Hello everyone!
Sorry I've been inactive. I've been busy with other things, so I haven't had any time to work on a new update for Raptor EX.
Firstly, I want to apologise to everyone searching for Manaphy; I've searched through every map, and it seems Manaphy is actually unobtainable. Does anybody know whether it was obtainable in the original Raptor? I may have accidentally deleted its event at some point. Either way, it will be obtainable in the next update (or via Mystery Gift).
Second, I see you guys have figured out that the Aura Fragment legendary is random. Much like Deoxys's form, the legendary you battle is set when you start the game, not before you battle it. Not all legendaries can be obtained, only the more powerful ones. As for the Luminous Shard, it is not used for anything else. It does have an effect, though; however, its effect particularly obvious. Hint: it may affect wild Pokémon battles while it's in your bag ;)
Finally, I've decided to hold off on updates for a while. The reason is that I am going to wait for Black and White to come out (at least in Japanese), so I can include the new 5th gen Pokémon. The plan is to have romanised names until the English names are revealed; at that time, I'll release an update with English names. I won't be including any new 5th gen battle mechanics, including new abilities and moves (sorry guys; it would take a lot of time and effort to add them). This may or may not result in a few new areas. I will attempt to upgrade to a newer version of Essentials, though; this may result in the introduction of a few bugs and glitches, but eventually, I'll ensure those are ironed out.
If anybody has any feedback for what should be changed (to improve gameplay/difficulty) in the next version, let me know. I'll make a preliminary list here:
- Manaphy will be added
- Shedinja's item cloning bug will be fixed
- Speedup will be enabled for the Arceus event
- Arceus's plates will all be hit at once by multi-target attacks, rather than showing a message for each plate
- Moves with broken effects will be fixed