Job Board Suggestions

[Tarlar]

I thought it might be a help for mod and members with a "job board", which is basically just tasks to do, to have some story or goal beside "stepping into the grass to see what appears". Nothing wrong with that, but personally I like something else to happen once in a while

The list or tasks can be twerked and are mostly to inspiration and in my head it would be a board in the Pokemon Center where trainers can find small tasks, which are sought help for. They can also be introduced in other ways than reading on a board, by running into the people needing help.
There might be small rewards for them but that would be up to mods discretion.

I can't really figure out where the best place to put this would be, but perhaps as a sticky'ed announcement so they are visible in all town boards? If that doesn't clutter the boards too much of course.
Could also have some specific for each area but I had thought of them as general and vague.

Should anyone have ideas for more tasks, please add them! If nothing else they are good to have for mods for later use! ^^

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Crude example

Job Board

Jens Hansen is looking for someone who can find him a sweet and calm pokemon to be a companion to his daughter.

Bente needs a box of her homemade cookies taken to Mr. Gertsen in Violet.

Farmer Susan has mareeps disappearing all the time and needs help figuring out what is going on.

Farmer Bramsen needs trainers to help with the yearly gathering of his tauros, trainer's who knows how to ride and herding preferred.

The residents of Margarit Street in Cherrygrove has a problem of their garden flowers being destroyed, potential stolen or eaten during the night, and need it to stop.

Trine's beloved Fennekin has disappeared, will give a reward for its safe return.

Nurse Joy needs a trainer to find herbs for curing a sick pokemon, ask at the Pokemon Center.

Youngster Carl is old enough to be a trainer but he'd like to start with a bug type and is looking for a trainer who can help him catch one.

Butcher Janet's shop is harassed by meowths and needs someone to come deal with them.

IPF warns about a poacher in the nearby woods, and would like to know about all traps traveling trainers find.

The Pokemon School is looking for trainers to challenge the students for their "Trainer Day" event on the school, weaker pokemon to make the battles equal is a must.

Richie Rich doesn't like nature and want's to be escorted and protected on his travel through [area].
Little Susie is going to visit her grandmother and needs to be escorted safely to her in the woods.
[Pokemon] has been adopted! The Adoption Center is looking for someone who can take it to its new home.

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So in general all ideas which includes looking for something, pokemon or item, delivering something, solving mysteries and problems can be used.

It will just be a "background" for the journey threads so it would come with encounters and catching as normally.

[Caramell 🍬]

I like this idea a lot! Would this be like a list of things that mods could use for prompts for threads, or something members could sign up for their characters? Maybe some kind of prompt or specific job board(s) for each area that makes sense and that members are able to have added as a prompt? Maybe it would be good if it was a prompt for the members to select for their thread that helps sets a "tone" for the mod when they're spawning NPCs / wild Pokemon but otherwise can help the story progress? I don't know if that would be a bit much to ask each mod to consider on top of just modding. But it would definitely help foster more creative ideas. <3

[Jenesis]

I like it! Though I would prefer if the prompts could be generic enough that they would make sense to work in any city, or for the same character to do them multiple times. For example the 'harassed by meowths' one is kind of a dead end if the RNG doesn't spawn any meowths. Some of the more specific ones might make for good quests though *hint hint*...

[antonius]

One idea I had when Tarlar and I was discussing this weeks ago was a Help Wanted poster. It would be same idea just different wording.

Help Wanted

Missing Pikachu

*Insert large picture here*

Notable marks\scars: a notch on one ear

Sponsored by: Yellow

Reward: $500

Return to Yellow in Cherry Grove (or where ever)

Blurb: This particular Pikachu is a well loved Pokemon belonging to a friend who is currently unable to locate the Pokemon on his own.

