With tomorrow's merge we'll change catch rates of diamond to x1,5 and pokemon's experience to x1,5. Such change won't apply to places like POI (maybe to something else if we decide about it). It will probably happen with tomorrow's merge, but I don't promise.
I would also highly appreciate if you would stop to talk about things you have no idea about. Platinum was used to test many stuff for a quite long time. That's something that players cannot notice until crash or constant freezes (due to reload) are happening. Thank you.
Sorry for the part about tests then. I just have never seen people complaining about technical issues on platinum, also I heard about tests being made at Clone server. That's why I thought you prefer to test things outside of normal worlds if you can do it without interrupting players gaming experience. I will try to not speak such things if I'm not 100% sure.
Thanks for your decision about rate change, I hope everyone will enjoy it, even Cpadde (maybe you can now lvl up your Shiny Stantler not only showing how nice it is at lvl 100 after candy diet).
@NandoCruise
Believe me or not but we have a lot of newcomers on diamond. I help them realy often and these are people of all kind. There are guys who come back after a long retirement, they just ask for pokes thats true. But I also have seen many true newcomers, who see this game for the first time and don't know how to use basic things. The point is that they usually stop playing after 1-2 weeks, reaching lv. 30-40, rarely 50+. No matter how much you help them, 99% will quit at low lv. when they can't even experience how cool this game realy is. I don't know whats the problem and how to fix. I also have no idea how are newcomers on platinum, if they stay or longer or not.