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à quand l’update mdr edit: when is the update lol

This is probably a hot take but if we are looking for more consistency from staff then in that case Art should have never been unbanned. If we’re to believe what Bear said, this isn’t the first case that has been met with a permanent ban since staff decided to change that policy some time ago but unfortunately for those players they also probably did not meet the same leniency as Art did and yet I don’t see anyone asking for justice on their behalf. Art’s ban appeal was first met with a deny which shows staff isn’t usually lenient in that regard but because of the popular outcry staff caved in. I’m seeing a lot of people accusing staff of favoritism or having “mood” swings when issuing punishments based on their perception of how their friend Art was treated while also failing to see how favorably Art was treated in comparison to few players out there who also got their account terminated for the same reason but weren’t shown this same leniency because they aren’t as popular as Art is. This comes off as very hypocritical since this stance favors your one guilty friend vs a bunch of also very much guilty players, while also setting a double standard which you are very much against. If we’re fine with Art being treated favorably then where do we draw the line? Only popular players deserve mercy? That doesn’t seem fair to me, sounds as unfair as what some are accusing the staff of doing with their friends. We can’t just choose when it’s ok or not to be more lenient and ignore it when it’s convenient for us, that’s just arbitrary and also unfair on so many levels. Either it’s ok to be lenient or it’s never ok to be lenient or else we are playing favorites We’ve been told that all wintrading cases aren’t comparable in the sense that it’s not always a clear-cut-case of wintrading or attempted wintrading like Art’s case and that it needs more investigation to establish guilt yet I’m seeing some people willfully ignoring that part of the discourse. Choosing instead to jump on the bandwagon as immediate reaction without any second thought when emotions are running high. And now you’re gonna tell me that it’s the staff that are the ones taking decisions depending on their moods? I have no issue with Art and I kinda like the guy but come on guys, this discussion is heavily one-sided, like a hivemind with some people only confirming their bias and piling on staff. I agree with some part of it like the transparency part, I think that policy change should have been made known when the decision was made and the mute for shouting during events is a bit excessive since they’ve access to colored text but this whole discussion is something else.

PokeMMO ain't your classic Pokemon game though, I don't think you should be looking for 1:1 copy of all og games here. Devs took some liberties with balancing and tweaking the difficulty which makes sense for a mmo. The game is not made to be rushed through as easily as the handheld versions, requires you to think a little bit and invest more time in building your team and prepares you for the end game. It's still very casual-friendly and you can still play at your own pace. It might not be the way a Pokemon game is supposed to be played but it sure should be that way, as PokeMMO addresses a lot of core issues og Pokemon have. Newer gens have gotten ridiculously easy and are constantly holding players' hands every step of the way, it's not something I personally would call fun. But it makes sense for Nintendo business-wise to present only one-very-easy difficulty option since their target audience is very young. With fans of the series getting older they've been fostering a new audience from a younger demographic to ensure perpetuity. And to be honest, older games weren't that much harder too, especially when you're given the option to switch between every K.O or allowing players to clear the entire game with 1-2 pokemon.

Blasphemy! Who dares disrespect one of the Great Old Ones, the Great Dreamer, the eldritch horror lord Cthulhu! Just you wait until he wakes up from his slumber..

You’d have to ask a mod for that

The code of conduct doesn’t really protect players from staff, it’s just the general guideline of how users are required to behave while using their services and if you fail to follow their preestablished rules, rules that we all have agreed upon in order to play the game, they reserve the right to take actions to ensure that you do in the future and these may vary depending on the severity and frequency of the offense. It’s there to protect players from themselves in a way. Now it’s hard for anyone to really judge granted we have no access to your punishment record and no way to know if you’re telling the whole story but I don’t expect anyone to get that it was supposed to be a joke except maybe a few of your friends, especially since you claim you went from Trade Chat to Global chat before getting muted. Also if you or anyone been warned before for the same thing, whether it happened a day, a week or a month (etc.) before, I don’t expect them to have to issue a warning again since it should have been clear the first time

It's not been easy for me and you know I started off in Pallet Town, my father gave me small loan of 1 Million Pokeyens

I dunno, I don’t recall saying that. RMT and botting are serious offenses not taken lightly and it requires gathering evidences with the tools at their disposal. Terminating an account is the most severe punishment and making an innocent player go through that experience is the least desirable outcome, so you want these case to be handled vigorously to prevent that scenario from happening. Still it’s not perfect and even they acknowledge that. False positives is a thing, but these are rare and are dealt with in ban appeals. Honestly though, what would they gain from keeping innocent players banned? I think it’s much more damaging for them to keep anyone wrongfully banned- banned than correcting their mistakes when it happens which I know they do (they even go as far as to compensate players with donator status for causing the inconvenience) but you never hear from them. Nothing compels them to show any evidence or tell anyone how they got caught because they gain nothing and it would also render their tools useless.

