[suggestion] Rename pokémon with IV-value

[groveld]

Is it possible to auto rename Pokémon to contain their IV values in their name?
Like Rattata_15-7-13 or something like that?
It would give you some nice feedback if you pick the game back up to see which Pokémon to evolve after a night of candy farming ;)

[asnelzin]

Like it.

Can make a PR.

[vkamathb]

+1 for this.
Makes sense and easy to recognize.

[groveld]

I've seen that NecroBot uses this too, but has it notated as a percentage (0-100).
I don't know if this is the better notation, but merely an example.

[douglascamata]

Big names are not allowed.

[asnelzin]

@douglascamata you are correct. There is a max limit of 12 characters in a nickname, but you can use something like: 45, 12/12/12

[VictorChen]

could we keep the original name but just append the IV next to it? eg: Zubat (85)

[asnelzin]

@VictorChen with some names (e.g. «Hitmonchan») it will be more than 12 characters.

[VictorChen]

could we truncate the name (if it's too long) and then append the IV?

eg: Hitmonc (85)

[TianCNCA]

We don't need to keep the original name as they're useless information.

[asnelzin]

We can make "renaming_format" setting in config to manually set this.

[groveld]

@TianCNCA True... But is still looks nice :)
we can even drop the special chars, so it looks like "Hitmoncha 85"

[BobbyWibowo]

Please make this optional (changeable from config file, probably). I'd like to monitor the IV from OpenPoGoWeb and keep the Pokemon's original name instead.

[VictorChen]

keeping the original name will allow sorting by name to work and make it easier to go back to the original name (by removing the iv)

[MatthewARoy]

Ah thanks Bobby. Is there currently a way to view the IV's after they've been caught, as per your comment?

[MatthewARoy]

Or, as a side option, automatically star any pokemon with IV's over X. Easy to sort through then.

[BobbyWibowo]

I monitor the bots with the web client. In the Pokemon listing, you can already see each Pokemon's IV there (you can also sort by IV). If I want to evolve some Pokemon manually, I will just keep the web client open, temporarily turn off the bot, then open the app from my phone. After that, it's just as simple as finding the same Pokemon with the same CP and/or HP (highly unlikely to find duplicate anyway).
And if I don't feel like evolving manually, well, I had already set my bots to always evolve all Pokemon with CP above 500.

[johnw424]

There is already a sort by Pokemon name option in the app.
+1 for the simplest solution: rename Pokemon to IV - Str,Def,Stam (i.e. 100-15,15,15)

[asnelzin]

@johnw424 +1. There is a sort by id too, so it's safe to use the simplest solution.

Do we need to rename all existing pokemons on the start or only captured ones?

[VictorChen]

Sort by pokemon name isn't going to work if you rename it to like 100-15,15,15. If I want to search for the highest iv psyduck for example, I could sort my pokemons by name, and then look for psyduck, much easier.

[groveld]

Just make it 2 variables, one for the name of the Pokémon and one for the IV value and make a config option. if you tell the code to keep it to a max of 12 chars, then you can do everything you want. ex. {0} would be Hitmonchan and {1} would be 85, so you could do something like {0}_{1} which would look something like Hitmoncha_85.
This way you keep the config at {0} so it doesn't get renamed, or {1} for the simplists ;)

[TianCNCA]

I have been playing with the api's nickname_pokemon call but has no success, anyone know why?

[johnw424]

@VictorChen @groveld
Sort by Pokemon ID (different than sort by name) already exists in the app.
For example, let's say you have two Psyducks. If you change their names to "100-15,15,15" and "0-0,0,0", you can use sort by Pokemon ID and see all of your Psyducks together.
This has 3 benefits:

1. Compare all Psyduck IVs together when you sort by Pokemon ID
2. Compare ALL pokemon IVs together when you sort by Pokemon Name
3. Avoid name string length issues

[VictorChen]

@johnw424 Yes you can sort by ID, but it's still hard to find Psyducks for example (how far to scroll?) If it was sorted by name, you can easily determine whether or not you've scrolled too far

[reddivision]

implemented in #1850

[reddivision]

See the Configuration Files wiki page (specifically the Pokemon Nicknaming section) for usage information