JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Trade a Pokemon to a random trainer and receive a random Pokemon back. Taken from X and Y. Fun risk vs reward. No shame in copying the suggestion whatsoever. mizupickle, Cyen, Kiliminati and 11 others 14 Link to comment
0 shervinz Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 sounds cool I would totally go for this. Better way of getting rid of pokemon you want to release. I dont know how its done in X and Y but there would need to be a limit on pokemon you can trade to NPCs per day right? Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 sounds cool I would totally go for this. Better way of getting rid of pokemon you want to release. I dont know how its done in X and Y but there would need to be a limit on pokemon you can trade to NPCs per day right? Not NPCs, real human players. You literally trade real pokemon with random people not knowing what you will get. Link to comment
0 shervinz Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Not NPCs, real human players. You literally trade real pokemon with random people not knowing what you will get. Ah I see, well I think everyone will just end up trading shit pokemon and hope to get a good one in return, only to get another shit pokemon becuase everyone will do the same thing. Link to comment
0 Darkshade Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Ah I see, well I think everyone will just end up trading shit pokemon and hope to get a good one in return, only to get another shit pokemon becuase everyone will do the same thing. Yep, that pretty much sums up most of my experience with wonder trading. However, some people use it to distribute their unwanted baby Pokemon, in PokeMMO that would likely apply less due to only being allowed one egg at a time. That being said, it's an interesting thought. Strych 1 Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 Ah I see, well I think everyone will just end up trading shit pokemon and hope to get a good one in return, only to get another shit pokemon becuase everyone will do the same thing. Yep, that pretty much sums up most of my experience with wonder trading. However, some people use it to distribute their unwanted baby Pokemon, in PokeMMO that would likely apply less due to only being allowed one egg at a time. That being said, it's an interesting thought. My experience is I get version exclusive Pokemon and the low end pokemon I get are those I keep trading until I get something good. That's the strategy. Link to comment
0 Dannnno Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I think its fun and pretty harmless. And if I people who decide to quit the game might want to just give away whatever they have, or just feel generous, or whatever Link to comment
0 hannahtaylor Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Everyone would trade Rattata's or Pidgey's etc Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 Everyone would trade Rattata's or Pidgey's etc That's not a problem and not everyone does that. Link to comment
0 shervinz Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Would this happen directly between players or do you go to a PC or machine and send a pokemon into the system and get a random one from another trainer? Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 Would this happen directly between players or do you go to a PC or machine and send a pokemon into the system and get a random one from another trainer? In the original wonder trade from X and Y you can do it any where on the map. This is how it works in the following order in pseudocode: Pick a Pokemon from the PC or your party if confirmation of selection is true{ Server finds random trainer to trade with if player is found{ player trades Pokemon with random trainer if player traded Pokemon from PC{ Traded Pokemon gets traded to the PC } else if player traded Pokemon from Party{ Traded Pokemon gets traded to the Party } } else { Wonder trade prompts to start over } } Link to comment
0 shervinz Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 maybe to encourage the use of it, staff could put a random shiny or lvl 100 pokemon or something of value in there once a month/week? Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 maybe to encourage the use of it, staff could put a random shiny or lvl 100 pokemon or something of value in there once a month/week? I don't see how a staff member adding some sort of rare pokemon would encourage it when users could do the same thing. Link to comment
0 Dannnno Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I don't see how a staff member adding some sort of rare pokemon would encourage it when users could do the same thing. because then players don't have to risk anything and it'll make people continue to do it in hopes of a good pokemon Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 because then players don't have to risk anything and it'll make people continue to do it in hopes of a good pokemon They still risk getting a bad pokemon just as equally as everyone else who tries. One good pokemon by staff does not equate for the numerous of bad trades. Getting one good pokemon does have a rewarding benefit to it, but it does not have to come from staff to make it happen. Link to comment
