Poke'Strange ~

[kuun_kun]

(May 29, 2015, 01:49 AM)Apo Wrote: -still about the pokedex, but more code wise, how can the pokedex gives information about a pokemon if it wasn't entered manually by men? if the information doesn't exist in the pokedex code, it can not appear, and if it was entered previously, why would they give you an empty pokedex?

Bear with me here kappa:
About that... I think it is possible for the computer to learn. When you encounter the pokémon it only makes a "scan" of how it looks and provides you with almost no information (possibly the only information it could deduct from the scan). Then when you catch a pokémon it goes into a pokéball (and sometimes into your computer boxes). This could mean that the computer could perform some weird kind of scans on the pokémon, and send that info back to the pokédex. Or maybe the pokéballs have some sweet mechanisms inside them that allow for better "scans".

To find names/more info on pokémon it could have a distributed database of pokémon, shared with other Pokédexes. That still leaves one question: how does the "first" pokédex do it? Lets assume there has been some sort of manuscripts or scrolls or books or whatever kind of written/drawn knowledge gathered over many years (I mean there is lore of 3000 years back so why not?) and that has been entered into some database that is actually complete (or complete up to what the researchers know about that pokémon).
So when you encounter a pokémon that only has some rumors about it (like legendaries) your pokédex adds the data it finds to that database and makes a complete image of the pokémon with pokédex entry and such. It just uses its "knowledge" and "logic skills" and whatever impeccable skills it might have to finish the pokédex entry (I mean come on its basically some 'magic' computer that can talk flawless english and has a huge database, and never runs out of battery? Who knows what else it can do).

On top of that the algorithms used could be learning from the datasets they gather, and initially have. A pokédex defenitily has some kind of artificial intelligence inside it. Also "if the information doesn't exist in the pokedex code, it can not appear" <-- that's not true. It is very possible to generate code without human intervention

To end this story: I think they gave the kid (you) an empty pokédex not only to improve what data the already have, but also to let the kid have a nicer adventure. Wouldn't it be boring to know exactly where to find every pokémon, and to know that this is all there is?

p.s. Think about this: each pokémon has a number, even if you have only seen 1-20, when you catch #30, it still says it's #30. That means there must be some information already stored somewhere :D

Thanks for reading :P

edit: Just realised throughout the games it is also mentioned that even when they already know a pokémon each newly found pokémon of that species might behave slightly different or look slightly different (like male/female), so that is also a reason why they send you out there