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everybody walk the dinosaur
This is something that's been bugging me for a while. To be honest I think the only reason why people don't seem to be coming on the server is because they don't care enough about CAP to bother to learn our metagame and see the fruit of our labor. I'm sure a lot of you have tried to learn UU or Ubers apart from simply standard battling. If anything, this is so much easier to learn than that. If you really, truly have trouble with this, I'd like to stress that, as tennis said, we are a very nice and accepting community. I can guarantee you that if there are people experienced with the CAP metagame on and you ask in the main chat or through PM for help, people will be happy to give it to you.
This thread isn't proposing anything remotely close to leaving the creation up to a small elite at all, if anything it's an invitation to become an educated voter. It's not very hard at all, it's just a matter of coming on the server and having a battle or two, maybe even just watching them. It's easy and I don't see how it's too much to ask for.
This is not so. The basis of the project can be read about in the mission statement. I expect that anybody voting in the polls should have read it.The CAP project is distinguished by its process. Obviously the basis for this process is the idea that the members of Smogon University can effectively create pokemon, with guidance from those who might have pro-quality experience with pokemon.
If you only care about CAP because we have a smooth process, you're missing the point entirely. If people don't have an interest in the CAP creations at all, I can't see why they'd vote in the polls other than just because they can say they "contributed" without having to put in much effort.The problem with CAP is that this is the process that is best designed to draw in large numbers: by personally involving the people. If this process were to be conducted by a small group, i.e. an elite team created new pokemon by fiat, I doubt any positive change would result anyway, and in fact we'd have crappier sprites.
This thread isn't proposing anything remotely close to leaving the creation up to a small elite at all, if anything it's an invitation to become an educated voter. It's not very hard at all, it's just a matter of coming on the server and having a battle or two, maybe even just watching them. It's easy and I don't see how it's too much to ask for.