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Julio Cruz posted:Considering the number of people who are still bitching about ghosts and Dittos I really don't think putting every legendary behind the same system is going to go down well at all. Well ditto being a step is a bit bad too, since it's even more RNG dependent than a lot of things, but that research thing is also supposed to be a longer term goal, so it's okay if it takes a bit imo Like at the point where putting some thought into the game they improved gyms, daily research/rewards vs the old login bonus system, I don't see why EX raids can't be changed for the better too. Quick spitball: Instead of fixed location and day/time have them expire in a fixed amount of time, like 2 weeks or 30 days or whatever. Players then can opt in to activate them, you get a push notification "EX RAID ATTEMPT IN YOUR AREA" or whatever, when someone tries to start one, when a certain number of players opt in at that spot it starts a real countdown. The target and difficulty/rewards scale up with more opt ins, so it encourages the big 20 person group or whatever current EXs are tuned towards, but allow smaller ones/less population dense or off hours folks to still try and get something. Away all Goats posted:It's weird that regionals don't get this much hate/anger
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I bitch about ghosts and I'd still rather do research than raids. I live in a small town so there's never enough people to do a high level raid. I still don't have latias or ho ho or any of the big fancy ones and I've never even seen an ex pass
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Julio Cruz posted:Students, people who work nights, people within a mile of the raid who have lunch breaks, stay-at-home parents, self-employed people... considering the majority of raids are on weekends it's pretty loving stupid to bitch when one happens to be on a weekday. drat dude calm down, I make it work just fine but most people get them on the weekdays and people don't like that because they have normal jobs. Would you not agree that the majority of people work and go to school on a 8-5 or 8-3 schedule? I don't know who you got into an argument with about this but you seem really angry about a normal amount of people who chime in and agree that EX raids on a weekday is inconvenient.
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Went to a 1pm ex raid and mystic was way outnumbered by instinct. That's super unusual here in the bay area, so maybe that means something.
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Two 💯 Onixs in one day. I’m am blessed.
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Beachcomber posted:Went to a 1pm ex raid and mystic was way outnumbered by instinct. That's super unusual here in the bay area, so maybe that means something. Same. I was told American Canyon was overwhelmed by Instinct and had to see it for myself, which was cool, but means I can't put anything in the gyms with them. With bots down since March, all the community day results since then by Niantic said North America was predominantly Instinct so that's something. I'll always be outnumbered in my town though, but we're super stoked anytime we get a decent number of Instinct at a raid.
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Jun 6, 2018 08:31
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I've never been able to take part in a community day etc because they always take place on weekends when I'm 100% guaranteed going to be working 
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I've never been able to take part in a community day etc because they always take place on weekends when I'm 100% guaranteed going to be working Niantic should fix this problem by doing community day events exclusively on wednesdays.
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Grillfiend posted:Niantic should fix this problem by doing community day events exclusively on wednesdays. I agree. This would fix the problem for me and therefore for everyone.
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Jun 6, 2018 12:40
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community events should have a moderately increased boost to that pokemon for that weekend, with the three hour special event being like now with the massive boost + the special evolve bonus
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Jun 6, 2018 12:50
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Willsun posted:drat dude calm down, I make it work just fine but most people get them on the weekdays and people don't like that because they have normal jobs. Would you not agree that the majority of people work and go to school on a 8-5 or 8-3 schedule? And the majority of EX raids are on weekends. The issue is that some people are complaining that any EX raids take place on weekdays, because it doesn't benefit them personally.
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Julio Cruz posted:And the majority of EX raids are on weekends. The issue is that some people are complaining that any EX raids take place on weekdays, because it doesn't benefit them personally. Most of the exraids lately have been during the week. The system where popular raid time triggers the time for an exraid is really good except for the fact that it doesn't line up in calendar to the same weekday. So if you have bunch of people raiding sunday morning you might get an exraid for thursday morning. It'd help a whole lot if exraids would be on the same weekday as the pass giving raid, just 1 or 2 weeks ahead.
