After a long week of work, there is nothing more relaxing than a weekend near to the lake. Mrs. Bear was complaining about having to constantly move from region to region, but she enjoys sunbathing. She always insists on me to have a hat, I am unsure why I have to wear it in the cave but its not me who tries to sunbath in the cave, and as my grandfather used to say, you sometimes don't argue for the sake of sanity.
There was a kid who came an hour ago but he was really bored quickly and went away. He was shouting something about shiny snakes, idk I don't understand the slang of younglings.
The cave is pretty scary, some gyarados here and dragonairs, but Whiscash's smile makes me relaxed almost as much as though that I don't have to see hordes of pokemon attacking me.
Money Making Methods Comparison
This guide will list all possible money making methods with income shown in k/hour (or other time period for cooldown methods). Many methods here are not listed in any other guides, they will also include "how to" explanation if needed. I will assume Battle Points to pokedollars conversion as 1 to 15, taking ability pill as a reference point (2250 BP = 35000$, 1 BP = 15.56$). Time taken to execute each method assumed for average player without using crazy speed-running tactics.
Items and pokemon costs might change drastically from what were listed in the guide, i will try to keep them up to date, but if you want to know current income of any particular method, you can simply insert new cost in the final formula listed in the end of the method description and calculate it by yourself, don't forget to subtract GTL (Global Trade Link) fee (all methods in this guide assumes selling in GTL, direct trade will make slightly more money).
If you know any methods, not mentioned here, or find mistakes in the guide, let me know in the comments.
Credits to the Money Making Guide, which inspired me to make my own:
Methods with Cooldown
This methods are prioritized if you want to make maximum profit, however trainer rematches get outdone by some Unlimited Methods, so it's not recommended to spend more than one hour on each cycle. Amulet coin cost is assumed to be 20k.
Gym Rematches 420k/day
While having level 100 pokemon in your party, each gym leader gives you around 9000$ on average, for 33 gym leaders (-Giovanny, +Chili, Cress, Cilan), this will result in ~300k total, or 450k with amulet coin. It takes around 1.5 hours for prepared player with good team to rematch all gyms, so i am reducing final income by the 1.5 costs of the amulet coin (20k x 1.5 = 30k). This will result in 280k/hour, which, despite cooldown, might be important to compare with other methods. For more information and teams examples follow this guide and associated guides, listed inside it.
Trainer Rematches 300k/6 hours
Credits to Trainer Rematch Guide. Don't forget to rematch Cynthia in Undella Town (Unova) each day in the spring and summer seasons (seasons changes every month).
In 1st Amulet Coin i was able to make ~195k (which results in 175k/hour), in 2nd ~140k (120k/hour), 3rd and consecutive amulet coins will provide even smaller amount of moneys, due to low trainer rewards at this point, so i don't reccomend doing more than 2. Read spoiler for the list of trainers i fought:
Note: Morimoto rematchable only once per day, so on the second cycle income will be lower.
Elite Four Rematches 440k/6 hours
Rematching E4 with regular team might end in spending more moneys, then getting, due to lack of free healing between fights. But there is one OP tactic banned in competitive, but allowed in PvE - evasion. I am using next pokemon for my rematches:
Blissey will also work, but you may try literally any bulky pokemon with Double Team. This tactic still don't eliminate item's using completely, but minimize (pun intended) them as much as possible, i am using X Defend or X Sp. Def (for Shuckle) at the beginning of some battles, depending on the pokemon i am setting up against, and healing items, when something goes wrong due to RNG. This results in around 40k spendings per full run. Each Champion gives 66k at level 100, resulting in 99k with amulet coin, this method is quite slow due to long setup, so it takes around 2 hours to rematch them all, you also getting 2k BP from each E4. Final formula: 400k - 40k - 40k + (8k BP x 15 = 120k) = 440k. 220k/hour.
