get hapiness items, because I would need those to to evolve my riolu, and daily coins are WAY to hard to get and I cantget SnD coins so i have to leave my riolu, a riolu forever.... I don't find that fair. Also I noticed that in every pokemon game right before a leader there are little leader wanna be's who challenge you before you reach the leader in the gym, can you put that in the game (and sell hapiness items in the pokestore instead, but at costly prices IN GAME MONEY!!!!)

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  33. hey sam are you gonna do the same thing with the dog trio like you did with the bird trio in ptd

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  34. yeah and how about the old, good, and super rods

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  35. hey sam which legendary pokemon from gen. 6 do u like better Xerneas (the deer-like legendary) and Yveltal (the bird legendary). (yay i found there names!!!)

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  36. one option that I thought about 30 seconds ago (I am definitely more fond of the original idea as opposed to evolving like a regular pokemon) if too many people dislike the current method is to implement something similar to what you had in 1v1. Every 24 hours you spend in-game (using the game's clock not real world) you get friendship points which you can distribute to pokemon. A pokemon like riolu may need 50 friendship points to evolve.

    Unrelated, something I would like to see is autosave again. I consistently find myself accidentally leaving the tab without saving the game.

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  37. I think it would be better to have this wait until october at the earliest, when the sprites are actually released. And on a side note, I think it would be cool if, on the week of XY, the mystery gift was one of the 3 starters, but we could only pick one to obtain.

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  38. Oh come on, and the story? I'm at route 32, and I'm waiting, and waiting... Continue the story plz?

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  39. How about you be a little patient? PTD2 isn't Sam's entire life. A big part of it, maybe, but my point still stands. Consider yourself lucky things are moving as fast as they are in the first place. Use this opportunity to train your Pokemon- I finally got my Vanillite to evolve today, and I caught a Shiny Mareep!

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  40. I do like that idea, but on that week, we won't have all the information on them right away, will we? Usually, Japan gets the games first, but this time it's a simultaneous worldwide release. Having said that, I would so pick Chespin.

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  41. Uh, Sam said in the above post that he is working on the story this week. That's what the whole unown thing is about. Why are you angry?

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  42. I was thinking that there are 3 codes, but once you've used 1, the other two are locked on your account. No idea if that would work. If not, you could possibly have one code, and that unlocks something in the pc for you to pick. As we saw with the avatars, codes don't have to be limited to pokemon, so if he were to do something similar to that it may work as well.

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  43. Also remember that specific areas have their own soft cap. So even if you have a lvl 100 in victory road, if you were to return to that route right outside new bark town (don't know the exact number), it would be decreased to (I think) 10

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  44. MJBFFLNDATNiQqUaATTTFebruary 5, 2013 at 9:39 PM

    I to want the next story level, but maybe if you put thay request in a somewhat nicer manner you wouldnt be criticizedso much, mqybe try saying it nicer next time.

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  45. I'm not really angry...

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  46. Then your post makes literally zero sense, because it is a complaint regarding a fictional reality by a guy who calls himself the angry guy but isn't actually angry...

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  47. I'll be adding new daily activities that will be more solo friendly

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  48. They will be cheaper

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  49. MJBFFLNDATNiQqUaATTTFebruary 5, 2013 at 10:32 PM

    Thats mean, no matter how right you may be.

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  50. MJBFFLNDATNiQqUaATTTFebruary 5, 2013 at 10:40 PM

    By every pokemon i mean the ones you fight in either the gym or in the wild. So does that mean that if the soft cap is at lvl 89 by the end of region one and the champion has been defeated and he/she had lvl 100 pokemon or something, by next region will the gyms have lvl 100 pokemon also.. I dont think, im making sense but what i mean is that if most pokemon in region johto in the wild are lvl 100 will the next region have only lvl 100 pokemon in the wild and in the gyms?? (even i am confused now, but i hope you undertand where i am going.

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  51. he can make them a lower level, and then force your pokemon down to a lower level so they aren't overpowered.

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  52. Sam, I have an idea for Unowns. Why not make 28 Pokemon called "Unown" (So that the You Caught A and the Check Pokemon screen says "Unown" for all 28 forms) and each Unown form will spawn at 1/28 the normal Unown rate, but with all forms spawning in Unown waves. I don't think that it will be hard to code, because in PTD1 there was a period where both Nidorans were called Nidoran, so more than one Pokemon with the same name should not be a problem for PTD2's coding. Even if it is, you can call them "Unown A", Unown ?", "Unown !", etc. In PTD 1 Nidoran's names contained spaces, so spaces will not be a problem either. But then, what is the chance of my crazy ideas working, anyways?

