User blog comment:SolariusFlare/Considering the Chaos Emeralds/@comment-3190872-20130502194246

I disagree with this, though not entirely. Flash had suggested on another blog a single roleplay continuity for the skilled, veteran roleplayers. In such a situation, this idea would do wonders. However, not everybody would be involved in this, in which case the location of the Emeralds should be up to whoever runs each individual roleplay.

Not only that, but finding the Emeralds would be much more liklely than winning the lottery (depending on which lottery, actually). After they scatter, depending on which sorts of canon people prefer, the Emeralds would either return to the Special Zone or wind up in random locations around the planet. Normally the latter would make things very difficult, but there are ways to detect them, which makes finding them easier. Plus, though this has never been officially confirmed, numerous sources has made it so that one Emerald remains in the general location they were used after scattering, so that's one less Emerald to scour for.