Site Back Up, Forums Back Up... Wiki Still Down.

So after an unexpected chain of exceptionally annoying complications with the server transfer, the main site and forums are back up and running. The wiki however, has been less fortunate. We are currently doing our best to get it back up and functional again, however at this time I can only ask for your patience.

As of January 17th, we are still restoring certain elements of the site, it may take up to 72 hours for the entire thing to regain full function.

POL Progress Update 12/1/11

Hey, POL! It’s a new month, and that means a new progress update!

As in recent updates, I don’t have much to say this month. We’re slowly but surely making progress with finishing and perfecting all of the Kanto maps, though for some of us, school has been pretty demanding lately. Unfortunately this means that we have less time to give to POL, but hopefully once the winter (or summer, if you’re in the southern hemisphere!) holidays will bring an increase in productivity.

In the graphics department, we’re still having trouble finding motivated people to work on accessory spriting. There is a small amount of progress being made, but it’s not yet at the level that we’d like it to be.

That’s about all I have to say this month! If you have any questions/comments/concerns/suggestions, as always, you can post them in this thread or send me a PM!

POLWiki Lockdown

The POLWiki Lockdown is now over, we have had to disable account creation, so there is a new rule to follow. I need to stress that this is for Wiki accounts only, and you do not have to message me for a forum account. Wiki only. To create a forum account, you can go here.

If you wish to have a Wiki account created, here is how you do it:

• Email us, this email address is to be used when you cannot get a hold on any of the following people.
  
• PM Damo
  
• PM Platinum
  
• PM Travonte

All messages sent to the above accounts must include:

• (In case of email) Forum name
• (In case of forum PM) Email address for confirmation email to be sent to
• Desired POLWiki account name and second choice in the case said name is taken
• More to be added when I think of it

If you have any issues, please do not hesitate to message the above people. The email address listed above will also be used for anything POLWiki related including queries and complaints.

Thank you for your patience during this downtime

The POLWiki Staff

POL Wiki Editing

Editing of the POL Wiki is going to be disabled for a while until we find a way to upgrade the security to stop bots from spamming the wiki pages. Feel free to PM one of the staff if you have knowledge of how to protect a wiki from this kind of spam.

Member Rewards Results 2010

The Member of the Year of 2010:
First Place: Furs
Second Place: A tie between Platinum and Firerush
Third Place: Joe Schmo

The Members
-Coolest Member: Platinum Followed by a group tie
-Smartest Member: A group tie consisting of Reaver, Platinum, Dennon, Joe Schmo and Pandepic
-Nicest Member: A group tie consisting of Joe Schmo, Furs, Dibardi, Misery, Kanefails and Dragonair
-Funniest Member: Sato Followed by a group tie
-Most Bizarre Member: Sato Followed by a group tie
-Best Personality: A group tie consisting of Cactus Jack, Travonte, Damo, Kiyo, Kanefails and Dragonair
-Most Helpful Member: A tie consisting of Damo and Joe Schmo Followed by a group tie
-Best Female: Kiyo Followed by a group tie
-Best Male: Joe Schmo Followed by a tie between Kiyo and Platinum
-Best New Member: Travonte followed by Aamelo
*Joined in 2010.
-Most Improved Member: Travonte Followed by a tie between Phoenix Wright and Mudkip
*Who has improved the most since they joined.
-N00b of the Year: A tie between Damo and Phoenix Wright Followed by Dennon

The Arts
-Most Creative/Talented Member: Platinum Followed by Furs
-Best Drawer: Furs Followed by Platinum and Darklion
-Best Graphics Artist: Furs Followed by Misery and Darklion
-Best Spriter: A tie between Furs and Platinum Followed by Blake
-Best Avatar: Damo
-Best Signature: Dennon
-Best Pokemon Author: Reaver
-Best Original Author: Lampshade
-Best Roleplayer: xUknownx

The Support
-Best Debater: Sato Followed by a group tie
*Regardless of right or wrong, who hold the power of persuasion.
-Best NBL Participant: Xadow
*Who is the best Netbattler on POL?
-Best Tactician/Strategist: A group tie consisting of Xadow, Sandstorm and Pandepic
*Who has the ability to battle and overcome opponents.
-True Pokemon Fan: A group tie consisting of Negima, Dragonair and FireRush
*Who is a real, true, die hard fan.

The Gossip
-Cutest Couple: FireRushXDragonair Followed by Phoenix WrightXMudkip
-Good Looking Female: A tie between Misery and Dragonair
*Who's the best lookin'?
-Good Looking Male: A tie between Kanefails and Kiyo
*Same as above.
-Jealous Idol: Furs followed by a tie between Misery and Joe Schmo
*Which member are you most jealous of, for any reason.
-Trend Setter: Damo
*You can vote for the trend or the person who started the trend.
-Dedicated Member: A tie between Joe Schmo and Platinum followed by FireRush
*Which member is dedicated to the forum?
-Wish You Were Here: Nobodyreally followed by a tie between VataniJ and Darklion
*Of all the members that have left this year, which one’s do you want back? This year only, if you can.
-Wish You Were More Active: A group tie consisting of VataniJ, Furs, Lightfairy and Darklion
-Best Comeback: A group tie consisting of Furs, Sato and Phoenix Wright
*Who disappeared for a while then came back bigger than ever?

The High Stakes
-Quote of the Year:
*Pick a favorite quote you remember.
-Best Moderator: FireRush followed by Damo
Best Administrator: Platinum
-Best Supporter: Joe Schmo Followed by Furs
*Vote for a member, non-Mod, that has been of helpful support to the Mods.
-Award for Outstanding Contribution to: Pandepic Followed by a group tie
-Unsung Hero: trinity_pt Followed by a group tie
*Vote for someone that has not received enough credit for his/her contributions to the forum.

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. 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