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Soloed a 12k Magmar with Coors Light the water dog and Bad Hombre the oymstar. Sweet.
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mastershakeman posted:Seems that 730 pm central is the cutoff for new eggs for raids to happen. Kind of interesting that niantic doesn't want raids going 24/7 Probably so some dumb gently caress doesn't wander out in the middle of the night for a Snorlax only to get stabbed for their smartphone.
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My local Facebook group is doing a great job of sharing where raids are and coordinating to meet up for 3 and 4 star raids. Problem: I can't stop buying raid passes as a result
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Jun 25, 2017 02:34
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It's a shame they didn't revamp the combat system too. Having 10+ people hold casual conversation while they mindlessly tap their screens kinda highlights how shallow it is.Ira Glass Jaw posted:So I put a Pokémon in a gym near me that doesn't get turned over very often, it's conceivable that my Pokémon won't be returned to me for a couple weeks. How does the coin thing work now? It's max 50 coins a day but only when it's returned to you, so after three weeks will I only get 50 coins? Away all Goats fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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mastershakeman posted:Seems that 730 pm central is the cutoff for new eggs for raids to happen. Kind of interesting that niantic doesn't want raids going 24/7 I got home from work around 9:15pm and saw a raid was happening at a gym near me. I was prepping to go, until I realized it's at a kids playground, and I felt a bit weird going to a kids playground at 915pm at night.
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Away all Goats posted:It's a shame they didn't revamp the combat system too. Having 10+ people hold casual conversation while they mindlessly tap their screens kinda highlights how shallow it is. Well that's lame
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People intruding in private areas and public parks after hours = Niantic headache. It was a big issue at the start.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Can Dragonites be gym bosses? Not right now, no. The tier 4 bosses currently are Snorlax, Tyranitar, Lapras, Rhydon, Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise.
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lmao we have a convoy of 4 cars totalling ten people going around doing level 4 raids right now hopefully i get a tyranitar tonight DEEP STATE PLOT fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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This update has really helped with the diversity of mons in the gyms around here, which is a big plus in my book.
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Welp I can't really do raids because I can't really handle sunlight. But at least they substantially upped the coins so I'm back at what I was pre-patch, so... patch is now an improvement, if a modest one. It'd be a big improvement if this place had a decent amount of gyms.
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 54½ hours and still going strong. It's not a great picture, but you can tell it's not some obscure bumfuck nowhere gym. It's literally in the middle of town. I soloed a two Bowser raid. It suggested 13 people which got me nervous, but nope. It was a 12k Exeggutor that I took down to half health with a Scizor, then a sliver of health with Charizard, Arcanine ate poo poo immediately and Houndoor plinked him with no effort. I could've done it with just two pokemon if I played better / was not so laggy. A three Bowser raid with a 21k Flareon however was impossible. We get water pokemon all over here so I went in with a team of six beefy river bros and I couldn't get it down past a third health. Did a third raid this time with another person. River Bros rinsed an 11k Magmar and the little DPS chart showed I did like 3x the damage of the other person who only used a Blissey. I don't like the 50 coins a day limit. Maybe if it was 50 coins per day per pokemon.
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endlessmonotony posted:Welp I can't really do raids because I can't really handle sunlight. Yeah, of all weekends for my area to hit 100 degrees. I walked three blocks to the grocery store and stayed the gently caress inside.
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I learned the hard way that you do not take on level 4 raids with only two people. We tried to fight a Snorlax, and completely failed, just ran out of time and got our raid passes eaten. Snorlax is the only gen 1 mon that I'm missing but man is beating one in a raid never going to happen.
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endlessmonotony posted:Welp I can't really do raids because I can't really handle sunlight. Pokemon: Vampire editions next year.
