Finalized game idea (opinions needed)

Before I start, please read the entire idea point for point before giving opinioms. Thank you and your input will be greatly appriciated.

1) Start with a very basic char selection right, make a costum character very basic eyes, clothes, whatever, hair. Your char goes to school like learning how to tame monsters, collect eggs, feed and equipt your monster(s). Hunting for your monsters will be like maplestory kinda, sidescroller, come across monster in the wild, tame them depending on your level. You raise them like you would a tomagachi pet, training, feeding, making them obedient. Take them on adventures, and create your and their personality.

2) Differant skills, like hunting, fishing, gathering, and so on. All the skills effect your basic stats, strength, magic, speed, defence, with caps on the stats based on char trainer level. Take all that into battle to win championships and ultimatley online PVP and PKing. Rewards being money and advancement items.

3) Battle system strongly like monster ranchers. Side scrolling battle, depending on distance effects the attack. Strong str and spd monsters will be more effective close range while mag monsters will be best at a distance, with exections of coarse.

4) Monster advancement... This is the tricky part im not to sure about yet. Were monster rancher doesnt have your monster "evolve" were pokemon and digimon do (along with like tomagachi pets) im not to sure about how to do this.

so with all this being done, nothing is set in stone. But I am starting with the basic grafics for it today. Monster ideas along with ways of advancing would be great if you guys want to put your ideas on this forum. Every opinion will be taken into consideration along with your name in the credits. Keep in mind im a very talented programmer on many many levels, but not all that creative as a person. So if you would like to offer some ideas along with who to credit if it is used, we can figure something out. The company I work for has very strong ties with target and wal mart so the possibility of going commercial is higher than most. Also, all grafics along with backgrounds, monsters, and well everything will be hand drawn by me and a friend who is a struggling comic artist. My email address is Eviltowely301@yahoo.com if you have a monster idea you have drawn out. The more people involved means the more chance this can become HUGE and can ultimately get your name out there in the world of game making. Please, if you have anything you could offer me i would greatly appriciate it!

Interesting idea. For your monster evolving, you might have something like what spore does, which is add parts that increase stats and add new abilities.

Thats a pretty good idea. Never played it but i will take it into consideration. Thanks

EDIT: Oh and monster ideas would be cool too. If you draw them or something my email is in the post