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Hi, We are working to setup additional routes for Chinese players within the next week. It should help alleviate the connection problems. Unfortunately, we are having troubles with the hosting company. Thanks for your patience

Changelog 10/10/2018 Bug Fixes Fixed several client crashes Fixed item consumption in Tournament Mode PvP / Rentals game modes Fixed Life Drain / Recoil not proccing against Substituted targets

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An update has been pushed to resolve the issue.

Changelog 04/10/2018 Features Added character deletion Characters may only be deleted if the character is more than 2 days old Teams will now be disbanded automatically if one of the following conditions are met: If a team has multiple members, and all members have been inactive for more than 6 months; or If a team has a single member, and the member has been inactive for more than 1 month Bug Fixes Fixed sell prices for some BP-sourced items Air Balloon sales were temporarily disabled due to misleading sell prices in the client, and sales have been re-enabled Android: Fixed an issue where Summaries would not be visible while Trading Android: Fixed various issues with the Safari Zone interface Fixed an issue where, if multiple trade evos were traded to another character, only one would process Probably fixed an issue where, in Tournament Mode / PvP, Trick may sometimes have led to non-consumable items being consumed permanently Enabled mailing items to same-account Fixed an issue where certain objects, e.g. Driftveil City's Gym Elevator, may not render correctly after relogging Gems may now be consumed if the target has a Substitute Sleep Talk is no longer omitted from Encore Fixed an issue where Focus Punch's priority comparisons wouldn't always work correctly with negative priority moves (Roar, Counter, Revenge, etc.) Possibly fixed an issue where, in some cases on Android, the "Another user logged in" message may erroneously occur. Fixed Rage Powder never ending Minimum auction fees have been reduced to: $100/item $1000/mon Fixed various issues with the Contest user interface Fixed various issues with Custap Berry battle effects Recycle may now cause the caster to immediately consume certain items which normally trigger on HP Change / Status Ailment change Toxic Spikes's poison infliction is no longer prevented by Magic Guard (although it will still deal no damage) Fixed an issue where Flame Burst would deal secondary damage to the main target of the skill Fixed various issues with Sheer Force Fixed an issue where Flinch would never proc if a target was Sleeping Fixed ordering of Recoil/Life Drain / Held Item retaliation effect procs Notes This update increases the minimum requirements of the game from Java 6 to Java 7. For almost all installations, this does not affect anything. With this update, we will be pruning inactive characters and inactive teams. Criteria for automated deletion is as follows: Characters who have met ALL of the following criteria have been deleted:  Not online for at least 6 months Less than 6 hours' played time Less than $25,000 money Have no shinies on the character Have no party members level 50 or higher Account has not ever donated Teams who have met at least one of the following criteria have been deleted: For teams with multiple members, if all members have been inactive for more than 6 months, the Team will be disbanded. For teams with a single member, if the member has been inactive for more than 1 month, the Team will be disbanded. The names and tags associated with these characters and teams are now available for use.

We would like to, yes.

Hi everyone, As the game has increased in popularity over the Summer, RMT and botting related activities have also been increasing noticeably. There seems to be some misunderstanding about what isn't allowed in-game, so I would like to clarify that today. Real Money Trading and other illicit services upset the balance of the game by providing an unfair advantage to some players, and as such, are prohibited under the Terms of Service. RMT activities also contributes to other forms of cheating, such as where RMT vendors will use dedicated botting characters in order to create and sell gold. Since August, we have terminated more than 3,500 accounts related to RMT activity and botting, and are still banning hundreds per day. You may have heard stories of players professing their innocence by claiming that they were banned for trading with their friends, but we do not ban for normal trades with friends, transfers between alternate accounts, giveaways, or in-game sales of Gift Shop items. Often, players have been banned for receiving millions of gold from automated script characters while trying to hide the source of the money. Other times, players may have a dedicated botting character which they use to cheat on, then they are shocked when we take their main account, because they "weren't cheating on it." Regardless of how we find them, there is no statute of limitations to these types of rule violations. Usually, we will take action a few weeks after we find the violation, when they think they are safe. We are not immune to mistakes, but right now, the rate of approved ban appeals from these types of violations is less than 5%. When we make a mistake, it's almost always due to a legitimate trade with an RMT vendor. We believe this false positive rate is still too high, and we are working to improve it. In order to ensure the fairness of the game is maintained, we have diverted significant development resources to our administrative tools so that we can better handle this scale of cheating. We hope this knowledge will put normal players at ease. Finally, we would like to thank the players who have taken the time to report RMT and botting activity to the Game Masters. Reports help immensely, and we are very grateful for them.

