Season 2 Gameplay Overhaul

❄️ Arctis — The Season 2 Set

Season 2 arrives under an Eternal Winter. An ancient frozen kingdom wakes — aurora skies, crystal, permafrost, and the primordial cold of Kyurem. Arctis is the new seasonal Forge set, and it brings a roster of signature frozen Pokémon with it. Our Season 1 SolForge set lives on as a legacy set — you keep it and can still play it, but new SolForge Keys leave the store once Season 2 begins.

Each Arctis piece levels up (I → VI). Higher levels raise the chance its passive triggers, all the way up to Overmax (VI).

Wear the complete Arctis armor and every passive activation chance increases, you gain extra damage reduction against Dungeon & Area Zero enemies, nearby PvE enemies can be Frozen when they attack, and you leave a crystalline frost trail wrapped in a radiant aurora.

Eight frozen ultimate forms headline the season — each a defining form with one signature ability and its own signature move.

Seasonal Pokémon are treated as ultimate forms — no Mega Evolution, no secondary or Hidden Abilities, just one defining power each.

🎰 Banner & Summon Revamp

One of the biggest problems we saw was that players would simply grind money and gamble until they obtained every Legendary. This made trading less meaningful and removed the excitement of obtaining rare Pokémon.

• Pity increased from 90 → 250 pulls
• Banners now use Orbs, a special currency — mainly earned through gameplay
• You can still buy a limited 10–20 pulls per day with coins, and coin gains are being heavily nerfed

• Battle Tower
• Area Zero
• Dungeons
• Daily Quests
• Weekly Quests
• Battle Pass
• Banner Rotation

Banners are now divided into Versions, each lasting 4 weeks. Instead of Trio Banners, we'll now feature Generation Banners (Gen 1–9).

This keeps banners fresh while making Legendary Pokémon more valuable again.

💰 Coins & Economy Revamp

Money is no longer the driving force for Legendaries — but coins still matter. In Season 2 they shift from "buy everything" to fuelling the content loop.

• Shop purchases, as always
• Safari entrance fee — Raid Bosses now spawn inside the Safari (no more fixed Spawn location, and no forced teleport to bosses)
• Entry cost for the content that rewards Orbs — Battle Tower, Area Zero, Dungeons and Raid Bosses
• Dungeon Keys are now purchasable with coins — the daily key allowance is removed
• A limited 10–20 Orbs per day can still be bought with coins
• Buy Claim Blocks and extra PC slots
• Convert coins directly into Tokens and Shards

To make that work, we're rebalancing the coin economy so coins matter more and money stops being the shortcut to everything.

• Coin payouts from Jobs, Fishing, Global Hunt, Area Zero & Raid Bosses, Contracts, Bingo, Daily Login, Playtime and the Solar Pass
• This makes every coin you earn worth more, and pairs with the new Orbs currency that powers banners

• Competitive rewards are untouched — Gyms, the PvP Ladder and Dungeons pay exactly as before
• Voting rewards and the Casino are unchanged

Every coin now carries more weight — thanks for building the economy with us. ☀️

🏪 Cobble Bazaar — Dynamic Shop

Season 2's /shop becomes the Cobble Bazaar — a living market where prices move with supply and demand instead of sitting at fixed values.

• The more an item is bought, the higher its buy price climbs
• The more an item is sold, the lower its sell price drops
• Buy price always stays above sell price — no infinite money printer
• Prices slowly heal back toward baseline over time

Watch the market, buy low and sell high — the Bazaar rewards paying attention to the economy instead of grinding one item forever.

🧰 Jobs Revamp

Jobs move from a passive income system to an activity-driven questline. Instead of coins trickling in while you grind one action, you complete job quests to earn Paychecks — then claim them from that job's dedicated NPC.

• Do job activity → complete a quest → earn a Paycheck + Job EXP + Reputation
• Visit the Job NPC to accept quests, track progress, and claim your paycheck
• Paychecks can't be claimed remotely — no AFK salary, no automation

Each job climbs through three tiers as you earn Job EXP & Reputation — unlocking harder quests, bigger paychecks, more quest slots, and exclusive rewards.

