Theme ideas for Prime 2012?

[Quilliam]

[Zoroark173]

Maybe, it can be some sort of leveling up system, sort of like in the Pokemon TCG Leagues, after you challenge a leader, they give you a blue card with 5 "EXP bars" on it, and every time you win a battle a leader and win, you get 2 of them filled in, and every time you lose, you still get 1 for trying. ONce you get all of them filled in, you get a special badge and a green card with 10 "EXP Bars", and after you complete that one, you gain a badge and a red card with 15 "EXP Bars". Once you have finished the red card, you have to bring all 3 completed cards, and challenge the "Champion" and if you win, you get a super badge, while losing forces you to get a new red card.

Some extra stuff
[spoiler4z3]Each card has 5 "challanges" on the back, and completing each one rewards you with 2 EXP. And maybe, if you have completed all of the challenges for all of the cards, you would get a special badge. (Some example challenges: Don't use a Fighting move in a whole battle (Blue), Switch out 4 times in a battle (Green), and 1HKO a Leader's Pokemon (Red)

when you get to 5 EXP on the Green card, you gain a mini prize

When you get 5 EXP and 10 EXP on the Red card, you gain a mini prize

Completing the Blue card gains you a badge

Completing the Green card also gives you a badge

Completing the Red card [u4z3]DOES NOT[/u4z3] merit you a badge, you must first go and challenge the Champion to receive it

If you are, for example, working on your Red Card, but did not complete all of the challenges on your Blue cards, and you happen to complete one during a match, you can choose to leave the challenge uncompleted and receive EXP for your Red card, or complete the challenge, but you will not receive any EXP for your Red card on that match.

There might be a special Yellow card, dubbed the Rival card, with 20 spaces on it, and you can ask for one at any time (when you get one, you get a sticker with "PPL Rival!" on it. At any time if you see someone with a sticker (or even if they don't) you can challenge them, and if you beat them, you get 2 space filled on your Rival card, lose you get 1. After your Rival card is filled, you can take it to any Leader, and they will give you a special badge.

You may only challenge a Leader once per card, per day. So if you have already challenged a Leader once that day, and you are still on the same colored card, you will not be able to challenge them, but if it is in the same day, but you have gone up to a different colored card (or restarted the Red card after losing to the Champion) you can challenge them. Also, if you are still on the same colored card, but it is a different day, you can challenge a Leader again. Maybe, the cards will have some sort of a signature/date place on the back under the challenges.[/spoiler4z3]

I tried to incorporate the Rival system, Leader/Champion system, and Challenges system all into 1. Maybe I could incorporate the Team Rocket/Plasma system that alot of people liked, by making there be Dark Blue/ Light Blue, Dark Green/Light Green, and Light Red/Dark Red cards, and Plasma could use the light ones, while Rocket could use the Dark ones, and you would only be able to challenge Leaders of the other team, but I feel like that would over-complicate even more than it now.

[Quilliam]

[Zoroark173]

[Giovanni]

Ugh, I'm against XP system personally because the less logistics we have to keep track of on the ground better. The league works better when it's "Fire and forget"

That said, I am naturally behind the turf war idea as it has simple implementation and has the potential for lots of fun.

[Kai]

[DrKronus]

Turf war is a fun idea.

I was also thinking of some stuff that may or may not have already been mentioned. Back on gold/silver you were able to go through Johto, get all the badges, then challenge the elite four, then you go off to Kanto and get the badges from all of those gym leaders and battle the elite four again. Well, here's my idea, we split the gym leaders into two regions or teams, and the first gym leader you find gives you their region card, and that determines which region of gym leaders you're looking for. When the challenger has 8 badges from their region, they can face the Elite Four. Now, to make things more interesting for the brave and the bold, they can also seek out gym leaders from the other region and collect their badges. If a challenger shows up to face the elite four with both region cards filled, the elite four break out a more challenging line up as a true test of the player's mettle. Should such a challenger manage to defeat the Elite Four and have both region cards filled, some fun bonus prize would be in order to reward such skill and dedication.

[Heleor]

[DrKronus]

[Zoroark173]