At the moment, battling is just a social feature (and allows you to
get BP). Perhaps if the NPCs give you special rewards, this would
have battling be more well tied into other aspects of the site.
Perhaps you could receive new retros, or something? Maybe for
Rowan, a Retro Nidoran, A retro Milotic for Leah, Togetic for the
daycare owner (since we already have retro Togepi), and bring back
the Simi's waiter forme change items for (uh, what's his name, the
waiter)
Support either way
If I'm online and don't respond, I'm probably busy hunting for the
missing semicolon (C++)
Game of Mao