ORAS Possible Improvements for the PSS

Drohn

Drohn

Wild War Dance
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The Player Search System has to be one of the many cool new additions they added in generation 6. That said, I do think there are ways to improve it further.

I'm in a battle already!
I'm often looking for battles on the PSS and I think they have a built in system that automatically shows up more passerby that are also looking for battles, since the amount of people challenging me quickly increases once I start battling! This is great, except that passerby can't see I am already in a battle, which means I'm missing out on some fun. It would be great if they can let passerby see when someone is busy (in battle/trade/chat) as well.

Who wants to battle or trade?
A new function that could be useful is that players can fill in whether they're looking for battles or trades and that the PSS will automatically find people that are looking for the same. Battle Spot is pretty cool for finding battles, but you're not able to select your own rules, which is too bad.

What does everyone else think? Any improvements or new functions you can think of for the PSS?
 
My suggestion

Trade Zone
-If any one of your friends has a Pokémon on the GTS for trade that you can trade for (only if you have the Pokémon that trainer is looking for), you will be notified. This can be handy for completing trades.

Special Notifications
-If a player catches a legendary or shiny their friends will be notified so they can congratulate them with the "Nice!" button.
 
Reggie McGigas said:
Special Notifications
-If a player catches a legendary or shiny their friends will be notified so they can congratulate them with the "Nice!" button.
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I really like this idea. We have something now for birthdays, but it would be nice to have for other things. If they have a notification for beating a gym for example, people can start competing and race each other to the next gym too. It will allow a lot of new and fun games by being able to track each others' progress.
 
I'd love 6 vs 6 battles with the PSS in battle spot. I hate only using three and four, and I always have a hard time finding people that want to battle.

I also always end up in battles with smogon people who end up just dropping out part way cause I used double team or mega kangaskhan or something, and its kind of frustrating (especially cause my mega kangaskhan is kind of gimmicky and doesn't use sucker punch and other moves I think are cheap. Plus I use her on my mono normal team, so its not like my team doesn't have glaring weaknesses on it). It would be great if there was a way to identify smogon rules people so they can find battles with eachother and I can stop getting in battles with them.

I'd also love it if they had little cup settings in PSS.
 
I can't really think of anything else I'd want for the PSS, really.

I'm a little worried about whether or not it's coming back though. By all means it should because it would be a massive step backwards if they undid all of the improvements to the online environment we got in XY (and one that I think would clearly cross the line of acceptability since it's such an important change in the gameplay), but this is Game Freak we're talking about.
 
The PSS has a lot of amazing new functions and allows people from all over the world to connect without each other in-game. I don't think they will remove it. Another possibility is that it will be replaced by something new with the same or similar features.
 
Can we try not to get off topic and start madly complaining or madly defending game freak please? I'm a little tired of that and just want to discuss the the PSS, not whether or not its coming back and how stupid/not stupid it will be if it does/doesn't, only to tangent from there about the games in general, then the series in general, etc. Besides, I agree with Drohn, if they remove it, its just gonna be replaced by something that has similar features that essentially does the same thing with a different name.

It would be cool if, in our profiles along with everything else, we got to see more stats. I like it how, when you battle people, sometimes you get that little box that says things like how many eggs you've hatched and how many super training regiments you've done. I also wouldn't mind being able to choose different skins for PSS. Nothing too drastic, just like, green and purple and blue as well as yellow would be nice.

I've also heard other people suggest tiers for wonder trade. I don't know if I'm 100% okay with that, cause it might defeat the purpose of wonder trade, but it would be kind of cool if you're trading a shiny venusaur that you don't get another bidoof.
 
Aerodactyl said:
I've also heard other people suggest tiers for wonder trade. I don't know if I'm 100% okay with that, cause it might defeat the purpose of wonder trade, but it would be kind of cool if you're trading a shiny venusaur that you don't get another bidoof.
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That does defeat the purpose. You shouldn't go into it expecting to get anything, it's basically trading for the sake of trading.
 
Bolt the Cat said:
That does defeat the purpose. You shouldn't go into it expecting to get anything, it's basically trading for the sake of trading.
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That's why I'm so torn about it, because I agree its supposed to be a mystery, but I do think that there is an unnecessary amount of Weedle's and Bidoof on there from spammers. Maybe if they put a limit to how many times a day you could do it, or maybe you can't send duplicate Pokemon out on the same day sort of rule, just to try and discourage spammers? You don't have to get something fantastic every time or anything, that's not the point, but there are an awful lot of people who just use it to troll and fish for shinies and legendaries that people send out trying to be nice. I don't think you'll ever get rid of spammers entirely, nor do I think the wonder aspect should be taken out of the whole thing. I guess its just a little more balance. The wonder trade with less spammers is a great way for people to get IV bred extras from breeders, or nice people sending out hidden ability Mon into the world, or people letting go of old team favourite for people to try that maybe haven't tried them before. I feel like that's what wonder trade was originally meant to be.
 
