Pokemon Forum Idea

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Well, I've got this idea for a forum which I think could be pretty good, but I'm not sure whether I'll have the time or motivation to get it off the ground. I thought I'd get opinions of it before I did anything.


Right, so I suspect a lot of you may have played the Pokemon games. One 'trademark' of the Pokemon games is the ability to 'trade' your Pokemon from game to game.

Now, if you had played the games during the early 00's, you may be familiar with the Pokemon Stadium games on Nintendo 64. These games had an 'Oaks Lab'-type area where you could store your Pokemon and later retrieve them. A lot of gamers used this to store their prized Pokemon if they restarted their games.

Later on, they released Pokemon Box on Gamecube and My Pokemon Ranch on WiiWare. They went along with the 'storage' concept, but removed the option to withdraw Pokemon that didn't have your Trainer ID number, eliminating the option to store your Pokemon and restart your game.


That's where my forum idea comes into play. There would be Pokemon games set aside by staff members which would act as 'storage devices' for members Pokemon (traded by WiFi, so it will only be available to people with the Pearl/Diamond/Platinum/HeartGold/SoulSilver games). Once they stored their Pokemon, they could keep record of it in the forum (kinda like how RP forums have profiles) and withdraw them whenever they like, even if they had restarted their games.


I think it could really help some people if it kicked off the ground and I haven't heard of another forum doing this. What do you folks think?
 
I would absolutely hate to discourage your idea/s and your ambitions, but I think this fairly large forum has a similar idea to yours, if I am not mistaken: http://www.pokemongts.com/
 
I actually thought about that but I assumed that its focus was 'trading' not 'storing'.

Edit: Oh wait, maybe that's what the PC stuff is. Oh well.
 
I see where you're getting at. Personally, I'm not sure though. I would say if you thought of this 10 years ago, it would be one of the biggest forums today. Starting now with many developed Pokemon forums, would be quite a challenge, but I think the idea is strong, and I think you will get a fairly good audience, but I personally doubt it will be the same as those developed ones, since they have started quite a few years a go.

Edit: again, I would hate to discourage you in any way.
 
Hmm, it seems like something your staff members could abuse to get free pokémon. I'm not sure if that's something I'd trust a new site with, or an old one for that matter.
 
dotDavid said:
I see where you're getting at. Personally, I'm not sure though. I would say if you thought of this 10 years ago, it would be one of the biggest forums today. Starting now with many developed Pokemon forums, would be quite a challenge, but I think the idea is strong, and I think you will get a fairly good audience, but I personally doubt it will be the same as those developed ones, since they have started quite a few years a go.

Edit: again, I would hate to discourage you in any way.
10 years ago it wouldn't have been possible due to WiFi not existing. We also had Pokemon Stadium for that as well. 😉

But yeah, I think PGTS can probably pull this off without too much trouble. Oh well, saves me doing the work. 😛
 
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