Bartolomew

This has been my 2nd favorite christmas event (nothing beats the north pole dungeon). Actually making catching pokemon fun and having the definitive end. Plus opening pokeballs is just good mechanic

lol
I just enjoy it. Its super chill, makes community work together and isn't just spam boss battle

99% of your posts are about Kyu, his party hat, and the 11th anniversary... Drop it; you sound insane.
 
Also, learn when to use capital letters. Not everything is title-case...

Cynthia in e4 rematches has Rayquaza with V-Create, not sure about other 3

Goldenrod Flower Shop
You can get key item, untradable, unusable, useless Gracidea Flower for talking to girl in the shop with Shaymin in party

You were not banned for your modded switch. You were banned because you bought from a RMT vendor multiple times.
 
This was the reply you received to your appeal:
 
 

Hi, did you do the steps indicated on https://support.pokemmo.com/knowledgebase/article/tampering-ban-as ?
If it didn't work for you, please make sure to contact us by making a Support Request. Thanks!

aint nobody care about you little bro. 

I had a discussion with them last night. They're aware and obviously working on it. Just have some patience with them.

Players affected by client tampering closures (and temporary bans) are running software which interferes with the game client. Most of the time this is autoclickers/macroing software. Sometimes it's because they're using a "multi-game" app which allows them to run multiple clients on the same device.
 
You can visit https://pokemmo.com/tampering for more information. Players are instructed to uninstall the software, and provided it's their first offence, will have their tempbans removed.
 
  
After you filed your ticket and were instructed to remove your macro software, you stopped being kicked for tampering. This was not an error.
  
You haven't been banned, but you may want to visit the above support article before you are.

Just wait one day lol

Special thanks to @Robombol for promotional artwork                    
 
 
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HeartGold/SoulSilver
 
The Johto region is now available, featuring a new storyline with several bosses to challenge This region requires a HeartGold/SoulSilver ROM to function. Players who have already installed these ROM files for visual changes don't need to do anything. For Johto, disobedience works separately from your badge count. While badges will increase your disobedience level along your journey, other key storyline events can too. You'll receive a notification when your disobedience level changes and you can always check it in your Trainer Card. To start this region's adventure, create a new character or visit the Ferry Captain in your current region  
Apricorns can be found in this region. These can be used to create several new classes of balls: Moon Balls may be crafted for $1,000 + a Yellow Apricorn. These offer 4.0x catch rate for species trees which can be evolved with a Moon Stone. Fast Balls may be crafted for $1,000 + a White Apricorn. These offer 4.0x catch rate for species with 100 base Speed or higher. Heavy Balls may be crafted for $1,000 + a Black Apricorn. These offer a catch rate with the following formula: 1.0x for species with < 100kg weight 2.0x for species with < 200kg weight 3.0x for species with < 300kg weight 4.0x for species with >= 300kg weight Friend Balls may be crafted for $1,000 + a Green Apricorn. These offer a catch rate of 2.5x for species trees which have a Happiness evolution in them. They also greatly increase happiness (to 78%) upon capture. Lure Balls may be crafted for $1,200 + a Blue Apricorn. They offer a 4.0x catch rate for encounters which occur with a Fishing Rod (including Phenomena and special Feebas encounters). Love Balls may be crafted for $1,350 + a Pink Apricorn. They offer an 8.0x catch rate for encounters which are of the same species tree, but of the opposite gender. These don't work against genderless species. Level Balls may be crafted for $1,350 + a Red Apricorn. These offer a 4.0x catch rate for targets which are the same level as your active party member's.  
Voltorb Flip is a minigame which can be found in the Goldenrod Game Corner Players who win Level 8 of this minigame will receive an  exclusive reward Special encounters can occur when using Headbutt on trees in Johto. Once disturbed, these trees will need to be left alone for a while before a new encounter can occur. Mt. Silver is an optional end-game area which can be visited after defeating every region's Elite 4 and completing the National OT Dex. Exclusive rewards await inside. The National OT Dex requirement only applies to species which are normally visible. It does not include special monsters which are time-limited, such as Shaymin, nor overworld legendary events.  Special surprises await!  
 
