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[Roph]

1,000 pokemon have been caught

You should give out a prize to the person who caught the 1000th pokemon.

It should be a shiny version of the pokemon they caught.

No way to find out who it was, I don't and won't log who catches what in the aim of simplicity.

Implementing the red/gold/ruby and blue/silver/sapphire etc version stuff now.

All trainers will get a random version assigned to them the next time they encounter a pokemon. After the update arrives.

A link to the bulbapedia article for each pokemon will be shown, version is represented by a big bullet point (same for trainers), and fixed the weird alignment / line breaking in the pokemon selector dropdown

[Roph]

Big update has landed - versions, trading, gen3 pokemon 

Some things on the to-do list now:

• Make some way to compare someone else's collection against yours
• Offer a full trade log for users, "My trade history" or something
• Make a page that lists which pokemon are restricted to which version

[bluntsword]

Nice poke ball animation. I just bagged a torkoal!

[Dr. Mc]

I got a Dusclops Whoooo!

[EvilM00s]

I got a rock.

[haloOfTheSun]

Individual Pokemon pages don't show me which version they belong to (that little colored dot doesn't appear next to their name but it does appear next to mine on my profile - Tyrian ftw).

Also, is there some sort of notification to inform you when someone has initiated a trade with you, or do you just have to check yourself?

[Roph]

Individual Pokemon pages don't show me which version they belong to (that little colored dot doesn't appear next to their name but it does appear next to mine on my profile - Tyrian ftw).

Also, is there some sort of notification to inform you when someone has initiated a trade with you, or do you just have to check yourself?

Most pokemon have no version. You'll only see it on pokemon that are exclusive to a particular version. Sandslash, for example.

Whoever creates a trade uses the link to that created trade as an invite link of sorts; they'll send it to you. Users have a maximum amount of simultaneous trades allowed, and it won't become an active trade for you until you accept the trade. From then on, it appears in a list of active trades in the trade center

[Jules]

I'm liseran...... 


Blegh lol

[Sophist]

Which pokemon are exclusive to which version?

[yuyu!]

I AM GOING TO LOVE THIS SKITTY FOREVER AND EVER OH MY GOD

[Roph]

Mmmmmmm data handling.

Now busy on a list function, to list all trainers by certain parameters.

Total pokemon asc/desc
Total seen asc/desc
pokedex size asc/desc
trades performed asc/desc
total catches asc/desc
total sightings asc/desc
all trainers of a certain version
trainer start time oldest/newest

I think that's it. When I've got and arranged everything, a user's data looks like this:

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   [3] => Array
        (
            [trainerpic] => 1
            [pokemon] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 36
                    [1] => 48
                    [2] => 57
                    [3] => 282
                    [4] => 304
                    [5] => 304
                )

            [seen] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 1.3
                    [1] => 16
                    [2] => 18
                    [3] => 18.3
                    [4] => 52.3
                    [5] => 79
                    [6] => 101
                    [7] => 129
                )

            [dex] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 1
                    [1] => 5
                    [2] => 16
                    [3] => 18
                    [4] => 36
                    [5] => 48
                    [6] => 52
                    [7] => 57
                    [8] => 61
                    [9] => 73
                    [10] => 79
                    [11] => 90
                    [12] => 113
                    [13] => 158
                    [14] => 183
                    [15] => 195
                    [16] => 233
                    [17] => 238
                    [18] => 282
                    [19] => 304
                )

            [starttime] => 1393025100
            [lastcaught] => 1394916211
            [trades] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 9
                    [1] => 10
                    [2] => 11
                    [3] => 12
                    [4] => 14
                    [5] => 15
                )

            [fave] => 282
            [badges] =>
            [catches] => 6
            [sightings] => 8
            [lastsaw] =>
            [lastkey] =>
            [opentrade] => 1
            [opentrades] =>
            [version] => 2
            [name] => admin3
            [id] => 3
            [total_pokemon] => 6
            [total_dex] => 20
            [total_seen] => 8
            [total_trades] => 6
        )

[haloOfTheSun]

Individual Pokemon pages don't show me which version they belong to (that little colored dot doesn't appear next to their name but it does appear next to mine on my profile - Tyrian ftw).

Also, is there some sort of notification to inform you when someone has initiated a trade with you, or do you just have to check yourself?

Most pokemon have no version. You'll only see it on pokemon that are exclusive to a particular version. Sandslash, for example.

