about the time period:
to prevet players from switching between jobs to get "easy cash" the will be able to change job every period of time- something like a job id per day so the will be able to do let's say "Farmer" job for a whole day or until they reach level 10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100

btw I'm updating it all into the first post

maybe an IP thing to make sure theres 1 account per person. Dont know how it would work though.

It's a command that shows you the ip of an account (that's what i know from other games)

Quote from: CraigGameFan on January 03, 2012, 07:34:34 PM

why not just choose a type of trainer at the start like a ranger etc and you get a very small perk for each class. Might make it a little more interesting but the job thing i dont see happening.

This was something I had in mind as a suggestion to avert the problem I pointed out and which could solve it!

But this said, this can lead to multiple accounts and I guess mods will just have to be more on alert and warn (maybe even ban?) such players.

And MrMuffin, I'll let you know that people are waiting for your sample maps...

I see...  Mods will have to pay more attention anyway because people can always create more and more accounts to storge starters (if there's pokemon storage system), you bring up a big problem that may appear about everything.

and I already uploaded the first to my personal gallery, if you/they want me to send it to someone than give me an email or something

Quote from: MrMuffin on January 03, 2012, 06:26:53 PM

i'm right into it, if you add more jobs there is more variety- therefore  better range.
Let's say every job that doesn't address pokemons directly such as farmer, journalist, designer and salesman will be for lower levels
this way there will be a separation between high level jobs and low level jobs. If player want to have a job like Ranger or Pokemon trainer they'll have to work harder

And what would they do until they achieve the point where they can be a Ranger?

work as low level jobs. Low level jobs will be easier, many, and small reward and as they grow to high level jobs the quests will be more complicated with bigger reward. Like every game- you you start from almost scratch and you build up till you're what you want to be

Quote from: MrMuffin on January 03, 2012, 05:02:05 PM

Another thing came up to my mind is the point of those discounts will be rewards from quests/mission

Now this changes everything. For the way you had it, it was like one player didn't even have to do anything to get the facilities provided by each 'job'.

Now coming to the 'job switching' part. If I understood well, you want a player to pick only one job at a time and cannot change until some period of time, right?
Then what if say... one player reaches Level 10 quickly? They would be starting off as farmer in your example and get access to teacher. That sounds a bit unfair to me for a hard working player not able to get a 'taste' of another job as soon as (s)he can, and the player is sort of forced to choose farmer at the beginning since it's the only one available for this level.

Anything you plan or can think of to make it a little more 'fair'?

These are just examples, i added "and so on..." becase i didn't have any in my mind right now but i'm sure you we can come up with more like "Journalist" "**Pokemon trainer (train pokemons for others)", "Fashion designer" and "Salesman"
**- Job that give you a pokemon in a closed area so you can't run away with him and use him for your own

I remember from the old games that sometime raising money is hard so I came up with an idea of maybe making jobs like side quests that you get paid for.

Where does the job part kicks in? these side quests will be categorized by job (special id) that players can do only if they have the required id. The jobs could be change a job per day to avoid players switching jobs to gain more money.

Jobs:
-Police officer (GMs)
-Farmer
- Mail-Man
-Pizza Delivery Guy
-Pokemon Trainer
-Seller
-Teacher
-Doctor
-Ranger


Levels and Level Cap:
jobs will be split into two categories:
- till level 20
- after level 20

Every job will be available after a chosen level (trainer level):
Untill level 20
Farmer:                 Starters job
Mail-Man:               level 5
Pizza Delivery Guy:level 10
Seller:                   level 15

After level 20:
Pokemon Trainer:   level 20
Teacher:                level 30
Doctor:                  level 40
Ranger:                 level 50

Tests:
Every job will have a test of 5 questions about their subject like:
Doctor: How many Health points can Hyper Potion recover? Up to 200 HP
Teacher: How many PP is there for Quick Attack?
Ranger: You have encountered a trainer that harms his Chikorita, What will you do?
Farmer: What does Pomeg berry got for?
Pizza Delivery Guy: Where was the Pizza Made for the first time?
Pokemon trainer: At which level does Geodude evolves into Graveler?
Seller: What's the price of a Potion?

the officer won't have a test for my opinion because only GMs will have this job

Advanteges:
Every jobs will give you different advantage:
Police officer: will be able to arrest criminals ( can be referred for GM police that bans hackers/flamers and bad behaving players).
Farmer:         will have discount on fruits or will get more every time he pick one up.
Teacher:        will have discount on TM and Battle Items.
Doctor:          will have a discount on potions and will be able to heal pokemons.
Ranger:         will have advantage when catching pokemons
Seller:           will have a low discount in shops
Pizza Deliver: will be faster than usual player


**Updated to page 2**

Hope you liked it

no way TheSolx!
you paint them too which I can't