A'ight, so, I've been playing PWO for a bit.
You start out on an island, and go through some tutorial stuff. After you get off the island, you can choose to go to either Kanto or Johto and choose from one of their starters. I obviously chose Johto. You can collect 16 badges as of now, from Kanto and Johto. Grinding takes loads of time, you can donate to the servers for a 100% EXP increase, some tokens for items (that can be found in-game as well) and a 300% increase to finding shinies. To trade, both trainers need to have 30 reputation, which can be earned by battling NPCs and other people. Its pretty fun, but its hard to log in sometimes because there's one server and it only holds 500 people.