[Shane]

What kind of features would you like to see in v2 of Pokemon Vortex? Everything here is speculatory, not guaranteed to get included.

[Lekroty]

Well, that achievement thingy was mentioned so many times that I think you're already sick of it, but since this is the official thread, it has to be mentioned here as well. Plus a small little feature that shows everyone's rank in PV in their user profile. That's all I can think of now.

[IC3 CR3AM!]

1. Profile pictures? You could post the Profile Pic with the other info of the top 10 on the Top Trainers that would be cool. It probably would be better if you made like a main page for The top Trainers list and put it there but still keeping the one on the side without the profile pic.

2. Special things going on, on the Holidays including Dec. 1st (the day Crater shut down )

3. Tournaments, Like every 4 months have a huge Tournament. Its a great idea in my opinion Please consider it. PM me if you want the whole story so I can Convince you.

[Masqeurain3]

Well, mostly just small fixes at the moment, like gym badges on players public profile, the battle system remembers what your last attack was and defaults to it, possibly even the next attack can be made on the same page as the damage page. Basically some simple refinement to the battle system.

A longshot, maybe a new type of Pokemon, but I suspect that for a later version. If you need help with doing a new version, I have time to help a bit. Could possibly put some fakemon into the game, there are a few that you have accepted.

Obviously, I know you guys are working on side quests, so maybe having that for version 2 would be nice.

I can't really think of much else. Maybe adding in status effects to battles.

Maybe you guys could hold special events on the forum, like for example, a Pokemon catching contest, similar to the bug-catching contests from Gold/Silver/Crystal. You set a challenge in the forums, then we have a deadline to make our entry. The entry would be made either by posting, or offering the caught Pokemon on a special contest-account trade so that you guys can see the entries.

The winner could receive a special, rare Pokemon. Obviously it is something that could already be done, but ingame you could add a special section for it, maybe even a function for entering the Pokemon, so that it doesn't need to be done via trades. Hiscores could be made ingame and a list of winners.

Edit - I made a quick attempt at a new type. I came up with a Stone type, it has 25% more defense. It is only rough.
Dean commented it looked metallic. I could make some more if you want to see how it works.

[The Oncoming Storm]

Lekroty, on Jul 14 2009, 06:10 PM, said:

Well, that achievement thingy was mentioned so many times that I think you're already sick of it, but since this is the official thread, it has to be mentioned here as well. Plus a small little feature that shows everyone's rank in PV in their user profile. That's all I can think of now.

^ I completely agree with that ^
-cough-

Anyways, I would like to see the sprites of the Johto gym leaders to be revamped, and more trainer sprites to choose from, particularly from Diamond/Pearl/Heart Gold.

And maybe an accuracy/evasiveness calculator? Or a pokemon type with evasiveness. Or both?
<-- A possible type for evasiveness.
Shadows are hard to hurt after all. Doesn't take much to mass create either.

[PitbuLL]

I think the Metallic type pokemons would be wicked but maybe not named Metallic because then you would have Mystic and Metallics nextr to eachother so your pokedex would be so loooooooooooong of just M's (rock sounds good)..

I would also totally agree with Tom.. Every user should have a rank on their profile(so if we click their names on the maps, it would give us a good idea on how good they are wich could make us think twice before battling the. Also it could arise a bit more competition between friends who are not top 50 trainers.)

Im not sure if this should go into v2 but ill tell my idea anyway... Along side the gym leaders why not have a Task Manager (Create a list of Tasks to complete i.e. Beat Gym Leaders, Win 50,000 battles with out a loss. Win 50 live battles) we could think of more as we proceed in the game.

Ill stop typing now as you most probably wont read it all.

[IC3 CR3AM!]

lol I did read it all

Great Idea with the task Manager
Maybe when you beat like brock 50,000 times (which is pretty easy) you gget a special pokemon. That you cant get anywhere else.

[CharizardEX97]

I'm not really too sure on the feedback I'll get for this, but I do think that maybe you should have to beat all the gyms and elite four to find legends? You know, sort of like how it used to be with pokemon crater.... This idea will probably give the gyms more of a purpose, and get more people to complete them all.

[PitbuLL]

Gothic3, on Jul 14 2009, 08:53 PM, said:

lol I did read it all

Great Idea with the task Manager
Maybe when you beat like brock 50,000 times (which is pretty easy) you gget a special pokemon. That you cant get anywhere else.

Yeh that would be kool. I got the idea from 'Mafia Wars' application on facebook

I think CharizardEX97's idea is good. By having to beat all the gym's before being able to find legends and high leveled pokes would be more of a challenge for all the trainers.


This idea is not necessarly for v2 but I think a good way for Shane to get money for servers is do 'Gold Trainer' accounts which if bought (e.g. $10) they get a free pokemon of their choice in a special trade account created by Shane. Their 'Gold Trainer' account could last for 12 months so for a price of e.g. $10 they get 12 free pokemon of their choice. If someone already has a good account and dont want to start from fresh then you can make an upgrade button for a persons account to be upgraded to a Gold Trainer for the year. This way people would be happy and Shane would get money for servers.? Only a suggestion =) (Or if you could think of something simular) Also this way Pokemon Vortex is still free for all but people have to be willing to pay for help.

