Introductions/Farewells Topic

[locknessjohnson]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and happy new years. Hey James, thanks for joining now i don't feel so bad about being over 18 and helping make a pokemon game :P good to see everyone back and happy holidays everyone!

[Reliability]

There are a few of us over 18, including myself. No shame.

[Triumph]

I'm 19. Absolutely no shame. In fact, friends I've mentioned the project to think that it's awesome, especially after seeing the new Topazmon.

[MeekRhino]

Hmm, I am also 18. Maybe there are more than we realize?

[HolyPhoenix]

Nah, the idea of pokemon, as being a children's game only, has died out now. Pokemon is considered a classic game. Like Zelda, Mario, etc. Those of us who played when it first came into existence can go back and play it for the sake of awesome old games we use to play. Or at least appears to be where I am from. Not that I ever cared what other people thought when I played it and they felt I was too old. I am a geek so I always got to get away with those kinds of things and still be cool.

[Reliability]

I'm sorry that I've effectively dropped off the face of the earth. This semester is actually hell, I'm now in the arts faculty theater production, and my social life has taken a solid existence. But I have reading week in a while, which means that none of those things will be the case and I can get some stuff done for here. I promise.

[Angel Knight Phil]

I've got to make it a point to stick around places longer. Ohai.

I don't really know what else to say here other than possibly singing the lyrics to "Staying Alive", but hey, I'm alive and here. Not that I have any programming experience or skill, but I do have words! And pennies, lots of pennies. In pairs, in fact.

And, uh, could someone be a dear and change my name to Angel Knight Phil? I figure that if I'm going to liase (is that even a word) with our affiliates, I might as well liase as the name most people know me by. (Also, if I could have done this myself, feel free to reply in such a way that implies that I should've probably looked harder for my own solution.)

[ImmunityBow]

Oh awesome, done and welcome AKP!

[NyteFyre]

Hey AKP, what's shakin?

[Angel Knight Phil]

I'm an OI admin now. Other than that, the usual.

Anywhere I should direct my attention first?

[ImmunityBow]

Here maybe? (http://www.pokemontopaz.net/forums/showthread.php?1080-State-of-Topaz-December-5th-2011)

[Chronicler]

Hi guys, it's been quite a while since I've been here. I don't know how much help I'll be with everything, but I can try I guess. I'm just gonna not try to bite off more than I can chew.

[ImmunityBow]

I don't think you need to be worrying about biting off more than you can chew, if ever you feel like trying something, no one's going to yell at you for not finishing it. In fact it's likelier that others will take up what you've left off.

So welcome back Chronicler and don't feel like Topaz is a burden on your life, I'm more than happy to just see you as part of the community, and I'm sure the others feel the same way.

[Chronicler]

Haha it's not a burden, just something that I wish I had more time for, so I'll start off small by posting around. ^_^

I'll definitely check out the last State of Topaz too and see what I can help out with!

[Cyndadile]

Welcome back!

[locknessjohnson]

sorry guys i just moved and we aren't quite done everything yet. still got to paint, install sinks and countertops but i will come on here when i have time. anything need doing?

[Merlin]

Alright, so I must apologize again for not having been on here for a while... Got caught up in craziness shortly after christmas and then found some of family couldn't come down which really screwed us up on scheduling things...
After that I had to work on some other things such as setting up and fixing some particular accounts concerning gaming...
So chaos and insanity has filled my world for a short time, yet again and hopefully I can be a little more consistent with this site.
Btw something good happened to me recently: I got another DS Lite!!! Huzzah, I can now plays Diamond once more, and I'm still trying for Pokemon SS and either Black or White, not sure which one I want just yet...
I've been able to pick up on a few of my projects again and ended up writing out notes for more, and alas I now needs more notebook paper...
So yeah I've gone so far into some of my things that it's kinda hard to remember where and what else it is I need to do.
And just so you know a lot of the work has been concerning gaming, still got lots of research to do but I'm getting there.
So, agian sorry for the rambling there. But I've got one last thing for you peoples for those who might want to interact with somethings:
XBL: Y2K Virus
PSN: Ryu-Tenno
Note: my live account can only really interact with others via a friends console, and currently he needs live to play online but voice chat is still useable, I'll see the messages from you guys on the xbox site just can't respond from their cause it's a little wierd regarding the messages. The PSN account hasn't had much activity so forgive the basic look that it's got, I don't currently have any access to a PS3 yet to add gaming info to it. As for the Nintendo thingy I kinda need a Wii for anything like that so sorry I don't have one for playing online with you guys there.

