The Citrine Inn - Come and visit

I've noticed not alot of people use the Inn.
But since I havn't been online much I'd like to ask you guys if you use the Inn at all.
I might consider making the Inn a more atractive place somehow.

But maybe these encouraging words are enough, "Use the Inn and socialise!"

- Fint

Meh, not much, but rarely I'll go in and say, "Anyone here?" and I'll wait 5 minutes and get no reply. Sometimes I talk to myself--- But anyways, people should use it more if they feel lonely. Whisper someone to come in with you and to tell them to tell their friends to come in, and hopefully you'll have a group of people in an Inn talking. I prefer Team Chat though. Since you can talk to anyone on your team, anywhere. Especially when your Team gets bigger, you'll have more people to talk to without whispering to 7 people at once.

Oke, well it seems the inn is not used that much, any suggestion on how i could make it more interesting to stick around in the inn?

Maybe being in the inn for X amount of Minutes allows xtra xp boost for X amount of Minutes or fights. so every one would join in and talk while waiting..??maybe. seems a little hard 2 do

In that case, people wouldn't even use it to socialize, just log on, go to the inn, and go afk. After a while, they leave the inn and fight, then the cycle repeats.

Well, I thought the Inn was going to be a great idea before,
But that was because you were thinking about implementing the trading card game which look pretty cool with the packs and everything. That way more people will go there to exchange cards or battle Npc/Users.
Now, well its not that usefull seeing that team chat is King at this moment.

The trading cards are still in my planning
But since they have low priority, might take a while.

Fint wrote:The trading cards are still in my planning
But since they have low priority, might take a while.

oh my gosh!!!!!

You're going to do a TCG?

I can help out big time with current sets (semi-pro)

It'd be easier to just do modified which means only Diamond & Pearl sets.

Oh and the Inn isn't very useful imo, rather have a free world chat instead since we already have teams and whisper.

But if you do make a TCG part I can help out A LOT on that part, if you made it the Inn would be more useful.

In what way can you help out big time?

Throwing out an admittedly half-thought idea here, but maybe add some kind of very simple in-game bulletin board in the Inns specifically for things like people seeking to trade, or need help doing/learning about something, seeking a challenger to battle with, or whatever. And the poster can be notified when someone wants to respond to it. Or, the ad will be removed when the poster logs off so it's not filled with outdated clutter.

Maybe it won't exactly keep people in the Inn for much longer, but when they go in and realize no one is around to talk with, they can leave a message and someone can get back to them through the Inn or PM. And yea, there's forums for this kind of thing, but not everyone who plays checks out the forums regularly. This way there's a simple, convenient in game solution. Though mini games like the TCG idea are probably the way to go. Also, an Inn chat "who" would be nice. I don't know if anyone's actually in the room until they leave or enter.

The inn is an inn chat. That's its main purpose.
Great Idea man, the same thing i thought as well.
It will also be cool if they have missions/quests on the board.
This will help solve the money problem by making getting money harder but funner than battling the same trainer 20 times.
If the bulletin and TCG Idea is accepted, Why not make the Inn two floors?
Put some tables, people can chat. You can even make it so that if you feel lonely, you can post a recruiting thread for people to join your team.
The Possibilities are endless.

I'll post rules for the TCG and everything needed to know

TCG... I loved the TCG. Well, I had the Game for it, currently missing at the moment. But since there's too many Pokemon cards nowadays, eh, it's not worth trying to get them all. I went on Spriters to get all of the Cards from the original TCG Games. The sad part is, is that there's not that much cards from the Game of it. But if anyone has more Card Sprites, that'd be nice.

And speaking of Spriters.. I'm not able to access it anymore.

XSky RiderX wrote:TCG... I loved the TCG. Well, I had the Game for it, currently missing at the moment. But since there's too many Pokemon cards nowadays, eh, it's not worth trying to get them all. I went on Spriters to get all of the Cards from the original TCG Games. The sad part is, is that there's not that much cards from the Game of it. But if anyone has more Card Sprites, that'd be nice.

And speaking of Spriters.. I'm not able to access it anymore.

Modified-It's only 6-7 sets which is not to many nor is it to little we put some promos in.

I've also been making my own fake set, I'd be honored to see it in P.C.O .

Well ive got all the sprites of the gameboy tradingcard game ready and waiting.

Just on a side note do not do what other TCG card games on Byond did, cheat,
drawing multiple times and the cards really do not activate.

Go with the old stuff hopefully it works out and maybe you can consider using the newest TCG in the future?
I'm just REALLY REALLY excited about it.

Yeah, I was exited as well when he talked about it.
Was more exited in a test server when he implemented the place where all the packs where going to go. It seemed like a dream come true.
Take your time Fint,
Basics first, like the original Pokemon Trading Card Game.

Maybe once and if it is implimented, if a berry system is added, have Berry Mixing be in there, and rather then make the Inn on a per-town basis, make everyone in the same inn with a "Town Last In" variable, and when leaving they go back to the same town. I mean, I think having a connected-super-underground Inn is a little more realistic then just talking to everyone in the world, especially to pokemon universe, lots of underground.

Seeing other players there may help with the socializing, maybe make a Casino, or the similar in there too.

Problem with that, is if they are connected, then the idea of having different TC Gym Leaders will be out of question. Either way, its still cool. It would be good if the first floor is different and the second floor or third its connected.

i that sounds cool but i forgot how to play them and when i was young i had alot of rares but i just thru them to the trash XD

but it sounds like a good idea and probably get more people cause of that

Another question, any ideas on the TCG regarding how ot should be linked to the original game?
Do you need ingame progress to get certain cards or should new person beable to focus on nothing but cards and be the best at that without ever getting a badge?

Fint wrote:Another question, any ideas on the TCG regarding how ot should be linked to the original game?
Do you need ingame progress to get certain cards or should new person beable to focus on nothing but cards and be the best at that without ever getting a badge?

Well it depends.
In the game, you won packs by defeating other trainers that hanged around the Gyms/TC Place. Then defeated the Gym leader. You can just make the cards and everyone makes their own deck and try to be the best. Its easier to just make the cards available to everyone, but then there won't be any use other than battling other users.

Fint wrote:Well ive got all the sprites of the gameboy tradingcard game ready and waiting.

oh cool u r gona make a trading card game ? =D nice umm will it be in the same game as citrine or a different one (sorry to be off topic)

Fint wrote:Another question, any ideas on the TCG regarding how ot should be linked to the original game?
Do you need ingame progress to get certain cards or should new person beable to focus on nothing but cards and be the best at that without ever getting a badge?

Fint, uhm.. I mean, I would love it if you spent In-Game money to buy a starter deck, and then you could get small-boosters for winning or losing. Have a ranking system too.

I say you can solely focus on the TCG game even without getting a badge, I see that being a bit less confusing/annoying