Your brain rots from watching 1000 ways to die for too many hours.

You get the banhammer for calling the police over everything.

Quote from: Frenchfry545 on July 05, 2010, 11:42:07 PM

Quote from: Jerry on July 05, 2010, 05:23:23 PM

And if you know the triangle of fire, the three essential requirements for a fire to exist is oxygen, fuel and heat. Remove heat through a blizzard, or asphyxiate it (the easiest ways) and it is not more... water instead, you can boil it, freeze it, but it will always be able to come back

So, there is no real 'better' or 'worse', both have their advantages and shortcomings.

But CHARIZAAAAARD! doesn't have just fire. Even if his fire got pwned, he could do a few things to a BLASTOIIIISE!, the most graphic being picking it up by the tail, flying into the air, and dropping it from fatal heights.

This is all quite lovely, but the question isn't "Charizard or Blastoise?". It's "Charmander or Squirtle?". And, unless Charmander gets a teenage mutant ninja squad soon, Squirtle still wins.

Well, this is also all quite relevant, because charmander and squirtle turn into charizard and blastoise, and it's important to think about the future. Isn't that what all the elementary school assemblies taught us? And I noticed Charmander has the highest number of votes. So I don't care if there ARE Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles, Charmander is currently winning.

Alright, I support this idea, but I think we need to look at the downsides that it might bring...
Offhand, all I can really think of is that impatient players and angsty teenagers would get frustrated and produce rage, which they will use to go around bashing the PU team on the broadest chat option availible. Of course, the game shouldn't be made easier just to save players the trouble of muting immature people.

Guys, The United States of America has already gone over this. Charizard. Always. Wanna know why? If Pokemon had been going for realistic type advantages instead of fair, then fire would pwn everything. Water would evaporate, flying types would get turned to fried chicken in midair, grass types... Forest Fires. Rock types would turn into volcanos and BECOME fire. Steel would melt. Ghosts don't exist. Psychics... I dunno, they might be able to pwn fire to some degree. And the Normal and fighting types would get it worst of all.
Why, the very invention of the Flamethrower is proof that someone smart enough to invent one looked at some people and said, "Gee, I really wish I could light that guy on fire, but I'm not close enough to get the job done. They don't call heavy weapons "waterarms," or "waterpower," do they?
In fact, the only reason In Real Life fires can get owned by water is because those fires weren't being tended to by CHARIZAAAAARD!

Quote from: neokills on July 04, 2010, 07:49:58 PM

I like all this, and I'm glad there will be a wait in between gyms also, now no one will be able to just fly through all the gyms, they will actually have to play and experience all the other features of the game.

Huh. I must've missed that one. Whoopsies.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. NO. No item mall.
Aside from the fact that pokemon is legally owned by a big company that probably loves filing copyright infringement lawsuits, there are a number of problems with an item mall.
1) Seeing as the MMO is gonna be as close to the games as possible, that means that we're going to be dealing with the same items, pokemon, etc. Nothing in the origonal game was so amazing that PU would really have any right - even if it was legal - to charge us money for it.
2) Amlost invariably, the moment an item mall is released by a small business, that small business instantly becomes greedy, and goes overkill on the item mall. I don't even PLAY runescape, and I know that they're progressively restricting more and more of the the game to the people that bought a membership.
3) And, of course, we have the lack of maturity of  the internets. Assuming an item mall is implemented and all the sudden only members can get third stage evolutions. Now about ninety percent of the game's population is running about with charmeleons instead of charizards. now the most popular phrase among upgraded players is "(insert 2nd stage evolution here) n00b". Sure, you can ignore them, but it would be really annoying if you couldn't go through the game without one in every ten players antagonizing you for not being upgraded.