Pokémon Vortex: Difference between revisions

Over the years, it has built up a fan base of millions, from the game itself, to it's numerous social media pages.<div style="float:right">[[File:Logo.png|thumb|Current Home Image]]</div>

With the game currently in [[Version 4]], it has just under one million registered members. <div style="float:left; margin:10px;">__TOC__</div>

Pokémon Vortex sees [[updates]] all year round from new features, to [[events]]. Events can vary from random in-game tasks to obtain a Pokémon's form to random give-aways on the [[chatroom]] or social media pages.

Currently, Pokémon Vortex is running on [[Version 4]].

Version 1 of Pokémon Vortex was similar to where [[Pokémon Crater]] left off, without the addition of live battle. It started being developed on October 2nd 2008, not long after Pokémon Crater had closed on December 1st 2007. Pokémon Vortex had it's final public build, ready to go out on September 12th 2009, two months after it had it's closed BETA and was an instant hit globally. Some of it's more popular countries included the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Peru.

[[Version 2]] was the last version with everyone's current data.

<div style="float:right;">[[File:Version3home page.jpg|thumb|Version 3's Home Page]]</div>

[[Version 3]] was a new start for Pokémon Vortex. All data from the previous versions was reset in an effort to revive the games loyal player base and eradicate the damage done over the years by people automating battles and various things to storm the leaderboards.

With the game starting a-fresh, it gave development a chance to add certain things with more ease than would have been with tens of millions of Pokémon in the database. One of those things being gender assignment to Pokémon which led to gender based evolution.

The biggest addition to v3 was the clan system that was implemented. It allows players to create and join teams of 2 - 400 Players and compete with other clans in dominance of the Top Clans leaderboard which is similar to that of the Top Trainer leaderboard except it would contribute the entire clan members towards its total points. Clans were closed down on 10th April 2016 to be restructured for v4 based on community feedback and development ideas.^{[[http://forums.pokemon-vortex.com/topic/43-important-information-regarding-current-clans/ ?]]}

<div style="float:right;">[[File:Version4home page.jpg|thumb|Version 4's Home Page]]</div>

[[Version 4]] was released on November 13th 2017 and came with many new features, improvements and fixes. The biggest addition was that of [[PokéBay]], an auction system that allows players to auction their Pokémon, [[Items]], [[Promo Codes]] and [[Avatars]].

The release of v4 came with multiple in-game hints at upcoming updates too with placeholders for future features not yet available such as saved teams, achievements and a publicly available API which was explained on the game dashboard in the version overview with the following:

{{ quote | With the release of v4 and even more so, the wait some of you have had to endure for v4, it has been decided to take a new approach on version changes and updates in general. Starting now, updates will be released as they are made and completed rather than storing ideas to build one large update for a version shift.

If you don't undertand what this means, just think of it as there will be more updates, smaller but more often. }}

[[Vortex Mobile]] was a short-lived mobile device optimized version of Pokémon Vortex.

The [[forums]] is one of the main community sources for Pokémon Vortex and has seen many changes over the years.

With a small moderating team consisting of less than 10 people at a time, it has progressively got less active due to people preferring to use the alternative methods of communication such as the [[chatroom]].  

[[Version 1]]'s forums, which was completed and running before the game was, had 230,000 registered users before it was wiped and reset for the release of [[Version 3]].

The main draw to the forums is it's guides, closely followed by it's [[trade]] sub-forum. Thousands of unregistered people use the forums daily for it's detailed guides on how to play the game and where/how you can get certain Pokémon/[[Items]].