Shamac

Alright, I'll give my insights now. Heads up, if you might be against what I am about to say, reply here in a civil way, I took several time to study this case in a overall manner and to be the most acceptable way. Furthermore, I'd like to start with saying the TLDR : I will not make all staff reward pokemons away from PvP. There isn't just PvP in PRO to think when doing changes, and staff has right to play the game and have fun. So we will be nerfing the rewards in Ranked PvP/Laddering from the current state, but won't forbid them. You may also be interested to see a post of my own, a few months ago, in the last big case of this matter, which you can enconter here. I talk about every topic I could think off for this, and some adaptation to the last time case. So, lets get started. ▶︎ Staff should and will be able to play Ranked PvP/Laddering with rewards they got. They are at maximum, 2, that means, you could only receive up to 2 rewards, and this only happens once per 6 months after working several hours, multiple days during the course of it. People overly underestimate how much effort staff put into the game, even if you are against staff as a whole or in a individual, there are people with actually thousands of hours devoted into PRO Staff'ing, which is more stressful enviroment than just pressing a few keys or the normal PvP pressure. ▶︎ Some food for thought: Imagine you get insulted on a constant basis, people trying to sue you, and tons of other ways people find to harrass you, this is how most of the staff lives currently. We don't publish this because it looks bad for the people that did that, nor I am writing this currently to make you pitty of us. But remember, after several hours, after several stress situations, after several attempts of trying to make the game better, the biggest reward staff can have are 2 pokemons in our current Reward Policy. So in a case, the staff that was under all those circunstances (received a reward after been through a lot) only enjoys to play PvP/Laddering while playing, would get forbidden to use their reward? So part of the community that they worked for are currently taking the last few bits of fun they have in they game. In a hypothetical scenario, don't you think this is bad? If this continues to happen, there will be somewhere when the best case scenario in the future will be "staff doesn't play the game, they are disconnected", and the bad cases is where the team gets reduced because it's hard to volunteer work for something if you are just getting bashed, and then the economy gets worse, there would be more infractions unpunished all around, and then the game would just pretty much implode. ▶︎ Now talking about this case, this in all honesty seems pretty ironic that, the rewards were there for quite some time in certain staff/former staff account. Now that actually both have time to enjoy what they enjoy most, playing PRO Ranked PvP, and those two are at least known to be good or at least above average as PvP players. Other players, which were former staff in the case I am considering the most efficient in this case, had a legendary pokemon, with extremely good stats, but yet, he wasn't as good in PvP, therefore, even though he played some there wasn't complains about it. Which leads me to think, why this ones, that aren't using even legendaries outside of whats catchable are being so atacked? Both players, which the case I study the most, aren't unbeatable, they share same winrates or have even lower as others without any sort of reward. ▶︎ Nonetheless, I'd also like to point out this fact that, tournament rewards would be forcefully handled the same way, in the way this suggestions went through. Remember those are actually good players, who were one of the best or even the best in the tournaments that happened before. They would most likely be able to use their pokemons in a way more profitable way than an average user. This could lead to say "but in tournament everyone has a shot", which I could state that, everyone can be a staff, if you show yourself helpful, with a good mindset and apply in the open recruitments, you will be invited and trained to be staff. (More information about this in the link I posted above, which a bigger and detailed reply) So, to end this reply, this is how it's going to be (90% decided, if you want to speak up, now its the time), if a staff wants to use their reward in Ranked PvP: • It's limited to 1 pokemon per team; • The Pokemon must be avaiable for players already. The pokemons are also not able to be changed whenever staff/former staff so decides, they are only avaiable to do so once every 2 months, which since my promotion, I did it 3 times I guess, not big of a deal. Furthermore, I saw suggested somewhere for us to write down which staff reward was given and to who, which I am sorry but I will refuse this idea, we need to safeguard the privacy of our members, some does not want to be public with their player account, not to hide anything, but when people want to play the game and enjoy it, being smoothered by PMs or questions are time and mentally consuming. I'd like to also add this last part, which will be that from now on, as long as I stand here, I will not change again a PvP rule to nerf staff rewards after this case. I understand this seems mean and evil but hear me out. The game as long as exists will keep evolving and changing, which is good correct? Over the past years the staff rewards have received changes, and besides one case, they were always nerfs. Currently, I am an Admin, which part of the role means make sure PRO and the staff are working, if we continue into a cycle of "complain>nerf" there will come to a point soon where there will be no more rewards to give to staff or anything to make them feel rewarded, none come to staff for a reward otherwise they would burn our, but there must be something so the motivation keeps high. (Again, the link I sent shows a better explanation into this matter) So, I am sorry if I sound rude in my words, my intention is not to harm anyone feelings, but this is an attempt to make this situation come to an end, and even tho I will be considered bias to say, I will not let the staff I work for unmotivated. With best regards, Shamac.

Glad you enjoyed ^^

I found it, it was deleted, but now is safe! Moved it back to the last slot in your box, mind taking a look to confirm that? :)

I have restore your pokemons, they should be on the last slot of your box. Mind taking a look to confirm it? Furthermore, enjoy Sinnoh.

No more NPC requests will be made. Topic unpinned.

Have fun everyone, hope you enjoy!

Discord has been used more on public request, altho I would personally prefer the forums. The deadlines are simple, every Thursday is the cut day, in case someone doesn't battle, it will win coin flipped on all thursdays.

