I believe I can fly!

[Guest notblackjack]

Heeyyaaaaaah,

Whatssssup?

 

So yeah I love thinking about great ideas for games and for this one I have one too. Shane agrees!

So its kind of obvious the instant teleport fly we are used to in the official games doesn't really fit in this game. Well I got a solution which gets us from city to city fast without making travelling less fun.

Basically the idea is being able to mount birds and actually fly with them. Not teleport, actually fly. The player will still have to travel through the routes but at high speeds and no obstacles in the way!

Also, to make it a little less boring and sometimes unrewarding to travel long distances manually maybe a good idea is to have tons of birds up there as well. Wild pokemon birds that you can fight and catch. Of course to keep the flow of travelling by bird in place the spawns would have to be a tad less but making some pokemon exclusive to the clouds helps make it more rewarding and fun!

 

I believe Shane is already going to mention it to the other staff but what do you guys think? I would love to hear your opinion!

 

~notblackjack

[Pretentious]

Awesome idea.

 

I think an OCCASIONAL spawn would be cool, but at a much much much smaller density rate for random encounters. To keep the mapping problems minimal, I'd be fine with having obstacles such as trees/buildings impassible still. Great way to introduce bird mounts. And I think if it's even a little faster than the bike/ other mounts, it will still help.

 

Awesome suggestion. I really hope this is the solution for FLY. :)

[Guest notblackjack]

The thing about trees and buildings is that it might be hard to make it so that we can land anywhere because that would mean you can also land on trees. Best thing would be if you can land everywhere but if there is something under you you can't, but you can still fly over most obstacles (except skyscrapers).

Not being able to fly over buildings (and trees) wouldn't be too bad though, because as long as flying is faster and you can fly over steep slopes (you know the one-way jump slopes you see everywhere and make you go through the grass unless you come from the other side) and things like fences flying will still have enough advantages that it would be used a lot.

 

Also, I think if this is implemented you should definitely be able to see the ground below (maybe in a cool way) and (maybe) other people who are walking at ground level as well.

 

I think mounts should be just as fast or faster as flying because they are member only. If flying were faster there wouldn't be a very good reason to take membership (except helping our lovely mods of course).

 

~notblackjack

[Knotzl02]

Sounds like an awesome idea =3

[Thor]

When i saw thw topic title i was thinking *oh great not another GIBE FLY NAO* topic.

 

However this is actually a good suggestion. We could make it so that if ur on any route with the flying mount, any spawn with the flying type is still encounterable. (Like sky battles for example), and trees/buildings/mountains are still obstacles but anything else is fair game.

[Buddha]

When i saw thw topic title i was thinking *oh great not another GIBE FLY NAO* topic.

 

However this is actually a good suggestion. We could make it so that if ur on any route with the flying mount, any spawn with the flying type is still encounterable. (Like sky battles for example), and trees/buildings/mountains are still obstacles but anything else is fair game.

 

I agree - but make the ability to use fly for members only :-D

[Gawerty]

When i saw thw topic title i was thinking *oh great not another GIBE FLY NAO* topic.

 

However this is actually a good suggestion. We could make it so that if ur on any route with the flying mount, any spawn with the flying type is still encounterable. (Like sky battles for example), and trees/buildings/mountains are still obstacles but anything else is fair game.

 

I agree - but make the ability to use fly for members only :-D

 

I don't see that being a fair situation. I personally believe that for this to work, there should be a once-time ingame money sink in place, you should have to purchase an item called a "Sky License" and with said item, you will be able to fly around in the cooresponding region if you have all 8 badges of that region. At least this way it would sink SOME money, and it would make the game fair, so you don't see a ton of people flying around, if people on the ground could see the mounts that is.

[Skipo]

i love this idea

[Arroar]

I love the idea of this but the change I would make it not to have to follow the routes but to be able to fly anywhere mapped and you have discovered via story.

 

I mean how awesome would it be to fly over the sea with your friends!

[Guest notblackjack]

I love the idea of this but the change I would make it not to have to follow the routes but to be able to fly anywhere mapped and you have discovered via story.

 

I mean how awesome would it be to fly over the sea with your friends!

 

Yeah oversea should be possible too :)