Breeding Incentives, Mission Cards |
Jan 17 2017, 01:31 AM
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Axew and Volcarona enthusiast Group: +Donors Posts: 4 056 Joined: 3-September 09 From: England Member No.: 61 211 Invisible Kyurem |
So, this was brought up in Discord chat so figured I'd post it here because why not? Worth a shot, after all.
As we all know there are less active users on the site. This means there are less active breeders available for eggs to be bred and donated to the shelter. Due to circumstances with errors and lag, the bot Alex and Thomas, whom used to breed a vast majority of eggs on the site have since been disabled leaving breeding to a small pool of users. Understandably during Site-Wide Shiny Hunts, users will be breeding the 3 Pokémon hunted. Then what? What do these users go on to breed? Chances are, probably more pointless eggs that the shelter is already in abundance of. This poses a few issues:
============================================== Mission Cards Mission Cards are a current feature in the game Pokémon Shuffle, by which each card consists of different tasks that a user must complete under different circumstances, in their own time. Upon completion of a task, you would receive so many stars; the more stars available the more difficult a task is to complete. After so many stars you would receive a prize, and once the card had been completed you would receive a 'Grand Prize', so to speak. In the case of the site, different tasks for users to complete could be things like:
* This I'm not particularly sure about. It was something I'd thought of to perhaps provide people with another means of Pokédex completion, among possible breeding pairs. Mission Cards come with different difficulties, so a variety of colours would be ideal. Perhaps indicated by the number of tasks available, the longer the task and number of rewards available. ============================================== Rewards Looking about for particular items to class as a 'reward', I came across a few different things that could be used. In the Unova games, there was a place called Abyssal Ruins that bore a variety of 'treasures' that trainers collected and then basically sold to collectors for a high price. These were Relic Items: How I feel this could work is as difficulty increases then different Relic Items are awarded as a prize, so Relic Copper would be the easiest and go up to perhaps the Relic Vase and the last 2 could merely be awarded randomly; more so within harder difficulty cards and perhaps just sold for points instead. In addition to this random site items could also be given as rewards, VS Seeker Items, occasional Choice Items and maybe other Valuable Items. Other site items such as Flame Orbs could also be available too. Summon Items could be a possibility as part of a more difficult reward, so they wouldn't appear under easier cards (to limit the possible abuse) I did have in mind perhaps some form of exchange system for the Relic Coins, as so they're not completely useless. Instead of exchanging these Relic Coins for items, they could perhaps be used in exchange to gain access to higher cards, so in order to access a medium difficulty card you would need to have 4 Relic Coppers in your inventory. These would then be used up thus allowing you to access a medium difficulty card. ============================================== I'm not sure what else to say in regards to this, obviously ideas can be tweaked. I feel a limit would need to be placed on how many cards you can undergo at once or within a time period after completion. Another thing that could be something to think about are multiplier days - obviously more eggs are created, so whether they would go towards the count or not is a different thing. Thoughts on this? Any suggestions? Can guarantee you I've probably worded something only I can understand at 6:30am in the morning so let me know if anything sounds.. dodgy. *Edited due to apparently incomprehensible text* This post has been edited by x Sam: Jan 19 2017, 03:28 AM -------------------- Don't forget to love yourself. Add me for daily clicks: 873/1000 [align=center]--- Community Thread Shiny List! ---[/align] [align=right]Breeding Incentives: Mission Cards [/align] |
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Sep 17 2017, 04:17 AM
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Pokémon Trainer Group: +Donors Posts: 85 Joined: 22-November 12 Member No.: 182 742 Active Squad |
I've given this some thought, and if the idea is to incetivise breeding the species that people are actually looking for, then I don't think that leaving the generation of Mission Cards to a bot would help. If there are currently ~200 Pokemon with less than five breeders, odds are that the chosen Pokemon wouldn't be the ones that people are shiny hunting, or those they need for the dex or for explorations.