Leppa Berry Farming 180k/day
Check Berry Farming Guide if you don't know how it works in this game. Leppas are most wanted berries, so it's easy to sell them all, don't forget you can use trade chat and sell them directly to avoid GTL fee. I am assuming all berry patches in both Unova and Hoenn are used (189 total). I planting both leppa and berries, that provides seeds for leppa (rawst, pecha, cheri) at the same time, I use ratio of 27 rawst, 27 pecha, 57 cheri, 78 leppa which is as close to self-sufficient as possible, but you still have to sell extra and buy missing seeds in GTL. If you REALLY like berry farming, you can create several characters and farm on all of them, in that case I recommend to exclude Hoenn patches, since they are too small and far away from each other, this will result in 150k income per harvest. All time combined to plant, water and harvest berries results in around 20 minutes, which gives this method an effective rate of 450k/hour. Also, check watering guide for efficient farming.
Unova Story Rerun 1000k/run
To farm berries on several characters you have to unlock farming spots on that characters first. And redoing story on new character is actually pretty worth it, especially with prepared pokemon mailed from main character. And best region for it is undoubdetly Unova, since it has 2 exp. shares and, most importantly, mentioned berry farming spots. For this run you should skip as much trainers as possible (since money they give are not worth spending time) and collect all items and hidden items, except for the ones, that are too far away from story route or too cheap. It will take around 5 hours, after some training, and thus result in ~200k/hour.
Unlimited Methods
Thief/Covet
Banette believed to be the best pokemon for this methods, make sure it have Frisk ability.
Fossils Farming 180k/hour
Credits to This Guide for Kanto Island 1, i was using this method, due to Dome Fossil and Old Amber being quite high priced, compared to other fossils.
Final Formula: 5.2 * (Helix + Dome) + 3.9 * Old Amber + 6.5 * Hard Stone + 13 * Everstone
Turnback Cave 170k/hour
By breaking rocks in Turnback Cave you can get Sinnoh fossils and everstones, and also encounter rare Spiritomb. Considering how many there in small area and you don't even need to wait until respawn - this is one of the best rocksmash farming spots. But don't forget, that rocks before first Pillar do not contain pokemon.
Final Formula: 4.3 * (Armor + Skull) + 10.1 * Everstone + 5.76 * Spiritomb + 19500$
Amulet Coin 170k/hour
Main method of farming them is using Sweet Scent on Kanto Route 5 to summon Meowth Hordes. There is also Mankey hordes, run from them, even if your Frisk pokemon shown an item, this Payapa Berries not worth your time.
Final Formula: 8.6 * (Amulet Coin + Quick Claw)
Lucky Egg (Small) 140k/hour
Due to recent patch, farming from Hordes became harder, since at level 34 Pelipper learns Fling, which most of the times nullify your efforts of trying to thief lucky egg, to prevent it you have to teach your Banette Imprison and Fling, by using Imprison it will stop all Pelippers from using Fling. I was farming at Ever Grande City (Hoenn) from single encounters, but most of the other locations have the same chance of encountering a Pelipper.
Final Formula: 3.15 * Lucky Egg (Small) + 6.3 * (Damp Rock + Pretty Wing) + 11.7 * Poison Barb
Mt. Coronet (Grass) 140k/hour
Absol have a chance of holding Life Orb, which is very valuable, out of all locations it appear, this one shown to be the best, due to many additional valuable items, including Soothe Bell.
Kanto Power Plant 115k/hour
Muk have a chance of holding Toxic Orb, which is very valuable, out of all locations it appear, this one shown to be the best, due to many additional valuable items, including Light Ball.
Final Formula: 0.45 * Toxic Orb + 3.6 * Light Ball + 37000$/hour
Heart Scale 105k/hour
I used Ever Grande City location (Hoenn) to farm them, but there is actually not much difference between locations in all four regions, so you can use any.