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  53. I'm just curious, why can't PTD2 handle forms? I mean, it can do shinies and shadows...

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  54. I like your first idea! However, not the second one - autosave will make PTD2 145.67% laggier.

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  55. i like what your doing with unknown. i personally think they should do it like that in the series lol.

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  56. 1. TM Snatch (to get berries without 2345.4 Rattatas)
    2. HMs that are usable out of battle

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  57. New PokeBalls! Since PTD captures are guaranteed as long as health is lowered to a specific amount, maybe the new PokeBalls can capture higher HP Pokemon (e.g. Great Ball's catch rate is 1.5X so in PTD2 the red health bar will show up 1.5X earlier than regular PokeBalls.). They run out, and once you run out, you are stuck with the infinite use PokeBall until you buy more.

    Also, a trio that shows up at a very low rate (like what you did with the Beasts in PTD1 until a certain update.

    Thanks!

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  58. The Pokedex. There're are some kooky stuff going on with both right now... :(
    Seems like you already have your hands full so that's all I'm gonna say.

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  59. There are*

    (ugh)

    Also, I can't tell from the New Attacks list but are Crobat and Victreebel included in the next release?

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  60. I agree. I'm gonna wait and see...

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  61. -_- i am really dont need bug pokemon
    so sam can change it pls

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  62. sam need people back to the maps and need battle trainer
    can what ths in the future ?

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  63. and need hm flash cause look at dark cave

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  64. I was actually looking forward to the challenge of catching all of the different Unowns. Can't you just code each Unown as a separate Pokemon? Each Unown would have the same stats (so you could basically just copy code from one Unown to the next) but then have the sprites obviously be the only difference. As for Hidden Power, couldn't you have each Unown have a specific permanent Hidden Power (A will always have Ice, B will always have Fire, C has Grass, etc.)? I think the idea of having a randomly generated Unown is pretty cool but as a collector I hope you'll reconsider having all Unowns in the game!

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  65. Speaking of values not in the game, I'm also wondering how you will implement moves and abilities that depend on/affect Power Points (PPs). Especially about the ability Pressure since several Pokemon (including legendary ones) have it. Maybe it will lower both the Attack and Special Attack stats of opposing Pokemon? Or increase their moves' cooldown rate?

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  66. Sam you promised long back about a berry garden in pokemon center! please put it into the pokemon center!!!

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  67. Why a friendship "item"? I think it's better a friendship Stone if you want to evolve pokemon by a item...

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  68. he wont change it just for you -_-

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  69. But then he'll have to encode different pokemon for all of them. They are like 30 so that will take a lot of time.

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  70. Shinies and shadows have the same moves and stats and they are basically the same pokemon.

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  71. 'ShadowMaster' is begging for a free shadow pokemon.

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  72. You have to raise its level before it evolves.

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  73. Better yet, it should be in the story like when you select your starters. Because its the story, you can't redo it.

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  74. "Once their happiness is high enough you can evolve that pokemon without having to level up"
    So you could have a Lucario at Lv. 1 only giving happiness

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  75. finally something else next to having to trade 10 FREAKING PLAYERS!!!

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  76. WHY YOU HAVE GOOD IDEAS JUSTIN BIEBER!!!

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  77. PLEASE DO THAT IN AN UPDATE CUZ I WANT MAH ITEMS DANGIT!!!

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  78. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!? HE'S THE ANGRY GUY, and it's maybe, not mqybe

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  79. 1. THERE'S A LEVEL IN THE STORY MODE WHERE YOU CAN CAPTURE EITHER SHADOW HOPPIP OR PIDGEY!!! 2. THERE'S A CHANCE TO FIND A SHADOW RATTATA/SENTRET IN CERTAIN ''GLITCH'' LOCATIONS ON THE FIRST ROUTE NOT COUNTING THE SECOND SHADOW POKEMON BATTLE!!!

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  80. ONLY IF IT LEARNS IT TO THAT POINT IN B&W!!!

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  81. No, I meant buying SnD coins haha

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  82. Will you add regirock , registeel and regice later in the game?

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  83. oh okay, thanks. I was just wondering.

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  84. more different types of pokemon, and a pokedex for the mystery gift pokemon

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  85. Then don't enter the code.

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  86. Me too. A month would be worth it.

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  87. I'd rather have them, but I'm OK with you idea.

