I went to the TCG/VG Regionals this past weekend, and I did ok (5/3), but two of my losses were people with teams of all shinies which was kind of suspicious. I asked my first all shiny competitor how they got so many and they informed me of a weird game manipulation techinque called RNGing.
Now, some of you may have heard of this but I have not as I have no desire to manipulate my games. All of the methods I use (such as EVing or Chaining in 4th Gen) are things Nintendo has given the ok on by press release or in a strategy guide. Apparently, it involves using a calculator to generate some random numbers (somehow corresponding to a date) and then manipulating the DS calendar to a certain date where conditions are favorable to get perfect IV pokemon that are shiny through breeding. No other legit method I've heard of can produce such astonding results (including Masuda and Chaining methods). It also apparently takes tremendously less time than breeding/catching pokemon traditionally. It doesn't technically use an outside device to edit data, but at some point a device would have had to have been used to rip the source code from the cartridge thus discovering this technique.
I asked a judge is if was legit between rounds, and he said no. Well, I had the next of my competitors who said he RNG's hack checked, but his game came out clean... and it kinda ticked him off at me. He basically told me I was a poor sport and I should report to Smogon asap to learn how to be a real competitor. He, and other RNGer's I talked to later, stressed that thier method was legit for tourney play. Dude had a serious chip on his shoulder about it, I was just going off I'd been told earlier.
Anyway, long story short... it seems even the judges don't know if it should be consider legit or not so I pose this question....
Is the abuse of RNG to create teams of perfect IV shiny pokemon unethical or should it just be accepted as part of the competitve environment?
Discuss.
Now, some of you may have heard of this but I have not as I have no desire to manipulate my games. All of the methods I use (such as EVing or Chaining in 4th Gen) are things Nintendo has given the ok on by press release or in a strategy guide. Apparently, it involves using a calculator to generate some random numbers (somehow corresponding to a date) and then manipulating the DS calendar to a certain date where conditions are favorable to get perfect IV pokemon that are shiny through breeding. No other legit method I've heard of can produce such astonding results (including Masuda and Chaining methods). It also apparently takes tremendously less time than breeding/catching pokemon traditionally. It doesn't technically use an outside device to edit data, but at some point a device would have had to have been used to rip the source code from the cartridge thus discovering this technique.
I asked a judge is if was legit between rounds, and he said no. Well, I had the next of my competitors who said he RNG's hack checked, but his game came out clean... and it kinda ticked him off at me. He basically told me I was a poor sport and I should report to Smogon asap to learn how to be a real competitor. He, and other RNGer's I talked to later, stressed that thier method was legit for tourney play. Dude had a serious chip on his shoulder about it, I was just going off I'd been told earlier.
Anyway, long story short... it seems even the judges don't know if it should be consider legit or not so I pose this question....
Is the abuse of RNG to create teams of perfect IV shiny pokemon unethical or should it just be accepted as part of the competitve environment?
Discuss.
