Marcello

Honestly, I'm not surprised by this as I've seen a few instances of this happening already and it's going to keep happening. I don't honestly care either way what happens to online since I don't really use it. I get why people like it as it's technically more genuine, but with the whole "OMG it's so cool to hack Pokemon in" stuff going around it's not like much besides online battling will be lost. Do what you gotta do to not make this stressful Marc.

@Wolfox If the server is taken down, that means all online functions will cease including battling and not just trading. Also, I doubt it's just one person doing it, but it does only take one to ruin something.

the main reason I only mentioned trading is that, to my knowledge, that is the online feature used most and would, from my point of view, be the bigger loss as Showdown is still a thing.

Unless you can somehow prevent unobtainable pokemon to enter the trade, you're not going to prevent shit. Game is free for everyone and not just forum users. No threat about the offline server is going to stop someone who is not even here to read it (who says he or she even cares?).

I'm sure you've got more sense than to 86 the feature you worked hard to create because of this minor thing. I'm glad you care enough to try something but dear me this leads nowhere. Perhaps you're just angry at this moment?

Who the hell wants unobtainables and legendaries anyway? Isn't that the whole point of this game, to play with the best thing you can get? Besides everything will be but in eventually anyway.

By the way having a trade system from the start of the game is also stupid as fuck but that's another matter and my personal opinion.