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Who else here is sick of all the unreasonable requests that flood the GTS?

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uncutpokemon

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So ever since the GTS was created for Diamond and Pearl, players have loaded the GTS with the most idiotic requests ever. They'll offer a common Pokemon (IE Bidoof, Rattata, Patrat, etc...) and expect something completely unreasonable for it (IE some legendary that you can only catch once), and of course no one is ever going to agree to such an unrealistic request for obvious reasons. I have an idea for a way to finally put an end to all these unreasonable requests, I call it Judgement of Helix. My plan is to use hacking devices to create legendaries that have 0 IVs, level 100, a nature that would hurt them, and the worst possible attacks that legendary can learn (legally). Now of course this would require pokebank, a hacking device (Pokegen or action Replay), and a pre gen 6 game to do this on. Once said Pokemon is created (keeping in mind that it must be able to go through the pokebanks hack detection), it must be sent to a current game (X, Y, Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire), and from there given to one of the many people on the GTS that wants one for something lame. I alone can't do this by myself, but I believe that with the help of enough people, we can actually get people to stop making unfair requests over the GTS once and for all. I call this project Judgement of Helix because the trainer receiving this lame Pokemon is being punished by the Helix Fossil, also I think to let trainers know they're getting a bad legendary, I will nickname all of them "Helix". Will anyone here be willing to join me in this plan?

Also a few things to note about project helix:
- Make sure the Legendary is hacked in a way that wouldn't be detectable by hack detection (use AR codes that reactivate in game events, and make sure all its moves are legitimate)
- Do not give these crippled legendaries to trainers making reasonable requests (offering their own legendary or a shiny are considered reasonable, anything else is fair game)
- Make sure the crippled legendary has no Pokerus (if you give it one on accident, wait for it to expire before sending it), is not shiny, and not holding anything (we don't want the trainer to get something good out of it)
- make sure that it either has no EVs or is scattered around in a way that suggests no EV training was done for it
 
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Ha, it's no question that people aren't happy with the stupid GTS requests. Your solution to the problem's already been done, however... I think it has something to do with all the shiny Jirachi nicknamed "F*CK YOU" or other vulgar phrases. I'm just happy that all the "Lv. 9 or lower Zekrom" requests have stopped. If only the dev team could've thought to make requesting event legends impossible...
 
Ya but my idea involves giving the trainers the worst possible version of that pokemon to ensure that the only thing they gain from it is data for their pokedex.
 
Most of the time the only thing these people want the thing for is the Pokedex. They don't battle competitively, so they would care less about it's nature or stats. This plan only gives them what they want.

Besides, even if they did want to use them, in this day and age of Powersaves, they could easily just give them all 6IVs, change the to a good nature, and fully EV train them the way they want to use them.
 
If they do have a Powersave, they wouldn't be requesting such Pokemon in the first place though. And yes a pokedex entry is all they'll be getting out of it. trainers making such requests likely don't have access to powersaves or hack programs, so giving them a crippled legendary is they best way to punish them.
 
They will do what most people do; ask people with Powersaves to do it for them. And you're missing the point. They won't be getting punished. They don't care if the Legendary is crippled since all they want it for is the Pokedex entry. They will, 9 times out of 10, never use it in any sort of competitive battle. So giving it to them crippled is giving them the only thing they want. It's not a punishment.
 
I understand that, but on the plus side by finally giving them what they asked for, the GTS will be less flooded with these requests.
 
Sometimes I wish GameFreak would cleanse the GTS once and for all. Maybe allow absolutely no nicknames. I don't like how people left pokemons with offending names and I don't want to know how they did it. I hope the mons are gone.
 
But at the same time, giving them what they want is just gonna let people think it's perfectly reasonable to put up a Pidgey and expect to get a Landorus for it just by waiting it out long enough. And it will just get filled more and more with others doing the same because it'll have worked. It'll just be a continuous cycle.

The only thing we can do; the only true way to "punish" these people until Game Freak decides to get their act together and not let people be able to do this in the first place, is to let their requests go unanswered.
 
Like I said the problem with that is that by leaving them there, they end up being the majority of requests, causing people (like me) that want to see if there are any reasonable requests out there to be discouraged and just make one of there own. And then that reasonable request will likely not get noticed because it got lost in the sea of stupid requests, never to be granted.
 
Well, the only thing that can be done is to just filter the requests as much as you can to that you don't come across all the unreasonable ones.

It makes me wonder if Game Freak's really unaware of all of this. You'd think they wouldn't be, but the GTS seems pretty much unchanged as it was in XY.
 
Can we, simply put, restrict the trades to like-vs-like? As in only allow legendaries for legendaries for the GTS?
 
That's why I only connect to the Wi-Fi if I have to trade an item, Pokémon or need a trade-evolution. I used to log onto the PSS, but I kept getting spammed with trade and battle requests.
 
henrymidfields said:
Can we, simply put, restrict the trades to like-vs-like? As in only allow legendaries for legendaries for the GTS?
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This may work, but let's say I have an extra Heatran laying around, and really REALLY want a Kabutops. If I see someone asking Heatran for Kabutops, I'll take advantage of that. Your method effectively kills any chance of me successfully making this trade.
 
henrymidfields said:
Can we, simply put, restrict the trades to like-vs-like? As in only allow legendaries for legendaries for the GTS?
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Problem with that is that there are two slightly more reasonable ways to ask for a lengendary in exchange for your not so rare Pokemon, the first is by offering a shiny to make the deal slightly more fair, and the other I've seen is by having your common pokemon holding an item of value (like a master ball), and restricting trades like that would stop the genuinely well intended requests to be rejected.
 
uncutpokemon said:
I understand that, but on the plus side by finally giving them what they asked for, the GTS will be less flooded with these requests.
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How do you figure that? You're giving them exactly what they want, and for the ridiculous (in comparison of how hard it is to get) Pokemon that they're offering.

If this actually became a prominent movement, it would only increase the problem.
 
I don't know why people are stupid enough to believe they'll get a legendary for a common Pokémon. I mean seriously do they honestly think people are going to agree to that? And then there's the fact that a number of them are asking for event exclusive legendaries which can't even be traded over the GTS.
 
Ninja Boy Alpha said:
That's why I only connect to the Wi-Fi if I have to trade an item, Pokémon or need a trade-evolution. I used to log onto the PSS, but I kept getting spammed with trade and battle requests.
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I would kill for trade and battle requests. LITERALLY.
 
Even better solution; limit the trading of legendary Pokemon (ALL legendary Pokemon, not just event legendaries) to personal "add my friend code and I'll add yours" trading. Get those people to websites such as this one for real trades.
 
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