PU Article on my Blog.

[Level5Pidgey]

http://zandagamedesign.blogspot.com/2010/02/balancing-pokemon.html

I just finished the outline of my strategy to balance the Pokemon Metagame on my blog, and, well, if you were wondering what I'm planning - there it is.

Wish me luck XD

[schindle]

very good blog!
i guess balancing game mechanics in pokemon is a very very imprtant thing.
pokemon GOT the potential to have very stratetic fights, not like in the Gameboy versions.

your ideas and ideas like stacking poison effects, combined with something like 'finishing' moves or special healing effects or something like that, would make the game so much funier than it is right now. i dont know if its possible, but PU could be THE pioneer in modern-game-mechanics with pokemon.
dont let waste this possibility :-)

so let balance the game! :-D

[Gammal]

I somewhat agree.
I find it sad that some pokemon even in their last evolution state are not viable to use at all.
But then again, balancing EVERY single pokemon in the game would be a huge undertaking, and just the balancing process would take years, and if you add the "finishing move" and poisen stacking that would require even more balancing.

It WOULD be great if everything was perfectly balanced, but I think the road to get there might be to long and to hard.

//Gammal

[tap1on]

Nice reading.
I agree with you, but as gammal said it would take a long time to balance all pokémons but ain't it worth it?
It would be much more fun to face different pokémons instead of "almost the same" all the time in highlevel pvp.

[schindle]

it isnt THAT much work. because you can add an algorithm that changes every pokemon to a 'base lvl'. pokemon that are realy messed up with stats needs special treatment. but that wont be that much to change tho.

in another treat i showed the possibility to balance attacks. no1 really wants that every attack does the same damage. this is an MMO, not an simple GB game :-)

at the moment im looking at the damage formulas and look if you can get it to scale more with stats.

scalings everything at the end regarding attacks.

[stephenkill2]

Poor shuckle...It just goes to show the balance issues in play, and I know you guys are going to make the world of pokemon a lot better 

[ChaoticXSinZ]

The complex thing about Pokemon is the many factors that affect them. These include levels of effectiveness/weakness, natures, IVs, EVs, base stats, items, equips etc
I can only iterate the same concern in the massive undertaking this is but again as said above it is worthwhile as it makes the whole experience that much more enjoyable.
Also, regarding making an algorithm as shindle mentioned: it would also be somewhat of an undertaking to correctly implement the necessary parts which make up these complex creatures we so fondly call pokemon.

[baralai15]

That would be pretty cool, something to work on a little here and there and it'll eventually get finished.