[Silver]

look whos back

[ImmunityBow]

Hey Galladester, welcome back!

[Silver]

good to be back

[Merlin]

Sadly I must post in this yet again.
My glasses broke last night, my sister broke them, accidentally, and now i'm short a pair of glasses. Until further notice I must stay offline (after today) until such time as i can either get new frames or just get new glasses altogether.
I must also point out that the styles for glasses goes by faster than electronics can update in a year (or a half-year) so being able to get similar frames for my lenses will be a pain in the butt.

[ImmunityBow]

Ack, good luck Virus! Hope you find new glasses soon.

[Triumph]

I have returned, now that I'm in the final stages of the semester. Should be posting regularly. Also, check my post on SoT :cool:

[MeekRhino]

I'm back, at last. I finally got my laptop working again, which means I've recovered all of my mapping data and tools. All that remains is for me to transfer that information over to my desktop and I can get back to work on the maps. Hopefully this won't take too long and I can try to make up for my highly sporadic presence of late.

[Eduardo]

The Green-and-Yellow Member is also back for more action, after a very sh*tty moment of my life

[ImmunityBow]

Welcome back Eduardo, hope your life is back on track!

[Eduardo]

Now is getting better...

[ImmunityBow]

Ah, I forgot to say that I'm in Singapore visiting family over the next couple of weeks. I just got internet recently so now I'll be able to check up once every couple of days or every day.

[Sev]

I guess I should make a formal reintroduction. Looks like barely anything has been done since I left. Well perfection takes time huh? You already took 8 years it'd bebstupid to rush stuff. But then again there's barely any active members anymore. There's like 10 now right? Hard to keep a community going isn't it.

[ImmunityBow]

Glad to have you back anyhow, yes we could use the help. You left before pokemon.txt though I think? That's pretty big.

[Sev]

True very true IB.

[Sev]

Changed my name since I never used Infinity on anything.

[BladeVap]

I kinda owe you all an explanation as to why I've been gone.

All I'll say is one word: grounded. =|

[ImmunityBow]

Wow, that's a pretty long time to be grounded. Hope everything turned out okay. Glad to have you back.

[Reliability]

I'm going to be gone over the weekend for charity program planning stuff for my university's Orientation Week. I'm hoping to be script writing for at least part of that time...

[ImmunityBow]

Good luck! Hope the muse strikes.

[Merlin]

Okay, back online. (actually i've been online for a couple weeks now just barely had much time to do anything is all) So I've got new frames (i want new glasses at some point, i like metal frames not plastic ones), but here's an interesting list of reasons why i wasn't online for a month: 1st week--needed new frames, 2nd week--had to help move some of a friends things into storage (it rained during the week so it got delayed for a while), 3rd week--had to help friend move stuff into new house (rained again), 4th week--stayed at home getting over a 10 hour sunburn that i got in week 3. Weeks 5 and 6 (last week and this week) i've only been barely on and didn't really have much time to do anything.

Actually now that i think about it i think i'm off by a few days (it is june after all). Also monday: i watched about 8 hours of e3 livestream via xbox, spike and online.

Again I'll see what I can do to help around here but forgive me if I don't post much I'm still working on those complex projects at home. They're mostly just notes, but I've kinda been trying to figure things out about them. So in the mean time I'll do my best around here.

[Reliability]

Hope the muse strikes.
lolno.

[Cyndadile]

My grandparents are here for a while, so I'm not going to be on my computer as much (I only see them twice a year). I'll still probably check the forums once or twice a day, but I probably won't be posting insightful, constructive, or well-thought-out responses.

On a related note, I'm graduating on Friday! Half of me is excited, another half is nervous about the future, another half is thinking that college will give me some great material for a story (in fact, I haven't really read any fantasy written from the perspective of a college student), and the last half is wondering what the other 3/2 are getting so worked up about.

That's right, I have four halves. Is there a problem with that?

[ImmunityBow]

Congratulations on getting through high school! I hope you're on good terms with the rest of your cohort.

[NyteFyre]

congrats, Cynda! Hope things work out. :3 I graduated 2 Fridays ago! I'm currently staying in Orlando with relatives while I prepare for college down here. I'll officially move down here eventually

[Cyndadile]

Thanks guys!


I'm currently staying in Orlando with relatives while I prepare for college down here. I'll officially move down here eventually

Are you going to college in Disney World?!?

