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Post by MorriganFearn on Jul 1, 2009 10:59:34 GMT -5
So, basically, NN-chan is turning the running of the site over to me. As those of you who got the PM sometime last February (I think it was February) know, she's been growing disenchanted with things, and now would like to step down from her position. She might be back, she might not. However, Jenta's still around, and we'd like to get it running for the summer, at least.
So, what are my plans?
Well, we had a few ideas to make mainland Jenta even weirder, and I'll be working on that in the days to come. Be on the look out for Corwin's journals on the strange pokemon.
Also, there is a serious reform needed of our leveling system, as no one is getting anywhere. We've been complaining of this in the past, and the present is just as painful. Tejan's levels seem pretty decent, and the old leveling is working for Miteinjan, since we don't really have that region finished, yet, and keeping progress at a crawl helps the admins, but the slowness in Jenta is fairly exasperating.
Speaking of Miteinjan, we are going to work on getting the gyms and routes finished. Also, if we're lucky, I'll get off my backside, and finish up the movesets for the three original pokies that Terrill created eons ago.
Back to Mainland Jenta: We have the plot set up for anyone who wants to play. I'll be looking at what we've done so far, and try to get rid of the fiendish complexity of the whole thing. To start with, I am going to stop with the cryptic hints, and just come out and tell you where the whole thing is leading the characters in Jenta.
Anyway, further updates will be posted in this thread as we work on things.
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Post by MorriganFearn on Jul 3, 2009 12:02:06 GMT -5
UPDATE:
Miteinjan is now a finished region, and has been bumped up to a "Main Region." It will be the mildly confusing, but relatively easy region to balance Jenta's all out weirdness, and Tejan's easy-going normality. Over the coming weeks we'll be posting the pokemon available for capture, and the town and settlement information.
My second update is both less and way more interesting.
For the first time since we created Tejan there is now a comprehensive rules and information thread, instead of the chaos of the multiple scattered posts that we once had. YOU SHOULD READ IT! If you don't want to, well, it is a 1000 pages long or something, so I don't blame you. So I've copied out the two MAJOR changes here:
X) This said, you are allowed to have one character per region on this site. However, if you create a secondary character that travels with your primary character, such as a pair of twins, and ask for mod approval, than you may play that character. However, all battles that these characters participate in are going to be double battles, so brush up on those skills. This also goes for trainers with different controllers who travel together. Be warned, you might get mobbed a lot more often.
and...
TIME WARP
Leeet's do the Time Warp again....
Because leveling is slow no matter what you do, there is now a new feature accessible in all training areas in the main regions. The time warp! After defeating an enemy, you have the option to advance the number of days you spend in a route or area from one day ahead to three weeks into the future.
You can either make the skip post, or the mod can. If you do, just remember to detail in a general way what happened to your character, and which pokemon you trained.
For each day that passes in the time warp your pokemon will be automatically raised one level. If your pokemon will evolve on the next level, though, and you're still in the middle of the time warp, be warned that the time warp will stop prematurely. You will have to battle to level up and evolve your pokemon before you can time warp again. If you have an egg that will hatch within a time warp period the time warp will stop on the morning of the day it will hatch, and you have to take it from there.
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Cool, huh? I'll be cleaning up the site guide to reflect the change in Mieinjan's status, and then tackling either Jenta's plot (as it, like the rules, is in chaos, and I shall fix this chaos with a massive post or my name isn't Alexi Remminton Coppenhagen the Third), or writing more info for Miteinjan. Depends on my mood.
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Post by MorriganFearn on Jul 14, 2009 10:26:26 GMT -5
So, not much of an update, but imageshack was hacked recently, and some of our skins' images have been replaced by a rant by the hackers. I'm trying to figure out how to get the images back, as I don't have some of those to re-upload any more.
Anyway, I also went through our affie buttons, and deleted the sites that haven't been active in a while. Seeing as Jenta is not entirely active all year 'round, my criteria was: has anyone other than spammers posted since 2007? Those who hadn't are gone. The ones that haven't had an active post since 2008 have been placed at the bottom of the Affie box. The active sites are at the top. (Delmara is still there for personal reasons of my own. I do have hopes to revive it once Jenta is up and *smoothly* running).
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Post by MorriganFearn on Jul 17, 2009 10:18:16 GMT -5
Here's a nifty trick: Oh, wow, I've got images... like no one has ever done that before... Dump the sarcasm though. Using a trick with the censored words, that I learned on Erinuki, all we have to do to get images of these pokemon is put brackets around the names. Sadly, I've only got the pokemon that I have listed up. If you try to do, say, [absol], the censor doesn't turn that into an image code, yet. For the next while I'll be working on and off to collect the images and host them, so that we can square bracket all the pokemon available. catamury ... And possibly some of the fan mades, too... ^^
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Post by MorriganFearn on Jul 28, 2009 12:15:44 GMT -5
So, Miteinjan is complete! I'll be working on finishing Tejan in the next week, and then we have Jenta's plot. It's still going (AS WE TYPE) but there are a lot of stray ideas that NN-chan left to us to figure out, and that's where the housekeeping broom'o doom will be happening.
Mystery Egg Giveaway is still up, because, well, I'm lazeh. I will get to putting it where it belongs, but not until I have free time, so it's still going up to that moment. After that if you want an egg head over to the Nishi building to request it.
On a lighter note, Jenta, too is finished, we finally have the information for the elite trio and champion. Thanks to NN-chan for providing that ^^.
Finally, I've added a little guide to the Rules thread on how I score damage in wild battles. Check it out if you're curious.
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Post by MorriganFearn on Aug 7, 2009 21:26:55 GMT -5
Okay, Mitinjan Locations Dex is finished. And I've completed all of the pokemon for Tejan, which means that the Tejan locations dex will soon be done. Gym leaders and town info, and what not, is taking longer to compile.
Just as a note: As of Saturday (tomorrow) I will be starting my final week of freedom before school begins. You should feel deeply for me, but also be aware that after Aug. 15th Jenta will be in Fall/Spring Mode, which means unreliable updates. I generally am able to find time early in the school year, but then the study bug catches up to me, and I suddenly am sucked into real life. That's the breaks. I look forward to having Tejan finished before then, though.
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