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  88. Trainer Specialization!
    Please?!

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  89. Wait, so we have to pay to evolve certain Pokemon? Sam, I know that you want to make some money off this but having to buy an item with real money just to evolve a Pokemon is ridiculous.

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  90. Could you fix the bug of 1vs1 vs ekans? Ekans comes out like in wave of 30 but stops on the edge of the map

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  91. well I'm not a ' he ' haha, I'm a girl. But you're right =)

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  92. I have a level 56 igglybuff..... I thought giving it my only oran berry would help!

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  93. My bad! In another post, Sam said that the cost of the stones wouldn't be too bad, so I wouldn't worry about having to complete lots of daily challenges. I am also excited to see the new daily challenge that he's adding that will be more geared toward single player!

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  94. yea, but I still haven't finished the daily challenge ' trade 10 times ' , if all challenges are like that, it would still take a lot of time.

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  95. Daily Coins do not require real money.

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  96. that would be cool, have to figure out when would be the right time to spend time on it, many things are ahead of it in priority

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  97. haha thanks, I would actually like for there to be all the forms but there are limitations

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  98. Right now I'm thinking either no or they will be higher in price than a regular legendary but I'm leaning towards no

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  99. The same can be said for Unown forms, though. Same move, same stats, same type, all that's different is the appearance.

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  100. yeah from the b&w move set

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  101. usually when it's a PP altering move I do change the move's cooldown instead

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  102. Sam, could you take a pair of weeks to make some news 1vs1 mode's levels?

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  103. Instead of an item, which makes little sense for happiness, why don't you just put in a Happiness Value(HV) that increases by 1 for every battle the pokemon participates in and decreases by 3(net -2) everytime it faints?
    The variable cannot go higher than 172 and cannot go lower than 1.
    151 is the Functional Max(FM) at which pokemon evolve and Return is at max (102) power, and 51 is the Functional Bottom(FB) in which pokemon hate you and Frustation is at max power.
    All pokemon start at a neutral 101 which leaves 50 suvivals until FM and 25 faints until FB as a minimum requirement (providing that the pokemon only faints or wins respectively).
    Additionally there is a 10 faints worth of buffer space for HV 172s before they leave the FM and a buffer of 50 wins before HV 1s leave the FB.
    Shadow pokemon are permanently locked at HV 101 as befitting their fighting machine reputation.
    Items are still possible for people who want to blow daily coins or SnD coins, but this way you can still grind the evolution out like normal.
    Speaking of evolution are you going to put in a button to evolve the pokemon because certain pokemon only evolve during certain times under affection (Eevee and Riolu)? It would be rather annoying if my Eevee was constantly trying to evolve every time that I entered a battle in the morning when I want an Umbreon or will that just fall to the everstone?
    Also, when are shadow moves going to be implemented? Are they going to be super effective on all non-shadow pokemon and not very effective on all shadow pokemon?
    You don't need the IV system for the game, but did you consider setting a pair of random number generators for at the start of every Unown field spawn between 0 and 27 with 0 = A and 27 = ?, and 0 through 16 with 0 = Bug and 16 = Water. Whatever value is picked applies to every Unown in the battle and is permanent on that Unown if captured. That way people can get all their favorite Unowns with their favorite Hidden Powers and keep them the way they are. You were going to have to build a RNG for the Unown anyhow, and you were going to have to build a RNG for the move Hidden Power, too.
    This is probably a lot of coding to do though so maybe it'll be filed under "Game Refinements" and pushed back to a later date.

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  104. I think they will be more like "catch many of pokemon" or something like that, which should be relatively easy. One tip for the trade 10 times thing: search all trades by request, searching just for trades that request a pidgey. Lots of trainers have put up such trades in order to do the daily coin thing, and as such if you just catch a bunch of pidgeys, the daily activity isn't too hard. Should take about 5-10 minutes. Note that trades are automatically accepted if you offer pokemon that match the trainer's request, so that helps a lot.

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  105. I know, thank you. But the trainer has to accept the request, and sometimes it takes a long time before they accept.

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  106. True but they are annoying to get having to trade with 10 people everyday and all.

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  107. I knew I wasn't the first one to spot that bug. Glad to see it is going to be fixed. (Meanwhile I'll just be exiting out of those battles.)

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  108. Hence Sam is adding a new daily challenge that will be more focused on single-player.

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  109. That's what I was saying, they don't have to accept it. It will happen instantly if you offer a pokemon that matches their request.

