Yes, pay Mr. Visitor, the undisputed authority on all things involving Pokemon Video Games, no mind, in a discussion involving exactly that. Another classic Flaming_Spinich post; pointless like all the rest.
Honestly, trying to one-up me at my own game is as futile as, well, everything you've ever done toward me, ever, suprisingly enough. Keep your posts to yourself if you don't actually know what you're talking about.
Randomman:
Cloned pokemon ARE, in fact, cheated. By this I mean they are detectable by Nintendo at tournaments and will get you banned. Being as how i'm the authority on game boy tournaments (and soon to be DS tournaments), of course i'd know these things.
Now, considering Nintendo will ban you from a tournament just for having one in your game, how on earth could you consider handing them out to kids who don't know any better? I think it'd be a god awful shame to have a kid head off to a tournament, only to be kicked out for a hacked pokemon he didn't know he even had. It's a trojan horse. Wolf in sheep's clothing. You see where i'm going with this.
Hacked, Cheated, Cloned, whatever, passing them out to unknowing victims is absolute blasphemy.
Ripping kids off by trading them cloned shinies is a shameful act, looked down upon by all.
And finally, cloning ANYTHING rare ruins the economy of such a game. Imagine if each pack of cards you got at the DP pre-release had NOTHING but rare cards, holos, and Level X pokemon in them. You'd have armfulls of all these rare cards, but they'd be worth NOTHING because everyone else has them.
The entire trade economy of the Pokemon TCG would suddenly be torn apart. Same deal with the DS games. The more hacking, cloning, and cheating that goes on, the more the trading economy dies. My legit shiny pokemon won't be worth squat, because you'll have already cloned a million other shinies. And therefore, any effort I spend on getting rare pokemon for trade is pointless.
I'll have you know, i've been diligently breeding starters, rare pokemon, and other goodies for this upcoming diamond and pearl pre-release, to hand out FOR FREE. These things take time, and i've spent several weeeks now, hours at a time, breeding rare pokemon to GIVE AWAY FOR FREE. Granted, you could just spend a couple minutes cloning them, but then you're really just handing out garbage.
How do you think it makes people like me feel, when we put all this effort into acquiring piles of good trading material, when lazy people like you would rather just clone it? Or worse yet, the effort we put into these GBA and DS tournaments, the money we spend putting together good prizes for everyone, and have you come in and say our tournaments suck, and that we suck, and then try and set up your own tournament, only to try and give away FAKE pokemon?
We spend our time, money, and effort on these things, because we care and we want there to be something good and fun for everyone. You come in here and take a big dump all over it, and don't spend any money, time, or effort for your tournament that you're making SOLEY because you don't want to bother with the rules we've laid out, and because you're mad at SOMEONE else who ran a perfectly legit tournament under the circumstances he was given.
You can go ahead and ruin the trade economy if you want, I can't stop you from cloning, and I can't keep you from posting rude comments on here, but, if you think for one second you can run a tournament half as good as ours, you really are insane.
Real prizes, real competition, real fun. Only Team Rocket can bring you that.:thumb:
