Looking for something to do?

Due to the amount of people complaining about POL taking too long, I have a list of positions available within the Staff ranks. These positions are as follows:

POL Spriting Team
- NPC Minisprite Creation (POL Template provided, character assignments are in a priority list) Aiding in the completion of this task gets you first-ins on the Player Minisprite Styles/Clothes/Accessories' Development process.
- NPC Battle Sprite Creation (DPPt/HgSs quality 80px by 80px size sprites) Aiding in the completion of this task gets you first-ins on the Player Battle Sprite Styles/Clothes/Accessories' Development process.
- Pokémon Minisprite Creation (Adapt HgSs minisprites using a pre-organized guideline to POL scale and quality.)
- Pokémon Battlesprite Creation (DPPt/HgSs quality two-frame 80px by 80px size sprite sheets. Limited tasks currently open. Position includes sprite adaptations such as Pinkan stylings, and rare Event sprites.)
- Tile Development (Design area tiles for use in POL maps) Aiding in the completion of this task opens up for opportunities in Map Development tasks.
- Map Development (Design area maps from scratch based on assigned sample references and resources. Not related to the POL Mapper Team position.)

POL Graphics Team
- NPC Character Animator (Develop high-resolution artwork in the Sugimori style for important NPC dialogues. Requires Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop.)
- Sequence Animator (Join in with the Animation crew to help in the creation of anime-grade sequence animations for use in events. Requires Adobe Flash.)
- Web Graphic Development (Create Raster and Vector graphics for future use in POL's web designs. Requires Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe Flash.)

POL Mapping Team
- Area Mapping (Recreate maps using the POL Mapeditor and provided outlines to make them usable in-game. Also identify and report missing tiles to Tile Development team.)

POL Databasing & Wiki Team
- TCG Data Compilation (Gather and compile data on the Pokémon Trading Card Game for use in POL on the POLwiki)

If you are willing to apply for any of these positions, please do not hesitate to PM Platinum. If you have any questions, you can also contact Joe Schmo or Damo. You may also find us on Skype.

Luke

So, I'm not sure how many people here on the forums knew or spoke to Luke, his username was "nobodyreally" and he was our amazing game server programmer, as well as organizing the wiki, administrating and developing the website, and organizing the databases. He was one of the greatest contributors to the progress of POL, and one of the greatest minds (probably the greatest) behind it's overall technical design and the way the game functions on a technical level.

About a year into the development of POL, Luke was diagnosed with leukemia and became extremely sick. He still contributed as much to the project as he could, and much more than anybody could have expected or asked of him.

On the 5th of June at around 4am, Luke passed away in his sleep.

I'm posting this so that the POL community can talk about him and express their feelings, and so that anybody that didn't know Luke can discover how amazing he was and how important he was to the project.

A Few Forum Changes.

The old 'Arts & Graphics' section has been renamed to 'The Arts'.
It now contains sub forums such as 'Music' and 'Movies, TV and Videos'.
Thanks for all the suggestions.

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There are two new related forum BBCodes, these are called [tag] and [goto].

Here is an example of their usage:


This allows you to tag parts of a post for people to jump to by clicking [goto] links. This will also work between posts on the same page. Let me know if you find this useful or think it should be changed etc.

The Pokemon Online Member Award Results

Here are the results of this year's Member Awards. Many thanks to Bluarachnia for helping with the process of counting votes!

The Members
-Coolest Member: KaneFails (4 votes) followed by Sandstorm (3 votes)
-Smartest Member: Dennon (4 votes) followed by Pandepic (3 votes)
-Nicest Member: Pandepic (5 votes) followed by Joe Schmo (4 votes)
-Funniest Member: Sato (9 votes) followed with a group tie
-Most Bizarre Member: Sato (12 votes) followed by Phoenix Wright (3 votes)
-Best Personality: Light_Fairy (3 votes) followed by a group tie
-Most Helpful Member: Joe Schmo (13 votes) followed by Furs(3 votes)
-Best Female: Kiyo (5 votes) followed by Darklion (4 votes) and Misery (4 votes)
-Best Male: Pandepic (4 votes) followed by Joe Schmo (2 votes
-Best New Member: Misery (11 votes) followed by Phoenix Wright (9 votes)
-Most Improved Member: Mudkip (2 votes) followed by a group tie
-N00b of the Year: Phoenix Wright (9 votes) followed by Raulaun (3 votes)