[NyteFyre]

haha, no. Valencia first, then Full Sail. :3

[Silver]

I'm not going very active any more guys,
if you haven't noticed i haven't been in like the past week or so,
thats because my dad fell over and spilt 7up and wine over our WLAN box
so i'm in an internet cafe now so...

[mariofred]

Hi! I'm mariofred! I've been monitoring Topaz for a while now, so I know a bit, but I only just joined the forums. :)

P.S. I've got a plain avatar because the Settings page won't let me acess the Edit Avatar page.

***mariofred***

[NyteFyre]

That's probably because you need more posts, I think there's a system where you can't get one until you know you're gonna stick around a while, and contribute. But I could be wrong.

Anyway, It's nice to meet you,Mariofred! So long as you know the gist of what's going on, you should be just fine!

[ImmunityBow]

Basically we don't let people with under a certain number of posts post topics or put images in their profile because bots tend to strike in those areas. Just stick around and you should be able to change your avatar soon.

[Silver]

New WLAN!!!
I'm Back, baby!

[ImmunityBow]

Nice, welcome back Galladester!

On another note my internet has been pretty spotty as of late and so I haven't been able to sit down and write an SoT for an hour and a half without everything just dying on me. Don't know why, Skype and other things seem to be fine but the internet browser specifically is sporadic. That said, I'm going to be away for the weekend plus Monday so hopefully it'll be better by Tuesday so I can have it up to make some important announcements. Otherwise, sorry for the delay!

[ImmunityBow]

Hey, just wanted to explain my absence. My laptop's backlight died (or FL inverter, I don't know) and so I've had basically a black screen for the past little while. I managed to find an external monitor to hook up for now but may have to disappear for a bit again since I'm getting a new computer (this one's getting old and signs seem to point towards the backlight needing fixing, which is pretty complicated and expensive).

[NyteFyre]

ouch, that sucks, IB. I hope you're new computer is <9000 times better than your last! :3

[zeroality]

http://dell.com/outlet

Good computers for nice prices. Family has owned 3 outlet desktops and 1 outlet laptop. No complaints.

Refurbs come with 1 year warranty.

[Canem]

Hey guys, I'm (fairly obviously) new here and I'd like to help out by making some cries/music for the game. From what I've seen the game looks like it's going to be great, I'm only gutted that I'm too late to try to get a few ideas for pokemon in haha. I love the sprites you've come up with and I like the idea of light type pokemon. Looking forward to (hopefully) helping with the game :)

[ImmunityBow]

Hi Canem! We're glad to have you around, it's been great seeing you say your piece around the forum!

[javiisanchez03]

hi i want traduct im javiisanchez03.

[BladeVap]

hi i want traduct im javiisanchez03.

Huh?

[Cyndadile]

He was interested in translating the script to Spanish.

[ImmunityBow]

Hi guys, sorry for my 4 days absence. I went to Chicago and thought I would get internet there. It's also going to be a bit of a crazy week since I'm going to be moving into an apartment but I should be around to help out if not to do bigger things.

[Reliability]

I'll be pretty much non existent for the next two weeks. I have training for Orientation Week, followed by Orientation Week. (My life is essentially going to be one week of heavy drinking followed by a week of no sleep and contact-enforced sobriety.) I hope I'll make some progress on something when I get back. I'll really try.

In the meantime: Please go here and sign up for the Spriting Contest I'll be running when I get back. (http://www.pokemontopaz.net/forums/showthread.php?1167-Pokemon-Spriting-Contest-Interest-AND-Sign-Ups)

[ImmunityBow]

Okay, have fun Reliability!

[Cyndadile]

I'm at college, and it would appear that I'll be extremely busy for at least this entire weekend. I'll be back when timing permits.

[Lerioc]

Heya guys. I'm slightly new here but I was on the old forums...or so I and Blade Flight/Pikang think. He said I might be able to help with the concept art so I decided to come back after so long.

[Cyndadile]

Welcome back then! I'm glad you decided to join. Enjoy your stay!

[Cyndadile]

Well, I'm out of town until the new year, although I'll probably pop in here sometimes for the first half of next week. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all that jazz.

I'll do my best to get out something Topaz Adventures related before the holidays. ;D

[ImmunityBow]

Have fun!

[MK94]

Im back just got a new laptop and ready to go

[ImmunityBow]

Welcome back, MK94!

[ImmunityBow]

Off skiing for a few days starting tomorrow. See you all probably around the 31st!

[Cranky Guy]

Off skiing for a few days starting tomorrow. See you all probably around the 31st!

