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Making things work better
Over the years the performance of our servers have never been what I like to call stable. I feel like the game has always been playable but there are many times when it is too slow or it's almost impossible to log in. Don't even mention the Pokemon center website! This week I will begin taking steps to improve the performance of the game. Dan and I decided to get a separate server for the Pokemon Center. This means that players login into the game and saving in the game won't impact the performance of the trading and vice versa. This is just the first step towards a more reliable game experience.
Game Corner and Bicycle shop open!
Yes, you heard right! This next update will have you battling Team Rocket to open up the Game Corner and bicycle shop! Which means after you beat them you will be able to get a bicycle (free of charge!) and play in the game corner. This time around you will be able to play the Voltorb Card Flip game right inside of the game instead of having to go to the pokemon center website to play there.
For the rewards I have also expanded those from the ones found in the game. You will be able to get the following TMs, Pokemon and Items:
TMs: Blizzard, Thunder, Fire Blast, Substitute, Swords Dance, Rest, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Dragon Rage, Hyper Beam, Double Team, Psychic, Shadow Ball, Iron Tail, Endure, Hidden Power, Gyro Ball, and Giga Impact
Items: Silk Scarf, Wide Lens, Zoom Lens, Smoke Ball, Charcoal, Miracle Seed, Mystic Water, Yellow Flute and Metronome
Pokemon: Murkrow, Wobbuffet, Slugma, Houndour, Larvitar
With the Pokemon Rewards I looked at what you could earn in both the Goldenrod City Game Corner and the Celadon Game Corner for this generation. I removed the Kanto pokemon since you can get those on PTD1 and I added Gen 2 pokemon that could only be caught in the Kanto region, since this game will no go to the Kanto region.
Like I mentioned before Goldenrod City is a big city so it will take more than one update to cover all the material I want to happen there. This won't be the last update for this city before we are able to move on to the next place.
Mystery Gift and Giveaway
Like every week we will be having a Mystery Gift and a Giveaway, it looks like Foongus is beating out the grass starters but we will see how it turns out in the end. Look forward to it!
Weekly Progress
PTD2 v1.55.1 Released!
- Mystery Gift (100%) - Sawk and Giveaway Makuhita
- Graphics (100%)
- Stats (100%)
- Add TMs Compability (100%)
- Attacks Learned (100%)
- Attack Stats (100%)
- Evolutions (100%)
- New Attacks (100%)
- Rock Smash (100%)
- Smelling Salt (100%)
- Add to Breeding Center (100%)
- Add to Trading Center (100%)
- Bug Fix (100%) - Sing is now a proper sound based attack and won't work on a Pokemon with the ability Soundproof.
- Bug Fix (100%) - Snore and Sleep Talk not working properly.
- Bug Fix (100%) - Not being able to learn Retaliate
- Bug Fix (100%) - Wobbuffet learning TMs- His tiny brain should not be able to learn new tricks.
- Team Rocket Fights 2 (100%)
- Game Corner (100%)
- Map Background (100%)
- Rewards NPC (100%)
- Voltrob Flip Game (100%) - This was harder to create than expected!
- New Items (100%)
- Silk Scarf, Wide Lens, Zoom Lens, Smoke Ball, Charcoal, Miracle Seed, Mystic Water, Yellow Flute and Metronome
- New TMs (100%) - Such a pain to add TMs.... takes so long...
- Blizzard, Thunder, Fire Blast, Substitute, Swords Dance, Rest, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Dragon Rage, Hyper Beam, Double Team, Psychic, Shadow Ball, Iron Tail, Endure, Hidden Power, Gyro Ball, and Giga Impact
- New Pokemon (100%) - Murkrow, Honchkrow, Wobbuffet, Slugma, Magcargo Houndour, Houndoom, Larvitar, Pupitar, and Tyranitar
- Graphics (100%)
- Stats (100%)
- Evolutions (100%)
- New Abilities (100%)
- Magma Armor (100%)
- Sand Stream (100%)
- New Attacks (100%)
- Quash (100%)
- Beat Up (100%)
- Add to Breeding Center (100%)
- Add to Trading Center (100%)
- Bug Fix (100%) - Pokemon from Gen 3 and above that can learn Headbutt by Move Tutor can now learn the TM. This is because the TM doesn't exist past Gen 2.
- Mystery Gift (100%) - Grass Type Foongus and Roselia
- Graphics (100%)
- Stats (100%)
- Evolutions (100%)
- New Attacks (100%)
- GrassWhistle (100%)
- Add to Breeding Center (100%)
- Add to Trading Center (100%)
- Bicycle Shop (100%)
- Bicycle Graphics (100%)
- Shop Graphics (100%)
- Bicycle Trigger (100%) - Go from regular shoes, running shoes to bicycle.
- Team Rocket Fight 1 (100%)
- Waves (100%)
- Background Graphic (100%)
- Adjust Whitney's Dialog to explain what to do next (100%)
- New Item (100%) - Shiny Stone! This will be hidden somewhere in the past!
- New Pokemon (100%) - Togekiss
- Graphics (100%)
- Stats (100%)
- Evolutions (100%)
- Add to Breeding Center (100%)
- Add to Trading Center (100%)
- Added Pagination to the PTD2 Pokemon Center (100%) - This is a performance change. I tried to keep the number of results pretty high so that you don't have much problems looking for what you want.
- The Pokemon Center will now show the correct number of badges that you have earned on PTD2 (100%)
- Changed the text for changing into running shoes to normal shoes (100%)
- Mystery Gift (100%)
- Graphics (100%)
- Stats (100%)
- Evolutions (100%)
- New Attacks (100%)
- Add to Breeding Center (100%)
- Add to Trading Center (100%)
- Fixing Klink and Mawile (100%)