Wyndstryker
Member
Of course we lose our fire starter. At least he got up to charizard so that makes it easier on the 151 pokemon goal.
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Thank god for the "that's too important to toss!" message, because they've just tried to throw away the Dome Fossil three times in a row. Incidentally I turned the Twitch stream on this morning at work - when I started watching they were farting around at the PC making no progress whatsoever. It's now over four hours later and they are... farting around at the PC making no progress whatsoever.
Got to love TPP!
EDIT: the amount of people spamming B whenever they get into Bill's PC is making this almost unbearable to watch. They've been trying to switch to Box 1 for literally hours and have managed to get as far as Box 2, but keep backing out of the menu. I have no doubt that when they finally succeed they will somehow manage to release all of their remaining Pokemon instead of withdrawing them...
Got to love TPP!
EDIT: the amount of people spamming B whenever they get into Bill's PC is making this almost unbearable to watch. They've been trying to switch to Box 1 for literally hours and have managed to get as far as Box 2, but keep backing out of the menu. I have no doubt that when they finally succeed they will somehow manage to release all of their remaining Pokemon instead of withdrawing them...
CrocMother
Banned
Releasing such high level Pokemon sucks, but makes it kinda interesting
The last four hours have been one gigantic game of back-and-forth whereby they have deposited every item, tried to toss every item, and then withdrawn every item.
If people didn't kill our entire team trying to get a Kakuna, this run would be more exciting.
Yeah I'm noticing that... The PC was a nightmare in the first edition, but now It's amazing how we managed to get to this point...
BTW how many inputs do you guys think we will have when we beat the elite four??
I'll guess between 20~21 million inputs...
So how's the run go
...ingGood morning everyone!
Yeah thank god for that, they just need to get the fudge away from the PC now and start playing.
Labrynian Rebel
Member
We just need to get to box 1, spam withdraw, we get Kakuna, Onix and Poliswag back with maybe a Paras or a Diglet. We'll be fine then. Onix and Poliswag will carry the team, Kakuna will be the obligatory cute worthless mascot you need in every jrpg team.
RIP Poliswag.
Well I guess we're done with the PC for a while. Grinding time. Lots and lots and lots of grinding time.
I'm surprised the viewercount is still so high though. I expected Charizard's release to equate to an instant drop-off of 2000 or so. Or maybe it's like with Kenya where as soon as he was released the viewercount doubled for a short while.
I'm surprised the viewercount is still so high though. I expected Charizard's release to equate to an instant drop-off of 2000 or so. Or maybe it's like with Kenya where as soon as he was released the viewercount doubled for a short while.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
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I am honestly grateful they still have more than one Pokemon - they spent five hours at the PC with only a level 9 Mankey, and after finally accessing Bill's PC and switching to Box 1, they immediately released Poliwag and a Diglett. The fact they managed to keep and actually withdraw Onix, Venonant, and Weepinbell is, quite frankly, a miracle.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
I have a feeling this'll be the run where we end up stuck on Cinnabar dirt poor with only one Pokemon that can't use either Swim or Fly.
metalmonstar
Member
Looks like we are going to be stuck in vermillion for quite a while.
You can't release a pokemon if it's the only one that knows an HM. In theory we could have saved our Charizard if we had taught him Cut and was the only one we thought Cut to. Thankfully for now we have options for Cut to fight Surge eventually.
super-famicom
Member
Dome Fossil is cursed, should have gone with Helix again and maybe we could have avoided this mess.
Kakuna got released?
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I totally forgot that in this hack, there's a chance to meet everything ever. I sincerely hope there's some really fun/funky stuff later down the road. I saw that Gen 1 Arcanine sprite and got immediately nostalgic for Arcanine (best dogemon). Maybe they could grab one for the team.
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I totally forgot that in this hack, there's a chance to meet everything ever. I sincerely hope there's some really fun/funky stuff later down the road. I saw that Gen 1 Arcanine sprite and got immediately nostalgic for Arcanine (best dogemon). Maybe they could grab one for the team.
FleetingFlowAir
Member
Kakuna is gone. Yeeeeeees, spirits are now broken on TPP. I don't even care anymore, this has been such a terrible run.
mgs2master2
Banned
jesus the release its real this run.
Aaronrules380
Member
This is karma and honestly the people playing right now deserved it.