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Jun 6, 2018 14:05
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EX passes aren't triggered by one specific raid, so that wouldn't work.
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I think the best system would be to get a notification saying congrats, you qualified for an Ex pass, and then getting a list of a couple dates / times to choose from. If the date and time you chose doesn't get enough other people registering for it, you could get a choice to try it anyway, or reschedule. Seems like giving people a choice would be the simplest way to make everyone happy.
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Or get rid of the drat thing entirely. I'd much rather there be no EX raids and Mewtwo is the next challenge research.
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So how do EX raids work anyway? Just got my first invite yesterday, and it's a time and place that I can probably make. Anything I should know before going?
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Sjonkel posted:So how do EX raids work anyway? Just got my first invite yesterday, and it's a time and place that I can probably make. Anything I should know before going? Otherwise, or if you're antisocial and don't care to actively coordinate, just show up a few minutes early and hop into the gym at the first opportunity to make sure you get a slot. Don't show up late. Odds are good you'd be left with nobody to raid with, because everyone else got there on time and used their pass already. You can beat Mewtwo with a small handful of people, assuming everyone's decent level with reasonable counters. And his base catch rate is high - about double a normal Legendary - so your odds of catching him are good with golden berries and great/excellent curves. (Don't get me wrong - he could still run on you anyway, because random numbers are like that - ask me about the 96% who ran on me - but your odds are solid compared to other 5* raids.) --- Oh yeah - so yesterday I had an EX Raid. The gym was red, and there were 8 of us blues attacking it all at once. We had it down to a single Blissey who was getting near the berry limit, like four minutes before the raid started. And somehow the red team started filling the gym - a snorlax, then a dragonite, etc. - while we were still attacking it. I have no idea how that was possible, but eh, I caught him anyway (91%) so I'm largely over it. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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I've been seeing a Wobbuffet spawn in a specific spot for the last several days. Does the game do that? Will there just be specific uncommon/rare spawn points outside of parks and nests? I've never noticed this behavior until now.
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dwarf74 posted:Oh yeah - so yesterday I had an EX Raid. The gym was red, and there were 8 of us blues attacking it all at once. We had it down to a single Blissey who was getting near the berry limit, like four minutes before the raid started. And somehow the red team started filling the gym - a snorlax, then a dragonite, etc. - while we were still attacking it. I have no idea how that was possible, but eh, I caught him anyway (91%) so I'm largely over it. The message may say that you cannot place a defender because the gym is "under attack" but actually it has nothing to do with that. The only rule is that when a defender gets kicked out, that team cannot place new defenders for 15 minutes, or until the team is kicked out entirely. So if the other mons were kicked out more than 15 mins ago, red could place new mons, even if you were still attacking. DizzyBum posted:I've been seeing a Wobbuffet spawn in a specific spot for the last several days. Does the game do that? Will there just be specific uncommon/rare spawn points outside of parks and nests? I've never noticed this behavior until now.
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DizzyBum posted:I've been seeing a Wobbuffet spawn in a specific spot for the last several days. Does the game do that? Will there just be specific uncommon/rare spawn points outside of parks and nests? I've never noticed this behavior until now. Yes, it's effectively a small single spawn nest. We have one in our yard and it changes with the nest change every 2 weeks. I think its Electabuzz now. It was Torchic when gen3 launched which was pretty cool.
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Entropist posted:The message may say that you cannot place a defender because the gym is "under attack" but actually it has nothing to do with that. The only rule is that when a defender gets kicked out, that team cannot place new defenders for 15 minutes, or until the team is kicked out entirely. So if the other mons were kicked out more than 15 mins ago, red could place new mons, even if you were still attacking. Ah well, it was good gym XP. DeadlyHalibut posted:Yes, it's effectively a small single spawn nest. We have one in our yard and it changes with the nest change every 2 weeks. I think its Electabuzz now.
