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Twitch Plays Pokemon: Dig, Dig for Victory!
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Cosmic Dreams
Member
what happened to the stream? looks like it was disabled.
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
Too many ledges near the Daycare.
The streamer seems more interested in the "social experiment" aspect than them actually completing the game. I doubt he will step in again, as he turned off the start toggle
How far away is the daycare and will we ever have the money to get them out?
balladofwindfishes
Member
It's possible to get to a point of no progress. If we delete everyone who can learn strength, and lack the funds to buy poke balls, the game is over and we cannot progress. Money is a finite resource in red and blue until you can rematch the elite 4.
YianGaruga
Banned
AFAIK the good TMs have been taught to the Ratatta who is now in the PC.
Cut and Gust is all we have.
Well, long ago Bide replaced ABBY's ember, leer and growl are still here, and both slash and wing attack have been ignored. Also all the cool TM moves like Body Slam have been put on underleveled Rattatas.
So pretty much the worst scenario we can muster
At least Jay Leno has Bubblebeam!
IIRC he already disabled Start at one point for a little.
He should disable the release option for a little so we can pc manage. Won't happen tho.
balladofwindfishes
Member
If we lose this gym, the bush resets. Also there's another bush just like this inside the gym itself, which also resets if we lose.
Luckily, ABBBBBBBK( has cut, and thus cannot be released(unless we go to the move deleter).
Yup. Why people won't just go get eevee and level a bit is beyond me. We've died so many times and we can't afford to keep blacking out. We'll run out of money.
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Deleted member 231381
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Not true. You can enter the Safari Zone without any money; they just give you a single Safari Ball instead of 30. Strength is non-compulsory to reach the Safari Zone, and you can catch Pokemon capable of using Strength within the Safari Zone.
We need some order.
It's hard to talk in the chat because messages appear for a split second before moving on.
ThatObviousUser
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The Daycare does not exist in Red/Blue, it was introduced in Gold/Silver.
Edit- Oh wow, it was. Huh. Been a long time since I played R/B.
It's not exactly like we are coordinated enough to purchase anything anyway, why worry about money?
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
No, the daycare is in Red/Blue, you just can't breed Pokemon. You just get levels. It's on route 5. It's also surrounded by ledges.
The good part of being driven by thousands of people rather than RNG is that they know what the critical path is and they actively work towards it.
The bad part is it's damn near impossible to get that many people to concentrate on anything off that critical path.
That is very smart, a pkm might even learn some decent moves that way.
Yeah but with 40k that ain't happening.
Even if we don't get eevee(we should because it's a free level 25), we need to grind a bit or else we'll just keep losing and spening shit loads of time trying to use cut.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Yup. This should be treated as a social experiment. Trolls and potential mistakes should be factored in.
If things get so bad that the game looks unbeatable, then people will get bored and quit. That makes co-operation easier, and whatever obstacle is present can be overcome. It's a good cycle, but it relies on patience.
Even if it takes a year to beat the game, it means more if there's no unnecessary intervention.
balladofwindfishes
Member
From what I read on reddit, the ability to enter the safari zone without money was not added until yellow
Ambience7817x
Member
There is one. Only one pokemon though. It is south of cerulean city. You need cut to get to it
watervengeance
Member
We'd never have enough money to withdraw it. It's (100 x level gained) + 100
Money isn't the BIGGEST factor but having a little in case we CAN buy something is smart.
We can't just keep blacking out and spending hours upon hours. But this all requires people to cooperate so meh.
ThatObviousUser
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Yeah, totally blanked. Haven't played Blue since it came out, and I didn't play the remakes so my memory is veeerrry fuzzy on Gen 1.
Bad move.
They need one, but catching it with over 44k people? Going to be hard to stop selecting S.S. Ticket, Helix Fossil, run, attack or other items.
Alcotholic
Banned
I really wish they would go get eevee. This is pretty frustrating.
You don't catch it I believe, it's given to you.
I saw both answers but I don't have red or blue to test it. So what possible scenarios are there to get permanently stuck in red/blue?
If the safari zone is required to beat the game (I forget if this is the case), running out of money in red/blue would permanently end the game.
You cannot release pokemon who have an HM move so that should not be an issue. Can you move delete an HM move in red/blue when no one else knows it though? That could end the game.
This is so futile, they are going to lose so hard in the gym.
Yeah, I don't think it was until Gold and Silver that you could just hit a button up by a tree/rock/the water to use an HM.
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Deleted member 231381
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...huh. This may be true, I grew up with Yellow and wouldn't know.
YianGaruga
Banned
I'd actually prefer to see a cyle like this happening to continued progress (and I'm almost sure it will without interbention, based on the challanges ahead).
People asking for smart cooperation right now are looking at it the wrong way. Enjoy the randomness and chaos and see how far it gets us. If the majority wants to do something, it'll get done eventually.
And money is finite in these games, so they will spend all their money trying to do the Safari Zone over and over, and by the time enough people get bored and quit - so just a few people are controlling the game - it still won't be possible because of lack of money.
Meaning without intervention, this will be impossible to beat.
PhoenixDawn
Member
Hopefully the streamer is going to disable the step counter in the Safari Zone. That way, Twitch would still have to navigate to surf, but they at least wouldn't run out of money and probably get permenantly stuck. Hell, I could barely get to the surf thing on my first few tries and I'm just a single player.
In that case, why the heck won't they get it?
I guess it's understandable, communicating with 44k in the world's fastest chat ain't gonna work. =P