Suggestion: Further options to speed up text and menus

[Gruntgg]

I would like to suggest introducing further ways to speed up the text and menus that appear specially during combat. I have text speed set to maximum and combat animations turned off, but I find encounters (specially unwanted wild encounters) still waste too much of my time due to the amount of text and animations that take place and cannot be sped up.

 

The type of messages I am referring to are, among others, strings like the following:

"A wild Raticate attacks!

Go Growlithe!

Growlithe Intimidate!

Raticate's ATK fell!"

 

or

 

"Bellsprout attacks Raticate with Stun Spore.

Raticate was paralyzed by Stun Spore!

It may be unable to move!"

 

That was 4 (first example) and 3 (second example) text boxes that need be fully written before we can move to the next one.

 

Those messages explaining that Growlithe Intimidate decreased the ATK of Raticate are useful for beginners, so I would not remove them. However, if Growlithe (or whatever pokemon with a similar ability) is your first pokemon in the group, you probably do not want to have to read and wait out those lenghty strings on every single encounter while you are leveling up your Pokemon. At least I know I don't. It's the same with the example of the paralysis. I want to know if my paralysis attempt worked, I got that information with the first message, I do not need to read every single time that "It may be unable to move!".

 

The way I would suggest improving this would be:

 

a) Introducing the option to spam click during such messages to skip them, so that the text does not even need to be fully written on the window before being able to skip the message (I think this is how it works in most official Pokemon games, but I might be wrong).

 

b) Introducing a way to double the speed of everything in combat, while on combat with NPCs. That would include animations and text. This would be similar to the button that most emulators include and is very handy for playing Pokemon, in my opinion.

 

I am not sure if I am alone in this but I would very much appreciate those changes. Specially that I think (and hope) they would not be too difficult to implement. I want to spend more time hunting Pokemons and less time being forced to read repetitive messages that give information I already have.

 

Thank you for your consideration and dedication. I only write this recommendation because I am really enjoying the game you have made. Well done!

[Dos3d]

-1, would make shiny hunting too easy and more than likely increase the prevalence of botting.

Edited March 30, 2023 by Dos3d