Popular Post NikhilR Posted August 23, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted August 23, 2015 Hi, Right now at the battle frontier exchange service for bp, you can only buy one item at a time. So if I want to buy 25 vitamins to ev my pokemon, it's so time consuming and irritating to keep pressing 'A' 25 times for this. Pros: Saves time Cons: More coding? WolfgangDamien, Laz, ShadowGary and 43 others 46 Link to comment
0 XelaKebert Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 A couple reminders: Posts that consist of "I support this" or something of that nature are unacceptable. If you cannot think of anything else to add then use the "Like" button to express your support. If you disagree with the suggestion then explain why. Posts that are deemed to not have enough content will be removed. Laz 1 Link to comment
0 Bishav Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 gonna bump this thread it seems ridiculous to buy 100s of vitamins one at a time Vaeldras 1 Link to comment
0 Vaeldras Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 that moment when it takes you more to buy them than to get the needed bp xddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd Bishav, Bilburt and Arimanius 3 Link to comment
0 PandaJJ Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Is it possible to get a confirmation that this is happening? I would rather not buy a three-digit number of vitamins like this again, thank you. Link to comment
0 Perry Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Is it possible to get a confirmation that this is happening? I would rather not buy a three-digit number of vitamins like this again, thank you. I cannot confirm anything is happening; you'll see it in future updates if it should become a thing. As it is right now there's no ETAs . Link to comment
0 PandaJJ Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 We cannot confirm anything is happening; you'll see it in future updates if it should become a thing. As it is right now there's no ETAs . Of course you can. Other features that are going to be implemented (such as nidoran breeding) already have been. I didn't ask for any ETAs, just a confirmation. So to make sure, you are saying that this has not yet been decided to be implemented? I find it odd that no staff member has made any comment regarding this other than "please don't make pointless comments." Arimanius and ShadowGary 2 Link to comment
0 Perry Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Of course you can. Other features that are going to be implemented (such as nidoran breeding) already have been. I didn't ask for any ETAs, just a confirmation. So to make sure, you are saying that this has not yet been decided to be implemented? I find it odd that no staff member has made any comment regarding this other than "please don't make pointless comments." That's not right, first, usually new features are not announced before the changelog is here (unless we're having a PTS); second, I'm not saying that we're going to have it or that we won't - there's no confirmation about this yet, but when it does come this thread will get a [Confirmed] tag so don't worry about that. Furthermore, Nidoran breeding was a bug, that's why it was announced earlier. Link to comment
0 PandaJJ Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 That's not right, first, usually new features are not announced before the changelog is here (unless we're having a PTS); second, I'm not saying that we're going to have it or that we won't - there's no confirmation about this yet, but when it does come this thread will get a [Confirmed] tag so don't worry about that. Furthermore, Nidoran breeding was a bug, that's why it was announced earlier. Thank you, that's what I wanted to know. From your first comment it appeared as is if you were not allowed to reveal whether or not it was even confirmed. On a second note, the fact that you can't buy multiple items at once is such a huge blunder from the developer's side that it should be considered as a bug. It isn't functional at all. Link to comment
0 NikhilR Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 While reading through the "making bp trade-able" thread, I noticed that my write up for this suggestion is almost similar to the kind of suggestions that DS wishes to avoid, where I haven't placed any emphasis on the cons but I really can't think of any. If anyone else feels that there are cons towards implementing this, then feel free to suggest them and I'll edit it into the OP. This is an issue that's been going on for almost 5 months and while I may not be an expert at coding, I doubt it'll take a large amount of time. Buying / Selling vitamins has been a huge part of ev training or making money. Due to the time consumed just to buy each vitamin individually, I sometimes prefer buying through Celadon Dept store. This is even more worse when you have a bunch of UTs to ev train which means you have to multiply the no. of UTs into 50 vitamins, which means that many individual clicks / talking to the NPC. Link to comment
