Battle Pavilion update, christmas game stream maybe???, give me trainers !! (Patreon)

*still not tomorrow

y'all ever mean to do something and then you blink and then it's 4 am and it didnt happen
so you're like okay imma do it the next day (not tomorrow)
and then you blink and it's 4 am the next day and it still didnt happen
that's me with these posts. i do a lot more thinking about posting than actual posting...

so, my goal has been to be done with nightclub stuff by the end of the month. and for me personally, that's definitely gonna happen. in fact i'll probably be done with most of the bits i personally need to do in a day or two. i am, however, offloading a fair bit of work onto the team for the rest of it so whoops-- but that's fine, that's what teams are for, right guys...

let's talk about content! everyone loves content !! right guys ?????

we announced a long time ago that the night club would feature a battle tower, and cass made a shitton of sets for it, and y'all helped! and the eventing for the club technically existed, but, it existed so incompletely that the player was often walking over floor tiles and taking a rest during it broke it-- and stuff like that. just wasn't. done. yet.
like if the battle tower was cyberpunk 2077, you know?

so one of the main things i've done over the past couple weeks-- aside from wrestling with git and getting the winter party together-- was tying up all those loose ends. and they're just about tied. there's some script side stuff still to be handled, still gotta add dialogue for battle tower trainers that isn't in all caps for some reason (default essentials, you good? --wait, canon?? you good ???)... but like, i'd say we've definitely come down from cyberpunk 2077 to like no more than cyberpunk 2032 or smth

so, we've decided to rename our version of the Battle Tower-- because it's not, like, a tower, you know? it's a night club-- to the Battle Pavilion. like a dance pavilion. get down or get knocked down. the challenge itself is unchanged except we're majorly toning down the 'heat up' feature most battle towers have. normally you start off facing pokemon with less BST and you face stronger ones as you climb. nah. we will be kicking your ass from the get of the go. there still might be some minor scaling, but expect a challenge out the gate. we also will not be asking you to maintain a 50 win streak before giving you anything interesting.  the rewards have been adjusted to match the difficulty. 

the other major difference from canon: field effects. you will have the option to play with random field effects on! a different one for each match. the field effect is rolled before each battle and you can see it on the overworld too, like so:

all 37 fields are available. deal with the fields, and you get a higher reward too!

let's talk about those rewards, in fact. y'all know how BP be like. we've added a BP store to the corner of the night club! the main things you can buy from there? EXP Candies and Mints. we may not be adding gen 8 officially yet, but those things already got coded into the game, so we may as well use them! we'll probably also scatter some earlier in the game, but this will be the main source to help you bring other team members up to post game level as quick as possible!

In addition to those, we'll also be offering a renewable source of competitive grade items, like choice scarves and focus sashes. However, we're also super open to suggestions and requests-- is there anything that super limited right now that you'd like an extra source of?? leftovers is on my mind too... what else y'guys?

one more request!!!! Y'all, there is like... 20 of you, who have given me battle tower trainer names, and we need a lot more than 20! and there's a lot more of you! so, my level 10+ folks out there-- even if you have a trainer in the existing game, hit me up again for the pavilion! please! i beg of you <3

finally, streams. they been sparse lately. our animator Smeargletail is actually doing a stream on our discord server right now as this post goes up!  you can come by, hang out with us, and watch him make some bootiful animananimanations.

in addition to that, this is totally out of the blue, but the steam winter sale last night went up, and i just happened to find what i'm led to believe is a fantastic game that i very much want to stream for you all. it's an otome game. if that tells you anything about what kind of stream it's gonna be.   

i am thinking of doing so on christmas! everyone's gonna be stuck at home anyway, so between all the family dinners and such, why not have a little fun! it'll be blsat, trust. let's say 4pm MST? as a ball park. who knows what'll actually happen. 

cheers for now! follow up post to this one soon. and the other one. whatever.