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  110. oh, I didn't know that. Thank you =)

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  111. Hi Sam I have a question, a longer time ago before you put out gifts for donations, I bought some tokens (Sam&dan tokens) and i used my mothers email. i never got the tokens either. Is there any way i can get the tokens for my current email and game still?

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  112. Glitch? You're funny.

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  113. Crobat - yes.
    Victreebell - no

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  114. That won't happen yet, because we are playing GS(C) rather than HGSS. Scizor is possible, though, once we get Scyther.
    But then, that still doesn't explain the Mystery Gifts.

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  115. But Sam can just copy-paste Unown stats, moveset, etc., and only have to do 28 different sprites (which he has to do anyways to do the Random Unown) and a bit of extra programming for Hidden Power.

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  116. Wait, did you forget Smeargle? He's found in the Ruins of Alph, the next level, but I don't see Sketch in your list of new moves.

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  117. yeah we have archives of all that

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  118. I really want to revamp that whole thing but it won't be for a while

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  119. yeah there is a lot of coding and storage involved when adding something new to keep track off but it might show up in the future

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  120. totodile learns ice fang at level 20, but croconaw & feraligatr learn it a little later.

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  121. Sam can you add a new map/level to ptd1 in which the waves are infinite! The pokemon in that level should be as strong as the pokemon in unknown dungeon. The pokemon all should be wild pokemon. you know it will be very useful to people who are trying to get the all 3 forms of the birds(like me). you can can name it infinite dungeon or infinite pillar or something like that. It will be very good! Sam please change the ptd1 mystery gift!

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  122. Can i Request a new game??
    THE ANIME TOWER DEFENSE
    COOL ...team with naruto,bleach,onepiece and other anime

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  123. But you need more sitems for that, not one.

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  124. He has a lot to do already.

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  125. i don't mind that unown won't have a specific form but i wish the hidden power type would stay the same for the unown you caught... the reason i never liked the move metronome is that you cannot guess what move will come up.

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  126. what about onixs evolved form, Steelix.

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  127. Sam can you add at mystery gift legendary pokemon as palkia or dialga or arceus (I love them)

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  128. it is kindof a glitch cuz first ya can't get in 'dere the you ''glitch'' in them!

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  129. my comment is litterally the definition of it

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  130. why do you want that for PTD1, sam is busy enough with PTD2 and he finished PTD1 a long time ago, so why would he make a next level..

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  131. so if I had a totodile and train it to level 20 without evolving he will be able to learn ice fang?

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  132. Yep.


    (Hint, if the question is "Will ___ be in the game", then the answer is almost certainly yes, since Sam has said that he wants to put all generations in here)

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  133. Um, steelix was in G/S, so why would you say scizor is available and not steelix?

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  134. I believe the way I made it you can see the type in the move button

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  135. Those are very powerful creatures I don't think the majority want them to be given out that easily

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  136. Yes. Most lower stage Pokemon learn moves sooner than their later evolutions. Also, some of them learn moves that their later evolutions don't, so you might want to consider that before letting them evolve... Everstone? What's that? ;)

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  137. "The way PTD2 is coded does not support having these different forms so I run into the problem of how I'm going to do it."

    Uh oh, what would that mean for Castform and Rotom and Sawsbuck? ... and Kyurem?!! Omigosh, I want a White Kyurem!

    (No, I don't need an answer now, so don't answer that. Lol!)

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  138. hey sam are you gonna put all generations thru 6 when it comes out, and will you do the same things with the dog trio like you did with the bird trio in ptd cause that would be sick

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  139. Can u like show me a link please? i really want a shiny mew :3

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  140. hey sam i couldn play ptd for a while cause im very busy with learning etc.

    only want to know if you made any progress with the pokedex bug, which didnt save your pokemon correctly when you traded them away.

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  141. I'd love to see Natu and Smeargle! And I can't wait to evolve my Golbat and Riolu!!

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  142. If I may suggest an idea; every time someone suggests a good idea or a way to refine the game to work better copy and paste it in a notepad organized under Story Ideas, 1v1 Ideas, Mystery Gift Ideas, PokeCenter Ideas, and Game Refinements. That way as the weeks go by you can open up the document and pick off whatever you feel like tackling without worrying about forgetting anything or having to ask people to remind you of their ideas, like my Pikachu suggestions.

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  143. Yes. I don't play the main series (Pokemon Tower Defence introduced me to Pokemon), so I commonly make these mistakes.

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  144. Sam, me again...
    another question!
    about the shiny Legendary thing:
    if I donate 5$ after it is given out, would I still be able to receive the shiny Rayquaza?

