HMD | May 2012

[these_balls]

EVALUATE MY BATTLING!

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Comments

Re: Rocket whatnot

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention that, if a character happens to not have a mission during a week, is sick, or is trying to do something villainous on their own, and so on, those things would conflict heavily.
Pretty sure 'full time job' doesn't mean 'something you do every day'. It's something you do regularly. And I don't think it is as rigid as you make it sound. The mods have given plenty of wiggle space.

That's also not really written anywhere around for players who might want to apply for a Rocket. All it says is "you have to catch a Pokemon once a week OR ELSE"
It may have before, but now it says you are required to perform Rocket duties. What those duties are are negotiable, but they are required, and they're required on a regular basis. The basic duty would be to provide Pokemon, but for those who don't want to or want to do something else, they don't have to. They just have to do something.

Why would it being optional, truly optional ICly, be so bad?
Because it doesn't make sense ICly for an organization to just let their members run loose until they decide to have some big event. It doesn't work that way.