I agree with the first rule.
The second rule, I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say. Are you sayingi that if we cheat to get to the island, but soft reset for the Pokemon legitimately, it doesn't count? Eh, I don't really mind that one. The only Pokemon I would truly do that for is Mew. I like it a lot, and if I soft reset for it legitimately, yet only cheated to get to the island, I wouldn't care if others thought it was illegitimate and didn't count it. I cheated to go to Faraway Island because I wanted it bad enough. I have it now, so I don't care what anyone else thinks.
The
current rules
forbid the use of teleportation/ticket hacks completely. I'm considering changing this to allow you to hack your way to Birth/Faraway Islands (
NOT Navel Rock) to soft reset for shiny Deoxys or Mew. (In the same vein, I'm considering the allowance of early Japanese D/P's Elite Four glitch to soft reset for shiny Darkrai/Shaymin.) This is strictly because there's currently
no way to get these Pokémon, short of having traveled up to halfway around the globe to visit one of Nintendo's parties, clearly unreasonable.
The reason I'm considering this is because I've been playing around with WMB for the DS as of late, and trying to track down the Old Sea Map program for the DS (from the Japanese Movie 9 promotion, and with no success) so that I can obtain Mew, possibly even a shiny one. I figured that the use of such a program qualifies as legitimate, seeing as it's signed by Nintendo and was created for that very purpose. The end effect, however, is the very same as if a savegame had been modified, which leaves me to consider that such may be acceptable, so long as it remains within the realm of how the game was intended to be played.
I'm only considering allowing this for the currently unobtainable Pokémon (read: Not Lugia/Ho-oh at Navel Rock, nor Lati@s at Southern Island (unless you have the E-card, of course)) to make the game fair. Others who are cautious not to cheat or simply don't have the means to do so may wish to obtain shiny Lugia/Ho-oh from XD/Colo the extremely long and extremely tedious way, and allowing teleportation to Navel Rock undermines their determination.
Another primary reason I'm considering this is because the third-generation's over. It's highly unlikely that Nintendo's ever going to give away any more third-generation unlockables again. Hence, those of us who didn't have a fair shot at the event Pokémon deserve one.
Lastly, I think I should keep the fourth-generation out of this new rule. I probably won't allow for teleportation hacks on D/P, simply because we have yet so see how Nintendo will handle events in the fourth-gen. It's entirely possible that they may do something fair like provide the tickets over wi-fi. Plus, seeing as
no one, not even those living in Nintendo's backyard, have access to the event Pokémon yet, there's no unfair misbalance. It's not that Nintendo gives these things out in events that's the problem, it's how inaccessible these events are for most of us.
1825 Beldums seen. I recently soft reset over an Adamant one with Flawless Attack.