Yeah, here's what I think they should make: a free roam MMO with full length story line and optional side quests. Regions should be Kanto and Johto, with Hoenn in the future as a possible expansion. I don't care if Sinnoh or Unova are accessible or not.
Battling gameplay should be the same as the core Pokemon DS games, it's turn based and will support 4 players at once. That's you and up to 3 friends battling 1 to 4 wild pokemon at a time. When someone in your party engages a wild pokemon, you will automatically be notified/invited to join the battle. Roll the dice to determine who gets to throw a pokeball each round (if someone tries to throw a pokeball everyone in the battle has the option to roll for a throw or cancel their attack). Battles automatically start in 10 seconds or when everyone in the party has opted in or out of the battle. It should definitely have guilds/clubs.
While you can choose from any of the original starter pokemon, including Pikachu, everyone starts in Kanto. There are 16 gym badges, 8 from Kanto and 8 from Johto. Once you get all 8 badges from Kanto, the gym leaders all increase in difficulty and can be rebattled once daily. You are also allowed to enter Johto once you have all 8 badges from Kanto. In Johto you collect the remaining 8 badges and are then allowed to battle the Elite 4, and the Champion. For all battle with NPC trainers, gym leaders, elite 4 and the champion, there is Solo mode and Party mode - Solo mode is normal difficulty, while in Party mode the NPC receives handicap spec boosts as well as more items (such as full restores) which are used far more frequently if there are 4 in your party vs. 2. How many pokemon the NPC sends out at once is also dependent on how many players there are in your party. If the NPC has 6 pokemon and there are 4 in your party, the NPC will send out 4 to start. Winning money is divided equally among the players in your party who participated in the battle.
All Pokemon are tradeable anywhere, as are "non-account bound" items. Of course there should be a Global Trade System as well, so you can easily trade with any player.
Edited by bornsupercharged, 02 October 2012 - 11:37 AM.