During the site’s long history, our members have asked us many questions, some of which have come up more than once and could potentially do so again in the future, as new visitors arrive. Thus, to make things easier, we’ve put all those frequently asked questions together along with their answers, in order to create the official Pokémon Factory FAQ! Learn all you ever wanted to know about PF and more in this online document. But remember: if you ever have any questions we haven’t covered, feel free to ask away. This section will always be open to additions, after all.
You can expect a version of the FAQ to appear at the forums soon as well, for even more ease of access.
Now, if you read the very first answer, you’ll notice that something has changed in regard to move suggestions: we are sad to announce that, from D/P onwards, new moves won’t be able to be suggested on their own, and therefore that the ‘Suggest a New Move’ forum will not reopen. We know many of you will be disappointed. This really wasn’t an easy choice, but we had to make it: having moves suggested only along with a pokémon will save us a lot of time, and it will also prevent having tons of moves with no pokémon to make use of them, as is the case right now.
This decision was taken while dealing with the huge backlog of move suggestions, which is being taken care of at the moment. In fact, if you head to our New Moves section, you’ll notice many that weren’t there before, which we’ve been stealthily uploading in the past weeks. As of now, all locked topics at the forum are reviewed. A lot of moves didn’t make the cut, in particular those who were incomplete and/or vague, too similar to a move suggested earlier, overpowered, or were just too closely related to a particular pokémon suggestion to be reviewed separately, among others. Feel free to revise those moves and bring them back once suggestions reopen, but be ready to include a good pokémon to back them up.
As for the moves that did make the cut, which are just as many, bear in mind that some of them may have undergone changes in the reviewing process. Some may have different names and/or effects, including being weaker or stronger, and a few may even have been moved to a new type. Thus, before considering your move rejected, make sure it wasn’t modified, or that it didn’t show up somewhere else.
To end this text-heavy update, and continuing with the issue of moves, another new and long overdue section has been added: the list of official moves whose types were changed to one of our unofficial ones. Like the one for pokémon type changes, this list isn’t subject to change, only to addition as new Nintendo moves are unveiled.
That’s finally all of today’s news, then. Discuss!
You can expect a version of the FAQ to appear at the forums soon as well, for even more ease of access.
Now, if you read the very first answer, you’ll notice that something has changed in regard to move suggestions: we are sad to announce that, from D/P onwards, new moves won’t be able to be suggested on their own, and therefore that the ‘Suggest a New Move’ forum will not reopen. We know many of you will be disappointed. This really wasn’t an easy choice, but we had to make it: having moves suggested only along with a pokémon will save us a lot of time, and it will also prevent having tons of moves with no pokémon to make use of them, as is the case right now.
This decision was taken while dealing with the huge backlog of move suggestions, which is being taken care of at the moment. In fact, if you head to our New Moves section, you’ll notice many that weren’t there before, which we’ve been stealthily uploading in the past weeks. As of now, all locked topics at the forum are reviewed. A lot of moves didn’t make the cut, in particular those who were incomplete and/or vague, too similar to a move suggested earlier, overpowered, or were just too closely related to a particular pokémon suggestion to be reviewed separately, among others. Feel free to revise those moves and bring them back once suggestions reopen, but be ready to include a good pokémon to back them up.
As for the moves that did make the cut, which are just as many, bear in mind that some of them may have undergone changes in the reviewing process. Some may have different names and/or effects, including being weaker or stronger, and a few may even have been moved to a new type. Thus, before considering your move rejected, make sure it wasn’t modified, or that it didn’t show up somewhere else.
To end this text-heavy update, and continuing with the issue of moves, another new and long overdue section has been added: the list of official moves whose types were changed to one of our unofficial ones. Like the one for pokémon type changes, this list isn’t subject to change, only to addition as new Nintendo moves are unveiled.
That’s finally all of today’s news, then. Discuss!
