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Rocketeer [PKMN/Recettear/Rancher]

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Adhoc vote count started by wdango on Oct 23, 2019 at 10:23 PM, finished with 12 posts and 8 votes.
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Honestly, I ain't mad that casper won. Sure, it's a reference to something that may very well not exist in setting, but as the head of our herd, and the one keeping everyone in line, a friendly ghost sets the right expectations. If this were a Rkyeun quest, that would clue it in that we want it to be all nonlethal and shit.
 
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1.3 - Y1201 M01 W1 (Casper)
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    • You decide to take your new Gastly back to your new Ranch, The Serpent's Tooth. (Yeah, fuck you, too, Dad.)1​ With Bro's help, it's pretty straightforward to get it settled into the first Medium Stall in your barn.

    "I'm gonna call you Casper," you tell it. "Because you're gonna be a friendly ghost, aren't you?"

    Looking up at you from between your cupped hands, it shivers as it squints its eyes at you.

    "It likes the name," Bro tells you. "Cute baby ghost."

    "Huh?" You look at him. "You can understand what it's saying?"

    He rolls his eyes. "I'm a Pokémon, too, you know."

    Wow. "That's actually gonna be really useful..."

    "There's a reason why I said I'm the best Trainer's Assistant." He folds his arms, grinning. "With me, you can take all the guesswork out of communicating with your Pokémon."

    You look at Casper again. It's hard to imagine how much this tiny ball of gas in your hands is gonna grow.

    "Anyway. First things first -- we have to decide what to feed it for the rest of this month. Ranches typically stock enough food for an entire month, so you don't need to buy more food for another month."

    "Should we do as Faust said and feed it a poison-based diet?"

    Bro shakes his head. "It's still a little bit too young. For babies like Casper, I'd recommend something more general like Potatoes, Milk, or NutriGel."

    Casper rolls a little bit in your hands, and you give it another glance.

    "What is it saying?"

    "It's had potatoes before, but it's curious about what the milk and the jelly are gonna taste like," Bro says. "To be honest, I recommend the milk. It's a safe choice for most baby Pokémon. Potatoes are just your cheap, filling option without too much nutrition. NutriGel is a jelly designed to be a Pokémon food substitute -- it's good for Pokémon of any age with a complete set of nutrients, but it's expensive and you'd be splurging if it's just for a baby whose nutrition needs can be satisfied with just milk."

    Casper wiggles in your hands again.

    "Casper wants to try the NutriGel, but it's up to you." Bro shrugs.


    What do you feed Casper this month?
    [x] Potatoes. (₽100)
    [x] Milk. (₽500)
    [x] NutriGel. (₽1,500)


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    "Some ranches set a training schedule by-the-day for their competitive Pokémon, but it's actually more effective to set it by-the-week," Casper tells you.

    You've learned as much when you were still in PokéTech, so you nod.

    "If you give your Pokémon the weekends off, it also allows them to recover from their training without you needing to micromanage their rest days. That will give you time to do other things on the weekends, too."

    "So are we starting Casper's training immediately?"

    "That's a good idea. We just need to decide how you want to train it."

    "I've seen how Mom's Pokémon use the gym," you start, but Bro interrupts you.

    "That's no good," he says. "With Pokémon this young, it's better to focus on lighter training without the use of Machines. They're too young to be able to get too much gains from any training, anyway. You mostly want to focus on building a good foundation and developing a bond with it."

    "So... The Machines in our gym are gonna be useless for quite a while?"

    "Yep. Too bad, huh?"

    You sigh.


    It's the 1st Week of the Vernalequinox Month, 1201.
    How do you train Casper this week?
    [x] Ukemi. (Lv. 1 POW Drill)
    [x] Shadowboxing. (Lv. 1 SPD Drill)
    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)
     
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    • [x] NutriGel. (₽1,500)

    because it wants to try!

    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    lets make this a Mag monster. Its stupidly inefficient in Monster Rancher, but this is Pokemon, and ghastly line are scary at their specialty.
     
    [x] Milk. (₽500)
    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Moar power!

    Dmg from poisonous gas scales with MAG? or anything?
     
    Oh. It works just like Monster Rancher. Guess I should have expected that.

    [x] Milk. (₽500)

    Let's not risk spoiling it.

    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Ghost Mastery does Magic damage. Best to buff that up a bit. Maybe work on Speed after that.

    How does evolution work? Do we need to meet stat thresholds, or is it just age?
     
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    Chopak said:
    [x] Milk. (₽500)
    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Moar power!

