Suggestions - Page 13

shnen · Sep 20th, 2012, 8:15:37 AM

zooming out does not work, the in battle chat is not supported at all

Woodchuck · Sep 20th, 2012, 7:04:18 PM

switch your browser user agent from mobile to desktop and you should be fine

***Zarel**** · Sep 20th, 2012, 8:10:56 PM

No, it's done via meta-viewport, so UA changes aren't possible.

I really don't have a suggestion at the moment, sorry. :(

Joel · Sep 21st, 2012, 2:57:00 AM

Is there any way on-site (not on actual Showdown) an explaination as to how points for the ladder are calculated, please? Maybe as a sticky, or something?

I have seen quite a few people ask about this.

Wanting to know about how points themselves are calculated, and how bonus pool points are calculated.

Relados · Sep 21st, 2012, 6:34:48 AM

Pokemon Showdown! and Smogon doesn't have it on site, but for the Glicko2 ratings you can see it here.

Joel · Sep 21st, 2012, 7:47:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat Relados

Pokemon Showdown! and Smogon doesn't have it on site, but for the Glicko2 ratings you can see it here.

I was able to understand that, and it seems like a fine ideal, but it might be a bit confusing for younger competitive battlers. Maybe have something to "dumb it down" a bit?

Also, it still didn't really explain about the bonus pool of points.

Danger Mouse · Sep 23rd, 2012, 6:45:35 PM

Noticing that PS! has been down for most of the day, I was wondering if maybe there was a way on the PS! forum here to indicate when it's down, why it's down (if you know/are willing to explain) and when you're expecting it to be back up. I think this kind of information would be very helpful if you could make it available. Maybe a 'current status' sticky on the forum or something like that. It would at least cut down on people posting threads asking if it's down, eh?

xDaydremer2 · Sep 23rd, 2012, 8:07:11 PM

ever since 9/22/12 around 6:00pm i have not bin able to get in the showdown servers i dont know if its a site problem or my computer bieng gay :/ plz respond if you have answers

ThisMysteriousGuy · Sep 23rd, 2012, 8:26:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat Danger Mouse

Noticing that PS! has been down for most of the day, I was wondering if maybe there was a way on the PS! forum here to indicate when it's down, why it's down (if you know/are willing to explain) and when you're expecting it to be back up. I think this kind of information would be very helpful if you could make it available. Maybe a 'current status' sticky on the forum or something like that. It would at least cut down on people posting threads asking if it's down, eh?

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Originally Posted by Fat xDaydremer2

ever since 9/22/12 around 6:00pm i have not bin able to get in the showdown servers i dont know if its a site problem or my computer bieng gay :/ plz respond if you have answers

From what I know from IRC, another DDoS attack, this time on the server which allows people to come into the sim, or anything PS related for that matter, rather than the Smogon server. Apparently it was down midnight today, open for a short period of time about three or so hours ago, then got closed again for a reason I'm not 100% sure about. Zarel is working to get it fixed.

Odd that you're asking this in "Suggestions"

xDaydremer2 · Sep 23rd, 2012, 8:34:20 PM

ya sorry this is the only Showdown realated thread i could find so i just posted on here any idea when it will be back up? and dumb DDOSers are annoying

Aurora. · Sep 24th, 2012, 7:41:07 AM

Please direct your DDoS related questions to this thread: SQSA

To answer your question, due to the fact that the hosting company must be contacted (as the login server, Eppstein, has been DDoSed, and not the server that Zarel and fellow administrators can access), it's possible that the server may be down for another 6-24 hours. Hang in there.

~~A dude~~ · Sep 25th, 2012, 8:20:10 PM

Zarel, here are my ideas:

*Allow people to be able to not view the chat. Basically, allow each user to close their view of the chat. I know from fact that this feature has its merits.
*Creation of a Middle Cup, where any #2 Pokemon in a 3-evolutionary Pokemon line (ie. Quilava, Pupitar) is allowed to participate. All Pokemon are level 50 or lower, because Deino evolves into Zweilous at level 50. The only Ubers banlist I can think of right off the bat is Chansey, and maybe Pikachu as well.
*Double and Triple Battles are available.

MJB · Sep 25th, 2012, 8:45:05 PM

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Zarel, here are my ideas:

*Allow people to be able to not view the chat. Basically, allow each user to close their view of the chat. I know from fact that this feature has its merits.

I've suggested this myself before but mainly for tablet users (which have the chat turned off as default)

Quote:

*Creation of a Middle Cup, where any #2 Pokemon in a 3-evolutionary Pokemon line (ie. Quilava, Pupitar) is allowed to participate. All Pokemon are level 50 or lower, because Deino evolves into Zweilous at level 50. The only Ubers banlist I can think of right off the bat is Chansey, and maybe Pikachu as well.