[The Oncoming Storm]

Thought about this over night, and some of the other posts triggered more ideas..

1. The chances of finding a legend increase once all the gyms/E4 have been conquered
2. An electric map, and more lava maps
3. Pokemon like Aipom, Combee and Heracross only being found within a 5step radius of a honey tree.
4. Once a month, you should be able to battle the champion.
5. A "number of times defeated" counter underneath the Gym Leader stuff. Or a new section under the battle tag called "Log" which keeps track of your Wins/Losses against Gym Leaders and other trainers.
6. More NPC's scattered around the maps.


The task manager seems a lot like the achievement suggestion.

[Shane]

Logs / achievements would require a ton of mysql usage, you may have noticed the game can barely handle a little. =]

I'll look into achievements, although logs are out of the question unless I can find a rather efficient way to do it.

We have an electric map, just never got the opportunity to include it.

I am going to try to build live battling along with sidequests (battles aside from gyms and stuff which will be very tough as you get along in them, but give prizes when you get to certain points or beat certain people).

I would also like to make it so that you can't find legendaries or high leveled pokemon before you beat the E4 + all gyms. I need to find a smart way to incorporate this however, as it would take a lot of mysql usage to check through the database fields for badges and stuff.

I would like to incorporate buyable stat boosters for attack + defense (similar to iron, etc.), and fix up much of the status attacks, to make it more realistic for those accustomed to the video game battling.

I have yet to do any of this, so give me some time though.
Dean: I'll get all of this stuff, if you'll just get the maps in your leisure time.

[Shadow_Jolteon]

This might seems silly of me posting this but I would like to see double battles. It can be either forming with an AI computer trainers or with an actual online member.

Based on a certain movesets from Pokemon Vortex, a moveset can damage two pokemon or three pokemon.

Sorry about this if someone suggested this already. I would like to see the movesets gets a little tweaking soon. An overused powerful move should have a disadvantages in some point and S.T.A.B (same type attack bonus) should be added too.

[Yamatou]

We really need an electric map.
It would be very nice to being able to catch that Raikou Co. type of pkmn.

Somewhere where you can see the best pkmn (In experience) that are in Vortex of each pokemon type.
Like a rank, of every single one of them. (Or at least, a general rank.)

And...
Fix the Farfetch'd glitch pleaseeee.

[Shane]

STAB is included already.

[AshKetchup]

What's STAB? I would like to be able to get some items for just walking through the maps alone. Some of the items could be like what me and GothicX3 suggested, to be a part of an item which, when complete, allows special advantages. Having some rare event-only pokemon would be good too, but maybe one of the future implements.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask a question, as no one has given me a definite answer yet: What is the rate of encountering a legendary?

EDIT: Something I just though of: Ability to change Pokemon during battle.

[Shadow_Jolteon]

AshKetchup, on Jul 15 2009, 04:11 AM, said:

What's STAB? I would like to be able to get some items for just walking through the maps alone. Some of the items could be like what me and GothicX3 suggested, to be a part of an item which, when complete, allows special advantages. Having some rare event-only pokemon would be good too, but maybe one of the future implements.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask a question, as no one has given me a definite answer yet: What is the rate of encountering a legendary?

EDIT: Something I just though of: Ability to change Pokemon during battle.

STAB is where a pokemon gets additional power just because its movesets matches their types. Example:

Tyranitar (Rock/Dark) uses Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Crunch, and Payback. It gets additional power automatically because Rock Slide and Stone Edge are rock move types and Crunch and Payback are dark move types. Tyranitar using Earthquake won't get extra power. If Garchomp and Tyranitar have Adamant nature, then Garchomp would deal more damage since Garchomp is part ground type and Earthquake is a ground move.

I hope I explain a bit If not I can PM you of it. By the way you sorta bring up a good idea of what I want to see. Pokemon Abilities! Again this is Vortex so I would expect not all pokemon going obtain the same abilities. New abilities like Snow Heal (Heals if takes any Ice damage) or the legend birds can have these abilities [Ice Heal, Volt Absorb, and Flash Fire], or something better.

[Don Panini]

b4 actually making major additions it would be more safe and wise to secure what u will have when u guys fully open up the game, after everything seems stable then i guess u can start adding. this way the chances of stuff from v1 getting messed up by the creation of v2 is lessened. but as for v2 itself > i'd say couple more fire,ice,thunder maps.grass maps should have no attention later one other than maintaining it cause there are a lot of em. achievements, like beating a gym certain times or whatever,pvp's not controlled by computer,few extra things for donaters that way nothing is lost form ppl who dont donate. its not like ur buying the extra things, the donators are just being rewared. a coustom gym made by the G.M's consisting of different pokemons that the G'M's have(every single one lol). more top lists. instead of just having top trainers list, u can top pvp list or something like that for ppl who won most pvps or killed more wild pokemons or someone who has the most pokemons, well u get the point hopefully.

[PitbuLL]

I think only have a top trainer list. Nothing else.

[Don Panini]

i suggested that so more ppl have the chance to have their names up, and its not only the top trainers who are being recognized, but i guess that would be something extra which is not a necessary thing but would be nice to have though.

[PitbuLL]

Well for everyone who played Crater, a few months before it closed Aaron added a total of 500 top trainer lists.. That could be and idea so more people also get their name up their