Resource 8.4 Economy changes

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The long awaited economy changes are here! They are final and effective for all matches started from now on. As a reminder, those aim to incentivize Battle Tower matches while still providing enough facility refs to sustain the entire system. As of now, Battle Tower is only used for extremely niche battles, or by bored people.
This should change.

And so we have finalized the following changes:

1) Formulas
  • RC payout is now equal to Total number of mons on the smallest team + 1
  • TC payout is now equal to Total number of mons on the smallest team
  • JC payout is now equal to 2*(Number of non-referee battlers) + Source Modifier
  • Source Modifier is as follows:
    • Not self-reffed Battle Tower match: 2
    • Battle Tree: 1
    • Realgam Tower: 4
    • The Legend Gauntlet: 0
    • Sinnoh Mythos: 2
  • Self-reffed matches no longer get paid in RC and TC twice. They receive one payment of TC and no RC
  • If a battler is DQed, then replace "total number of mons on the smallest team" (for TC and RC formulas) with "(total number of mons from fully reffed Rounds) / 2".
2) General Facility changes
  • Facility Challengers no longer are rewarded with standard battle values of RC or TC upon completing a battle, win or lose
  • Referees of Facilities no longer get paid in RC and TC twice. They receive one payment of TC and no RC
  • Battle Tree's entry cost is being lowered to 10 JC
3) TLG
  • The winner of a match no longer receives standard battle values of RC or TC, just the match's associated legendary. However, the legendary will be acquired at Stage 4
  • The loser of a match still receives standard battle values of RC and TC, as a fair consolation prize for a battle hard-fought
4) Promotions
  • 25 TC can now be used to progress one Pokemon to Stage 4
  • You can still spend 20 JC to progress one Pokemon to Stage 4, but [Jay doesn't] know why you would when TC now does it too
One last thing, self-reffing matches via the Battle Tower (flashes set up via Discord included) is going away for the time being, simply to let us get a full system evaluation of the new economy at play. We do plan to re-enable it in the future, just need this testing time.

We hope this changes steer BBP in the direction we want it to go.
Feel free to give your feedback!
 
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