2 months ago, a few of our more attentive players noticed that March 29th 2022 would be the 10th anniversary of the forums coming online. As a brief history lesson for everyone, the first public test of the game started a few weeks later in April 2012, then the "alpha" (now known as PokeMMO Epsilon™) was released in June 2012.
While originally we were just planning on a large content update to commemorate the date, maybe throw in some massive tournament or something, we had the brilliant idea to instead make a one-time event outside of what we call "event season"- the period of Halloween/Christmas/Chinese New Year where we normally don't permit large, breaking changes so as to not interrupt the events by leaving you with an unplayable video game. "Get hyped" we said, because it'd be good.
Then, despite our better judgment, we doubled down by not only giving ourselves a deadline to come up with something and get it out, but a public deadline. Several in fact, and we've managed to blow all of them in a fantastic fashion.
Today marks the date of our 4th deadline being missed, and I'm happy to announce that we're commemorating this feat of project logistics by releasing the Torch & Pitchfork Seasonal items.
These items will be available until the next update releases. We expect that to be Soon™ish, probably around Two Weeks™, but we're giving ourselves some leeway so we don't need to make more announcements about announcements.
When we get there, this will also be an unusual update process. We'll be breaking it into a 3 part series:
The major, fragile changes will occur before the event. This will be our launch of the open beta iOS client, general changes like moveset updates, bug fixes, and a large suite of scripting changes to help us support future regions.
A few days later, after we're sure that the game's not completely busted, the event will start.
Finally, after the event ends, a new permanent feature will launch. We'll keep that one a surprise for now.
Until then,
You wont lose any of you pokemon but when you change your region they will be sent to your pc and your level cap will be reset.
Yes, you will be starting the new region from the very beginning.
When you change your region,all your Pokemon are sent to pc and you start with a new level cap. You can use your unova pokemon after you reach a level cap high enough to use them.
Only key items change when you change regions, rest of the items (and money) stay with you.
You can talk the NPC mother character to send you back to your previous region as long as you have less than 2 badges in that region, after that you just need to get to slateport to use the boat there to switch regions.
You can battle players who started from other regions but you have to be on the same map to challenge them or request a trade to them.
Yes, pokemon above your max obedience will die straight away. There's no way to delevel pokemon so yes you'll have to get new pokemon. You physically can't overlevel your pokemon above the max obedience in the region you're in. Which is why you were able to do that.
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