    Dmg from poisonous gas scales with MAG? or anything?
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    Yep MAG.

    Higure said:
    Oh. It works just like Monster Rancher. Guess I should have expected that.

    [x] NutriGel. (₽1,500)

    Let's indulge it a little, for the first feeding. We can switch to Milk next time.

    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Ghost Mastery does Magic damage. Best to buff that up a bit. Maybe work on Speed after that.

    How does evolution work? Do we need to meet stat thresholds, or is it just age?
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    A combination of factors. Bro will tell you more when the time is close.
     
    [x] Milk. (₽500)
    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Let's not go too much overboard, but we can take a step up from the very cheapest option. Also, MAG because that's what Ghastly'll be using.
     
    [X]Buy a mixture of food to give it a varied diet over the month. You wouldn't like to eat the same thing for a month either.
    -[X] You can vary it up a bit with different combinations and styles of milk and potato, to keep it fresh.
    -[X] Also make feeding a bit of a game by, say, hiding the food and having him have to find it, to simulate hunting and make the meal more enjoyable.
    -[X] Aim to average about 1 meal of nutri-gel (215), 3 of potato(43), and 3 of milk (215) per week, for a total of around ₽473.

    [X] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    @wdango, is this write-in OK? Price is obviously in your court.

    Also, the above is pretty good advice for actual pets, as I understand it.
     
    [x] Milk. (₽500)
    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Seems simple enough. I don't want to go for the most expensive option every time.
     
    Skewfiend said:
    [X]Buy a mixture of food to give it a varied diet over the month. You wouldn't like to eat the same thing for a month either.
    -[X] You can vary it up a bit with different combinations and styles of milk and potato, to keep it fresh.
    -[X] Also make feeding a bit of a game by, say, hiding the food and having him have to find it, to simulate hunting and make the meal more enjoyable.
    -[X] Aim to average about 1 meal of nutri-gel (215), 3 of potato(43), and 3 of milk (215) per week, for a total of around ₽473.

    [X] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    @wdango, is this write-in OK? Price is obviously in your court.

    Also, the above is pretty good advice for actual pets, as I understand it.
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    TBH I'm mechanising the monthly feeding thing lol. I'm gonna allow it, but WoQM is it won't give you any benefits to include potatoes at all other than save you some money.

    NutriGel will make Casper happier in the short-term, but as discussed by some of the other players, it may spoil the Gastly too.

    Plus, it's more expensive and (currently) not more nutritious at all.

    The game thing is a good idea -- regardless of whether the vote wins I'll give a permanent Bond bonus to all PKMN trained from now on.
     
    Guys, I'm worried.

    Are we sure we haven't made a Faustian deal? Eh? Eh?

    ...I'm sorry.

    Also, Rancher is Monster Rancher! Holy potatoes sir QM, this is very nostalgic. Granted, I only played 2 with my Draco-Raptor.

    I look forward to the rest of the game, and if the mechanics kind of reflect Monster Rancher, there's a 'spoil to strict' bar that the nutrijelly thing is probably all about.

    [x] Milk. (₽500)
     
    Chopak said:
    That's like parenting 101! You don't intruduce better food if you want kid to eat anything else afterwards!
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    As a non-parent, that never really occurred to me, I'll admit.

    Although, I don't know if that's exactly how it works here. If it's like Monster Rancher, the little guy will have foods he prefers, and feeding him those will be better for his mood, but he probably won't outright refuse to eat other, more price-effective options.

    Spoiling it could definitely happen, though, so Milk it is. Switching.
     
    [x] Milk. (₽500)
    [x] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    Monster Rancher 101: spoil your mon rotten because a longer lifespan is better than higher stats, 'cause seriously, who's the goodest boy, yes you are YES YOU ARE don't spoil your monster.
     
    [X]Buy a mixture of food to give it a varied diet over the month. You wouldn't like to eat the same thing for a month either.
    -[X] You can vary it up a bit with different combinations and styles of milk and potato, to keep it fresh.
    -[X] Also make feeding a bit of a game by, say, hiding the food and having him have to find it, to simulate hunting and make the meal more enjoyable.
    -[X] Aim to average about 1 meal of nutri-gel (215), 3 of potato(43), and 3 of milk (215) per week, for a total of around ₽473.

    [X] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)
     
    [X] NutriGel. (₽1,500)
    [X] Meditation. (Lv. 1 MAG Drill)

    It's our first pokemon and we need to bond with it right now. We'll have to be stricter later to keep it from becoming spoiled, but I don't have a problem with giving it the first request it ever makes of us.
     
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