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[Scripting Question] Sell Pokémon?

InkDrop

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Sell Pok?mon?

Is there a way to make it so that you can sell pok?mon in your game?

I want to be able to have my player sell pok?mon to a Mart or NPC for different amounts of money depending on species but I'm not sure how I would do it. If someone could give me some suggestions or even point me in the direction of a script I can use I'd be very grateful.
 
mgriffin

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If you have a script that lets the player choose a Pok?mon in their party, another that removes a Pok?mon from the party, and a third that adds money then it should be simple enough to compose them together.

In hand-wavy code:

Code: 
speciesMoney = {
  :BULBASAUR => 1,
  :IVYSAUR => 2,
  :VENUSAUR => 3 # etc
}
pkmn = choosePartyPokemon
if pkmn:
  money = speciesMoney[pkmn.species]
  if money:
    if yesNo(_INTL("Sell your {1} for {2}?", pkmn.name, money))
      removePokemon(pkmn)
      giveMoney(money)
    end
  else
    message(_INTL("Sorry, we aren't looking to buy {1}.", pkmn.name))
  end
end

None of the functions I mentioned exist with those names (as far as I know), but hopefully it's obvious what they do:
* choosePartyPokemon => lets the player pick a Pok?mon in their party, or returns nil if they cancel.
* yesNo => prompts the player to answer a question with yes or no, and returns true if yes, and false if no.
* removePokemon => removes a particular Pok?mon from the party (the chosen one).
* addMoney => gives the player money.
* message => shows a message.

I'm also assuming that pkmn.species is a symbol that refers to the species, e.g. it contains values that look like the keys of speciesMoney; and that pkmn.name is a string.
 
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InkDrop

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Thanks so much! I had no idea where to start but your reply gave me the jumping off point I needed to cobble together a script!
 
mgriffin

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That's great to hear! Maybe you'd like to share what you came up with for anybody who reads this thread in the future? :)
 
InkDrop

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Sure! I'm still new at this, so I'm sure it can be improved on, but this is what worked for me!

Spoiler:
 
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