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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  4. Now that I have a Shiny Dedenne, would someone like to suggest a moveset for it? So far I have Parabolic Charge, Volt Switch, Nuzzle and Play Rough. Any suggestions or constructive feedback will be taken. 😀

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  7. I’m sorry I can’t refrain from saying this curseword so everyone please forgive me but

    but HOLY SHIT hejuofhoeljfkejfnkejnfeopjp
    VIVVI i wanna thank you for giving me your fire friend safari because thanks to you I found this shiny in under an hour and im crying 🙁 [if the pic doesn’t show, refresh page]

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  9. Okay, this is the last battle (or at least for now) so RIO you can join now, and Micheal/Jasper want to join on this one too?

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  10. Everyone else is swimming in shinies… I hatched a shiny gastly once, but I gave it to my friend for his birthday this week. I will trade a modest protean froakie for a shiny.

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    • Ewwww, modest? That ain’t actually that useful for the frog. Considering how useful Water Shruiken/Shadow Sneak/U-turn are on him, he wants to be able to run physical too if needs be. Naive is better. Just thought I’d say…

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  11. Actually, I have an adamant bulletproof chespin, a modest protean froakie, several adamant heracrosses and tyrants with rock blast and poison fang, respectively. I just want a modest ditto.

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    • my sylveon know only attacks, he holds a assault jacket to tank special hits like a boss. trained in max Sp.DEF and Sp.ATK, then 6 in def. it knows shadow ball, psyshock, draining kiss, and moonblast. draining kiss realy helps its longevity. id say its a safe bet

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        • well, mine holds assault jacket which doesn’t let him use any moves in the status category. but if you don’t use it then calm mind is an opportune choice for sure.

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        • I would stay with Psyshock because Sylveon is rather slow and if one Pokemon in battle could OHKO (Physical move) it then it most likely will lead to you having wasted a a Calm Mind and fainting. That’s just my opinion though.

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    • My Sylveon has Bite, Toxic, Moonblast, and Psyshock. It’s not the best but that’s because he is apart of my in game team.

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