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Where do I report a bad Battle Factory set? I found the thread for Random Battle singles, but that's not Battle Factory. :/ I just got a Pokémon with a Z-Crystal and no move of a compatible type, seems like something that shouldn't really happen.
 
Not really sure where to put this, but at turn 4, Kingler didn't proc Slowbro's Eject Button. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7nu-855938972

The calcs allude to me that this Kingler wasn't Life Orb, but I don't know what item Kingler could be holding which would've negated Eject Button's use:
+2 252 Atk Sheer Force Kingler Liquidation vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Slowbro: 123-144 (31.2 - 36.5%) -- 67.7% chance to 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Kingler Liquidation vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Slowbro: 160-187 (40.6 - 47.4%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

My guess is that it was holding Protective Pads, or is there some odd item I don't know about that causes this to happen?
 
Havens said:
Not really sure where to put this, but at turn 4, Kingler didn't proc Slowbro's Eject Button. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7nu-855938972

The calcs allude to me that this Kingler wasn't Life Orb, but I don't know what item Kingler could be holding which would've negated Eject Button's use:
+2 252 Atk Sheer Force Kingler Liquidation vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Slowbro: 123-144 (31.2 - 36.5%) -- 67.7% chance to 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Kingler Liquidation vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Slowbro: 160-187 (40.6 - 47.4%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

My guess is that it was holding Protective Pads, or is there some odd item I don't know about that causes this to happen?
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Sheer Force prevents the user's Life Orb recoil and Shell Bell recovery, as well as the target's Color Change, Emergency Exit, Pickpocket, Wimp Out, Red Card, Eject Button, Kee Berry, and Maranga Berry from activating (only when using moves that have a secondary effect removed by Sheer Force.)
 
I believe that is due to a new update that the staff added to prevent "battle spam" and unnecessary load on the server. If I remember right, you can start a new battle after you have made a move in your current battle. There might be a limit as to how many concurrent battles you have, though. I'm not sure about that part.
 
nomadderwhat said:
where do i complain about showdown keeping me from playing 6 games concurrently? real bummer i enjoyed playing lots of games at once
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Kirkburn said:
I believe that is due to a new update that the staff added to prevent "battle spam" and unnecessary load on the server. If I remember right, you can start a new battle after you have made a move in your current battle. There might be a limit as to how many concurrent battles you have, though. I'm not sure about that part.
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Not quite. The update is to prevent timerstalling (server load is not an issue). Now you can't search for more battles if it's your turn to move, or if
your opponent takes less than 10 seconds to move (including animation). A recent update by zarel removed this restriction before turn 5.
 
HoeenHero said:
Not quite. The update is to prevent timerstalling (server load is not an issue). Now you can't search for more battles if it's your turn to move, or if
your opponent takes less than 10 seconds to move (including animation). A recent update by zarel removed this restriction before turn 5.
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ah ok cool. i knew there had to be a reason, naturally i am very happy with the newest update.
 
HoeenHero said:
Not quite. The update is to prevent timerstalling (server load is not an issue). Now you can't search for more battles if it's your turn to move, or if
your opponent takes less than 10 seconds to move (including animation). A recent update by zarel removed this restriction before turn 5.
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If I've moved and in 7 seconds my opponent hasn't moved, I get to search for another battle - how I understand it. But from what I've experienced, if after starting the search of a new game, but before it starts, the opponent from the old game moves, the search is cancelled and I get the prompt telling me I can't search for a battle then. Could something be done about this?
 
SparksBlade said:
If I've moved and in 7 seconds my opponent hasn't moved, I get to search for another battle - how I understand it. But from what I've experienced, if after starting the search of a new game, but before it starts, the opponent from the old game moves, the search is cancelled and I get the prompt telling me I can't search for a battle then. Could something be done about this?
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That's an intentional part of it.
 
HoeenHero said:
That's an intentional part of it.
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At this point it makes finding a 2nd game so annoying you might as well disable that button if a user is already in 1 battle. I could move fast enough and try searching for a new battle but that gets interrupted and instead I get an annoying popup. Is timerstalling really so big an issue that to counter that, you put restrictions on playing capacity of every user on the server? Literally everyone playing on the ladder is more or less restricted to 1 game at a time + popups if you try to find another game?
 
I just tested natural cure on my copy of Platinum, and it doesn't display any sort of message or animation when activating. So why does it display this message when it activates on Showdown!?
(The opposing Blissey is cured by its Natural Cure!)
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Not sure if this is the right area to post this at, but I've been playing Emerald lately and the lack of a special/physical attacking moves really makes pokemon more unique than before, such as Blaziken/Salimence being both physical or special attackers, or how chansey in gen 2 could be used as an actual physical sweeper! It seems very fun and was wondering if anyone even still played older gen tiers like Ubers/OU, UU, or even NU. I've been looking on trying to build a team for the battle frontier and it made me wonder if PS players still played Gen 5 or older gens. I would imagine it's kinda rare now?
 
How is it possible for someone to be autoconfirmed on some servers but not others? I thought the requirements for being autoconfirmed were the same on all servers. I'm asking this for someone I know who is having this issue.
 
Kirkburn said:
How is it possible for someone to be autoconfirmed on some servers but not others? I thought the requirements for being autoconfirmed were the same on all servers. I'm asking this for someone I know who is having this issue.
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Possibly the just got AC status and need to refresh on the server that they don't have it on. Other than that, it could be that the side server in question modified the code that sets the autoconfirmed flag, if its not the former ask the server's admins.

Perplexion said:
I want to make my own metagame on a pokemon showdown server, I was wondering how I would do that?
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Its not exactly a simple answer, but in brief:
All formats exist in config/formats.js, youll need to create an entry for your format in there. Look at the other formats for reference. More complex formats may require a mod to be programmed to work. Check data/mods for examples of those.
 
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