Okay I brought this up with users in the server a while ago and I felt what I have to say may be beneficial to the EVO process and future CaP processes as well, possibly eliminating some of the fanboy-ism which would sway some votes during both processes. I am bringing this up here because I wouldn't want there to be further controversy and confusion down the road in what is already a shaky start for a new process.
Anyways, what I am proposing is way to handle art, niche, and movepool, and well, essentially the whole process in a manner that I find will be more beneficial to the purpose of CaP and EVO. I opt that we first determine a niche or role we want in the current CaP Metagame. This is helpful when selecting a pokemon to choose for the EVO process as there is now real specifications for what kind of movepool, typing, and stats are needed for our EVO.
There should then be some form of discussion as what pokemon that are possible candidates for the EVO process would be suitable for the niche we are trying to fill, with arguements for different pokemon and such. After doing so a vote commences for which pokemon should be evolved.
There should then be some form of discussion on typing, with clear and prominant arguements presented for type changes or keeping it the same, stating why either choice would be more effecient in the evolution of the chosen pokemon. There was a lot of discussion of typing with fetchd, with people saying steel flying and fighting flying types would be cool. I think this is perfectly fine, but there should be more to prefered typing for an evolution than just what would be flavor. If a specific typing is wanted than some good competitive arguement should be made in its favor.
Speaking of flavor, I opt that art is not submitted or a thread opens for for it until AFTER a main movepool is established. By having art before the movepool, people will have an idea of what their favorite design might be, and this might influence some movepools to center around flavor rather than the actually competitive aspect of the pokemon's movepool. A poll for a main movepool should be established, after a base stat poll or course, to determine what moves should be added to the pokemon to make it better fit its niche and accomplish its main goals for the CaP metagame. After the main movepool is established, art, pokedex, and other miscellaneous features of the pokemon can go on, but any flavor related aspects of the creation of a new evolution should wait until the competitive and metagame related aspects are fully dealt with, and then editting of the final pokemon can commence based on what flavor moves and/or abilities it has recieved that would change how it fits its desired niche in the metagame.
I believe in doing so, the pokemon will be better off than some rather impulsive and fanboyish decisions that might skew results.
One more thing that I may feel might aid this process: avoiding standard click polls as much as possible. For many important decisions, there should be an explanation behind the voting. It would take longer, yes, but it would insure that all votes are made with a knowledgeable background. Essentially what I am looking for here is a vote similar to one conducted a while back (for the life of me I can't remember for what) where votes were reviewed and it was determined by jumpman and other users if the vote was really made with acceptable understanding. Granted, there shouldn't be just one person doing this, as it would skew results, but rather having a committee of sorts that oversees the voting, not just the Project Leader, to insure proper votes are made and random unsupported votes that would otherwise skew results are not counted. These should be members that have contributed significantly to the CaP server and overall project.
I understand I haven't actually been active in these CaP processes recently, however, I have been watching them and have seen several flaws in how the processes are ran. I am hoping that my suggestion might remedy problems that this EVO project, should it be restarted (which I have opted for for the sake of making sure that the farfetchd vote was really right; I am not here to argue about that), be dealing with, and that everything runs as smoothly as possible with the best possible results.
Thanks for reading/considering my proposition even if you just read the bold parts. I am not saying that this is exactly how the process should go, I am merely suggesting fashions in which the processes would run better, so feel free to point out flaws in what I have to say or say that I am wrong about something when I am not trying to be right about anything, rather giving my input on the situation.