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there's this guy in my local group who's vehemently anti-spoofing and I swear the fucker never sleeps or he spoofs himself, and I don't know which option I prefer
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financially racist posted:My local Facebook group is doing a great job of sharing where raids are and coordinating to meet up for 3 and 4 star raids. I wouldn't do this. Droves of people are complaining about raid passes right now, so I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow changed them next week. I'd expect at least one of these to happen:
The current system is pretty broken since, if you're not coordinating outside the game, and play alone, you risk losing your pass(es) by stumbling upon raids you can't solo. As a result you're discouraged from raiding, which contributes to a vicious cycle of players avoiding raids and players who do want to raid not having enough teammates to do so. At the very least, I'd expect the number of raids to be hugely toned down, or the tiers to be level-gated, once the feature rollout is complete. That'd help solve the numbers problem.
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Eh IDGAF, out of college for the summer and ain't got much better to do. Also, got an Ampharos. Now all I need is an Unown and I have the entire Pokedex for my region complete.
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Yeah just buy the raid passes, there won't be as many people playing if you wait and they're probably going to decrease the number of raids after a while.kxZyle posted:I wouldn't do this. Droves of people are complaining about raid passes right now, so I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow changed them next week. I'd expect at least one of these to happen: This just sounds like wishful thinking. They'll probably increase the payout limit to 100 before they lower the price of raid passes. Also think of it this way: winning a raid battle gets you a level 20 pokemon with good IVs, similar to what you'd get from an egg, only fully evolved. Incubators cost 150, take a lot of time to get your pokemon, and you don't know what you'll end up getting. A raid pass is 100, you get your pokemon faster and you know what pokemon it is ahead of time.
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seiferguy posted:Raids are gonna be highly dependent on being in populated areas. I'm down in Seattle a lot but I dunno if my suburb area is gonna be good enough to bring out all the people to play for level 4 raids. Checking in from Mill Creek. We had a 4 bowser charzard pop up today and 10-12 people showed up. We managed to take it down. My gf caught it but I missed my chance at it. Broke out of 4 balls + golden raz. Did a raid last night and ran into a couple that did it before me. Ended up chatting with them for a coupe hours and turns out they were newly weds and recent transplants (husband is Navy). They mentioned they didn't know anyone in the area so we swapped contact info and went out to dinner tonight. It's nice meeting new folks and making new friends playing a dumb kids mobile phone game.
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:This just sounds like wishful thinking. They'll probably increase the payout limit to 100 before they lower the price of raid passes. You get three mons from an incubator vs. just one from a raid pass, though. And those three are guaranteed to hatch, while you may lose your 100-coin pass investment to an unwinnable battle. They don't necessarily need to drop the price, they just need to make passes a safer investment and/or more appealing. Make them last a whole day or something. In other news, I used a second Charged TM on my Gyarados and it went back to Outrage from Crunch. 
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I'm so excited to go to work next week to see how the raids on a college campus (in the summer) work out. I ended up losing my gyms all within 6 hours, so it'll be fun to see how quickly the raids get smashed.
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Well the new gym system has made it really easy to max out coins every day. Yeah it's only 50 coins but now people are less incentivized to sit in 20 gyms. All the yellow team poopsockers seem less interested in locking down all the gyms near my house now.
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Welp now that gyms and teams are almost worth doing I suddenly regret going Yellow. Guess I won't bother.
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Every spoofer account I've ever seen is yellow so just wait for them to go over your gyms
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There's a huge step up between 3 faces and 4 faces. I got a 3 face Machamp which 4-5 of us nailed, and honestly I think could have just about solo'd by someone with good psychic types, while 4 face was a ridiculously strong Lapras whose ice beam just never let up. Still cool to meet new people and put names to faces, though
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The new Gym system means my Pokemon actually stick around in gyms. Including one I freed up myself and thought wouldn't last too long. Guess other people propped it up, I'm still going strong 2 days later. Though it definitely makes sense to space your Pokemon out timewise with the 50 coin limit.
