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Bringing the Thunder
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Should the GTS be in anymore Pokemon games?
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Bananarama
The light is coming
They should probably do a legitimacy test, like checking if fake moves/unobtainable level, etc.
ShinyMienshao
WAT
As long as pokemon under level "x" is take out.
This is impossible. Don't exaggerate to prove your point.
VampirateMace
Internet Overlord
I don't think he/she's exaggerating... I see weird stuff on there all the time, like pokemon whose sprite doesn't match their species.
It does need fixing. Low level legends and cheats need to be blocked somehow. I usually throw a poke onto the GTS, then jump over to Negotiations. Negotiations works about 50% of the time to find a trade, if you're not looking for an exact pokemon. Sometimes you just end up paired with someone who wants to show off their legends/shinies or refuses to accept anything but legends/shinies though. Or can't work the touch screen well enough to confirm the trade. Nothing as irritating as a fair trade that gets canceled three times in a row. (three strikes you're out)
It does need fixing. Low level legends and cheats need to be blocked somehow. I usually throw a poke onto the GTS, then jump over to Negotiations. Negotiations works about 50% of the time to find a trade, if you're not looking for an exact pokemon. Sometimes you just end up paired with someone who wants to show off their legends/shinies or refuses to accept anything but legends/shinies though. Or can't work the touch screen well enough to confirm the trade. Nothing as irritating as a fair trade that gets canceled three times in a row. (three strikes you're out)
dirkac
I smash your Boxes.
Oh, yeah. Trolls are everywhere, just bragging about they're shiny Dewott they captured in Masterballs... Unless it's a Dreamworld one (whihc it isn't), they can't.
And it's annoying that only Legends are tradable. Especcially since every single one I already have anywayp <_< it's them Bidoofed Version Excusives.
There is, it's just pretty poor.
Please, there are some things that are blocked by the GTS, gendered genderless Pokemon being an example of such. If you're going to lie, at least do a better job than this.
PsychicPsycho
Well-Known Member
I'd say it should definately remain. Yeah, if you're going there to trying to get legends you're probably going to have trouble. But it's very useful when trying to get unobtainable pokemon (version exclusives, other gen starters, etc.).
They should definately do something to fix it though. It'd be a great if there was a hack check, and they need to make it so every trade is possible. Sometimes I'll be searching for something and all 7 results are asking for a Zekrom/Reshiram at level 9 or below (literally, although it's rare). Also think it'd be cool if they automatically rejected a pokemon (that is, remove it from search results and return it to the game the next time the owner logs in) if it wasn't traded within a certain amount of time (like maybe a month or something).
They should definately do something to fix it though. It'd be a great if there was a hack check, and they need to make it so every trade is possible. Sometimes I'll be searching for something and all 7 results are asking for a Zekrom/Reshiram at level 9 or below (literally, although it's rare). Also think it'd be cool if they automatically rejected a pokemon (that is, remove it from search results and return it to the game the next time the owner logs in) if it wasn't traded within a certain amount of time (like maybe a month or something).
That's known as the morphing glitch. Generally, when I see it, the pokemon up for offer has morphed into the pokemon being asked for.
The GTS should stay. Even in its current form, it is still better than nothing ;-).
However, Gamefreak really needs to fix it. As others have stated before, the amount of trolls/hackers requesting for underlevelled legendaries and evos I see on there is beyond ridiculous. I search for a Sableye that is obtainable ingame (in hopes of getting a DW one because I don't want to even touch the dream world, Prankster is awsome) to find inane numbers of these trolls requesting for level 1 or 100 legendaries just for a Sableye. As it stands, the GTS is pretty much how I would imagine 4chan to be like in terms of the number and ferocity of trolls on there. However, more than minimum level limits are needed to eliminate these trolls because with only that in place, the trolls that were spamming underlevelled pokemon will only begin spamming requests for level 100s, which I have no solutions to yet.
However, Gamefreak really needs to fix it. As others have stated before, the amount of trolls/hackers requesting for underlevelled legendaries and evos I see on there is beyond ridiculous. I search for a Sableye that is obtainable ingame (in hopes of getting a DW one because I don't want to even touch the dream world, Prankster is awsome) to find inane numbers of these trolls requesting for level 1 or 100 legendaries just for a Sableye. As it stands, the GTS is pretty much how I would imagine 4chan to be like in terms of the number and ferocity of trolls on there. However, more than minimum level limits are needed to eliminate these trolls because with only that in place, the trolls that were spamming underlevelled pokemon will only begin spamming requests for level 100s, which I have no solutions to yet.
Flamer
Well-Known Member
I haven't used the GTS in a long long time, for all the reasons people have mentioned above. That's why places like the trade boards on this forum and wifi chat on the main site are so great. Can actually deal with reasonable people and get some proper business done.
Hopefully they'll fix the GTS in Gen 6. For a feature with so much potential it seems a shame just to bin it or leave it in its current state. My only concern is that you can put as many hack checks, fail safes and boundaries in place as you want, but if people don't want to be reasonable then there's very little you can do to force them to be so. Still, blocking lv9 legendaries would be a start...
Hopefully they'll fix the GTS in Gen 6. For a feature with so much potential it seems a shame just to bin it or leave it in its current state. My only concern is that you can put as many hack checks, fail safes and boundaries in place as you want, but if people don't want to be reasonable then there's very little you can do to force them to be so. Still, blocking lv9 legendaries would be a start...
Born Better
God of Lightning
To quote jaitsu from CAWs;"Never remove,only improve."
Archangel Azazel
Fallen Angel
I still use it so.. naw <.> They should just fix the little problems it has like everyone else has said... like the hack checker and such <.>
It needs serious tweaking. Took me ages to work out how to remove Pokemon from the negotiations page once shown.
The amount of under Lv 9 Zekrom's and Reshirams people are asking for on the GTS annoys me.
The ability to search for unseen Pokemon would be nice. Also a window to select what you're looking for and what you can offer would be ideal, as it's completely random and showing you a small pick of whats on offer is rather lame.
The amount of under Lv 9 Zekrom's and Reshirams people are asking for on the GTS annoys me.
The ability to search for unseen Pokemon would be nice. Also a window to select what you're looking for and what you can offer would be ideal, as it's completely random and showing you a small pick of whats on offer is rather lame.
i think it should still exist, but they need to fix it so that you can't ask to recieve pokemon that you can't get without cheating, (ex. a level 10 torterra)
Zoruagible
Lover of underrated characters
It will stay. You can trade with your far away friends or if none of your friends play you can trade with random people.
If they removed it, i wound't even notice. I used it before, but i can never find what i want thats actually tradeable. So i started using the forums for trading and never looked back.
however i did get a Shiny Combee off of a trade, so random goodies can show up. For those that use it, i hope they fix it, but as for myself, not going to miss it.
however i did get a Shiny Combee off of a trade, so random goodies can show up. For those that use it, i hope they fix it, but as for myself, not going to miss it.