Final Formula: 23.5 * Heart Scale + 7.8 * Red Shard
Sky Pillar 100k/hour
Every pokemon here, except for the Golbat, may hold something (and Altaria, but you won't meet it, if you farm on the 1st floor), and many of this items are quite valuable.
Leftovers Farming 85k/hour
Wild Snorlax may hold Leftovers, but they are rare (~5%) to encounter (only in Cerulean Cave). I tested it on the Mewtwo's floor of Cerulean Cave. Also, wild Munchlax have 100% chance to hold Leftovers, but only way to encounter it - is Honey Trees with 1% chance. Cost of Leftovers is around 40k by the moment of writing this section.
Lunatone/Solrock 85k/hour
I thought that Comet Shard might make this worth while, but it's chance appeared to be too low. Anyway it's still better, than some believed-to-be-good methods. I used hordes in Meteor Falls after waterfall on 1F and B1F for Lunatone and Solrock respectively.
Petalburg Woods 73k/hour
Same as with Lunatone/Solrock, I thought Big and Balm Mushrooms from Shroomish might make it worth while. Don't forget, that you can use Tiny and Big mushrooms for move relearning at Kanto Island 2.
Pick Up + Pay Day
Check this Pick Up Guide for more information. From all the research, I made for that guide, I came to a conclusion that chance of Pick Up is not 10%, but rather depends on the total number of possible pick ups in the location, I believe it is 1% per each item.
Covet + Pick Up + Pay Day 170k/hour
Executed by fishing in Undella Bay, use Covet on Luvdiscs you encounter to steal heart scales and payday on everything else.
Even max Attack level 100 Meowth is not enough to OHKO most Shellders with Pay Day, so you have to use Munchlax in order to maximize your profit.
Final Formula: 18 * Heart Scale + 100k
Undella Bay 150k/hour
Even max Attack level 100 Meowth with Choice Band is not enough to OHKO each pokemon in this location with Pay Day, so you have to use Munchlax in order to maximize your profit.
Berry Forest 115k/hour
Despite being believed as the best Pick Up location, Berry Forest is actually worse, than Undella Bay. Yes, you can Pick Up Leftovers here, but all others pick ups are much less worthy, than ones in Undella Bay, which also have higher Pick Up chance overall.
Battle Points Farming
I am assuming Battle Points to pokedollars conversion as 1 to 15, taking ability pill as a reference point (2250 BP = 35000$, 1 BP = 15.56$)
Hoenn Battle Frontier 140k/hour
Read this Battle Frontier Guide for more information. According to my research, all battle facilities and modes have around the same rewards progression, except for Battle Factory, which have x1.5, but it is too random to farm reliably. Also Multi and Link battles have slightly higher rewards, but i don't know to what extent. Level 100 feels to have slightly higher rewards than level 50, but I am not sure. Each set of 7 battles takes me 13 minutes on average (when using ultra-offense team), if you manage to hold streak for long enough, you can make around 60m / 13m * 2000 BP = 9230 Battle Points per hour, which converts into ~140'000$/hour.
PvP Matchmaking 20k/hour
I wouldn't count seasonal rewards, since they are limited. Each match can last for unpredictable amount of time, but I will assume 15 minutes for ultra-offense team. For win you getting 500 BP and for lose - 150 BP, with 50% winrate you will be making 60m / 15m * (500 + 150) / 2 = 1300 BP/hour which converts into ~20'000$/hour.
Kanto Battle Tower 0k/hour
Since you don't get healed after each fight and, therefore, have to use potions and revives, and opponents using strongest pokemon from the start, it is impossible to reliably make moneys here.
Legendary Hunting ?k/hour
Read This for more information about Legendary pokemon in PokeMMO. Each time you win in a battle for a Legendary (either attacking or defending), you getting 1000 BP. Since this method is very unreliable and depends on many random factors, I can't calculate income for it. Team "MGod" is known for actively hunting for legendaries and passing them inside the team. Fastest way to pass a legendary is to wait until timer ends (1 minute) without making a turn. If we assume perfect conditions, this will result in 60'000 BP per hour for a team, which converts into 900k/hour.