General
The stack size for items has been increased from 99 to 9,999 This change also allows purchasing up to 999 of an item while interacting with a Mart and crafting up to 999 of some items (e.g. Mysterious Gems) at a time Players can now choose specific slots (automatically changing depending on your party members) or specific monsters to follow them Dream Balls are now available in some Marts. These offer a 4.0x catch rate for targets which have been sleeping for at least 2 turns. Daily events in Unova and Sinnoh now work properly The GTL UI has received a refresh, improving mobile navigation, adding controller support, and showing more relevant information when browsing monsters New Alpha Swarms have been spotted in the wild for all regions "Trade with Item" evolutions can now use their items the same way as evolution stones  
Other Changes
Common event and PvP items (including vanities) can now be tossed from your inventory Matchmaking reward monsters now allow the selection of all moves, instead of Egg Moves, like Tournament Rewards Matchmaking's Statistics page is now separate from the Matchmaking Signup page This change also allows players to easily compare different tiers' info pages The default time limit for advanced duels is now 60 minutes When using an item in-battle, duplicate entries are now consolidated to one selection Metal Sound for Voltorb now uses the Special-type learn group Charm effect countdowns now show during the mobile battle screen  
Gift Shop
Whirlpool and  Headbutt Ocarinas are now available Cherish Balls are now available  Shiny Charms are now permanently available Players with  Donator Status now enjoy an extra +5% money upon winning battles against trainers. This modifier stacks with others like the Riches Charm The  EXP Reamplifier's EXP distribution mechanism has changed When activated, this item splits 25% of total EXP gained amongst the active participants, with the rest being split among the whole party. Each party member also gains an additional +5% of the total EXP.  Premium Lures' chances to modify encounters have been increased: Encounter rate modification is now +25%, from +20% Lure-exclusive encounters are now +10%, from +8% The chance to increase the size of encounters into Double Battles or Hordes has been increased to +25%, from +20%  
The Aurora Beast Mane, Thunder Beast Daopao, and Volcano Beast Wings are now available for a limited time.
 
 
Balancing
 
Sharpness' damage modifier for slicing moves has been reduced from 1.5x to 1.3x Gallade has been re-enabled for Over Used tiers Repeat Ball's functionality has changed Repeat Balls now start at 1.0x catch rate. For each successive capture of the same species, even if not using a Repeat Ball, the catch rate increases by 0.1x, up to a maximum of 2.5x. This catch rate resets to 1.0x if you capture a different species. Its price has been reduced to $1,250 Heal Ball's price has been reduced to $300 Nest Ball's price has been reduced to $1,000 Luxury Ball's functionality has changed Luxury Balls now offer a catch rate of 2.0x for species trees which have a Happiness evolution in them. They still passively increase the happiness gained from normal actions Dive Ball's catch rate has been increased to 3.5x. Its price has been reduced to $1,200 Net Ball's catch rate has been increased to 3.5x. Its price has been reduced to $1,350 Players are now limited to using 4 items from their bag in most PvE Trainer Battles Alpha Swarms now fight back harder with special mechanics for some scenarios  
Bug Fixes (Game Server)
 
Fixed Imposter's targeting during multi-battles Fixed Copycat copying self-inflicted confusion damage Fixed an issue where U-Turn / Volt Switch would not grant EXP upon fainting a wild opponent if the battle ended immediately Fixed an issue where items could be destroyed during wild encounters in rare circumstances Items are now returned to their original party members after the battle ends Fixed an issue where, if an opponent switches in and you Explode them, you wouldn't gain EXP in some cases Fixed redundant broadcasting of weather suppression effects (Cloud Nine, etc.) in multi-battles / hordes Fixed an issue where Encore wouldn't interrupt Focus Punch Ghost-type Curse can now be redirected by Follow Me / Rage Powder Fixed an issue where Present would play the wrong animation during damaging attacks Fixed an issue where Knock Off could remove items before they activated Fixed an issue where Psych Up would not display stat stages correctly in a monster's tooltips after casting Fixed an issue where Clear Body/etc. would broadcast their presence if a move used against them were <100% effect accuracy (e.g. Clear Body vs Shadow Ball) Fixed an issue where Life Orb's recoil would still activate if Sap Sipper absorbed the attack Fixed an issue where White Herb would not be consumed upon Intimidate Fixed an issue where some berries, e.g. Occa Berry, would not be suppressed correctly by the Unnerve ability Wonder Skin will now broadcast its ability indicator if it's responsible for a missed move Fixed an issue where, if a player fought against another player who was currently holding an overworld legendary, but they already fought another player with that overworld legendary in a previous spawn, they would receive reduced rewards for winning Players who have overworld legendaries will now automatically drop them if entering into an instanced map (e.g. the Elite Four of each region, or Hearthome Gym) Fixed an issue where, when encountering wild Alpha Swarms, held items which were consumed (such as Focus Sash) would not actually be consumed if the alpha was not captured This also fixes an issue where, if you stole a held item from a wild alpha and ran away, it would respawn with a new held item Fixed an issue where players could not sign up for matchmaking while inside of their Secret Base Zen Mode no longer applies itself upon battle start / battle slot activation (for Rotation Battles) Fixed an issue where, when using a non-STAB multi-target move against a boss, the damage cap would be lower than intended Fixed an issue where EXP candies would only consider the region the character logged into when evaluating EXP limits Fixed an issue where, if an Alpha Swarm started at end of an in-game day, its consumption would roll over to the next day's Fixed an issue where, when disconnecting during starter selection of Sinnoh, a default selection would occur instead of cancellation The Gift Porygon in Sinnoh has been re-enabled  
Bug Fixes (Client)
 
