Single post in 2024 plans, updates and discussion

I do not have plans to change the ZC costs of items at this time, though that may change in future if things go horribly wrong with this update for some reason. The user-driven exchange rate of 5k:5:1 almost certainly will change, but that's not for us to dictate. Those ones will remain exclusive to referrals. But everything has a price and can be bought. I have several duplicates, for example, I'm sure others do too and could part with them. User-driven currency ratios are not in our hands.

I do have a concern that since the Lab doesn't have all eggs whereas the Shelter can conceivably have all eggs, hunts of things that are in the Lab may be unfairly advantaged. Unfortunately I will not be doing a flat percentage chance of it appearing due to Ditto.

Correct, any user that does not have Arceus rank or above will no longer have the Long Chain Bonus. You won't need to have the absolute highest rank after this update, if that's what you mean.

Yes, there is no change to the hunt bonus. No. It's a gradually increasing percentage for every single egg hatched, right from the first egg in your chain, maxing out at 50% at around the 100-egg mark. Yes and yes. The first reload after adopting - with or without a Flute - is free. Visiting the shelter page does not count as a reload, so it will not affect your budget. I believe you missed the aspect of the shelter budget where it will be approximately x10 your current adoption limit. You will be able to not only take advantage of your current max adoption limit, but exceed it! Honestly? Maybe. I was far too aggressive with that particular number due to how oversaturated PF1 Shelter was with Exclusives. So I might want to buff that even without "considering other updates." No. The budget acts as the current adoption limit and resets every new day at server reset. That’s indeed not a good feeling! That refresh can potentially be refunded for that turn; the budget is still being tinkered on, as per the update in the first post! Yes.

Recent tournament exclusive breeding rates will be boosted compared to their current odds, but will still be more difficult to breed compared to other exclusives.

Currently no questions.

I will of course keep it in mind when designing it. Maybe? Depends how I implement the changeover, but it's not like I'm resetting your stats, you'd get to reclaim any of the new objectives that you already qualify for. Yes, it will be replayable without new rewards similar to event cutscenes.

I will consider it. No definite answer one way or the other right now. I'll consider it. A time constraint is likely as well, especially as that would alleviate the "through incompetence or malice, someone might DP a Dex trade" issue.

The EXP buff was really overpowered and gave an unfair type advantage but we still want Fossils to be special.

We are currently workshopping ideas on how to address this issue to still promote party clicks without "hitting a limit" based on who is currently online.

I don't believe the SAM rates need adjustment at this time. However, I will revisit this once the dust settles post-update and see how that has affected things. The benefit is +40% more EXP, making your five party slots be worth 700% total, resulting in an entire slot more than a party of six.

I am considering keeping both the existing guest click DP and adding referral based DP on top of it. Why not? However, I must remind everyone that you are also able to trade DP with other users via vouchers. I can easily consider dropping the cost of using a Flute to match just a regular reload. No problem there from me. I will be easing off on it, mostly focusing on buffing party clicks and trying to avoid nerfing field clicks. But the main point will be that I will try and make parties more accessible in the first place, such as by making it so that if you run out of online users, it shifts to "active but not online" users, maybe prioritising "new" users, stuff like that, rather than just dumping you on your own party page. Most of the Dragon-type Pokémon have 10k EXP and users hatching them don’t have an EXP buff to take advantage of. While there was a previous poll/suggestion thread regarding Shedinja and DP, the poll results are not indicative of the conclusion reached in the last couple pages of the suggestion thread's discussion: namely, that no changes would be made to Shedinja's DP at that time (June 2023), because the issues regarding Shedinja's DP value were indicative of a needed overhaul of the DP system as a whole. This is, in fact, that proposal for a larger DP overhaul - including removing Shedinja as a DP farm.