Breeders Hunting
Safari Magikarp Farming 120k/hour
Safari gives you 30 balls for 500$, which is super cheap and helps if you completely broke and can't or wont rematch trainers for some reason. I tested this method in Kanto Safari, but it should also work in Hoenn and Black March. You have 100% catch rate after throwing rock, and they rarely flee after it.
Ditto Farming 100k/hour
I know 3 major ways of Ditto farming: Setting a lead, Using Substitute (Transform fails into Substitute, but have only 10 PP, so rarely Ditto may start struggling), and the best: using Assist while having a pokemon in the party, that only knows Spore and Moves, that cannot be called by Assist. It is widely discussed, what is better to use: Poke Balls or Repeat Balls to catch Dittos? The answer varies with the cost of Dittos and also depends if you selling them thru GTL or by direct trade. If Dittos are cheap and you using GTL, then its better to use Poke Balls. But if Dittos costs much, or you selling boxes directly, then it's slightly better to use Repeat Balls. Either way difference is not much, around 5k/hour.
Field Group Farming 95k/hour
I used to farm in Unova Route 1, which have 100% field group encounter with 255 catch rate each (which means you have 99% chance to catch with Poke Ball after just False Swipe). This is one of the best money making methods available to new players early on, since they can't rematch Gyms and wealthy trainers yet.
Other Methods
There are quite obscure or unreliable methods here, just to be mentioned.
Phenomena Hunting ~60k/hour
Read This about how Phenomena works in PokeMMO. In perfect conditions Phenomena happens twice every 15 minutes, but in reality many didn't get noticed even in Chinese channels, so income will be lower, but what is special about this method, is that you can combine it with most other methods, distracting to visit Phenomena and coming back to original method after it. Each Phenomena gives you Mysterious Gem if you caught or defeated pokemon within it, dust clouds may provide you with Unova fossils instead (this is the only way to get them). Mysterious Gem might be used for Elemental Gems crafting or sold for around 9k. Many pokemon that appears only in Phenomena can also be sold for good price.
Shiny Hunting ~45k/hour
Sounds unbelievable, but you can actually make moneys of shiny hunting. I will use Rapidash hordes in Unova Route 12, just as an example, since it is very popular spot for Speed EV-training and Leveling. It takes me 2 minutes on average to run from 6 Rapidash hordes (Sweet Scent PP Maxed of course) and replenish PP in pokemon center. This results in 180 hordes per hour or 900 encounters total. Cost of shiny Rapidash is around 1.5 millions. As we know chance of shiny is 1 to 30k, so this will result in 45k/hour on average, or 50k/hour with donator status (shiny charms will increase your income only by ~170$ each or ~80$ for 5%).
Starting Up A Service ?k/hour
EV-Training, Leveling and Breeding are the major services provided by other players in PokeMMO. Prices are varies widely, so it's hard to name any exact numbers. But overall, from what I've seen, their services are quite cheap, resulting in around 80k/hour for EV-Training and Leveling up to 50, and 50k/hour for Leveling up to 100. Breeding might give you up to 100k/hour, including breeding for selling in GTL.
GTL Flipping ∞k/hour
Buying cheap and selling for more later, in case of some cosmetics might give you huge moneys if you know what you are doing. For more information read This.
Well, I'll admit World Cup 2 was very poorly hosted and extremely stressful. Too many hosts and especially too many changed decisions before other hosts had even the chance to review the cases and then having those hosts defend decisions they didn't agree with. And about that World Cup 2, I have to praise that Mkns and Suigin were great co-hosts that season so you can probably see where my frustrations were at. I would vouch Mkns to host any event in the game, anytime.
I've decided that if I ever host anything I'll do it either alone or with 1 other people I truly trust to prevent any of that shitshow ever happening again. Currently my work weeks are too hectic to take such a responsibility for now and I do not want to be part of any big host group or anything like that.
