No, there are two alternatives, play comp or shiny trade. These two are Game wise. Here are some things to do in the community if you hate doing those two things, socialize with friends, battle, Pay Day for tons of money, Comment to off topic on forums and join Smog (they can care less about comp), and PM a random person and DON'T SPAM THEM, just say "hi" and wait for the person to respond to you back and once you have a nice conversation, its your choice to add him/her to your Friend List. The community is active and there is always something to do here (at least this is the case for me).
If you do want to comp, I would prefer you read up on competitive trends and PM competitive scholars like DoubleJ, OldKeith, Noad, Rache (her W**** is horrible, 6HKOed me), and Robofiend. Enjoy playing and becoming the very best!
If you want to shiny trade, PM Gilan in that department. I only know the term "commons", but that is it. Commons are shinies that are common to find. Like I said, Gilan, Jay, JoshLinsey, or LioTec about this issue (I am sure there are more shiny scholars out there, but I am not one of them).
There is always a reason to play PokeMMO