PokéFarm "Reboot"

Hi, and welcome to my TEDTalk. See my previous post. The aim is for none of what you just said to be true. Normals only, then you can transfer the rest. Yes While we can't transfer all account information, giving the users of the site the choice to "pass on" their username / password (say, by clicking a link we provide you) before we open up public registration is an option that I think we can do. That way if you want to ensure that you get your current username, you can! What? Like it was said in the first post, you can get them all. Anyone saying anything other than that is wrong. Just get the base Pokémon, job done. Don't want to promise it just in case something comes up, but we believe that's an almost definite yes. Good thing they won't lose them, then. :p All you need to do is get the normal Pokémon and the melan can be brought over. No, you don't. No progress is being wiped. This is false. Good news! Nothing is getting reset~ I don't know where you got that from. (Also @artisticumbresol) Can't confirm at this point, but since the Mega's are considered forme's, they should be able to be tied to the base form. So Mega Charizard X / Y, for example, you'd only need to get a Charizard. Again, can't confirm - but that's how we want it to work. Niet just hasn't got there yet, is all. "most likely"? Where'd you get that from? Source, please. Don't spread false information. Currency is nigh definite to be saved but it's not been looked at yet, though ZC is a definite yes. That's a very weird thing to be saying to a new project that was just being shown off where it's clearly stated it's extremely early in development... Not saying we disagree because... Yeah? Obviously. x: That shouldn't even need saying - because it doesn't. You don't have to re-hunt anything, you ONLY need to normal dex entry. Nothing more. The rest is your opinion - if you've played Pokémon games then you've done it before, it's no different here. Well, no - it is different. We're giving you a better deal than they do. ;) As was said in the first post, this site isn't closing down for the forseeable future - it will be kept up as long as possible - again, as was said. This will also take a LOT longer than a month. This is, again, as was said, early development. Please do keep this in mind when giving consideration to such things. As was said in the first post. All means all. So yes, it will be :) That's a good point, I'm sure there's something that we'll be able to figure out for that - like making selling fields on PFQ give back 90% of the cost when sold, or something like that. It's not perfect, but you, the user, did use them - so they wouldn't be sold back at 100%. a 10% loss, that in mind, is more than most would give. That's because you can't see it. You can't see the database right now, can you? So if we go on that line of logic - that you can't see the result, then what's the point of a lot of the site? Most of it is stuff you can't see. Not to be funny, by the way! I'm just making a point that just because you don't know, doesn't mean there isn't a reason for it. (see: any science you don't understand). How would all of it be gone, exactly? The first post, which I presume you read, stated that Niet hadn't got to that point yet so he couldn't promise something. Would you rather he promised something, found out he couldn't do it, and then broke his promise - instead of saying "I haven't got there yet but it SHOULD be fine"? Why you took "can't say 'yes' just yet" (not quoted verbatim) as "we're all doomed" is... Beyond my comprehension. Good heavens. To be candid, as I'm losing steam here (just to clear up that I'm not trying to be funny, I'm legit losing my energy rofl), every issue you have in regards to 'losing stuff' is false. As far as we're concerned, all of that which you mentioned being concerned of losing, is staying. You admitted yourself that you were guessing - then made assumptions, and ran with them, based on those guesses. Don't do that. Yes, the first post said "all" for a reason :p How does "cannot 100% confirm yes" mean "most likely no"? That's a jump in logic that I admit to not understanding. If you got that from what other people were saying - they're wrong. Anywho! There is a chance but at the end of the day - when we said we can't confirm... It's because we can't confirm. This is early development - it SHOULD be fine, but we don't want to run in to any problems AFTER we go "hurr durr yes we promise everything will be okey-day!" because that is FAR worse than saying "Don't know, we haven't got there yet", don't you agree? Who do you think we are? EA? You wound us. Back to seriousness - they will not be lost, even if we just give everyone a free PR memory stick to transfer over - or something like that (as I said earlier c: ) Honestly, this one is a little up in the air and it's evident that people want to maintain what progress they can. That's fine - like we said, though, early development. We are NOT THERE yet. To be completely blunt. That said - when we do get there, we will do what we can to bring over whatever we can. I feel that people have made themselves abundantly clear on this point and we would be absolute fools not to listen. You are making assumptions and then panicking based on those assumptions. Once more, to be blunt: Do not make assumptions. Please stop. Seems you missed the point I was making - the overreacting is taking what was said and then making a false assumption instead of clarifying it and running with that to a negative point that was completely false. THAT is an overreaction and it is FALSE. It is also NOT okay. I don't see what people spending money has to do with them doing what I just described. You can spend money, and NOT spend money and do that - and it's still not okay. The only issue is what I described. Nothing more. People asking questions, clarifying things or disliking anything / having issues based on facts or on the uncertainties that we put forward (without making it more than it was)? Not a problem at all. Those are understandable and they are not overreactions. Get the normal and you can transfer the rest. Same as all the others. As before, this is early development - we haven't got that far so we can't tell you. It is subject to change though, you might not have to do that.