I believe this has been suggested before, but not sure. The problem is making a new tier that's not a carbon copy of another one (or close e.g. suspect ou) takes time, so don't expect it to soon. Although I'm sure you could code it yourself and ask Zarel to put in your code which I believe has been done before.

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*Double and Triple Battles are available.

This will eventually be implemented and has been suggested many many many (many) times before. However this is quite difficult to code as the battle engine needs to be half redone for it to work. Things such as bugs with wonder room and such are a priority for the moment.

phoopes · Sep 25th, 2012, 9:00:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat A dude

*Creation of a Middle Cup, where any #2 Pokemon in a 3-evolutionary Pokemon line (ie. Quilava, Pupitar) is allowed to participate. All Pokemon are level 50 or lower, because Deino evolves into Zweilous at level 50. The only Ubers banlist I can think of right off the bat is Chansey, and maybe Pikachu as well.

Since PS! is now affiliated with Smogon, this really isn't a Zarel decision, it's a Smogon decision. The decision to create an official tier is up to the people here, and if they think that Middle Cup is deserving enough, it will be made an official tier with an official ladder. Though there are a few exceptions, like Balanced Hackmons, which was made before the PS!-Smogon merger, in general something like the decision to add Middle Cup would needed to be voted on. That's how Little Cup became an official tier, if I heard correctly.

***Zarel**** · Sep 25th, 2012, 11:20:31 PM

Well, we're affiliated with Smogon, but it's not like I have zero power at all. I can make a tier if I feel like it. That said, just asking for a tier isn't a very good way to convince me to make one. Maybe if you got a sizable number of people playing it in Debug Mode.

streak333333 · Sep 26th, 2012, 2:50:23 PM

You know what i really think is a nice idea...adding B/W 2 Music into the battles so that we wont have to listen to the very same thing every battle

MJB · Sep 26th, 2012, 4:31:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat streak333333

You know what i really think is a nice idea...adding B/W 2 Music into the battles so that we wont have to listen to the very same thing every battle

Most people I know mute the battle music (the button in the top right) and listen to their own music or nothing.

This isn't really a priority but I do believe more varied music will be implemented in the future.

Asek · Sep 30th, 2012, 2:13:58 AM

As your all surely aware of, 99% of people on showdown do not know how to type the avatar command into the chat (avatards) or are just doing it to be annoying. I thought a way to solve this would be to have an avatar tab on the far left underneath the ladder one, where you could simply click on the avatar you wanted, and it would change to that one. Then again, the people who do it on purpose would just do it with another command so it wouldn't solve this problem completely, and its probably too much effort anyway

***Zarel**** · Sep 30th, 2012, 5:43:59 AM

PS has 7 different pieces it uses as bgm: BW rival, BW trainer, BW subway trainer, DPP rival, DPP trainer, HGSS Johto trainer, HGSS Kanto trainer.

Considering, if you were playing, say, Battle Subway, it'd be locking you into exactly one BGM, PS isn't bad at all. We don't have too many different bits of BGM partially for bandwidth reasons, and partially because there isn't that much suitable music. Anyway, it's easy enough to mute and listen to your own music.

BlankZero · Sep 30th, 2012, 6:48:47 AM

I have just a few suggestions for you Zarel, some have probably been repeated.

1. Colors. Need I say more?

2. A way to save your team at any time during Team Builder, not just at the Entire Team screen.

3. This one arose from most of the chat users who are new to PS!

Making a chatbot that PMs a short message (or 2) to you upon login, giving short instructions on the following
-How to change Avatars
-How to PM
-How to build/use a team in the Sim.
-A hotlink to a list of common Acronyms/Shorthand (eg; gl, hf, gg, etc)

4. ~~I'd like to save certain battles. Is there a way we can make it to where we may have a sort of VS. Recorder? Maybe 1-5 battle stored? Mainly, I like to review my own good or really bad matches.~~

Thanks for all the work you do Zarel.

Matthew · Sep 30th, 2012, 5:08:36 PM

This has probably been asked but searching Smogon on my phone kinda blows. Is there a chance for cloud saving teams to usernames? Say I usually play on the computer but sometimes would like to play on my phone it gets pretty difficult because I'd have to remake a team (and fuck randbats). Is this something that is/could in the process/be worked on?

alexwolf · Sep 30th, 2012, 5:57:56 PM

We should really have the option to save a team with another name without deleting the existent team. For example let's say i have a team named ''something'' and i want to make some changes. After i finish the changes my only option is to save the team over the already existing one, which is dumb, because i may want to have multiple versions of a team that i am testing. I should be able to chose in which file i save the already existing edited team, and not have to copy-paste a team and make a new one, that will be exactly the same, just to make a few changes.

V0x · Sep 30th, 2012, 6:56:07 PM

~~is there a way to~~ can you make it to show the stats of your mon when you hover over the sprite please?