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Soarer posted:Checking in from Mill Creek. We had a 4 bowser charzard pop up today and 10-12 people showed up. We managed to take it down. My gf caught it but I missed my chance at it. Broke out of 4 balls + golden raz. Awww. That is wonderful to hear
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Just in case I'm a moron and have completely misunderstood - the only way to do multiple raids in a day is by buying extra passes from the shop, right? And, if so, is it possible to stockpile raid passes during the week to have multiple ones available on weekends?
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Steve2911 posted:Welp now that gyms and teams are almost worth doing I suddenly regret going Yellow. I teamed with some yellow infidels to take down a Tyranitar yesterday! One of the better things about raids is this mildly fixes team disparity.
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Julio Cruz posted:Just in case I'm a moron and have completely misunderstood - the only way to do multiple raids in a day is by buying extra passes from the shop, right? And, if so, is it possible to stockpile raid passes during the week to have multiple ones available on weekends? You can hold one free raid pass and unlimited premium passes. You can get one free raid pass per day, so if you have one already from the day before you can use it and still get a free one, limiting the amount of free raids you can do in a day to two.
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I'm honestly surprised they haven't done a raid pass bundle in the store to get people to think they're getting a good deal by bundling.
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The more I think about it the more well put together this update is and how targeted it is at ruining the game for spoofers (who manage to avoid detection via whatever Niantic is using to put the slash on their pokemon) Coins are easier to get now for your average player, but more difficult for a spoofer because you only get 50 per day and you don't have control over when you get them. At the same time they added a new sink for coins in the raid pass system, which also keeps spoofers from just hopping from raid to raid to gather up tons of desirable pokemon. Additionally the new system gives people a way to gently caress with spoofers by feeding their pokemon to keep them from returning. The only thing that really needs tweaking as far as I can tell is to have the raid pass only get burned when you enter the battle instead of just entering the lobby. Oh and the glitchly health bars in battle.
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For the people who error out just as you get to the raid boss: Apparently the countdown clock has to be properly synced to everyone else and not having this throws you out of the battle. I fixed it ( for my Samsung Galaxy S4 ) by going into time and date settings and turning on automatic time and date. Had no more errors after that and could kill a 1000cp Magicarp.
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Bear Retrieval Unit posted:The raid medal goes up to 1000, hopefully a silver medal would be enough Will my training badge sit forever at 977/1000 now that there's no prestiging? 
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SuperKlaus posted:Will my training badge sit forever at 977/1000 now that there's no prestiging? Yup. I have a level 40 friend who is very upset she has an incomplete badge she can never finish. Yesterday I got a Tyranitar raid boss. I was so ecstatic about getting 1 Fast and 2 Charge TMs I wasn't sad when the Tyranitar ran away. I went through three Machamps in that battle.
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Shifty Pony posted:The only thing that really needs tweaking as far as I can tell is to have the raid pass only get burned when you enter the battle instead of just entering the lobby. Oh and the glitchly health bars in battle. Yeah I wish I could see how many players are in the lobby before burning a pass.
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For raids (specifically L4), what is the best attacker you wish you had more of? I was never much of a gym person, but am loving raids so far. I'm not the best at figuring out who to use when, so I'm trying to get a feel of what I need to power up more or what I need to find/evolve.
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Boywunda posted:For raids (specifically L4), what is the best attacker you wish you had more of? I was never much of a gym person, but am loving raids so far. I'm not the best at figuring out who to use when, so I'm trying to get a feel of what I need to power up more or what I need to find/evolve. Machamp, Exeggutor (solar beam) and Alakazam are really useful now. edit: Machamp against Lapras, Snorlax, Tyranitar Exeggutor against Blastoise, Rhydon, Vaporeon Alakazam against Venusaur and Machamp (which is L3 raid but really good tho) Any water or rock type (Golem best) against the fire type raids DeadlyHalibut fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Investing in a good Golem will come in handy once the birds are released.
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