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Trading System is Bad

Gennikins
Gennikins Member Posts: 1 ✭
in General Pokémon TCG Pocket Discussion #1

The existing trading system is bad. It should be a self-contained system, rather than posting what you actually want on a forum. It's so bad that my 5-year old gave me a speech on how terrible it is.

The fixes are easy:

* trade screen → allow marking of cards you are willing to trade
* trade screen → a search function where you can filter / search for specific cards you are looking for
* clicking into a card shows how many cards have been made available to trade
* clicking one shows the cards the donor is looking for
* game shows you a list of cards you have that the donor is looking for, matched on their list and rarity
* select the card you are willing to trade
* profit

Now people can build the decks / collections they want rather than fumbling around in the dark. As a bonus, there's still no player to player messaging required.

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  • Darkwolfyyy
    Darkwolfyyy Member Posts: 2
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    #2

    Agreed

  • DoubleCure
    DoubleCure Member Posts: 3,245
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    #3

    Trade shouldn't even be released in the first place without similar features you mentioned.

    The current trading system is literally the worst trading system I ever saw by far. It's completely illogical to say the least.

  • Chalven
    Chalven Member Posts: 11
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    #4

    I find it as an "Intresting" (mostly in a bad way) even though i have not used the feature

  • Darkwolfyyy
    Darkwolfyyy Member Posts: 2
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    I try using it with existing friends and each trade is always denied. At one point I noticed that the default setting is to not accept trades from others. Makes no sense. Many people probably have it disabled as well.

  • gadoschi1991
    gadoschi1991 Member Posts: 32
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    #6

    Trade system improvements that are absolutely necessary:

    -allow players to trade much cheaper or for no cost at all (if they're afraid of alt farming, they can introduce restrictions to trading like minimum level or cards obtained),

    -allow trading or higher rarity cards - it sucks so hard to have a crazy rarity of a card you don't even use, and it sucks even more having multiple copies of that card

    -allow players to trade dust high rarity cards regardless of the number of copies owned (I can't tell you how many useless high rarity cards I own that I require just 1 more copy of to be able to dust one)

    -allow trading without having to become friends first (or allow trade offer inclusion together with friend invitation)

    -allow player messaging in the actual game - why on Earth would I have to go on a forum to find a trade in 2025?

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