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Welcome to the Cave of Dragonflies guestbook.

Off-topic discussion is allowed, but spam is not; please make sure all your messages are of substantial meaning that at least somebody would be interested in reading and responding to. That being said, obviously I appreciate comments relating to The Cave of Dragonflies, whether they are error reports, questions, suggestions or whatever else you might want to get across.

Messages

My own messages will be signed as Butterfree, with the Admin label below my name. If someone signs as Butterfree without that label, it's probably not me.

Sam
In response to: post by Butterfree

THANK YOU for telling me this. I was using a level ball to catch a lv 6 numel at full HP and it did not work multiple times. Other catch rate calculators said it should be a 100%. And googling why the ball wasn't working didn't give me any answers either.

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Sam

What Pokémon are you trying? Note that any Pokémon that already have a catch rate of 255 (like earlygame bugs/rodents, etc.) will never have their catch rate boosted by Apricorn balls, because Apricorn balls work differently from other balls: they modify the catch rate directly, and it's capped at 255.

Neosam
Commenting on: /experimentation/

thank you for the type glitch explanation . im in diglett cave rn and was very confused when it showed super effective against my bulbasaur XD

Sam

It doesn't seem to be working for love balls or level balls? The catch rate isn't changing when you change the levels or gender

Human_Bean

So cool! I was never aware of this before, and you explained it so well!

Rye
Commenting on: My Glitched Jolteon

Genuinely an amazing read. I cannot imagine a better way to honor the memory of a lost friend than to document so thoroughly what made them special, both mechanically and to you.

Centiskorch guy

I luv centiskorch

KittyKthulhu

Thank you for this. The resources are incredibly helpful and accessible.

daniel
Commenting on: Honey Trees

thank you so much for this, much needed in my search for heracross with one honey left…

crow

Got espurr woo!
Very nice website :]

Lael sales

Funny 🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣

b

yay

edorev

7 pokeballs to catch a 25%hp lvl5 slakoth (87% catch rate) 🫩🫩

Roy Collos

Day of Magcargo
Reign of Grounding
Season of Fire.

Eh

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Kevin

Fixed, thank you! I felt like I was going insane hearing the experience values weren't floored until I realized it was because of the recent backend upgrade to Python 3, which changes the default division operator on integer values to be real instead of integer division. I thought I'd found and fixed all the places I was using it, damn it.

The pre-Gen IV experience values, meanwhile, were just an oversight - the tool was originally made for Gen IV, and when I added the earlier gens sort of offhandedly because I might as well, I didn't check that they hadn't changed at some earlier point. They should be corrected now.

BlazingWaters
Commenting on: Platinum Vs. Seeker

Roxy & Oli are actually available on Thursdays, they're over at Veilstone City's PokeCenter.

Shrew

Hell yeah
Castform is badass

Kevin

The per-Pokémon XP totals given in the hover text on the Locations pages (Gen I Locations and so on) are wrong.

First, and this applies to every generation as far as I can tell, it gives the experience as a decimal instead of flooring it.

Secondly, even if you mentally floor them when looking at them, some are still wrong. Specifically, I noticed Machop and Geodude in Gen I, which, on double-checking, I noticed that they're some of the handful of Pokémon whose base experience yield changed twice (once in Gen IV and once in Gen V). From what I can tell, I think it's using the Gen IV yields.

Thank you.

Xavier
Commenting on: Platinum Vs. Seeker

Some of these trainers don't show the levels they have at different points. Examples being the route 209 PKMN Breeders.
I really wish there was a proper guide showing their levels at different stages in the game, however I completely understand how difficult that is. I can say that some folk at my current stage (5 badges) have lvl 30's, like the route 209 pkmn breeders.

Melcharge
Commenting on: Site History

I've been here since August 2004, and the newest update on my first visit was titled "Stuff". This website was a huge part of my childhood (I'm 32), had a huge influence on my early writing, and caused me to go through both an "edgy Pokémon fanfiction" phase as well as a "try to sound logical on the Internet and get into debates with people" phase. I regret nothing.

I don't think I would have even ended up becoming a writer if it weren't for this site.

(Also, the Pokémon I got this time was Misdreavus, which is EXTREMELY fitting. I miss Cave Style! I will forever associate Misdreavus with TCoD.)

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