GTS Improvements; Hopes, Spectulation

[Nexro]

Hey guys, just wondering if you guys thing that there are going to be any GTS Improvements in generation seven. I personally would love if they scraped the trading of level one Pokémon for legendaries, or Pokémon like Arceus that can't be traded. Game freak should create teirs almost and Pokémon can only be traded for a Pokémon in their teirs. Pokémon like weedle should only be able to trade for a caterpie, and foreign Pokémon should be worth more, but not the price of a legendary. Pokémon can be traded for anything below their teir, but not something above. So if the person looking for a poliwag would be able to find one that's not asking for a mew. I think the listings of Pokémon should be more descriptive, and you should be able to preview the Pokemon your getting. This would stop dishonesty too. What do you guys think?

 

[Zeb]

Wiping event legendaries from the GTS entirely is a good fix I want. If they can't be deposited then there's no reason people should be able to ask for them.

 

[Bolt Strike]

Two words:

Summary. Screen.

It's such a common sense feature that I have no idea why they don't do it, it would allow people to view more detailed criteria like EVs, IVs, movesets, etc. as well as detect hacks easier.

 

[sc190191]

I don't think it is a good idea to have tiers and not allow people to trade the Pokemon they want to. If someone wants to give an Arceus for a Weedle it should be their choice to make. It also can be a useful way of moving Pokemon between games for those that do not have Pokemon Bank. Too much control would just be annoying, it is best to allow players to solve these issues on their own. Its not as if someone asking for an Arceus and depositing a Weedle forces you to give yours up for it.

 

[Almonds]

I wish they'd allow trading event legendaries AND give a more detailed info about the pokemon deposited. It should put an end to people showing off shinies asking for a level 1 Mew.

 

[Nexro]

I don't think it is a good idea to have tiers and not allow people to trade the Pokemon they want to. If someone wants to give an Arceus for a Weedle it should be their choice to make. It also can be a useful way of moving Pokemon between games for those that do not have Pokemon Bank. Too much control would just be annoying, it is best to allow players to solve these issues on their own. Its not as if someone asking for an Arceus and depositing a Weedle forces you to give yours up for it.

I see where you are coming from, however I think that leads to too much clutter on the GTS. I feel it's ridiculous to have EVRY SINGLE nidoran on the GTS being offering for something impossible to obtain. (Been there, done that. It's not fun) Besides Arceaus can't be traded legally right now. (I don't think) I personally feel legendaries shouldnt be able to be caught, but that's entirely different. As for moving Pokémon, I think they should have a channel for trading where you can send Pokémon up into the GTS and have them traded for anything regardless of teirs. That way if you don't want restrictions you don't have to have them, but if you do there there to provide a clean eviroment free of "clutter 'mons "

 

[Freesia]

Summary screen. PLEASE.

Here's something that annoyed me: When people would put for trade something like "5 IV HA ___" and then when you trade with them it turns out they lied to you about the stats of their Pokemon and you can't do anything about it.

People will continue to lie on the GTS and right now all we can do is blame ourselves for falling for other people's scams. I also agree with Nextro that it's really annoying that so many people offer their pre-evolved Pokemon for unrealistic legendaries that almost no one can obtain. If they improved the GTS it would be a really fun feature to use, but as it was in the previous games it's really not. I find myself using wonder trade more than I use GTS..

 

[Stratelier]

Repeating an idea from last gen and that's a 'reverse GTS search', or 'auction' if you will. You select a specific (GTS-tradable) Pokemon from your PC box and it searches for all trade offers which request that gender/level of Pokemon.

For example, I like to breed Pokemon from time to time, so I tend to wind up with boxes full of Lv.1 Pokemon. Sure, I can just Wonder Trade them away, but if I could ask the GTS "what can I get for a female Lv.1 Shinx?" that would be more interesting and useful. Plus, all the offers are already filtered to a Pokemon you have on hand to trade, which means no junk results.

On a sidenote, one good thing about Pokemon Bank is if you deposit legendary/event Pokemon that you don't want to trade, then when you activate the "Pokemon I have" GTS filter this automatically removes like 90% of the junk offers.

 

[Karamazov]

(Sorry, I got to kiss Gen V's ass again for this post, but) I want to have Gen V's thing where they connect you to random people who are also looking for a trade. And you could use emoticons to barter and convey information with them. Trading with random people in XY is hard, since it's hard to convey to the person that I don't want to trade my shiny for a Koffing.

 

[NoirGrimoir]

I'd like to be able to specify which ability I want the pokemon I'm trading for/asking for to have. If they did nothing else to it but this, I would be content. I don't know how many times I've traded for pokemon on the GTS hoping to get one with a specific ability for breeding or battling and then was like, "Dang, didn't get it." Being able to actually see the pokemon's description that I'm trading for would be excellent, then you could see the ability.

 

[Cute Charm]

Find a way to stop impossible trades for good. Like when somebody tries to ask for a level 1 Arceus have something pop up as an error or something. I've gotten so tired of that sort of thing that I've almost stopped using the GTS all together unless I'm the one putting something up.

Other than that maybe actually figure out to include the "not hacked" stamp somewhere. It would really ease my mind when I do find something that's not just some obvious troll.

 

[Zeb]

I wish they'd allow trading event legendaries

I don't because I think it would just get even worse. That's all the majority ask for now when they aren't even able to be depositied, imagine how chaotic it will be if they were allowed? Everyone would be asking for a Jirachi or Hoopa just for a Dunsparce or Wormadam

 

[Soki]

Make impossible trades impossible (including mythicals), show a summary screen and add reverse search and the GTS is pretty close to perfect for me.

