Amethyst

Trust and respect are major players too, but agreed that communication is paramount. As an example of communication failure, there was a girl I liked for a couple years and we became really, really close friends. However, some time last year I decided that it probably wasn't going to go anywhere, and so I forced myself to get over and take space from her. She was a lot more upset than I thought she would be, but I figured that was just because I was her best friend. Fast forward to this year, and I found out that the entire time last year, she thought that we were actually a couple. I would've loved that, but I had no idea, and in taking spacing apparently broke up with her, also having no idea. I managed to go through an entire relationship not even knowing I was in one, because of lack of communication. God bless.

With the references to other games, they would definitely be limited to windowskins. The idea is they should be subtle enough that you wouldn't think twice about it unless you'd played those games. I'm also not looking to get too detailed, but something like the minimalist art posted above shouldn't be a problem.

That's why we say "full-screen-ish." Unfortunately, we can't change this because it's part of RMXP, not the game code.

we're the only showdown server you need, mde-kun <333

idrc about anything else in the frontier except for lucy cuz i love lucy wait that's something else

It wasn't really cheating per se.... But when I was younger I spilled ketchup on the end of my link cable, so it glitched out all the time, and one time I traded my friend something normal, and it glitched out and came through on his side as a Mew. ...Yay ketchup?

There's a lot to keep up with, you're right. And you know, there's a decent chance that not every character arc will be fully explored in the main story. The ones you mentioned though, all have a good bit left for them though. And in any case, post game is a thing.

Well, people have said 'no' enough... The long story short is that Reborn probably isn't the game for most of the ideas. But who says it's dreaming too big? If this is what you're interested in, then I would totally encourage you to make your own project to realize these goals! And with as many people as who have been getting into that here, I'm sure there would be plenty of people to help you learn too. I also have tutorials for that sort of thing on my Youtube channel (linked in profile) to help you get started.

Matter of time indeed. First, there are parts of this society that promote transgender things. That doesn't mean that most transgender individuals are getting swept up in it, and frankly with the amount of backlash there is, to the point of murdering transgender people it's hard to justify that claim. You and your friend have some pretty hasty and misguided generalizations about the population. The argument you make boils down to people not knowing themselves well enough, but you and your friend don't know them any better. However, simply saying that isn't going to change your opinion, so I'm not going to argue it further. Nonetheless, it is a rule of this community to respect others, and that very much includes gender identity. We expect users to (at least make an effort to) use correct pronouns, and you are not exempt from that even if you believe it's undue. And frankly, if you are indeed intent on misgendering people, I'd be tempted to start referring to you as 'she' as well. Further, this discussion is very much out of place in this topic. If you want to talk about anything on this further, you're free to PM me. This will be the last of it here though.

With the last of the shiny sprites knocked out and into place, it's time to move on to the next component of graphic updates this episode. Specifically, (as a certain thread in the past has already brought up once or twice), I'll be redoing the options for customization of the message systems and PC boxes. This has three parts: "Menu Frames," one of two Windowskins selectable in the options menu "Speech Frames," the second of the above, which is separately selectable for a reason I still don't understand. The Wallpapers players can choose to colour their PC boxes with. To touch on why this is being done, it's because Ame generally hates anything being totally default when working from an editor. My goal with redoing these things is to make the customization options feel a little more consistent, deliberate, and closer to home (i.e something that actually feels like it's from Reborn). Not to mention, it helping us stand out from the rabble of Essentials games is a nice plus too. So what's this topic for? Brainstorming. There are exactly 24 Wallpapers. The number of Menu/Speech Frames can be changed, but right now sit at 21 and 28 respectively. Currently, there's no real coherency between the menu/speech frames despite having similar purpose, so one of my thoughts is to make those match. They'd still be separately selectable, but it would look more coherent. If anyone has a reason why I shouldn't do that, I'd be interested to hear it. Anyway, that's a lot of things to sprite without knowing what I'm shooting for. Here are my current thoughts on potential concepts for these: Default black/silver Generic Reborn motif Team Meteor motif Arceus motif Amethyst/Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald themes Wallpapers based on in-game locations: Reborn City/Apophyll/Byxbysion/Ametrine etc-- where else speicifcally? Motifs based on individual leads: Chess Wallpaper for Radomus, Rainbow windowskin for Terra, etc. Specific other ideas? A few windowskins to be homage to other popular fangames- Rejuventation/Insurgence/Uranium So what I'm looking for here, is ideas on fleshing these out, if any of the above sound like you'd really want them, other potential ideas, and so on. I'll also say that as of now, I'm not intending to keep any of the existing wallpapers or windowskins (they might be edited), so if you feel really strongly about any of those staying, now would be the time to champion for its protection. Over to you.

Actually, guys, I'm back in the game. Sup. Here, have some Mega Shinies. We're now done with all of these, and you'll accordingly notice the percentage complete has jumped. Regarding animations, yeah, I am still quality checking and approving everything, hence why only a few are done for now (especially since I was out for a while and have only just now gotten to lay my full feedback on the animations everyone started with). However, between everyone there's around ~60 animations currently in progress/review, soooo... definitely not a lack of things going on here. My next focus will be graphics for the new fields (Ive already done a good portion of them and let me tell you, one in particular was H E L L O N A S T I C K to make) and something else that I'll be posting a topic about within the next day or so.

You can blame me for the fault of the poll's creation-- not her. Obviously the situation isn't ideal, however it was posted to public before the issue with this was brought to my attention. While I understand that it seems cheap to to count the two options against the one, it's hard for me to refute that logic with something over-simplistic like that it only matters which singular option in the poll gets the most votes. The poll itself is not what's important-- the opinions of those voting in it is. The poll reflects that regardless of if there's one option for keeping kick, or five. If ten people vote for kick to stay in each of those five options, it's the same as fifty people voting in the one. Either way, that's 50 people who don't want /kick removed. I believe it would be more deceptive to overlook this fact. The total of the first two options shows us how many people do not want to remove kick. The total of the second two options shows us how many people do not want Driver to have kick. There -is- a notable fault in that latter part, since it means that people who vote to remove kick no longer actually have a say in if Drivers get it or not, should it pass. Indeed, these should have been two separate questions to begin with. At this point, we could combine the first two options of the poll to correct it into a basic "should kick stay" question and follow up with permissions later-- however, that changes nothing about the actual result, and I know from experience, would actually break the poll disabling further votes. Nonetheless, you're wrong to accuse the side in support of /kick for the poll being set up how it is. That was my fault alone, and I personally would rather remove /kick if for no other reason than to render obsolete the conflict it's caused over so many years.

Kanto- Maybe one of the sevii islands. Johto- Ecruteak city orrrr somewhere near Mt Silver Hoenn- Fortree city...ish. Sinnoh- Snowpoint city Unova- Undella city Kalos- LaVerre city Reborn- Ametrine city

Noise bothers me easily, so I definitely prefer quiet places. 95% of the time, that means my room. Also lately when I've been really stressed out I've gotten really OCD, so cleaning helps me calm down and refocus. My room used to be a cluttered mess, but lately that just makes me anxious itself. If my room doesn't count, I'm at a loss. There's a reason I don't go out much. In school, I would always look for spots as isolated as possible. That usually meant taking lunch breaks in tree tops, on parts of the roof not normally accessible, and ledges above stairwells that aren't entirely safe to get to. The more out of sight it was, the better for me. Also when people's reactions when they finally did notice the person casually hanging out on some random tree or ledge, were pretty entertaining.

funny you say that when one of those is locked and the other banned.

Recently among the auth we've been talking about access and usage of certain commands on the Showdown Server. However, after the most recent discussion we saw it fit to leave the decision to you, the users most impacted by them. We're considering access to three commands: /kick, /redirect, and /warn. /kick is a command that removes a person from the room. With /setkick, it can display silly or cool custom messages for each auth. Because the user can rejoin immediately, it has no disciplinary use, and with /setkick has been left strictly as a command for auth to have fun with, provided it is not abused. /redirect sends a user from their current room into a new one. It is mostly used to send a player to a place where their conversation is more appropriate. They can still rejoin the old room at any time. /warn displays a pop up with all of showdown's rules and a message from the auth about what they did wrong. It's an effective tool in helping new users learn the expectations of the community. /kick is in question to be removed outright. The other two are potentially being revoked from driver status (%). Drivers on Reborn are different from other servers, in that they are staff, but they are not expected to moderate the server, and have very few tools to do so (in fact, just redirect and warn). They mostly have the rank for status and access to the staff room. Below are the arguments for each option of access of each command: /kick All auth: Since kick has no disciplinary application, there's no harm in letting people play around with it. Users should understand it's not an actual punishment, just good fun. Case handlers exist to deal with mods who abuse the privelege, so the risk of expanding it so all auth can use it is negligible, and serves to put them on more equal footing. @ and higher: The status quo. Abuse cases exist for mods, but there's no reason to increase the risk of abuse by expanding access to the command. Remove /kick: Fun at others' expense isn't good fun. It's not fair to users if they can be kicked even if it just for laughs, with no permanent consequence, and they could report it as abuse. It's better just to remove the option so that there's no problems in the first place. /redirect Yes: Yes, drivers should keep redirect, as they already have it. There's no harm in allowing them to help out with server moderation with something non-serious like redirect. No: No, drivers should not keep redirect. It's effectively the same as /kick, and it's not their place to moderate the server. /warn Yes: Yes, drivers should keep warn, as they already have it. There's no harm in allowing them to help out with server moderation by informing others of the rules with /warn. No: No, drivers should not keep warn. Drivers' role is not to enforce server moderation, so there's no need for them to use this. This poll will remain open for one week.

I'm not opposed, but I'd like to see what you have in mind before agreeing to anything. I originally did want to do more involved backgrounds (for -some- cases) but that hasn't happened

Field specific AI is one of the last things we'll do. ... Possibly making an exception for type chart issues like this since they're so blatant. Anyway, it hasn't been done yet so this is currently expected, though not the end product.