• Daily & weekly quest pools, with room for seasonal & event quests
• Quest types: Collection, Crafting, Combat, Exploration & Delivery

🎟 Battle Pass Revamp

The Season 1 Battle Pass simply wasn't rewarding enough. Season 2 greatly improves both the free and premium tracks.

• Orbs every 10 levels
• Premium Pass receives double Orb rewards
• Seasonal Essence
• IV Modifiers
• SBCs / GBCs
• Various progression materials

Reach Level 100 to earn a:

The Battle Pass now rotates every 45 days.

🌌 Area Zero Revamp

Area Zero has consistently been our most popular endgame activity, so we're expanding it significantly.

• PvP-enabled zones with 2x loot
• Alpha, Paradox, and Legendary Pokémon can spawn inside PvP zones
• Only Alphas can be caught — catch privilege is determined by Last Hit
• Paradox aren't catchable here — defeat them for Elemental DNA to use in Paradox Crafting
• Chance to obtain: Orbs, Elemental DNA, IV Modifiers

• Alpha every 10 minutes
• Paradox every 30 minutes
• After defeating 5 Alphas + 5 Paradox Pokémon, a Legendary will spawn

Progress is now visible directly on the Area Zero HUD.

🧬 Paradox Crafting

Paradox Pokémon can no longer be caught from wild spawns. In Season 2 you craft them instead.

Elemental DNA is earned from endgame content like Area Zero. This makes every Paradox a deliberate goal you work toward — not a lucky wild encounter.

🐲 Raid Boss Revamp

Raid Bosses are moving out into the world — finding one is now part of the hunt.

• Raid Bosses no longer spawn at a fixed location
• They now spawn inside the Safari at random coordinates
• No more automatic teleport to the boss
• Players have to find it within the Safari zone

📒 Pokédex Research Quests

Inspired by Legends: Arceus, every Pokémon gets its own research quest — giving the Safari a real purpose beyond just catching, and giving players something to do other than dungeon speedruns and fishing.

• Every Pokémon across Gen 1–9 — and each stage of its evolution line — has its own quest
• Tasks include catching a species, using specific moves, evolving, and leveling it up a set number of times
• No quests for Legendaries, since they don't spawn naturally in the Safari

• Coins (e.g. ~50k) plus materials like Rare Candies per quest
• Final-evolution quests pay out more — e.g. a Charizard quest for 100k + a Master Ball

Exact reward values are still being decided.

⚡ Global Energy & Legend Revamp

Legendary spawning moves from a shared server bar to something personal you build up yourself.

• /legend as the old shared system is scrapped, and Global Energy is now hidden
• /legend is now per-player — everyone has their own Legend bar
• When your Legend bar is full, there's a 25% chance a Legendary spawns for you — if you meet the biome requirements
• After that roll, your Legend chance resets back to 0%

• Complete Daily Quests and Weekly Quests
• Win PvP battles
• Defeat Alphas and Paradox Pokémon for Legendary energy
• Minor Jobs activity still helps — but it's no longer the main driver

Every activity has a cap on how much it can contribute, so no single grind fills the bar — you reach 100% by playing across the server.

🏆 Battle Tower Revamp

Battle Tower was fun initially, but eventually became repetitive and easy to cheese. Season 2 completely redesigns it into a roguelike climb.

• Removed all format-specific towers
• Only Singles and Doubles remain
• Opponents use randomized teams ranging from OU to AG

• You draft 3 Pokémon from your party to start the run. The rest of your party is kept safe in your PC for the duration, and handed straight back when the run ends.
• If a Pokémon goes down, it's out for the entire run. No revives — not from a heal, not from the Shop. Choose your leads carefully.
• No healing between floors. HP, status and PP all carry from floor to floor, so you can't top up with /pokeheal, a potion or a healer — you have to bring a real team, not one OP move.
• New team slots unlock at floors 10, 25 and 50 (up to 6). Each one lets you draft an extra Pokémon out of your PC from the /bts2 menu.

A fresh 3-mon draft doesn't open against a full team of 6 — the tower ramps up with you:

Every 10 floors you hit a checkpoint and pick exactly one reward. Your choice is saved — closing the menu or logging out won't waste it, just reopen /bts2.

• ❤ Heal Party — restore HP, status and PP on your surviving Pokémon. Does not revive downed Pokémon.
• 🔄 Swap — one switch: retire a downed Pokémon and bring a fresh one in from your PC, at full health. This is the only way to recover from a death.
• 🛒 Open Shop — spend the BT Tokens you've earned climbing.

