Gilan

Hi everyone, As I've been pinged several times on other channels, I wanted to write a note here: No, I will not be updating the counter. It was a fun personal project for me back in the day, and am really glad that a lot of people got some good use out of it. However, I am at a new stage in my life and do not have time to put into this game or work on this project. No, I will not purposefully share the source code with someone else. I will not go into details as to why, but I do have my reasons. I know many will be mad at me over this decision, but I do not owe anyone an explanation as to why this is my decision. If someone in this community has the drive and motivation to try and create something similar to mine, here is the general logic below: Determine the active theme of the client Using the same Java game engine of the PokeMMO client (notably you need your own instance of this, but is available to the public), generate all the Monster names' images Additionally, determine the following and similarly generate the images for each: Wild battle start text and font (I used "A wild XXX has appeared" text, which is notably different for single encounters vs double encounters vs hordes) Some "anchor" visual when the Monster's name is actually visible on screen (I used Lv.) Using some sort of image recognition look for the following (I used Python to accomplish this with the CV2 library): The battle start text, scan periodically but not too much to avoid eating up system resources Once battle start is indicated, scan for the Monster name availability indicator. Need to use logic to not count your own Monster. Scan for each Monster name and find the best match. Need to narrow the scan window to close to the "Monster name availability indicator", otherwise matching all Monster names will take way too long. With the match found, need to store the data in some sort of data structure that can be saved. Display information in some sort of UI Need to periodically check to see if the Theme has changed, if so rerun image generation I had tried OCR libraries and packages, but the error rate was just really high, and attempting other languages was near impossible. Much easier to just pre-generate the possible images and try to find a best match (only a possible solution due to the limited number of possibilities. It is not a scalable solution). A further improvement would have been to take the top 10 best matched images and split each into 2 halves, and image search on each half to confirm the true best match (as mentioned I wasn't able to get 100% the same rendering engine as what the PokeMMO client uses, and doing a confirmation step would help). Best, Gilan

For an MMO, how the breeding system is implemented in PokeMMO is totally reasonable and is, for the most part, stable. Back when breeding was first implemented (the "CloneMMO" days) things went downhill fast, in the span of days and even hours. There were many things experimented with back then (like unlocking flags on the egg to get it to hatch, an RNG range for IV inheritance, etc.), but nothing really worked. For those who complain about the breeding system, I encourage you to take a minute to think about the consequences of a vanilla breeding system in an MMO setting, or fencing off breeding to be contained within the account. It is to the developers best interest that you spend time building up resources and creating good competitive pokemon, or unique teams, or dex completion. If you could zoom to the finish line, you wouldn't spend as much time in the game, and therefore would be less likely to donate money to the game. The devs put a lot of thought, trial and error, and effort into the current breeding system, and when you get past your nostalgia, you see that it really isn't bad.

Sadge

Just for those curious. I am not supporting the tool anymore (I haven’t been for a long time, but just putting it in writing now). I was in progress of making some updates, but… well… life just kinda got in the way. I’m starting to become an old man, hard to believe I started playing Pokemmo 10 years ago, and the responsibilities of life just mean I don’t have the free time / drive to support things like this counter anymore. If it is somehow still working for you, then that’s awesome, I tried to make the tool as robust as I could, but I’m a Finance guy, not a computer science nerd, so all the coding is just hobby work. If it doesn’t work for you, I’m sorry, I tried to make it as widespread as possible, but again I’m no master coder 😛 Cheers, Gilan

I don’t know how my encounter counter still works after all this time lmfao.

too damn old

The GEC works by finding key words on the screen. Such as “A wild {pokemon} has appeared!” and the “Lv.” and Species name. It does not look at the HP Bar. If you make your client too small, the wording will get cut off, and if this is the case, the encounter counter will no longer function because it can’t find the words on the screen.

So ChatGPT has solved a major problem that I was facing with the gui aspect of this app. As a result it has inspired me to revisit this project and make some updates. Please stay tuned.

welcome back Jerry, I love you. If I was starting over from scratch, I would spend a couple days researching the GTL and getting myself comfortable with the prices of different pokemon, natures, genders, stats, etc.. Then I would figure out what has the best margins and work in supplying that. All the while monitoring new listings for deals that are >=25% underlisted for easy flip money. I’d also create a few pokemon that would help me tackle gym leader rematches, as that’s a solid source of income. Then I’d once again realize I’m bored and quit again for a few years. Then come back and find out my limited vanities made me more money passively than I could have ever hoped to actively make lol.

I wrote this damn thing 8 years ago... omg I'm getting old...

likely a compatibility issue with Windows 7. The app was designed for and packaged on Windows 10. Unfortunately Windows 7 is old enough that I do not plan to debug issues that arise on that operating system. bizarre that google drive download worked, but mediafire didn't. Something must have gone wrong in the installation process for the mediafire on your machine, as both have the exact same zip uploaded.

Likely a java issue. Might be fixed by doing a full uninstall and reinstall of the pokemmo client (and then a clean install of the GEC), if you want to go through that hassle…

invest in time machines

Hi this is due to data corruption (most likely due to an unexpected termination of the program, i.e. powerloss of your system). The update can’t fix corrupted data, but it should now be saving the data in such a way that it can recover from such cases. Please do a fresh reinstall.

Please do a full fresh reinstall of my app. I recently made an update, and I believe this issue should now be fixed. Additionally, the GEC now better supports custom strings, so there should be fewer errors encountered as a result of having a custom string downloaded (especially if it has a bad header).

Performance issues are largely caused by a combination of the following: High Screen Resolution (4K or 8K monitors) Small text size in PokeMMO client (specifically your "Lv." in the battle ui is very small) Weak or Overloaded CPU In most cases, performace should be good enough that there are no issues. The exception is Safari zone encounters will not track due to text indicators not being on screen long enough for the program to capture.

if it’s too much of a hassle for you then don’t use my tool. I don’t charge a dime for this, I developed it over many weeks in my own spare time, have worked through countless issues to help make it as compatible with other people’s systems as I can make it, and I have provided it for completely free for anyone to download and try to run. There’s a reason it’s called the “Gilan’s Encounter Counter”, because it is quite literally an app I developed and use for myself that I made publicly available just because. So if you can’t get it to work and I can’t help you further, then I suggest you just move on and stop pouting like a child. Have a good day. -Gilan

Please follow the installation instructions on the first post of this thread (highly recommend watching the video even if you cannot understand spoken English). If you are still having trouble afterwards, I’m sorry, I cannot help you.

hmm, when you reinstalled the app did you do a full fresh reinstall (i.e. delete the Gilans Encounter Counter folder and all the contents, then install)? This error usually occurs after an unexpected powerloss / closing of the app while the app was saving data, thus resulting in corruption. Tbh, I thought I had fixed this with temp file saving, but clearly I didn’t handle it right. If that’s not the case, and you did do a full fresh reinstall, then this is bizarre error, that I’m not sure what is going on…

unfortunately not in a legal way. The program needs to be able to see the text from battle window, other windows in the pokemmo client will obstruct the program’s eyes. Please review the installation instructions. The GEC is a standalone app that you run separately (it’s just saved in the mods folder, but you don’t activate it like a sprite or sounds mod). feel free to make one yourself.

clearly you aren’t robot enough to be worthy of getting a captcha

video games are actually good for the brain 🦀

Shiny Latios

Actually @Desu is the strings_pl.xml (Polish) file missing it's header? It's not selectable as a valid client language. I do see it as a chat language though.