I did not track down every NPC, but if you end up not finding because I missed it, feel free to PM me about it, I will be running around and adding some. Place in mind, certain things requested here were not tolerable and thus, not added. Also, I am sorry to say this, but many battle requests were not granted, we saw many of you requested battles but if we accepted them all Sinnoh would be filled with battle NPC. Also, as a personal request, enjoy Sinnoh :)

Re: Accidentally released raikou <r><QUOTE author="janganujan" post_id="426748" time="1502609991" user_id="1384004"><s> </e></QUOTE> Have a check on the last spot of your box.</r>

Solved ingame.

Thats a known issue, but happens very very rarely, fortunatly, it does not change anything and will work as intended. But anyhow, in case it doesn't work for a certain transation that you will find (cof Hoenn), fell free to contact us and we will fix it :)

Unfortunatly the pokemon I think you were trying to retreive is the one that wasn't saved to the database, as you can see by the "ID 0" means the pokemon wasn't properly saved to the database on the time it was deleted, I restore the other ID you had listed, just in case.

This you traded it away with a Slugma holding a rare candy, yesterday. We don't reverse trades unless on case of severe scam.

I moved the pokemons to the last spot of your box, mind taking a look to confirm it?

Cool, looking forward to see more of it :)

Terribly sad about this, but we all know one day we will have to part ways. I can't put into words how much PRO would owe you for how much you have done, back in that terrible day you stayed and that made the diference, and PRO is alive because of you. Not only alive, you also made it a better place to be, even tho you had harsh critics from time to time from people unaware of facts, you endure it and kept going further and further beyond without it affecting your work. You were and are an exemple for future Game Masters to come, I and the rest of the team will miss you for sure, all the jokes, the time spent together, all the times we had to TLDR for you because you didn't read a chat and your PvP advises. Hope to never lose contact from you. Good luck for everything life throws in your way, anytime you need, I'll be there for you. Don't want you to be delay you with my reply, but in resume is this and much morme, thank you.

Your pokemons have been moved to the last slot of your box. Mind taking a look to confirm?

Most likely is impossible to restore it because we clean the database every few days. But do you have any picture of the Gyarados status page?

Welcome again and thank you everyone that registed to the tournament, so the only thing that needs to be done is to start the battles. The following brackets will show who will be your oponents from now on until the very end of the tournament. The tournament will start on the 3rd of August, at 00h00, this is due to give time for everyone to be informed regarding the tournament before it officially starts. </URL> Red Server Bracket Blue Server Bracket Yellow Server Bracket The first stages of the tournament will have 1 week window for you to have your battles, if both of you don't submit the results both will be disqualified. To repeat, the first rounds will be in Bo3 format and Semi and Final will be in Bo5 format. A new map with several tutors was implemented containing several of the most important moves requested, that map will be only able to access once a week so choose wisely when to use it. On the Semi and Final matches a staff member will personally excort your character to the place as many times you prefer, while the tournament matches are happening. If you have anything you have doubt, or to facilitate the schedule of your battles, you may be interested in joining the Tournament Discord Server. To submit the recordings you have to upload it to any place you prefer (Youtube, Imgur, Dropbox, etc) and send it over to: Shamac I will post here the rules of the Tournament and its prizes: Rules of the Tournament are as follows: Only one entry per user (account specific), and only in 1 server. Follow all PRO Ranked Battle Rules. These can be found here: PvP Rules. Please familiarize yourself with these if you have not done so already. Not enter in any hateful rivalry with any other member of this community. Register up to 15 Pokemon. These are the only Pokemon you may use throughout the tournament. You may use any combination of these Pokemon in each match. This means you can use a different team for every battle. Also a pokemon should be used only by one user, means 2 or more players can't register the same pokemon. [goto=sheerforce]3[/goto] If disconnected, it will be counted as a loss unless your opponent agrees to a rematch. Must be able to record and upload matches to Youtube for evidence. These must be uploaded and submitted within 48 hours of the match taking place. You must display your full team at the beginning of the video by clicking on each Pokemon - this is to show that they are the Pokemon that you have registered. If both sides fail to record the match and a dispute comes up, the battle will be resolved by coin flip. This is final in all circumstances. [glow=red][goto=record]2[/goto][/glow] Battles should be resolved in a timely manner. If they are not completed by the round deadline, and an extension has not been granted, the win will be awarded thusly: [*] If one player has contacted the Staff members responsible for the tournament the win will be granted to that player. [*] If neither player has contacted the Staff members responsible for the tournament, the match will be decided by coin flip. Failure to follow the rules will result in an immediate disqualification. The CHAMPION of each server will receive: A pokemon at choice, with costumised stats [glow=red][goto=reward]1[/goto][/glow] 1x Membership Medallion. SECOND PLACE will receive: Change nature of any of their poke can be only one. 1x Membership Medallion. THIRD PLACE will receive: 1x Membership Medallion. (This topic can receive edits in order to improve formating or to make the information clearer, my apologies for any inconvenience)

The registration is now over. Brackets will appear later today (GMT timezone). I will lock this topic, next topic will appear shortly.

Couldn't find the pokemon, when did you delete it?

I couldn't find the pokemon, when was it released? It would also help if you have a picture of the pokemon card. ah ok I managed to find the pic pic has a date of july 3 so I'm guessing it was released that day. Have a look to the last slot of your box to confirm it came back.

I moved your pokemons to the last place of your box, mind taking a look to confirm?

I couldn't find the pokemon, when was it released? It would also help if you have a picture of the pokemon card.

Might sound a bit rude for me to say because I am on the minority side, but I don't think this is necessary. I put a full description on the situation a while back in the other thread, which you can see here. To be honest, being staff isn't easy (yes, I understand this might be against some people thoughts) and I struggle currently keeping people motivated for work, hence why the rewards are this good and look so perfect. Nonetheless, this idea of yours would also forcefully intersect with tournament winners, as their rewards would be reduced to the standards you are suggesting.