An idea for Biome Layout

[innerthunder]

So I had an idea for laying out the biomes over a run, and I made a fun diagram for it:

The basic idea is that each biome is organized into a bucket or tier, and the pool for a given 10-wave interval is comprised of biomes from overlapping tiers. The higher the tier, the more "exotic" the biome is, with more rare Pokemon to follow suit.

Some examples of tier placements, using ideas from the biome sheet

• Tier 0: Town
• Tier 1: Woods, Plains, Park, Cave Entrance
• Tier 2: Lagoon, Orchard, Bamboo Forest
• Tier 3: Tundra, Gorge, Chargestone Cave, Shipwreck
• Tier 4: Clouds, Dreamyard
• Tier 5: Dollhouse, Overgrown Castle

The highest tier could be set up like a unique dungeon that can only appear in waves 170-179 where you can find box legendaries or legendaries of similar status (Calyrex in the Overgrown Castle, for example)

However, there are also soft links between biomes. A linked biome is more likely (or even guaranteed) to follow the linking biome, and the two biomes can be in the same tier or in adjacent tiers. Generally, more biomes would be linked together in the lower tiers, and the highest tiers would have little to no links.

These two systems are meant to work together to enforce some geographic continuity in the player's journey early on, but progressively break that continuity as the world is distorted by all the legendaries clashing.

[flx-sta]

I love the diagram. Very clean.

However, there are also soft links between biomes

Maybe we could make two stages for that rework?
Stage 1 not taking the soft-links into account ?

[Snailman11]

but progressively break that continuity as the world is distorted by all the legendaries clashing.

This might need to be shown to the player in less subtle ways.
It's an idea that could tie lore to gameplay though, which is nice

[KodaWantToSleep]

I like the general idea but I'm afraid it may be a bit too linear
I know we try to not encourage grinding but never being able to go back to biomes of previous tiers could possibly encourage people to just restart runs to get to it again quicker and I think that would be worse

Also for the legendary's biomes wouldn't that overlap a bit to much with the research missions idea ?
It's fine if we decide to scrap those but I think having both would be a bit too much