Now, I'm not a CAP mod, but I would assume this means that the game cannot be affiliated with another forum community like Pokemon Perfect or Serebii.
Not sure what you mean by "submit an idea." But anyone can vote in CAP polls, if that is what you mean, there are no requirements you have to meet to do so. My first posts on this site were votes on CAP polls.
So, I randomly came across this thread, and this question actually had me curious: I've been here since Gen V, and this is just absolute news to me. I've only ever known Arghonaut to have Unaware, and I did a bit of digging: I don't think "Avast" was ever implemented beyond the flavor stage, with mentions of Unaware Arghonaut spanning back to 2009 (aka, when it was created lol). Bonus: by the time we made the transition to Showdown, that... was also the case, since the oldest file on abilities I can find on the PS Git just has the 3 of Mountaineer, Rebound, and Persistent.
I miss that old CAP Pokédex. Wish they brought it back
People probably either forgot that Mega dex entries are a thing or just didn't deem it totally necessary and it got lost in the shuffle between Crucibelle and the next CAP's process.
Shame. I think that should be brought back up at some point even if it's kind of useless now. Maybe just a "ceremonial" thing. Although, I still don't see any artwork. Are you referring to the sprite that shows up? I can see that (though I had to extract the bloody thing myself using a screenshot since I couldn't find a link to download the sprite and right clicking wasn't working), but actual Big artwork like this I can't find.
Attempted to do the damn thing myself by cross referencing the sprite I extracted with the sprite and design for Mega Charizardite X.
At this point customs are solely reserved for framework projects. You can read the current framework rules here, and the rest of the thread has more info about what kinds of customs are permissible and why.
Definitely! We have done so in the past for projects like Chromera and Venomicon, where the ability stage went before typing both times. There have been a couple projects where the defining moves and threats stages moved around too. It’s mostly up to the TL how they want to structure things.
CAP doesn’t have a team of lawyers issuing DMCA notices to people or anything like that. There is no concrete way we can “enforce” this rule. However, we hope that any pokemon fan who’s passionate enough to make an entire fan game, cares enough about the CAPs to include them in it, and who understands how much time and effort goes into these large scale projects, respects the simple request. Most people I’ve explained the rule to seem to understand and abide by it just fine. And if someone goes against the requests of this community and insists on using the CAPs as they see fit, well honestly, I don’t think that’s the kind of person who’d make a particularly enjoyable or successful fangame to begin with.
Generally speaking, that depends on the final movepool submissions - aka the stage where we add in all the moves that aren't part of a CAP's competitive moveset. There are frequent discussions on the Discord about certain ideas you may have of any potential pre-evos that may take root to the wider public; I'm gonna take credit for starting the bandwagon on Ababo being a Baby Pokemon that others jumped on after me.