Whoever creates a trade uses the link to that created trade as an invite link of sorts; they'll send it to you. Users have a maximum amount of simultaneous trades allowed, and it won't become an active trade for you until you accept the trade. From then on, it appears in a list of active trades in the trade center

Okay, gotcha.

I think there's an error though. I've been assigned Tyrian, but I encountered and caught a Pokemon exclusive to Liseran: http://rmrk.net/pokemon/?pokemon=336

[Sophist]

[Ser zacheatscrackers]

I went to RMRKMon, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt caught a Minun just now.

Yeeess, I wanted one of these for so long. <3

[Roph]

Individual Pokemon pages don't show me which version they belong to (that little colored dot doesn't appear next to their name but it does appear next to mine on my profile - Tyrian ftw).

Also, is there some sort of notification to inform you when someone has initiated a trade with you, or do you just have to check yourself?

Most pokemon have no version. You'll only see it on pokemon that are exclusive to a particular version. Sandslash, for example.

Whoever creates a trade uses the link to that created trade as an invite link of sorts; they'll send it to you. Users have a maximum amount of simultaneous trades allowed, and it won't become an active trade for you until you accept the trade. From then on, it appears in a list of active trades in the trade center

Okay, gotcha.

I think there's an error though. I've been assigned Tyrian, but I encountered and caught a Pokemon exclusive to Liseran: http://rmrk.net/pokemon/?pokemon=336

Yeah, ooops.

if ($version == 1) $blocked = 1;
   else $blocked = 2;

How did I even type that without noticing it's wrong  :anski2:

[EvilM00s]

You're human. Given the complexity of the task you've undertaken, I'm impressed that that was the only error.

[haloOfTheSun]

No big deal anyway~

[Roph]

Speaking of which, the list function I'm busy on now is only technically feasible after making my own functions to grab data from SMF. SMF provides built in functions when you're integrating with it to easily get stuff like a user's account data, but it gives you literally every last thing about their account. When querying for 10+ users it's pages and pages of data, 99% of which I'm throwing away. Now my own function just grabs the username + buddy list in less than 1/100th the time. So I feel safe querying triple, even quadruple digit numbers of usernames  

[tSwitch]

Did you change the anti-spamming cooldown from capture rate to encounter rate?

[Roph]

Nope, I want to do something a bit more elegant.

[tSwitch]

Fair enough, it's just really punishing towards people who browse the site often as it is right now.

[Roph]

Remember not to take it too seriously.

In other news, got the rudimentary list page up and running.

A glaring bug is the catchings / sightings, for 2 reasons. First is that I didn't always keep a personal tally for each trainer of catch / encounter events, second is that for a while all new trainers had null default values instead of zero, so the count wouldn't increase anyway. Counts fine now though, will even out over time

And it counts having 0 pokemon as having 1, since count(array) = 1;. Will fix that too =o

So for now, HaloOfTheSun has the biggest dex. He's packing a huge dex .

[tSwitch]

Yeah it's just a little annoying when you view the site a lot, and you're supposed to be having fun with a feature, but it grows more annoying than fun due to it almost punishing activity.  Nothing -has- to be done, but it is a little frustrating, which I think defeats the purpose of a fun feature.

Also, it gets confused when I open multiple threads at once ( which I sometimes do ), and I think that screws up the session variables.

[Roph]

There can only ever be one or no pokemon in your session; any new ones overwrite any older ones. It's literally $sessiondata['seenpokemon'] = $encounter.

[Roph]

So I'm busy generating and tallying up scores for offered pokemon in a trade, here's how it stands now:

1) Each pokemon in an offer has its encounter rate inverted from 100. So for example, a 75% encounter rate zubat leaves only 25 as a base starting score.
2) The score is then doubled, just to push differences apart further.
3) If the pokemon is version limited, it gets another 50 added to its score.
4) If the pokemon is shiny, its score is multiplied by an arbitrarily chosen 12.5x.

Each pokemon in a trade can be hovered over to see its score. So at the end of this, a pidgeot is worth 90, a gardevoir 140, a charmeleon 120. A shiny charmeleon is worth 1,500.

Of course, much of the value from trading is sentimental, friendship based or some other reason that means the actual rarity of the pokemon is irrelevant. So it's just a little number in the corner, and each pokemon's individual score is hidden until you hover over its name. Just helps at a glance if you're wondering how rare the particular pokemon is. Also, pokemon in a trade now link to their info pages.

And there's now a link to IRC when in a trade