Special encounters and event Pokémon - Githubissues

encukou commented 12 years ago

Reported by Eevee on 2009/05/05 21:58:48 +0000 · Migrated from Redmine issue 22

I would split this up between special encounters and event Pokémon, but I’m not sure how to reasonably do that. That Farfetch’d you traded for in the game is a specific “event” Pokémon, but it’s still in the game!

Special ways to encounter or get a Pokémon. Note that some of these are repeatable and some are not; should a distinction be made here?

(once) Starter Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Mudkip, Chimchar, …
(once) Unique overworld Pokémon: Snorlax, Mewtwo, Lugia, …
(once) In-game trades: Farfetch’d, uh…
(once) In-game giveaways: Riolu egg, Eevee, …
Feebas
Headbutt in GSC
(once) Legendaries that run around
Daily Safari Game Pokémon
Daily Mansion Pokémon
Honey tree Pokémon
(once) Celebi in Crystal in Japan, I guess? I forget how that worked
(once but incidental) Colosseum and XD Snaggables

Special ways to get an INDIVIDUAL (customized somehow) Pokémon:

A zillion Toys R Us, movie, Pokémon Center (http://www.upokecenter.com/nypc.html)), Mystery Gift, etc. giveaways
Crystal’s Extremespeed Dratini
Crystal’s Dizzy Punch Odd Eggs
Stadium 1: Amnesia Psyduck
Stadium 2: Baton Pass Farfetch’d and Earthquake Gligar
“PBR gives you hardy pikachu w/ surf, modest magmortar, and adamant electivire”
Ranch has rewards of some sort
Pokémon Box reward eggs for filling your box: False Swipe Swablu, Extremespeed Zigzagoon, Pay Day Skitty, and Surf Pichu. THERE IS NO WISH RALTS.
Ranger and Ranger 2 have Manaphy egg, Riolu with Aura Sphere, and some sort of Darkrai

Pending questions:

Should Shaymin, Darkrai, and Arceus count as overworld Pokémon? They do appear in the overworld…
Giveaways and ingame trades tend to give you Pokémon with fixed stats, names, moves, OT ID, etc. How do I store/display these without consuming absurd amounts of space?

Some lists of event Pokémon/moves on Smogon:

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34197
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2418618&postcount=34
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63782 (illegal movesets, but may be helpful)

Trying to get more details here on [[SpecialEncounters]]. Please help flesh this out!

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Updated on: 2011/09/25 20:04:18 +0000
Start date: 2009/05/05
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Comment by Eevee from 2009/07/26 21:24:59 +0000

Updated subject

Comment by Eevee from 2009/08/12 21:47:40 +0000

Difficulty: Involved

Comment by Eevee from 2009/08/12 22:41:54 +0000

Target version: — ⇨ 9

Comment by Eevee from 2010/04/13 19:28:44 +0000

Target version: 9 ⇨ 8

Comment by Eevee from 2010/04/13 20:02:40 +0000

category_id: None ⇨ 3

Comment by Eevee from 2010/04/13 20:13:00 +0000

Target version: 8 ⇨ —

Comment by Eevee from 2010/10/08 08:00:25 +0000

Assignee ⇨ —

Comment by En-Cu-Kou from 2011/09/24 18:12:55 +0000

Assignee ⇨ En-Cu-Kou

Comment by En-Cu-Kou from 2011/09/25 20:04:18 +0000

Okay. As an intermediate step between ad-hoc wiki notes and a relational database, I created a googly spreadsheet. It’s read-only to prevent spam, please do request access if you have anything to add. There I’m collecting the wiki data and whatever else I can find on this. (Generation I is veeeery close to done now.) And I’m making a script to load it all into the DB.

For the later generations we’ll want to contact Guested of Project Pokémon. Hopefully we can get a hold of his database, and figure out a way to sync as new events are added.

CatTrinket commented 10 years ago

I didn't realize you had this issue, but given that I've already started working on it, and you seem to have abandoned it, I'm assigning to myself.

jrubinator commented 6 years ago

Is there meaningful work done on this? If not, would it make sense to begin splitting this out, eg. into

This doesn't cover everything (eg. Snorlax, birds, Mewtwo just from G1), but it would make the size of this much more manageable - the three I mentioned might almost be trivial if we're okay adding "gift" and "trade" encounter methods (I don't have a firm enough understanding of the data model to promise they will be trivial). Roaming might be a tad harder - perhaps a meta-location of some type?

EDIT @Zhorken - not sure why this comment unassigned you.

CatTrinket commented 6 years ago

No worries, I don't actually work on veekun anymore anyway, hahah.

magical commented 6 years ago

Looks like projectpokemon's event database is on github now: https://github.com/projectpokemon/EventsGallery