Fixed an issue where players could still move in the world if the hatching animation were playing Fixed an issue where some sfx (e.g. Fireworks, vanity triggerables) would play even if the window were unfocused and the "Mute audio while window is unfocused" setting were toggled on Fixed an issue where, if a monster activated Pickpocket while their move's priority was boosted with a Quick Claw, their held item would be shown as "???????" during the message's playback Fixed an issue where sprites in hatching, move learning, and evolution renderers wouldn't respect the same sprite scaling options as in-battle Fixed an issue where, when gaining HP EVs during battle, active team members wouldn't have their max HP updated correctly Fixed an issue where some parts of PC slots wouldn't be interactable with a mouse Fixed an issue where some berry healing animations in-battle, e.g. Berry Juice, wouldn't always play on the correct target Fixed an issue where texture coloring was slightly muted in NDS regions Fixed an issue where user commands (e.g. /ping) would be rejected if used in Team Chat when not in a Team Fixed an issue where, when using High DPI fonts with odd UI scalings (e.g. 125%), some UIs would not render text correctly Mobile UI: Fixed an issue where chat couldn't be closed when many tabs / long tab names were configured Fixed an issue where the Dex wouldn't show seasonal data correctly for some species Fixed an issue where, in multi-battles, when attempting to cancel an action, if a previous slot was locked into an action (e.g. continuous use moves), queued actions couldn't be cancelled Improved character rendering when characters change directions Fixed an issue where page navigators in some UIs, such as the GTL, would show invalid entries  
... and more!

We already had a good discussion opener in Doubles Tier Discussion request about Safety Goggles, an item that could potentially improve the metagame and playing experience of Doubles. That made me think which other items have we got past Gen 5 that arguably could improve the metagame. I'm keeping my post focused on Doubles because that's what I'm mostly experienced with and I don't want the discussion to go all kinds of different directions if we were to discuss singles as well. To be fair, I think Singles deserves its own discussion thread as well, although the obvious problem is that do we want to open that can of worms and possibly mix up the tiers with upcoming items.
 
Firstly, the devs have shown they are willing to do quite big shakes to the game with the likes of Assault Gear (Assault Vest in core games) to be introduced to the game. From my experience, Assault Gear in PokeMMO has mostly been a positive addition. Because devs have shown willingness to add new items to the game from post Gen 5 generations, I'll do my best to explain which items deserve a spot in the game in my opinion from Doubles perspective.
 
I grouped these items based on the utility and potential risk. Keep in mind, these are only my opinion. Feel free to comment with your thoughts.
 
 
Group 1 - Definitely good for the game
 
 
Clear Amulet (please give us this)
 
I would argue Clear Amulet would improve the Doubles metagame the most. Clear Amulet basically is the ability "Clear Body" in Item form. I'd argue the current Doubles metagame is heavily Intimidate focused. It might not feel that way because so many top tier physical attackers are completely immune to Intimidate (Clear Body Metagross, Inner Focus Crobat, Inner Focus Mienshao) or are using Swords Dance just to ignore Intimidates (Swords Dance Scizor, Swords Dance Excadrill). However, my argument that the reason these Pokemon are used is because they get hindered by Intimidate the least. Adding Clear Amulet allows physical attackers that otherwise would be heavily hindered by Intimidate to have some potential usefulness and not get pushed aside in teambuilding just because there are alternatives for physical attackers that do not care about Intimidate.
 
The only downside I see is that it makes Tyranitar arguably even better as Tyranitar could also carry Clear Amulet and not get countered by Hitmontop as heavily anymore. But on the reverse, giving up your Chople berry allows Tyranitar to be far more reliably to be KO'd by Hitmontop instead. Furthermore, I'd argue that Tyranitar itself is not broken but it's a one Pokemon solution for balanced teams to have a better matchup against all kinds of weather.
 
