Area designing contest

[Jay]

Did you not read the information on the people living there xP. That is what it is meant as. A sort of high level high risk training area.

[MCstorms]

yea but thats not an official training center. Im talking about a place you go solely to train not to catch Pokemon such as i did.

[Jay]

Ah like the PreGym in Colloseum and XD?

[MCstorms]

sorta like that yea

[Jay]

*shrug* I dunno. It's up to the higher-ups anyways, but I don't really see what would be wrong with that.

[Admiral Striker General]

Since this should start a new page, to be sure comments don't get overlooked:

You know what we could really use?

A Jungle. One could fit in the southeastern East region pretty well I think. When going through loacations I realized a lot that had almost no locations originally (and some even still) really most belong in a jungle- Venusaur, Sceptile, Slaking, etc.

Also, do you know what we actually NEED?

In all the Northern Reaches (which is mostly mountains) and the Southern Wastelands (which is mostly desert), we don't actually have plain mountain or desert. xD We have stuff in them, but not just open sand or snow to wander. :3 This should be remedied, and combined with a jungle would bring all the directional regions up to 11.

As to MC's comment about "nobody seems to go to school", Ether has commented that since most public schools are government-funded it seems likely that the vast majority have been shut down over the last few years. Judging from this, it's likely parents have just been teaching their kids as best they could, or those without parents/etc to teach them have been kind of self-directed learning the things they really need. (This excluding cases where official private tutors were paid, of course.)

However, it does seem perfectly plausible that at least a few schools would still be up somewhere in the country, and it only stands to reason that the capital itself would be the last place to lose funding for most any general thing. 83 So SG also supports the idea of a university- actually a still-functioning one at that, if a very poor shadow of its former glory- in the capital.

^^ And perhaps, like many facilities in the capital, this university could offer a specific service/purpose: in this case, 'the Pokemon Battle classes holding open competition for the public to enter as a means of both obtaining more training partners for the class and offering some public entertainment'. As well as being RPable just for what it is, of course, including chars old enough RPing as students and so-on. ^^

[Ethereal]

SG: Yes to straight desert, snow/mountain area, and jungle.

MC: The Fire Pits as Jay said, is a high stakes training area. We don't want to be cookie-cutter copies of the games, so this makes it a little different.

Maybe we could have a functioning school in the capital that is also a library and training facility (although not so large scale as say Mt Battle).

[Admiral Striker General]

^^ WHOO.

So everyone submit your ideas for those four types of areas and see whose wins!

[MCstorms]

I do see your point ethe, but me being me I did not notice the fire pit history until just recently so I had no idea. As for the university I never expected it to be as big as Mt battle more just a regular school.

[Prince Pony Age]

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The Gressenheller University

This university is...somewhat ragged, at the moment. Once a proud establishment, funding has severely lessened over the years as the economy has declined. It still operates, but the student body consists mostly of nobles' children and others who can afford tuition. There are large parts of the school that have been repurposed, though, into a sort of public school, with minimal fees--this is, in fact, the last standing school in a rather large area. Its best programs, anymore, are the battling classes and competitions in general.

[Admiral Striker General]

O.o Any reason behind that name? >3> Also, desc seems a little generic and doesn't mention librariness.

[Jay]

Lexicon University
This school has managed to stay in function despite the fall of the kingdom. The tuition is high, but if you can pay, it is the best schooling you can get. A large three story library given the same name as the university resides in the western wing. It holds a substantial amount of books and Era's archives. On the eastern side of the university, there is a pokemon training facility. Students come to train their pokemon and will often battle with anyone that is willing.

[Ethereal]

Tanglethorne Jungle

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The most southern stretch of plentiful vegetation, this jungle shares much of its climate with the desert just below it. During the summer, the heat is oppressive and the humidity, high. As for the rest of the year, the jungle maintains warm temperatures, even in winter. Rain is almost always at work here, drenching everything in its path and leaving clouds of uniquely colored mist. Some say that the soil of the jungle was blessed by magic, making it extremely fertile. One can see how this myth came to rise, as large trees sometimes grow in seconds right before your very eyes! This phenomenon would explain why the area remains uncultivated; for every tree that falls the forest simply regenerates itself, making construction impossible. There is also an abundance of pokemon that live here, so watch your step.

[Jay]

o3o Just a few things on that, Ethe, normally jungle areas and rain-forest areas as well do not have plentiful soil. The reason they grow the way they do is the tight nit chain between the ecosystem. That is why they are destroying rain forests now a days because the soil gets depleted extremely fast, and there is not enough land to grow crops on. =X also how do trees grow that fast? I keep imagining explosion of turgid pressure in cells and then seeing them explode rather than divide naturally.

[Admiral Striker General]

.3.; ...Aside from that, did you really think through that second-to-last part? If every tree that falls regenerates itself instantly and magically, it makes it an endless never-ending supply of lumber with no wait time, meaning there's no harm whatsoever in cutting constantly. With a natural resource like that, even the worst king in the universe couldn't have hurt Era's economy as badly as Nolan did, because there's just no way to stop that never-ending supply of awesome. ...Alternatively, most rain forests are destroyed via slash-and-burn, so if fire would override the magicalness, construction wouldn't be impossible after all. 'x3; So.. yar..

o3o; Also that picture just looks like woods? Just sayin. 'x3;

8'3; And I'm totally in no way biased because I wanted to make one. *SHOTKILLED*

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Jay, for yours... o3o; I like it, but that desc is enormous and seems to have a lot of info that's just not all that necessary. Could you try to cut it down to like 2/3 or 1/2 of that?

