[quote name='Atuan' timestamp='1359686965' post='179520']Here's an example. Earthquake, regardless of how useful it is in the metagame, usually takes 40-60 minutes to obtain on an alt run, at best times recorded. With the biking grass rate at about seven encounters per minute, we just apply some math and go from there. Marowak is a little under 10% encounter rate at Sevault Canyon, so roughly two Marowak for every three minutes of non-stop encounter. We'll use forty-five minutes as the check, because you have to consider alt runs also gain ALL TMs and if the times were the same, most people would opt for alt runs. So this gives us thirty Marowak in a forty-five minute grind. If only one of those Marowak had an Earthquake, then that'd come out to a 3% held item rate[/quote]
I think I missed smt here... So you are proposing a method for farming a single TM that would take the same amount of time as doing an alt run, in which you get not only all TMs as you stated, but also the move tutors and one time pokes?
But hey, know what? Lets make it even better. Lets force people to spend a good 2-3 hours smashing buttons at the casino so that they can get the Eevee they`d get in 20 minutes doing an alt run!
Now seriously, if you want to create a method that would encourage people to stop making alt runs, this method would need to be MORE effective than the one you want to replace...