gen 3 rom hack design ideas

Type badge boosts (17 gyms)
Huge starting city with 4 gyms for the 4 stat badge boosts, totalling 21 gyms in the region.
9 Starters
types are
Fighting - Flying - Rock,
Poison - Grass - Ground,
Fire - Dragon - Ice.

Require 1 Badge to challenge the 'e4', with Badge amount bands
Lower badge count = less byes in a tournament = have to defeat more trainers
Gyms Difficulty (levels and teams) scale to how many badges you have.
If you skip events (stopping the evil team) they will show up with whatever you didn't stop them from getting, such as legendary pokemon.
Your rival is an ash% runner, yes there will be a battle where you fight a trainer with 29 tauros.

Desert/Mountain region theme.

Scizor Unown trainer