Now, I am not sure if this would qualify more for a quest or just another version of a job. As for the specifics which were listed in Tarlar's post, I think they can be easily changed to fit whatever area it is in. It does make sense for the harassing meowth to be placed in a location which has meowth. AS for the locations, the Pokemon Center or PokeMart would be logical places to "hang" the postings. I think the original idea was for the trainer to pick which will help guide the mod in what they had in mind. The biggest intent is to spice up the RP regardless if the trainer picks it or the mod. I would expect there would be no requirements for any of them unlike many of the quests out there. It is also totally possible some of these will have no battling and pure RP. I don't remember which core game it is but there was a side quest where the player had to find\buy a pokedoll for a little girl which involved acquiring it somehow.

[Tarlar]

Caramell 🍬
The idea for this is that they are prompts which are free for both mods and members, if I only had wanted it for mods, then I would have just posted it in the staff board ^^

A job board in each area might be a solution, I probably would just have hoped not having a lot of extra threads since in my head the tasks would be pretty similar and what makes them different is how the member and mods plays them and the story which comes out from it.
A pokemon missing, could be anything from it being stolen, it just being adventurous or something in the home driving it out.
I just fear they get stagnant if it is always the same and it takes longer to put some new in. Unless they of course are so vague it can be almost anything, but then they would be almost similar anywhere.

It is exactly thought of a mood for the members to pick and the mod to play off on, or for the mods to offer and then the player can take it or leave it.

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Jenesis
They can easily be switched out with [pokemon] instead, but if a pokemon is mentioned it might not be catchable, it could be owned after all ^^ I just thought that it for some might be easier to go to, if a pokemon is mentioned?

As story for quests most of them are great and they can still be used for that. A quest just needs more than just the story, the encounters, the difficulty and the whole story planned out, so it requires a lot more work than what I have thrown up here.
So agreed! I/we just don't have the time/energy to make a lot of quests right now

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antonius
Yeah, help wanted poster just needs more work to set up for a single task. We could ask someone with coding skills if they could make a standard one which could be used and easily edited with picture and text if so.

What I'm really looking for, is where to put this thread/ideas for people to find and use it But of course it could be a thread in each board and then not just get updated much, since the stories would be different. Then I would avoid too many pokemon mentioned though, as it can help fluff up things as well.
There will be no requirements at all other than wanting to spice up your travel thread a bit ^^

I think there often will be battling, but that would be rolled encounter like usual, mostly to keep people progressing level wise and not "get stuck" while doing this task. There can be posts in between which aren't but I wouldn't keep the whole story battle free.
If you are looking for your suggested Pikachu, you can still disturb wild pokemon who are in the bushes you are searching through, or NPC's wants a battle before telling you what they know ^^

Finding/buying stuff like a pokedoll could also be useful but then there would be a need of some other reward since the player uses money for nothing, and not everyone has much to give of that.

[Lamont]

Tinkering...

Very crude (and not truly implemented) at the moment. Thoughts on it being like one of those generators? Could add filter for types of jobs, and just have a list of all the prompt structures too like I've done with the sample types & names.


This is a custom plugin I've spent a couple hours playing around with. So higher staff would be able to easily add in new types/names and such by going into plugin settings and just adding to the lists in plain text. No code juggling.

[Jenesis]

For a challenge... Escort jobs, human or Pokemon?
We could have a list (or random generation) of NPCs, like the Escapades ones, that people could run into and be able to accompany from Point A to Point B. Kind of replicating the group journey experience but without needing to wait for a thread partner.

Random generation names should be in the format Title First Last for the highest possible number of combinations.

[antonius]

This could also work and still have the random Pokemon encounter or trainer including a Team Rocket Grunt\officer.

[Lamont]

Expanding a generator like this into also doing other things is definitely an idea for the future. But for now should focus on the current scope: a notice/job board to help inspire a goal or direction anyone can use for their journey threads. It's less about generating a character(s) than it is about jump starting a potential story.

(( sidenote, it's not like can't you use Escapade NPCs in your normal journey threads... ;D ))


Escort is definitely another good kind of category!
Y'all should keep feeding the list of available prompts ;D

[Tarlar]

Oh this looks great Lamont! So where do you plan on this should be to find? Is it a thing you can "put into" your post or a thread somewhere you go to?