But yeah, the reason the original TPP was great was that everything happened naturally as people tried to find ways to clear the game. Nothing was forced. And honestly, by purposefully acting in a way that makes it harder to clear the game for "drama", you're just cheapening the experience.
That said, I also think the streamer handled this run poorly. Catching 151 pokemon is a stupid win requirement, especially in gen 1 with their utterly shitty box systems. And I can't fathom why they felt the need to power up the gym leaders so much. It's hard enough to beat them normally when you have to work through twitch chat, no need to give them an extra 10 levels, better pokemon, AND better moves
super-famicom
Member
Haha, this run is fucked.
I don't think gen 1 has any restrictions on when you can release Pokémon. Maybe this weird rom hack does.
Aaronrules380
Member
Also, I feel like having less people in a run like this is actually a huge disadvantage, contrary to popular belief, because I think the number of trolls decreases less than the number of people actively trying to do well. With less people, each troll gains more power to influence the actions. Even if you only have a few hundred people, the issues with multiple inputs is still pretty much the same, but the ability of trolls to fuck with the run is much greater
Aaronrules380
Member
I think their might be a surf restriction on cinnibar, but that's the only place where lacking a proper HM user can make the game completely stop
Starwolf_UK
Member
A few hours ago they were planing on abusing Meowth AI by having it use Pay Day so we could get some money to actually do something (it would be about 40 a battle so take a long time...). That is to say I didn't know enemies using Pay Day gave you money? They did attempt to use the Great Ball here (as it might be slightly quicker having the player use it) but it broke 
Andrefpvs
Member
Never has a release been so deserved as Kakuna's was.
Also, considering the time that it happened, it's very likely that the same group of people who released it were the ones who started yesterday's idiotic trips to the PC to "SAVE KAKUNA BibleThump"
This Karma, why is it so tasty? >
Also, considering the time that it happened, it's very likely that the same group of people who released it were the ones who started yesterday's idiotic trips to the PC to "SAVE KAKUNA BibleThump"
This Karma, why is it so tasty? >
I'm inclined to agree - I've had the stream running in the background at both work and home for the best part of twelve hours and the players have spent most of the day shuffling around a PokeCentre, depositing and subsequently withdrawing all of their items, and then finally - inevitably - releasing the majority of their decent PokeMon. I understand why using the PC was required at first (the one remaining party member was a level 9 Mankey) but after somehow managing to withdraw a fairly decent team they should have just buggered off and tried to make progress.
But no, here we are literally hours later in the same area with an Onix and three underpowered Digletts. Woooooo!
EDIT: I'm playing devil's advocate here but I suppose there is a certain charm to the general insanity of TPP, manufactured or otherwise. Granted it'd be more fun to watch them play with a decent team (the current one is beyond awful) but it is at least interesting to see where the players go after losing valuable PokeMon and how they work with an underpowered group.
FleetingFlowAir
Member
And it tastes divine.This Karma, why is it so tasty? >
TBH, the remixed Gym Leaders and trainers are probably the most interesting thing about this run. The surprise that comes from them going with something familiar into something that generates snap reactions like "how the fuck is that OK" is fun and the reveals are amazing. Misty's Lapras was pretty awesome and Brock's Aerodactyl was flawless. :lol
The problem is the wild Pokemon. If they were jacked to near similar levels, it'd be good both for catching things that could be raised to be moderately competitive and grinding the current team so we don't get hopelessly assed out when everyone decides that they want to roleplay as the grandmother who doesn't know how computers work. In a certain sense, I'd also say the distribution could still be better but I'll reserve that judgement until I see TPP get the hell out of Vermillion. This segment is SO boring just because we can't see anything beyond here while everyone mourns the loss of that scrub ass Kakuna.
Aaronrules380
Member
Yeah, that's also a pretty big issue, and I'd definitely have less issues with the remixed gym leaders if wild pokemon we adjusted to not make the situation so hopeless. My main concern with the remixed leaders is also how it will progress down the line. Like, if it keeps going as fast as it is, we'd probably end up with a level 80-100 champion which would be pretty impossible, considering we could only ever get by through having a few super overleveled pokemon that could handle most of the elite 4 and champion by themsselves
While I pretty much agree with everything you've just said, I am honestly happy to see them doing anything right now that isn't moving shit about with the PC!