 
Room Service
 
Room Service gives -1 speed to holder when Trick Room goes up and its on the field. Excellent item to allow more Pokemon to shine in Trick Room archetypes. It's very common to have a Pokemon that could potentially do well in Trick Room but it's just awkwardly fast and not being viable for that reason alone. Having Room Service allows more middle speed to slightly above average speed Pokemon to do well in a team that has a Trick Room mode. Also I think this can be a useful tech to allow teams to have far better diversity in countering opposing Trick Room teams than what we have now.
 
 
Safety Goggles
 
Necas already made a post about it in Doubles Tier Discussion Request thread.
 
 
 
Group 2 - Probably good for the game but there might be concerns
 
 
Loaded Dice
 
Giving more love to multi-hit moves to me is a good idea. Loaded Dice may allow multi-hits to become very powerful with guaranteed 4-5 hits but while doing so the Pokemon is giving up its item slot for "something better". Also, because of giving up the item slot you can't get the maximum hits and still get Choice Band / Life Orb boost I don't really see this item pushing the damage calculations out of hand with anything. This prevents multi-hits from becoming too powerful in my opinion but I understand if this shakes up Singles tier too much in some regard for someone to object this. Overall, I think it's good though and gives more opportunity to plan out your moves. Also what I love about Loaded Dice is that it prevents Focus Sash Pokemon to be 100% safe (because Sash is a dumb item to begin with but that's another conversation).
 
Eject pack
 
Eject Pack allows a Pokemon to switch out after getting a stat drop. Very niche in my opinion as usually there are better options but it allows some creative strategies in my opinion, none of which intuitively seem too strong to me.
 
 
Group 3 - Could be fun but potentially cheesy without open team sheet
 
Covert Cloak
 
Covert Cloak gives a Pokemon a protection from secondary effects of an attack. In Doubles, this is mostly used to prevent a Pokemon from being Faked Out. In VGC, I feel like this item has improved both playing and teambuilding experience. You don't have to use Protect just for Fake Out protection and you can use all 4 moves for something useful and just slap Covert Cloak to prevent from being Faked Out. The only issue I see is that in Gen 9 VGC we have open team sheet (meaning you can see opponent's all moves and its held item), so opponent always knows when they can or cannot Fake Out the opponent. Unknowingly not getting a Fake Out flinch because of Covert Cloak might feel unjust and a little bit cheesy when you don't know it's there. In my opinion, a move like Fake Out being good is crucial to Doubles metagame so I could see the argument that Fake Out losing its guaranteed flinch could be bad for the concept of Doubles.
 
 
Mirror Herb
 
Mirror Herb allows Pokemon to copy the stat boosts its opponent got. While it forces opponents to think twice before mindlessly setting up, I could also seeing this item being slightly cheesy. Setting up can be the appropriate play in many cases and getting reverse set up might feel like a skilless counterstrategy.
 
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Last remarks: I didn't discuss about Heavy-Duty Boots because in singles it could be an absolute game and tier changer while providing very little use in Doubles. Anyway, here's my suggestions - I think Doubles probably needs some mix-up as to me the metagame is becoming extremely stale and almost resolved at this point. These item suggestions (especially Clear Amulet and Room Service) allows players to think much more outside the current box. Obviously, you already could use less used options in Doubles but my issue is that people often are significantly hurting their winrate by using more unorthodoxed Pokemon because of the aforementioned downsides of using a Pokemon that isn't i.e. protected by Intimidate. Anyways, feel free to voice your thoughts.
 

It would be cool to see achievements in PokeMMO, like for completing certain tasks, ex: finishing a region's pokedex, or beating a region, or other ones like catching 5 alphas, spending 100k on GTL then every time an achievement is completed a reward is given like some exp candies etc. , you know stuff like that would be really nice for players and will basically set up goals for them by default, and then there are event achievements which are  the same but are only completed during events, like Lunar New year etc...

Even if it wasn't a reward, having some sort of thing saying you've completed an achievement would be really nice. Maybe something where another player can see your achievements and settings where you can hide them from non-friends/non-team members. Great idea venge

You can EV train special attack while collecting ash,it takes more time, but you get decent amount of ash.
Pickup, payday also works, you can get metal coat/charcoal and about 150$ per battle.
Edit: Ash "restarts" after you enter any building, exiting and reentering route doesnt work.
 
