When players breed comps, they lose hours of hard work that they spent training the pokemon. Say, for instance, I have a 25/25/23/8/27/22 Adamant Snorlax that I want to improve, but lack the breeders to make it better. So I go on my way, with no better option and train it up to lvl 50 and give it an ev spread of 52/200/52/200 : hp/atk/def/spdef. But then I randomly catch a really nice Treecko with Pursuit and it has IVs that look like 29/29/31/15/25/31 and I'm like "HOLY SHIT I COULD BREED THAT FOR PURSUIT LAX!!!" The problem is, I'd lose all my work EV-ing and training my pokemon, so i'd have to start over from the beginning and spend another 5 hours getting it back to where it was. In a fast-paced, active competitive community like PokeMMO (lel) taking that time to refactor my Snorlax means I'm going to be missing important battles and tournaments!
What if, instead, you could opt to just pass down EV's from parents? This could work in a couple of ways:
1. All evs are transferred, mother gets priority (so if both parents are fully Ev'd then the baby gets the mother's EV spread). If parents have garbage ivs (random leveling ivs) those are passed down as well, making players spend money on EV berries.
2. Players can choose to redistribute EVs as they please. Maybe the ev spread you did last time was a little bit wrong, or now you want to build a more specially-based Modest Snorlax (everyone knows Psychic/Tbolt OP) with Special Attack investment instead of a traditional physical Snorlax. This lets players easily improve upon past mistakes or try out new builds without breaking their backs training and wiping EVs multiple times.
I don't see a lof of problems with this, it still requires players to EV train pokemon, but makes improving them less painful. It also solves the lasting problem of how PokeMMO could facilitate a Little Cup meta - just breed babies and pass down the EV's from parents! It also cuts out the time sink that is EV training, and might make Vitamins more attractive in the long run, turning them into a reasonable money sink.
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Robofiend
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When players breed comps, they lose hours of hard work that they spent training the pokemon. Say, for instance, I have a 25/25/23/8/27/22 Adamant Snorlax that I want to improve, but lack the breeders to make it better. So I go on my way, with no better option and train it up to lvl 50 and give it an ev spread of 52/200/52/200 : hp/atk/def/spdef. But then I randomly catch a really nice Treecko with Pursuit and it has IVs that look like 29/29/31/15/25/31 and I'm like "HOLY SHIT I COULD BREED THAT FOR PURSUIT LAX!!!" The problem is, I'd lose all my work EV-ing and training my pokemon, so i'd have to start over from the beginning and spend another 5 hours getting it back to where it was. In a fast-paced, active competitive community like PokeMMO (lel) taking that time to refactor my Snorlax means I'm going to be missing important battles and tournaments!
What if, instead, you could opt to just pass down EV's from parents? This could work in a couple of ways:
1. All evs are transferred, mother gets priority (so if both parents are fully Ev'd then the baby gets the mother's EV spread). If parents have garbage ivs (random leveling ivs) those are passed down as well, making players spend money on EV berries.
2. Players can choose to redistribute EVs as they please. Maybe the ev spread you did last time was a little bit wrong, or now you want to build a more specially-based Modest Snorlax (everyone knows Psychic/Tbolt OP) with Special Attack investment instead of a traditional physical Snorlax. This lets players easily improve upon past mistakes or try out new builds without breaking their backs training and wiping EVs multiple times.
I don't see a lof of problems with this, it still requires players to EV train pokemon, but makes improving them less painful. It also solves the lasting problem of how PokeMMO could facilitate a Little Cup meta - just breed babies and pass down the EV's from parents! It also cuts out the time sink that is EV training, and might make Vitamins more attractive in the long run, turning them into a reasonable money sink.
Thoughts? Lets make it happen.
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