Like Pokemon-related Challenges? Introducing Trick House!

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Hi there! Are you interested in battling on PS but are getting bored of regular laddering? Are you looking for a way to spice up your Pokémon games both casually and competitively? Perhaps you've wanted to win a battle in Ubers using only NU or lower Pokémon, or win a battle using at least one move of every typing before the battle concludes? Then Trick House is the place for you!

In the Trick House we have challenges galore to try out. Currently we have ladder challenges that can be attempted in battles on the ladder on PS, and in the future we have plans to bring in-game challenges (challenges in the physical games), fast-paced challenges, minigames and more to the forefront!

This is our current set of challenges so you can have a general idea of how they work:
EASY
- "RU" in OU [Amaluna]
Use only pokemon who have "ru" in their name. (CameRUpt, HaxoRUs, TentacRUel, etc)
In any of the eligible formats. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pokémon_by_name - Ctrl + F "ru"

- Weather Strats [Hielito]
Every Pokemon on your team must have an ability or move relating to weather
Ability Example: Sand Force, Slush Rush, Drought. Move Example: Solar Beam, Weather Ball, Rain Dance

- 0 Moveset Coverages
Win a matchup only using moves with the same type as the mon. Including status moves.
Protean / Libero is allowed.

MEDIUM
- I won't need more [Sificon]
Win a battle only using moves that have 8 PP (5 base PP)
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_moves

- Vampire's Grip [Lucario]
Win a game using only moves that drain your opponent's health to replenish your health. This applies to ALL moves used.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:HP-draining_moves

HARD
- Consonantal Crisis - [Loading0987]
Use a team consisting of Pokemon whose names share no consonants.

- Gen one-er [Loading0987]
You may not use items, and you can only use moves and Pokemon available in Gen 1

If you’re interested in giving Trick House a look, join us in our Discord server. You’ll need to be in this server if you want to participate in the challenges we offer since this is currently the main platform we use. We have our own PS Room where you can find all our resources and more! What are you waiting for? Click the button below and join us!


Click it!​
 
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Hey, hey! We have new challenges for you! Join the Discord server to complete them and meet new people. Good luck everyone!
 
Hello everyone! Challenges are back again here (i forgor to post last week)! From now on and until announced otherwise, cycles will last two weeks. Good luck trainers!
 
Hello everyone! For those who don't know me, I'm Atlas!

For the past long while, I've noticed the state of the room and I initially raised my hand somewhat recently to improve the state of the room. I have faith that my efforts, PS knowledge, and skills combined will make this successful, but beside that I currently have a small team of people I'm working with that I have unquestionable faith in. Our team is starting to organize things so that we can come back better and stronger than before.

My goal is to get this room back up and running, with my stronger efforts starting mid October. As Dorron said:
"Thanks for your patience, we'll make the room great again." Dorron, September 2024
I sincerely hope that I can do what I can to give everyone the best experience for Trick House that they can have. If you have any comments questions queries concerns or complaints, feel free to ask!
 
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Helo guys
Is there no list showing all the challenges submitted?
not the current ones (i hate you so much "Want to be view all challenges?" button.), i mean like, literally, every challenge submitted and its requisite.

If not, i think it would be a good idea to do it in here, since this place is... extremely empty... and i think it would be nice to give it some use
Or maybe just making an actual all challenges list in the room would suffice, idk, am not sure what are you guys planning to do here anyways.


P.S: if there actually exist a list with all challenges submitted within the room or the forum... well...
um...
my first post will be a little embarrasing to me...
 
Orokamo Kaito said:
Helo guys
Is there no list showing all the challenges submitted?
not the current ones (i hate you so much "Want to be view all challenges?" button.), i mean like, literally, every challenge submitted and its requisite.

If not, i think it would be a good idea to do it in here, since this place is... extremely empty... and i think it would be nice to give it some use
Or maybe just making an actual all challenges list in the room would suffice, idk, am not sure what are you guys planning to do here anyways.


P.S: if there actually exist a list with all challenges submitted within the room or the forum... well...
um...
my first post will be a little embarrasing to me...
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Hi, thanks for reaching out.

This is already being worked on internally. We just need time. At this time I'm not really focused on giving the smogon thread a purpose but I could be convinced otherwise, if it would be effective at drawing new people in. There isn't any harm in posting it here, either, but I don't know yet if I want to actively manage it, as my plate is pretty full otherwise. I'll let you know when it's up (but it'll also likely be announced in the room.)

If you have any other queries, comments, questions, concerns or complaints, feel free to respond here or ask in the room. We can't cover all times but if we have time, we'd be happy to listen!
 
