Solved DITTO PARTY

[Tim Dargan]

Not sure if it was part of the new update (or an accident) but the only pokemon I encounter on route 34 is ditto now. It gives good exp. but I was kinda hoping to catch an abra and that can't happen during a ditto outbreak so does anyone know anything that could fix this problem?

 

[Daziman]

it's all about luck
Check out the wiki:
http://pokemon3d.net/wiki/index.php?title=Route_34

 

[Tim Dargan]

Yes... and encountering 10 dittos in a row when they have a 5% encounter chance is definetly luck

 

[Darkfire]

actually this is a typo from nilllzz
dittos currently have a 100% probability of being picked

 

[Daziman]

i'm sure that the random properties of the game are a little bit wrong...

 

[Tim Dargan]

oh...huh....so.... are they gonna like...change that someday?

 

[Darkfire]

I just checked the .poke file for route 34
here's what it says

{0|19|35|-1|11,13}
{0|96|50|-1|10,12}
{0|63|10|-1|10,10}
{0|132|100|-1|10,10}

 

[Tim Dargan]

Wow... that's... pretty amazing. Uh, what's it mean - like - could I change something on my computer to fix the problem?

 

[Daziman]

actually this is a typo from nilllzz
dittos currently have a 100% probability of being picked

Yeah, you are right:
{0|19|35|-1|11,13}
{0|96|50|-1|10,12}
{0|63|10|-1|10,10}
{0|132|100|-1|10,10}
Now ditto has 100/195 probability to appear, like 50%

 

[Daziman]

Wow... that's... pretty amazing. Uh, what's it mean - like - could I change something on my computer to fix the problem?

Yes, you can change the file: Pokemon\maps\poke\route34.poke for this:

{0|19|35|-1|11,13}
{0|96|50|-1|10,12}
{0|63|10|-1|10,10}
{0|132|5|-1|10,10}

 

[Darkfire]

the way nilllzz explained it to me once was that the game picks a pokemon at random
picks a random number
checks it that number is less than the "rate of appearance" if not it picks a different pokemon and repeats untill it gets one
right now ditto will appear as soon as it is randomly chosen
you can get other pokemon assuming they come up first and the value is less than theirs

 

[Tim Dargan]

It says I don't have a correct program to open the route34.poke file... should I use notepad to try and open it?

 

[Darkfire]

with this game always notepad(though i recomend downloading notepad ++ and using it instead of notepad for everything )

 

[Daziman]

notepad is fine

 

[Tim Dargan]

Hey! I changed it with notepad......(++)..... and it works now! So thanks to both of you for helping me eliminate the ditto outbreak!