I myself think that this has some bad things that will come with it, and some good things too. Of course people are’nt gonna be happy about losing their stuff. Thats a given. Honestly I would be worried if they WERN’T. I myself think that PFQ does’nt need a huge reboot. If it is a internal issuie that cannot be fixed without a reboot, then go ahead, but I really think the things you want to do could be done with some little updates. Why cannot we just throw out these details one at a time, like the egg EXP thing one week, and the type icons another. And I don’t really want a story mode. I just think the way you are going about this is wrong.

The "transfer" tool sounds like it will go a long way to solving many of the issues that people have brought up regarding the move to PF3. Of course people are going to have issues with having their PFQ account be removed because of it though. Has there been any investigation into using the back-up system as a way of transferring data? Since that system was fixed recently, could the data there be used to transfer specific sets of information from PFQ to PF3?

i understand there's a lot on this matter that doesn't have an answer yet, but currently i'm quite curious as to the timeline of "PF3" as other ongoing things stand. specifically, the rapid approach of sw/sh as well as the sprite recolor project. are these things that will take a backseat to the reboot? i understand they're both things that are slightly more in the territory of the art team, but i'm curious if there's any plan to push those out or if they'll fall to the wayside for now. that aside. many, many of my concerns were addressed well by Garth and i'm trusting that as much of our progress that can be transferred over will be. these wishalloy badges didnt come along in a flash after all :')

The impression I got from the announcement is that the foundation of this site is messy and makes adding things a pain, with that in mind I am interested at what sort of new stuff there might be in the far future. For example the shiny market is so broken on here atm with no idea at what things cost it honestly surprises me that there isn't a Pokemon Auction or something for selling stuff like that. There is also a lot of quality of life improvements that could become a thing, one notable one would be 'folders' for fields. I am also curious of what this sprite recolor project timid mentioned is.

Honestly, this just sounds like another one of those situations where the community doesn't like the idea and can't say much about it without getting "shut down". I hope pfq thrives in the future, but this update is just... Pretty Meh...

I know the questions about specials (shinies, albinos, melans) has been answered, but what about custom sprites, like the cs Petripeep, the birthday cs sprites? Will they be transferable, since they are just custom sprites of the base pokemon? It probably been answered, but my phone is running slow, data wise, to look through 20+ pages.

Yes, ALL Pokemon will be transferable

just wondering since i wasn’t on pf1, for the priority sign up thing, how is the link going to be delievered to us? email?

The backups are for restoring data - not actively utilising it. Aside from that, it's transfer, not duplicate. Since you can have both accounts active at the same time, we'd be kinda breaking things if we decided to let you have the progress on both. We're letting people keep their progress - not effectively doubling it. x: edit: Imagine, if you will, duplicating your data, and then being able to hunt on both accounts and then transferring everything you get from PFQ up to the new build. Double-progress! Woo~ We're not looking to break the economy, here xD if by "slightly more" you mean "entirely" :p Niet doesn't code anything to do with them so I don't see why any of your concerns would be a thing. When you have to 'hack' things in to make them work, it's a problem. PF1 had this problem on a larger scale and, in Niet's on words, it pretty much "pretended to work". We don't want to wind up getting to that stage again before doing something - it's better to fix it now, do it properly, and ultimately allow for proper longevity rather than "it'll work until it doesn't". In other words, the impression you got is correct. Evidence shows otherwise, but sure I guess. Keep that open mind, eh? As per my edit to the first post, when I said "all", I meant "all". I don't know what PF1 has to do with anything since we didn't do that on PF1. Anywho, to answer your question... We don't know. As I said, we're in early development so the things that the data would be transferred in to aren't there yet. We can't tell you how something is going to work if we haven't got the things set up to even begin thinking on how to make it. We'll tell you when we do get there, though... I mean, we kinda have to, no? :p