Trainer Card Extended

[Letalisvo]

Hello everyone!

 

This is a suggestion for a player customization addition.

 

One of the things that I have found myself to be a very big fan of, in this game, is our ability to customize our characters. A concept that I would like to further expand upon, with this suggestion. I've had this idea since the moment that I went trough the in game shop and put together, what I perceive to be, a thematic look. It was a great experience, and one that I think we could do a lot more with.

 

So, what is the suggestion, exactly? Well, the idea is to add 19 additional Trainer Card styles. One for each Pokemon Element (Of which there are 18) and a final 19th style that is a jumbled mix of all the elements - it could for example be a vortex of the elemental orbs, as design (I'll leave that particular part up to you! After all; The art needs to fit the artists vision), this, together with the Default Card style, brings the total to 20. Each style would modify the border, the backdrop and the general style of the Trainers Card to befit the element that it represents. A trainer who is a fan of the water type may use the Water Card, a fire fan may use a Fire Card, and so on. For those of us who are fans of all kinds of different elements there is the 19th card style, which for the moment I'm going to don the Flux Card. Now, how these card styles are accessible is up to you; Maybe trough being victorious in a Gym, maybe trough certain check points in the game, maybe depending on some sort of choices made trough the story, maybe even for sale in the Coin Shop (Or available in game AND in the Coin Shop, for those who would want a short cut), or hell, maybe they're available right from the start of the game - the details are, of course, up to you.

 

However, if the Card Styles were made available in the Coin Shop, it would be a great idea to make them a usable item, one that is consumed on use (Much like the MS), that is also trade-able, thus enabling those of the community who can't pay for them to also acquire them trough trade.

 

Now, that is the Styles part, but what about the "extended" part of the suggestion? Well. You guys know the arrow just below the Local and Server time, that if clicked brings up the Pokemon available on that particular Route? I had an idea of what would be possible, if a similar arrow were added to the Trainer Card (The look of which I recommend be thematic to the Card as well), bring up a side panel with a set of information on the player in a scroll-able section format; Badges earned, Statistics and a Profile with some general information that the Trainer could set up about themselves. Nothing lengthy, but something to serve as an introduction to strangers.

 

And, if you hadn't guessed it earlier, that part about strangers might've done it - both the Statistics, Badges, Profile and Styles are all visible to other players when they inspect you. Now, if such was to be the case it would be a good idea to provide the option to either leave some fields empty, or the ability to choose what to show or hide in the game settings.

 

One small, and final thing, that I'd like to add, is the following; When a player hides their team, and you inspect them, this generally leaves the whole thing rather... empty looking. A way that I have thought of solving this is by making the Card Styles have small emblems as backdrops for the Pokemon Team. Such as; The card itself, where the Pokemon is usually displayed, has a small flame on the Fire Card style, or a drop of water on the Water Card style - if the Team is visible, then you can see it just fine, but if it's hidden, then you still get an aesthetic look of the character as they are surrounded by 6 flames, or 6 water droplets, or 6 bolts of lightning - and so on.

 

Any and all parts of this suggestion are, of course, up to you to fine tune and change however you see fit; It's the general idea of being able to further customize our characters and develop a theme and a sense of self that is key here.

 

Let

[Prehax]

342604 Hello everyone!

 

This is a suggestion for a player customization addition.

 

One of the things that I have found myself to be a very big fan of, in this game, is our ability to customize our characters. A concept that I would like to further expand upon, with this suggestion. I've had this idea since the moment that I went trough the in game shop and put together, what I perceive to be, a thematic look. It was a great experience, and one that I think we could do a lot more with.

 

So, what is the suggestion, exactly? Well, the idea is to add 19 additional Trainer Card styles. One for each Pokemon Element (Of which there are 18) and a final 19th style that is a jumbled mix of all the elements - it could for example be a vortex of the elemental orbs, as design (I'll leave that particular part up to you! After all; The art needs to fit the artists vision), this, together with the Default Card style, brings the total to 20. Each style would modify the border, the backdrop and the general style of the Trainers Card to befit the element that it represents. A trainer who is a fan of the water type may use the Water Card, a fire fan may use a Fire Card, and so on. For those of us who are fans of all kinds of different elements there is the 19th card style, which for the moment I'm going to don the Flux Card. Now, how these card styles are accessible is up to you; Maybe trough being victorious in a Gym, maybe trough certain check points in the game, maybe depending on some sort of choices made trough the story, maybe even for sale in the Coin Shop (Or available in game AND in the Coin Shop, for those who would want a short cut), or hell, maybe they're available right from the start of the game - the details are, of course, up to you.

 

However, if the Card Styles were made available in the Coin Shop, it would be a great idea to make them a usable item, one that is consumed on use (Much like the MS), that is also trade-able, thus enabling those of the community who can't pay for them to also acquire them trough trade.

 

Now, that is the Styles part, but what about the "extended" part of the suggestion? Well. You guys know the arrow just below the Local and Server time, that if clicked brings up the Pokemon available on that particular Route? I had an idea of what would be possible, if a similar arrow were added to the Trainer Card (The look of which I recommend be thematic to the Card as well), bring up a side panel with a set of information on the player in a scroll-able section format; Badges earned, Statistics and a Profile with some general information that the Trainer could set up about themselves. Nothing lengthy, but something to serve as an introduction to strangers.

 

And, if you hadn't guessed it earlier, that part about strangers might've done it - both the Statistics, Badges, Profile and Styles are all visible to other players when they inspect you. Now, if such was to be the case it would be a good idea to provide the option to either leave some fields empty, or the ability to choose what to show or hide in the game settings.