What if users were the ones that generate the cards? A Mission Card can only be started for a Pokemon with less than five *active* breeders. Others can join that mission if they also need that Pokemon, and others can back a mission by breeding that species. Backers earn rewards: the more eggs they donate to the Shelter, the better the rewards. For example: Emme is shiny hunting Natu, and she is the only one breeding it. She starts a new Mission Card for Natu. Others might join her, this way we can tell which Pokemon people need more and help others decide which Card to back. I am hunting popular species that are quite abundant in the shelter, so I dont really have anything I need to breed. I decide to back a mission, so I start breeding Natu and join Emme's Mission Card as a backer. A Mission Card would dissappear after two weeks or so, and then the rewards are given out. The more Natu eggs I donated to the shelter, the better the rewards. This way we can help people who are shiny hunting less popular species. For people who need something for their dex, it's a quick way to get some eggs for them into the shelter. And I can imagine exploration Pokemon would have Cards up almost all the time, so there would be a decent amount of them in the shelter. -------------------- |
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Sep 17 2017, 06:58 AM
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Axew and Volcarona enthusiast Group: +Donors Posts: 4 056 Joined: 3-September 09 From: England Member No.: 61 211 Invisible Kyurem |
I've given this some thought, and if the idea is to incetivise breeding the species that people are actually looking for, then I don't think that leaving the generation of Mission Cards to a bot would help. If there are currently ~200 Pokemon with less than five breeders, odds are that the chosen Pokemon wouldn't be the ones that people are shiny hunting, or those they need for the dex or for explorations. What if users were the ones that generate the cards? A Mission Card can only be started for a Pokemon with less than five *active* breeders. Others can join that mission if they also need that Pokemon, and others can back a mission by breeding that species. Backers earn rewards: the more eggs they donate to the Shelter, the better the rewards. For example: Emme is shiny hunting Natu, and she is the only one breeding it. She starts a new Mission Card for Natu. Others might join her, this way we can tell which Pokemon people need more and help others decide which Card to back. I am hunting popular species that are quite abundant in the shelter, so I dont really have anything I need to breed. I decide to back a mission, so I start breeding Natu and join Emme's Mission Card as a backer. A Mission Card would dissappear after two weeks or so, and then the rewards are given out. The more Natu eggs I donated to the shelter, the better the rewards. This way we can help people who are shiny hunting less popular species. For people who need something for their dex, it's a quick way to get some eggs for them into the shelter. And I can imagine exploration Pokemon would have Cards up almost all the time, so there would be a decent amount of them in the shelter. The idea isn't just about breeding. I get what you're saying, but there are other aspects I mentioned as-well (such as hatching so many eggs of the bred species) -------------------- Don't forget to love yourself. Add me for daily clicks: 873/1000 [align=center]--- Community Thread Shiny List! ---[/align] [align=right]Breeding Incentives: Mission Cards [/align] |
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x Sam Breeding Incentives Jan 17 2017, 01:31 AM
Gryphaena I think your idea is useful and well thought out. ... Jan 17 2017, 08:57 AM
Cryptic Lyric I actually really like this idea. I know with my C... Jan 17 2017, 09:46 AM
x Sam QUOTE(Cryptic Lyric @ Jan 17 2017, 02:46 ... Jan 17 2017, 10:02 AM
Cycloneblaze You've always got the best suggestions, Sam. I... Jan 17 2017, 03:24 PM
SilverPT I support this as well. It would be even better i... Jan 18 2017, 01:24 PM
