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https://twitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/1007858040597630976?s=21 It seems like this happens to Asia every single month.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 06:35 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:02 |
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Average Bear posted:Fondly remembering the one month people everywhere played this. World seemed brighter then It was pre-Trump presidency, everything seemed brighter then
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 06:48 |
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Boy, did I choose a good time to come back to this game. I'm one of the beta testers and I stopped just before the original gyms were scrapped for the current ones. I came back a week ago in an effort to get my rear end outside to spend my gaming time getting more exercise instead of planting myself in front of Civ VI and Fire Emblem Heroes. Some thoughts! There's a couple of extra stops and two gyms in my neighbourhood, which is a nice upgrade from zero (that also would have been great when I played Ingress) including one mere meters from my apartment. My old Dratini spawn area is long since dead, but it seems Ralts like to spawn near a gym a short walk away, which is nice. Are Ralts rare? They were rare in the GBA games. I like the Field Research mechanic. Having something to achieve is a lot of fun rather than just blindly walking around and I remember that was a thing people were asking for back in beta days. The weather mechanic is also very cool and it's one of the reasons why I got my rear end outside today. It's rainy season over here in Japan, so a sunny Saturday is not only a rare good day to go outside, but a good day to catch some sunny-related pokemans. Interacting with the gyms is largely the same, imo, but having them double as a stop is helpful. I do like that you can't stack 10 Snorlax on top of each other anymore and that actually keeping a pokemon in a gym is impossible unless you have berries out the rear end; the stalemates that plagued the original gyms were not fun and I'm glad they're gone. Raids are a nice idea but I don't plan anything with the "community" so all I got to do is hope that there's some folk around at the same time as me, which is a bit rare. There was today, though. I met a dad and his kids at that nearby Ralts gym and we dog-piled a Mawlie. Literally. With Flareon. I am really disappointed that trading is not a thing yet. I still have about a dozen Kangaskhan from my trip back to Oz that I've been wanting to offload to some Japanese players, but I doubt I'm going to get a chance to do that before I go back for good in August. As for this event, I didn't even know it was a thing! I went from never seeing a Larvitar to having a fully-evolved shiny Tyranitar with decent IVs in the space of an hour. It helped that the weather was partly cloudy too. Noice.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 07:10 |
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I wish there was a way to see what bonuses are currently active.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 08:53 |
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Kangaskhan was available worldwide for a week or so during an event a while back, so you might find less people need that one.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 08:55 |
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Only Farfetch'd was available worldwide.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 08:59 |
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Beachcomber posted:I wish there was a way to see what bonuses are currently active. It's pretty bad given how many of the bonuses are only referenced by notifications (or Twitter posts?) and not the in-game news.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 09:31 |
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Beachcomber posted:Only Farfetch'd was available worldwide. Kangaskhan was in europe too along with "europ" unowns last summer. Some event.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 10:04 |
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Whatever, I just want to clear some space that this *looks up collective noun for kangaroos* mob is taking up.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 10:17 |
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It is going to be pants-on-head retarded if Niantic releases up to Gen VII and still hasn't implemented trading into this game Do they even have an excuse at this point? Currently I'm enjoying the game but that was one of their core promises put in the promo trailer for the game before release. I really wish Game Freak or Big Daddy Nintendo would hold an intervention with Niantic and give them a hard deadline to get trading done and done, I can live a month without back-to-back events if it means they finally get this mechanic out the door.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 10:26 |
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Ballz posted:https://twitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/1007858040597630976?s=21 Terrible lag, login issues, et cetera this morning at 6 AM (EDT). Not feeling optimistic that Community Day will be anything other than a fiasco.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 11:33 |
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My game's been running like poo poo, myself. Keeps hanging instead of, say, opening a gym.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 13:52 |
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Yeah past few days have been rough
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 13:55 |
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I evolved 4 Tyranitars during the event, and got one with Fire Blast, two with Stone Edge and one with Crunch. Which ones are worth powering up fully?
