Charizard Catz

Omg! I was going to put Braviary was awesome
And I got him for the spammifier! #'Murica!

BADWOLF!!!!!!!

[18/12/2014 22:25:23]

Harmony
Commenting on: 12-14-14

So Deoxys' catch rate actually wasn't changed between XY and ORAS. That's actually kind of interesting.

[18/12/2014 20:49:41]

Kevin

That's the first thing I thought of, to be honest.

I'm trying to recreate the shiny charm in Fire Red, but with the possibility of increasing the chance further (up to 1/256).

However, the problem with 1/256 is that it's a 32-fold increase, and, since even 1/256 is fairly rare, pretty much every Pokemon would have their Personality Value regenerated 32 times, which is kind of ridiculous.

I was hoping for some kind of formula that would keep the pseudo-randomness, but still increase the chance by some factor.

Oh well, I guess it's not a big deal - the PRNG is fast anyway.

Sorry for the long post.

[16/12/2014 19:22:00]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

(When I said "however many times it's allowed to regenerate the value", of course, I meant to say the total number of times that it generates the value, not only the regenerations.)

[16/12/2014 17:51:37]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

They simply check after the personality value is generated whether the Pokémon would be shiny, and if not it regenerates it, up to a given number of times. Thus, instead of the Pokémon being shiny if a single generated personality value fits the shiny criteria, it's shiny if any of several values generated fit the criteria. This leads to an overall shiny chance of however many times it's allowed to regenerate the value times the regular shiny chance.

[16/12/2014 17:50:32]

Kevin

Do you know anywhere I could read about the mechanics of the Shiny Charm, or Masuda Method?

I understand how they affect the rate of shininess, but I'm interested in how they affect the generation of the personality value.

It's fairly obvious that somehow it sabotages the randomness to make shininess more likely, but I'm not sure how.

[16/12/2014 16:19:29]

eevee_em
Commenting on: 12-12-14

"Don't expect it to have any correlation with your results in the old type quiz, which is still around."

*Takes new type quiz*

*Gets the exact same result as the old type quiz*

So much for that. (I'm Ground, BTW)

[14/12/2014 14:53:04]

Lilypad
Commenting on: 12-12-14

Please do the "inside look to the Pokémon games." That would make my year, and the next one too! Maybe if you do R/B/Y, you could also explain "what happened, what was supposed to happen, and what got mixed up in-between."


I would love to see this happen.

[13/12/2014 15:19:56]

Lilypad
Commenting on: 12-12-14

Please do the "inside look to the Pokémon games." That would make my year, and the next one too! Maybe if you do R/B/Y, you could also explain "what happened, what was supposed to happen, and what got mixed up in-between."


I would love to see this happen.

[13/12/2014 15:13:41]

Kevin

I was reading over your DP Changes, and you mentioned how hard it was to get used to the Physical / Special Split.

Anymore, at least for me, it's the completely opposite. I've been playing Fire Red, and have to constantly remind myself that there isn't one.

[12/12/2014 14:18:08]

Megan
Commenting on: 11-02-14

Happy Birthday, tCOD! ^^

I'm happy to see this website still running! It's a pitty the Pokemon fansite community is practically gone… how can we bring it back to life?????

[10/12/2014 23:06:30]

zizake

This website is absolutely amazing :D I have yet to find one that parallels the awesomeness found here :D keep it up :p

[06/12/2014 00:24:13]

Dazel
Website: Mohacastle
Commenting on: 11-02-14

Happy belated birthday to the Cave of Dragonflies! It's really weird to think that I'm only two years older than your site…

[20/11/2014 16:37:20]

Timothy
Website: Punch Quest

Punch Quest, infinite game race to punch clean.

[17/11/2014 22:34:46]

SarcasticAbsol

Wow, everything here is amazing! Imagine trying to read everything in the Guestbook in one day…

[11/11/2014 01:23:47]

Charizard

Does anyone like mario around here?

[08/11/2014 18:13:29]

Ky

I enjoyed the Is Pokemon Childish? Interesting read for the Older players :)

[06/11/2014 19:19:41]

Negrek
Website: Thousand Roads

Happy birthday, TCoD! Here's to another twelve years.

To think that when you started out, you probably never imagined the site would end up where it is today…

[04/11/2014 07:53:28]

FlygonTheGreat
Commenting on: 11-02-14

*Blows Whistle* Happy Birthday TCoD!

[03/11/2014 04:52:31]

Rhys
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 10-18-14

Whys dont you do a mega mode so we can choose our favourite mega pokemon

[26/10/2014 16:08:04]