Why are people so terrible with remote trading?
So I'm a relatively casual lvl 75 player and so far I've become Forever Friends with about 10 people in the game. The first one was a good one: got a shiny Yveltal for my shiny Ho-oh of which I had 3 but no shiny Yveltal yet, with lucky friends it became a lucky 91% IV.
However, every single forever friend after that falls into one of two categories:
- They don't have any Pokémon marked for remote trading
- They request something that's totally not in line with what they're offering
All of them are level 70+ with 2 level 80 players and one exception, a level 65 player. So while the latter one might be not that familiar with it, I simply cannot fathom why level 70+ and especially level 80 players are requesting Pokémon much better than what they're offering.
For example: yesterday I became FF with a lvl80 player and he immediately started a remote trade request and requested my shiny Zapdos, which is fine, but then I go look into his insane 500+ tagged remote trade mons and there's not a single shiny legendary! Only regular legendaries or when looking for shinies it's all base level shinies such as Pikachu, Charmander, Litten, so on. So I reject that trade request and start a new one, I ask for 3 regular legendaries and expecting him to choose similar, he does not and again requests my shiny Zapdos. I mean: didn't you get the hint when I refused it?
And the other lvl 80 player and 3 other 70+ players have nothing marked for remote trading at all! What's up with that? For a few of them, I've been waiting for a few weeks already, thinking they might've forgotten or I was maybe the first one and they still need to prepare, but still nothing.
I mean, I wouldn't mind trading some more regular stuff but make it at least a little like-for-like. So don't request a shiny legendary if you haven't got one to offer yourself. Or at least get the hint when I request regular legendaries after rejecting your trade request.
I'm officially done with this because purely based on remote trading, apart from that first one, it seems like the rest is either plain stupid or an a-hole in how they keep requesting the same very good pokémon while offering nothing in return. I feel like there should be an option/filtering system in which you can set something like categories and whether you want Pokémon to be equal, so a shiny for a shiny or legendary for legendary or shiny legendary for shiny legendary, meaning that if they choose a shiny legendary from me, they get the message they will have to select a shiny legendary to offer in return as well. Because who in their right mind is going to give away a shiny legendary that most often is the result of many many many raids and often real world money that's been put into the raid passes and then accept a regular legendary in return? And it's fine if you don't have a 2nd/3rd shiny legendary or a bad IV one to trade, but then don't request/expect one for your non-shiny legendary.
