How about if you go up and talk to battling trainers you can have the option to be a spectator on that match. Say for example im out catching pokemon with my friend, then another players comes along and whants to battle my friend. Instead of just sitting and waiting for the match to finish, I could just jump in and watch it

I dont know if this has been said, but I think some kind of status should be displayed above players battling or watching a battle.
Since 2players facing eachother might aswell not be battling, they can be chatting, be afk, traiding etc.

Hello there follow pokemon fans!
been lurking around these forums the past few days trying to get up to speed, it looks promising!
Now I was thinking there should be some kind of friend/rival system.

If you befriend a player you can teleport directly to his house (if he accepts the invitation that is)
This might ofcourse bring alot of problems such as you being able to teleport all over the map etc, this can be fixed by implementing some restricions.
Example:
Accept (read above)
You can only teleport to his/her house when he/she is online AND inside the house

I would also think it was cool if you could put "rival" status on players, even your friends!
Maybe Limit the number of rivals you can set.
When you defeat or are defeated by your rival I think it should be registred somewhere in your Pokedex or whatever system you are planning on using.
Friends should also be able to be rivals, since beating your Friend who is also your rival would be awesome!

This could also be implimented as a clan/group thing, where players (maybe 2-6 or something)
band together to start a pokemon clan/group/gathering whatever ^^.
Same thing with the rival system, but instead you are able to tag an entier group as rivals.
Maybe also add something like a clan tag, either by costumizing the character itself or adding something simmilar to WoW with a clan/guild tag under your name.

The group rival system could be implimented onto special tournaments held over serveral weeks, were clans battle for points. And at the end of the "season" there can be some kind of reward for the top clans.
How the bracket system and stuff like that will be set up I will leave up to the developers.

What do you guys think?

Note: Im sorry for any spelling mistakes I have made, english is my 2nd language.

It depends actully.
I think the game looks cool, and the generall design of the world speaks to me.
But wait forever? No thanks.
Since we are in beta 1st of april, I would think that the final release wouldn´t be that far away.

Note: Not That Far Away=<10years

But yeah, the thing that "worries" me is that nintendo will grow a brain and release their own pokemon mmo and thus making this one obsolet before it´s even is finished.
Im just saying, you never know, they might be working on it now.

Peace //Gammal