Ptyrell

3 minutes ago, Spartan said:

I would imagine the survivors are quite happy with the witches today taking over the game and ensuring their victory.

Yeah, almost

I'm busy at work so I'm a little behind, but I want to quickly say I never claimed vet. Also people need to stop editing their posts. Like wtf.

1 minute ago, Doomsday said:

 

Why would SK go after witches?

My main thought was because witches were controlling SK, but maybe the SK didn't mind? SK can't kill arso or GF though, and survivor/vet are bad targets. But SK can win with witches. So I'm not sure tbh what SK would or should do.

4 minutes ago, Spartan said:

Lemorse and I can just send Woog and you at each other and see what happens. Either way, neither can self-select and ignite

I'd rather you guys send woog somewhere else and me somewhere else so that I don't get doused in case SK or maf kills a witch tonight and we can't stop arso tomorrow

4 minutes ago, woog said:

Lol. Please teach me the “I was an amnesiac who remembered survivor and is now just desperate to not get whacked” speech so I can get better at it. 

It goes like this:

"Guys, I'm amne and tonight I'm remembering survivor"

- remembers survivor-

"OK guys, now I'm survivor" 

17 minutes ago, woog said:

If so, an attempt to control me, or control someone at me, will settle the debate for you. Feel free. 
 

if I’m being honest, though, you’d be losing a night of countering the true arso, and I’d be alive tomorrow to validate my story, unless an arso lights is all up early. 

Woog is arso. This is a night-before-igniting speech

28 minutes ago, Spartan said:

 

n1: Adrest to N0h, Adrest is witch

Is this real or a typo

2 minutes ago, Spartan said:

Vote Ptyrell

 

Town can piss off, @Lemorse7 once we get results here we can control two arso suspects into each other tonight. We can plan based on what some of our other friends here say during the day.

Don't vote me, I'm survivor. I can win with anyone, and will vote with whoever.

15 minutes ago, Spartan said:

@Adrest245 - SK

@Advantage - ?

@BarzalGoat - Surv

@Doomsday - Defense too strong to kill

@jacobcarson877 - Amne turned Surv

@Lemorse7 - Witch

@Ptyrell - ?

@Ricer13 - Hinted at town?

@Spartan - Witch

@woog - Claimed amne turned Surv

 

n1: Adrest to N0h, Adrest is witch

n2: Barzal to Adrest, Barzal is surv

n3: Adrest to Doomsday, Doom defense too strong to kill. I was also attacked but have basic defense

n4: Nothing, I forgot  

You forget there is a vet

I sort of suspect this is a waste of time, but we've got nothing better to do.

Vote Adrest

Adrest 2 (nsg, pty)

Barzal (adrest)

And that concludes the second game of Town of Pallet! With a slight delay at the end there of course… for which I'd like to apologize to all the players for, and thank each of you for playing!

Ultimately I think I would have to consider ToP somewhat of a bust. The biggest barrier was the heavy mod requirements to run the game. I knew this going into it and wanted to keep things simple enough not to be too stressful on the moderators, but ultimately I couldn't help myself when it came to adding new and interesting game mechanics that compounded the time requirements for the moderators. The other big issue with the game was the predictable battle system. While this was nice for people who wanted to optimize all of their game decisions, it also made battle planning more tedious to do so. I tried adding items and extra fighting moves to increase the randomness, but this didnt actually fix the problem and also led to frustrating situations such as multiple low probability losses to NPCs.

These two shortcomings were a cancer that ended up being fatal for the game. I've thought of some ways to revamp the battle system and make it simpler, but I don't really feel like it makes it better. I have no idea how to fix the heavy mod requirements. So I don't anticipate running any more ToP games.

That said, I can still see many positives in making and running these games!

- Met a lot of great people and got to better know some that I only sort of knew before.

- Was nominated for an Elmebeck!

- Learned more about VHL in general. In fact before I used to think the G in BoG under Gustav's name stood for Gustav. Like I thought he was being goofy and gave himself the title Board of Gustav

- Learned a lot about game designing

- Learned A LOT about Excel/Google Sheets and made an epic spreadsheet 

- Learned a lot about Pokemon (ok this one is probably useless)

- Learned a little about how to run a Discord channel

- Made a crazy rulebook that I can be proud of (but also learned how to better organize and write a rulebook)

- Was a feature in some podcasts (my real name is Tyrell btw. I added a silent P for no reason)

- Had lots of fun watching people enjoy playing something I've created.

