A Nuclear Breeder/Day Care

[SmashyQ]

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The only solution to corrupt nuclear breeding I see is just making a child born from such an union have random IVs no matter what, with just nature and egg move being modifiable for them. Would be interesting see how people would react to that....

Hmmm... actually, in some ways that kinda makes sense.  Basically, that could be achieved by the Destiny Knot simply not working on them.  Since the radiation corrupts their minds and keeps them from bonding with people -- either their Trainer as they don't listen to commands, or Rangers as the Stylers don't affect them -- it only makes sense that the Destiny Knot (which also works on a bonding level) doesn't work on them either.

You could still transfer some IV's with the power items, but since you can't use the Destiny Knot, it would be nearly (if not entirely) impossible to create a perfectly IV-bred Nuclear Pokemon that way.

The Destiny Knot being rendered useless makes sense, and randomized stats would be kind of cool.

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I don't think it's likely to ever be possible to actually do it legibly in the future... This was brought up many times already and it has always been shut down so far. One of the main argument is that the main character is hailed by all as the hero who stopped the nuclear disease to spread further, it'd be pretty villainy, or at least, hypocritical of him/her to go breed Nuclear pokemon on purpose

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Already knew about the glitch. Feels...kind of wrong though to take advantage of it. Can't say exactly why, though.

Aahhh there is that. Sure we can breed hundreds of Jerbolta, Flager, Eevee, and dozens of other pokemon, and it has no impact whatsoever in-universe. (At this point, my character would have clogged the stream with Glaslugs and created a very serious Jerbolta problem for Legen.) But add in nuclear pokemon, rabid or not, and there's a problem.

The only thing I can think of that could justify such a hypocritical path, would be if there was a side quest involving Nep where you could indulge in being a little...gray on the morality meter.

It's late, so here's a quick example

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Let's say you meet Nep, and he introduces himself as a pokemon enthusiast. He asks if you have certain nuclear pokemon - cleared of infection, of course - which can only found in Power Plant Zeta. Due to the radiation in and around the place, though, he can't exactly waltz in there. You could choose to go get these pokemon for him, or note that you probably shouldn't be fetching such pokemon for anybody (except Bamb'o) and leave him be.

Should you give him the pokemon he asks for, he'll slowly start telling you things about himself. Where he's been, his interest in nuclear pokemon, being a breeder... If you ignore all of these signs that Nep is going to do something illegal, and get every pokemon he asks for, he will proceed to ask you some questions. Seeing as you're a local hero and celebrity, the quiz will regard your morality and opinions on breeding. Answer them and he'll decide whether or not to invite you to his illegal breeding post. As I mentioned in a previous post, perhaps you could have the chance to rat him out. Breed a single nuclear pokemon, however, and you'll have lost your chance for good.

Maybe your team has to be entirely made up of nuclear pokemon before he makes his final decision, too.

It's complicated, but Monkey's right: your character is lawful, and if you're going to hatch nuclear pokemon, you'll have to prove that you're ready to put aside your morals just this once for the sake of breeding. Unless it's alright to ignore all of that for something that won't actually impact Tandor in-universe. *shrug*

Will think on this some more later.