IT seems like the main reason for allowing or avoiding features in the game is to avoid inflation. Inflation is definitely a concern with any MMO. Fly is something that can hurt the economy, or it could be used to help. People are seeing fly as something you throw on your pokemon and warp to another location. Why not make it an item that you buy from a shop similar to teleport, but much more expensive. This would deter newer players from flying all over, and drain some of the money from people who have too much. You could also add the item to the cash shop for people who wish to donate for an upper hand early on. I think Arnie is onto something, but not allowing FTP people would make them feel as if members have an edge on them.
I understand and appreciate how much this game fallows the hand held versions, but no matter how you look at it, this game is an original piece of work. Pokemon has never been done into an MMO as far as I know, and is going to require more money eaters because of the larger player base. Areas such as the "Safari Zone" grabs the attention of people, hunting pokemon and forces the money out of their pockets. Having more area's, competitions, shops, usable items, and reasons to use these items may help the economy. Because it is an MMO we are going to need reason's, especially the older players, to have the money ripped out of our pockets and returned to the game. I can only see this done with something new that would require us to spend our money repeatedly.
Please DO NOT crucify me for suggesting this, but the escape rope as you said costs around 550 as of right now, which is not much money at all considering how fast we can pocket it. Just EV training a few pokemon has already netter me around 80k, making that 550 not much of a purchase. Decreasing the money gained or increasing things like the price of pokeballs would surely help keep a stable economy as well as make pokemon slightly more valuable due to less people throwing a ball at anything that moves.
The reason I am focusing this post about the economy is simple. The main reason we avoid things in MMO's is to avoid the destruction of the economy. We need something that will make it so the developers can untie there hands from their back's and give them free roam to do what they have been doing, and that is to expand on an already amazing game. I think we need not focus on what shouldn't be aloud because that just hinders the creativity of you guys, instead a suggest we pool the community together to make something that feels like the old game we love, but with a twist of something new.
One thing that comes to mind that has been in the pokemon series since it has began is battle competitions. In-fact some of the player base plays for the thrill of battling players alone. Creating an arena that would cost an entree fee would be a great way for elitists to spend their money and be happy doing it.
Instead of avoiding things to avoid sinkholes, put a twist on them to turn them into money sucking machines XD
Thank you to all the developers working hard to make the pokemon MMO dream come true and I wish everyone a happy holiday XD
