Transparency of differences in PokeMMO

[Toupi]

This is the biggest mystery to me.

We have a game, which is based on game known for a wide audience. You make changes in it, to fit to MMO format but leave no information about it in the game. The only source are forums and veteran players. This is natural, ppl will play this game like originals (but online) and get punished because of that. 

 

Almost every single newbie-butthurt topic in this forum can be boiled down to player who did something which would be normal in originals but get punished by it in the PokeMMO.

To be honest im not sure if I would play this game long enough if i found it today. Not because it's worse, it isn't, quite opposite, it's much better. I would probably resign after wasting my time to undo mistakes i did because game did not tell me about differences.

 

Look at breeding, before you even allowed to pick pokemon an old guy will tell you, you will not get your pokemon back. Do i like it? Do i dislike it? Doesn't matter i know what is the deal. He gives me info about differences BEFORE i make mistake. While things like obedience floats up after you make a mistake and discover you can't level your Charizard to absurd level to sweep everything. Is this tactic a no-brainer? Sure, but this is not a player fault of using tactic that would work on handhelds. 

We miss info about increased difficulty, about obedience levels, about traveling through regions, about berry farming, about eggs hatching and probably even more. Im not saying info like this should be spammed all the time like daycare guy does. First time interaction (or even second) is enough. Stuff like difficulty differences and obedience should be stated even before player picks region or stater in my opinion. The point is, those are differences obvious only for old members because we get them one by one.

And putting info somewhere in FAQ is not a solution. Ppl read FAQ only when they have a problem or have a question on mind. Which is too late to inform they waste all that exp on charmeleon and now they will need to xp other pokemon on belsprout and caterpie. 

 

tl;dr; differences between PokeMMO and originals should be more transparent to the new players