Hi everyone! As per the last two posts... This thread will now have an actual purpose! The reason why we're doing this is because Trick House, as a chat room, has a very good amount of activity in it - this is good! One issue with this however, is that feedback or conversations that happen in there may get lost, and there may not be a staff member on at that time to be able to properly review and act on that feedback. As such, this thread now serves as a more persistent venue to send things our way!

-> Things you SHOULD use this thread for (but you can also ask a staff member online if you see them):

- Concerns about the difficulty of a challenge (e.g being too hard/too easy, especially if this is in a cycle that you played - player feedback is vital!)​
- Feedback on cycles (Specifically constructive. Don't post one liners like "this cycle was good", but if there were notable issues about it from the challenges side, or there was something particularly good about a cycle that you wanted to see in future cycles)​
- Suggestions about changing the wording of an already existent challenge​
- Suggestions for the room itself​


-> Things you should NOT use this thread for:

- Suggesting a challenge (do this through /rfaq challenges)​
- Submitting challenge completions (do this through /rfaq challenges)​
- Asking staff to verify your replay (We try to do this regularly and it's all on a volunteered basis - I oversee it and try to at least verify this daily if no one else has)​
- Casual discussion unrelated to Trick House​

Of course, these lists are not exhaustive and there may be something else that falls under this category - we won't be too hard on you if you post something in the "wrong" place - we'll handle it accordingly c:

PSA: Nothing functionally is changing regarding how we do things. This is just simply a venue to which you can voice your concerns! It is preferable to drop them here than in the chat room, but you are also still allowed to PM staff members of course!
 
Furthermore: If there's a suggestion or something you agree with, feel free to LIKE the post so we know what's more popular! Likes won't translate 1:1 to action, but it's a good way to +1 posts you agree with!
 
Complaining on/pointing out a current (Cycle 9) challenge:Fortified, Gifted & Broken is not a valid challenge as it breaks the first Trick House Submission Guideline
  1. Challenges that require the usage of a specific Pokemon will not be accepted.
Fortified, Gifted & Broken, in particular, requires the use of Cinderace to Court Change Screens to the other side of the field. (Technically you can use Smeargle but Smeargle is a stupid Pokemon that should be annihilated from the face of the earth.) Therefore, Fortified, Gifted & Broken is not a valid challenge. Also, it should take Psychic Fangs and Raging Bull as both also destroy screen, and the challenge doesn't have anything that requires just Brick Break to be used. Just my two cents.

Also Playering for RO 2025
 
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Just wanted to point out a dupe challenge name: Teamwork makes Dream work is in the database twice (once by vaderaven and once by Yoshman8). They are different challenges, just the same name. Just wanted to point it out to avoid confusion. Thank you.

Also Playering for RO 2025
 
Dorron said:
and in the future we have plans to bring in-game challenges (challenges in the physical games), fast-paced challenges, minigames and more to the forefront!
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Is this still the case, or was that just things that were never gotten to? I would support it (except for the physical games part :blobsad:)
 
Playering said:
Is this still the case, or was that just things that were never gotten to? I would support it (except for the physical games part :blobsad:)
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In-game challenges should belong to the Pokemon Games room

Fast-paced challenges is something we've brought up but we mainly need people to host it. I've found myself too busy to actually do this as of recent but I haven't forgotten
 
AtlasNeo said:
In-game challenges should belong to the Pokemon Games room

Fast-paced challenges is something we've brought up but we mainly need people to host it. I've found myself too busy to actually do this as of recent but I haven't forgotten
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Sigh can carry the fast-paced challenges don't worry about it. But on a serious note don't give them an excuse to get more lines than me
 
Hey everyone - over the next 2 days, we'll have two events planned taking place entirely within the Trick House room on PS!

The first event will be a little catch-up. A designated time for anyone with questions, comments, queries, etc about the room, and smaller challenges. We'll be bringing up ideas and getting a general idea from the public.

The second event will be a Blitz (not the gamerule) styled tournament where each player will have a challenge to complete in a set amount of time. The first X amount of players who manage to beat the challenge in the allotted time given will advance to the next round, and so on, until there is only one winner left.

We hope everyone looks forward to these events! The time can be found by going into Trick House (/j Trick House in any chat) and typing /events. The time shown will be autoconverted to your timezone!
 
Time for our annual Trick House update...

First of all, something huge that happened that was not announced here: Trick House is now public!

