Sk8trgod618

I love this game with a passion and I love the staff, too! I just can't stand there being this many bots, because they ruin the game. I'm not blaming staff for anything. I just hope they try their hardest to rid Pro of said bots. I'm not sure what I'm going to do though. My long standing opinion is that rare things are too rare in this game. And I disagree with the statement that "making any extremely rare pokemon less rare would ruin the economy". I think adding so many things to the shop did more damage than changing encounter rates ever could. But I think the inflation of coin prices only happened because of the bot infestation.

Seeing so many bots everywhere, hunting anything that is good or popular, affects my motivation to hunt. If players hunting near me were all human controlled, hunting would not be so bad. Everyone would get to share their findings and try to 1 up eachother. But this bot infestation is making me consider quitting. Why should we non-botters work so hard for something that botters can accomplish while not even at their computers? I want to hunt Xmas Eevee and I've already caught around 60 Eevee. Yet, being surrounded by bots who have 50m and catch xmas pokemon to sell for 100m, when the most money I've ever had is 1.5m, it's quite depressing and harshly affects motivation. Enough of my blabbing. I wonder how the rest of the community feels about this? Feel free to comment. I'm finding it difficult to keep any kind of motivation to continue hunting. :Cry:

I still feel like making things this rare could be part of the reason there are so many players botting. :( Although, even if things weren't so rare, there would still be bots that catch hundreds of <whichever pokemon> to get as close to perfect iv as possible. I would report bots and include video / screenshots, but there are so many that it's a waste of time for a player to do, when they don't even know if staff will handle it or not. Please elect a staff member to do a bot sweep. Players don't have time to report 100 bots when they're trying to catch xmas pokemon before bots do.

I can't guarantee I'll still play this game in a few months because of the possibility to hunt weeks or months without finding what you're after, or never finding it at all. I had a horrible experience with skrelp, and there is no way that xmas eevee is easier to find than h.a. skrelp. I love this game, but I'll never stop suggesting for extremely rare pokemon to have rate slightly boosted. if they are 1/200, i would like 1/150, if it's 1/150, then make it 1/130. Where it is now, it just hurts to hunt for anything. Also, i don't know why i seem to be able to find 3 eevee per hour in flakewood, but hoenn safari zone area 5 gives me 1 eevee per six safari zone entries. Not sure what the deal is. I've tested for 6+ hours in each location and flakewood seems much easier :(

I feel like a robot hunting for this kind of thing. I am tired of carrot-on-a-stick, and seemingly diminishing rng. Progressive rng that slightly increases odds after a very high number of attempts would be amazing! What is wrong with working for something and then getting it? Why so much work for nothing?

I agree with Jhaydenite. We are human, we all have lives outside of the pokemon world that need to be lived. I hate botters with a passion and I would never even imagine doing it. But at the same time, i feel bad for players who resorted to botting after losing their minds to bad spawn rates. Even if I had caught every Xmas Pokemon there was, and had the best ivs and natures on server, I'd still feel bad for all the people trying their hardest that won't ever get what they want. Even if i was the only one with xmas pokemon, I would want spawn chance increased. I saw another comment that mentioned something about giving. This should be an event that makes new players excited to play during christmas. NOT an event that makes players decide this will be their last PRO christmas.

I want a Xmas Eevee more than anything else in this game right now. I'm disappointed by the 1/1024 being applied to "extremely rare" Pokemon, and I expect to encounter 0 Xmas Pokemon this event, even though I hunt 3-6 hours a day. Until this event ends, I'll be logging in only to hunt Eevee. I'm going to keep trying to find this Eevee every day until event ends. I know that I won't find any Xmas Pokemon, because that's how things work for me. All I get from it is a box of Eevee that are probably all bad or sync fail, save a few epic due to mass quantity. I know that there are still 14 days til Xmas, but I'd just like to point out that this is another one of those times where people who can't play all day / every day get punished. I already feel bad for all the people who got excited over Xmas pokemon for nothing because they'll never obtain the one they want. Sad situation, in my opinion, unless everyone magically gets their favorite Xmas pokemon on Christmas day :( I dream of progressive rng. I guess the main thing for me is, there is still too much of this in the game ---> work very hard, for many hours, with maximum effort = still low chance at reward. Then some guy,who doesn't even know what h.a. is, gets what you're looking for, then some guy buys it for 30m and you only have 100k. I understand Eevee's rarity a little more, but Swablu is so bad in pvp that it should be a sparse pokemon, or scarce.

Re: Clone Event Re-activation <t>Still hoping new locations might get added for the starters before event ends.</t>

Got bored and made these in MS Paint: :Heart: :Angel:

lol :Angel: couldn't find a smaller sprite. i got better with paint. :Angel:

I agree :)

I'd like to see Sandile, Krookrock, and Krookodile with santa hat, lol. Trapinch / flygon with scarf would be cool. I'd also love absol with scarf or santa hat. Maybe even pidgey, pidgeotto, pidgeot with hat / scarf. I think it would be fun to heat wave with a modest santa hat pidgeot lol. Swablu is cute, and I think the eevee idea is good. lol dratini?

