So here's an idea for a trade system.
First of all, I don't really care about trading, for me it's all about the player vs player battles. Absolute.
Secondly, we need to keep in mind that spoofer and account hoarders are the likely reason why trading hasn't been introduced yet. So keeping that in mind, you have to think about how to minimize their abuse.
With that, I suggest that trading go like this:
-Only *ONE* trade between any two accounts
-Each pokemon may be traded only *ONCE*
-Both pokemon/players have to be traded at the same time while within range of a gym.
This will do a few things. It may not eliminate the full "advantage" multi-accounters have, but it severely reduces their options to a single pokemon trade.
The reason for a pokemon to be able to be traded is to prevent daisy-chaining to get around this loop-hole. In reality, how often do you need to trade a pokemon anyway?
Thirdly, this'll put some value on who and what you're trading, adding more of a value and thought into to each trade instead of just mindless trading.
Lastly, this may be another layer of rarity that will be placed upon the pokemon, "is it 'pure?'" players may ask.
TBH, I wish Niantic would do anything clever at this point.
What do you think?
I think if trading ever happens, its going to require the Ninentdo Switch and be done through the upcoming game.
I don't suspect Ninatic will care about Multi-accounters because they generate income and are way way too hard to tell difference between Family/Friends and people logging in other people accts.
I do suspect Ninatic will care about Spoofers. Hence the requirement of a switch.
How will the switch help exactly?
You're wrong in that Nintendo/Niantic don't care about multi-accounters, not directly at this point anyway...
But if you ARE allowed to transfer endlessly, then all the spoofer accounts will be able to transfer their pokemon to their other safe non-spoof account. That's a problem.
Because you have to be physically present to use the Switch's controls.
Think about what I am saying: If the switch allows you to LOG IN to your pokemon go acct, you'd have to enter the Gmail, the faceblook, or the PTC acct.
So the only thing a spoofer can give you is the whole acct access, not a single pokemon.
In essence, you wouldn't be able to "Give 1 pokemon" but literally have to give either complete access to your acct (and risk that is) OR be there yourself to use the controls.
I don't like the idea of trading, but if it has to be introduced, one pokemon should be traded against another, to be agreed by both players, and both players pay like 1000 coins (or CP-dependant amount) to Niantic to complete the transfer.
That way there is no net benefit to be made by one player over the other, or by multi account users.
Yes, the whole point of trading is to create a win-win situation. I trade one of my four good Kyogres for your Raikou, since I have no Raikou, and you're weak in Kyogre. Or if mommy account wants to trade a Rayquaza to kid account for a pidgey, well, that's her right.
I do like the idea of one trade per pair of accounts and one trade per pokemon. That way one can't create shell accounts to send several pokemon from one trainer to another. Well thought out, but would require a lot of bookkeeping by the game.
One other thought, though. My pal D collects perfect pokemon. I feel a 100% is just a hair better than a 98%. So I'd happily trade him a single 100% for two 91-98% pokemon, including possibly the same species of the 100% I traded him. For example, I trade him 100% Hariyama for a 96% Hariyama and a 93% Raikou (He has plenty of those). I'm happy because for a tiny downgrade in Hariyama I get a strong Raikou. He's happy because he gets another 100%. Any sane trade system should allow this to happen somehow. This works because we all value things differently, and trading can help us all maximize our own valuation of our team. Thoughts?
People will just use disposable alt accounts to get around this idea.
I continuously propose just hard-cutting the levels of all traded Pokemon back to an arbitrary one (level 20 sounds good to me) to undermine back-and-forth trading and deter multi-accounters from getting all of their collective best species into a single account or spreading their forces among several accounts.
What do I mean exactly? Let's say Account 1 (A1) wants to trade a level 40 perfect Rayquaza to a second Account (A2) in exchange for a pidgey. My suggestion would drop the both the Rayquaza's and Pidgey's level to 20. This way, both accounts get the Pokemon they wanted but the dust and candy spent are lost and whoever got the Rayquaza has to spend resources on it all over again. This seems fair in my book. Level 30-40 Pokemon should always get level-nerfed during a trade.
I'm not sure what you mean. What will they do to get around "this idea"?
It's maybe not a bad idea to drop the level a little bit though. If you trade a level 40, it'd go to 35. Still requiring a moderate amount of resources to power it up; going by the assumption it wasn't yours to begin with). Maybe setting the low at level 20.