From the looks of it, the appeal was already reviewed and denied, which means a higher staff reviewed the evidences gathered by the staff member that issued the ban in the first place and deemed the evidences were sufficient to keep enforcing the ban. Also threatening the devs with chargebacks and legal recourse will just likely result in bans across all platforms and to never be able to play again.. so even less likely to ever be unbanned

why do they keep banning innocent players instead of Dugtrio 😔

Whatever it is going to be, its reward shouldn’t be something huge like a Pokemon not yet attainable (Jirachi for instance) like it’s been speculated. Or if it is the case, then there should be a way to obtain the Wishing Stone again for those who weren’t aware or didn’t bother to grind for it (at any point in time and not only during an event). Given the very limited information we had at the time and how much grind it required to obtain the Wishing Stone, I don’t think that many players were tempted to go through all the efforts for something seemingly pointless at the time. If the Wishing Stone won’t be made available again then I don’t think I would mind if it were to be an exclusive Alpha version of a Pokemon IF the non-Alpha Pokemon and/or hidden ability are also obtainable by the time its content is made available. It wouldn’t be game breaking but it would be a nice collector and a token for the effort.

It’s not an extreme scenario, it happened in the past it’s not illogical to think that under similar circumstances it could happen again. He is not paraphrasing you or misquoting you, he is just pointing out what could happen if we got rid of certain things (from your suggestion) that keep the breeding system in check or make it an actual MMOs

I have been seeing that idea circulating on this thread for a while now and I’m sorry but I have to say it; giving a 500k stimulus or any amount at all willy-nilly is very stupid and naive idea. It’s a short-sighted solution that end up causing more problems long-term than actually solving any problem at all. For a very short time, it may have a significant effect on the economy and "boost" consumption but overall what it really does is enabling a vicious snowball effect. Sudden increase in players wealth means increase in consumption of goods which means more demand over supply which then inevitably means increase in price. In other words, if I initially have 1m in my pocket and I’m given 500k more, I can now buy 50% more goods than I was able before. On a small scale this might seem like nothing but at a much larger scale, let’s say all "active users" start suddenly consuming more all at once, the effect will be noticeable and more impactful. Demand will effectively go up while supply will remain relatively the same or even go down, not enough supply to satisfy the demand will increase price. Congratulations, by injecting money in players pockets, you end up artificially inflating the price of most goods, setting us back again at the initial problem but this time with everything costing significantly more. Generating money haphazardly is never a good thing. That’s why it’s heavily scrutinised by the developers. Take gyms and trainers reruns for instance which are the primary money "printers". They inevitably and inherently create inflation by design because it generates money in the game. But there is something that counterbalances this and it’s money sinks. Money sinks are things that takes money away from players but does not redistribute it to anybody else effectively destroying that money. It ranges from many things from purchasing pokeballs from the pokemart to breeding costs and braces or gtl taxes for instance. In theory you want the money sink to take away money somewhere close to how gym and trainers reruns generates money to have a steady and controlled growth. You also want the money to flow between players so that players can enrich themselves alternatively without generating money. Because otherwise generating money at rates money sinks can’t keep up increases money supply over money demand, more money = more demand for goods while supply remains the same = inflation and money losing value yada yada. Taking away options from players to make money by nerfing Alphas, exp. candies, legendaries or anything that makes trades between players thrive will only lead to more players grinding gyms and trainers reruns and effectively create inflation. But that's not really relevant to the thread though. Game economy per se isn’t a factor that drives players away. I think it's mostly grind and how wealth is acquired that can be a factor that can drive player away. If the game requires lots of grinding for low yielding then yes I can see this being something unappealing. That's something hard to balance because you don't want that to affect the economy badly by making it too easy but also don't want it to be too tedious to keep your players engaged.

