Talk:Special stage

Mega Bannette re-release

How are the people at the top of the PAL region rankings using Ditto? Does anyone have a way to report this to the game's developers and get the cheating players both removed from the list and banned from competitions? PartHunter (talk) 22:49, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

People have been cheating to get Ditto for a while now. Genius Sorority, from what I can tell, usually removes them within a few hours and removes any present between when the competition closes and when the rewards are given out. --Abcboy (talk) 22:56, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

This is something that's been going on a bit more in North America (since there are more Shuffle players there than in the PAL region, and 3DS hacking is a bit more common on American systems). I'm pretty sure that the players are removed at or slightly before 6 AM UTC (when you can first Check In again), because the same players are at the top of the leaderboards throughout the day. Most of what we know was discovered during the Mega Charizard Y competition (the first one where hackers broke the top 5). It's also worth noting that any player who cheats (like this guy; note that Palkia was unreleased at the time) is barred from participating for the remainder of the competition. Sadly, however, they are not banned from future competitions. Bigpboy (talk) 15:31, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Unable to update the article

Didn't see the Pastebin guy provide the newest update as usual so I will not be able to update the Special Stages article, too. Does anyone have the ability to dump the game data anyway? Karlo918 (talk) 09:16, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Heading Order

As the Special Stage page as grown in content, the heading order seems more and more random. Should the order be alphabetical instead? --Marlofkark (talk) 15:02, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure that alphabetical order is necessarily the best (though I'm not sure what would be better), but I do agree that this page could use some reorganizing. In particular, I've thought that Evolving Challenge should probably be a sub-group of Great Challenge and that the Meowth/Victini/Eevee stages ought to be grouped together due to the similarities they share. VioletPumpkin (talk) 15:41, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

In Other Languages section

The languages section is totally empty at the moment, but what should we be putting there? Anything that lists its Japanese name in parentheses is probably a given, and that should cover most of the big categories.

A lot of titles are a generic "x appears", and unless the JP titles are more creative we'd only need to translate the word "appears" for the full set, but that might not be notable enough for a languages entry.

And then we've got several specific titles like "A Legendary Opportunity" or "Tepig Trots onto Stage". Should each of these have their translations listed? Boblers (talk) 08:36, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Personally, I think anything with Japanese in parantheses is more than enough. Maybe even just the top-level headings plus the weekly events. Nescientist (talk) 23:38, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

The 24-Week Cycle

In yesterday's update, data was added to automate most of Shuffle's events on a 24-week cycle through 2037. Since this covers several types of Special Stages, and listing specific event dates for the next several years would be redundant with the cycle, it seems like we'd need a layout overhaul to add all this information. With that in mind, should we make a large section on this page or just make a new page entirely to detail the automated schedule? --Boblers (talk) 16:31, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposing move to "Special stage"

In the in-game notices, the phrase "special stage" is not capitalized in sentences. Additionally, the Manual of style says we should try to have article names be singular in most cases. --Boblers (talk) 11:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

I agree. Nescientist (talk) 11:49, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Proposing split into different event types

This page is quite large as it is, to a point where it takes a while to load. There's plenty of info already here about the different stage types to justify their own separate pages, and there's even already a navbox that links to the different types separately. Splitting would also make distinguishing between stages before and after the final content update much easier - each page talking about one stage type could just have a section for final content and a section for former content. --Boblers (talk) 11:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

For sure. Escalation battles already do have their own article. Nescientist (talk) 11:49, 3 September 2023 (UTC)