LOCATION: Galactic HQ, Veilstone city, Sinnoh, Ch 4
(https://gyazo.com/40414a16b8064b432b9fe90e3d881bda)
INFO: ONLY MEMBERS OF OPTIC ALLOWED
RULES:
After using a move you HAVE to switch your Pokemon (switching instead of using a move is allowed)
EXCEPTIONS:
A Pokemon that is flinched, paralyzed, frozen, asleep or hits itself due to confusion is allowed to stay in.
BANNED MOVES:
Recovery moves: Recover, Softboiled, Heal order, Milk drink, Moonlight, Morning sun, Slack off, Roost, Rest, Wish and Synthesis.*
Recharge moves: Giga impact, Hyper beam, Frenzy plant, Hydro canon, Blast burn, Rock wrecker and Roar of time.*
Charge moves: Bounce, Fly, Dig, Dive, Solar beam, Sky attack, Sky drop, Skull bash, Razor wind, Focus punch and Shadow force.* Trapping moves: Block, Mean look, Ingrain, Bind, Clamp, Fire spin, Spider Web, Sand tomb, Whirlpool and Magma storm.* Other moves: Endure, Heal bell, Grass Whistle, Lovely Kiss, Spore, Hypnosis, Sing, Sleep Powder, Teleport, Pursuit, Stealth rocks, Assist, Metronome, Protect, Detect, Toxic spikes and Spikes.*
*The moves can be kept on the pokemon but you won't be able to use the moves in battle.
Doubles Teambuilding Competition
What is the Doubles Teambuilding Competition?
The Doubles Teambuilding Competition is a monthly competition where people who want to compete are given a Pokemon to build a team around. Once the deadline for team submissions has finished, a vote will be held for the best team!
How to Participate
To compete, reply with a Pokepaste of your team, as well as an explanation of your teambuilding logic. Please also include your IGN.
Voting
A panel of judges will select the best team after the submission deadline has passed!
Judges:
@Rakhmaninov
@OrangeManiac
@Lactosoid
@Imabetheverybest1
Rules
The submitted team must be viable for the current PokeMMO doubles format
Don't copy other player's teams!
Be creative!
Prizes
1st Place = 1m + Team Featured in OP*
2nd Place = 250k
This Month's Pokemon: Arcanine, Gyarados or Snorlax! Use 1 or more of these Pokemon to build your team!
Hello, Kachumbus. I have a better idea that might actually work for you to not get punished, maybe next time check our Code of Conduct pointed by Bearminator before using the public chats and avoid saying things such as
We do not tolerate the use of racist slurs in the public chats, please inform yourself better next time you decide to come do these claims and embarrass yourself in public before talking to a SGM directly about your issues with a staff member. I will close this thread to save the rest of your dignity.
All moderators, Sethsen included are following the general guideline of SGM+ regarding the moderation of chat. Our Game Masters do the same, and we often discuss matters to ensure we are providing the best management of the game. We always aim to improve of course, hence why if any of the players feel like he is muted/treated unfairly can always message any of SGMs, and we will gladly investigate the case, later informing the player what was done incorrectly.
However, since you claim that our moderator "uses the excuse of political correctness to perpetuate horrible stereotypes" I will gladly remind you that your mute was made for, quoting: "Chigga = Chino + Nigga (busquen el meme) XD". We understand memes, but they don't belong here if they might insult any player- and yours did. Don't use that word here please. The reason for the mute being "Conducta Inapropiado (Racial slur)" should also tell you what punishment was for.
That's being said, please read the rules of our game: https://pokemmo.eu/code_of_conduct/ and https://pokemmo.eu/tos/, especially the part about the rules related to chat.
Needleless to say, we will not fire the moderator in question due to this case. If any player feels unfairly muted, they can feel free to message me or another SGM. Don't do it, if you aim to lie about your mute in order to get someone fired.
