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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What if pokemon migrated and if you caught a pokemon from the same migratory data the Pokedex would reflect such. Say two pokemon caught in two different patches of grass but the data shows the spinda's(example) markings show that family of spinda travelled to the second patch of grass during the time of year you caught the second one.
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@Eremas I would agree with the migratory pattern for the Pokemon. For example, do the swanna truly fly south for the winter and where?
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Migratory and native species data is great.
But what is there was an opportunity for a quest to resolutely see Pokémon Eggs’ lay time and location? That way you can track a certain Pokémon and see if there are more thriving in the wild! As you all said, migratory data could track and predict where a Pokémon is going to settle and lay eggs as well as tracking where they have travelled in the past. To do this, I’m guessing there is going to be an AI that automatically gives you the information after you caught it and when you see it so you can finally catch that Gardevior that’s been moving around!!
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