I do not agree with the people who say shinys are easy to find. I pay for a membership, which means my rate is supposed to be 1/2048. I have only ran into an S Tentacool in vermillion and a S Parasect in Cerulean Cave. And I know I've encountered way more than 7000 pokemon. That's ridiculous. And I've only ran into one HR, and that was a stinking Gyarados that I could've obtained easily by catching a magikarp and evolving him. If anything, the VR HR and Shiny rates need to come down. At least on the more popular pokemon. I know this is nothing like the gameboy games, and everyone tells me this game is supposed to be harder to keep you playing, but it shouldn't be that hard to find a normally common pokemon like Mantine. It also shouldn't be so hard to find a Pikachu. In the nintendo games I never had to search anywhere near as long inthe viridian forest or the power plant to find a pikachu. Yes they didn't show up as much, granted, but they weren't almost impossible to find. Same can be said for Staryu and other common pokemon that magically are scarce in this game. It needs to be brought down. If the shiny rate is going to go up, then fine, but bring the VR and HR rates down to a more reasonable rate. It's a fair compromise I think.