You think this is a GAME!?

I want this to happen. Gimme

Also quite interested!

questionmark693 said
Guys, I'm sorry, but I have to drop out of this game.

No worries, no one is locked in at this point.

To the rest of you, the OOC will be up soon and I'll start accepting applications!

This is a great idea. I love how the concept is broken between medieval times and a modern era. Personally, I would stick to a more medieval kind of Roleplay. This makes character description more fun..to play about with. When it comes down to pokemon, the realistic point of view is one of the better ideas I've seen. I understand the pokemon will have movesets. To make it realistic, wouldn't these have to be learnt over a progressive period of time? Personally I would start out with a Riolu; it's loyal, understanding, and can communicate very well with its owner through telekinesis. It's one of the harder pokemon to train as it is a steel as well as a fighting type pokemon and..Medieval era is more of it's era..than a modern concept pokemon. If I were to choose a modern pokemon; I'd go for a Axew...simply because I love Haxorus :)

dot80 said
We couldn't keep and transfer an unlimited number of Pokemon through a computer. We couldn't hold a gargantuan Charzard in a minuscule pokeball (we really couldn't hold any pokemon in a pokeball).

I'm not sure how canon this is, but apparently Pokeballs work by "downloading" the target Pokemon, like a USB. Pokemon are stored as data rather than as living creatures and the information is loaded when the Pokeball opens.
The Pokeball is the same thing as a pen drive - except it stores one creature rather than pictures and documents.

And this tech is in the making today. It is now possible to take memories and store them in a kind of DNA USB. It is possible to take ones memories, store it as data and then convert it into a usable form, albeit it is insanely expensive. It's about 86 million US dollars to turn 6.8 GB of DNA into binary and then convert it into a usable form.

I don't know if that's a fair comparison. One is converting mass-less information in one's mind into data while the other is transforming a physical entity into data.

We're already starting to do that, though. We're working on 3D printing organs (whether they work or not is another thing altogether) so is it all that far fetched to say that some day we may be able to convert an entire creature into data instead of just an organ? It's all just information: this goes there, that here...Yes it would require a ridiculous amount of storage space, but it could (in theory) be done.

I think the far more unrealistic part of the Pokeball is the fact that it can reconstitute that data into a creature. How does it do that? Where is it pulling the raw materials from? We could argue that they're converting energy into matter each time the creature is recalled, but that's pretty out there and (one would imagine) require a huge power source to draw from.

I have seen theories that say Pokemon are actually just highly advanced digital constructs that inform a world-wide alternate reality game, that they don't actually have mass, just the appearance. However, I find that a bit hard to reconcile with all forms of canon (e.g., references to eating Magikarp, the use of Pokemon in construction). I guess you could argue that they're "hard light" holograms, but that's a bit hand-wavey for me, personally.

As for the impacts of the theories on the game we'll be playing... dot is requiring us all to have a background in biology, so the pokemon in the RP seem to be flesh and blood creatures.

I understand what you mean I just meant that it was not a fair comparison to use to prove that point. Though it's like you said, can't recreate something with data alone. I just can't see the pokeball in any way having the power source or materials needed for such a feat. For the modern rp I don't think pokeballs are necessary anyways, since we will probably only have one maybe two pokemon at most. Also since there aren't really any others (that we know of) or at least no wild ones (again that we know of) then capturing one would at most be a topic of theoretical conversation among the students.

Ok, school is done! Expect this to begin moving forward soon!

dot80 said
Ok, school is done! Expect this to begin moving forward soon!

One week later...