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DeadlyHalibut posted:Yes, it's effectively a small single spawn nest. We have one in our yard and it changes with the nest change every 2 weeks. I think its Electabuzz now. There's one of these down the road from me and it's where I got my first (and still only) Yanma.
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hell yeah finally have enough candy to evolve my baller bagon through! dat move set doe
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You should be crying over the candies it'll take to beef that thing up to respectable CP numbers
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Parrotine posted:You should be crying over the candies it'll take to beef that thing up to respectable CP numbers eh, not super concerning to me. I play in Phoenix metro and gyms change hands every hour with or without my help. level capped blissey isn't any better than a pidgy here.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:eh, not super concerning to me. I play in Phoenix metro and gyms change hands every hour with or without my help. level capped blissey isn't any better than a pidgy here. My man, you use him for extra horsepower in raids, not for holding gyms
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dwarf74 posted:Depending on how active the pokemon scene is around you, show up like 15 minutes early to chat with folks and decide if you want to split up into raid groups by team or whatever to maximize everyone's catch rates. If you're super die-hard get there extra-early, take the gym for your team, and prepare to golden berry it. Thanks for the detailed answer! I don't raid or fight at gym much, I'm more into just collecting. Any specific counters I should level up and prepare? Got tons of star dust and candy mostly.
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Sjonkel posted:Thanks for the detailed answer! I don't raid or fight at gym much, I'm more into just collecting. Any specific counters I should level up and prepare? Got tons of star dust and candy mostly. (Ghost, dark, and bug if you're worried. Ttar mostly.) dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 7, 2018 |
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Sjonkel posted:Thanks for the detailed answer! I don't raid or fight at gym much, I'm more into just collecting. Any specific counters I should level up and prepare? Got tons of star dust and candy mostly.  I agree with these suggestions, and at one point this recommendation had Lugia up there as a "Not Shadow Ball" counter as a tank. I usually have a lot of Houndoom to put in because my biome was rife with Houndour even before weather started (and now summer so sunny/clear weather is here) and the Halloween events had straight up wild Houndoom popping up for me a lot. If you have a lot of fast TMs, make sure your Houndoom has Bite instead of Fire Fang. A lot of people also like to use their stash of rare candy on Mewtwo so if you're one of those people, you might as well make the investment of using charge TMs to change your move to Shadow Ball. Tyranitar still reigns supreme in utility so get ready for that Larvitar community day.
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Shiny Kyogre and Shellder at 1 PM PT today as part of the Water Event! Alongside increased appearance of Water-type Pokémon appearing all over the world, you’ll be able to earn 3× Stardust for catching Water-type Pokémon. Plus, 2 km Eggs will hatch exciting Pokémon such as Totodile, Mudkip, and Corphish—earn Double Candy and Stardust for every Egg hatched!
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e: beaten This just dropped. https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/waterfestival2018/ •Shiny Shellder •2km eggs mostly water types, 2x stardust/candy for every egg hatched •3x stardust for catching water types •Kyogre is back, can catch shiny Kyogre Their banner had Wingull so I'm hoping to run into a lot of those. Hopefully more Feebas too.
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RIP Normal Spawn Pool (June 5 2018 - June 7 2018)
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I JUST finished evolving my one and only Pelipper and now it's gonna become common.  Nah, I'm okay with there being constant events.
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If I dont get at least one stupid giant purple whale this time im gonna flip.
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Well I managed to catch one Gastly this morning and saw one other ghost but he ran away before I got there. And now a new event is starting  Oh well on the bright side maybe I can finally get a purple whale
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omnibobb posted:If I dont get at least one stupid giant purple whale this time im gonna flip. 
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Lapras in that banner too. 
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This event does nothing for me because I live in a heavy water biome, but hey 3x dust is cool I guess.
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Oh fun murder whales back.
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Mustached Demon posted:Oh fun murder whales back. Yeah but this time you might get an ugly one!
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