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Hi I would like to ask what you guys think of the easy hatch code for d/p. Do you guys use it? Or perhaps the insta-egg code? these are two seperate questions so please answer each one accordingly. Is there a general consensus on this? If so please be so kind as to inform me thanks

to the mods: I am sorry if things like this is unallowed(I have read the rules 3 times over and can't find a rule that prevents one from asking this question besides the stupidity -_-;)anywys if it is not allowed then please lock this thread and I apologize again.
 
Easy Hatch - Its useful and doesn't make stuff take that long.Useful for breeding projects you need to get done fast.

Instant Egg - Don't like it.If your parents don't like each other much but they have great IVs,I think it would be appropriate.But don't make pokemon that are impossible to breed together,breed-able.

Eww,image 2 male Medicham or something.EWW!
 
I think that using any type of cheat like that is unfair. It makes breeding mass amounts of pokemon too easy, allowing them a better chance at the IV's they're looking for.
 
the thing that should really be discussed is checking a pokemons ivs before hatching them. This can speed up breeding ALOT and IT DOESNT affect the pokemon but some people dont like this because they dont have an AR. Also, we cant tell if someones using instant egg or egg hatch, unless we have a camera folowing htem everywhere but these codes dont affect the pokemon, its just a matter of ethics
 
Using something to make the eggs hatch alot faster is definitely cheating and should be stated in all breed threads if they used it.
 
Either is a shortcut to breeding things which makes your breeding faster and easier than someone else's who does not employ either. For that reason I consider it to be the same as hacking all-31 Pokemon to breed and similar expedients. Thus, I wouldn't do it. I don't much care if other people do, but I wouldn't really want to trade with them because it makes me feel odd to trade something I spent like 72 hours on for something someone else spent ~40 minutes on.
 
i dont have an AR but even if i did i wouldnt use either of those codes. it just seems like cheating. same with checking egg iv's before they hatch.
 
CipherPol said:
I think that using any type of cheat like that is unfair. It makes breeding mass amounts of pokemon too easy, allowing them a better chance at the IV's they're looking for.
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I agree.

I've spent 3 days working on getting a Magikarp with great IVs, and I don't think it's very cool if someone just hacks a Magikarp with 31/31/31/31/31/31 on their DS. >_>

But, I don't really care, so long as your honest about the hacks when you trade them.
 
But you can't tell if someone did it or not, so it's just a matter of moral.

Btw, it's not as easy as hacking as you'll need good parents and everything, tough it's still completely unfair.
 
i think, its completly unfair to hatch your eggs in 6 steps and check their ivs before hatching because i would hate to trade with someone that spent like less than one hour breeding for a pokemon and i spent more than 2 weeks working on one.
 
Miltonic said:
i think, its completly unfair to hatch your eggs in 6 steps and check their ivs before hatching because i would hate to trade with someone that spent like less than one hour breeding for a pokemon and i spent more than 2 weeks working on one.
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the problem is, a pokemons value is in its ivs, not how much time is spent breeding it. Also, people can lie about this stuff and say, "OH man, it took me hours to breed"...eha
 
Well then, by that logic a Pokemon bred from a hacked 31/31/31/31/31/31 Ditto and a 31/31/31/31/31/31 -insert other parent here-, checked before hatched, and hatched in 6 steps is worth as much as one that has the same IVs but was obtained legitimately.

If we're at that point in our thinking, it almost becomes safe to say that outright hacking a Pokemon with the same IVs is worth as much at which point one might ask why we breed at all anymore.
 
Stefywefy215 said:
the problem is, a pokemons value is in its ivs, not how much time is spent breeding it. Also, people can lie about this stuff and say, "OH man, it took me hours to breed"...eha
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yeah true, i guess i have mixed feelings about it, but its still unfair for people to be hatching eggs in 6 steps.
 
hacking parents to breed is very different from the point we are discussing right now. See with these boosters you still have to work hard for pokemon with good ivs, nature, etc. It just shortens the time spent and the boringness of breeding(don't get me wrong I like to breed) but it does sometimes become montonous.
 
I use fast egg hatching, because

A)the Pokemon is completely legitimate otherwise
B)pressing up and down on a d-pad for five minutes is boring, stupid and bullshitty, don't even try to argue that it isn't

There's no "reduction of difficulty" in it, because there's nothing difficult about hatching a Pokemon egg in the first place. I've simply shifted my breeding strategies from "puppy mill" to hatching, checking gender/nature/ivs and resetting.
 
It was intended to be related to what Stef said about the value being solely in the IVs rather than the time it took to breed which I took a step further into questioning whether or not method counts at all if the IVs are our sole concern.

Anyways, as I see it there are things which are 100% legit in every possible sense, obtained without the use of a cheat device and done using the intended game mechanics 100%.

And there is "hacked", which is artificially created entirely.

Between the two there are varying degrees, and everyone draws the proverbial line somewhere.

Some people are alright with using anything. At all.
Some people are alright with using anything as long as the stats are legit.
Some people are alright with minor pokesav alterations, such as lowering an IV by 1 to get a better hidden power or hacking on a tutor move that the Pokemon could get anyways in another version.
Some people are alright with hacking parents.
Some people are alright with making eggs appear faster, hatch faster, and checking them before they hatch.
Some people are alright with making eggs appear faster.
Some people are alright with making eggs hatch faster.
Most people are alright with clones.
Some people are not alright with exploitation of glitches and wish to play the game exactly and 100% as intended in every possible sense.

And honestly any person's opinions on the topics you've brought up are going to depend on where that person's boundaries are.
 
You can't really make people use or not use the code if they don't want to. It all comes down to what people perceive as 'alright' and 'not alright' as the above posted says.
And there's already been a topic like this.
 
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