BAM Basic Explanation + Site Traversing Advice

~Piexplode: hey yea it's basically a server dedicated to a fakemons-style project that
~Piexplode: we're working on creating, spriting, coding, etc.
Destiny Device: i see
Destiny Device: interesting idea
~Piexplode: thanks ^^
~Piexplode: it's been nice seeing how it's actually managed to
~Piexplode: become a real thing
~Piexplode: I'm mostly worried about the art atm but I have Jac trying to get a CAP artist to come help sprite for us
~Piexplode: and we've got a couple of tricks to unveil to increase server popularity, both by increasing the draw of the metagame and increase the audience aware of it
~Piexplode: as well as drawing more people to the server generally
~Piexplode: which is why there's a lot of extra rooms, is for the purpose of accomodating that if we do eventually have a larger playerbase rooted here
~Piexplode: :)
~Piexplode: and in terms of the BAM metagame itself
~Piexplode: the first obvious plus is
~Piexplode: we've removed a lot of
~Piexplode: really annoying shit like
~Piexplode: no ohko moves
~Piexplode: no evasion
~Piexplode: no stun effect on paralysis
~Piexplode: (very almost) no confusion
~Piexplode: so the main source of hax I guess is
~Piexplode: added effects/move accuracie
~Piexplode: *accuracies
~Piexplode: which imo is a fine thing for a starting point
~Piexplode: it'd be fun seeing an actual low-'hax' metagame
Destiny Device: amazing
Destiny Device: finally a competitive game
~Piexplode: we have the polar opposite in my main tier which is RBY OU so it'll be interesting learning how to play a totally contrasting metagame
Destiny Device: o.o
~Piexplode: well other metagames are competitive but I think
~Piexplode: well with RBY it's not so much uncompetitive or anything
~Piexplode: it just forces you very much to
~Piexplode: acknowledge how probability affects your play
Destiny Device: yeah
Destiny Device: that's true
Destiny Device: rby is a legit gen
~Piexplode: agreed
~Piexplode: and then I guess this being the polar opposite should make it
~Piexplode: pretty interesting
~Piexplode: also no competitively like important move has less than 80% accuracy
~Piexplode: and we also have 100% accuracy on the toxic/WoW clones
~Piexplode: in terms of my competitive credentials to suggest to you that I am capable of balancing this I guess the most I have is I did have a decent record in the ubers premier league, and I have good records generally in RBY OU
~Piexplode: in terms of other contributers I do have like other ubers staff generally (which is where a lot of my friends are from)
Destiny Device: i'd love to see
~Piexplode: ^_^
~Piexplode: in terms of what you can do to help, there is a bit of a barrier to outright creation at the moment, and there's a lot to learn
~Piexplode: the website is free to sign up on, read upon, comment upon, etc.
~Piexplode: we're basically at the point where
~Piexplode: every competitively relevant move is created
~Piexplode: we're trying to complete the movepools of the current pokemon
~Piexplode: we're aiming for a limit of around 60 pokemon
~Piexplode: we currently are on a quite long hiatus (it's been well over a month now)
~Piexplode: at about 40 pokemon
~Piexplode: trying to work out stuff such as
~Piexplode: abilities that need distribution, moves that need distribtuion
~Piexplode: support moves that need more distribution or more varied distribution than they currently hav e
Destiny Device: how that turns out to be
Destiny Device: great
Destiny Device: can you link me it?
Destiny Device: oh nvm, PS lags
~Piexplode: http://projectbam.proboards.com/
Destiny Device: forget that first line
~Piexplode: well there's the forums
~Piexplode: in terms of navigating the main features
~Piexplode: in BAM Extra there's a WIP beginner's guide
~Piexplode: but that has complete summary of the majorly different competitiv emoves (so stuff like type STABs aren't included)
~Piexplode: BAM Moves and BAM Abilties have
~Piexplode: threads both titled Overview
~Piexplode: which are each sticky
~Piexplode: *stickied
~Piexplode: an important mechanic is also detailed in BAM Extra is called terrains which is
~Piexplode: very important so worth a read upon too
~Piexplode: and then that leaves looking at the actual pokemon
~Piexplode: in teh BAM Pokemon subforum there's a thread caleld Pokedex which
~Piexplode: assigns numbers, typing, base stats, and possibly names to all of the pokemon with threads
~Piexplode: inside eac respective threads however is their ability, movepool, and any artwork and commentary
~Piexplode: ^_^
~Piexplode: so that's how to navigate the site for the most part :)