So if PvP battling will be remote for ultra and best, shouldn't trading also be remote? I don't get to see my in game friends as often as I would like and this would be a much more efficient option. Especially for people like me who delete most pokes and keep a storage around 800. Would be nice to catch and instantly trade. Thoughts?
Would make it altogether too easy to get all the regionals, and any legendaries that are confined to a region. Maybe with best friends over a range of 10-100 km, but not worldwide.
I wouldn't be surprised if spoofers aren't already using their spoofing tech to trade with people far away. Don't think legalizing it would be good for the game.
Yeah I suppose. I have built a large network of people to raid/trade with and a lot of them also travel for business so it has been somewhat easy for all of us to get regionals. I figured most people have the same.
I don't think remote trading would be a game changer though. You would still need friendship with these people over time. It wouldn't just be finding randos online to trade with. Way too expensive.
I guess the only reason I could think of for this to not be implemented is it would be too easy for people to be dicks about it and sell access to spots on their friends list. The way trading was designed was to avoid people making profit through it by selling things like high-IV Pokemon (rerolls) and legendary or shiny Pokemon (special trades, prohibitive dust costs for new entries).
Don't get me wrong, I'd be in favor of this. I'd like to be able to trade with people higher up on my friends list without having to meet up somewhere and I don't see anything wrong with getting hard to obtain regionals like Relicanth or Pachirisu this way. Opening trading up like this creates an avenue for a black market of sorts to develop in a way that can't for remote PvP.
I feel like thats the next logical step. I hope niantic does add long distance trading, if they do, i could see them nerfing it somehow, maybe balance it out by making it more expensive dust wise or boost the threshold of distance for bonus candy.
Most people trade for 3 reasons for the most part; luckies, regional dex filler and grinding for candy.
Though I don't do it particularly often, trading in person is a positive aspect of the game which I wouldn't really like to see diminished.
I can potentially can see remote trading happening if they restricted the distance (within the same general region), some kind of additional cost/penalty to the trade (e.g. more stardust, reduced distance candy, etc.), a further limited number of trades per day, and perhaps even disallow special trades. Certainly restrict it to Ultra and Best friends like PvP.
