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As far as I understand it, MISSINGO happens because due to shortage of storage space on the cartridge therefor valuables have to be temporary stored in places where they don't really belong. Usually this doesn't cause issues for casual players, except for the famous MISSINGNO glitch. See, the aurfable tiles on the east coast of Cinnabar Island were left to set as 'you can encounter battles here', but there is no data assigned to the pool of Pokemon you can encounter so it draws information from the last region you were in and throws those mons at you.
Now if you encounter a wild mon on this coast and the game doesn't have anything to draw from in that temp data storage either (for example the scripted battle with the old man) the program goes haywire and starts drawing values from various other places, resulting in MISSINGO appearing and royaly messing with your game file.
Its actually pretty fascinating how exploitable the first gen of games are due to shoddy programming, if you know what you're doing you can force an encounter with any Pokemon on the original carts with a gameboy. I'm currently doing a solo 151 challenge on my old blue version using this exploit in fact, I already have 2 Mew on it using this method.

There's whole wikis dedicated to this if you want more in-depth info on it~

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Why is it risky? And why shouldn't people be entitled to vote with their money? The whole idea is that you'll have less of those, because if they don't like how the game is turning out they can just cancel their sub instead of being salty and angry demanding their one-time purchase back.

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It is still extremely limited and you can not refund a game more than once. If you refund through Jason directly, I doubt he'd be too keen on doing it multiple times either.

A service-based or subscription based system not only allows the player to opt out of whichever state the game currently is at, it also allows for easy re-entry. Think of MMO's and how people buy a sub again when a new big update comes out, or they just want to go back again for nostalgia. Could also bring down griefing as you have to choose to pay monthly to have access to the game, eliminating the players who just want to mess with everyone because they are salty.
Granted I'm not suggesting MMO sub prices, hence suggesting Patreon.

I do now, I had no idea he had one Thanks mate

I'm currently playing Citystate until this game changes. You should check it out, the player base might even be smaller than here. It's another game made by a solo dev who is slowly running it into the ground with every update in the pursuit of shaping the game to his vision.

I think I might be a masochist. I wonder how many of those 'vision games' are out there but we just never knew about them because they sprung up and died before we stumbled upon them.

Sounds like Jason 're-invents the wheel', which is one of the first things I was taught NOT to do in coding class over a decade ago after initial introduction to C++.
By coding everything from the ground up it's a lot more work for you and people likely will have a hard time understanding what you wrote (especially if it's not documented well). In the end it's all up to personal preference though, some people choosing to do so to protect their code from script kiddies, others because they learned it that way and never bothered to streamline their process.

Doesn't disprove my point.

Should name the subforum Donkey Town!
Ah shit that was a suggestion. I swear I didn't mean to I'm sorry!

Dude don't even waste your time. Jason is either going to ignore your post, or get pissed off and make another passive-aggressive post.

Damn Jason, I didn't know you knew the entire game dev community personally! I asked my buddies who've been in the industry for 20+ years about it, and they didn't know who you were?
I guess they're not big enough huh.. they only worked on small unknown stuff like Lego Universe, Warhammer40k online, and developed the official Walmart VR training game, so it must just be their mistake for not having met you yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