Bye IB, hope you have a nice skiing trip.

[Cyndadile]

I'm back again. Also, welcome back MK94!

[Silver]

I'm back, yay(!)

[E-102]

Hi. I'm E-102, a fellow from OrangeIslands.Net who happened to stumble upon here and Turquoise whilst brainstorming for my RP on OI. Something with the Referrer wasn't working, but Black Temple Guardian is the mirthful person to be credited for my arrival here. I look forward to this TRPG, and will probably playtest it. I look forward to coming up with a really good character for this, and here's to hoping I can smite Team Rocket so hard they'll never think of regurgitating themselves ever again! I think...

At any rate, cheers to you guys and, uh, I forgot my main purpose with this introduction.

[Pat]

Hey! My name is Pat and I'm 22 years old and very handsome ;)

It looks like you guys are looking for a programmer pretty bad haha. I am currently a computer science student at university. I know C-based languages like Java, C, and .Net language interfaces as well. I'm relatively new to game design but am trying to learn. I have always wanted to make a Pokemon game since i started programming. I'd be very excited to help on this project anyway that i can!

[BladeVap]

Whoa, two new members? Awesome! Welcome to both of you!

[NyteFyre]

Always nice to see friendly faces popping up and saying hello! Perhaps their two interests will overlap, and both contribute to both partitions of the site/game!

[Silver]

Welcome to our humble abode and stuff
Here's to the new guys, Cheers!

[Cyndadile]

Hello to both new members! It's nice to see you!


I'm E-102,

I have to ask. Gamma?

[ImmunityBow]

Welcome guys, glad to have you both on board!

[E-102]

I have to ask. Gamma?

Yes. On OrangeIslands.Net I am known as E-102 Parasect. Rather than tack something on (I might later; E-102 Envoy of the End seems like a more cool-sounding name, albeit more long-winded) I just decided to keep it short on here and on Turquoise for the purposes of formality.

[Wanderer Shawn]

Hi I'm Shawn. I used to play the TRPG back in 2007 when it was a part of PokeRealm. Glad to see it's making a return

[NyteFyre]

Hey WS, welcome to Topaz dude!

[Wanderer Shawn]

Thanks for the welcome buddy. I'm curious as to why there's no chat feature on the website where everyone can communicate better

[Cyndadile]

Hello hello, Wanderer!

We used to have a chat-like feature, but at the time it seemed pointless to keep up. We rarely have enough people on at the same time. However, with the TRPG coming up, it might not be a bad idea to look into that again...

[ImmunityBow]

Going skiing for a few days. I'll be back on Friday.

[Angel Knight Phil]

Proof that angels don't die: look who stumbled back in.

Looks like you've got a pretty good thing going on. So yeah. I really don't have anything else to say.

[SilentSentinel]

lol get out of here spambot

[Angel Knight Phil]

Okay. I guess I won't come play your game. /sadface

[SilentSentinel]

No you should so I can do unleash some heavy beat down with Topazmon. Imma be the Twilighteagle of this TRPG.

[Angel Knight Phil]

I hope you don't forget that I have fun learning new Pokemon and attempting to crush people with them.

It should be fun.

[ImmunityBow]

Nice to see you around, AKP!

[Reliability]

I've been not around the last little while, and this will likely be the case for the next week. I have a show that's on this week, and lots of school stuff on top of it. Will be back hopefully by mid-April with some time to work on some sprites maybe. I'm hoping to work on sprites again for a summer, maybe get all of the gym leaders some drafts. We will see, but I'm about ready to get back into the spriting game.

EDIT: Yeah, I've decided that's what I'm going to do. Since I'm taking a break from my paper anyway, I'm going to set up a project topic for anyone that wants to help/track my progress.

[4th Chaser]

Hello! Im 4th Chaser, Yeah. Probs only name you see with numbers here, but Hey! Im from PO. I got interested in the site, and zeroality helped me here! -thanks zero! And so! Here I am! I can do a bit a spriting, and i can help with ideas! but here I am!

[Cyndadile]

Welcome! It's nice to see a new guy around here.

[ImmunityBow]

Yeah, welcoming 4th Chaser! Hope you like what you see here and stick around.

[Cranky Guy]

cI'm back! After almost half a year too! Been really busy lately since my whole family moved to Malaysia, and my laptop broke :( .

[Cyndadile]

Welcome back! It's nice to see you again.

