Aside from the resizing version, I don't know what I'll be focussing on until I actually do it.
If you wanted some kind of progress report, like a Twitter feed or something... I don't know. Is it important? Please don't say "yeah, do it" for the sake of it, because it's yet another thing I'd need to coordinate (and indeed learn/make myself do it, since I'm not a Twitterer). I do have a large document listing all the ideas I've thought up, which I could tidy up and share if you're interested in having a glimpse into how I roll.
I don't agree with this twitter thing. Someone skillful (and with no big help from others) as Maruno won't need to waste you time with these things.
I am working on same things that Maruno several times, the best solution that I realize is to talk with he before done big changes. Even if you done something, there a change that it goes rejected.
I don't mean Twitter as a dry piece of... [
insert bad language]... That is...
I mean, just a little,
"
In the next version, you will see:
New/Added Abillities
More Pokémon
Fixed Ball throwing
Fixed moves."
Just some major updates, obviously not all, you're not our slave... Just, I'm not as experienced as you, and it took me a while to figure out how to get to choose a Gender for opponents trainers Pokémon, and when I got it completed, I was well happy... I came online, and noticed it was in your new update :(... I don't expect you to get permission or nothing, just a heads up :classic:... I like what you're doing to Essentials, and follow and believe in you, every step of the way, and if I could help you out, I would, as FL . is working on the bugfixes, and little to no information on the next release, there is not alot most of us can help with other than bug fixes which FL . does a wicked job fixing, so big thanks to you too FL . :classic:... As much as we'd all like to help.
On a side note, do you use a Google translator FL ., I don't fully understand you sometimes and I kind of think I know what you're talking about, but don't always get it right, this is just so, if I get confused in future, I know to ask you rather than guess, took a while for me to understand something you helped me a while back, had to re-read a few things, to get the answer, but I got there in the end, this is nothing against you, I'd just like to know :classic:.
But I guess that you need to think more about developers that have a game in progress perspective about updates. Updating is a hard thing as you said before, isn't? So won't make it often, I guess that about a two or three month is a good time. So think about it when making some changes like changing the itens or trainers.txt constants that can make devs to redo these things or even about deleting savefiles (some of us have saves with dozens of hours). I know that is a complicated thing.
This is true... If I wern't somewhat lazy with playing my game and didn't use a lot of "
cheat squares" (
as I call them), I would feel... I don't know, but it won't be good, I guess... This however is not a problem for me haha.
I think that the most important thing that the Essentials missing is the Gen V pokémon. I know that they haven't good backsprites, but I guess that this is better that nothing. After this, completed all Gen IV/V effects (moves, abilities and items). After this do Triple Battles and Rotation Battles. I know that this new battle style will be very hard, maybe you can call poccil to help because he is a genius scripter and can do this easily.
I don't agree with this, Triple battles should be more of a FEATURE, to someones game, not Essentials based, double battles are fine at the moment, when they invent tag team styled 4 vs. 4 battles, 2 start, 2 finish, then maybe add this, at the moment it's a big ask of Maruno...
Moves and abillities however, I think should be added, not all of them maybe, but if you work on a couple, you may aswell work on them all.
Gen V Pokémon, I for one don't care for them as I never played Black or White and there will be a Black 2 and White 2 soon, great for me... I do however have White sat on the side so I can play it when I feel like it, but I choose not to.
All due respect, you are a great scripter, but asking for help from Poccil wouldn't be all that bad, 2 scripters are better than one, always has, always will...