Relados · Sep 30th, 2012, 9:31:14 PM

Hey, I did some messing around with my server, and got some stuff for third gen implementation coded (as well as many of the Other Metagames but that's not as important to PS). Here's the github for it. (I'm sure I did a lot of things wrong in this, especially with move legality or some of the mechanics, but it more or less works)

**Furai** · Oct 1st, 2012, 8:56:51 AM

It would be nice that when switching your Pokemon you will be able to see their exact amount of HP. I know that this exists when that Pokemon is out, but let's say that the Pokemon I want to send out is at 30% and I fear that the foe will use Seismic Toss, I don't want to gamble on my Pokemon's HP.

Sep 20th, 2012, 8:10:56 PM	#303
*Zarel >> BEGIN POSTBIT Super Moderator** Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,126 >> END POSTBIT	No, it's done via meta-viewport, so UA changes aren't possible. I really don't have a suggestion at the moment, sorry. :( __________________ Pokemon Showdown \| Replay player \| No, I am not impressed that you know that my name is Guangcong Luo. The PS website says "Copyright Guangcong Luo" at the bottom, ffs.

Sep 21st, 2012, 2:57:00 AM	#304
Joel Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1,207	Is there any way on-site (not on actual Showdown) an explaination as to how points for the ladder are calculated, please? Maybe as a sticky, or something? I have seen quite a few people ask about this. Wanting to know about how points themselves are calculated, and how bonus pool points are calculated. __________________ Pokemon Showdown Name: "Joel" (Peaked at: 1745 / OU Standard) Pokemon Online Name: "James Bondage" (Peaked at: 1351 / WiFi OU Tier) I also occasionally do wifi battles.

Sep 23rd, 2012, 6:45:35 PM	#307
Danger Mouse Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 261 New York	Noticing that PS! has been down for most of the day, I was wondering if maybe there was a way on the PS! forum here to indicate when it's down, why it's down (if you know/are willing to explain) and when you're expecting it to be back up. I think this kind of information would be very helpful if you could make it available. Maybe a 'current status' sticky on the forum or something like that. It would at least cut down on people posting threads asking if it's down, eh? __________________ How strange it is to be anything at all... http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3471821 Rate My Team - OU Heavy Offense - Keldeo deserves more respect!

Sep 23rd, 2012, 8:07:11 PM	#308
xDaydremer2 Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 4	Showdown cant go in :/ ever since 9/22/12 around 6:00pm i have not bin able to get in the showdown servers i dont know if its a site problem or my computer bieng gay :/ plz respond if you have answers

Sep 24th, 2012, 7:41:07 AM	#311
Aurora. Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 288 Vladivostok	Please direct your DDoS related questions to this thread: SQSA To answer your question, due to the fact that the hosting company must be contacted (as the login server, Eppstein, has been DDoSed, and not the server that Zarel and fellow administrators can access), it's possible that the server may be down for another 6-24 hours. Hang in there. __________________ +te_hy: ey yo aurora, go back to the agora, if you ask me you about as hot as sora LeBaron: Whenever I want a double helping of intelligent commentary I read the PS chat while watching Fox News. curryboy was muted by TheFourthChaser. (aldaron shut up)

Sep 20th, 2012, 8:15:37 AM	#301
shnen Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 814 London	zooming out does not work, the in battle chat is not supported at all

Sep 20th, 2012, 7:04:18 PM	#302
Woodchuck <Feranfell> punbot irl aka virginity protector Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,647 us best	switch your browser user agent from mobile to desktop and you should be fine

Sep 21st, 2012, 6:34:48 AM	#305
Relados Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 332	Pokemon Showdown! and Smogon doesn't have it on site, but for the Glicko2 ratings you can see it here.

Sep 23rd, 2012, 8:34:20 PM	#310
xDaydremer2 Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 4	ya sorry this is the only Showdown realated thread i could find so i just posted on here any idea when it will be back up? and dumb DDOSers are annoying

Sep 25th, 2012, 8:20:10 PM	#312
~~A dude~~ Banned deucer. Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 188	Zarel, here are my ideas: Allow people to be able to not view the chat. Basically, allow each user to close their view of the chat. I know from fact that this feature has its merits. Creation of a Middle Cup, where any #2 Pokemon in a 3-evolutionary Pokemon line (ie. Quilava, Pupitar) is allowed to participate. All Pokemon are level 50 or lower, because Deino evolves into Zweilous at level 50. The only Ubers banlist I can think of right off the bat is Chansey, and maybe Pikachu as well. *Double and Triple Battles are available.