 

One small, and final thing, that I'd like to add, is the following; When a player hides their team, and you inspect them, this generally leaves the whole thing rather... empty looking. A way that I have thought of solving this is by making the Card Styles have small emblems as backdrops for the Pokemon Team. Such as; The card itself, where the Pokemon is usually displayed, has a small flame on the Fire Card style, or a drop of water on the Water Card style - if the Team is visible, then you can see it just fine, but if it's hidden, then you still get an aesthetic look of the character as they are surrounded by 6 flames, or 6 water droplets, or 6 bolts of lightning - and so on.

 

Any and all parts of this suggestion are, of course, up to you to fine tune and change however you see fit; It's the general idea of being able to further customize our characters and develop a theme and a sense of self that is key here.

 

Let

 

Hello LetalisVO over and over again (lul),

 

I honestly like this suggestion just partly.

The idea with themed playercards seems like a good addition but a custom "information" about each individual player will never happen because they already said that they won't add a re-name function for pokemons. Everyone would just abuse this for non-pidgey(pg) things and well as you know PRO doesn't like that.

In addition to that, Shane already kinda teased that something like achievements will come later into the game/something will probably change about the playercard in the future.

 

Greetings

[Letalisvo]

342616 but a custom "information" about each individual player will never happen because they already said that they won't add a re-name function for pokemons

 

I don't understand what this has to do with some general information about the player him/herself? Maybe I'm being dense right now, but what does your gender, or age, or a short "about me" have to do with whether or not you can rename your Pokes? I'm a little confused. Only link I can possibly see here is that they declined the Pokemon renaming suggestion because they can't create input fields inside the game - but if that's the case, then how did they get the chat to work, which requires a input field on it's own? Beyond that I see no other connection to what I was saying O_O

 

Also; The general idea with all of my suggestions is that these aren't meant to be taken word by word. I'm painting an image, but perhaps they want to paint a different one - maybe what I'm saying could be an inspiration to something else entirely - I don't really care. They could implement the Info part and skip the Style part, or implement the Style part and skip the Info part - Either way; It's up to them which parts they want to keep and which they don't. But I'll paint the picture I want to regardless - simply because it might inspire a step forward.

 

But do clarify what a short description of who you are has to do with the suggestion of renaming Pokemon being declined - I feel like there's a few steps missing there for that to make sense. Curious about it though, so don't leave me hanging!

 

Let

[Prehax]

342627

342616 but a custom "information" about each individual player will never happen because they already said that they won't add a re-name function for pokemons

 

I don't understand what this has to do with some general information about the player him/herself? Maybe I'm being dense right now, but what does your gender, or age, or a short "about me" have to do with whether or not you can rename your Pokes? I'm a little confused. Only link I can possibly see here is that they declined the Pokemon renaming suggestion because they can't create input fields inside the game - but if that's the case, then how did they get the chat to work, which requires a input field on it's own? Beyond that I see no other connection to what I was saying O_O

 

Also; The general idea with all of my suggestions is that these aren't meant to be taken word by word. I'm painting an image, but perhaps they want to paint a different one - maybe what I'm saying could be an inspiration to something else entirely - I don't really care. They could implement the Info part and skip the Style part, or implement the Style part and skip the Info part - Either way; It's up to them which parts they want to keep and which they don't. But I'll paint the picture I want to regardless - simply because it might inspire a step forward.

 

But do clarify what a short description of who you are has to do with the suggestion of renaming Pokemon being declined - I feel like there's a few steps missing there for that to make sense. Curious about it though, so don't leave me hanging!

 

Let

 

Hello LetalisVO,

 

bad wording from my side (not a native speaker). The problem with custom things like "about me", "re-name a pokemon" and such these things is that it can be abused by the community in a non-pidgey(pg) way and this is something they won't allow.

 

I see where you coming from and why you want something like this ingame but this won't happen in PRO (sadly).

 

Greetings

[Letalisvo]

342630 non-pidgey(pg)

Could you link me to someplace that elaborates on what this is? Cause I'm as clueless as one can be. No idea what that stands for.

 

Let

[Prehax]

342634

342630 non-pidgey(pg)

Could you link me to someplace that elaborates on what this is? Cause I'm as clueless as one can be. No idea what that stands for.

 

Let

 

Hello LetalisVO,

 

sure thing.

Parental Guidance

All ages admitted. PG: Parental Guidance Suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

 

Greetings

[Letalisvo]

Now I'm feeling more and more dumb. What am I missing here? O_O What part of writing a little bit about yourself is non PG? I mean, don't we do that for our Forum profiles? And what does Pidgey have to do with any of this?

 

Ugh. My head hurts. So many questions, no clear answers. I think I need to take a break from this. I'm gonna go eat a garlic-meat-pizza, this is super confusing :confused:

 

Let

[Prehax]

342648 Now I'm feeling more and more dumb. What am I missing here? O_O What part of writing a little bit about yourself is non PG? I mean, don't we do that for our Forum profiles? And what does Pidgey have to do with any of this?

 

Ugh. My head hurts. So many questions, no clear answers. I think I need to take a break from this. I'm gonna go eat a garlic-meat-pizza, this is super confusing :confused:

 

Let

 

 

Hello LetalisVO,

 

just the opportunity is enough not to implement it, if there is even a slightly chance that it can be abused -> they won't add it

 

It's rather simple to be fair.

 

Pidgey ( Parental Guidance ) :P

 

Greetings