PokéFarm "Reboot"

If this update were to happen, I would probably leave the site. I've put too much effort into this game, and a complete restart would basically be a huge punch in the gut. My pokemon, I would keep luckily, but my items, money, my saved shiny chain of over 1500... all of it would be gone. It is as though my effort means nothing. I've spent too much time saving these things, only to have them disapear. I hate how we will be forced to complete restart, and our time and effort we put into PFQ would essentially vanish.

ah hm, i don't really like the idea of this at all huh i've spent so much time clicking and getting my melans, and (although it might sound stupid) have FINALLY gotten around to actually organizing my fields for once..that this just?? huHhn. i don't like the idea of losing literally everything, and i'm guessing that includes chains? unless it was mentioned somewhere (sorry, i just woke up ;;) i don't think anyone's keeping their HM/ubers/shiny charms/etc? i might just be so used to this site and its mechanics, that even thinking about something totally different but with the same name on it just hurts my head. i'm really comfortable with the current mechanics/things to do here, and just..not having that feels odd, i guess. the old recode to me, personally, wasn't horrible because it had the same idea - just different look. the new quest system doesn't really interest me, but, idk hopefully this made some sort of sense, i just woke up yikes;

I'm both excited and sort of dreading this. I understand why we'd all have to start from scratch again, but it's gonna be miserable to drag through another 800+ dexes just for the common Pokemon. I do hope we can keep ZC, since we did pay for it with real money. I have a critique and a suggestion. The former: I definitely don't mind the levels being abstracted, but I'd REALLY still like actual numbers for egg exp. It's important for me to be able to actually see how many points I need, so I can pick up eggs during tournaments and the like that are easier to hatch. Even if we can only see exact numbers on our own party screen, that would be fine. Maybe a setting to change it per user? Since the egg exp is still being counted in the system, just abstracted visually. The latter: I would really like fakemon to be easier to maintain. In order to get Arceus rank on pfq, you have to do STELLAR on the tournaments constantly, and it'll still be crazy hard to keep up with them. There are SO many now, from so many tournaments (and counting), and if you're between tournaments then it's almost impossible to get tokens to catch up. Either way, this is sort of exciting-but-not, because the quest and story thing seems disinteresting for a lot of players. I REALLY value the freedom of setting my own goals, and would love a system where users who want more guided experiences can have that, but us old users can still freely chart our own courses.

The new toolbar just doesn't work, with the current one I know exactly where I want to go with what, and having the minibar with the Scours and Wishforge on is such a great help. Did you take a look at Twitter's change in layout and think that was a good idea? I don't want to effectively feel cheated out of my progress, again. Alongside GP/Zophan Canister what items and other stuff that I want to be transferable are: - Games - Mega Stones - Z Crystals - Badges I've spent the best part of 6 years this September on this site, and not being able to at least transfer some of this over feels like a slap in the face.

