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Pondmanne

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  1. Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I check in fairly frequently to check if any new Alphas have been added (Personally I'm still waiting on Frisk Furret and Speed Boost Scolipede) and I'm fairly sure that today marks about 3 months since the last time we had a new, non-repeat Alpha. Is this intentional? Are the devs waiting to start adding more in a later update?
  2. There would be no reason to delete either, we could simply have both as separate locations.
  3. Very disheartened to hear this. I hope you guys reconsider or at least leave the possibility for the second Kanto to be implemented in the future. I know Kanto in HGSS is considered shallow by many but its also where story arcs wrap up and where your Johto team actually start getting to stretch their legs after beating Johto at level ~40. We'll also be missing quite a lot of great music, and I for one am quite sick of the Gen 3 version of Kanto at this point. I understand the logic behind wanting to skip out on Kanto 2 but I do believe HGSS loses a huge amount of charm by its omission.
  4. Hi, I've never made a post here but I don't plan on breaking any rules here. I saw some concerning in-game discussion today that stated the devs were intending on omitting the Kanto side of the Johto map when HG/SS finally drops. This post is a plea to the developers to reconsider. I understand the logistics of omitting a second Kanto. 1. 16 Gym rematches a day would perhaps be unbalanced. 2. It may be confusing to some players. 3. Having two Kantos wouldn't make sense. 4. Its a lot of extra work for not much content. I would like to provide some responses to these problems that I believe would be feasable in the hopes of saving half of my favorite games. 1. 16 Gym Rematches a day may be unbalanced. I believe this is one of the easier issues to fix- Simply limit the amount of rematches that are available. Limit 8 per day or decrease the payout per Gym Leader defeated while in Johto or Kanto (HGSS). 2. Having two Kantos may confuse some players. This concern is well-founded. A player may find themselves talking in General when someone announces a new Alpha spawn in Rock Tunnel. Players will flock to the Lavender Town Pokemon Center and rush into Rock Tunnel, only for it to be revealed that the Alpha spawn was in the HGSS version of Kanto. I believe there are two ways that we can solve this problem. 1. Any time the player is in a Kanto location, the location name in the corner of the screen would read <Location name> FRLG or <Location name> HGSS. 2. A new item that could be sold in the Gift Shop: the Time Machine. The Time Machine would allow instant travel between locations in the two Kantos. In Cerulean City FRLG and need to get to Cerulean City HGSS? Just use the Time Machine and you will instantly be teleported to the front of the Pokemon Center in that town. The concept of time travel brings me to the next solution I have for the issues posed earlier: 3. Having two Kantos wouldn't make sense. This is where the fun begins. Instead of traveling to Johto via the Pirate, introduce a new NPC in the Laboratory of each of the professors. This NPC is working on a Time Machine that can send the player through time and space to Johto, two years in the future. Likewise, in Johto, there will be an NPC that can send you back in time, two years in the past. This would do two things. 1. Allow for the existence of two vastly different Kantos in a way that makes logical sense. And 2. Allow you to implement Unova from Black 2 and White 2 in the future, should the devs see fit to do so. Logic hasn't always been imperative to Pokemon, but I think this time travel solution would prove adequate. This leads me to what will likely be the groveling section of my post. 4. Its a lot of extra work for not much content. You're right. Kanto in HGSS didn't have a ton going on in it content-wise. It would likely be quite a lot of work to implement. But the story started in Johto isn't finished until Kanto. Silver's arc gets resolved. Suicune is finally tracked down after chasing it through an entire region. Team Rocket is put to bed for good. Professor Oak awards you with your second starter. You discover who took over the Fuchsia Gym after Koga was promoted to Elite Four. All this to say- Kanto is a massive part of the Johto experience. Johto simply isn't the same without its sister to the East. Let me wrap up this cringe post for anyone still reading PokeMMO has done something amazing in bringing together all these regions and making them feel connected and alive. I believe that same experience can be attributed in some small part to our collective first step into Kanto in Gens 2 and 4. I ask you devs to please consider staying true to the original HGSS and keeping Kanto intact. If not now, then at least leave that door open to be added later. -Sincerely The Least Cringe Johto Fan
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