February Update: Coordination!
Posted on: Jan 30, 2016 16:13:45 GMT -5
Post by Kitten4u on Jan 30, 2016 16:13:45 GMT -5
Hello again everyone! With the activity check over the census should now be up to date and the face claim list has been updated. Any claims no one was actually using have been freed up. The staff list has been updated, freeing up some slots for anyone interested. But enough about the old stuff! This is a new month and with it comes new stuff!
Coordination
Have you ever wanted to make a character that focused on performing and the more graceful side of pokemon? Now you can! The big update to Gray Haven Academy is now the site has rules for coordination! All the details can be found here. With that, coordination has been fully integrated into the school and its curriculum. There is now a coordination class, and Wardens have been expanded to include not just gym leaders, but coordinator directors to challenge! Coordinators even have their own progression path like battlers and breeders, giving them rewards as they defeat Directors and collect ribbons. There are also two new boards to help facilitate this update: The Coordination Wing for classes and The Festival Square for a place to have contests outside of the school. For contests in the school students are able to use the auditorium.
Random Events
Sometimes it can be difficult to develop characters through character interaction alone. In order to help move your character's story along, you might receive a PM from a staff member with the keyword [random event] in the title of the PM. It will contain either a scenario, something your character could discover, or an action your character could take. For example, if your character is looking for a person (especially if that person is an NPC), they might find some information about them. You could then take that information and use it to continue your character's story in ways that you may not have been able to before. Hopefully it'll add some extra curveballs at you to keep the game interesting. None of these random events have to be used if you don't want to, so if you get one you're not interested in or don't like then you are welcome to ignore it completely.
This information will be located in the rules for reference, though what's posted there is identical to what I posted about it above.
New Staff Position
There's a new staff position up for grabs: Security Guards! There's room for two. May they protect the school from harm.
Advertisement Promotion
Do you want to help Gray Haven Academy grow as a site? Do you want more people to play with? Do you want to get more mad swag for doing so? There's a new advertisement promotion this month! You can find it here. This one lets you choose between two prizes on each tier so you can get items that match your characters' style!
Minor Updates
There's been a whole slew of minor updates as well. Here's a complete changelog:
Staff
Teachers can now receive rewards from events.
Breeding teachers start with all the breeding emblems.
Coordination class added, with teachers as a playable position.
Added security guards as a playable staff type.
Wardens
All pokemon in their challenge teams must match their dorm's types even if it's just via a secondary type.
2nd tier pokemon cannot be completely evolved therefore two stage evolution pokemon (Rapidash, Scizor, Arcanine, etc.) won't count as tier 2. Non-evolving pokemon are fine.
They now get 2 pokemon for a personal team upon creation.
Wardens start with all badges.
Students
Dorm switching after creation is no longer allowed. Inviting friends from any dorm is fine though.
Dojo
Resets are based on when the character's last post was made instead of on a fixed timeline.
IC description of the dojo has been added.
Fossil Excavation
IC description of the fossil caves has been added.
IC description of the fossil revival clinic added.
Berry Gathering
Board description added to the gathering thread for reference.
Breeding and Emblems
Breeding emblems can now be gotten by everyone.
When claiming an emblem, listing out which pokemon you've bred is now required.
Hatching an egg no longer requires the posts to be made in a thread that was started after the egg was received. Any post after receiving the egg is fine. If the player receives a pokemon with Flame Body or Magma Armor the reduction in posts necessary to hatch the egg applies retroactively.
First tier breeding badge now gives an excavation kit.
Badges
Badge 3 battles now involve the Warden's 2nd tier pokemon down from 1st, along with one tier 1 pokemon.
Badges 1-4 must come from different dorms. Badge 5 can be from any dorm the student wishes to challenge.
Battle calculators are no longer required.
The Student Promotion Center has been axed. All those rewards are now gained through gym battles.
Tier 5 badge now provides a 20% chance to find evolved pokemon.
Missions
If a mission would start without filling, due to being mostly full but not filling after 3-4 days or so, an alt may join that mission as long as they are not in an existing mission.
You may not have two of your own characters in one mission.
Advertisement Promo
Reward tiers can now be split between characters.
Wording changes
Some wording was changed in the rules to be less student centered and more inclusive of staff members and Team Origin members.
Some wording was changed to be less wishy-washy and more clear.
