Mank said:
Ugh, GTS. Is there any way to make it less terrible? Can't believe they didn't think to block people from asking for impossible things... and why, WHY not allow you to search for more than the limited initial amount of offers unless you change your conditions? Also... does the GTS seriously search for species by name, because there is totally a Suicune named Reshiram in my Reshiram search. Bleh, what the heck.
Any way to make all this less terrible? Is the negotiations thing actually useful, cuz I haven't tried that yet...
Yeah GTS is pretty bad. What's funny is that there is a pretty robust system in place that verifies if pokemon are "legitimate". One of the checks it does, for example, involves verifying that the pokemon's level is possible. So a Vicenti that is under level 15 wouldn't pass verification. It blows my mind that GTS then allows people to request impossible pokemon when they could just check the criteria against a system they already have in place. With that said, I'm not entirely sure why people are putting up impossible trade requests to begin with. I think there was a bug in previous versions that let you dupe pokemon so that's why they would do it but I don't really understand why they do it now and it really ruins the limited search results you get.
As for the suicine in your reshiram search, I ran into that as well. It seems like it is a bug where somebody puts up their pokemon (reshiram) and their request is filled (suicine) but it stays up for whatever reason so it'll show you the suicine they now have on their search results.
Anyway.. here are some tips I've used to try to get better search results.
- If there is gender, search twice once for male and once for female
- Then you can do a search for region: United States and Japan (UK sometimes has stuff but it seems pretty rare. Japan seems to have way more Under Level 9 requests so filtering that out usually helps)
- Check level range where pokemon spawns (i.e. 40-49 for reshiram or 50-59.. whatever it is) These people seem like they caught the pokemon and are actually trying to do a trade. The level 80-100 people rarely request legitimate pokemon
Overall though GTS is really bad. I wish they would filter out impossible requests, allow you to search for people requesting stuff you have (i.e. what can i get for x), see more results, etc. Oh well..