Escorts or traveling with NPC's are fun, but can be a bit harder for a mod to throw in, since no everyone wants someone to tag along ^^ As a player it is easy, you can control them yourself (as long as their potential pokemon don't mingle in battles you have), or can look for one and make it clear to the mods you'd like to have company for a bit and let the mods throw something at you.
That idea was what saved my trip through Ilex, since that unfortunately is a lot of writing on your own, unless others are in there as well, so Astrid got company of a boy named Hector.

Does people have a hard time making up characters as NPC's? There is always the random character generators which can be used ^^ I often go to Behindthename.com if I need a name and have sometimes looked at trainer classes to get an idea for what kind of person this NPC is.

I have added some escort prompts to the list at the top.

[Lamont]

While it *could* go into posts it would probably be better to have it live somewhere in our information area where anyone who's interested can reference it if they want it. Then maybe sprinkle a few links to it around the forum so it's easy to find. At the very least there should only ever be 1 per page as the script expects it to be unique.

Maybe an excuse to play around with Custom pages finally ;D
Then we could reeeeaaally get fancy on the design & functionality! Am up for any design suggestions.


If there's any further 'out of scope' ideas, like the wanted poster layout or generating NPCs and such, maybe mark them as 'side-notes' or something here so we don't lose those ideas ^^

[antonius]

Here is another option. Team Rocket is up to its dirty tricks again but they interrupt the Gogoat Race by landing in the middle of the track. Who says Jessie\James doesn't have a malfunctioning balloon, for the 1000th time, and crashes into the lanes? The objective is to get them off the track\field. This might function better as IPF mission though.

[Tarlar]

Awesome idea but sounds more like a quest than a prompt
An IPF quest it would be perfect as: threatening the order of the race, perhaps even trying to get the one they have bet on to win. Has to stop it!

[Toogee]

Random idea:

Blackout: The local pokemon center has lost power! The machinery used for healing won't function until power is restored. And good luck charging your phone.

Possibilities:

1. One group of trainers decide to take matters into their own hands and figure out how to restore power. What happened? Weather? Malevolent actors? Hungry electric pokemon? Maybe the electric pokemon powering the building just decided to take the day off...

2. Another group may decide to assist Nurse Joy as she attempts to heal the old fashioned way. Help administer treatment to injured pokemon (or beat them unconscious so they'll stand still) while the nurse administers potions, bandages, etc.

3. [Social Option]: Looks like those other guys have this covered. You being a social butterfly and stranded until the power comes back on, you use this opportunity to flirt strike a conversation with a fellow stranded trainer.

[Toogee]

I'm just going to use this to post random RP ideas someone could use:

Cooking the Signature Dish: A local restaurant needs help gathering ingredients for the town's signature dish. Each ingredient comes from a local pokemon or has one involved. The chef hires trainers to track down the items.

Possibilities:

1. To get an ingredient, the pokemon has to use the move against yours. For example, one ingredient is leech seed from some grass type. In order to get a leech seed, the grass type has to use the move Leech Seed against your pokemon.
-Extra Challenge: The grass type is more likely to use Leech Seed against a pokemon it has type advantage over. In other words, the trainer has to be at a type disadvantage to get the ingredient.

2. The restaurant prides itself in using sun-dried locally grown berries. While drying out in the sun, various bird pokemon came and stole all the berries. Go get them back!
-Extra Challenge: Don't trigger the pokemon into eating the berries. For example, if bird is carrying Cheri berry and your pokemon uses Thunder Wave, the bird is going to eat the berry.

3. Bug pokemon are trying to eat the food! Clear out the kitchen while staff are still preparing food for customers.
-AoE and powder attacks may damage the kitchen or add unwanted seasoning to nearby dishes. For example, using Poison Powder on an enemy will also hit the nearby souffle and make a patron violently ill. Due to lack of space in kitchen, each trainer can only bring one pokemon (height and weight restrictions may apply).