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Some sample stat builds I guess.

Agumon
Vaccine-type
Reptile Digimon
Fire Element
HP: 1500
MP: 1000
Attack: 450
Defense: 300
Intelligence: 400
Speed: 300
Size/Weight: 200 kB
(haven't quite decided what measurements to use for size/weight though I like the idea of using computer memory units)

Greymon
Vaccine-type
Dinosaur Digimon
Fire Element
HP: 2800
MP: 2000
Attack: 700
Defense: 850
Intelligence: 600
Speed: 500
Size/Weight: 450 kB

Tyrannomon
Data-type
Dinosaur Digimon
Fire Element
HP: 2100
MP: 2000
Attack: 700
Defense: 500
Intelligence: 650
Speed: 800
Size/Weight: 420 kB

There's not much to compare them to aside from each other. Agumon is, I imagine, fairly balanced and regular as far as rookies go. Tyrannomon is similar, though he has an emphasis on Speed and Intelligence, whereas Greymon is bigger and much tankier (I remember in DW1, Greymon had a ton of HP and stuff). Their techniques would be fairly similar as far as offense goes, though I imagine Greymon would be more of a straightforward attacker and Tyrannomon might have some variety between offense, defense, and support.

Sounds good in theory, but you will need some complex algorithims.

Algorithms? What makes you say that?

Species would be variable, it'd basically just be what's in their dictionary entry or what's on the card.

Of elements, I had teh following in mind:
- Fire
- Ice
- Lightning
- Water
- Earth
- Metal
- Light
- Dark
- Poison
- Wood (?) (Dunno if this should be separate, or split between Poison and Earth.)

And I think that pretty much encompasses everything within the scope of Digimon without being too complicated (possibly excepting Wood).

If you look at how to calculate damage with pokemon, its pretty complex problems and stuff

As far as wood goes, there are only like 4 digimon wood based.

For funzies, some more stat builds. Note that I'm basically making these up as I go, LOL; the only real thing I had beforehand was loose stat build ideas.

Kabuterimon
Vaccine-type
Insectoid Digimon
Lightning Element
HP: 2500
MP: 2000
Attack: 650
Defense: 750
Intelligence: 500
Speed: 600
Size/Weight: 400 kB

Kuwagamon
Virus-type
Insectoid Digimon
Earth Element
((I thought Earth because he basically just uses physical attacks, but actual earth and rock is a separate thing too. Dunno what else it would be, LOL... wind maybe?))
HP: 2400
MP: 2200
Attack: 800
Defense: 500
Intelligence: 500
Speed: 650
Size/Weight: 380 kB

Flymon
Virus-type
Insectoid Digimon
Poison Element
HP: 2600
MP: 1800
Attack: 800
Defense: 700
Intelligence: 360
Speed: 700
Size/Weight: 440 kB

At this point I dunno if I'm building them too drastic or not drastic enough or whatever. But anyway, hopefully this illustrates the difference that I sort of see explained by Bandai between these Digimon.

First is Kabuterimon, who's fairly balanced and a little on the tanky side. Next is Kuwagamon, who's sort of weak on defense, but wicked on the offense with high MP and Attack. Then is Flymon, who is unusally dim-witted, but very tough in all other regards-- such that his shortcoming in his intelligence and consequent disobedience are alleviated somewhat by his raw power when acting on his own. I took the most liberties with Flymon, but Kabuterimon and Kuwagamon are pretty heavily-emphasized by official sources as being respectively defensive and offensive, so I feel it makes sense.

There are also relatively benevolent, virtuous, or otherwise friendly mons in the Nightmare Soldiers, such as Garurumon, Apemon, and Wizardmon. As such, I was thinking that maybe the Nightmare Soldiers might be the only group of the main ones without a REAL environment, and that they might be dispersed among the others. Or, maybe they have like a twilight zone of neverending night in the Digital World or something, that would simply work too. (in fact, I like that idea.)