We will soon be moving most of the Pokemon content to its own domain; PokeFarm. It will probably not happen before the end of the month but it will happen.
Right now I am spending some time to decide on what open source platform to use.
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That sounds cool. I forget whom I traded with, but I had suggested there should be a way to share our Pokedex with other traders online. I know when I programed in PHP, it prbably wouldn’t have been to hard to figure it out, but that has been a while.
Anyway, thought it would be a cool idea and soemthing to mention if you are looking to make the PokeFarm it’s own thing. Good luck with it, let me know if you would like any assistance with anything. I can be usefull sometimes, or so my wife let’s me think!
We will probably start with a basic blog setup and then add a fully searchable Pokedex. Adding a user system where you can check off all of the Pokemon you have (and are willing to trade) sounds like a daunting task though!
HEY! My domain is http://www.poke-farm.com! … Rip Off…
I checked the registration information on yours and you registered it only a few hours after I registered mine. I’m guessing that is why you added the hyphen to your domain name?
I checked it out, wasn’t worth your time on the return comment.
So what are you going to have in this domain?
Trying to be funny or something?
HMTK.com will go back to being what it has always been, a place about everything and nothing.
yeah the pokedex idea is good but its going to take alot of work
I’ve actually been tossing the idea of a user system around a bit myself. Something where we can, of course, list the pokes we can breed and what we’re seeking… but also allow for any user to offer up a “farming”, heck it could even be open-ended farming. If the user farmed a batch but didn’t trade all of them on the farm day they could leave it open until they all get traded (or released to make space for the next farming).
I’d love to help with a system like this if one is planned. Only web platform I really know is Ruby on Rails… but I might be inclined to learn other stuff if I gotta :)
The thought I had was if memebers are already registered in a database/table, (mySQL …)they can then have a “Pokedex” (nothing complex) assigned to them like the personnal page in the forums. Each poke is assigned avalue, (easy, they are already numbered). The images used need only be the small icons, not full-size sprites. The have/have not needs only be a binary value (1 or 0), cause either you have it or you don’t.
With something basic like that, then people know what they can offer you for trade, or a more appropriate trade.
Pokedex would cover the have/want bit, yes. But what I’d love to see is to take that a step further and also give the base for the real “farming”
Here’s how I envision it:
I have someone request a Bulbasaur from me. In the process of getting his one, I also hatch a batch of 6. I hop on the site, start an open ended farm offer for the other 5. Once I’ve traded them all away I take the offer back down. Contact info is stored in my site profile of course, and my friendcode gets tagged onto any farm/comment/whatever I make. The current farmings would go up with a timeframe instead of open ended, unless the farmer wants it open ended.
Basically I’d like a system the current farmings would work with, but would also allow any user to put up an offer.
Forgot, more details…
Naturally there’d be a list of current farm offers. If we implemented a specific “want list” then any time a new farm went up notifications could be sent to all users seeking that poke. The farmer could even be given a list of people seeking that pokemon. The want list would have to be small, say 5-10 pokes, but users could still get notifications if a poke is offered that they don’t have. They just wouldn’t be given some sort of priority… we wouldn’t want users tagging every poke they don’t have as a “want” just to get higher up on the list.
Good idea Steve, start a pokemon community :P
I’ve been considering joining your farming team. I tend to farm tons of pokemon to find one that is the right gender, so i have lots of extras. plus, I can farm all 3 sinnoh starters, bulbasaur, charmander, torchic, and tododile. along with diamond specific guys like aron and cranidos.
This is going to be rolled out in several phases.
Phase 1: Blog (just like what you see here now)
Phase 2: Forums (post to trade, battle, whatever)
Phase 3: Pokedex (100% searchable and complete)
Phase 4: Integrate the entire system so that all users can go into their profile and modify their personal Pokedex as well as list Pokemon for trade/farm.
Phase 1 and 2 will be quick to implement. Phase 3 will require a lot of code writing and database filling. Phase 4 will take even more work!
Phase 1 should be done in the next two weeks.