Some grammatical things have been fixed.
The ad has been rewritten.
The top side table has been changed to an update table.
The face claim's format has been changed to Series Name: Claim Name - Character Name
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We hope you enjoy!
Coordination
Have you ever wanted to make a character that focused on performing and the more graceful side of pokemon? Now you can! The big update to Gray Haven Academy is now the site has rules for coordination! All the details can be found here. With that, coordination has been fully integrated into the school and its curriculum. There is now a coordination class, and Wardens have been expanded to include not just gym leaders, but coordinator directors to challenge! Coordinators even have their own progression path like battlers and breeders, giving them rewards as they defeat Directors and collect ribbons. There are also two new boards to help facilitate this update: The Coordination Wing for classes and The Festival Square for a place to have contests outside of the school. For contests in the school students are able to use the auditorium.
Random Events
Sometimes it can be difficult to develop characters through character interaction alone. In order to help move your character's story along, you might receive a PM from a staff member with the keyword [random event] in the title of the PM. It will contain either a scenario, something your character could discover, or an action your character could take. For example, if your character is looking for a person (especially if that person is an NPC), they might find some information about them. You could then take that information and use it to continue your character's story in ways that you may not have been able to before. Hopefully it'll add some extra curveballs at you to keep the game interesting. None of these random events have to be used if you don't want to, so if you get one you're not interested in or don't like then you are welcome to ignore it completely.
This information will be located in the rules for reference, though what's posted there is identical to what I posted about it above.
New Staff Position
There's a new staff position up for grabs: Security Guards! There's room for two. May they protect the school from harm.
Advertisement Promotion
Do you want to help Gray Haven Academy grow as a site? Do you want more people to play with? Do you want to get more mad swag for doing so? There's a new advertisement promotion this month! You can find it here. This one lets you choose between two prizes on each tier so you can get items that match your characters' style!
Minor Updates
There's been a whole slew of minor updates as well. Here's a complete changelog:
Staff
Teachers can now receive rewards from events.
Breeding teachers start with all the breeding emblems.
Coordination class added, with teachers as a playable position.
Added security guards as a playable staff type.
Wardens
All pokemon in their challenge teams must match their dorm's types even if it's just via a secondary type.
2nd tier pokemon cannot be completely evolved therefore two stage evolution pokemon (Rapidash, Scizor, Arcanine, etc.) won't count as tier 2. Non-evolving pokemon are fine.
They now get 2 pokemon for a personal team upon creation.
Wardens start with all badges.
Students
Dorm switching after creation is no longer allowed. Inviting friends from any dorm is fine though.
Dojo
Resets are based on when the character's last post was made instead of on a fixed timeline.
IC description of the dojo has been added.
Fossil Excavation
IC description of the fossil caves has been added.
IC description of the fossil revival clinic added.
Berry Gathering
Board description added to the gathering thread for reference.
Breeding and Emblems
Breeding emblems can now be gotten by everyone.
When claiming an emblem, listing out which pokemon you've bred is now required.
Hatching an egg no longer requires the posts to be made in a thread that was started after the egg was received. Any post after receiving the egg is fine. If the player receives a pokemon with Flame Body or Magma Armor the reduction in posts necessary to hatch the egg applies retroactively.
First tier breeding badge now gives an excavation kit.
Badges
Badge 3 battles now involve the Warden's 2nd tier pokemon down from 1st, along with one tier 1 pokemon.
Badges 1-4 must come from different dorms. Badge 5 can be from any dorm the student wishes to challenge.
Battle calculators are no longer required.
The Student Promotion Center has been axed. All those rewards are now gained through gym battles.
Tier 5 badge now provides a 20% chance to find evolved pokemon.
Missions
If a mission would start without filling, due to being mostly full but not filling after 3-4 days or so, an alt may join that mission as long as they are not in an existing mission.
You may not have two of your own characters in one mission.
Advertisement Promo
Reward tiers can now be split between characters.
Wording changes
Some wording was changed in the rules to be less student centered and more inclusive of staff members and Team Origin members.
Some wording was changed to be less wishy-washy and more clear.
Some grammatical things have been fixed.
The ad has been rewritten.
The top side table has been changed to an update table.
The face claim's format has been changed to Series Name: Claim Name - Character Name
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We hope you enjoy!
