Trade evolver NPC

[Selusio]

I was thinking that it is incredibly easy to evolve your pokémon that require trade, since this is an MMO and it's not hard to find someone who will help you or use an alt account on another device.

I just think it's a bit... annoying. Having to look for someone or log in another account somehow breaks the flow of gameplay, it can take some time, and to me it feels a bit odd.

So how about an NPC who evolves your pokémon that require trade? Maybe with a small fee and obviously by using the apposite item if required (metal coat, king stone...). All by leaving the old option still available, so everyone can still evolve pokémon as early as possible and for free.

What do you think? It would definitely not be a revolutionary addition, as trade evolving would be just as easy, but to me it'd be a small but welcome QoL update.

[FighterChamp]

I don't like it, You better make some friends, join a team and evolve your pokes by trade.

Also its not hard to find someone in the MMO, just ask in global and you will get many helpers.

If somebody cheats then just report on PokeMMO forum, Simple.

By the way It will also save the fee which u want to pay the NPC.

:-)

 

[hannahtaylor]

Sort of takes away the whole MMO aspect, yeah?

[Selusio]

3 minutes ago, hannahtaylor said:

Sort of takes away the whole MMO aspect, yeah?

It doesn't imo. For how I see it, the MMO aspect strengths are battles, teams, economy, and I don't see how this affect any of these things. I wouldn't say looking for someone to evolve a pokémon is a key aspect of the MMO thing, as it works just like any mainline pokémon game.

If someone doesn't want to interact with people but needs to evolve a pokémon, he/she can still trade with an alt account and keep playing alone. If he/she wants to, the option to do it the old fashioned way is still there. There would be no radical changes regarding this.

8 minutes ago, FighterChamp said:

I don't like it, You better make some friends, join a team and evolve your pokes by trade.

Also its not hard to find someone in the MMO, just ask in global and you will get many helpers.

If somebody cheats then just report on PokeMMO forum, Simple.

By the way It will also save the fee which u want to pay the NPC.

:-)

 

These are great points! The social aspect of pokeMMO is very important.

But all of this would still be possible with my idea, and even encouraged because as you said it would save you the fee. And, as you said, it is very easy to find someone who will help you, so in the end it wouldn't change how accessible trade evolutions are. I wouldn't say the main purpose of friends and teams is evolving pokémon. Personally, I don't think someone who dislikes socializing would change his/her mind just to have a Golem or a Conkeldurr.

Just compare the two things:

-you have to evolve a pokémon, so the first thing is asking someone, then meet him/her, then you both would have to interrupt whatever you were doing for a trade that doesn't involve much social interaction

Or

-you have to evolve a pokémon, you fly to wherever the NPC will be, you evolve it and you have more time to do things, even actual social things.

The only downside I see is that it may take developer time (maybe not much, but I don't know how hard it would be to implement) that could be used for more important things because, as I said, this would change very little in the game.

[FighterChamp]

Your Points are also good.

Hope a developer See this and say something.

I am not against You But I don't like it.