I think I found a MMO friendly way to include Game Corner.

[Teamtank]

The problem persists that Game Corner in another pokemon game lead to bots ruling the earth, and farming it for pokemon. Then removing it or making it not profitable was the two solutions.

 

I walked into Game Corner today in Goldenrod city. I remembered how much fun I had playing poker in Fallout New Vegas. Time soaked in, making bottle caps on the side. Then I thought, why don't we have Game Corner working?

 

Its a pretty good solution.

 

:Light:

 

:Light: :Heart:

 

After you earn X amount of coins in game corner, the manager kicks you out, and says "something" unfriendly. Whatever casino people say when they kick people out. They then tell you that you can come back in 3 days but you better not do it again, somewhat like a casino would. My brother worked at a casino and they escorted people out who kept winning too much.

 

It would be more like a once in 3 day farming spot for coins. Every 3 days casino forgives you and lets you back in. There would be pokemon poker, who says it absolutely has to be slot machines. Maybe a pvp pokemon poker. (poker simplified) A small percentage goes to the casino, and the winner takes the other players bet, or a portion. It would make players want to find each other since you can only do it once every 3 days. I could see guilds going in at once when their casino "suspensions" wear off.

 

Then there's the store. Good opportunity to put in exclusive casino clothing 8,000 a piece (coins). On holidays you might sneak in a few exclusive items in the casino. More poker?.. yep. If the custom made pvp poker game is fun, I'm sure people will soak hours into it, I would.

 

[glow=red]On the technical side, the safest solution is to make coins unpurchasable with pokedollars. Casino hands out 30 if you have none left..every 3 days... something like this below:[/glow]

 

 

-Player starts with 0 coins. Casino gives free 30 coins to him or her.

-Player wins 8,136. Casino kicks him or her out, and says "That's too much, get out!" and resets the coins to 8,000.

-Player purchases something for 8,000. Or else he or she is just missing out.

-Casino forgives in 3 days. Player bought something for 7999. Has 1 coin in inventory.

-Casino gives player 29 coins to bump him or her back to par, of 30 total coins. Nothing if they have 30 or more.

 

 

[glow=red]But bots will figure out the cycle.... good point. Heres the solution to that. Casinos dont just forgive you, you need to earn those 30 coins.

On day 3> "I'll let you back in if you find me a rattata on route X:

On day 4> "I'll let you back in if you find me a (random poke) pokemon, on route (random route), random region, caught today specifically. Try to bot that.[/glow]

 

I think that covers everything.

[Thatarby]

The more difficult we make it for bots, the better they get in return. Trust me, they could. Or, they could just manually play the game for say, 30 minutes then go back into the casino to bot.

[Teamtank]

  ThatArby said:

329852 The more difficult we make it for bots, the better they get in return.

 

Hmm, true. Harder means more intricate bot designs, if they are challenged. Same goes for anything else in pokemon revolution, such as holiday events.

 

Before going on, imagine the casino is available for PRO access only... pay for that medal, [glow=red]members only section. Rewards are cosmetics.[/glow]

 

Would someone try to program a bot to:

-play pokemon poker,

- learn to invite players, who walk around the world at their own will, no pattern

-once every 3 days,

-members access only, pay to risk loss of account, that the botter paid money into, to risk loss of money

-for 2-3 hours of dueling

- possibly get reported a lot due to player interaction, something bots try to avoid.

 

[glow=red]Rewards: 1 cosmetic item.[/glow]

 

This someone wouldn't rather program a bot to:

 

-Reuse an existing bot to go up left right down randomly, detect a christmas covered pokemon, and catch it.

-No player to player interaction.

-Low risk of being spotted

-No limit on how many to catch

 

[glow=red]rewards:

xmas covered pokemon[/glow]

 

Bots can bot anything just about. Its about the effort, risk accessment before someone chooses to bot.

 

Counter-intuitive to pokermon poker suggestion, knowing some big update is on the way, I wont mind if the Devs just spend time on new regions, coding moves, and completing the last 100 pokemon in the pokemon universe. Pokemon poker is just a wishlist, and I feel it's a good suggestion, or something similar, if Game Corner becomes a spotlight in the future. It's mostly about downtime. Something more to do. I have plenty to do now, but wont mind soaking in time to some minigames ;)