Trumpet of Doom

You can catch Yamper (and maybe Boltund at, like, a 1% encounter rate) on Route 3.

Then don't have two Fletchlings. Have two Talonflames. That's what I did.

As far as this code is concerned, Gen 8 mons are no different from Gens 1-7 mons.

Here's the updated version I'm using. SWM - WildEncounterRates.rb

Yep.

Mods exist. But I agree, it would be convenient to have some sort of visual indicator in the vanilla game.

You can use it to farm Gen 8 mons just fine, the only change has to do with a few abilities. You know how Magnet Pull increases the rate at which you encounter Steel-types? Yeah, like, five other abilities now do similar things as of SwSh.

Needs to be updated to Gen 8, but otherwise, yes. Just don't do what I did and forget that you need a mon with either Run Away or a Smoke Ball in the first slot in your party in order for it to do anything. If you want, you can do the update yourself by copying over the necessary 15 lines from Scripts\PokemonEncounters.rb.

Well, some of them do, anyway... TypeBattleIcons is fine, and ShowStatBoosts is mostly fine except for the crit chance (but also somewhat redundant with V13's new features), but WildEncounterRates is very much not working. Those are the only ones I've been able to test so far.

Executable files made for Mac look very different, to computers, for executable files made for Windows. Your save files should copy over just fine.

If I'm reading this right, you should be able to use your V12 savefile in V13 just fine. The only problem comes if you take a V13 savefile and try to go back to V12 - that won't work.

Here's my preference order, with commentary: - In-thread with spoiler tags is probably what I'm most interested in. It gives me the flexibility to only see the sections I care about at any given time without having to skip through 400 screen lengths, and I imagine it's probably more data-friendly for mobile users (if lazy loading's been implemented, which I don't know if it has). - Between "in-thread with no spoiler tags" and Google Docs, I'd probably slightly prefer in-thread, just because it's one fewer click, but this is not a strong opinion either way. - There are some things for which Google Sheets is really good - if you've seen the spreadsheet for Reborn that lists every Pokemon's availability, that's a great example. It's easy to sort and easy to find what you're looking for. There are other things for which it is really terrible, and I expect that something like tracking karma points falls into this category.

"3 months from now"... *counts on fingers* September, October, November, December... Jan, are you zero-indexing something that doesn't need to be? Seriously, though, take all the time you need.

Try running it as an administrator?

The first post of the thread for the modpack (here) tells you which mods cause problems in the Safari Zone.