Important announcements!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYBODY!
Happy holidays, Routesters! With Christmas approaching at great speeds, we'd like to give you guys a heads up as to what you can expect:
- each character will receive one (1) non-transferable reusable TM from any generation. Yes, that's basically a TM that acts like an HM, except it cannot be shared. (HMs are not applicable.)
- each character will receive a care package consisting of: a bag of mixed berries for the pokemon, about a pound of mixed chocolates, a full selection of -Heals, along with a Full Restore and five Revives. Have fun carrying that around!
- there will be an item drop in the care package: any item from your character's home is fair game except for transportation, non-pokemon animals, and weapons.
- the pokemon limit has been increased by 18 slots, for a total of 54 pokemon per trainer: 6 on-hand and 48 in the PC.
- BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: courtesy of one of our lovely muns, there's already mistletoe all over Goldenrod--however, due to an incident with a whole busload of mistletoe, some seriously upset Butterfree (don't ask...) and a barrage of Sweet Scent, that mistletoe won't stay innocent very long. Furthermore, shipments of this new, poke-catnip mistletoe are being sent everywhere, including Kanto, so have fun with your 101 Dalmantians-esque smooching.
Yes, we know, no eggs this Christmas. You're probably wondering why! Well, firstly, all of the mods are extremely busy this holiday season, and didn't want to add to our workload when we're already trying to push out the FAQ and Kanto updates. Secondly, from an IC perspective, we wanted to keep the characters on their toes. Thirdly...well, keep your eyes peeled, we've got plans for the coming year. :)
SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS: APP CYCLES!
Several of you came to us at the HMD regarding a desire to see monthly or biweekly app cycles. We listened! We'd just like to say that all of us mods, personally and 'professionally', so to speak, really didn't like the idea of monthly app cycles. Apps have slowed down considerably since finals in November, but we have no doubt they'll pick up again, leaving us with potentially huge workloads in the middle/beginning/end of the month, depending on when we implemented them.
However, we would be open to biweekly app cycles, if our players wanted them! So we thought we'd set up a poll so that people who haven't visited the HMD could also give us their thoughts.
We'd like you to bear in mind that having biweekly app cycles would logistically change how the apps would be processed; with a double load of apps to bear, we'd be closing apps on Friday in order to give ourselves the whole weekend to process. Hence we'd have five days of open app submission followed by two days of judging, then seven days of closed submissions. Rinse and repeat.
Poll App cycles
Happy holidays, Routesters! With Christmas approaching at great speeds, we'd like to give you guys a heads up as to what you can expect:
- each character will receive one (1) non-transferable reusable TM from any generation. Yes, that's basically a TM that acts like an HM, except it cannot be shared. (HMs are not applicable.)
- each character will receive a care package consisting of: a bag of mixed berries for the pokemon, about a pound of mixed chocolates, a full selection of -Heals, along with a Full Restore and five Revives. Have fun carrying that around!
- there will be an item drop in the care package: any item from your character's home is fair game except for transportation, non-pokemon animals, and weapons.
- the pokemon limit has been increased by 18 slots, for a total of 54 pokemon per trainer: 6 on-hand and 48 in the PC.
- BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: courtesy of one of our lovely muns, there's already mistletoe all over Goldenrod--however, due to an incident with a whole busload of mistletoe, some seriously upset Butterfree (don't ask...) and a barrage of Sweet Scent, that mistletoe won't stay innocent very long. Furthermore, shipments of this new, poke-catnip mistletoe are being sent everywhere, including Kanto, so have fun with your 101 Dalmantians-esque smooching.
Yes, we know, no eggs this Christmas. You're probably wondering why! Well, firstly, all of the mods are extremely busy this holiday season, and didn't want to add to our workload when we're already trying to push out the FAQ and Kanto updates. Secondly, from an IC perspective, we wanted to keep the characters on their toes. Thirdly...well, keep your eyes peeled, we've got plans for the coming year. :)
SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS: APP CYCLES!
Several of you came to us at the HMD regarding a desire to see monthly or biweekly app cycles. We listened! We'd just like to say that all of us mods, personally and 'professionally', so to speak, really didn't like the idea of monthly app cycles. Apps have slowed down considerably since finals in November, but we have no doubt they'll pick up again, leaving us with potentially huge workloads in the middle/beginning/end of the month, depending on when we implemented them.
However, we would be open to biweekly app cycles, if our players wanted them! So we thought we'd set up a poll so that people who haven't visited the HMD could also give us their thoughts.
We'd like you to bear in mind that having biweekly app cycles would logistically change how the apps would be processed; with a double load of apps to bear, we'd be closing apps on Friday in order to give ourselves the whole weekend to process. Hence we'd have five days of open app submission followed by two days of judging, then seven days of closed submissions. Rinse and repeat.
Poll App cycles