Character phone or PD*A and gym leader re-battles

[fyrebirdevo]

I wanted to bring up the idea of each character having a phone or PD*A to contact other players or a way for npc's to contact your character with other information about important things going on in the region. Also with the other idea with re-battling the gym leader, I think the gym leaders you beat should be able to contact you by phone or PD*A giving you the option to re-battle them. 

[fyrebirdevo]

Also, maybe there can be a quest or something where you get one?

[Tarlar]

Hey fyrebirdevo, interesting idea ^^
I'm not sure a phone or PDA is necessary for it? Other players you can contact anytime the way you want, and a lot of people are already letting family and friends or others contact them ingame if they want it for the thread, using it to introduce pokemon and items and such.

Is there anything specific you are thinking about when you say "important information"? Is it things like swarms and when we have an event and such?
If it is, we're posting them in Announcement already. I fear it will be too much of a task to mods to remember to post every such things in each active thread for people unfortunately.
Or is it more for "ingame things" which is more to feel the world is alive and bigger? As for example Whitney has been in the television, or some big discovery with a new regional form has been made, or the Champion had been challenged?
What kind of news are you thinking about here? ^^

I'm all for re challenging gym leaders, but I think it would be easier to just have the re-challenging options in the gyms, so you start your thread there? But they could of course travel out and be encountered in other places as well.
The biggest task here, is to make the updated team for those challenges and I'm afraid we don't have the man power currently to make them. It could be put on a list for a project for later, and you are welcome to make some suggestions on how it should be/work for us to continue on ^^

As for battling NPC's again, I think its like encountering New Bark's Bug Catcher Don later on? I think the easiest is if you want a rematch with someone, to tell us and we can figure something out where you meet them in your thread and we update their team to match your current team or something. It wouldn't be much different from a special trainer we make anyway once in a while.
Again, if it should be a stable thing I think we'd need to make a lot of extra profiles, or some guidelines to how they look and how often you can call (to avoid some calling a lot of trainers in a row).