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Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Mon, 17/08/2020 13:59 (4 Years ago)
	The pokeradar page tells you what will break your chain. Quote Important: Only eggs that are obtained from the Lab, the Daycare, the Gem Collector, the Safari, the Ancient Cave1, the Event Shop or found in the Tall Grass count for your chain. Since event distribution is not on the list, no, it won’t break your chain. [Read more]

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Posted: Sun, 16/08/2020 18:36 (4 Years ago)

Currently, we need to rely on just random chance to get certain shinies from the Alola and Galar rumble areas. This is quite annoying, because random chance is in no way reliable with getting shinies. Especially since these Pokemon are just regular Pokemon, it doesn't make sense to have their shinies be so rare. These Pokemon are:

- Alolan Marowak
- Alolan Raichu
- Alolan Exeggutor
- Galarian Weezing
- Galarian Mr. Mime (and Mr. Rime)

I'm suggesting to have evolution items (or some sort of evolution method) to evolve Pokemon into their regional evolutions (e.g. evolving an Exeggcute into Alolan Exeggutor). This makes obtaining those shinies just like obtaining the shinies of other regular Pokemon. Perhaps we could have some sort of Alolan stone for the Alolan ones, and Galarian stone for the Galarian ones? Something like that.

Edit: or maybe even just sending them to the Alola/Galar rumble areas will evolve them, like how we evolve Magneton and Nosepass

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Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sun, 16/08/2020 15:09 (4 Years ago)
	Bumping this up [Read more]

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Posted: Sun, 16/08/2020 00:22 (4 Years ago)

If this is the user I'm thinking of (at least, the one with the many guest clicks), the reason they get so many guest clicks is because of Yarolds, where this user is an administrator. It's a click exchange site, even if their Pokemon wouldn't show on the online list, they could still have them put on Yarolds. To completely eliminate the issue you'd need to prevent the Pokemon of banned users to receive any interactions at all. I'd link their profile on there as proof, because their Pokemon who is on the strongest Pokemon list is registered on there, but I don't know that I should per the rules. You're free to go on and find them, they aren't hard to find.

Of course, I support this + preventing the Pokemon of banned users to be interacted with to completely eliminate the issue.

@absol-girl: It sounds like you're attempting to play devil's advocate just for the sake of playing devil's advocate. The whole determination argument fails when it's literally violating the definition of being account locked.

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Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sat, 15/08/2020 16:16 (4 Years ago)
	Hi all! I'm looking for vortex of time maps and adamant orbs, which I'm buying at 170k PD each! I have enough PD to finish collecting, I just need to find maps and orbs to buy! :D 32/100 Collected! [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Wed, 12/08/2020 18:41 (4 Years ago)
	Read this wiki page for information on shiny hunting! [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sun, 09/08/2020 15:57 (4 Years ago)
	Yeah this definitely shouldn't replace the current system. But it'd be nice to have a way to more actively get daycare eggs through working for them along with the current RNG daycare system. [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sat, 08/08/2020 22:11 (4 Years ago)
	I like this a lot! Perhaps the boost/more eggs could depend on rarity? E.g. getting more easy eggs would require less interactions than getting more rare eggs. This also really helps make event hunts more reasonable, as they take months to hunt and event passes are super expensive. [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sat, 18/07/2020 19:36 (4 Years ago)
	Was it possibly because you didn't have Tyrogue's eggdex before? Or did you? [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Tue, 14/07/2020 15:35 (4 Years ago)
	There wouldn't be a refund, no. The page does say "You can buy additional Dream Points with your Nuggets in this section.", so it's clear that you're spending nuggets to buy DP, not the other way around. [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Wed, 08/07/2020 22:23 (4 Years ago)
	This wiki article should help! Unfortunately, your Absol won't be able to mega evolve (if it's the one I found in your boxes), but that article should be able to clear up why. [Read more]

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Posted: Tue, 07/07/2020 13:14 (4 Years ago)

Hey there! I can offer 200 dragon gems, 477 water gems, 443 electric gems, 204 psychic gems, 335 flying gems, and 1 million PD. I can also hunt you some shinies you're missing, but these are the ones you're missing that I can currently offer:

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Metapod
Butterfree
Alolan Ninetails
Clefairy
Clefable
Omanyte
Omastar
Kabuto
Autumn Mareep
Summer Ampharos
Unown W
Quagsire
Girafarig
Porygon2
Stantler
Smeargle
Miltank
Poochyena
Mightyena
Zigazgoon
Linoone
Beautifly
Volbeat
Illumise
Solrock
Baltoy
Claydol
Lileep
Cradily
Anorith
Armaldo
Huntail
Gorebyss
van Bagon
Shelcasso
Sala de Menci
Sir Shelgon
Lord Salamence
Staraptor
Bidoof
Bibarel
Cranidos
Rampardos
Shieldon
Bastiodon
Burmy Plant
Wormadam Plant
Gible
Garchomp
Porygon-Z
Cottonee
Whimsicott
Basculin Red
Darumaka
Darmanitan x2
Tirtouga
Carracosta
Archen
Archeops
Gothitelle
Solosis
Duosion
Reuniclus
Eelektross
Boufalant
Amaura
Aurorus
Pikipek
Trumbeak
Toucannon
Pyukumuku
Applin
Flapple
Appletun
Arrokuda x2
Barraskewda
Non-shiny Cramorant gulping a shiny Arrokuda, if that counts

Let me know if I need to add nuggets, too! Edit: To give numbers, I can do up to 4k nuggets added onto everything offered above

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Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sat, 20/06/2020 16:23 (4 Years ago)
	Yes please! I'd really like to delete all my feeds but that'd be 6 years worth of feeds to delete. A delete all feature would be so helpful. [Read more]

Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sat, 20/06/2020 02:48 (4 Years ago)
	Oops I forgot about this. I did update the front post though, so if anyone has interest in the upcoming hunts :p also if anyone spots any errors let me know! Also if anyone has hunt requests let me know! I'm only hunting things I don't yet have though. [Read more]

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Posted: Fri, 12/06/2020 21:29 (4 Years ago)

I definitely think rewards would hinder the quality of mentoring, regardless of a rating system or not. A big reward, like mentoring-exclusive Pokemon, would be an even worse idea. Not everyone wants to be mentoring, and it isn’t something people should be forced to do to finish the pokedex.

Mentoring should not be a rewarded thing. It needs to be something done by people who are capable of and enjoy mentoring others, people who do it for the sake of helping others and not for a reward.

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Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Sun, 31/05/2020 21:04 (4 Years ago)
	Even though they're encountered more often, I'd say they're also in more demand than summons, which evens out that playing field. Because people are only using summons for a specific legend. People are using gems for boiling, other hunts, Zygarde forms, etc - many more purposes. So I don't think much of a difference holds. [Read more]

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Posted: Sun, 31/05/2020 20:41 (4 Years ago)

I don't think 300 gems would make the shinies common, since that's a ~30 million PD hunt. UB hunts are 30 million, and there's very few shinies of them. So it's definitely not extremely easy, because that's a lot of PD - it actually makes them one of the more expensive hunts. That's assuming those gem prices wouldn't skyrocket if the prices are slashed down to 300, which also is entirely possible.

edit: For comparison, a Ditto hunt, where each Ditto is 5k gems and each gem is 1k PD, is a 350 million PD hunt for only 70 eggs, which I think is still way too absurd. In a collect 'em all game it should most definitely be cheaper than that, at least 300 million PD cheaper.

For birds, even at 2k gems each, 1k per gem, is a 140 million PD hunt at 70 eggs. Still absurdly expensive.

I know 300 gems seems like a small amount, but these hunts would be much more expensive than you'd think.

Edit again because I can't settle on a final post: There are ~22 shiny UBs, and Ultra Saddles have been out since... I can't find any post on when they came, though I'm sure it exists and I'm just blind oops. But I know they haven't been out for a short time. So within the amount of time UBs have been out, it'd be 22 shinies as a combined number across all three birds and Ditto, which is most definitely not super common.

These are all estimations, of course, but I'd say they're the most accurate estimations we can get with the data we have.

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Posted: Wed, 27/05/2020 19:39 (4 Years ago)

The front post can get a bit confusing, it's a lot of numbers. I added a tl;dr at the beginning of the post, which hopefully helps create more of a transition into reading the bulk of the suggestion.

If someone is confused, please post! We'll try to word it in a different way to help with that. I don't want people voting no just because they don't understand it, I'd rather people vote no if they understand but don't agree with the idea. If that makes sense!