0 Gunthug Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I think there's a huge distinction between players wanting gameplay mechanics to be easier (like eving, paydaying, etc) and players wanting marginal, superfluous activities like buying vitamins to be easier. The former is probably what darkshade was referring to when he called out the usual sugg box template, but the latter is what is being suggested here. This issue is nothing more than a flaw in game design that should be fixed without question PandaJJ and OrangeManiac 2 Link to comment
0 OrangeManiac Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I don't know why should one need to try to find cons in every suggestion. In a suggestion like this there is obviously none. Let's not pretend everything in the game is perfectly as it is or is that how you want us to believe. I'm surprised this wasn't added in last update, buying vitamins with BP is just unbearably annoying almost to the extent I don't wanna even use my BP for vitamins because buying them takes insanely lot of time. Link to comment
0 DoubleJ Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 It's promotion of something that isn't a money sink. Ofc they're going to nerf it, or keep it nerfed, in some way. Link to comment
0 YettoDie Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I don't know why should one need to try to find cons in every suggestion. In a suggestion like this there is obviously none. Let's not pretend everything in the game is perfectly as it is or is that how you want us to believe. I'm surprised this wasn't added in last update, buying vitamins with BP is just unbearably annoying almost to the extent I don't wanna even use my BP for vitamins because buying them takes insanely lot of time. on the side note of this, irrelevent of this, 9800 bp is 1 cb, 1 cb sells for +-200k on gtl, 10k tax is 190k 'profit'. 9800/200=49 49*3750=184k. you'd be stupid to buy vitamins with bp anyway. #ISavedYouTimeAndCreatedAnotherMoneySink\o/ Link to comment
0 Gunthug Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) It's promotion of something that isn't a money sink. Ofc they're going to nerf it, or keep it nerfed, in some way. If a staff member comes here and tries to argue that the inability to buy multiple vitamins at once is somehow a way to keep the economy in check by intentionally wasting our time, I will go ballistic* *within the confines of our Terms and Conditions, of course!!! Edited January 12, 2016 by Gunthug Kiliminati, JayMetaGod, OrangeManiac and 1 other 4 Link to comment
0 Kiliminati Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) If a staff member comes here and tries to argue that the inability to buy multiple vitamins at once is somehow a way to keep the economy in check by intentionally wasting our time, I will go ballistic* *within the confines of our Terms and Conditions, of course!!!Gunny, you legit made my day with that comment And so that Xela doesn't remove, as previously stated, the current purchasing process for vitamins is nothing more than an unnecessary mechanical hinderance to the player base, and serves as an additional time sink that has no positive effect on in-game resources or the economy, even when considering long-term playability. Edited January 12, 2016 by XelaKebert No need to hide content related to the topic in spoilers. JayMetaGod 1 Link to comment
0 PandaJJ Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 on the side note of this, irrelevent of this, 9800 bp is 1 cb, 1 cb sells for +-200k on gtl, 10k tax is 190k 'profit'. 9800/200=49 49*3750=184k. you'd be stupid to buy vitamins with bp anyway. #ISavedYouTimeAndCreatedAnotherMoneySink\o/ I'd argue the exact opposite. By selling choice bands in order to afford vitamins, you are feeding the market and making it harder to sell those later, when you need to. For a measly 6k save (although you can actually sell choice bands for more, so there is a bit more profit) I would never do that. Regarding the pros and cons thing, I believe it is way more important to actually provide pros other than "it would make it easier" rather than cons. This case would be an exception, since it's simply a poorly designed system that does nothing but inconvenience players (and the one thing it does, which is waste time/money, could be replaced by higher prices, so it's not an argument) Gunthug 1 Link to comment
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NikhilR
Hi,
Right now at the battle frontier exchange service for bp, you can only buy one item at a time. So if I want to buy 25 vitamins to ev my pokemon, it's so time consuming and irritating to keep pressing 'A' 25 times for this.
Pros:
Saves time
Cons:
More coding?
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