The Arts
-Most Creative/Talented Member: Darklion (10 votes) followed by Cratesh'ya (4 votes)
-Best Drawer: Darklion (14 votes) followed by Dennon (2 votes) and Cratesh'ya (2 votes)
-Best Graphics Artist: Decypher (5 votes) followed by Misery (4 votes) and Darklion (4 votes)
-Best Spriter: Furs (15 votes) followed by a group tie
-Best Avatar: Pandepic (3 votes) followed by Xadow (2 votes)
-Best Signature: Pandepic(3 votes) and Decypher (3 votes) followed by FireRush (2 votes)
-Best Pokemon Author: Cratesh'ya (8 votes) followed by Lampshade (2 votes)
-Best Original Author: Old Man Reaver (2 votes) and Lampshade (2 votes) followed by a group tie
-Best Roleplayer: Misery (4 votes) followed by XunknownX (3 votes)

The Support
-Best Debater: Joe Schmo (9 votes) followed by Sato (5 votes)
-Best NBL Participant: Xadow (5 votes) followed by Old Man Reaver(2 votes)
-Best Tactician/Strategist: Xadow (4 votes) followed by Sandstorm (2 votes)
-True Pokemon Fan: Pikolan (7 votes) followed by a group tie

The Gossip
-Cutest Couple: FireRush/Dragonair (6 votes) followed by Pandepic/Misery (5 votes)
-Good Looking Female: Misery (10 votes) followed by Kiyo (2 votes)
-Good Looking Male: Sandstorm (5 votes) followed by Pandepic (3 votes)
-Jealous Idol: Furs (4 votes) followed by Kiyo (2 votes)
-Trend Setter: FireRush for the ♥♦♣♠ symbols in Skype (5 votes) followed by Darklion (4 votes)
-Dedicated Member: FireRush (8 votes) followed by Joe Schmo (3 votes)
-Wish You Were Here: Pikolan (3 votes) followed by Singh2266 (2 votes)
-Wish You Were More Active: Tani (2 votes) Light_Fairy (2 votes) and Pikolan (2 votes) followed by a group tie
-Best Comeback: LampShade (10 votes) followed by a group tie

The High Stakes

-Best Moderator: FireRush(16 votes) followed by Kiyo (4 votes)
-Best Administrator: Pandepic (6 votes) and Dennon (6 votes) followed by Platinum (5 votes)
-Best Supporter: Joe Schmo (5 votes) followed by Old Man Reaver (3 votes) and Bluarachnia (3 votes)
-Award for Outstanding Contribution to: Furs (8 votes) followed by Joe Schmo (2 votes)
-Unsung Hero: Nobodyreally (4 votes) and Bluarachnia (4 votes) followed by Furs (3 votes)

Member of the Year
1st place: Darklion (49 votes) and Misery (49 votes)
2nd place: Joe Schmo (46 votes)
3rd place: FireRush (45 votes)

Happy New Year

Not an offically sanctioned message by the team but Happy New Year to everyone, hope you all are having fun at a party somewhere. :)

Nobodyreally

The Pokemon Online 2009 Member Awards

The Pokemon Online 2009 Member Awards have begun nominations, and this is your chance to vote for Member of the Year!

The voting thread, as well as the rules, can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2640&p=45201#p45201

Only votes are to be submitted in that thread. The voting deadline is January 15th, 2010. Votes will be counted soon after that.

Have fun and happy voting!

P.I.C.H.U - Event 1

The tournament has now started, all participants can go here viewtopic.php?f=55&t=2572&p=44007#p44007 to check who they need to organise their matches with. Good luck to everyone

Community Relations

Just a small update here, Joeschmo is now our official Community Relations leader. Not too much will change from this announcement as he has pretty much already been doing that job of his own free will, we just thought he deserved for it to be official now. Any new or old members with questions or concerns about the community or the game in general should now direct them towards him.

P.I.C.H.U - Event 1

Ok so we're going to host this year's big tournament event for POL. It will almost definitely be a Shoddybattle event, but if people want to enter and they can't use Shoddybattle we can work out other things. I'm posting this as an update early because I want to see how much interest there is for this. If you want to participate in this tournament just vote in the poll so I can get an idea of how many people we'd have.

Proposed prizes:

• 1st Place: A second starter Pokémon of your choosing when the game is released, any non-legendary unevolved Pokémon.
• 2nd Place: A full set of contest berries.

If you have any ideas for other prizes or replacement prizes please also post them here, as well as general tournament suggestions. Please also keep spam out of this thread.

Attention Teams

This is just an update to say that from now until the game release, teams wont be suspended for inactivity. Inactivity rules regarding teams will resume one week after the game is released.

EDIT: All teams already suspended will still have to follow the regular protocol if they want to be re-activated, but we wont delete the team thread until one week after the game release.