Second of all, we've had a revamp of how we award Room Prize Winner (^) and its permissions.
- RPW is now awarded upon earning a certain amount of points per cycle instead of placing in the top 3.
- This was so that regular users can earn Room Prize Winner more fairly, and allowing staff members to participate in the cycles without bumping placements down significantly.
- RPW now allows users to use specific Trick Mastery commands such as:
  • -board
  • -playerboard
  • -randchal
  • -badgeholders (more on badges later!)
  • -badgelist
  • -badge
  • -profile
  • -egg
We've also added a profile system that looks like this:

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Quite a few things going on here! Let's break it down:
1) Avatar
- Yes! We support avatars that are not part of PS' public repository OR Custom Avatars! These ONLY show up in Trick House, and we may look to making special requirements in order to obtain a custom one in the future. For now, only Drivers and above can change their own avatars to something custom - you can change yours just be changing the avatar you're using.

2) Bio
Another currently driver exclusive command, but we are looking to allow more users - more than avatar holders - to set bios in some way! We still want this to be earnable, though.

3) Badges
We've implemented a special new feature called badges! These can be obtained a variety of ways:
First, we have our "tiered badges" - these are badges that can be upgraded by reaching a certain threshold! Technically, our auth badges are considered tiered badges - let's take a quick look at them...
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- Room Voice
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- Room Driver
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- Room Moderator
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- Room Owner
Now onto our gameplay tiered badges! Our first set is the Challenges Completed set! These can be obtained by completing a certain amount of challenges in your lifetime! The requirements and badge designs for each badge will be displayed, let's take a quick look...
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~ Tier 1 - 5 Challenges
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~ Tier 2 - 15 Challenges
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~ Tier 3 - 35 Challenges
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~ Tier 4 - 60 Challenges
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~ Tier 5 - 100 Challenges
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~ Tier 6 - 150 Challenges
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~ Tier 7 - 200 Challenges
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~ Tier 8 - 275 Challenges
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~ Tier 9 - 390 Challenges
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~ Tier X - 500 Challenges

At the moment, these updates are manual - if you hit a threshold, feel free to let one of our Room Staff know and we can deliver the badge to your profile!

However, that's not the only tiered badge designed! Let's take a look at our Points Obtained set! These can be obtained be obtaining a certain amount of points in your lifetime! The difference between this and challenges completed is that this set is more reliant on your skill than persistence - while the latter is of course required, the higher your ELO when completing challenges (and also the difficulty of the challenges) the more points you gain! With that said, let's take a look...
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~ Tier 1 - 2,500 Points
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~ Tier 2 - 7,500 Points
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~ Tier 3 - 15,000 Points
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~ Tier 4 - 25,000 Points
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~ Tier 5 - 40,000 Points
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~ Tier 6 - 65,000 Points
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~ Tier 7 - 105,000 Points
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~ Tier 8 - 165,000 Points
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~ Tier 9 - 275,000 Points
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~ Tier X - 400,000 Points

Finally, we have one final badge that was retroactively applied to everyone user who has been given room prize winner since our room revival... The aptly named Prize Winner badge - which is now another incentive for auth to participate (as well as everyone else, of course)!
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We've also had some changes to our team since our revival - let's take a quick look at all our promotions of our current auth team for a trip down memory lane...
Firstly, our Room Owners (#)
Atlas, EasyOnTheHills, and toxic boosted being our newest RO - and being promoted to Global Voice soon after becoming public!

Secondly, our Room Moderators (@)
Distrib, Dorron, Jamiroquai, RocketGruntLudwig and UwU1v1
Distrib being the absolute GOAT with coding our integral part of Trick House - without you, the room would not be functional! Thank you! Dorron was a former RO during the last iteration of Trick House - we thank you for the framework of Trick House that we have been able to adapt from. Jamiroquai is my alt - just basic nepotism - and RocketGruntLudwig & UwU1v1, who have been strong leaders of the room during our revival! These two are new faces to Trick House, and we're so happy to have them!

Third, our Room Drivers (%)
Archualudon, Flinchhaxisgreat, Nonexistent0, Playering and Saya Amanogawa
Some of these Room Drivers were part of the last iteration of Trick House! In fact, our most recent event (which was just a blatant promo setup made by me) saw the promotion of Archualudon - congrats!

Last but not least, our Room Voices (+)
Amaluna, Apple, Celeryyyy, Irpachuza, Lucario1582, Mcx0, Siegfried, Traceyscetchit
Our most recent event didn't see one, but TWO promotions! The other promotion was +Celeryyyy! Most of these other Room Voices are legacy staff, and we appreciate their previous contributions - and of course, Traceyscetchit, who is quite frankly too good at battling.

There has also been an INSANE amount of internal changes... that we can't share because it's internal information! Just because this update is massive doesn't mean that's all that's happened - we've had smaller changes here and there and events that will likely see a return soon... Not to mention we have an extensive list of changes to come! We're excited to bring them out one by one. Oh, and maybe actually update this thread more frequently.

That's all for now!
 

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