PJNM Newsroom #1

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Welcome to the first edition of our Pokéjungle.net Magazine Newsroom. In this recurring series I will debrief everyone on the latest news and tidbits from the scenes of PJNM. Let’s start with the main point of today.

Survey

You may recall we did a survey two weeks ago. This survey was intended to gauge people’s expectation regarding pricing of the magazine. I will not represent the data graphically, as I just wanted a general outlook. The first thing that came to mind was that everyone’s price expectations for the number of pages was way too low. This posed us with a dilemma, lots of people wanted 50+ pages, but they still expect the magazine to be under $5. The reason why actual magazines are be able to do this is because they feature lots of ads, and print thousands of copies in advance. We don’t have those. However, I found a good compromise.

Pages

The number of pages is set to be between 40 and 45. This gives us room to do lots of different articles, with not having to resort to filler. It also won’t make the printed edition too expensive if you include shipping.

Printed Magazine Price

First, the bad news. A page count of 40 would mean the magazine is in the $8-9 price range. Sadly, we don’t have much say in this. Print on demand is still relatively expensive. However, I still believe we go through with those for following reasons. First, the printed magazine is intended for the real fans, and with only two (or three) copies a year, this won’t become an expensive endeavour. Second, we won’t take a mark-up on the magazine, to keep the price low and to show we’re not into profit-making. And last, we will make up for this in a number of ways. We will put our heart and soul into the magazine to make sure it is worth owning. This means unique content that will be hard to find on other Pokémon fansites. And…

Digital Magazine

All digital copies will be available free of charge. This is so you can experience the magazine yourself before deciding to buy it. It will also come with a license that allows you to print it for personal use or for relatives, providing you don’t make a profit off it. We first wanted to sell it for $1, because there are a few costs associated even with the digital edition. We’re still looking for a good place to distribute it free of charge, seeing as the magazine will be quite large in download size and we want you to have decent download speeds. We’ll also need money for stamps and letters to get written permission for articles, art,… We found a kind sponsor for all this however. He’s not tied to any company and we won’t put any real ads in the mag, but there might be a page or two written by him :).

And now some announcements regarding the content itself.

Readers’ Tree

Readers’ Tree is the name for our community section. A section named Through the Grapevines will feature the best comments from the past few months, carefully selected by the PJNM staff. Alderman’s Tree Stump will be our spotlighted commenter of the issue, featuring an extensive interview. And as a final announcement, we will hold a contest in where you can have your own opinion article featured in the game. The winner will receive a printed copy as compensation. More details on the contest in the following weeks.

Next time we’ll give a sneak peek at the PJNM logo, made by our own in-house artist moving. Until then!

~Daedardus~ Editor-in-Chief on behalf of the PJNM Staff.

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  2. Seriously does anyone know who has the Friend Safari with Charmeleon and Ninetales and I think Growlithe? Also, does anyone have Wortortle in their Friend Safari?

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  14. Persian used fake out! critical hit! clawitzer flinched! primeape used cross chop! critical hit! clawitzer fainted! Politoed used Hydro Pump! politoeds attack missed! Go Gyarados! (intimidate, yada yada…) Persian used power gem! critical hit! gyarados fainted! Primeape used Cross Chop! critical hit! politoed fainted! go rotom! rotom used hydro pump! rotom’s attack missed! primeape used cross chop! critical hit! Persian Used Power Gem! critical hit! rotom fainted!
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    F-YOU BATTLE MAISON!!!!!

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      • i’ll beat her next time. mega gyarados is tricky, gotta sometimes keep that flying type to resist attacks, then mega evolve to resist others… damn Persian knew power gem, did NOT expect! I was just trying to resist primeape’s cross chop!

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  15. I hate Empoleon so much right now, even if it IS my favorite Water-type Starter…
    Battling one at the Battle Maison and I lead off with my Dragonite. I try to set up Dragon Dance, but it keeps using Featherdance… SMH!!! 🙁

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      • Yeah, I saw that! XD
        Good thing I killed it, I switched into my Pinsir, it used Drill Peck, almost killed me, then I Mega Evolved and used Storm Throw. Clean OHKO with a guaranteed critical hit. 😉

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  17. ughhh how rare is finding ralts in route 4?? D: I’m trying to get every catchable pokemon from the beginning before i could try and do the fishing chaining thing and ralts is the last one so i can move on to the next route but still no luck ): it’s been 2hrs ahhh any advise please? 😮

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        • well when you do finish the elite 4, you’ll find diantha in a café willing to trade you one for any pokemon if that’s easier on you.

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          • aww wow really? yeah that would easier haha, but it so ridiculous how they’re mega rare to find D: because i managed to find those uncommon white and the orange flower flabebe while i was looking for ralts haha and apparently they’re pretty rare as well,.. *sigh* -.-

  19. I’m glad those hackers confirmed there being hidden pokemon in the game, or else this would’ve definitely hinted to it “I can teach a move to Keldeo and Meloetta”

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  20. OK, I need advice, like, RIGHT NOW! I am down to my last Pokemon, Sylveon, against a Whiscash. It is at full health, but my Sylveon has 124/187. Should I risk it and use a STAB Pixilate Hyper Beam with a Pixie Plate as a hold item, or should I also take a risk and play it safe and use Moonblast? I can almost 100% guarantee it is going to use Earthquake, and I don’t want to lose my streak of 24 trainers in a Super Single Battle. ;-;

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  23. Is it normal for there not to be wind at the Lumiose Badlands the first time you go there? The first time I went there there was no wind… Then the second time there was wind. Maybe that’s why I never understood why people were saying it’s a really annoying place.

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