Re: Clone Event Re-activation <t>yeah i spent around 600 or 700 encounters last night in CM3. for ONE charmander. I'm not trying for clones again until new spawns added or rate changed. I'm not spending 8 hours to find 0-2 charmander, when EVERY OTHER extremely rare pokemon is x5 easier to find. if I went to hunt sandile right now, I bet i could find 10 in 5 hours. Why is charmander 1 per 4 hours?</t>

I would day clones hate me, but the real fact is that the kanto starters hate me. I'm unable to even find a charmander, even after hunting for sessions of 2-4 hours a few times a day. :(

when i say "encounters required to find something" I'm speaking of approximate numbers. The way that shiny is 1/8192. The Extremely Rare tier has an assigned percentage chance. We don't know if it's 1/150, 1/200, 1/250. But whatever it is, I'm just asking for 10-20 of the encounters to be trimmed. If it is 1/150, i'd like 1/140. If it's 1/200, I'd like 1/180. If it's 1/250, I'd like 1/225. Get what i'm saying? even five encounters of a difference, heck!

Re: Clone Event Re-activation <r>Thanks :). I appreciate all the hard work you staff put in. Please ignore my hunters rage. I just get frustrated easily if I hunt for something for 4 hours and don't find the species. I have hunted noibat at high tide entrance room at night about five different times. I caught one noibat one time. other four attempts i got nothing. What is there to motivate me to return to high tide? Nothing. <br/> <br/> Sometimes I don't feel like playing because i think if previous hunts. "i went four hours with 0 charmander, why would i want to do that again? *hunts skarmory instead*". <br/> <br/> I'd honestly rather "find an extremely rare pokemon in 50 encounters, but have a 99% chance to have bad ivs" than "find an extremely rare pokemon once every 500 encounters and have 100% chance to be 31 x 6.<br/> <br/> Rarity of pokemon doesn't matter. Ivs/ nature/ and abilities do. I own 40+ skrelp. They are extremely rare and MS only. Yet if i sold the bad ones, i'd make 2k-20k per skrelp. Not a single skrelp i own is worth more than 50k, yet he's extremely rare. <br/> <br/> I just disagree with the view that most staff seem to have, that "making any extremely rare pokemon easier to find in any way will ruin the economy / game"<br/> <br/> <br/> I actually have an idea. Instead of a clone event, I would very much like if the next event buff could say "extremely rare pokemon are 5% easier to find" or something. and have it last a week. <br/> <br/> I feel like this clone event is h.a. skrelp all over again. it took 59 skrelp before I got my first h.a.. Am i to expect this from this event? I've caught three charmander so far and I can't even find anymore. How am I expected to catch 56 more for a "chance" at clone? lol<br/> <br/> I'm sorry, but I'm just not happy about time taken to find things in this game.<br/> <br/> going into a hunt and finding the thing you are searching for in 30 minutes Feels Great!<br/> <br/> Going into a hunt and not finding anything for 4 hours makes me not want to play ever again. Makes me want to give all my pokemon away. <br/> <br/> Even if you make it so "extremely rare pokemon take 10 less encounters to find, on average" That would make me happy. the slightest change is all i'm asking for. <br/> I'm not saying "make extremely rare pokemon 1/50 instead of 1/250. but if it's 1 in 250, maybe make it 1 in 200 or 1 in 225. It's too much, still.<br/> <br/> I'm probably in the wrong topic. I just can't motivate my self to hunt clones after hunting 4+ hours multiple times, for 0 charmander each time. can't find clones if I can't even find a charmander. <E>:Frown:</E> <br/> <br/> Thank you for all your hard work, but I feel like I'm getting nothing from any hard work I put into this game. I try my hardest, just to watch other ppl find 6 charmander in 1 hour while I'm there for 6 hours and find 0 then rage quit.</r>

Bump. I appreciate feedback and opinions on this matter! I just want a small amount of encounters to be trimmed from the amount of encounters required to find extremely rare pokemon. I'm not looking for a big change. Just the smallest percentage of a change to make it so you're less likely to go 4-8 hours with 0 charmander. :(

Re: Clone Event Re-activation <t>I hope new spawn locations for gen 1 starters get added soon. I currently spend 4 hours in cinnabar 3 just to find 0 charmander. 1 if lucky. but no clone no sync hit and low ivs every time.</t>

I'm still having trouble staying motivated to play when it can still take 300-600+ encounters, and 2-6 hours to find one targeted species of extremely rare pokemon. I doubt i'll even find a clone pokemon in this event, because Every time I hunt in cinnabar 3, i am there for 4 hours with 0 or 1 charmander. Motivation fading away. :(

Bump, again! :Light: Please share your thoughts and opinions! :Angel:

For those who were wondering. I've seen too many bots. I Hate them. I will NEVER, in this LIFE, Resort to botting. YOu could offer me a winning power ball loto ticket if I bot in pro. I wouldn't do it. The only reason I went to the bot site is because I was looking for ways to find out if someone really is botting or not. I was only in those forums for less than 1 minute. I clicked a random thread, scrolled down and read a random comment, and that's what I saw. Disgusted, I closed the window, came here and reported my findings.

I'm having decent luck on hoenn route 113 for skarmory. it appears all day. not sure about corphish though. Good luck :)

Where'd you go, man? lol

I believe there is a bot infestation on love island. It seems to be getting out of control. The scary thing is that I read on a bot forum a comment where someone said "I only run up to 10 pro bots at a time or my computer slows down." It's frightening to me. :Angry: I should include that this is on blue server.

Bump! I want this to be implemented very badly! :Angel: