The difficulty of leveling all of those Pokémon though is what I think was intended by the mods though for the Most Evolved stat though, that's why I felt the "Five Day" method was unfair :/
Wait are you serious there? HEEELLL to the no. Well, initially, the Admins added this stuff because they could. They had the ability to be able to make it so things like the rankings existed, and so they did. They thought "it would be interesting". After positive feed back, they looked into adding codes to make more possible. And no offense, but if you think the Admins "intended for the challenge and difficulty" of things like that, you don't know enough about the Admins on this site. =3 The Admins themselves do background things like this
all the time. Heck, they sometimes use their Admin abilities to do
even worse, doing things normal users can't.
A few random examples be:
Most Pokémon Summoned
1. Big Bidoof - 101 Pokémon summoned
2. Commander Wymsy - 98 Pokémon summoned
Most Pokérus Infections
1. Big Bidoof - 39 infections
Most Antidotes Used
1. Big Bidoof - 39 antidotes used
Richest Users
1. Commander Wymsy - 4,099,268 points
They generated a WHOLE LOT of that stuff. And after those, there are many more things they did at that.
For example, I remember, a while after the achievements came out, he temporarily tweaked some of his stats.
He basically made it so he would be able to unlock a few achievements quickly.
At the moment, Bidofo is the 4th best user overall, largely due to some the stuff he's done.
Remember when he barely even did anything with the game? He didn't even have a single Journal entry.
The rules isn't that you can't ever evolve them, just that you can't evolve so many that you get onto the Most Evolved.
I really have to say, seeing this specific line kind of hit a nerve. A huge one. This sounds quite a bit rude here (I tried as much as I could to make this sound nicer. I always sound like a complete and total as
s when I debate.)... Though, honestly, the first thought that came to my head was,
"Who are you to limit us and say what we can and can't do with our accounts on a game you don't even remotely own?" (...AGAIN, NO OFFENSE. .__.;; )
You claim that the Admins wouldn't want us to get on the status this way. They generally don't remotely care, often getting along and befriending many of the more social higher ranked members (Remember Admiral Cereus' horrendous mini-modding?), and they do
many similar, if not worse things, all the time. If they didn't want methods like this to be done, they wouldn't allow it. They would set limits. It's not even remotely impossible. Heck, they
have set limits on many things, like with the hoarding updates they had. Showing there, honestly, really is little basis for your rule...
For the sake of driving the point in, for the other members, I'm going to add a quote of the original PM I made earlier.
m190049 said:
Well, if you want me to be perfectly honest... I don't really see it as "cheating". Be it though just average gameplay or not, you still have to work at the goal. You have to find all the eggs, hatch them all, collect them all, which can mean clearing out lots of box space, and it's still a big effort that requires a moderate amount of time to accomplish. I don't really see it as cheating as much as I see it as "strategy". User rankings aren't there to just rank members based on everyday random things they happen to do by accident. If you want to get on the status page, you work for it. That's how things work all across the world, in every type of situation. That's life. Using a different method doesn't make it cheating.
Lets take some examples...
Most Proper Berry Interactions in a Day
1. EienCafe - 15,146 proper berry interactions (Apr 27/10)
Do you think that she just happened to be doing a lot of clicking one day, and just happened to get that many proper interactions? No. Not at all. Like, a 0.0001% chance that happened. Probably less. In all likelihood, they purposely went out on a quest to make a lot of proper interactions, for the sole sake of getting the honor and reward of being #1 for that section on the status page.
Most Items Bought in a Day
1. Liliac - 7,000 items bought (Apr 17/10)
Do you think Liliac just happened to want to buy 7000 items one day? HELL no. He worked for this! He had to save up quite a lot of points for this! And he probably went out with the pure intention of getting the reward of being on the status page, and being able to improve his overall user rank. It took effort.
Most Pokémon Evolved in a Day
1. ThunderMoss - 1,209 Pokémon evolved (May 4/10)
The big controversy right here, but when you think about it.. How is this any different than the examples above? She evolved over 1200 Pokemon! You will never be able to convince me that that took quite some effort to accomplish. That is, in no way whatsoever, no easy task, using quick-evolution Pokemon aside! And to call this cheating, while to call the other two otherwise, is just a complete and utter double standard, in my opinion.
Again, the status page isn't meant to just record the random things you do throughout the day. It's not meant to just record everyday gameplay. User rank isn't meant to be achieved by accident. You have to work on it. If you wanna get on the status page, if you wanna be number one, you have to take the time to set up everything you have to do to do it.
I can see where your opinion comes from, and I am not saying you're unjust.
It's just that personally, on this particular topic, I disagree.
Really... Mass-collecting and taking the effort to do all this stuff isn't an unintended or a method of cheating in any way. It's
exactly how it was meant to be. People who want the #1 spot are meant to do it via any strategy they want to commit themselves and put the effort towards doing.