On that note, since we know WHAT we want for each region and it's just a matter of how it gets done, I propose we get at least three of each idea before picking which one, to be sure we get a good deal of input before locking out further ideas. :3

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Nahuatl Jungle

Lying on the southeastern edge of Era, this jungle ranges from mild in the winter to a near-sauna in the summer. It is always incredibly humid, especially around the river running through its heart. It is said some natives still live in the deepest reaches, but there is little evidence past the occasional finding of nigh-ancient artifacts, so this is most likely just a legend. Rather, the appeal of this place for most comes from the Pokemon natives- rich and diverse and wild, though this isn't to say the incredible array of fruit or breath-taking sights are bad either. A large cliff marks the southern border of this jungle and part of the border of Era, and the waterfall flowing off it proves a popular attraction for a variety of reasons.

Pokemon: owo Jungleeeeeey~ *SHOT* x3

[Prince Pony Age]

...The name is from the Prof. Layton series. *shot*
[Is where Layton teaches archaeology and such. So that he's not just a guy with a meaningless title. x'3]

Yeah that was really just being silly. Don't count that as one of the (proposed) three to make sure there's a good school.

I may ACTUALLY put some effort into an area image/desc that isn't a blurry DS screencap crop/resize later. But I'll be leaving here soonish, so...yeah not tonight.

[Ethereal]

Let me spell it out for you guys, m-a-g-i-c Yes, it is admittedly unrealistic as far as the real world goes, but let's be serious here: we have creatures with elemental powers running around and having all of their cells stored inside balls and computers. That being said, this alternate universe doesn't need to adhere to all of the laws we have in our own universe, isn't that what makes pokemon fun? :3 The differences between worlds are what give RPing its appeal; literally anything can happen.

Hm maybe it would just be really difficult to cut down these trees, thereby making it not all that profitable. Also, the trees grow back in seconds, making burning just as ineffective xD

Also, the picture is temporary until I find a better one :S

No offense to yours, SG, but it just seems a bit boring. You might as well say "this is a rainforest, the end." There's just nothing special about it that makes me say "Oh that sounds awesome, I want to RP there!"

[Admiral Striker General]

1) It's a rain forest. That IS awesome and makes me want to RP there. Yours sounds like it's trying TOO hard TO be "cool enough", when in fact it makes it less appealing because it raises more questions than it answers. '^^;

2) I don't suppose you caught the mystic legends of natives that are extremely highly implied to be spirits of some kind and the words "but it's probably just a legend" which without exception means "but it's not a legend at all" in every RP setting ever? '^^;

3)I did also explicitly say "m-a-g-i-c" regarding yours. Please don't talk to me like a three-year-old when I very clearly already caught what you meant.

If every tree that falls regenerates itself instantly and magic

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We get it. We got it. There are just a lot of other options if you feel a driving need to put something magical or legend-inspiring in every single area you submit- that is, ones that don't conflict with the plot you yourself created. Even if the trees ARE really really hard to cut down, it's STILL a never-ending supply of lumber, and once you get one tree down, it's a BIG tree, so you've already got a lot just from the one. "Not all that profitable" still is profitable. And when you think about it, once people started losing other jobs and knew about the magical forest, they'd flock to it TO cut them down. Get a few hundred thousand people working at once and it really doesn't matter how difficult they are to cut, they're still going down in mass numbers. '^^;

There's a difference between "well that couldn't happen in real life, but it's really cool" (see: elemental battle creatures, Glass Island, Oberon Swamp, etc) and "well that's the exact opposite of how things work in real life". If we're going to ignore physics completely, we may as well allow male pregnancy and Pokemon/human interbreeding and superpowers and other physics-ignoring things that have become just as popular as the sort of magic you propose in many RP communities. '^^;

Now I have no doubt you're either about to yell at me and tell me how unsupportive I am or going "fine, I don't care" and going to pretend to give up when it really bothers you immensely, but please don't. This is in now way whatsoever meant to be condescending or argumentative. I'm just bringing your attention to various points and parallels that you don't seem to notice so you can properly consider them.

[Maid Melody]

o3o but if it were magic wouldn't the trees have some sort of enchantment AGAINST cutting them down and thus trees are thousands of years old? Or maybeh the trunks seem to be so hard that they are impossible to cut through...? Just a thought dun mind meh.

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Hilwakti Jungle
Humid most of the year, Hilwakti is filled with so much vegetation that the sun only reaches patches of the ground. It is rumored that the very trees in Hilwakti move, trapping in unwary visitors should they prove to be a threat to those that inhabit the jungle. Not only the trees but the plants as well seem to have a vendetta against trespassers but whether the 'killer plants' are real or if they are simply grass-type Pokemon remains unseen. Eerie screams can be heard almost constantly from here, but it is unknown whether they are Pokemon playing a prank on the outsiders or...something else entirely...

Pokemon: Grass, some flying, few water

[Ethereal]

Well, SG I'm obviously not going to agree with you on everything which is I'm sure what you expect from everyone else. However, you still do get your way as always. I wasn't treating you like a three year old, and yes condescending is exactly the word I thought of while reading your response. There's no need to write an essay during every argument, it's annoying.

No, just being a rain forest is not awesome, but because SG made it, well then it automatically becomes the best thing ever! Also, there are a lot of pokemorph sites, so apparently some people like magic. Maybe it did conflict a little with the plot, whatever, I could fix it if I bothered to.

Yours is accepted..Whoo hoo. Do it yourself.