Troll Reclassification

When looking at the legends board, I noticed that we have a whooooooole lot of people who don't get past level 2. That's not a big surprise. People only start off with 10 nets, and you need at least 8 monsters to make it to level 2, so some people will run out when they're on level 2 and stop there. And others will lose interest before that. The thing that bothers me about it though is that some of our favorite monsters are on Level 3, particularly Octogirl and Taroostula. That means a whole lot of people never see those.

To change that, today I swapped level 2 monsters -- the Trolls -- with the level 3 monsters -- the Hybrids. Of course this only affects people at Level 2. I figure that if someone got to Level 2 but never found a troll, it doesn't really affect them either. All the trolls will disappear and all the hybrids will appear, but they've still only found Level 1 monsters.

The people really affected are Level 2 who have found a Troll, and therefore were progressing to Level 3. Now they're count of Level 2 monsters will start over. That's a little unfair. At first I thought I'd just promote all those people. There are 79 of them. But I know that many are not active, and I thought it would look strange on the Legendsd board to have so many Level 3, and many that haven't even caught the required 8 monsters. So I decided to just promote those people to Level 3 if they request it. I made that the sole Message of the Day for a while, and posted it on Facebook. I doubt there will be many requests.
  NOW LEVEL 3

NOW LEVEL 2

Google's Pokemon Challenge April Fool's joke

Today Google published a video that was a half-joke.  It's April Fool's Day, and the joke is that they are hiring Pokemon masters who can prove their skills at catching Pokemon.


 The non-joke part of it is that they actually put a mini-game in Google Maps so that you could see Pokemon in Google Maps, tap on the monster, and catch it.  The big differences are that

1. You don't have to physically go to the location the monster is to catch it.  You can just scroll your map wherever you want.  
2. All their monsters seem to be centered around Google headquarters

We're going to post a few comments on blogs, and on YouTube, to let people know that Monster Cache is a real game that already does this.  We'll see if we can generate any traffic.  As of today, we have about 800 accounts in the system and 235 players on the Legends board (making 29% of registered users who have ever found a monster).