Fakemon seem to be a good idea, but not a lot. It makes the game a bit more unique with a few fakemon.
THANK YOU for being a voice of reason here, me2hack. I appreciate it.
Maybe the rest of you shouldn't turn to "what would make this game more visually exciting", and instead go to "what makes more sense to do"? We are most certainly NOT going to do what Unova did, because geographically, that makes absolutely NO sense.
The Pokemon World is based very largely off of the real world, with the four past regions based on various parts of Japan and Unova based on New York City. Notice that Unova can get away with having no original pokemon because it's thousands of miles away. Emort hasn't got that luxury. It's located DIRECTLY above Kanto and Johto. DIRECTLY above it. Because of that, I plan to have lots of species from Kanto and Johto present.
Look at Hoenn and Sinnoh. They're pretty far from Johto and Kanto and yet they STILL have tons of original pokemon. Why shouldnt Emort then, especially considering its so CLOSE to it? It just makes no geographical sense.
On to my next point. We can't just keep adding in new fakemon as we think of them. That's ludicrous. Aquakip is an EXTREMELY creative person, I know that. And if we keep adding every fakemon idea that pops into his head, by the time the final game is done we'll have just about 5 full generations of Fakemon! And don't get me wrong, I don't hate Aquakip's creativity, I just want to know that when my spriter tells me that the dex is complete, that the dex IS complete.
Now to answer the rest of you individually:
First Aquakip: The answer is still no. :) I still dont understand why you created those 25 when we didnt need them, but either way I'm not expanding the dex.
Kaivii: If we start with these 25, then the dex will be at about 170 fakemon. Which is a bit much, don't you think?
Rickyboy: This is because we are so geographically close to johto and kanto. Hoenn and Sinnoh arent as close but they still used old pokemon. Tons of them. [Also I have the most say in the group, thanks very much. :) ]
Karel_Kazuki [and XmasterchiefX]: We can't do what Unova did because we dont have the luxury of having no geographical connection :P
tImE: Oh come on! So the game will be bad because instead of 170 fakemon, we'll only have 145? NO! Too much of a good thing can be very, very bad.
and I leave you all with that... Also the demo is going well ;)