Actually playing Pokemon Platinum now

[farla]

(Wow, the new trade center is just weird. I mean, they made a huge improvement, only it ignored the root of the problem (why have only seven display at a time? Why? Why introduce new things to fix problems that are only problems because of the seven display thing?). It also seems to have some weird interactions with older games, like they're getting updated on new pokemon at a different rate, as I found as I traded my brother's pokemon back to Pearl. Although there were compounding factors, namely that people kept trading for the ones the Pearl game was offering. Why do people want L100 abra? I assumed I was getting them because people hack them up so they'll have a pokemon that satisfies any requirements, I didn't think anyone actually would trade for them?

(I do think the OT display is all kinds of awesome, and frees me from feeling obligated to nickname my shiny masses. Now if Nintendo would just stop fucking with my game in response to me mass uploading shinies, life would be just awesome.)

Anyway, it occurred to me while I was doing all the trading, offering shiny hoothoot for regular brother's hoothoot, that I have an action replay now and can play through the whole game with shiny codes on if I feel like it. So that's what I plan to do.

Oh, and also? Now they make you delete saved data to start a new game. What the hell? I seriously can't figure out why they did this. It's all kinds of obnoxious, kind of like how they tell you twenty times that you're overwriting data every time you save. YES NINTENDO THAT IS CALLED SAVING MY GAME THANKS IF I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT I WOULDN'T BE SAVING NOW WOULD I.

...so anyway, the game is really pretty, even if I do question the feasibility of mixing a short skirt with a scarf. My avatar is not bright.

Comments

[negrek.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the people who are asking for level 100 abras are trying to clone their pokemon in the GTS.

This. I was going to say this when I first read this entry before thinking, "Wait, I think that glitch only works in D/P." Then I realized that a) of course the glitch still works in Platinum because they can't change the coding to avoid it, and b) it doesn't matter, because pokémon uploaded in D/P still show on the Platinum GTS.

Anyway, I've also heard that some people like to "showcase" pokémon on the GTS, putting them up for difficult/impossible trades so that people can look, but not touch. Seems stupid to me since there's always the chance that someone might have a high-level abra lying around (I dunno, left it in the daycare and forgot about it or something) or will just hack to steal it anyway. If the same pokémon is there every time you search for it, they're probably showing it off; if it's there and then gone right away, it's probably getting cloned.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'd say the real problem is that Nintendo, in their zeal to encourage trading, set things up so you always have to have a pokemon in there to see the most trades during a search(because truly it is the lack of bidoof offers for zapdos that is the greatest problem the center could face). So if you want to search around for a trade without interference, it's convenient to put up something that people won't trade for, or a long-shot trade that will take a while.

Plus, most of the impossible trades for rares/high levels tend to be along the lines of darkrai. And for every person taking advantage of the fact that's an untradable pokemon, you have to bet there's another dozen who don't know you can't trade a darkrai, because it's not like Nintendo tells you in any way beyond the fact your trade never goes through and that, if you had a darkrai, and the darkrai didn't have a classic ribbon, you'd be told that you couldn't trade it, which isn't really helpful to most people.

[negrek.livejournal.com]

Oh, duh, I forgot about that too. Usually when I'm looking for something I just throw in fodder asking for whatever pokémon I'm after, so on the off-chance that somebody trades for it I'll at least get the species I'm after.