Is up and available from the download page on the main site graciously linked for your convenience right here!

Note I did something new with the downloads this time- If you're updating from a full Episode 7 copy (or Episode 8 beta) you can use the 50 MB download instead of that hulking 250 MB one and just merge it with your existing game folder.

As far as what else... Well, in lieu of actually coming up with content for a news post, I'll just copy the patch notes from the episode's readme:

*    The Name Rater has been changed- you can now rename traded Pokemon.
*    Mudkip, Tepig and Bulbasaur events should be fixed.
*    The city music is currently in the process of being re-done (2/8)...
*    The Drifloon event has been fixed! If you were robbed of your chance to get a Drifloon, and you're highly invested in getting one, contact Amethyst and we'll see what we can do.
*    Nosepass and Magneton now evolve by being levelled up inside the Abandoned Power Plant
*    The Ice Rock for Glaceon does not yet exist. Moss Rock exists somewhere within Chrysolia Forest.
*    Roaming Pokemon have been removed from the wild, and made into normal event Pokemon that will play sort-of Hide-and-Seek games with you (Such as Lillipup formerly)
*    The weather patterns have been reworked to be more stable- Weather now properly calculates the day of the week leading to more reliable reports; It will no longer be sunny at night. Sun now works again.
*    Partner Trainers now use more than one Pokemon. >>:
*    A Move Deleter has been added to the North Obsidia Ward
*    The endless rain after the Orphanage event should be fixed. If it's been storming in your game for ages, this might be why. Reset it by travelling anywhere on Amy's boat.

Enjoy!

Okay, so quick shizzle post.

((fun fact, gizoogle tried to turn every instance of "movie" into "porno" and im like nope we're not having porno night))

Okay, so firstly! As promised last week, Ladders have been reset for.. every tier ever, even some tiers I didn't even know we had, but, you know, whatever!
As such, we're starting up a new laddering competition!
 
Again, this runs across all tiers, the top three non-duplicate names of every tier with a top score of over 1300 will be awarded prizes. c:
And I didn't think I needed to say this before, but... no boosting, really. If you were found boosting before, then you are ineligible for this competition as well.
This contest will end at the end of spring, AKA June 21!
 
We'll also be doing some final tiering stuff piece by piece as we go, probably starting next week. So, look for that.
 
 
 
Now, um, you might be wondering what I mean by "final".
Nyu notified me a few days ago that with the latest dev version of the serverside PO stuff, a note was posted-- Now that I think about this, I wonder if I'm actually not supposed to be telling people this publically... oops. ...Anyway, a note was posted to the server developer people (which includes Nyu).  Basically, when Gen 6 comes around, as we know, it isn't using the traditional sprite set up that every other game to date has, in favor of the whole 3d Rendering thing. As a result, it's apparently looking to be problematic to incorporate on PO, and as such, um. Coyotte has said that he plans to discontinue support for PO with the advent of Gen 6.
 
So that's fun.
 
This poses a few problems for us, but as the staff, we had talked about this before when Gen 6 was released, and already decided on a plan of action in this event.
Basically, Reborn isn't going to end with PO. The league will, and that's - well, it might be time.  But we're going to change the community a bit, and keep on keeping on.
Currently, the plan is to migrate to an alternate chat client. We're not sure quite what this will be- likely something such as IRC. We'll see what our options are.
 
Furthermore, rather than limiting ourselves to Pokemon without any real simulator to back that up, we're going to expand into a general gaming community. Specifically, we will probably begin offering more site features and support for things like Minecraft and in particular, League of Legends.
 
We already have a lot of users who are heavily entrenched in these games- and we've had our own MC server for forever already. I think focusing on these things, the variety of online multiplayer games we all enjoy besides (but still including!) Pokemon, will be a positive step forward to the community. And besides, like 90% of us already play LoL, so it's only appropriate.
 
There is one issue with this change, and that is actually our domain name. Obviously poke-place doesn't mean much for a general gaming community, but I would like to keep the handle of 'Reborn'. We need to switch to a new domain, and I'm not sure what yet, but I am totally up to suggestions. I would love to do something as simple as reborn.com but it's unlikely I can get that. My second thought is something like reborngaming.com
 
Totally open to ideas. I'd really want something shorter, though, and preferably without that ostentatious hyphen we've got now. 
 
 
TL;DR: Ladder reset, competition over, PO is ending and Reborn is converting to a general gaming/LoL community- looking for suggestions on the new domain.
 
I ask everyone to bear with us through this transition. Even though our time with PO may come to an end, I can promise that we as a community will be... Reborn~

ily guys

Hi! Okay, so Episode 7 of da gaemz is here!

http://www.poke-place.com/game/

As always, you don't need to do anything special to keep your save, just download the new thing and unzip wherever, probably delete the old download if you want to save space idk, and have fun~

I've included notes in the read-me this time, so enough about that.

Some site points!

...Holy crap after 10 years of using this forum software I just learned how to tab.

Button! See!

I'm sorry, that's exciting to me, I suddenly want to make a lot of really pretty posts. But that actually isn't the button I was looking for, this is:

• The Rupee System is fixed! It turns out the forum update didn't actually break anything, it just turned it off, but that was enough to fool me because I'm dumb
• I've also fixed some things on the Trainer Card import feature. Namely, it should accept the new formes from B/W2. I also added a note about importing Pokemon with fewer than 4 moves, which presently causes the error wherein one pokemon is duplicated on the card. This was kind of funny because the Pokemon with less than 4 moves was almost always Ditto, so Ditto basically just transformed into its neighbor even on the Trainer Card and I, for one, thought that was a very clever move on Ditto's part BUT some others were not so highly amused, so you know how to avoid that now.
• I've begun adding some other pages for the Reborn Game. Things for troubleshooting and advertising and being cool and- the idea was for these things to be done so I could brag about them in this news post but that didn't happen so you know whatever you'll see them soon.
• I had promised that we would reset the ladder and go into the next competition for Spring on the 21st and to make a long story short that did not happen, so, instead we'll start on April 1st. Also, rather than doing tier revisions in big conglomerated lumps, I think we'll just be moving things piece by piece for now. I think the first thing we'll be looking at is going to be Kyurem-B. Let's keep discussion about that out of this topic here though; I'm just letting you guys know my plan.
• !

There's like 49383495 other things and by that I mean more like 3 other things that I'm considering posting here but for various reason I elect not to but as such you should expect more soon

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• !

...is here! Took me long enough.

Y'all know the drill by now. Head over to this fine lookin' page to download it~

Process for animated sprites is the same as the last release.

Save files are preserved as usual,

HOWEVER

Part of why this took so long is because I went through and re-balanced the entire game so far in terms of levels, etc. So, things play a bit smoother from start to finish now, however, for people who are continuing old save files, you're going to be a bit overpowered. The actual average level of the game shrunk by about 5-7 level, so if you're continuing and find yourself a bit a head, that's why.

Enjoi~

(that's french for 'enjoy')

((maybe))