Date & Time: 12th of June (7pm UTC / 3pm EST)
Location: Discord, #optic-randoms feel free to join the voice gang during the event!
Battles will be held on Pokémon Showdown
For this event you get a completely random team of Pokémon up to gen 8. You are however free to EV and moveset these Pokémon to your liking!. Your Pokémon will be assigned by me after your registration, and they will be public. Of course you won't know who your opponent will be until we start though!.
Additional rules:
- You will only be handed fully matured Pokémon.
- The games will be played in the 'gen 8 OU' format. Make sure your team is eligible for it. If you have a Pokémon that is illegal for the format, @ me or Ploegy in #optic-randoms and one of us will reroll the Pokemon that is illegal.
- Dyna/Giganta -maxing, Mega Evolving or Z-Moves are NOT allowed.
- If your pokémon gets rolled as a Gigantamax you may use the normal form of this pokémon OR reroll it once.
- Every time you win a match you are granted one reroll on your team. You are not forced to keep the reroll.
- After every round there is a 5-10 minute intermission where you can change up your moves or EV spreads if you want.
- The tournament will be double-elimination. Do you believe in second chances?
- Free to join for friends of Optic as well!
How to play:
You need to register for this event so I can assign you your Pokémon team. You can register by going to the Optic Discord and going to #opticrandoms, just say something like 'hey i want in'. Registration possible till Saturday 12th of June 6pm UTC / 2pm EST. I'll keep track of everyone's teams in the pinned message of #optic-randoms.
HOWEVER!!!
Finals will be held different this time, since Pokemon showdown added the new addition of Free-for-all I decided that the 1st and 2nd contestants from both loser and winner brackets will all go against each other at the same time.
The first person who wins in this battle format will get the 1st place prize.
I also decided that everyone can reroll 2 pokemon at max of theirs before they enter the FFA finals.
You can find the Free-for-all tier in "Other Metagame"
This is an example of how a FFA battle looks like :
Prizes:
1st: 750K, 1x shiny charm and 99 leppa berries
(Sadly due to this new battle format it's harder to also have a 2nd and 3rd winner, so I decided that only the 1st player will get the prizes.)
Note: 21k gender = +50k
9k gender = +20k
Happiness Pokemon= +50k
Breeding + Full Ev Training + lv50 = +25k 2 Move-egg for Free, if you need more it will cost 15k each
Other: Full Ev Training + lv50 = 30k
Important:
I do not offer Male Only breed service
For genderless Pokemon contact me for price IF GET A SHINY POKEMON WHILE BREEDING YOUR ORDER, I WILL REFUND THE MONEY AND YOUR POKEMON WILL BE FOR FREE ?
IGN: Clayclover
Discord: clayclover#7295
To Avoid problems, contact me before making a order. You must mail the specifications (IVs, Nature, egg-moves) AND the money.
After months of hunting Psyducks, I go ev train and this happens. I just caught ANOTHER shiny Tentacool a couple days before this. Happy to see something different <3
spamming long events one after another gets boring.. people cant be invested in them all year long.. it will end up without good turn up or with unmotivated people. take a break
while this being correct and it applied to me also.. most people are adults who have other stuff to do aswell. if we constantly play big events we get worn out. we just finished a big event, if we jump straight to the next one the motivation isnt gonna be the same, or the preparation. it gets stressing to have to be ready all the time and time consuming. i say what i say because if this goes on eventually the callibre of the games is gonna drop.
Hi,I am an ordinary gamer in China and I would like to make a suggestion.
Can we add a feature to an existing friend system？Added a friend note function, because sometimes my friends change their names. I don't know who he is from time to time.
This is my small suggestion, if not to increase. I'm sorry for the trouble. Thank you.
Maybe some grammar is wrong. I don't know English very well, so I used translation. Please forgive me.
Mxd reacted to Bearminator in 'Good morning, nice day for fishing, aint it? Huh ha!'