IMO Alphas are fine. My issue at this time is how roaming legendaries are acquired, it’s just egregious. In my personal experience I’ve always had to waste a minimum of 30h just doing boring plain encounters before obtaining anything and last month I couldn’t even get Zapdos after spending hundreds of lures and committing several hours a day. I’m probably just very unlucky but then again I really don’t think it should be up to luck. I really hope this is going to be addressed with raids just like for what they did for Shaymin this year which was perfect- 12 challenging raids for a legendary as a reward, the grind was not tedious and required actual strategies. The game does lack endgame content and mmo features. I am really eager to get raids as permanent features though. I just wish there were more features surrounding in-game teams, ie: team banks, team leaderboard or something, anything to give them a purpose. I miss 2016-17 North Pole dungeon-like map..

Not gonna lie, I hate this statement a lot. It's extremely biased and should not be considered as factual. That's just nostalgia talking most of the time. People tend to remember past PSLs more fondly than recent PSLs while also remembering their past experience as better than they actually were while in reality, PSL is probably just a series of ups and downs since the first edition and not a negative slop forever going down like people like to claim. The treatment recent PSLs get is not fair because they are not looked through an objective lens but rather through a subjective nostalgia-type of lens. Things changes, meta changes, people changes so does most elite and top players. Old top players become washed or leave altogether, new top players break through and replaces them and this happening is not a bad thing, it just shows the community can replenish itself with new skilled players. It's not because you and your friends used to take part in past PSLs that all things happening after that period have gone down hill in quality. It's a very self-centered way to view things and very inaccurate. It feels like some are trying to delegitimize new events just because they are not in them or because it's not like it used to be, it's very disingenuous for new players who are trying to make a name of themselves. Some people look down on PSLs now and like to drag it down simply to elevate the times they were in it which is what kills the hype IMO.

When you share your opinion on public forums, you have to expect that people will disagree with you, that’s just how it is on the internet man. You can’t just expect people to agree with you every single time you share your thoughts on a topic. And if people see a flaw in a specific part of your argument (which they did), they will point it out. I don’t particularly agree on the way they did but regardless, you are entitled to your opinion and so are they and nothing compels them to answer all of the 84 other lines of your post. Maybe they agree with the rest or maybe they don’t or maybe they just don’t bother to reply to everything in any of your post. Nobody is out to get you Bug-type resisting to Psychic-type was part of your argument. You were proven wrong. That’s it

Operation Snake Eater LeZenor

Yeah like Eggplant said, the staff member that reviewed the ban is different from the one who administered it and after reviewing the evidence, deemed that the ban was appropriate and would not be lifted. If your ban appeal has been denied then there’s nothing else that can be done. Bothering staff members won’t change that outcome and they gain nothing from showing you what or how you got caught breaking the rules

This one went over your head… woooosh

This is extremely irrelevant to the topic and also you should get your facts right because I did not even play that tour lol

It gets everything wrong because it’s not a fair and logical argument, she’s arguing in bad faith. She’s not really worried about the "state of the game’s economy", she’s worried about her personal investments. That whole story is made up to make it seem less like a selfish request. She is suggesting the removal of an existing feature to make it harder for everyone and especially newer players to grind money because according to her, those players should only limit themselves to grind long and tedious gym leaders to earn a dime while she can watch her investment go up by doing absolutely nothing like she thinks she deserves. Alphas and/or exp candies causing vanities to drop in price is an extremely big stretch and is the least of our worries in regards to the game economy. It truly is an elitist suggestion and it is in all honesty very disgusting and disingenuous.

As terrible as his passing is, monetizing his death would be a truly awful thing to do

I'm genuinely annoyed that some posts have been removed and someone actually received warning points without prior warning on this thread for something pretty mild for PSL standards and just in general. It definitely doesn't warrant a whole week ban from forums. What @MathewMatposted was legitimate criticisms for the sake of the integrity of the event given that the actions of Doc jeopardised entire seasons in the past. This is the main thread announcing this season's PSL where we discuss the new host and the event, so I'm not really sure how that constitutes derailing in all honesty. Can't we not share our concerns without the risk of receiving a warning point because a certain someone can't stand the fact that we won't look past actions they've made in the past and continues to this day to take no accountability whatsoever? That's ridiculous, we might as well not have a thread in the first place. Beside, these decisions to ban Doc were made public and were done by previous hosts which are players, this is common knowledge for anyone that isn't an outsider. This is no account ban, there is no digging dirt on anybody here, no one is revealing private information. So which is it ? Drama or no drama? Or does it not apply to you? Rules for thee and not for me? He brought you drama but you shrugged it off and told staff to remove it. Or are you gonna argue that it was against some forum rules? Worst things have been said on other PSL threads in the past. Staff have always shown some leniency in this regard. This is extremely mild in comparison.

Could we adjust the rules so that matches can be bought with money as well, it would make things much simpler