Special ways to influence IVs

[Rainbowkitty]

IVs have always been a big thing in pokemon and can make a difference between living with 1 hp or losing.

I can see that there was a IV reset button already in the game. Maybe a rare item or NPC can be found to enable it for one use. However, I don't think this would be the best way to do it.

 

Here are some other ideas:

A quest that unlocks a building with a special NPC. Talk to him for special training to power up one IV stat of your choice on a single pokemon. Can be used once every 7 amount of days.

- Available to all players

- Simple and easy

- No RNG

- May take possibly weeks or months to max a single IV stat depending on starting point.

 

An NPC that sells special vitamins that restock every 15 days. Similar to how the actual vitamins raise EV, these one raise IV by one instead. Not sure what good pricing for something like this is, but I would say 50,000.

- Requires a good amount of money which require more effort

- No RNG

- Can raise all IVs at once every 15 days at a high price

 

A boss battle that rewards a special vitamin. Maybe around Brock's difficulty. Resets every 3 days.

- An actual pokemon battle

- Can be seen as training to power up your pokemon

- Random vitamin rewarded

 

That's all I can think of right now. Of course, these could be changed around to what seems best for the game. Resets could be shorter or longer and the stat given could be changed to random or not random.

 

Please understand that this is suppose to be a secondary approach besides hunting, not to replace hunting. It's suppose to be a more reliable way of obtaining good stated pokemon, with the tradeoff of being much longer. It's still pretty much a requirement to hunt to get a good start off point to boost these stats. A pokemon starting with an IV attack of 23 would obviously take weeks longer than a pokemon starting with 28 attack. In other words, it should be used in combination with hunting. If a player gets too unlucky then they can just save up stat boosts overtime.

 

Feel free to leave your own suggestions. Just a note, I believe having a cooldown on something like this is important to keep the game balanced. Without a cooldown, everyone would be running around with perfect pokemon on day 1 when it should be taking weeks and months to perfect a pokemon. Maybe even a whole year!

[Mexicannoob]

-1

 

disagree, let the epics ivs poke be due to sheer luck + hard effort in constant hunting

[Fabion]

Why spend weeks/months to wait for vitamins when you can farm a godly poke?

[Anshuman1]

I like it

[Bash]

Why spend weeks/months to wait for vitamins when you can farm a godly poke?

 

Vitamis = 10 secons effort, hunting = many hours. :shrug:

 

But I dont like the idea, I like it how it is even when it sucks to hunt hours for hours and nothing good appears.

[Rainbowkitty]

Why spend weeks/months to wait for vitamins when you can farm a godly poke?

 

Well it's suppose to be just a secondary option. It's a more reliable way to get the IVs you want, but just takes a lot longer. Sure you can spend all your time hunting and it's probably quicker than what I suggested. It's more for the heavily unfortunate players who spend hours hunting and end up with nothing. It's so they have at least something.

[Rainbowkitty]

Why spend weeks/months to wait for vitamins when you can farm a godly poke?

 

Vitamis = 10 secons effort, hunting = many hours. :shrug:

 

But I dont like the idea, I like it how it is even when it sucks to hunt hours for hours and nothing good appears.

 

The way I suggested it is suppose to take longer than hunting

[Bash]

Why spend weeks/months to wait for vitamins when you can farm a godly poke?

 

Vitamis = 10 secons effort, hunting = many hours. :shrug:

 

But I dont like the idea, I like it how it is even when it sucks to hunt hours for hours and nothing good appears.

 

The way I suggested it is suppose to take longer than hunting

 

But only in total right? You can still be offline for a month and increase few Iv´s. Thats how I understood it. Correct me if Im wrong.

[Rainbowkitty]

 

 

Vitamis = 10 secons effort, hunting = many hours. :shrug:

 

But I dont like the idea, I like it how it is even when it sucks to hunt hours for hours and nothing good appears.

 

The way I suggested it is suppose to take longer than hunting

 

But only in total right? You can still be offline for a month and increase few Iv´s. Thats how I understood it. Correct me if Im wrong.

 

not sure what you mean by in total. In total of what? And no, you still need to log in occasionally to obtain the IVs. Similar to collecting berries except much longer. So far, my favorite idea was the boss battle one with a random stat boost reward that way its just not free easy stats. So you still have to hunt a ton and get decent starting IVs and top it off with that stat boosts or just stock up on stat boosts over the weeks or months and put it on a low stated IV.

[Purplemauth]

-1

 

This way playtime = better pokes. New players trying to get into pvp will stand no chance against the god pokemon. It also ruins hunting entirely. Settling for something that just has decent IVs and correct nature/ability then fixing it later goes entirely against what PRO is about.