Sep 25th, 2012, 11:20:31 PM	#315
*Zarel >> BEGIN POSTBIT Super Moderator** Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,126 >> END POSTBIT	Well, we're affiliated with Smogon, but it's not like I have zero power at all. I can make a tier if I feel like it. That said, just asking for a tier isn't a very good way to convince me to make one. Maybe if you got a sizable number of people playing it in Debug Mode. __________________ Pokemon Showdown \| Replay player \| No, I am not impressed that you know that my name is Guangcong Luo. The PS website says "Copyright Guangcong Luo" at the bottom, ffs.

Sep 26th, 2012, 2:50:23 PM	#316
streak333333 Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 1	You know what i really think is a nice idea...adding B/W 2 Music into the battles so that we wont have to listen to the very same thing every battle

Sep 30th, 2012, 2:13:58 AM	#318
Asek Just Waiting For a Mate Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 404 On the curb	As your all surely aware of, 99% of people on showdown do not know how to type the avatar command into the chat (avatards) or are just doing it to be annoying. I thought a way to solve this would be to have an avatar tab on the far left underneath the ladder one, where you could simply click on the avatar you wanted, and it would change to that one. Then again, the people who do it on purpose would just do it with another command so it wouldn't solve this problem completely, and its probably too much effort anyway __________________ Not good enough mate

Sep 30th, 2012, 5:43:59 AM	#319
*Zarel >> BEGIN POSTBIT Super Moderator** Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,126 >> END POSTBIT	PS has 7 different pieces it uses as bgm: BW rival, BW trainer, BW subway trainer, DPP rival, DPP trainer, HGSS Johto trainer, HGSS Kanto trainer. Considering, if you were playing, say, Battle Subway, it'd be locking you into exactly one BGM, PS isn't bad at all. We don't have too many different bits of BGM partially for bandwidth reasons, and partially because there isn't that much suitable music. Anyway, it's easy enough to mute and listen to your own music. __________________ Pokemon Showdown \| Replay player \| No, I am not impressed that you know that my name is Guangcong Luo. The PS website says "Copyright Guangcong Luo" at the bottom, ffs.

Sep 30th, 2012, 6:48:47 AM	#320
BlankZero Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 547 East Coast, USA	I have just a few suggestions for you Zarel, some have probably been repeated. 1. Colors. Need I say more? 2. A way to save your team at any time during Team Builder, not just at the Entire Team screen. 3. This one arose from most of the chat users who are new to PS! Making a chatbot that PMs a short message (or 2) to you upon login, giving short instructions on the following -How to change Avatars -How to PM -How to build/use a team in the Sim. -A hotlink to a list of common Acronyms/Shorthand (eg; gl, hf, gg, etc) 4. ~~I'd like to save certain battles. Is there a way we can make it to where we may have a sort of VS. Recorder? Maybe 1-5 battle stored? Mainly, I like to review my own good or really bad matches.~~ Thanks for all the work you do Zarel. Last edited by BlankZero; Sep 30th, 2012 at 7:17:43 AM.

Sep 30th, 2012, 5:08:36 PM	#321
Matthew I love weather; Sun for days Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3,573 Where the Sun finally sets	This has probably been asked but searching Smogon on my phone kinda blows. Is there a chance for cloud saving teams to usernames? Say I usually play on the computer but sometimes would like to play on my phone it gets pretty difficult because I'd have to remake a team (and fuck randbats). Is this something that is/could in the process/be worked on? __________________ ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ What bitgamer tehconnection popcorn last.fm

Sep 30th, 2012, 5:57:56 PM	#322
alexwolf King of Conquerors Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,616 Greece	We should really have the option to save a team with another name without deleting the existent team. For example let's say i have a team named ''something'' and i want to make some changes. After i finish the changes my only option is to save the team over the already existing one, which is dumb, because i may want to have multiple versions of a team that i am testing. I should be able to chose in which file i save the already existing edited team, and not have to copy-paste a team and make a new one, that will be exactly the same, just to make a few changes. __________________ Part of the OU QC team, message me for a check!

Sep 30th, 2012, 6:56:07 PM	#323
V0x I love mafe Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,374	~~is there a way to~~ can you make it to show the stats of your mon when you hover over the sprite please?

Sep 30th, 2012, 9:31:14 PM	#324
Relados Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 332	Hey, I did some messing around with my server, and got some stuff for third gen implementation coded (as well as many of the Other Metagames but that's not as important to PS). Here's the github for it. (I'm sure I did a lot of things wrong in this, especially with move legality or some of the mechanics, but it more or less works)

Oct 1st, 2012, 8:56:51 AM	#325
Furai standing in the eye of the hurricane Moderator Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,080	It would be nice that when switching your Pokemon you will be able to see their exact amount of HP. I know that this exists when that Pokemon is out, but let's say that the Pokemon I want to send out is at 30% and I fear that the foe will use Seismic Toss, I don't want to gamble on my Pokemon's HP. __________________ *#gohard* \| Wolfpack (Ubers RMT)