[Scripting Question] Modifying the EV system and other things

[Zarator8]

Hello everyone. I was wondering if it is possible to modify the EV system in Pokemon Essentials, in order to bring it closer to Gen 1-2. In particular, I was wondering if it is possible to:

1) Reduce the IV variance from 0-31 to 0-15
2) Reducing the maximum value for each stat by 1 (for example, in Gen 3+, 106 base HP equals 416 HP maximum, but 415 in gen 1-2)
3) Reintroducing the old EV system, with each stat having a max 65535 EVs, each Pokemon giving EV equal to its base stats, and vitamins giving an amount of EV equal to 2560 (with the cap being 25600 for vitamins).

Thank you

 

[Telemetius]

Okay it can be done, I'll answer in order:

1) find the line @iv=[] in PokeBattle_Pokemon and replace:

@iv[0]=rand(32)
@iv[1]=rand(32)
@iv[2]=rand(32)
@iv[3]=rand(32)
@iv[4]=rand(32)
@iv[5]=rand(32)

with

@iv[0]=rand(16)
@iv[1]=rand(16)
@iv[2]=rand(16)
@iv[3]=rand(16)
@iv[4]=rand(16)
@iv[5]=rand(16)

2) I'm not sure but you could edit the values found in PokeBattle_Pokemon

# Returns the maximum HP of this Pokémon.
def calcHP(base,level,iv,ev)
return 1 if base==1
return ((base*2+iv+(ev>>2))*level/100).floor+level+10
end

# Returns the specified stat of this Pokémon (not used for total HP).
def calcStat(base,level,iv,ev,pv)
return ((((base*2+iv+(ev>>2))*level/100).floor+5)*pv/100).floor
end

(I can't help you with that since I have no idea how the stats work between generations.)

3) Again i'm not really confident about the whole ivs and evs thing but you could edit in PokeBattle_Pokemon:

EVLIMIT = 510 # Max total EVs
EVSTATLIMIT = 252 # Max EVs that a single stat can have