It's been twenty-four years
of blood, sweat and tears.
Happy birthday, dear website!
New server and cheers!

The Cave of Dragonflies is twenty-four years old today, and following the forums the other day, the main site has now been moved over to a shiny new server, which should be better, more secure and hopefully nicer for me to work with.

As usual with any such technical upgrade, it's possible something broke somewhere in the process, so please let me know if you bump into anything odd. I wanted to have something more interesting ready for the anniversary, but unfortunately this whole moving servers thing has been a massive headache and I have not really had any time to spare until that was done. But once I've confirmed this update has been successfully pushed to the new site, I plan to attempt to do a little fix to the last modified dates on everything, since right now everything says it was last modified yesterday and that's really not very useful. Fingers crossed and I will add an edit if it works.

UPDATE EDIT: All right, I think it worked. Happily, this should have also fixed the way all last modified dates got reset on the old server a little while back - now there are some last modified dates going back to 2016 (but no further than that, since 2016 was the great Python migration and everything got remade and reorganized at that time).

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With thanks to X2Brute for pointing it out, I've corrected a silly error on the Pokéwalker Battle Mechanics page, namely that both the text and strategy analysis code was missing the fact the wild Pokémon counterattacks for 1 HP of damage after you score a critical hit. I was extremely thorough in my original analysis of the precise flow of what happens in each possible case, and I had the critical counterattack written up there, but somehow it got lost when I wrote up the descriptions of the turn outcomes for the page, and then I wrote the code based on that writeup instead of referring back to the original analysis. (Unfortunately, as you can tell, I haven't actually been able to play any Pokéwalker courses myself since probably 2010 and wrote this up based purely on poring over the code and refreshing my general memory on what battles on the Pokéwalker actually look like off the scant few YouTube videos I could find - normally I always try to confirm this sort of thing myself on the real game, but my Pokéwalker is currently trapped somewhere in a drawer behind Caterpie's bed, if it even still turns on.)

At any rate, I've now fixed the text, the calculator and the strategy tables to account for the counterattack. Not too much has changed about the practical strategic takeaways - the main one is that you obviously never want to attack while at 1 HP, because you always take damage when you attack, so it no longer recommends doing that after a staredown if the wild Pokémon is at 3 or 4 HP, and the strategy after getting counterattacked now suggests evading any time your HP is less than the wild Pokémon's (previously, it suggested attacking in the case when you're at 3 HP and the wild Pokémon at 4 HP).

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A few different smaller things I've been doing thanks to tips by others:

• The Iron Island B3F encounter table no longer shows swarm slots with Onix and Graveler instead of Steelix and Graveler in Platinum (those swarm entries were real in the game data, likely due to a copy-paste blunder, but Iron Island can't have swarms, so they are never actually active and showing them was confusing).
• A few FR/LG entries have been added on the In-Game Humour page (a page I have generally not been adding much to lately despite a lot of hilarity in Legends: Z-A in particular that really belongs on there; I am also peeved by some of the writing on it so perhaps I will revamp/rewrite it to feel less reluctant to look at it).
• The bit that properly warrants an update: the Pokémon List Generator now has both of the Pokédexes from Legends: Z-A as variables and ordering options.
• And finally, I made some minor tweaks to the Mew trick essay (nothing substantial, just phrasing tweaks).

The main bigger thing I have been working on lately is updating the generic favorite picker repo to include some new features I've introduced to the Favorite Pokémon Picker since it was last updated, most notably split mode and the ability to easily make progress bars; people have been requesting that, and I've been wanting to do it for a while, but it has unfortunately taken longer than I wanted due to really overthinking in circles what the most sensible way would be to make the use of split mode more flexible than just an exact copy of how the Favorite Pokémon Picker works. (And also I have a thirteen-month-old Caterpie who is sadly often unhelpful when I'm trying to think about programming.) Hopefully now I've done this stuff I can get back on that and just pick a lane.

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