Just a quick thought to get more people using Psypoke's Trainer Cards.

If there were more awards given every, say, 3 months for Behaviour, Helpfulness, Least Spam, Most Spam etc, I think more people would use the Trainer Cards.

Hmm...What about the updates? They'd cost a lot for every 3 months. Maybe this type of update wouldn't cost anything...

[There could be a rule, you have to use the cards or whatever]

Thanks for the fair points Snowball. I thought 'Most Spam' would be...forget it. A punishment of some sort

My ideas are just basic guides to what you could make them into. As I said, just a suggestion. I thought the updates were $5 or whatever. Must've misread.

Perhaps you (or someone) should change that. Instead of getting a new trainer card, it should be in the update form. Otherwise, what is the use of the update form? If its only for rank changes and psyquest, the use of the update form seems quite limited.

(And not everyone likes the TCs. Yes, it's quite fun getting involved and all, but I don't think people should be posting for the sole purpose of getting stickers in your sig.)

Point taken, but TK is the one who scripted the request and update forms, so if this function is to be incorporated into the update form, he'll have to do it

However, I don't see a problem with filling up a "new" request form, as opposed to filling up Pokemon changes in the update form. You're gonna fill up a form anyway.

Some people happen to have limited supplies of psybucks.

If it can be worked into the update form, you (or TBK) might be able to solve that problem by allowing you to change pokemon on your TC through an update, but charging an additional, say, 5 Psybucks for each pokemon changed through this.

Well, you could have the dropdown menu to choose your pokemon from for each of the six slots, but have it default to [no change], which wouldn't change it. Maybe that would work, I'm not exactly sure how it's all scripted and stuff. Or, you could even have a check box next to each pokemon slot that you check when you want to change the pokemon in that slot, which might help with figuring out how many Psybucks that person gets charged. I dunno, just an idea that I think might be workable.

I get what you mean, but I still think it's no trouble at all to use the request form when you want to have changes to the Pokemon in your TC. You fill up a form anyway.

To be perfectly frank, scripting those two forms drove me nuts. I'm not a fan of sifting through people's code, trying to find out how the forums are structured, hacking other bits of the site to make it work, and not to mention accidentally resetting everyone's Psybucks...

I don't want to have to touch those two forms ever again. The only reason I did them was out of sympathy for Amphy and sn0wball who have to deal with so many requests for Trainer Cards.


Snow's already covered this and I completely agree.


The purpose of the update form was to, incidentally, mark a user who had completed the Psyquest or had a Rank Change. If I remember correctly, the update form does exactly that, no more and no less. And furthermore, there's no point in incorporating the functionality of the request form inside the update form - that would be duplication.


Then maybe they should find some way of earning more. Or they could just sit tight with their Trainer Card.


Since I'm going to be the one toying with all the code.. it's a nice idea, but no.

Personally I think the trainer card system is working fine, and it was a lot better than the manual system that Amphy had to endure. I know it's not perfect, but it's good enough. I appreciate your suggestions on this topic, but it's not something I want to continue to spend time and resources on when there are billions of more important things to do.