I have to call you developers out on this one. I'm rather annoyed that you would implement a setup like this. I'm not going to explain it all cause you guy's want to keep it a secret from your players (but a lot of players already have found out how to abuse this broken system).
I'm just going to tell it to you straight, many MMO's have tried to control rare drops/encounters in various other games, and the same conclusion is always met. You can't penalize your good players, cause your scare
Shinies and you: An informative PSA
While there's nothing to say that hasn't already been said in some form or another, here's a few important facts that keep being distorted.
Aside from Donator Status, there are no significant ways in which players can boost their shiny rates.
New players do not have a better chance than older.
Most importantly RNG is RNG, there is no guarantee to get a shiny in 100,000,000,000 encounters. Each encounter is a new RNG roll, indep