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Well that was my biggest problem with XY. It's story and characters were lacking with depth. I would've personally would've loved Team Flare to be given more elbow room.The Admins don't have names at all and even at a certain point, the game itself laughed at how they all had the SAME EXACT MODELS. The Gym Leaders and Elite 4 were the weakest in the series, I can barely remember their names.

So that is something I DEFIE TLY want to stay away from, in my hack. Give all the characters some depth.
 
Does anyone think a "challenge map" hack would be popular? It would have a very simple story line (unless I find someone to help me with it) but it would be very difficult to complete the areas without finding secrets or excessive grinding. In each area you would have to make it to the gym leader and defeat them with limited recourses. It would be pretty easy if you find items like rare candies or potions throughout the area.
I'm not sure if anyone made a hack similar to this yet and released it to the public.
 
earthwarrior said:
Does anyone think a "challenge map" hack would be popular? It would have a very simple story line (unless I find someone to help me with it) but it would be very difficult to complete the areas without finding secrets or excessive grinding. In each area you would have to make it to the gym leader and defeat them with limited recourses. It would be pretty easy if you find items like rare candies or potions throughout the area.
I'm not sure if anyone made a hack similar to this yet and released it to the public.
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I did something similar to this for April Fools, a small hack where there were different "levels" with some puzzles and a boss fight in each one. It involved no grinding though, the battles were won either by luck or save states. :P

I think it's a pretty neat idea but I don't think such a hack would be very popular. It would make a good feature in a hack though, in my opinion. Perhaps instead of the Battle Tower/Frontier, after defeating the Champion. A tower having lots of challenging levels with puzzles and hard trainer battles would make a great post-game feature, especially if there would be rewards after finishing all levels, such as legendaries or rare items.
 
Dark Sneasel said:
Does anyone here like trainers outside of gyms that ask you if you want to battle and are able to be rematched? Grinding is a pain in the ass and at least here you make some money and they have higher level pokemon
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Isn't that what the VS Seeker and PokéNav (or running around routes to get trainers to rematch you) for? Though I'd definitely prefer some kind of alternative such as Trainers asking you if you want to battle them again, it might be too much if you could rematch a Trainer consecutively. Maybe have some kind of timer before Trainers ask you to rematch them?

Unless you're not planning to make them like normal Trainers. It depends on how you actually do it, but it's a nice idea.
 
Christos said:
Isn't that what the VS Seeker and PokéNav (or running around routes to get trainers to rematch you) for? Though I'd definitely prefer some kind of alternative such as Trainers asking you if you want to battle them again, it might be too much if you could rematch a Trainer consecutively. Maybe have some kind of timer before Trainers ask you to rematch them?

Unless you're not planning to make them like normal Trainers. It depends on how you actually do it, but it's a nice idea.
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Well, in my hack for a while the player is stuck in an island without surf for a while, so in case (s)he was having trouble with the gym there, I decided to make a little part of the map have houses and trainers:

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It seems to be working, I asked a few friends irl if they thought it was a good idea and they told me to go for it (also, not to mention I made a Pokemon vendor ^_^)

Also, I had to resort to this due to no pokenav in my hack.
 
Well if it's only for just one island, you could have a Trainer that can rematch you. Or maybe a small "challenge" house with a few easy Trainers you have to beat in a row and get some kind of reward when you beat the leader. That should be enough to get the player to level up to the necessary level if you do it properly, or you could make it so the player can challenge all the Trainers in that house all the time.

On another note, if grinding is really that necessary for that gym, why not lower the gym's difficulty instead? I personally don't like grinding since I just like to play through hacks. I know there are a lot of people who enjoy that, so maybe you could have a separate "X" version (like rijonAdventures or Shiny Gold) where the difficulty is higher.
 
does anybody know any good soulsilver/heartgold hacks? i know it has to be a hard one to hack (what with having your buddies following you) but i love them and it would be great if there was one. i have played stormsilver.
 
what would you think ABT a hack where the rival character ends up with the evil team? Could it make for a nice twist?
 
So, which hack(s) are you guys rooting for in this year's Hack of the Year competition?
 
Platinum R&B is good but has no release so you can't really judge it that well in terms of scripting, mapping, storyline and if its gameplay is engaging or not so I couldn't vote for that for the most part. Went with Gaia mainly.
 
Oh gosh, it's already awards time? I haven't had that much time to play many hacks this year.

I guess I'll be rooting for Touhoumon Purple or Emerald Omega in sideshow. YAFRH won last year, but they've both been worked on this year. Man, I've been out of touch with the main showcase for a while. What should I play that's new?
 
So...
when I started scripting, I found it hard...
now, I found it super easy!
So, you guys, what did you think when you're just a newbie to scripting, did you find it hard or easy?
 
It gets super easy when you click that you're basically just writing what you want to happen. msgbox for some text, applymovement to move; scripting is just a list of what you want to happen really.
 
BlazikenXY said:
So...
when I started scripting, I found it hard...
now, I found it super easy!
So, you guys, what did you think when you're just a newbie to scripting, did you find it hard or easy?
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I started out by a combination of already existing in-game scripts and the big tutorial. I found minor things like normal NPC actions deceivingly simple after a little while. The only part I got hung up on was the amount of text a message box can hold.
 
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