// URPG: AFTER HOURS;;

Smiles, this is awesome, it's beautiful, you're beautiful omg <333 hearts, everywhere; I'm like Oprah over here with everything 'cause like, everything gets a free <3!

But yea, I'm game for doing stuff for this. Couple questions though and input.

I think either 1k or 1.5k for IC post by staff whomever should be reasonable.

Can non-staff people trade in their P for URPG $$? If so, how do they do that, and what's the conversion rate? If there is a conversion rate for this, then this should be applied to the staff as well ('cause looking at your example in your previous post I didn't quite see a constant rate).

I think maybe the Pilot Ability should be cheaper than the others. Just my opinion, but I would assume one would use Telepathy and Dreaminvading (or whatever it was called) more often and piloting through space would be more mechanical and needed to just get from one place to another, which I assume you could do without the ability, just with some help from the staff member?

I like the idea of being able to create your own ability with approval from staff/an official. I think buying it at P1.5k is reasonable and upgrading it at the same rates is just as reasonable.

Maybe there should be an item like a Lava Cookie (a Liam Cookie!) that takes care of status stuff, or do you just RP the status away?

Can you purchase items from the Shoppe OOC and use it in an IC Misson? Like you purchase it, contact your staff whomever and they incorporate it somehow?

After a post do you get your money immediately? Or if you get an item in the RP can you add it to your stats right after? Or do you wait until your Mission is completely over to claim everything you did?

Last thing, not completely sure, but if one were to start as a PokeSoul, are they limited to starting with only 1 Pokemon inside them? In your (seriously wonderful) example you had two, but then reading the rules it sounds like you have to start with one and then purchase another with P3k, (so 10 posts)? Maybe expand that to you could start with either 1 or 2 (but 2 max). Then maybe during the RP if one wanted to add another Pokemon to their soul they need to purchase it?

Lastest thing, this is awesome Smiles!

 

Thing I said on AIM

EDIT: came up with an example

 

Answered @TheProtobabe; 's question over AIM and will answer here too n~n

This is a great idea! Characters can certainly have negative abilities, and having weaknesses definitely contributes to the depth of a character. Users can create negative abilities, but I'd feel a little bad about making people pay for them unless they wanted to. I also prefer if they weren't required, as creating an innate negative ability for a character might seem like a reach, outside of the specific nature of some characters. As long as the character overall is balanced in terms of personality, history, and other awesome charrie stuff he or she should be fine without a negative ability ^^

Also, the example was awesome! And thanks for the suggestion! You rock! <333

Also, I've added more Q & A's for the FAQ and updated the Shoppe so players can purchase and level innate abilities.

Question for all: What do people think about the Ultimate Items for each character type? Are the too over powered, or too easy to buy? Should they not be there at all, tweaked a little bit, or be much more expensive?

Below, I listed a few face claims that would go AWESOME for a few specific PokeSouls ^^ Good resources to find face claims are Face in the Crowd and ZeroChan. I also added in the FAQ that you can definitely create the art for your own character, and there are already players who are making AWESOME art for some really cool characters (Proto!!)!

These are all just suggestions - no one ever has to use any of these or they totally can if they want to! I'm a very visual person and pics from great artists inspire me, so maybe others get inspired too!

Spoiler

Scar from FMA as Metagross!
Adiane from TTGL! as Drapion!
Cinder Fall from RWBY as Charizard! Monbrey this is the real u
Nicholas Brown from Gangsta as Darkrai!
Ling Xiaoyu from Tekken as shiny!Mienshao
Velvet Scalatina from RWBY as Lopunny so creative on that one
Seychelles from Hetalia! as Dewgong!

also pretty sure every League character out there would make a good face claim ;P

 

I think the ultimate items are a little easy--I can buy a few TM's or save up to get all of them. It's convenient, but it also seems like an easy route to god-modding? Also, I'm a little skeptical about the "one legendary ever" thing (I forgot if I brought this up before or not, sorry D, just because players in like five years won't get any

Sorry mobile but this is mostly because Ruby from RWBY face claim Zorua Pokesoul who's afraid of the big bad fox wolf

 

On the topic of Legendaries, I forgot to mention in here that there will be a monthly activity check for all Legendary characters. Those who don't answer the check-in effectively lose their "right" to that Legendary and that Legendary slot becomes open for somebody else to apply for. But in reality, if that player who went inactive comes back and wants their charrie back, they can certainly have it! So there would be a situation where there are two of the same Legendaries, and honestly I think we would handle situations where two people want to be the same Legendary on a case-by-case basis. I really want eveyone to be able to be what they want to be ^^ Having only one Legendary for each specific Pokemon and PokeSoul is a tall order to keep over time and at the end of the day I do just want people to be happy. Also,

• Space Pilot is removed! - Yeah, this can be a societal thing and it makes more sense that way!
  
  
• Ultimate Items are removed, too! - Yeah, after looking at this again it would lead to straight god-modding, no matter how expensive it was. Building up the character is the fun of the RP!

also omg yasssss <3 she's PERFECT for Zorua!