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Posted: Wed, 27/05/2020 17:35 (4 Years ago)

tl;dr because I know math can be confusing: the gem costs for the bird trio and Ditto are too expensive, it should be lowered to a more reasonable cost such as 300 gems per bird or Ditto, which would cost ~30 million PD to hunt them. Reasonable but not too expensive.

Hey! This suggestion has a similar motivation as this one here that I posted. Basically, hunting the bird trio and Ditto is absurdly and unreasonably expensive. The fact that they've been on site for 6 years, with many dedicated shiny hunters here, and still don't exist on-site as shinies shows that they're truly way too expensive.

Ditto Math

Assuming you pay 1,000 per gem, a Ditto hunt would cost 700 million PD if you only aim for 70 eggs. That's well over double the amount of the amount that the wealthiest person on site has! It's a number that would take years and years to actually achieve. Very unreasonable for a collect 'em all game. Even if you only payed 500 per gem, a low price for normal gems, it'd be the still-very-huge amount of 350 million PD. And all of that is if you're just going for 70 eggs, whereas most people tend to try for 100 eggs in these kinds of difficult hunts.

Birds Math

Of course, the birds are more bearable, but still would require years and years of gem collecting. Assuming again you pay 1,000 PD per gem, for 70 eggs, a hunt for one of the birds is 350 million PD. At 500 PD per gem, it's 175 million PD, of which only the wealthiest person on site hits. These are some intense PD amounts, again, unreasonable for a collect 'em all game. Again, this is only for 70 eggs, a low amount to aim for. For all three birds it's about 1 billion PD to hunt all 3 if it's 1,000 PD per gem, and about 500 million at 500 PD per gem. Wow. Yikes.

Combined Total

Now put it all together. Let's say you're a shiny hunter, you want to complete the shinydex. For just 4 shinies, the total cost of hunting the bird trio and Ditto, at 1,000 PD per gem, for 70 eggs each, comes out to be 1.75 * 10^9 PD. My calculator didn't even want to give me the decimal form it's such a large number. But here it is: 1,750,000,000, 1 billion, 750 million PD.

If you assume 500 PD per gem, it's 875 million PD. Better than over 1 billion, but not a likely price considering 500 PD for these gems is paying considerably low. Also uh, 875 million, still an absurd amount! I also want to emphasize this is still only for 4 shinies. Yikes. Alsooo only for 70 eggs each, a low amount to aim for for these hunts.

Ahhh! What should we do?
Cut down gem prices for these Pokemon. Like, cut them down a lot. Consider a hunt for an ultra beast, which is 30 million PD if you're paying 300k per saddle. That's already pretty tough for a user to accomplish. For Ditto to cost 30 million PD to hunt, it would be 300 gems per Ditto. It doesn't sound like a lot, but 100 Ditto eggs for 300 gems each is, in fact, 30 million PD. Still quite difficult for a user to accomplish.

For the birds, for each one to cost 300k, they need to cost 300 gems each, too - 150 flying and 150 fire/ice/electric. The same math applies to them as it did for Ditto.

It would cost 120 million PD to hunt all 4 of these shinies. Is that a reasonable number? It's certainly more reasonable than over 1 billion, or 875 million. Users are able to hunt UBs, not easily, but definitely seem to be able to, as there's a couple of each shiny of them. And UB hunts cost 30 million PD. So I'd say 300 gems per is a very reasonable number, yes.

Any thoughts on this are appreciated, but most especially on how many gems each of these 4 Pokemon should cost. Perhaps everyone else has a different idea on the cost? Also please, please, please don't come running in here shouting "but they're supposed to be rare!!!" I've outlined more than enough proof in this post that the current gem prices are too unreasonable, and a 30 million PD hunt, as I've mentioned before, is still difficult to accomplish, but not unreasonable. That's my response, pre-made, for those people who are going to be posting that. Because for some reason people think "easier" means "easy", and that's false.

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Saladfish OFFLINE Forum Posts: 746	Posted: Fri, 22/05/2020 17:17 (4 Years ago)
	I really like the Babylonian Wailmer line, it’s become one of my favorites! I usually only dislike the events that are just Pokemon in human clothes. [Read more]

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