Aerodactyl said:
Bolt the Cat said:
That does defeat the purpose. You shouldn't go into it expecting to get anything, it's basically trading for the sake of trading.
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That's why I'm so torn about it, because I agree its supposed to be a mystery, but I do think that there is an unnecessary amount of Weedle's and Bidoof on there from spammers. Maybe if they put a limit to how many times a day you could do it, or maybe you can't send duplicate Pokemon out on the same day sort of rule, just to try and discourage spammers? You don't have to get something fantastic every time or anything, that's not the point, but there are an awful lot of people who just use it to troll and fish for shinies and legendaries that people send out trying to be nice. I don't think you'll ever get rid of spammers entirely, nor do I think the wonder aspect should be taken out of the whole thing. I guess its just a little more balance. The wonder trade with less spammers is a great way for people to get IV bred extras from breeders, or nice people sending out hidden ability Mon into the world, or people letting go of old team favourite for people to try that maybe haven't tried them before. I feel like that's what wonder trade was originally meant to be.
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Maybe ideally, but I think it's more designed for people that just want to trade a lot (to grind for Poke Miles for instance, or perhaps in future games for side features like Join Avenue that fill up based on how many people you encounter). Inevitably most people are just going to use it to get rid of junk Pokemon, so I think it's pointless trying to restrict it.
 
Aerodactyl said:
Bolt the Cat said:
That does defeat the purpose. You shouldn't go into it expecting to get anything, it's basically trading for the sake of trading.
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That's why I'm so torn about it, because I agree its supposed to be a mystery, but I do think that there is an unnecessary amount of Weedle's and Bidoof on there from spammers. Maybe if they put a limit to how many times a day you could do it, or maybe you can't send duplicate Pokemon out on the same day sort of rule, just to try and discourage spammers? You don't have to get something fantastic every time or anything, that's not the point, but there are an awful lot of people who just use it to troll and fish for shinies and legendaries that people send out trying to be nice. I don't think you'll ever get rid of spammers entirely, nor do I think the wonder aspect should be taken out of the whole thing. I guess its just a little more balance. The wonder trade with less spammers is a great way for people to get IV bred extras from breeders, or nice people sending out hidden ability Mon into the world, or people letting go of old team favourite for people to try that maybe haven't tried them before. I feel like that's what wonder trade was originally meant to be.
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That's an absolutely horrible idea. Do you think you would be getting IV Pokémon if there was such a limitation? No. Like I'm about to trade away a box of breeding recejcts. Some are 5 IV mons. But they are all Bulbasaurs. There would be no point in Wonder Trade if there was any kind of limitation at all.
You shouldn't expect anything wonderous from Wonder Trade, but it's all the better when you finally get something awesome.
 
Teal said:
That's an absolutely horrible idea. Do you think you would be getting IV Pokémon if there was such a limitation? No. Like I'm about to trade away a box of breeding recejcts. Some are 5 IV mons. But they are all Bulbasaurs. There would be no point in Wonder Trade if there was any kind of limitation at all.
You shouldn't expect anything wonderous from Wonder Trade, but it's all the better when you finally get something awesome.
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Well, they were just some thoughts. I'm not gonna be devasted or anything if Wonder trade doesn't change or anything. We were just talking about the PSS and I thought Wonder trade could use something to lessen the spamming. But thats just my opinion. I'll admit they aren't the best solutions. Just spouting out alternative ideas to the wonder trade tiers I've heard others suggest.
 
There should be an option to communicate with other trainers while trading. It's very frustrating to try and make the other player understand what you want (or not) and many people end up dropping from the trade in frustration. I would put at least a list of helpful phrases and words that can help traders interact better and communicate better. I admit it is way better than it used to be tho so I'm not complaining, but it would be very nice if it gets some improvement.
 
My only real gripe is the fact that you can customize where your pause menu buttons are laid out, but for some reason they didnt let you customize the PSS's layout. It becomes a slight annoyance every time Im hatching eggs and I gotta switch from the Super Training screen (shows party) to the PSS, then hit the menu button, then change pages- just to get a damn O Power going. Minor gripe, but still....
 
Jaime Runt said:
There should be an option to communicate with other trainers while trading. It's very frustrating to try and make the other player understand what you want (or not) and many people end up dropping from the trade in frustration. I would put at least a list of helpful phrases and words that can help traders interact better and communicate better. I admit it is way better than it used to be tho so I'm not complaining, but it would be very nice if it gets some improvement.
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Definitely agree with this. I'm sick of having to use vague yes/no answers in trading, there needs to be better communication there.
 
A quick access button to one or two chosen O-Powers on the PSS main screen would be awesome.
 
Teal said:
A quick access button to one or two chosen O-Powers on the PSS main screen would be awesome.
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Yeah! something like what they did with repeals in BW2, when each time your time is up, a message will come saying "would you like to reactive last used O-Power ?" when its possible.
 
scattered mind said:
Teal said:
A quick access button to one or two chosen O-Powers on the PSS main screen would be awesome.
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Yeah! something like what they did with repeals in BW2, when each time your time is up, a message will come saying "would you like to reactive last used O-Power ?" when its possible.
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O-Powers take up a lot of energy anyway.

Also, since Secret Bases give out skills, I don't think they'll bring back O-Powers in this game. It'd be redundant.
 
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