So a big THANK YOU again to each of you that played! @omgitshim @JardyB10 @Gustav  @OrbitingDeath  @McWolf @Doomsday @dlamb @Spartan  @ctots @Lemorse7 @Ricer13 @Alex @Enorama  @rory

I might try and make another new game in the future. While ToS will likely continue to bring me back to VHL, ToP showed me that there is also a desire out there for a forum game that isn't a social deduction game. We'll see if inspiration finds me once more.

Thanks again!

Ptyrell

Yes please

Going into round 3, rankings are starting to get fleshed out!

The difference among each win tier basically comes down to strength of schedule thus far.

So with that said...

The matchups for round 3 are...

@OrbitingDeath  VS @JardyB10

@McWolf VS @Ptyrell

@Alex VS @omgitshim

@Ricer13 VS @Gustav

@Lemorse7 VS @dlamb

@ctots VS @Spartan

@Dom has a bye!

Next is Nurse Joy @Alex VS Gary Oak @McWolf!

Gary starts things off with Victreebel!

Victreebel uses Knock Off to get rid of any pesky items that could interfere!

But Nurse Joy's Steelix isn't holding anything!

Steelix uses Earthquake and takes Victreebel to 135 HP.

Victreebel uses Leaf Blade...

Next is Prof Birch @omgitshim VS Worker @OrbitingDeath !

Worker seems somewhat under the weather as the suppresses another coughing fit.

Meanwhile Prof Birch is busy giving all his pokemon very detailed instructions and hands each of them a focus sash...

Charizard opens things up with a Fire Blast against Worker's Elekid!

Elekid hangs on thanks to Focus Sash!

Elekid uses Destiny Bond?!?

Charizard uses another fire blast..

Next is Jessie @JardyB10 VS Nurse Joy @ctots!

Jardy sends out Magnezone who is almost equal in level to ctots' Dubwool, Weezing, and Hawlucha combined!

And to make a short story even shorter, Magnezone uses Zap Cannon and takes out all 3 opponents and still has easily over half HP remaining!

@JardyB10 is the winner!

Alright time to pump out some more matchups!

First we've got Bird Keeper @Lemorse7 vs Prof Oak @Spartan !

Lemorse opens things up with Suicune Hydro Pump!

Spartan uses Machamp, who takes a punch and strikes back with Knock Off before falling to another Hydro Pump.

Spartan sends out Gyarados next! This proves to be more of a match for Suicune... But Suicune still takes out Gyarados with 28 HP remaining!

Finally Spartan reaches in his back pocket and finds his own legendary! Zapdos!

Can Zapdos run the table like Suicune almost did?

Lemorse sends out Jolteon... Jolteon's Thunder still does a fair amount of damage due to Zapdos' Flying type!

After 2 hits, Zapdos goes down!

@Lemorse7 is the winner!

Round 2 starts with an all random match!

Bill @Dom

Growlithe lv 28 holding Oran berry

Lapras lv 27
Pupitar lv 32

VS

Professor Elm @dlamb

Lapras lv 29

Weavile lv 22

Sneasel lv 30 holding Oran berry

Elm's Lapras opens things up by 1 shotting Growlithe with Hydro Pump! Growlithe didn't even get to eat the delicious berry it was randomly given!

Bill sends out his own Lapras to counter. The 2 non-squirtle water turtles go blow for blow! Eventually Elm's Lapras who struck first gets the victory

Elm sends out Weavile next, whose Dark Pulse finishes Lapras!

Bill down to his last pokemon... Pupitar! With a 10 level advantage!

Pupitar opens with Crunch.. not very effective!

Weavile's Ice Beam however does massive damage!

Pupitar uses Earthquake...

Next up is another potentially close matchup!

Bird Keeper @Lemorse7 VS Nurse Joy @Alex!

 VS 

Bird Keeper sends out Jolteon to lead and Nurse Joy sends out Steelix!

Steelix leads off with Earthquake.. Super Effective and gets STAB! Seems well worth the mini-TM cost.

Jolteon responds with Thunder.. It has no effect! This will be tough to recover from!

Another Earthquake and Jolteon goes down.

Next Bird Keeper sends out...

