Ignus
Copying deli meat to hard drive
Echoing Deck Knight / Heal / a bunch of other people on the 'not breaking the archetype' bit. Literally the only thing important to me is that the original Concept the creation of a CAP (you know, the one we based all of our decisions around when making the Pokemon) isn't broken with the introduction of new stuff. If the updates can convince me of that, I don't see any problem with updating past CAPs. Whether or not this is something that needs to go through a CAP metagame council or if giving the less viable new toys is a good idea is outside of my bucket of fucks. Can't give anymore for that.
The only other thing to be mentioned is archiving the 'original state' with something like 4th/5th/6th/7th gen tabs on each dex page, or with some sort of changelog for each project. I don't want to mangle the original products of our predecessors - there's still a lot to be learned even from projects that didn't go as well so we should keep them in their original state safe somewhere public and easy to access. I don't want old souls to come back, look at their old projects they worked on and go "YO why's my cool thing changed to this garbage" without having a full document thoroughly explaining why we changed it.
If we're talking about a serious rebalance project, this is something that should be handled by a CAP metagame council / public vote of some sort. We don't have multiple tiers for a good reason, so using rebalanced CAP mons as a way of 'fixing' the metagame as a replacement of the bans in other tiers is fine. But once again, keeping some sort of change log is important for the integrity and transparency of the project.
So basically:
The only other thing to be mentioned is archiving the 'original state' with something like 4th/5th/6th/7th gen tabs on each dex page, or with some sort of changelog for each project. I don't want to mangle the original products of our predecessors - there's still a lot to be learned even from projects that didn't go as well so we should keep them in their original state safe somewhere public and easy to access. I don't want old souls to come back, look at their old projects they worked on and go "YO why's my cool thing changed to this garbage" without having a full document thoroughly explaining why we changed it.
If we're talking about a serious rebalance project, this is something that should be handled by a CAP metagame council / public vote of some sort. We don't have multiple tiers for a good reason, so using rebalanced CAP mons as a way of 'fixing' the metagame as a replacement of the bans in other tiers is fine. But once again, keeping some sort of change log is important for the integrity and transparency of the project.
So basically:
- Stick to the original concepts
- Document everything. Like, everything. Put it somewhere important looking with full justifications.
- Create a council or use some sort of ladder based voting if we're seriously talking about re-balancing stuff. How we do it I don't care - as long as it's transparent to the public.
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