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I don't care what you say. The shiny rate is ridiculous right now and is depending on too many variables apparently.

1/8192 is still hard as we say but compared to the current rate which is nearly impossible. With the current rate you might find ONE shiny after 2 years or something insane like that with the current mechanic. 100k encounters is still not enough to find a shiny according to my luck.

Remember 1/8192 is still a low chance. And it used to be like this.

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This game is not suited for shiny hunters which is a big part of the pokemon community for the handheld games but not in this game. I stopped at 50.000+ encounters and that was all counted since I started my hunt. Assuming I have over hundreds of thousands since I started playing this game in 2012 October.

I am serious after 60.000 encounters (COUNTED) and not a single shiny yet. I will not be playing this game anymore since the game only focuses on a few grinding methods and finding a shiny in these methods is just a little feature to it.

Vanilla shiny mechanics. No fun for shiny hunters and there aren't really any consequences that I can think of.

That doesn't make any sense at all because they said many factors was based on the shiny rate and it was variable. So does it mean that new accounts have a disadvantage now and older(played) accounts have an advantage only if they're not detected as cheaters in this case?

I see that you're doing altruns. So are the shiny pokemons found accross all of your characters or just your main character? EDIT: flavajabari asked the same. :)

What date did you find your shiny pokemons?

Would be logical since the chances of finding a shiny is nearly impossible. I don't think any human being here are able to spend almost everyday in a whole month doing the same task over and over again.

I see that. But I do hope they realize they are killing a GOOD grinding method which players will be able to enjoy and spend time on together.

I don't know about you guys but I don't really feel like shiny hunting anymore after this. We don't have any knowledge of the current shiny mechanic. For me it feels like an infinite hunt after all these encounters. If I finally get a shiny after 50.000 encounters more, then I don't really think this game has any potential for shiny hunters at all. I think there are better ways of grinding in this game instead of paydaying the same pokemon over and over again in icefall cave. Something tells me that most people here aren't even shiny hunters and are just here to BS on the game developers. So this might not be a problem due to the minority shiny hunting in PokeMMO. What do I know? But I do hope in the end that the game developers will make it more enjoyable for us shiny hunters. I'll thank you again for the confirmation of the new shiny mechanic so we don't waste our time on doing something that is impossible. Peace.

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Really good points! I agree with you.

Suddenly we turned into a not so negative suggestion thread and I like it.

This might be more of a suggestion of bringing the old mechanics back. But I think there are 2 big consequences of this: Killing the shiny market (No new shiny pokemons are found with this ridiculous chance of finding one) Less people are more likely to buy donator status now because they don't know anything about the actual chances. Shiny pokemons are a huge part of this game as previous people said.

Thanks for the answer. Would always love to hear more about this new mechanic because I really do love shiny hunting and I don't really care much about the values attached to the sprites as you do(only for myself). It would actually be more fun shiny hunting if you found a shiny for once in a while and it was possible to collect many of the shiny pokemons by yourself as in the games. Also I don't see a lot of shiny pokemons in the trade chat anymore, so it would be kind of sad to see all shiny pokemon disappearing slowly.

Do we get more information about the new shiny system? And should I just forget my old account?(50.000 encounters is pretty much imo. for one shiny that could be farmed faster with money grinding) The feeling of finding a shiny is pure happiness, I don't really see the point in decreasing the chance.. So what if they drop in value, I just want to play a Pokemon game like we used to.

No way this is acceptable for any players who likes to shiny hunt and I think all human beings can see this. We got tricked into buying donator status and they provided us with false statistics. I donated because I enjoyed this game and did hope I had any chance of finding a shiny, but according to my experience it is impossible on my account to encounter any shiny pokemons after 50.000+ encounters - counted. Question: Should I just make a new account and never come back to my original account since my account is obviously cursed by that anti-cheat thing.

I would rather have the vanilla mechanics than no shiny. As of right now money grinding is mucher faster than hunting shiny pokemons which is indeed lame for us shiny hunters imo.

Still waiting for a confirmation. Edit: Had 2500-3000 encounters more today with an active donator status.

I am desperate. Went for 8 hours shiny hunting today and still no result. 4-5 encounters a minute. 4 * 60 * 8 = 1920 encounters Let's try tommorow again.