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I don't know if this has been suggested before or not. If it has then sorry.

I was thinking there could be an NPC that was the opposite of the Gem Collector.

You give him your unwanted pokemon and he gives you points for each one towards a Gem of that pokemon type. Points vary depending on rarity and Evolution.
So, a Caterpie will give you Bug points.
Weedle gives you both Bug and Poison points.
A Metapod and Butterfree would give more points than a Caterpie. (Maybe a Metapod more than a Butterfree since it won't stay a Metapod for long with how quickly bug types evolve?)
A Shiny/Megable/Event pokemon would give more points than a normal pokemon.

Different Gems need more points than others.
A Grass Gem will need less points to earn than a Dragon Gem.

You Cannot sell a pokemon holding an item.
You Cannot sell a pokemon up for Auction
You Cannot sell a pokemon in your battle team
You Cannot sell a pokemon that is on a Rumble Mission
You Cannot sell a pokemon that is at the GTS
Standard rules. Same as anywhere else on the site.

The Gems would have to be valued high enough not to make gems worth less by making them more common, but low enough to not make this section pointless with how easy it is to get gems elsewhere.

This would give people a way to get rid of excess pokemon faster than selling them at the auction house and is a better way of dumping them than simply releasing them, which earns you nothing. It would be especially useful for people who are shiny hunting and hatching pokemon faster than they can sell them, but don't want to release them for whatever reasons. And would allow new users to afford pokemon at the Gem Collector sooner, rather than having to level up different rumble areas so sending pokemon out actually brings back Gems.

Obviously Gems would still be available at the Rumble Areas but you can also get money, berries, keys, mystery boxes and other things from there so it wouldn't decrease the value of the Rumble Areas since the new section only offers Gems and not everything else.

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Ok..I give no support.

1. There are users who collect many Pokemon, whether left over from hunts, or just a stack. (I myself have many Spinda and Petilil). So even if it took a lot of points to get one gem it would still greatly devalue gems, since i'm sure some users have 500-1000+ Pokemon that they could just give away for gems. And if Riako made it so you needed a lot of points for 1 gem, nobody would use the feature. I see no middle ground between it being so cheap that it will devalue gems, and that it would be expensive that nobody would use it.

2. Shiny mega hunts. Users would have many, many shiny/mega-able Pokemon left over from shiny mega hunts, since the shiny Pokemon (like Magikarp for example), are really not worth much, people could trade in those shinies for more gems- which would further decrease the value of gems. (This could decrease the value of both gems and shiny Pokemon, which are already becoming more and more common.)

3. You say that we get points from Pokemon that we can then trade in? Wouldn't it be too confusing to add a whole new type of currency, even if it was just for trading gems?

4. You can already do this. If you put a Pokemon on the GTS and ask for gems you will get gems. So I don't see a point in adding this, if people can do it already.

But this was a very well-explained suggestion! : D

No Support
Sorry, but I agree with Lemon

This suggestion has received less than 60% support and was moved to rejected.

Total votes: 22
Support ratio: 40%

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