Pokemon Fragments

[Lord Windos]

If your going to do the merchant and theif proffessions, though, here is a couple of extra ideas:

For the merchant, put a little to how much he can sell per day. Since he will be making double off all things he sell, and buys things up to 50% off, merch. could quickly max out there Poke in a couple of hours. By limiting the amt they sale per day, it requires merchants to find/produce the highest value items he can to get the bang for his buck. As the merchant progress through the game, his discounts they gets at stores/markets will go up, and the amount they can sell per day increases by a set number. This will (Hopefully) balance early game to end game, as by the time you could really exploit the system, you basically are at the point of the game when your supposed to.

For Robber/Thief, like the idea of it being something akin to hard mode. If its going to be a different mode of gameplay, why not have a different rival? Like a dectective who has been personally assigned to bring the theif in from his crime spree. As the game goes on, they will grow increasingly more devoted to their case, and get more and more frustrated with the criminal, culminating into a massive breakdown at their last battle, before being pulled of the case for getting too attatched.

What do you think?