[MK94]

Hey guys, do you remember me, its been a while, but im backish? school is just getting off so i may posibly be more active, i think my spriting skills have gotten better if those are still needed, well anywho, hi and p.s. run on sentences

[ImmunityBow]

Cool, glad to see you back. Maybe you can help us sprite some of the gym leaders we now have concept art for.

[MK94]

i would love to

[Cranky Guy]

Nope. I'm back, forget I ever said anything. That small thing that says RIP Topaz? No idea how it got there.

[Cyndadile]

(Moved to appropriate thread.)

I'm sorry you feel that way, Cranky Guy. We all appreciate your contribution to the project. Perhaps we'll see you again someday. Until then, farewell!

[ImmunityBow]

Bye Cranky Guy, it was nice working with you.

[STT]

You saw nothing. >.>

Nah, jk. Acanthite's not doing a game anymore, and I no longer need to balance two projects because of it, so I'm p. much back as long as I keep this place bookmarked.

[BladeVap]

You saw nothing. >.>

Nah, jk. Acanthite's not doing a game anymore, and I no longer need to balance two projects because of it, so I'm p. much back as long as I keep this place bookmarked.

Wait, it isn't? o.o

[STT]

Wait, it isn't? o.o

Well Charlie's not really around anymore, Harry's too busy and Afti sort of gave up on it.

[Cyndadile]

Welcome back, STT!

[ImmunityBow]

Welcome back STT! We haven't had much activity as of late, but it looks like people are just waiting for a pick-me-up (I got a few lurker-PMs too).

[BladeVap]

Well Charlie's not really around anymore, Harry's too busy and Afti sort of gave up on it.

Really...? I was of the impression that it was still going, since they're revealing stuff about the new region there fairly more often. O.o

[ImmunityBow]

From what I remember about Acanthite, people often assumed things were happening behind the scenes when they weren't. Probably part of the reason Topaz had trouble was that all our stuff is so out in the open that it's super easy to tell when we have slumps.

[Silver]

Nice to have an older member back.
I think we really need a reliable coder as the past few kinda went AWOL.
Speaking of which I think I could look into it as I don't have much going on with school and i know a guy who knows a guys cousin who has studied all kinds of coding (I wish...)
but seriously, i could look into it if someone gave me some info on the code we're using.

[ImmunityBow]

We are using RPGMaker XP and Poccil's Essentials Pokestarter kit as the base of our game. There is some event scripting done with RPGMaker XP itself, but when you make engine changes it would be in Ruby. The tough stuff are moves, abilities and items that can't be easily copy/edited from previous moves already present in the engine. Otherwise there's a bunch of tedious manual work in event implementation and working with the Pokestarter editor. (Event implementation would probably be mostly the programmer. Other things like wild Pokemon encounter rates and stuff could be done by others)

[Silver]

I've used Poccil's Essentials before, a year or two ago. Mostly experimentation but I've done some interesting things with it :P
I'll look into XP, thanks.

Edit: Holy Crap! It cost 25 US Dollars?

Double Edit: Just after finding my old Ruby and Fire Red cartridges $.$ (used cartridges can go for like $30 a pop!)

[ImmunityBow]

Yeah... RMXP can be acquired through shadier methods that won't be mentioned here.

[Silver]

Really?
Oh dear...

[Merlin]

Behold, for, I have returned, both with Pokemon Go, and, a droid, lol, of which I'm currently on.
What I think is a bit sad, is the fact that, I'm a horrible user on this site, as, I actually forgot bout this place until recently >.> The chaos that is my life, has dictated, that, I work for the Empire, and, be busy with so much stuff, I lost track of a lot of things.
O.O and, upon looking at my last post, that was in 2013, so, I really do feel horrible bout that >.>
But, interestingly enough, I actually had some serious problems that year, may be why I ended up staying off for so long, but, the next year, they were corrected in such an interesting fashion. Lol, I may elaborate, if people wish, but, for now, suffice to say, that, what I gained in 2014, is a joy, that, no matter what, I will never lose :D lol, ironically, that being said, it's currently causing some minor distress in my life, but, I think I can live with it somewhere along the way. :)
<.< And, yeah, a lot can happen in 3 years apparently o.o

[Black Temple Gaurdian]

Welcome back! You'll find things are lot quiter now, as it's just a few of us who lead busy/lazy lives. Thus work is slow progressing.

[Merlin]

Ah, yeah, I can certainly understand. We all have stuff to do after all :)
I will try to do what I can o be a bit more active on here though, lol, though, I can't quite guarantee that too much, but, yeah, hopefully, things won't get too busy for me to keep from getting back more often.
And, again, sorry for having been off for like, 3 years o.o

[Cranky Guy]

So, stuff's alive behind the scenes right?