Trying to make my rumble short: Pro: - Better instructions for newcomers (many seemed overhelmed with all the features, especially trade shops) - Colour-blind save colours - Refreshing the code, making it harder, better, faster, stronger - You can't tell me that the new Fairy Icon isn't Navi from Zelda<3 - Adding Quests (honestly the only thing I'm looking for) - Making Pokemons transferable and also not account-locked Cons: - Will ALL Pokemons be transferable? As Some already stated, some PF1 Exclusives/Variants and all CS's were not transferable to PFQ and got lost forever, don't want this to happen again - Losing all my Items "most likely"? I don't care for most Items, but the hard to get ones like the Meteorite Shards and especially ZC items like Shiny Charms/Box which costed me REAL money "might" get lost? I'm sorry, don't want to be rude, but that's just an incredible NO-GO! Those things are not cheap and I've spent A LOT of money on those things, you can't expect anyone to be "all right" with that. - Saved Chains. Will those be lost? It costs 300 ZC / 3 GBP to save a single chain, which is a lot, will those just vanish too? - Losing progress. PokeDex, Badges, Wishforge, Stats, Mega Ring, Garden will all these things be gone as well? Result: I would really like to look forward to the new Quests and such but the Cons just heavily outweight any excitemnent I could bring up for the new PF. I'll just loose way more with that than I could possibly gain from it. I have been on PF1 for 2 years and didn't had much to loose (beside my special Variants/CS that are lost forever and I still dearly miss) when joining PFQ, but now I have been here for 5 years and spent already over a thousand Euro here, got a great collection of Pokemon and Items, got my Master Ghost badge and am getting close to Steel Master, I have reached many goals and still have many more to go, and now all of this shall be in vain? Why bother buying anything anymore? Memory Sticks will be lost and saved chains with them. My HM will soon run out, wanted to buy another year of it, but now I don't know if I should even get a month, if I should buy any ZC at all, since it'll be all be useless anyway. And for how long will the transfering be available? With Pokemons like Silvally it may take years to finish the PokeDex once more. Those news just completely demotivated me to pursue my goals or to do anything at all here anymore. You want new people to join but you're only loosing the old ones, the ones that paid money, new users don't pay money, it's the old ones that do. If you really want to make that new PF you need to decrease the lost by A LOT MORE, Pokemons are the most important thing, yes, but Items and Currencies are important too! EDIT: And egg EXP should stay in numbers. How else can I put a price on a Shiny if I don't know the EHP? By popularity? That changes too often. EHP was the way to do it and so it should stay

That is one thing that came to mind too, I did the Pokédex three times already. If we need a forth one, okay. But will this really be the last version of the game, or will there be another reboot? I hadn't thought about that yet, but with the transfer between PF1 and PFQ, only Pokémon were transfered. PM's, forum posts, that all stayed behind. I had to re-upload my stories and continue my RP's on the new site. And I had made screenshots of the messages I really wanted to keep. Moving to a new website will be a good opportunity to clean up the old messages, especially since we can't delete messages. And if we save the forum posts in a document they can easily be posted on the new forum again. Re-uploading images and comics shouldn't be too much work, but if there are inactive players with complete comics, those will be lost if they don't get transfered.

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Gartic, maybe you could update the FAQ, because a lot of questions were answered within the thread, but as more pages are added, less people are going to scroll through all the pages before they make their post.

Oh no. I didn't even think of that. I have over 100 fields. They cost about 500k cr now. That would be a nightmare to start over. And you'd have to have the fields or you couldn't transfer your Pokémon >.<

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Do we have any idea how long we have before this might get implemented?

I’m going to be honest... I’m a bit upset by this. I was back on the old pokefarm, and although I wasn’t super active when PF went down, I was still super upset about having to start all over. Now I’m back in full swing, and although Reboot is a hot second away, it kind of feels like any of my efforts on PFQ are wasted, since it’ll all eventually be wiped anyway right? I’m all for change and growth, but it’s disheartening to hear that PFQ will eventually be thanos snapped become obsolete.

I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous as first when I started reading about this, but the more I read, the more I'm getting excited for this. I mean, yeah it would suck to lose all our items and stuff, and we would have to work to get them back, but to me, that just means re-living all the fun I had getting them to begin with. Plus I kinda like this idea since I have wished I did things a different way and hunted my own, so I feel I would actually do this on a new site. And the whole reason I got this game to begin with, a year and a half ago, was to see what this game was all about, secretly hoping it was something quest-based (as those are the games I seem to be drawn to the most.) But we will never know how it is, unless we try it out. So I will definitely be trying it out when the new reboot happens. One thing that I do, which I know many do not, is that I do not spend RL money in game. I just don't want to start then get addicted to spending money in any game, so I guess I have that going for me, I won't have any chance of losing RL money.

Maybe there can be some sort of page to look at your old pokemon from pfq? Also, how does Sally feel about this?