• Checkpoints are now saved every floor
• Disconnecting no longer sends you back several floors

• Fusions are allowed in the Tower — and NPCs now use fusion Pokémon too
• Cosmog Ray nerfed — its trivializing one-shot spam is toned down, so AG isn't the only climb worth doing
• Sorry, Cosmog Ray and Gardevoir Queen enjoyers 😅

After Floor 50, every 10 floors your team level decreases by 5:

After clearing Floor 100:

• Automatically restart from Floor 1
• Earn increased Token multipliers each Prestige

Leaderboard titles remain for the Singles Crown and Doubles Crown.

🏅 Gyms & Elite Four Revamp

Having 24 Elite Four members across multiple formats was simply too much. We're returning to a simpler progression.

• One Elite Four
• NatDex OU format
• Requires 8 Gym Badges to challenge

Player Gym Leaders were a fun idea, but participation remained very low. Gym Badges will now play a much larger role in progression.

🛡️ Clan Revamp

Clans get a full progression and territory system in Season 2 — building a clan base is now something you earn and invest in.

Setting up a clan base now follows clear steps:

• Obtain a Clan Permit
• Create your clan
• Buy a Clan Base Build Permit to claim territory

Build permits come in three territory sizes:

• 250 × 250
• 500 × 500
• 1000 × 1000

The claimed area becomes clan territory, which clan officers can expand.

• Official clans are recognized on the server
• They pay a 5% land tax, scaled to how large their territory is

• Clans are capped at 5 members — you can buy up to +5 extra slots
• The cap keeps players from merging into one mega-clan
• Set relations with /clan ally and /clan enemy

• Clan chat and ally chat
• A Clan NPC auto-spawns at the center of the clan build, or the leader can place it

• Each clan gets its own dedicated Raid Boss
• It spawns on a fixed timer
• Only that clan's members can hit it

The old Warzone is being removed and rolled into Clan Wars — proper clan-vs-clan conflict.

• Clan Raid Boss spawns and clan Pokémon battles
• When a trainer loses a battle, they forfeit 1 Pokémon to the enemy clan
• After the war match, the losing clan can buy back its stolen Pokémon
• If they don't buy them back, the winning clan keeps them as War Tokens

⚔ PvP Ranked Revamp

Since PvP is now part of rank progression, we're redesigning Ranked as well.

• Poké Ball IV → I
• Great Ball IV → I
• Ultra Ball IV → I
• Master Tier

Only 10 players may hold Master Tier at any given time. To qualify:

• Reach Ultra Ball I
• Rankings are based on total wins
• Every 24 hours, the Top 10 eligible players are promoted into Master Tier

Master Tier is designed to be competitive, prestigious, and constantly changing.

🥚 Breeding Changes

Breeding gets fairer in Season 2 — genetics behave the way they should, and the Pokémon market stays healthy.

• An egg can only hatch with a Hidden Ability if a parent actually has one
• No more Hidden Abilities appearing out of nowhere when neither parent had one
• Ditto doesn't pass its own Hidden Ability — same as the official games
• Normal ability inheritance is unchanged, so genuine HA breeding works exactly as before

Sellers can lock a Pokémon so buyers can't mass-breed it and crash its value.

• Mark a Pokémon unbreedable with /unbreed — it will never produce eggs
• Only the Original Trainer (or staff) can remove the lock
• The lock travels with the Pokémon through trades, the GTS, gifts, and capsules — a bought battle-perfect Pokémon stays protected

Final Thoughts

Season 2 is focused on making every activity matter. Instead of farming one thing for everything else, you'll progress by actually playing the game:

• 🏆 Climb Battle Tower for Orbs.
• 🌌 Explore Area Zero for rare resources.
• ⚔ Compete in PvP to reach Master Tier.
• 🏅 Challenge Gyms and the Elite Four.
• 📖 Complete the Battle Pass.
• 🎰 Spend your hard-earned Orbs on the current banner rotation.
• ❄️ Forge the Arctis set and hunt its signature frozen Pokémon.

Every system is now connected, creating a more rewarding endgame where time spent playing translates directly into progression — not just more coins.