So I only just got to the Mega Evolution thingy at the Tower of Mastery. First thoughts:

Fletchling line is total bs. (Mostly unrelated, but Fletcher just became a Talonflame and can now OHKO things with Peck.)

Mega Evolution is basically digivolution via Crest/Egg/Card/Other implements.

@Mega Rings IRP:

I wouldn't mind having them limited to only a smallish number like the armbands, if it could be certain they would actually be sort of group property and shared equally among all the team members, and not treated like the armbands where certain people take possession of them and loan them out, etc.

That said, I do not forsee myself using one at any point IRP.

While I do agree this isn't a thing that should be fully decided until the spoilerblock's up and revived then, I might as well say that the only thing I'm really opposed to is just a large portion of the team getting them all from the same source. I'm fine with everyone who wants one eventually being able to get one through story reasons if it's explained well enough.

That, and if there are any restrictions on it besides not getting them all at once, my PCs probably won't be getting them either, mostly because neither of them really want Mega Evolution that badly and I'm kind of loathe to have one get Mega Evolution and the other not. Not that I'd never want them to, it's more it would be a nice thing to be able to do on occasion, I'd think.

Then again, I still need to beat the game myself. Doubt I'll have an especially different opinion of it then, though.

You already have to pet her more or die. :3

Salamence will be very angry if you don't. :3

Good point Silent, that's probably even more broken than Mega Evolution.

To be fair here, Amie is something that we have been kinda sorta doing for a while (let's face it, Lanius should have killed some of our most capable mons back then. BUT THEY HELD UP BECAUSE OF THE HEART OF THE CA-oh wait, wrong mechanic.)

We don't know much of how do the Amie mechanics work, but I have to say I'd gladly take the roughest mon being able to evade a 100% move in the brink of its life in exchange for having this scene before where he has to more or less publicly humiliate himself by letting the Trainer play with him like he was a kitten :3 - and we make that scene last an entire page.

(For bonus points, let's make that mon be Felis)

I'm with Beri.

Given that it's assumed that people in the RP are nice to their mons, giving them effects for that like random healing of paralysis is probably not a good idea.

True~

The thing is though, writing that out all the time probably isn't terribly enjoyable (whereas in-game it's totally fun). So making in-battle rewards for it seems kind of counterintuitive.

It's okay Silent, I can't either. -nuzzles-

During further talk about Pokémon Amie (I jelly >_>) with Tracer, he makes a very good point that, basically, we actually won't need to do a damn thing.

(emphasis mine)

I don't see any issues with it unless it is a status ailment that actually causes HP damage (Burn or Poison) and even then I think those cases can be handled with some minimal care. The games do make a point since G4 I think that your mons can magically™ cure themselves of poison when at the brink of fainting™, so there's that.

Since I don't know the Amie mechanics any, I can't suggest much, but my personal interpretation at the moment is that such status removal works like a HeroicRROD. You get a one-turn reprieve from the effects of the ailment, just in case you manage to win in that "turn", but you are still inflicted the status ailment until you heal from it by more standard ways afterwards. Basically nothing unlike the truck-lifting mothers.

Still unsure how would that translate to the RP in regulated battles, but for "fight or die" is simple enough.

Yeah, I think Amie should be disregarded. As Tracer noted we kinda already have it in multiple ways. :P

Patch coming for the Lumiose glitch