[SilentSentinel]

A bit. Things were going pretty quick a few months ago actually, but they've slowed down again.

[Cyndadile]

Yep, things here seem to go in waves; we're in a bit of a lull right now. I've seen plenty of people checking in from time to time; the project hasn't been forgotten, but most people just don't have the time to make it a priority right now.

[BladeVap]

Let's just say it how it is and officially state that Topaz as a project is deader than dead, maybe? It's not happening on OI, and it won't be the next big thing, either - not without TONS of work and updates! Part of it is just that we refuse to move past the Gen 3 crap - we are almost to Generation EIGHT and we can't bother to do anything more? Like Fairies and Mega Evos? It's no wonder we didn't get anywhere.

So yeah. With Pokemon Azurite on my plate as something I've been helping with, I'm jumping ship here. Topaz was a good idea for the time, but with fangames like Uranium, Reborn, Phoenix Rising, Insurgence, and Azurite being things, there's just no hope for this one.

[Black Temple Gaurdian]

Cool, see ya'.
It's attitudes like that which is why this has been stagnant for almost a year now, despite almost all of the engine work being complete.

[BladeVap]

Hey, I'm just saying it like it is. Even if we did finish Topaz right this second, no one is going to want to play it without serious revamps to every Pokemon, item, sprite, and everything else. We are too far behind to make an appealing game that people will want to play when all the competition has all these amazing other offerings. The only thing we have going for us is the inclusion of a Light type - and not only is Fairy a better type overall, but Azurite has Fairies AND their own Light type, which means now Topaz has nothing unique going for it. Not to mention the Gen 3 aesthetic is no longer appealing, as many want their sprites in Gen 4 or 5 now, and Gen 3 is considered "outdated". And sharing an alpha with the Orange Islands Discord, but not the contributor channel? That's actually pretty shameful.

Let me break it down for you a bit:
*Light type is no longer unique and we have no Fairies.
*Megas and Z-Moves are doable now in Essentials. We don't have any.
*Honchkrow and Leafeon one-up Harskrow and Chloreon in every way. Same with Honedge and Mirust, Larvesta and Firant, and Unova's genies and the Cirroft line (disregarding Frostorm and Tornadus not being the same type).
*As I said before, Gen 3 is laughably outdated, and not in a charming way; it's just not the norm to work with Gen 3 mechanics and sprites (and don't take that as a "we should go against the norm" sort of point!)
*Speaking of sprites, they're all over the place in style.
*More than eight badges has been done before, by fangames AND GSC.
*VENAP IS STILL NOT BALANCED HOLY SHIT IT DIES TO LIKE THE FIRST FIVE GYMS.
*The sitenotice hasn't been updated since 2012.

In short, everything we tried to offer has now been done and done better by other fangames. It's not an attitude that's pessimistic, it's an attitude that's realistic.

I'm sorry, but you're not seeing the entire picture here, BTG. It's not to bash on your hard work, but it's time to let the project go. Be realistic.

[Black Temple Gaurdian]

Umm... no?
To basically all of it?
Light type may not be unique, but it was never unique. The appeal of it is that it's unqiue to fan games. As for faeries, so what?

Megas and Z-moves? Sure, they're kinda cool, but note how both are almost only gimmicks outside of competitive.

Oh no, Pokémon are different.

Really? Because Gen III is one of the best generations in a large number of people's opinions (although clearly not yours). And what's with the 'don't go against the norm'? You're very first argument was that we weren't going against the norm any more since one project has the light type.

Something to do with content? I wonder if self-defeating attitudes has something to do with that, hmm?

Oh look, the feature that was one of the most loved things about gen 2 has been done before. Clearly that is a point against Topaz. /sarcasm

Let's see about your conclusion:
So what game, fan or otherwise, lets you join teams, and not just one team, but from a choice of two?
What other game aims for a retro Gen III feel?
What other game has a plot even remotely similar to ours?
What other game has the same moves as us?
What other game has everything you mentioned as no longer being unique to us (despite most never being unique anyway, and the uniqueness not being the point)?

[Cyndadile]

Moved some posts over from the Map thread to here to keep things relevant.

Thank you for all your contributions over the years Blade Flight, it'll be sad to see you go but I hope your other projects go well! I hope we can all keep things friendly and maybe our paths will cross again.