Our problems come when we have to weigh the "fun"/fairness that a single match is having, in comparison to the rest of the tournament. Because tournaments have grown massively, and 7 round 128-man tournaments are now commonplace, it affects other people significantly when a match gets stuck in the early rounds, and it can force players to wait several extra hours as the matches resolve themselves. We're trying to be lenient on how many matches have time limit enforcement, and we can probably reduce the amount of rounds affected by time limits even further, but I believe they are a necessity to ensure that larger tournaments take place within a reasonable amount of time. That is why we are looking for any ideas towards a fairer representation of who "won" the match when it reaches its limits.

Changelog 20/08/2018 Features Tournaments now have a 60-minute time limit placed on early round matches. Finals, Semi-Finals, and Quarter-Finals matches do not have time restrictions. When determining winners in PvP time limit tiebreakers (RMM/Tournaments), the team which dealt the most damage will now be declared the winner Balancing Added Draco Meteor move tutor (Opelucid City) Note: Draco Meteor has been removed from the Hydreigon evolution tree's learnset due to balancing concerns. It may be implemented at a later date. In Double Battles, Rage Powder may now be ignored by Grass-types or those with the ability Overcoat Freeze Clause has been removed Note: This option was never enabled by default in any PvP game modes. It has been removed to prevent confusion and erroneous tournament match creation Mental Herb may now cure Infatuation, Taunt, Encore, Torment, and Disable conditions for the holder. Bug Fixes Fixed several client crashes Fixed an installation issue on Android for updating clients Added Rocky Helmet to BP shops Fixed Sap Sipper stat change type (previously, Speed, now, Attack) Fixed Leech Seed bypassing Sap Sipper immunity Fixed an issue where, if Defiant activated off of a non-skill stat stage change, e.g. Intimidate, an error message could be shown Fixed wild encounter music track in FR Fixed Sheer Force bypassing Sturdy/Focus Sash Fixed missing string for Snow Cloak out of battle effect Fixed Defog messages Fixed Acrobatics+Flying Gem base power modification Fixed an issue where, if a semi-invulnerable skill failed to be cast due to Protect/etc., the attacker's sprite would not always re-render Fixed an issue where parties may not always update immediately when using the PC Fixed an issue where channel change cooldowns may show erroneously high times in some cases Fixed an issue where claiming certain species from tournament prizes could result in an error Redundant stat stage animations for multi-stage changing skills (e.g. Superpower, Quiver Dance, etc.) are now skipped Fixed an issue where Speed Boost ability owners would boost Speed during the turn it was swapped in, while not replacing a fainted party member Fixed adjacency selection for Intimidate, Trace, and Flame Burst when encountering Hordes Fixed an issue where, if an attacker became infatuated through contact with a target with Cute Charm, and the attacker had Destiny Knot, the wrong infatuation message may be shown for the now-infatuated Cute Charm owner Berry Crushing no longer requires a Powder Jar item Overleveled EXP warnings no longer display if the stored EXP exceeds 2 levels above the capped level Fixed After You failing in some situations Probably fixed some issues where game notifications would not always dismiss automatically Fixed a display issue with ranked matchmaking queue notifications The Frenzy Plant/Blast Burn/Hydro Cannon move tutor in Kanto will now accept Gen4+ starters Fixed Hyper/Super Vitamin names in Spanish Fixed an issue where AI may become suicidal when handling opponents with recoil damage items (Rocky Helmet) Known Issues Ally Switch has been temporarily disabled in co-op battles due to issues with multi-battles. It will be re-enabled at a later date.