madf0x

Yeah I noticed you mentioned that once I returned to the topic, which makes me feel pretty dumb. Nonetheless Im sticking to my theory and going with the engine catches it before a live run does, which generally means syntax error. Can you post your encounters.txt and pokemon.txt files?

Well its saying that the field monster its trying to pull up is not a positive integer, which you can read in this case as being nonexistent. Am I correct in this occurred while walking in grass to spawn an encounter? I may be making a bunch of assumptions here, but your error seems to be more likely in the encounter entry for that route, rather then a fudged pokemon file(the two are not mutually exclusive). What route are you on when this happened? whats your encounters.txt file look like for that section? Forgive me if my assumptions are wildly incorrect, but context is key in troubleshooting

I wouldnt mind an early kecleon, pretty much would be the only reason I'd play with it. By the time he falls off hard, Id have a few good replacement options anyways. Also never even noticed the gulpin on my play-through. Picked up a black sludge trubbish and had it pretty much do everything I expected from it and sometimes a bit more. Nothing overwhelming though and eventually he just fell off. Was pretty good for walling gym leader's lead and using toxic to burn out their potions. i'd like to see an early ice type. Pretty much no one does early ice types(and its a not so great typing anyways so meh). No idea on which one though, since I rarely run ice types Id be pretty clueless on how effective individuals would be in game.

I spent several hours coding a fairly robust view bot for a specific content aggregator site, just to feed a short lived joke about a content with ridiculous views cause everyone kept refreshing the page. The sheer amount of overall uselessness and unnecessary effort put it probably makes it the nerdiest thing I've done.

Well for wild pokemon yeah, but typically if youre trying to breed for good stats then typically you want to aim a bit higher on the latter. Especially since destiny knot makes it far easier to pass on those delicious 31s.

Nice! Always something special about getting a shiny from an egg.

Well if I was a developer I would definitely be toying around with some lag-reducing ideas(which I understand is already a priority, but hey OP asked me what Id do). I can't help but wonder if a good chunk of the lag is from event trigger overhead, since I noticed a sharp reduction in lag after beating the PULSE Tangrowth. I'd try making the event cycle through a longer animation sequence, so that while each animation event would be larger, theyd be triggered far far less. The question of that working or not would be if reducing the overhead saves more than making longer events creates. Id place my money on yes, but no way to tell without trying it, but itd be a pain to go through all those events like in the wasteland, only to potentially have it not be worth it. Also by default RMXP uses an old version of the RGSS which has long had known performance issues, and by extension pokemon essentials uses it as well. However, I have seen an interesting guide on importing the updated engine from RMVX, but the guide wasn't clear on how it may break scripts so while its pretty easy to do theres the chance that itd require massive effort to make pokemon essentials to be compatible and/or itd have to be a separate release makred as an essentially perma-unstable release. I suppose this is something I could actually play with my own copy of pokemon essentials, but even if I prove itd be possible theres no way I'd be able to bug test everything that could go wrong. Still a five times performance boost to the core engine would be nifty. I second the notion of having a fairly early move tutor that only teaches moves to undervalued pokemon. This would also be a very subtle way to reward players for picking less common starters without appearing to punish the player for choosing an OP starter that they liked. Simply pokemon like blaziken wouldnt be able to learn anything useful, while your patrats and chikoritas of the world can get some nifty tricks to use. The exact specifics of what moves, what pokemon, and when/where to place such a tutor would take a bit of fine tuning though. The magikarp idea would be an amusing joke, even though I started playing after it got removed. Easy fix would be to just make it genderless. Since you could make it as a separate mon, by default youd just have it not able to evolve into gyrados citing in game something about pollution inhibiting its potential. People get their joke pokemon and eat it too. Speaking of eating pokemon, I think more underused pokemon should have small chances of appearing with useful(but not overpowered items). A good example for me is my most memorable moment in Reborn. At first I was put off by the removal of a lot of strong pokemon cause it felt like artificial difficulty. Then I found trubbish. That little gem came with a rare black sludge and has been a cornerstone in my team well past his real usefulness, simply because I became attached to it. I felt rewarded for going with this little trash pile I wouldnt have even bothered catching in the main games. It was never overwhelmingly strong, just like I said it felt rewarding seeing the tricks it managed to pull off thanks to that bit of recovery every turn. As a quick aside, that giratina video someone posted was really stupid. Most of it has just been fan theories, nothing more and occasionally far less. I had to stop watching when he seriously tried to claim the lavender town creepy-pasta was true(yes the song got changed cause kids got headaches and shit, not there wasn't weird mass suicides and investigators dieing mysteriously). edit: Tried my hand of importing the engine into raw essentials, unfortunately essentials is so heavily modified, that the guide for doing so doesn't really apply. Fixing the syntax conversions from ruby 1.8 to 1.9 is easy, but when I get unhelpful error messages like 'the specified procedure could not be found' not much I can do(maybe if it specified the specified procedure Id have something to work with). 2nd edit: Fixed it, reading is op. Time for more syntax changing!

Nah I actually dont. I have a few complaints with the english language, and tend to disregard some rules I find to be a bit archaic. Notably, with rare exceptions apostrophes are useless, and theres an excess of different punctuation marks. Only really need about five of them Id say.

Hello there I am madf0x. I started pokemon back when I wanted red version cause all my friends at swim camp had it, and I distinctly wanted red cause I believed at the time it was the only way to have charizard(it was on the picture!). Since my DS and copy of Y got stolen while I was still in the Army I've hopping around some fan made games(sadly tbh most of them arent really good). Really liked this one and Zeta/Omicron. Z/O doesn't have as interesting of a community as here though. I'm a computer junkie and do occasional security work, sometimes as pro-bono if something catches my eye(though not everyone appreciates an email that basically says 'yo, ya stuffs broke'). I also do a bit of coding as a hobby. I happen to be terrible in art but not too bad of a poet. With the caveat that Im a terrible poetry critic. As in I criticize Shakespeare over use of iambic pentameter and Walt Whitman for free verse bad. I will find that part of your poem that gives you pride, joy, and warm butterflies and I will smear it across the walls screaming profanity. Yes even if it is an accepted technique know by poets world by, yes even if Im guilty of it to, and yes even if my reasoning is the very reason why that part is that part.Absolutely I will be condescending even if you are in fact a better poet to me or a famous musician. My favorite artists could ask me to look over their work(like thatd ever happen lol) and I would still tear it to shreds. Im just really particular about this and I dont know why, and I went the extra mile to assure you, that no you really don't want to have me look over your stuff and get my 'opinion'. Unless you're a bit masochistic and want some verbal scarring over your poem? Idk. Well thats it for now, I'm ok with literally any question you can ask me, though I reserve the right to lie about my answer