Empherical evidence against crosswalk method
I know I totally disproved this in an earlier post. So I'm going to take my own advice and try to prove the CW method in order to disprove it (I know freaking crazy).
In order to show that your walk cycle does not influence the amount of shinies you find, I used three possible methods in the friend safari and encountered for 20 minutes, switched methods by going into another safari.
My encounter rate was roughly the same, and I made sure to follow it to a T. I tried my best to remove bias from this experiment, and I made sure the rough encounter were equal. It was slightly less in cross walk, since walking encounters less and I have to pause to make sure I was 'doing it right'.
First 20 Minutes:
Method used: Circle pad (Random movement) + Bicycle
Safari: Normal (Lilipup, Minccino, Eevee)
Shinies found: 1 (Encounter 34- Lillipup)
Second twenty minutes:
Method used: Cross walk
Safari: Fire (Charmeleon, Growlithe)
Shinies found: 0
Third Twenty minutes:
Method used: Crosswalk
Safari: Water (Gyarados, Krabby, Frogadier)
Shines: 0
Fourth twenty minutes:
Method used: Random walking
Safari: Dark (I apologize, I can't remember which ones were in it :/)
Shines: 0
Fifth twenty minutes:
Method used: Bike random movement (I made sure there was no pattern)
Safari: Dragon (Gabite, Dragonair, Sliggoo)
Shines: 1 (Encounter 3, Shiny Gabite)
Sorry guys, this one is a dud. This would be acknowledged by gamefreak if this was real, but it hasn't and unfortunately won't. Just encounter randomly while doing other things, and don't let your brain power go to waste. I by no means am attaching those who invented this, I just want people to please stop spreading things without basis or evidence from the game company or from the code.
