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For the foreseen future, the electric hunts will also be melan hunts. I figure it'll take a while to get to wishforge anyway, so I might as well go all out. I don't really know what order to hunt the electric types. Thankfully the highest electric type is elekid at 6k, and it's pure electric. I should probably do the No Evo pokemon first, and then Easy Evo? Or try to alternate between 5k exp and the lower exp eggs? Hm. Maybe after magnemite, I'll do Togedemaru and get the steel badge out of the way. As for the other badges, there are luckily 8 types that don't have an electric dual type, and they end up matching up pretty well! I listed out all of the possible choices in the table. Here's the list I ultimately decided on:

• turtonator
• exeggcute
• sneasel
• croagunk

My thought process: 10k eggs are a "no" so the only dragon type left was turtanator, which crossed out fire. Croagunk is a 2k egg, so that took up fighting and poison. There's no dark/grass egg and I've already hunted snover (the only grass/ice), which left grass/psychic and ice/dark as the last two combinations. I'm glad I got this done now because it means that I can start looking for pairs and I know what I'm hunting for whatever type race team I end up on. c:

People keep talking about how the market is "crashing" or whatever. they keep using shinies as a reference point though, and I think that's kind of silly?? If people collect shinies/albinos for a collection, they're not going to keep buying the same shinies once they've got them. Like if you sell only one type of shiny, you're going to eventually run out of non-deltaing customers just because everyone who wants one to keep is keeping them. And if you never delta them yourself, or sell them to delta, then yeah, you're going to backlog and then see very little business. Especially when you don't accept mixed payments or trade with items lol. Not to mention that zc is just freely available? There are a lot of people willing to spend money on zc and then spend that zc within the site, which of course means that Hypermode is easier to obtain. I'm sure a lot of people would rather hunt the shinies they want, rather than pay someone else. Some people don't even necessarily want to collect shinies, but just want to hunt (like me). I just. don't see the argument of "but I used to be able to sell for [whatever number]" as a valid argument. There's more people and more currency, and with that means prices will go down for things that don't have an easy way to exit the economy. It's like when people complain that the Market (the actually site Market) is artificially inflated. People (or at least one person) are clearly willing to buy things at those prices, so is it truly 'artifical'? Not really. It's just matching demand. Same thing with shinies; they simply aren't that much in demand. There's probably more regarding the amount of people actually willing to spend currency in bulk. like shiny legendaries. they're expensive and the big spenders already have the ones they want, so the majority of customers left are people who cant afford them. anyways thats my blurb blehh Edit because I also wanted to say that a lot of the so-called ""solutions"" people are submitting are just band-aid fixes. Long term, they aren't going to do anything. Like deltas were put in to "get shinies out of the market" (which is something I see brought up a lot as a way to raise the price of shinies) but not everyone wants their specials delta'd. It works, but only insofar as people are willing. If people only want to sell to collectors, then they'll have to accept that their customer base and demand will be limited.

It's so obvious that when people say "the art staff should take the community's opinion into redesigns" they just mean "the art staff should cater to me". I do not, at all, trust people who say that, and I especially do not trust their opinions on design. "but pokemon are fantasy, they don't have to look realistic!!" do you... do you really think the melans are "realistic". do you really. Just, how do people get so entitled??? This is not your site!! You aren't happy? Leave omg. like Niet literally gave us the ability with site skins to change how pokemon look, if you don't want your melan to change, then use a custom site skin, and if you refuse to do that, then you really can't complain! Give feedback sure, but don't claim that redesigns are ruining the site or the economy lol bc theyre not. I have 0 sympathy for those stuck in the past.

First of all, I got pkrs 4 times. c: Total interactions right now is 85k. One was before I went to sleep, then 3 more times during my time zone's day. The first got me down to, I think, 50 adopts? With a x1.9 Shazi day too. c: The next 3 I used the lab's fairy eggs (v~wave tourney ;3) and the daycare, since 12% Perse let me buy some cheap daycare passes. So far I've adopted 193 eggs. Beyond eggs, I also used pkrs to evolve my magnemite hoard! Now I just need 200 or so electric evos instead of 860. I also got my steel badge upgraded to Titanium. My ghost badge is now Titanium as well, thanks to some evos from other people. I think the Life Wish game is going to get me enough gems to upgrade to the next level as well. c: Hunt Update! Now at 1262 hatched. Got the last two albinos I needed, and got to 30 shinies total (borrowed a shiny charm from someone today).

My plan originally was to hunt togedemaru after magnemite to get my steel badge the rest of the way up, but I'm thinking I should just do klink instead? Togedemaru is way too low of an exp egg for me not to get incredibly bored of it. I'd rather get a shiny charm+box before trying to do lower exp hunts so I can get a melan faster. Klink will also give me plenty of evo opportunities. Of course, this is assuming my type race team is steel lol. If it's not, then I'll just have to hope I get two more melans before then, so I can work on Wishforge for my team. Unless it's electric, in which case I either won't worry, or I'll choose a random electric type to hunt. Even if I get enough gems though, I still need to get relics. :/ I'm trying to find a balance between opening boxes and saving them to sell, but I think I should try to get zc for them so I can finally get a shiny box and charms, and still have enough for continuing HM and Uber. Hmmm. Maybe I'll just have to watch the market for cheap relics and start opening boxes once I actually have the gems.