Hey POL! It’s the first of the month, which means it’s time for another progress update!

I’ve got 2 things to talk about this month: spriting and mapping. I’ll start with spriting.

As I’ve mentioned in previous months, we’re making a big push to finish up all of the apparel for POL. It’s a big task, and we’re not done with it yet, but a lot of people have been asking for examples of the work we’ve been doing, and I’ve been cleared this month to show you some of our apparel that we have finished. This should give you an idea of what we have on the apparel. As you can see, it’s a tedious process, but we are making progress!

With mapping, I have a couple of new numbers for you. Our current task is creating the source maps for Johto. Unfortunately, we can’t use the source maps from any of the Pokemon games since there were no Johto-region games made in Gen III, which is the style that we are using for POL. Our team has been working on this for a couple of weeks, and we are currently 78% done with the outdoor areas. We’ve finished all of the Johto cities, and we only have the special areas left, like the National Park. After we finish the source map process, we can begin the custom spriting that will be necessary to fill in the “gaps” that we have, and then we can start tiling and mapping.

That’s all I have for this month! As always, if you have any questions/comments/suggestions/concerns, feel free to post them here! And if you want to know how you can get involved, just let me know and I’ll be happy to help.

Can't wait, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the Progress Update Joe!

Thought I'd just mention the Wiki Progress. Not a whole lot happened Wiki wise in July. We had a new person help out, and we were making good progress getting him trained, but life came up for him, and so he won't be contributing for a while. Naero, my Co-Staff member has also mysteriously disappeared, lol. I figure he's just busy with life, and will show up sooner or later. But before he left, we managed to solidify a method for finding POL's custom Appearance Rates. A guide will be put together... someday... on how that all works. And as for me, I've been focusing on helping with the Johto mapping, so my progress on the Wiki has also been dismal :( so I will have to do better this month.

But regardless of the Wiki, we are making great progress though, so lets keep up the good work guys!

Thanks for the support, Jireh!

And thanks for the update on the wiki, Creoix. I didn't mention too much with the wiki since it didn't seem like much happened the last month with all the johto source mapping and the DDoS attack (which also took the wiki down for a few days at the end). It's good that everything's coming along, though!

True, I figured that was why. I just like keeping the Wiki in peoples thoughts :)

There was a major contribution to the Wiki that I did forget to mention though. Joe, amazing work on the TCG2 Article!

You can see Joe's outstanding work: Here.

Haha thank you very much for the credit! I did do a lot of work with the GB2 article and formatting the deck and card lists and adding relevant info, and things of that nature. One of the open projects with the wiki is databasing a lot of Pokemon TCG information, so I was just doing some to help out with that :)

I apologize that I have made no prior effort to informing you of my current situation, but I will address it here: My laptop died out due to faulty hardware issues, and I have very limited access to a desktop (often occupied by others in my household). Unfortunately, we are not in a financial position to invest money into the cost for repairing it. Thus, I'm putting in more rigorous efforts towards my personal job hunt; I'll be reliant on my own independent income to cover the repair cost ASAP, which I have no certain time estimation on.

Reiterating, I apologize to everyone I left uninformed who were curious in regards to my absence from all of my expected duties. I will likely remain globally inactive from POL until this issue is sorted out, but I will attempt to visit the forums and IRC irregularly in the meantime - I will not download Skype on this computer, however, because I'd prefer to restrict my usage (namely downloads) on a household-shared computer that is being used temporarily. I'll attempt to contribute to the wiki in the meantime, when given spare time to do so; however, without many tools/files downloaded on my laptop used to facilitate my work, massive efforts might not be made until my laptop is usable again.

On-topic: Thank you as usual for delivering the progress report, Joe. It's good to see all of the more intricate departments contemporarily making good progress; not to mention, it's relieving to we've finally advanced past the progress point of all of the repeated "Closer and closer to completing Kanto mapping" reports. Hopefully we maintain this pace of progress in all departments.

Thanks for the personal update, Naero! It's good to know that everything is alright with you. Sorry to hear about the laptop, though. Hopefully everything will work out with that in the near future!

Naero! Hey, glad to hear you are doing okay man. I found it odd that you were suddenly gone, but I figured everything was fine.

As for the hiatus you'll be on, totally fine. Life happens, so do what you've gotta do. And if you can still find time to contribute, that's awesome.

I appologize for my lacking on the Wiki end as well. But knowing us, when we get back on the ball, we'll show these POL'ers why we are the greatest Staff group here on POL (If anyone disagrees, show us by working harder ). Well except for the Community Relations Group of course, cause you just can't beat that group. And anyone who wants to help out with the Wiki, just PM me, or post here. After finally finishing some templates, there is much to do on the Wiki.

It's September post dat proggie