[quote=@Dusksong]
[@lugubrious] I agree with [@zarkun] about the fact that it works quite well for this system. Yes there are bad pokemon, but that's true for all evolution lines, not just the non-evolving lines. I think the main reason the non-evolving pokemon are in that category's 'cuz they're technically fully-grown by that form, and if you make some assumptions about the whole "strong wills" concept it makes sense.
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You're quite right about the plurality of bad pokes.  But, since there's zero difference in the form of a non-evolving poke's from the time it's one week old to thirty years old, I don't know how well the 'fully-grown' argument works out.  Stage one pokes are always the babies and stage three the fully-grown adults, but non-evos have to be babies, juveniles, and adults, all confined to the same form.  From what I know, at least, there are way more pokes typically thought of as very good that are stage threes of evolving lines than non-evolving Pokemon; the non-evos that do typically have some gimmick, like one ridiculously exaggerated stat, an amazing ability, or a Mega evolution.

It's not really a big deal, in the end, but as Zarkun said I can pretty much guarantee that nobody at all is going to reach the Expert trainer level in this RP.  With just our starting pokes, that's twenty feature-length battles to evolve just one poke to stage three.  With an earning of one trainer point per post, in order to catch fifty Pokemon you need 49 more Pokeballs minimum which requires 245 trainer points, or 245 posts.  With that in mind, the chance of ever getting a non-evolving poke is pretty low.

Balth, I urge you to not take this as criticism.  I know what I signed on for, and if I wasn't okay with this, I wouldn't have joined.

Edit: I do know that organizations can be used to speed up the trainer point process.  THat said, in order to evolve ten pokemon to final form, which in the best case scenario means that all are two-stage Pokemon that will only take 10 battles each, that's still 90 battles.  This, too, is not counting for boosters such as rare candies or evolutionary stones, though I expect those to be rare.  It also might be unfair of me to say that 245 posts is a pretty unlikely achievement for each player, as well, but in addition that that being more posts than Dusksong has made so far on RPGuild, it is also -I think- more than the lifespan of quite a few RPs.