What else needs to be done or decided, where am I going n~n

 

I'd like to propose these Pokemon for the OOC Shoppe ^^

Medium Pokemon (P4,500) - saving up P from 15 posts
Pikachu
Gulpin
Shellder
Litleo
Croagunk
Cubchoo
Shroomish

Hard Pokemon (P6,000) - saving up P from 20 posts
Tynamo
Litwick
Tropius
Klang
Golett
Gastly
Staryu

These were Pokemon that weren't in the PokeMart or Berry Store. I don't have as good of a sense of what the really sought-after Pokemon are in the game as other people prolly do, so please let me know if these aren't balanced! / if we should find alternatives / what other Pokemon you'd like to see (=

 

Pichu and Klink are marts. And don't listen to anyone who asks for a specific thing like people asking for Weedle in the berry store

Also, I think that the payments which allow choosing should have a constant ratio between P and $. For instance, $1,500 to P450 as opposed to $500 to P600 seems a bit off.

 

Apparently Pichu is mart like Ash said. who even buys Pokemon, how lame

Why Klang over Klink though? I see that you were going for it based on rank, but it feels a little weird to have an evolved form in there.

 

I've moved some numbers around and I think I found a reasonable conversion rate for wages: URPG Money x .4

New Wages:

• $1,000 per IC Mission Post OR P400
• $1,000 per Advertisement Post OR P400
• $3,000 for 1-time Upkeep OR P1,200

So say a staff member completes 25 IC mission posts, does all 10 max advertisement posts, and receives the single upkeep wage. That would prolly be an upper wage set, and this person has the choice of receiving $38,000 or P15,200 for that period.

Huhhhh? n~n How does that sound?

Also, Ash and Felly are cool for catching my mistakes! I forgot to check the mart for Pichu, and tbh I forgot Klang had a smaller baby thing before it.

That being said, how about exchanging Pikachu for Sableye and exchanging Klang for Hippopotas?

Also proofreading everything again and tidying things up! Please let me know if there's anything amiss or if you have questions or suggestions ^^ Thanks so much to everyone who's helped so far!

 

Just sayin', I'm keeping all my P as P. I never liked battling much anyway xD

 

I think having Gastly, Staryu, Tynamo, Sableye, and Litwik are a bit much, especially for only P6k (so like 15k). I'd get rid of at least three of them (or maybe two) and make the price higher for these few just because of how good they are in URPG/hard to obtain. (Maybe P8.4k which is 21k URPG money?). The rest I think are good/evenly priced.

 

@Ace Trainer Liam; Thanks for the suggestion! Feel free to let me know if any of these prices still don't seem right. Also, I think it's fine if the Shoppe starts off with 14 mons, and we can add more later if the need arises.

Proposed Pokemon list v.2:

P4,500 Gulpin
P4,500 Shellder
P4,500 Litleo
P4,500 Croagunk
P4,500 Cubchoo
P4,500 Shroomish
P6,000 Torkoal
P6,000 Rufflet
P6,000 Tropius
P6,600 Hippopotas
P6,600 Golett
P7,500 Sableye
P8,400 Gastly
P8,400 Staryu

• Missions are fine with a minimum of two characters in each thread (without the NPC), at all levels of difficulty.
• The conversion rate should apply to people trading in their URPG $$$, and not just staff members.
• I have a staff guide written up with more detailed info about their responsibilities, but it has spoilers for future fun stuff so I don't want to reveal that here.

If you disagree with any of the above decisions... or anything lol, voice your truth here! Or again, if you see something that should be tweaked or changed, post here or message me on AIM. Thanks fam bam <3

 

Hmm, Sableye is able to Mega evolve now, so I think it should either be work more P or be taken off the list. Maybe something else could replace it, though? I don't really know what's mart/berry store anymore.

 

Eeep, I was gonna say Sableye is Medium-ranked and the rest in that price range are popular Hard-ranks, so it should go down in price, lol. ._.

 

Oh. Well I don't keep up with URPG things, so Elysia would know better xD

 

I think it needs more type variety. I count three Ghosts and three Poison while some other types aren't represented at all.

 

Weird idea that sounds horribly difficult to implement, but maybe we can have a more Art/Stories approach that lets players choose what Pokemon reward they get? I liked the idea of clearing a difficult mission/earning Pokemon of choice, but that got changed for some reason (which I think I understand). I guess I'm trying to say it would've cool if players could earn their character (Pokemon or Pokesoul) so to speak, although I'm stumped on a clean way to implement this.

 

Ok, third time might be the charm! I've added more Pokemon to balance out the typings. If somebody could look over this to make sure the prices aren't totally wrong, that would be so awesome! (thanks so far, Ash and Ely and Proto!) Additionally, if there's a Pokemon people don't like in here, please offer a different Pokemon as a suggestion since looking up these Pokemon so far has been a bit tedious and a little help goes a long way.

Proposed Pokemon List v.3

Gen 1
P4,500 Shellder
P4,500 Psyduck (new)
P7,500 Slowpoke (new)
P8,400 Gastly
P8,400 Staryu

Gen 2
P4,500 Chinchou (new)
P4,500 Teddiursa (new)
P5,400 Gligar (new)
P5,400 Houndour (new)
P8,400 Sudowoodo (new)

Gen 3
P4,500 Gulpin
P4,500 Shroomish
P6,000 Torkoal
P6,000 Tropius
P6,900 Sableye (price lowered)

Gen 4
P4,500 Croagunk
P4,500 Bronzor (new)
P4,500 Chatot (new)
P5,400 Snover (new)
P6,600 Hippopotas

Gen 5
P4,500 Cubchoo
P4,500 Deerling (new)
P4,500 Darumaka (new)
P6,000 Rufflet
P6,600 Golett

Gen 6
P4,500 Litleo
P4,500 Pancham (new)
P4,500 Spritzee (new)
P5,400 Helioptile (new)
P9,000 Noibat (new)