0 Dannnno Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 They still risk getting a bad pokemon just as equally as everyone else who tries. One good pokemon by staff does not equate for the numerous of bad trades. Getting one good pokemon does have a rewarding benefit to it, but it does not have to come from staff to make it happen. Yes, but its easy to risk shitty pokemon on the chance that a staff member has tossed a shiny in, vs risking shitty pokemon when you know that there are probably no good pokemon in. I still think its a fun concept. Link to comment
0 Deshar Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Dannnnos version would be better as an event. Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 Dannnnos version would be better as an event. Oh yea for sure. If you are saying that what his idea is something that could be added to the wonder trade I agree. Limited time wonder trade events is a nice addition to the suggestion. Link to comment
0 Desu Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 The only way this would work with our terrible community was a 'Rate this trade' which then threw people into tiers. The assholes would get matched with other assholes, while leaving people who want to actually use it to enjoy it. Deshar, Dannnno, TrainerParker and 14 others 17 Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 The only way this would work with our terrible community was a 'Rate this trade' which then threw people into tiers. The assholes would get matched with other assholes, while leaving people who want to actually use it to enjoy it. No it wouldn't that would lose the meaning to even have a wonder trade. That would make it somewhat "fair" and the wonder trade isn't fair it's random and you are supposed to be surprised or disappointed. Link to comment
0 Chestbrah Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 The only way this would work with our terrible community was a 'Rate this trade' which then threw people into tiers. The assholes would get matched with other assholes, while leaving people who want to actually use it to enjoy it. or it could be based on levels although people might abuse that by sticking caterpies in the daycare to troll people either way i support this suggestion if you can figure out a way to disallow people sticking lvl 2 rattatas in(do people do this in the cartridge games?) Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 (do people do this in the cartridge games?) Yes but people also send stuff like hi level raichus and version exclusive pokemon so it equals out. Link to comment
0 shervinz Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 maybe make it a minimum level cap like level 40 or something. Undrdatree 1 Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 Sometimes I wonder if I reply in an autistic manner. Here's my response to most posts: The whole point of Wonder Trade is to expect 100% random trades. If we have some sort of system where it's "rate my trade" it be even more flawed for two simple reasons: 1) People don't care about honest ratings so it will be a flawed rating system and 2) Making an algorithm to even determine ratings and levels would just be a lot harder and isn't necessary. And to top it off someone who has a high rating could all of the sudden do "shit trades" which is why tiers are stupid. The whole point of wonder trade is for simple, risky fun and making it fair is not even an option. Gamefreak knew that terrible and awesome trades would happen and they have a system that didn't need to be any more complicated than that. Link to comment
0 Eggplant Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 No it wouldn't that would lose the meaning to even have a wonder trade. That would make it somewhat "fair" and the wonder trade isn't fair it's random and you are supposed to be surprised or disappointed. You can build up your reputation and at any given time suddenly be an ass and put something stupid in trade. I think that's a funny thing to do. I'll have to agree wth Desu, you want at least some sort of encouragement to put good stuff in there. Because if we go by a completely random structure, uhh it's not gonna be random anymore. Everyone's gonna give and get shit. Even if not a rating, you gotta push people to not only throw junk in there, somehow. Link to comment
0 JWingWangWong Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 You can build up your reputation and at any given time suddenly be an ass and put something stupid in trade. I think that's a funny thing to do. I'll have to agree wth Desu, you want at least some sort of encouragement to put good stuff in there. Because if we go by a completely random structure, uhh it's not gonna be random anymore. Everyone's gonna give and get shit. Even if not a rating, you gotta push people to not only throw junk in there, somehow. It's like you didn't read my last post Both systems still promote a way to make trades shit trades and who cares if there is shit trades. The point of wonder trades isn't to be satisfied, it's to take a risk. Link to comment
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Trade a Pokemon to a random trainer and receive a random Pokemon back.
Taken from X and Y.
Fun risk vs reward.
No shame in copying the suggestion whatsoever.
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