Post by Goni on Jan 9, 2023 5:02:52 GMT 11
I've always wondered if the IPF and Rocket 'job paths' really deserve their own forums, especially with the very limited engagement they have seen since their release over ten years ago. I think maybe both of them need either a revamp to make them more significant and perhaps more attractive to players. Alternatively, they could be disassembled completely, the missions go to the respective quest boards with a note that they are for team rocket or IPF. Rank could still be tracked in a sticky in the character storage for each organization, and taking on a rocket quest could lock you out of IPF quests and vice versa.
Rather than have the rocket quest commit a player to join Team Rocket, it could unlock an "Infamy" tracker, kind of like how happiness is unlocked for pokemon or the Alolan medal is awarded for completing the first trial. This would allow characters to work with Team Rocket in a collaborative capacity or would allow users to roleplay as though they are team members depending on how they want their character to exist in the space. It would also allow players who are more villainously inclined to accrue a meaningful marker of their morality and notoriety. If you complete this infamy quest, then you are now eligible to have IPF engage you in the wild, or allow you to take on annual "Pokemon Pit" pokemon stealing quests.
Pokemon Pit is kind of just a rocket job board for thief jobs. Could maybe be changed to a swarm-like system where there are only one or two jobs available, and anyone could do this devious action to increase notoriety, and earn slowpoke tails, and the same type of vigilante action could be justified for IPF, or if the Job Board is implemented, there could simply be a Rocket and IPF job board where users could take on quests to increase their infamy or fame respectively.
Team Rocket quests could be redistributed to their respective locations, denoting that they are rocket quests, and the same could be done with the IPF quests.
These are just some initial thoughts. I know there are a few members that engage with this part of the site, but for the amount of space it takes up on the front page next to other more frequently used spaces, I don't know if it's worth keeping around without some kind of thought or consideration to why such an underutilized feature deserves as much attention as something like the daycare, estates, escapades, and trainer shops, which I think are much more user-focused sections of the site than the IPF and Rockets.
I'd be happy to hear your perspective or ideas on how it could be improved because sadly the Rocket and IPF are not often engaged with or utilized. I do think there are a lot of cool ideas and structures that were put into this aspect of the website, so I don't think they should be scrapped, but it would be cool to see a way to engage more with them.
Rather than have the rocket quest commit a player to join Team Rocket, it could unlock an "Infamy" tracker, kind of like how happiness is unlocked for pokemon or the Alolan medal is awarded for completing the first trial. This would allow characters to work with Team Rocket in a collaborative capacity or would allow users to roleplay as though they are team members depending on how they want their character to exist in the space. It would also allow players who are more villainously inclined to accrue a meaningful marker of their morality and notoriety. If you complete this infamy quest, then you are now eligible to have IPF engage you in the wild, or allow you to take on annual "Pokemon Pit" pokemon stealing quests.
Pokemon Pit is kind of just a rocket job board for thief jobs. Could maybe be changed to a swarm-like system where there are only one or two jobs available, and anyone could do this devious action to increase notoriety, and earn slowpoke tails, and the same type of vigilante action could be justified for IPF, or if the Job Board is implemented, there could simply be a Rocket and IPF job board where users could take on quests to increase their infamy or fame respectively.
Team Rocket quests could be redistributed to their respective locations, denoting that they are rocket quests, and the same could be done with the IPF quests.
These are just some initial thoughts. I know there are a few members that engage with this part of the site, but for the amount of space it takes up on the front page next to other more frequently used spaces, I don't know if it's worth keeping around without some kind of thought or consideration to why such an underutilized feature deserves as much attention as something like the daycare, estates, escapades, and trainer shops, which I think are much more user-focused sections of the site than the IPF and Rockets.
I'd be happy to hear your perspective or ideas on how it could be improved because sadly the Rocket and IPF are not often engaged with or utilized. I do think there are a lot of cool ideas and structures that were put into this aspect of the website, so I don't think they should be scrapped, but it would be cool to see a way to engage more with them.
