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kevin garrett is on PC? hes like my hero o_o
My only issue with the server is the staff structure.
Do you have to be a mod on the forum to have power on the server? Why do i say this? Well because people who have been fired on the forum are still server staff, higher staff who dont even battle have power on the server, people who arent staff on the forum are admin/mod on the server and people who arent even active and piss off to smogon the majority of the time still have power. None of these should be the case imo.
Its inconsistent and probs needs addressing.
Strongest battler at this place is not an achievement. What players has this place brought up? If KG actually DOES go here, thats a fantastic example. Sweep is a great Ubers player. Anti and antebellum have made posts with relevance, which is great looking at the theorymonning. But that size is minimal. For every 5 players here, you have random brazilian forums/Smogon bringing up 1,000. How do you get good students? Proffesionalism.
This place needs some good tutor program. And good tutors. If not, why would people choose this place over Smogon. The laid-back experince? Oh please.
Then youre begging to fall behind. And if thats what you desire, your choice. But if you want this place to get some "deserved" recognizion, stuff needs to be done. I'd love to tutor someone half-decent (I dont wanna deal with retards using Bellossom because its their fav mon), and though I rarely play XY, I'm good enough to see and understand the metagame.
While I am not against clans or leagues, I think we need to explicitly lay out what it is we would want them to accomplish for the community. I wouldn't want leagues to be noob pits that are disconnected from the server community entirely, for example. (Nothing against noobs, but I think that we should be directing them toward integrating into the battling community here instead of being isolated and never really improving.) So if we brought back clans, what would we want them to accomplish, and how would they define their niche on PC? I'm not a Battle Stadium guy, so my knowledge and vision with these things is more limited.
I do think that overall though, battling groups are a good idea that add variety to the scene here. And with events, I think we can do more tours but also more than just tours. I don't think it's terrible right now, but there is a lot of room for improvement at the moment.
I know the laid-back experience is why you'd go here. But my question is, why would you want a laid-back experience? If you post RMT's here, you're expecting second-hand rates, when you coulda gone Smogon and gotten a tier one rate at no cost. That's like choosing Ember over Flamethrower.
Also, Smogon isn't all 100% serious. Isn't that why Firebot exists?
Server Atmosphere:
I don't think anyone has a big problem with this and they shouldn't. We are a very lenient server that allows a lot more than other servers do.
I don't come here much ;-;. I realise that this is a bit delayed, and the topic has moved on a bit, but I just wanted to give my point of view as an outsider to the battling community.
I only go on the server to play some fun matches, I don't play competitively and I don't stick around there for chatting. Some members have mentioned people asking for matches and being ignored, that has happened to me most of the times I sign in - which, admittedly, are getting rarer and rarer. I'd also like to address Chase who said...
I think your overall lenience is offputting to members. I often open up BSS, see a very weird/borderline conversation - yes, I've seen some about masturbation, some with people just randomly swearing - and just quit. It's very intimidating and even if it's not always like that, and I somehow just always come at a bad time, I don't see a reason it should ever be like that.
I don't come here much ;-;. I realise that this is a bit delayed, and the topic has moved on a bit, but I just wanted to give my point of view as an outsider to the battling community.
I only go on the server to play some fun matches, I don't play competitively and I don't stick around there for chatting. Some members have mentioned people asking for matches and being ignored, that has happened to me most of the times I sign in - which, admittedly, are getting rarer and rarer. I'd also like to address Chase who said...
I think your overall lenience is offputting to members. I often open up BSS, see a very weird/borderline conversation - yes, I've seen some about masturbation, some with people just randomly swearing - and just quit. It's very intimidating and even if it's not always like that, and I somehow just always come at a bad time, I don't see a reason it should ever be like that.