Gen 5 rumor mill thread

How would I go about this 5th Gen?

-Stick with 8 Gym Battles like 1st, 3rd, and 4th Gen. Chances are if they do 16 again they'll skim on the 8 from a previous region and it'll have little going on and can be cleared quick.
-Enhanced Story. They can keep the formula, but there needs to be some more depth to the story.
-Fleshed out characters. What I mean is, like meeting all the Gym Leaders, them having some definite personalities and maybe even a side-quests involving each of them before the Gym Battle or at least right after it.
-The Syndicate. The Grunts can keep uniforms shared between them, but the Admins needs to have some more creative designs. Also deeper/better story with the Syndicate. That's probably the reason why I liked Colosseum so much. The Admins had some creative designs. (Their leader should be the female this time for the gender twist)
-Another Double Battle Gym (Can't say Elite Four as that would put 5 people in the Elite Four)
-Battle Frontier with some original facilities aside from the Battle Tower. Battle Tower is a Staple.
-Meeting all of the Elite Four along the way and getting to know each of them. Would make it better if this happened with Gym Leaders and other important character so that it would be hard to tell who is at the End of the game
-Rival personality mixing Blue and Silver, the two best rivals.

EDIT: No trying to stick evolutions/baby forms on everything from previous generations.