This is the most optimal route I found. Enter building to "restart" ash, repeat.
 

Dear game manager, I want to apologize for this. There is really no real money transaction in my account. loveluoli, the sponsor of Master Tournament, is a normal player and his account has been unsealed. But mine didn't. I know I should have one more thing, that is, I logged into my friend's account on May 13th, because he asked me to help urge a person to return his pokemon. We are all friends, so I thought I could help. That's what I did. Nothing else was done. And I didn't share my account.We really don't have real money to trade. If my account is blocked because of this, I can accept the punishment, but please ask the administrator to reduce my punishment. After all, this is a game I have played for five years. I cry every night, and I can't help but wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, and my eyes are swollen with tears. I really like and love this game. I apologize again. I'm sorry. Please give me a chance.

I don't see a reason why they wouldn't be. Other stationary pokemon are cathable.

Hey I have a supa good business proposition for you. I don't have money to outright buy those, but hear me out. I just need them for dex so what I am willing to do is you trade me any male alpha bulba/charmander you have, I level them up to final form then breed them with alpha ditto, upgrade their IVs, make them female and trade you back. How does that sound?

This guy was banned for selling gold on Facebook. So, no.
 
This guy was banned for selling gold to a reseller. So, no.
 
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You see copy/paste responses because our rejection rate for RMT cases is well over 95% and banwaves often encompass thousands of accounts. The only real exceptions are when the GM typos something. Because, as you mentioned:
 
Most players do exactly that. It's not worth the SGMs' time to link trade logs at every guilty party.
 
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GM policies for how to handle rulebreakers are not rules. We do not list publicly how we handle offenses. Some cases require more nuance than a policy description can provide.
 
Press X to doubt
 
It is exceedingly rare that someone comes to us and says "Hey, I've broken the rules. I didn't get anything out of it (and I can prove it), and he broke the rules too." Whether or not we want to grant someone an out depends on the consensus of the SGMs. Nobody takes action independently. Sometimes, they will say that the person has lost enough to make them learn their lesson, as-in this case, and they will issue a verbal warning (and a permanent mark against their account for misbehavior).
 
We do not take a hardline approach in odd cases like this because it's not beneficial for the game to do so. We'd rather someone flip on their seller than no action be taken because "everyone knows that if you talk to the GMs you get banned."
 
This is the first time you have heard about it, but it's not the first time we've ever extended amnesty to people breaking the rules.
 
I have a sneaking suspicion you're just looking to argue over someone who was banned for gold buying/selling who was caught after the fact. These are not equivalent offenses.
 
If you'd like to continue to rant in PMs you may, but the threat of "more drama" is flaccid. We do not believe the SGMs misbehaved in this case and don't see any reason to intervene.

As for the main subject, the user was not left unbanned because of some friendship, nepotism, pity, or any other reason.
 
To better understand, here is some context. We have had an internal amnesty policy where users can voluntarily admit to attempting to or successfully purchasing items via RMT. If a user reports their purchase in a reasonable time frame, before it is noticed, we will simply confiscate the item and let them off with a warning. Sellers do not get any leniency.
 
As a slight extension to this policy, this also extends to RMT scammers. If you attempt to buy an item via RMT never receive the item, you can report it to us and the scammer will still be punished. Extending this policy this way prevents an abusable situation where a user is able to scam other users with impunity. If we have an environment where we ban the victim, then nobody will ever come out to report the scam.
 
As you may have guessed by now, the user in question attempted to make an RMT purchase an item and was scammed. They never received the item they attempted to purchase. Admittedly we did not do the best at explaining this reasoning to the user.
 
This is (as far as I know) the first time we've applied this specific policy to a scam, but we've often applied it users who learn the rules after committing RMT. This was not a decision made at the behest of a single SGM, but something that was discussed.

This isn't a full response, it's only my initial thoughts.
 
First of all, to address your complaints about being being banned "unfairly", you can't provide proof you didn't do something. You can provide all the proof in the world that you had some legitimate transactions and exclude the parts you don't want to admit. Everyone claims to be innocent, points to a few things they think clears them while pretending there was nothing else. We do not publicly discuss bans, so users feel impunity to claim their innocence without fear of being called out.
 
Ban appeals are not a place to argue your innocence, they are a place for oversight and review of bans and for us to be able to inquire about specific actions taken.
 
I haven't had a chance to look into the other claims yet, but one thing I can say is a player claiming to be a friend of staff doesn't actually mean they have a personal relationship with a staff member. This particular member in question is not friends with any SGM, even if he claims to.