Not sure what I think of adding tiers to trading. It would make the GTS less cluttered, however I do think people should be able to trade whatever they want. Maybe they should at least improve the "Don't include special Pokémon" button to exclude all legendaries (it only excludes the box legendaries now I think?), that would already clean up the GTS a lot and still give people the choice to trade a legendary for a regular Pokémon.

 

[Almonds]

I don't because I think it would just get even worse. That's all the majority ask for now when they aren't even able to be depositied, imagine how chaotic it will be if they were allowed? Everyone would be asking for a Jirachi or Hoopa just for a Dunsparce or Wormadam

People still find a way to deposit event legendaries through hacking. If there's no possible way to stop that, might as well just allow everything so nobody feels the need to hack. Remember the shiny Jirachis with horribly offensive nicknames that once cluttered the place? At least people won't hack around 'just to prove' that GF/Nintendo has flaws.

 

[Zeb]

People still find a way to deposit event legendaries through hacking. If there's no possible way to stop that, might as well just allow everything so nobody feels the need to hack. Remember the shiny Jirachis with horribly offensive nicknames that once cluttered the place? At least people won't hack around 'just to prove' that GF/Nintendo has flaws.

People are going to hack regardless of what Game Freak do though so basing a decision around that bunch just seems unfair to the majority of players who want actual fair and possible trades. If the GTS allows them, then nearly every regular Pokemon will be asking for event legendaries. It'll be no different to now, probably even worse because people will know it's possible.

Whereas if they remove them entirely from the GTS's data or whatever then the trades asking for them wouldn't show on the server - like now, if you type cheese into the box for what you want in return, it deposits your Pokemon but your trade doesn't show on the server because obviously cheese isn't a thing. (This is how people tested Volcanion, Hoopa and Diancie's names before they were leaked, if you remember.)

 

[Shadow Rush]

GTS could learn a thing or two from the systems used in fighting games to restrict and penalize players.

 

[Almonds]

People are going to hack regardless of what Game Freak do though so basing a decision around that bunch just seems unfair to the majority of players who want actual fair and possible trades. If the GTS allows them, then nearly every regular Pokemon will be asking for event legendaries. It'll be no different to now, probably even worse because people will know it's possible.

The majority of players know that asking for a Diancie with a Caterpie in hand won't be a fair trade. So even if people deposit a bunch of Caterpies and ask for Hoopas in return, they're just wasting their time because obviously not many people are going to answer those trade requests. And we already have a feature that excludes requests on event legendaries so it won't be long before people learn that unreasonable trade requests won't be heard.

Whereas if they remove them entirely from the GTS's data or whatever then the trades asking for them wouldn't show on the server - like now, if you type cheese into the box for what you want in return, it deposits your Pokemon but your trade doesn't show on the server because obviously cheese isn't a thing. (This is how people tested Volcanion, Hoopa and Diancie's names before they were leaked, if you remember.)

True, but there are also people who want to trade their event legendaries. Not everyone is comfortable with online communities or have friendly pokemon gamers readily available for trade in their area. It would be fine if they came up with a method that allows simple communication between players so they can request what they want, but if not, then I don't see why I shouldn't be able to trade my Jirachi for a Shaymin on the GTS

 

[Silverwynde]

Wiping event legendaries from the GTS entirely is a good fix I want. If they can't be deposited then there's no reason people should be able to ask for them.

This would be great. If you can't trade for the Mythical, then do not have the option of asking for the Mythical on the GTS. It really is that slagging simple.

People still find a way to deposit event legendaries through hacking. If there's no possible way to stop that, might as well just allow everything so nobody feels the need to hack. Remember the shiny Jirachis with horribly offensive nicknames that once cluttered the place? At least people won't hack around 'just to prove' that GF/Nintendo has flaws.

Now it's Mew and Celebi. Even worse? Some people will Wonder Trade you hacked Mythicals that can slip through the GTS security; I've had two of them sent my way. =/

I'd have no problem with the trading of Mythicals on the GTS if it was implemented properly. In other words: instead of asking for an Arceus when you offered up a Caterpie, you'd have to deposit another Mythical in order to ask for the trade. In other words: you offer a Mew for a Celebi or a Darkrai for a Keldeo. That would make a ton more sense than the way things are now.

And I'm fine with someone offering a Weedle for a Groudon as long as that Weedle is shiny. To me, yeah that's actually a pretty fair trade and I'm fine parting with a Legend in that regard. Again, make the offer somewhat sensible and things would be vastly improved. (But since this idea makes sense, I really doubt it's gonna happen.)

 

[Falconwing]

Over the weekend I went on the GTS looking for a spearow. Literally every one I found requested a legendary in return. That should not be acceptable.

I second any system that allows for an in-depth look at what your getting as well as limiting BS trades like these.

 

[Zeb]

The majority of players know that asking for a Diancie with a Caterpie in hand won't be a fair trade. So even if people deposit a bunch of Caterpies and ask for Hoopas in return, they're just wasting their time because obviously not many people are going to answer those trade requests. And we already have a feature that excludes requests on event legendaries so it won't be long before people learn that unreasonable trade requests won't be heard.

You say this but the entire GTS right now is literally full of these requests when it's currently impossible to trade them; saying they will learn it's unreasonable when the trades would be possible is wishful thinking and I'm willing to bet it would only be worse. I can't support something that I think would make the feature worse when it's already pretty bad as it is.

If they do manage to make some "Mythical Swap Shop" feature then cool, that's fine with me, but leave them all on there and still remove them from the main GTS. That way everybody wins.