15th Anniversary Event Suggestions

URPG staff are planning events to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of URPG!

Do you have any requests or suggestions of what you'd like to see?
Post them here!

 

blackjack and hookers seems p reasonable to me! Or do some silly tournaments like basics only

 

Pokemon raffle tickets! Also blackjack and hookers

 

risk 3.0

 

i think everyone died a little inside

 

Raffle sounds good. Idk about this idea but maybe some sort of Battle Bingo? Every participant gets a card with another participat in each box. First few people to defeat three (?) people in one row or column of their card advances. Obviously this is a very raw idea and there are some big problems with it, but I think it could be the basis of something interesting. Idk I don't come up with ideas very often for a reason >.>

 

Bingo sounds good, but what if the people didn't want to battle you back/you weren't on their card? Obviously not everyone could be fit on every card.

 

Smallish raffle, definitely basics tournament

 

Raffle sounds fun, though I don't know why it'd have to be smallish I think basics tournament is cool, but I also think that would be cool to have a full-fledged tournament for, but maybe just cuz I've been playing a lot of Little Cup recently. I think something like a small team tournament would be fun, with just a bunch of battles on one day. (No complex rules like Risk, just battling for points for a team).

Could something like straight doubled pay for battles over like two weeks be possible? Or maybe 75% character requirements for Park/Stories? Or maybe during the event there could be a random TM handed out with every battle won? Just spitballing, but I think this deserves the URPG really going all out because it's kind of a cool accomplishment. (As in it shouldn't just be like any other holiday)

 

I like these suggestions, though for things like the TM one it would have to be done in a way that ensures it is not abused, such as requiring at least a 4v4 battle to get anything, or the price of the TM being determined by some combination of size, length, and type (gym, normal, Elite Four, etc.) of the battle.

I think it would be cool to do something really special for the 15th anniversary, something memorable and fairly unique. As many have said, it's a big accomplishment and I think I've heard we're the longest (continually) running forum based Pokémon game(?).

A Multi Battle Tournament would be a pretty cool thing to do (either for this or just in general): Choose a partner and the whole tournament is done not by individual people but pairs. You keep one partner the whole time and both of you get whatever prize you get to.

This is the type of thing that should probably have something done involving each section. They could be similarly themed events or completely different ones for each. It also might be a good time to remember all those who have led us to this point and allowed us to survive for so long. People like HKim, without whom we probably would've sunk with pe2k. I could give more names if I went back and reread the history that was done recently, but it's late. And as such, I shall talk more (nonsense) about this another day.

 

TM Infestation for everyone!

 

I'm not going to double pay for two weeks, its a little too abusable. I kinda like the random TM idea, but as Ash said, would have to be under some set conditions. For battles over a certain size, against unique opponents, I could consider. If per-battle is too many, cash in three wins or something for a free TM. Post your three logs in a claim thread.

 

I really like the TM for wins idea because I usually win!

Also I think Ash's suggestion with a partner is pretty cool too!!

And basics tournament!

This should be a big shebang so that the pxr people will be like "wow i wanna do dis"

 

A tournament that's friendly to new members like Battle Factory or Budget would be nice since it doesn't matter if you're Bee with 235ish Pokémon that are fairly well EM'd or you just started yesterday. However if the 15th anniversary event happens before February 21st, then it would make sense to hold off on those.

As for TMs, you could also do something like each win gives $500 per Pokémon towards a TM, and you could either use just one to get a cheaper TM or stockpile a few to get a more expensive TM. Example: I won a 4v4. I could take a $2,000 TM like Teleport or wait, and after winning a 6v6 after that I could use both to get a $5,000 TM like Earthquake. /random ideas

 

Regarding TMs as battle prize I think the best option is probably this:

2v2: 2k TM - lol enjoy teleport, no more abuse!?!
3v3: 3k TM - still pretty barren, but you can get some usefuls
4v4: 4k TM - a lot of TMs are 3.5-4 so this is pretty neat imo
5v5: 5k TM - Most of the standard useful moves
6v6: 6k TM - same as last but now Sub/Thunder/Bluzzard/Fire Blast included
Gym tourney/E4/Champ - 7k TM - Protect or below

Honestly seems the best way to get battles really going but without abuse since any quick 2v2s or 3v3s don't give many good moves, so I'd imagine mostly 4v4+

 

I like the tag battle tourney idea but I think partners should be chosen randomly... also guaranteeing that four people will be on at three same time is pretty difficult so the tourney itself could take a while.

 

Whatchu talkin' 'bout? URPG is life. You should be on at every waking moment of every day. Only sleep is allowed in URPG.

As a side note, I like the TMs thing. Free stuff is cool.

 

Just to clarify, Battle Factory Tournament will be coming about 1-2 weeks after the new branch opens already, so that's already happening.

I think Syn's method is the most effective and also encourages long battles which I think are fun and should be worth more than they are currently. Plus it won't be that abusable by quantity because of the time restriction (Original idea was just to have it as a day idea) (I'm also unsure if the TM would be in addition to the normal payout for winner or that would be the payout, I would think with those high rewards it could just be the sole payout, but not my call).

In terms of a tournament that could be run, I think that there is a bit of miscommunication. I think the best type of tournament would be a friendly, day-long one. There is already Battle Factory, which pretty much just needs to be started (as in everything is planned out). This would sort of eliminate the player availability issue because hopefully it will happen in a single day.

 

But what's the point if I can't be with Knitty...?

@TMs: Some of the $2,000 TMs are less horrible than you might think. Other than that looks good.

 

For the record.

Double battles suck. Doubles tournaments suck even more because as someone mentioned, you have to get 4 people online instead of 2.

I still feel like a TM per battle (even if we restrict based on battle size) is a little too much. Replacing the monetary income is okay as a balancing factor, but doesn't suit everyone. Not everybody wants TMs. Could be optional I guess.

It's a little complicated, but I think battle size should just give you tokens or something. 3v3 = 3 tokens, 4v4 = 4 tokens etc. Each TM, maybe even Pokemon too, has a set number of tokens required to cash in during the event period. Like arcade ticket prizes I guess is where my idea came from.