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Since there is a feature that allows you to exchange gems for pokemon how about a feature that lets us exchange pokemon for gems? There are pokemon that aren't that easy to sell in the auction house due to the fact they're so common. It would help with people doing gem hunts by making it easier to get gems. Of course the exchange would be based on the rarity of the pokemon, common giving out the least amount and increasing as the pokemon gets rarer


I wasn't really sure where to put this to be honest so I hope it was ok to put it here.

I'm a bit on the fence here, but I'm leaning more towards no support.

I feel like this isn't really necessary and if you really wanted to get rid of some Pokemon, you could just put them up in the Auction House for a very low price, release them or give them away. I also think that this feature might become a bit abused and ultimately decrease the overall value of things such as gems. For example, a user lab-hunted and now has countless amounts of Normal-type Pokemon and sells all of them back for Gems and now has an abundance of Normal Gems which would lead to selling them or hoarding them a bit more easily for "rarer" Pokemon such as Ditto or for Shiny Mega Hunts.

This could also get out of hand and easily make a user get rich if they have thousands of Pokemon they don't really need, such as myself, and continuously selling Pokemon back for Gems to get a lot of them. Just to give you an example, I currently have a bit over 400 Buneary and just under 500 Watchog from previous hunts/lab hatches. If the prices are the same as how much it costs for the egg, selling all of my Buneary and Watchog would end up giving me about 13,000 Normal Gems, which is enough for me to buy a Ditto and still have 3,000 Normal Gems leftover.

A couple ways I could possibly see this working are if, like the Item Shop, there is a deduction of value when you're selling the Pokemon back but even lower than the Item Shop's (For instance instead of getting 20 Normal Gems per Buneary you only got 4, which is 20%) to prevent massive outbreaks of "richness" and/or having a limit to how many you can sell back a day such as 50 of Pokemon you've hatched on your own and possibly 15 of Pokemon whose OT is not you.

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Similar suggestion here

@Malkins - Getting like 20% gems back in gem exchange will also overpower some users with pd.
For eg. A bagon is worth like 60 dragon gems at Gem Collector so its 20% is like 12 dragon gems = 600k pd and you can easily get like 20 bagon eggs per day through daycare which equals 1.2 mil without even doing anything

Therefore, no support even if the percentage have been reduced to 1%.

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What's wrong with putting Pokemon in the GTS and asking for gems to be sent by Delibird Delivery? O.o

I'd say the link Pakoreha linked is pretty much the same ^^

Therefore, I'll be locking this. Please go there to add on to the suggestion/support it.

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