Gryphaena How would it work side by side with achievements? ... Jan 18 2017, 02:04 PM
SilverPT QUOTE(Gryphaena @ Jan 18 2017, 07:04 PM) ... Jan 18 2017, 10:59 PM
x Sam QUOTE(Gryphaena @ Jan 18 2017, 07:04 PM) ... Jan 18 2017, 11:17 PM
Spoovo The Pirate As someone who actively breeds obscure things (Cur... Jan 21 2017, 04:34 PM
AregularFrankiefan This is definitely an interesting idea, and I... Sep 3 2017, 01:20 AM
InsaneMoments Just a thought, i doubt it will be usable, but wha... Jan 24 2017, 04:04 PM
x Sam Second daycare could work along side things I gues... Jan 25 2017, 12:10 PM
Manah I love this suggestion (I'm definitely one of ... Jan 28 2017, 12:08 PM
Tyranisaur I don't think there's an inherent need to ... Jan 28 2017, 12:27 PM
x Sam QUOTE(Tyranisaur @ Jan 28 2017, 05:27 PM)... Feb 13 2017, 01:51 AM
Indigo Dreams Can we make the number of eggs produced per hour b... Feb 14 2017, 02:31 AM
x Sam QUOTE(Indigo Dreams @ Feb 14 2017, 02:31 ... Feb 20 2017, 01:21 AM
Genocider Syo QUOTE(x Sam @ Feb 19 2017, 10:21 PM) QUOT... Mar 7 2017, 12:45 AM
EmmeBearPaw Really anything that encourages people to breed Po... May 7 2017, 07:55 PM
Mars Adept Enten I'd be for this, as some Pokémon *cough*Crabra... Aug 18 2017, 10:40 PM
Cycloneblaze QUOTE(x Sam @ Feb 13 2017, 06:51 AM) QUOT... Aug 23 2017, 06:13 PM
YoRHa No9 Type S Again, I think it would be important to make sure ... Aug 23 2017, 09:18 PM
Emma Uchiha I very recently returned to the site after a very,... Sep 21 2017, 07:33 PM
x Sam QUOTE(Emma Uchiha @ Sep 22 2017, 01:33 AM... Sep 21 2017, 08:56 PM
Emma Uchiha QUOTE(x Sam @ Sep 21 2017, 09:56 PM) I ge... Sep 22 2017, 08:49 AM
Breech Loader Part of the problem is that a lot of members of th... Oct 15 2017, 08:23 AM
Cycloneblaze QUOTE(Breech Loader @ Oct 15 2017, 02:23 ... Oct 15 2017, 10:54 AM
Gryphaena I think your idea is useful and well thought out. ... Jan 17 2017, 08:57 AM
Cryptic Lyric I actually really like this idea. I know with my C... Jan 17 2017, 09:46 AM
x Sam QUOTE(Cryptic Lyric @ Jan 17 2017, 02:46 ... Jan 17 2017, 10:02 AM
Cycloneblaze You've always got the best suggestions, Sam. I... Jan 17 2017, 03:24 PM
SilverPT I support this as well. It would be even better i... Jan 18 2017, 01:24 PM
Gryphaena How would it work side by side with achievements? ... Jan 18 2017, 02:04 PM
SilverPT QUOTE(Gryphaena @ Jan 18 2017, 07:04 PM) ... Jan 18 2017, 10:59 PM
x Sam QUOTE(Gryphaena @ Jan 18 2017, 07:04 PM) ... Jan 18 2017, 11:17 PM
Spoovo The Pirate As someone who actively breeds obscure things (Cur... Jan 21 2017, 04:34 PM
AregularFrankiefan This is definitely an interesting idea, and I... Sep 3 2017, 01:20 AM
InsaneMoments Just a thought, i doubt it will be usable, but wha... Jan 24 2017, 04:04 PM
x Sam Second daycare could work along side things I gues... Jan 25 2017, 12:10 PM
Manah I love this suggestion (I'm definitely one of ... Jan 28 2017, 12:08 PM
Tyranisaur I don't think there's an inherent need to ... Jan 28 2017, 12:27 PM
x Sam QUOTE(Tyranisaur @ Jan 28 2017, 05:27 PM)... Feb 13 2017, 01:51 AM
Indigo Dreams Can we make the number of eggs produced per hour b... Feb 14 2017, 02:31 AM
x Sam QUOTE(Indigo Dreams @ Feb 14 2017, 02:31 ... Feb 20 2017, 01:21 AM
Genocider Syo QUOTE(x Sam @ Feb 19 2017, 10:21 PM) QUOT... Mar 7 2017, 12:45 AM
EmmeBearPaw Really anything that encourages people to breed Po... May 7 2017, 07:55 PM
Mars Adept Enten I'd be for this, as some Pokémon *cough*Crabra... Aug 18 2017, 10:40 PM
Cycloneblaze QUOTE(x Sam @ Feb 13 2017, 06:51 AM) QUOT... Aug 23 2017, 06:13 PM
YoRHa No9 Type S Again, I think it would be important to make sure ... Aug 23 2017, 09:18 PM
Emma Uchiha I very recently returned to the site after a very,... Sep 21 2017, 07:33 PM
x Sam QUOTE(Emma Uchiha @ Sep 22 2017, 01:33 AM... Sep 21 2017, 08:56 PM
Emma Uchiha QUOTE(x Sam @ Sep 21 2017, 09:56 PM) I ge... Sep 22 2017, 08:49 AM
Breech Loader Part of the problem is that a lot of members of th... Oct 15 2017, 08:23 AM
Cycloneblaze QUOTE(Breech Loader @ Oct 15 2017, 02:23 ... Oct 15 2017, 10:54 AM
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