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[Toogee]

The majority has voted to reboot PANE. This is the discussion thread on what we want to see. Here's a few questions we should discuss:

1. Do you want to keep Furoh?

There is a lot of history in Furoh. Years and years of people adding stuff made it what it is today. We shouldn't be too quick to throw all of that aside. Perhaps all we need is to tell new stories in this fabled land.

On the other hand, perhaps its time for a new generation to make their own Furoh, so to speak. Maybe a new setting is what's needed to revitalize activity.

2. What do you want to see, storywise?

Though PANE doesn't really have a main story, there is usually some setting that helped set up RPs. Originally, PANE took place 50 years after 5 trainers founded the main cities of the continent. The Lenoilia incident helped set up some conflict and history that could be explored by players. Team Deception was later introduced; they were featured in lots of RPs (some memories bittersweet, like the Deceptcopter or something :P). Are there things you want brought back? Anything new you want to see?

3. What do you want to see, mechanics-wise

I haven't heard anything bad about our leveling system (at least, I don't remember). Basically, half of the levels are distributed based on writing quality, encouraging players to write reasonably detailed posts. You could say this was an edutainment RP! A portion were based on participation (You didn't leave the RP for an extended period of time). Another portion was based on battles. If there was something that I would change, it would be this. I feel this forced players to find a reason to battle. Sometimes, fighting won't solve your problems. I don't want to discourage peaceful RPs, so maybe base these points on some other factor?

[Jonahman10]

I think my responses to 1 & 2 are tied together; I think that it would be cool if some event drastically changed the face of Furoh, this would allow people who wanted to keep assets to be able to do so, but it would allow an essentially different setting. Perhaps some ecological disaster, or some sort of coup of the government. A time shift may work too, this would likely give another nice, refreshing feel to Furoh, but the greater the time shift, the less assets can be reused (though it might be cool if it was set in the time of the ancient civilization that has been mentioned several times instead of in the future). Maybe combining both ideas would be something along a rip in the space time continuum, causing Furoh to amalgamate multiple time periods into one.

Mechanic wise, I have similar sentiments with Toogee's initial suggestion; I would suggest instead of battle as our third criterion, we change it to Pokémon Utilization; instead of solely pokemon v. pokemon battling, it could also be pokemon v. nature conflict, flying around or surfing on a pokemon, and pretty much any other important activities carried out by a pokemon. Perhaps this category could be organized so that these levels can only apply to the Pokémon that actually carried out the activity.