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When I try and connect to my server I am getting a 504 error. However, connecting through a client is fine. Is there an issue with the ps client right now or is it just me? Does anyone know how/when this can be fixed?

E: Fixed
 
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So the alert system works really well. The only problem is it doesn't alert you when you connect to a game.

This becomes a problem if it takes a while to connect. For example, sometimes it'll take me anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes to connect to a game if there aren't enough players. Since I try to multitask, I don't want to be sitting in front of the screen for 10 minutes watching "Searching" flash, so I go do other things, only to come back later and find that I lost a game due to timeout, which is incredibly frustrating. Would a simple notification when you connect go a game be too much?
 
So the alert system works really well. The only problem is it doesn't alert you when you connect to a game.

This becomes a problem if it takes a while to connect. For example, sometimes it'll take me anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes to connect to a game if there aren't enough players. Since I try to multitask, I don't want to be sitting in front of the screen for 10 minutes watching "Searching" flash, so I go do other things, only to come back later and find that I lost a game due to timeout, which is incredibly frustrating. Would a simple notification when you connect go a game be too much?
It doesn't send you notifications when your battles start? It's supposed to.
 
If that happened once or twice, that would one thing.

But no notification every time? And it's not like I immediately click another tab after hitting search; I'll wait a few seconds, if nothing pops up, I'll go to another tab, check back, see it's still searching, go back to what I was doing for a long period of time, look back, see I got timed out. Dammit.
 
I was using the same IP as someone who was banned, and now subsequently I am banned. Is there anyway to insure this does not happen again? Also were it to happen again is there anyway I can appeal my ban?
 
I was using the same IP as someone who was banned, and now subsequently I am banned. Is there anyway to insure this does not happen again? Also were it to happen again is there anyway I can appeal my ban?
The only way to do it is to use a different IP than the banned person, and while there is a ban appeals subforum, you won't be unbanned. Bans are done by IPs, and if innocents are taken out to ban a malicious user, it has to be done. You will be unbanned at the next server restart, which is generally every 5 days
 
I'm also curious, is there any kind of actual judgment board in place for Triples yet? Because currently there's a lot of crap that really wouldn't fly if people took the game mode seriously.
 
But what about stuff like Darkrai? How is that still okay?

And Deoxys-A? Really?

edit: oh wait i just saw dark void's banned

hwelp

uh

carry on then
 
this is a programming question!

I want to make gen 1 Dream Eater work against sleeping, poisoned, or badly poisoned pokemon. My coding ability is staggeringly low but did I change this correctly?


Code:
dreameater: {
        inherit: true,
        basePower: 200,
        type: "Ghost",
        onTryHit: function (target) {
            if (target.status !== 'psn' || target.status !== 'tox' || target.status !== 'slp') {
                this.add('-immune', target, '[msg]');
                return null;
            }
        }
 
@Kristoph use && (and) instead of || (or) in the condition, with or it's always true, and i supose target needs not be in any of those status to be inmune.
Code:
if (target.status !== 'psn' && target.status !== 'tox' && target.status !== 'slp') {
 
I have a question. I asked this in the Lobby yesterday, but nobody seemed to have an answer for it.
If I change my avatar in the Deutsche room, and I tab over to the Lobby, it'll show this:
LlbOLo0.png

But it doesn't show that in the Deutsche room... Why is that?
 
I have a question. I asked this in the Lobby yesterday, but nobody seemed to have an answer for it.
If I change my avatar in the Deutsche room, and I tab over to the Lobby, it'll show this:
LlbOLo0.png

But it doesn't show that in the Deutsche room... Why is that?

Avatar changes have always been shown in the lobby, its seen as a communal area and its never really been considered the same as other rooms so it makes sense that it'd governed by different rules than other rooms. I don't know the exact reason or even the technical reason so this is just general speculation as to the reason but I'm pretty sure its because it's not exactly the same as a public room.
 
I recently started playing PS and I'm slowly getting to grips with it, but some things do confuse me:

Is it common for people to have one trick pony teams? I've come across several people who have "original" strats that I seem to counter and then they forfeit. Eg had a last resort Ambipom in RU, eg had a sandstorm Sandslash in RU, why do people do this and why does it seem to be so common? I have been playing on and off for a few weeks at 1000-1100 elo (I R N00B) maybe they are alts people don't care about or something?

Also why do I sometimes fight people with an emolga and an exegutor and that's it? Is it a mistake? Are they trolling me? Or do they not care?

I also found that a lot of people seem to "have to go" what's the general age usage of PS? Because poor time management was something I did in my childhood. That's a lot of "emergencies" the community are having to run off to or it's not a coincidence.

Thanks in advance!
 
I recently started playing PS and I'm slowly getting to grips with it, but some things do confuse me:

Is it common for people to have one trick pony teams? I've come across several people who have "original" strats that I seem to counter and then they forfeit. Eg had a last resort Ambipom in RU, eg had a sandstorm Sandslash in RU, why do people do this and why does it seem to be so common? I have been playing on and off for a few weeks at 1000-1100 elo (I R N00B) maybe they are alts people don't care about or something?

Also why do I sometimes fight people with an emolga and an exegutor and that's it? Is it a mistake? Are they trolling me? Or do they not care?

I also found that a lot of people seem to "have to go" what's the general age usage of PS? Because poor time management was something I did in my childhood. That's a lot of "emergencies" the community are having to run off to or it's not a coincidence.

Thanks in advance!

People use unconventional pokemon in hopes of finding something gamebreaking like trick scarf gothitelle or something gimmicky that can be easily abused, what you're seeing is people on alts testing stuff to see what works, (apart from last resort ambipom thats common) also 1000-1100 ELO is just scraping the bottom of the ladder the people you're playing are not skilled at all so its hard to explain their thought process.

As for people forfeitting after an important/central pokemon dies, that happens a lot. Due to the relative ease and speed at which you can battle on pokemon showdown forfeitting an unfavourable battle and entering a favourable one can be done within seconds so losing 20 ladder points means little to some players who just want to have a good game.

And finally although there are no real statistics, through my experience I estimate the age of most pokemon showdown users to be 13-18 with staff generally being older than your average user.
 
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