Welcome to the first match of the Final Tournament! And to start things off, we have one hell of a match between two of the top trainers!

Burglar @Gustav  VS Jessie @JardyB10 !

 VS 

Jessie leads off with Blastoise lv 58 holding Quick Claw!

Burglar leads off with Flareon lv 61.75 also holding Quick Claw! So the higher level Flareon gets the first move! However this isn't the type matchup it was hoping for...

Flareon opens things up with Double-Edge! It does quite a bit of damage, but also takes 41 damage itself..

Blastoise retaliates with Hydro Pump...

Alright I've noticed something very strange... When I look on the computer, the lines from google docs copied correctly for the battle matchups. When I look on mobile, the lines did NOT copy correctly. I have no idea why it would matter? Or maybe because one is regular mode and one is dark mode? Either way, I'm clearly not the only one seeing this as people have submitted different things for their matchups. So to clarify, here are the matchups:

@Dom vs @Ricer13

@Ptyrell vs @Spartan

@dlamb vs @omgitshim

@Lemorse7 vs @Alex

@OrbitingDeath  vs @ctots

@Gustav  vs @JardyB10

@McWolf has a bye

I'll post future matchups in this format rather than copy-pasting.

And day 7 finally concludes! Time for the final tournament! 4 different trainers are all neck and neck as far as Pokemon levels go. Should make for some interesting battles!

But first... Team Rocket is at it again! Jesse stole Bird Keeper's Elekid, and James stole Bill's Elekid.

And now.. for the round 1 matchups...

With an Odd number of players, the lowest player in the rankings will receive a bye which counts as an automatic win. A different player will get the bye each round, and it should only affect the bottom half of the standings.

And for a quick tournament preview...

@Ptyrell @Gustav  @JardyB10 and @OrbitingDeath  all have their 3 Pokemon within just a few levels of one another! The combined top 3 levels of each trainer's Pokemon ranges from 180 to 185.5. It will come down to strategy and luck to determine the winner of the 4. 1st place gets 5 VPs, 2nd and 3rd get 4 VPs, and 4th gets 3 VPs.

@McWolf @Alex and @Ricer13 make up the next tier, though with proper (or improper) strategy and luck, they could knock off a stronger opponent or lose to a weaker one. It is likely the best of these 3 gets 3 VPs, and the other 2 get 2 VPs.

@Lemorse7 @omgitshim @Spartan  @dlamb @Dom and @ctots all make up the tier of players who focused more on catching pokemon than training them. This group also features the most Legendary Pokemon of any other, and also all fall in a similar level range. I suspect the matchups between the Legendary Pokemon will have a big impact on the final sorting of this group. 2 of these trainers should get 2 VPs, 3 should get 1 VP, and 1 will get 0.

Good luck everyone!

16 hours ago, JardyB10 said:

EXP Share on Ralts
 

Quick Claw on Magnezone

 

Focus Sash on Charizard
 

Lead with Magnezone, spam Zap Cannon.

 

Follow with Blastoise, use Hydro Pump against Gengar and Pidgeot, Crunch on Kingdra.

 

Charizard last, Dragon Claw on Kingdra, Fire Blast on rest.

 

EDIT: Also I might be intoxicated but I think my last money was forgotten to be added.

You find the money in your account was finally added after a wire transfer mixup

At the party you battle Beauty Beatrice

lv 58

Kingdra

Gengar

Pidgeot

Magnezone leads off with Zap Cannon against Pidgeot. 2 Hits and Pidgeot goes down!

Gengar gets revenge with Shadow Ball, but takes a Zap Cannon to the face first! Blastoise finishes it off.

Kingdra uses a medley of moves to beat Blastoise. Will it be able to use its type advantage against Charizard?

On 9/16/2022 at 9:06 AM, Alex said:

After the above trade goes through

 7.5 visit lake of rage

 

Catch everything, use greatballs first then Ultra (if legendary shows up catch them last)

 

if I fail to catch everything give EXP share to cutiefly and take out wild Pokémon with Fraxure.

You find

You use all 4 of your last balls to catch all 3 pokemon!

6 minutes ago, JardyB10 said:

Action 7.3: Work

 

Action 7.4: Battle Tower (Level 58)

You make $1074 stripping at a bachelorette party

At the party you battle Beauty Beatrice

lv 58

Kingdra

Gengar

Pidgeot