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  145. Oh, and again:
    will we have only two regions to travel but have all pokemon from gen 1~5 appear, or will we have all 5 regions?

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  146. I believe Sam has said that as long as the fundraiser continues, the answer is yes.

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  147. my original plan is to make all the regions, but that might take forever lol

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  148. what @lekkin:disqus said

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  149. I'm thinking about a couple of ways to do those, by the time we get there I should be able to support forms

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  150. Need some HM for those :)

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  151. okay... does that mean that we will have to fight 20 elite 4s and 5 champions? :)

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  152. okay, thx...
    will there be more shiny legendaries given out for donators?

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  153. Hi Sam.
    It's me again. I was on the official PTD forums and came across something. You never added some form of reward or prize for finishing the Pokedex in PTD.


    I have an idea for the award. For each version (Regular, Shiny, and Shadow) that you complete you will get a Legendary Pokemon of that type (I don't really know which one). And for getting them all completed you would also get a Shiny Viciniti (because that is the only Pokemon in PTD where you can't get its Shiny version)

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  154. Good to know, but the question that is brought up by that is how far into the future are you planning to put that idea in the Refinements section?
    Also, you never did answer about the Shadow moves.

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  155. Sam who Is the other Moderator on ptd 2

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  156. Sam can you make it possible to offer PTD1 pokemon on PTD2 pokemon. If the person accepts, the PTD1 pokemon goes to the pickup page of the person's ptd1 pokemon center and the ptd2 pokemon goes to the pickup page of the other person's pick up page. It will be a very useful feature until you implant PTD1 to PTD2 pokemon transfer

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  157. How are there gonna appear in the game? Like in the caves in the normal emerald , ruby and sapphire games?

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  158. that would actually be really hard to set up, ptd1 to ptd2 transfers would be easier

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  159. Oops, I keep thinking that Steelix is a Sinnoh Evolution. I really need to get the main series games...

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  160. hey sam i got an idea for CUTD, ok here it goes, add pokemon from like pokemon diamond/jade (or as they're called in the game e-monsters) and all the pokemon from gen. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and your creatures look awesome btw

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  161. HELP SAM BY CLICKING THIS LINK :https://epicfreeprizes.com/?ref=2439435

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  162. by gen. 6 i mean that chances are you are not gonna finish CUTD by October so please tell me what you think of this idea

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  163. After evolving a pokemon, it doesn't appear anymore in my pokedex. I mean, I have three starters, they are level 20 so they evolved, but none of the first species is in my pokedex, only the evolved version, is this okay? May be know in the pokedex we're only seeing the pokemon we actually have

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  164. hey sam can you release the ruins of alph as an seperate update now instead of us wating

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  165. Sam just a small question. Will we be rewarded if we complete the poke dex?

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  166. I am getting some bugs in the breeding center. Although I haven't lost any shiny eggs yet (still trying) occasionally the hatched egg just disappears and cannot be called back to profile. This would be particularly annoying if the hatched egg was shiny. Not sure how this can be fixed?

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  167. Sam, I saw a shiny Bellsprout today, but no warning, or pause was given. The pokemon with a red full health bar just swoop past. Hope you can do something about this.(Never happened before)

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  168. Sam, you said that by trading 5 times (which is still hard considering people don't check there trading offers every day) what else do you plan to put as a task for getting daily coins? Also how many happiness items do you need to have evolve a Riolu level 54 into a Lucario?

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  169. -_- really i am not profect in english but i can talk

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  170. Wait so does that mean the the people in the game would acknowledge us (our character) as champion of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinohh, and Univa by the end of the game? And after johto, the region are character currently is on, will he/she go to Kanto, or Hoenn (meaning will Kanto be the last region or the second)?

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  171. just one item, it will be like an evolution stone

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  172. hmm it's possible if you were clicking a lot that you accidentally clicked it away before you even saw it

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  173. yeah I want to reward for taht at some point

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  174. I'll be releasing today :)

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  175. yeah there is a bug in the pokedex I need to check it out

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  176. you mean add real pokemon into the game?

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  177. what do you mean they are lost?

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  178. possibly that would be cool

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  179. If your offer meets the other trainer's request, then the trade will occur automatically, and it doesn't matter whether the other person checks their offers daily. You can even search by request.

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  180. hey sam can you just release the alph ruins in a seperate update now instead please, im dying to get a unown

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  181. Do the unknown play an important role in the game in which we don't know about yet?

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