A Pokemon MMORPG

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Does anyone here know of IV's, EV's, Smogon, breeding and basically competitive battling? Because all that stuff would really make it hard to make such a game.

Aye, completely aware of that stuff. Are you aware of how much number crunching goes into people playing MMO's? Managing stuff like IV's and EV's in particular would hardly be anything new to the MMO scene.

I know that. That's not the point I was trying to get across. I'd say about 80% of the Pokemon lovers and players are either not aware of such things or just don't care, or are kids. If you ever go to the Smogon forums, you will know how elitist some of them are, and how serious some of them take Pokemon.

I have mixed feelings about a Pokemon MMO. While I think such a thing could be awesome there is just so much that could go wrong, and the community would be horrible. Kids+elitist pros = $@#$!

Well, to be fair, when is an MMO community NOT a giant cesspool of humanity? You just gotta find the right crowd to run with.

Oh, and on the subject of legendaries, make an indicator above every trainer's head for the amount of legendaries they're packing in their team at that exact moment (probably allow a certain level of information just by checking someone out, so you can get an idea of the level range of their pokemon). That'll keep the use of legendaries down, while battling with legendaries can be fun, people tend to want to use other pokemon, so they just wouldn't get challenged/have their challenges accepted a lot.