Making the dex more complicated.
I am taking a course on ecology and one of the projects we had to do was do some bird watching, basically going to locations and monitoring what birds we saw. What if in the Pokemon games on top of recording species it had us recording species habitat and population size. With the shift to open world Pokemon games it is more possible to do species counting and perhaps with popular species monitoring methods like mark and recapture it could truly feel like we are completing the Pokedex.
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The Pokédex's function is kind of ambiguous. Are you cataloguing new species or collecting already discovered species? If it's the latter, what would happen if you actually discovered a new species? How does it handle mythical Pokémon or things like Arceus.
I guess PLA confirms that Sinnoh researchers had already encountered Arceus during the creation of the Hisui Pokédex.
Does the Pokédex have some form of AI capable of analysing new species on the fly?
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The only possibility is that the pokedex compiles all of the data of all the Pokemon caught by each trainer to determine their range. For new Pokemon my guess on why it wouldn't record it is because the range of the species may extend out to the new discovery location but the distribution is so low that the species may not live there (like how you can find Nidoran in Sinnoh but they aren't part of the Pokedex, the ecosystem is not suitable for the Nidoran population to thrive and are outcompeted by other species for the same resources which would explain why they cannot be normally encountered in Sinnoh).
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I missed the footprint part of the Pokedex in Sinnoh. I would like to see an expanded habitat area for the Pokemon. Milotic for example can be a Marine Pokemon as much as freshwater.
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