Vs Seeker?

[Sam24]

Ok so I'm one of those people who found the Vs. Seeker in Fire Red/Leaf Green very helpful because it helped me a lot when I needed to Level Up. In Ruby/Sapphire they changed this idea, so now that only certain trainers will battle you if you have their phone numbers. I personally found this really annoying because trainers will only battle you when their "ready", so I had to rely less on trainers and more on battling Pokémon which I found a more longer and tedious experience. Here's my question. Would it be possible to do any of the following:
Create a Vs. Seeker (either PokéGear function or item) that functions in the same or in any similar way to Fire Red/Leaf Green
Or make it make it 10 times easier for registered trainers to agree to battle you.


Like always any help is appreciated. :)

 

[Maruno]

I don't know how the Vs Seeker works, which is one of the main reasons I haven't attempted to invent it. I certainly never used it. What I do know is that it involves showing the trainers dancing around and waving their arms, which involves extra graphics which is generally a pain to deal with.

Phone-registered trainers have a cooldown period of 2000+rand(2000) quarters of a second, i.e. between 8m20s and 16m40s, before they can be rebattled. You can cut down on this time period. You can also disable them phoning you if you like, and rename the phone to the Match Call. The phone app already shows which trainers are ready for rebattling.

A trainer doesn't have to call you before they can be rebattled. The call is just an indicator that they're ready.

 

[Sam24]

Where in the scripts would I go about changing the time period? (I'm fairly bad at the using the script editor)

 

[Maruno]

Searching for 2000+rand(2000) is the logical first (and only) step.

 

[Sam24]

Found it! Thanks. But can ask one more question out of curiosity. How would I disable people from calling me?

 

[Maruno]

The bit of code about 10 lines below that is what makes the random phone calls happen. Get rid of it.

 

[Sam24]

Okay So at line 218 I think it was, I deleted the following


def pbRandomPhoneItem(array)
ret=array[rand(array.length)]
ret="" if !ret
return pbGetMessageFromHash(MessageTypes::PhoneMessages,ret)
end
def pbPhoneGenerateCall(phonenum)
call=""
phoneData=pbLoadPhoneData
# Choose random greeting depending on time of day
call=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.greetings)
time=pbGetTimeNow
if PBDayNight.isMorning?(time)
modcall=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.greetingsMorning)
call=modcall if modcall && modcall!=""
elsif PBDayNight.isEvening?(time)
modcall=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.greetingsEvening)
call=modcall if modcall && modcall!=""
end
call+="\\m"
if phonenum[4]==2 || (rand(2)==0 && phonenum[4]==3)
# If "can battle" is set, make ready to battle
call+=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.battleRequests)
pbSetReadyToBattle(phonenum)
phonenum[4]=3
elsif rand(4)<3
# Choose random body
call+=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.bodies1)
call+="\\m"
call+=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.bodies2)
else
# Choose random generic
call+=pbRandomPhoneItem(phoneData.generics)
end
return call
end
def pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctype)
return 0 if !enctype
len=[enctype.length,4].min
return enctype[rand(len)][0]
end
def pbEncounterSpecies(phonenum)
return "" if !phonenum[6] || phonenum[6]==0
begin
data=load_data("Data/encounters.dat")
return "" if !data
enctypes=data[phonenum[6]][1]
rescue
return ""
end
species=pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctypes[0]) # Land
species=pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctypes[1]) if species==0 # Cave
species=pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctypes[9]) if species==0 # LandMorning
species=pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctypes[10]) if species==0 # LandDay
species=pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctypes[11]) if species==0 # LandNight
species=pbRandomEncounterSpecies(enctypes[2]) if species==0 # Water
return "" if species==0
return PBSpecies.getName(species)
end


The game still runs fine, but is that all the text associated with trainers randomly phoning me. If not then tell me what other lines I need to delete. (Keep in mind this script was unmodified before I posted this.

 

[Maruno]

I swear that's not what I said. Here's what I was referring to:

     if $PokemonGlobal.phoneTime%10==0
       for num in $PokemonGlobal.phoneNumbers
         if num[0] && num.length==8 # if visible and a trainer
           if num[4]==0 # needs resetting
             num[3]=[COLOR=Green]2000+rand(2000)[/COLOR] # set time to can-battle
             num[4]=1
           end
           num[3]-=1
           if num[3]<=0 && num[4]==1
             num[4]=2 # set ready-to-battle flag
             pbSetReadyToBattle(num)
           end
         end
       end
     end
     [COLOR=Red]if $PokemonGlobal.phoneTime<=0
       # find all trainer phone numbers
       phonenum=pbRandomPhoneTrainer
       if phonenum
         call=pbPhoneGenerateCall(phonenum)
         pbPhoneCall(call,phonenum)
       end
     end[/COLOR]
   end
}

How many lines of code are between the green bit and the red bit? About 10.

What you've done by deleting all that code you mentioned is cause the game to crash when it next tries to generate a phone call.

 

[Sam24]

Okay then, It's a good thing I kept a backup file. :)
Here's what the file looks like now.

Spoiler:

if $PokemonGlobal.phoneTime%10==0
for num in $PokemonGlobal.phoneNumbers
if num[0] && num.length==8 # if visible and a trainer
if num[4]==0 # needs resetting
num[3]=50+rand(50) # set time to can-battle
num[4]=1
end
num[3]-=1
if num[3]<=0 && num[4]==1
num[4]=2 # set ready-to-battle flag
pbSetReadyToBattle(num)
end
end
end
end
end

Will this work? If so than thanks and sorry if I'm becoming annoying. lol

 

[Maruno]

I'll let you answer your own question by testing it.