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:20 |
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Parrotine posted:It is going to be pants-on-head retarded if Niantic releases up to Gen VII and still hasn't implemented trading into this game If they make trading local-only it’ll be interesting to see how they’ll deal with the issue of children getting scammed or threatened out of their pokemons by the hardcore fat beardlords.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:31 |
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Comrade Koba posted:If they make trading local-only it’ll be interesting to see how they’ll deal with the issue of children getting scammed or threatened out of their pokemons by the hardcore fat beardlords. It's pretty much this. I wouldn't be surprised if the game never got monster trading if im honest. they could go a "drop and pick up" method like what they eventually did in ingress. it doesn't require player to player contact but there is some risk of a rando being in the same area and swiping it during that split second. i cant imagine non local trading that doesn't require player to player contact if nintendo and niantic want to preserve regional critter exclusivity either.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:37 |
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Comrade Koba posted:If they make trading local-only it’ll be interesting to see how they’ll deal with the issue of children getting scammed or threatened out of their pokemons by the hardcore fat beardlords. Teaching your children not to associate with hardcore fat beardlords is a good start!
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:41 |
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Wonder trading and GTS trading exist in the regular games, just do something like that, no need for anyone to be within smellshot of a neckbeard
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:47 |
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DizzyBum posted:Teaching your children not to associate with hardcore fat beardlords is a good start! But it’s good for your kids to spend time with you
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:49 |
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I can't imagine them making trading local only, given how hard Game Freak has gone on in the main games with promoting trading with people from all over the world. Like they have commercials about how Pokémon brings people of all languages and countries together to promote online trading; massively increased shiny breeding rates from Masuda pairs etc are a deliberate attempt to get people to use online trading. They're about as likely to go hardline "local trading only now forever and always" as they are to go "ok gyms are cancelled Pokemon do not fight any more they are only for pats no battling".
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:53 |
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I'd trade every Pokemon I have for 2 damned ghosts right about now. And maybe a Mr Mime
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:57 |
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When they introduce trading though I expect nicknaming rules to get tightened (or rather actually implemented in the first place). I can't imagine getting an Exeggutor named Dick (Your Dick is rather sizable, that's for sure!) off Wonder Trade would go down (!) too well.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 14:59 |
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Louisgod posted:But it’s good for your kids to spend time with you Joke's on you, I don't have any kids!
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 15:04 |
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I did get a shiny Exeggcute in Ultra Moon off Wonder Trade called what I'm reliably informed is the Japanese word for both "golden eggs" and "testicles". Shiny exeggcute and the often confusing dialogue around the Nugget Bridge and other creepy guys who give you Nuggets in the games are untranslateable ball jokes apparently.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 15:06 |
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Anyway I have like 20 85%+ roos so when trading goes live I will become a professional roo exporter. Canadians iirc do not have regional exclusives so they will get one (1) free roo per account as an act of charity.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 15:12 |
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Sjonkel posted:I evolved 4 Tyranitars during the event, and got one with Fire Blast, two with Stone Edge and one with Crunch. Which ones are worth powering up fully? Stone Edge is the best offensively, although if you want a gym defender, Crunch is the way to go. Ballz fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jun 16, 2018 |
# ? Jun 16, 2018 15:40 |
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I would love for trading to be implemented, because my primary goal is to finish out the original Kanto pokedex. Anything after that is just gravy.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 16:38 |
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Sjonkel posted:I evolved 4 Tyranitars during the event, and got one with Fire Blast, two with Stone Edge and one with Crunch. Which ones are worth powering up fully? Give all of them stone edge with charged TMs so that they have move sync.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 17:59 |
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Played for a little over an hour and got four 3k+ dinos one of them shiny and 7 spare shiny (lovely) larvitars. Not bad considering the Charmander event was crazy stingy to me. A+ would mash cell phone screen again
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:03 |
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It became sunny right when the event ended... Still a good event. Got six smack down ttars though 5 of them need a charged TM to get Stone Edge.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:06 |
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No shiny, but I'm not even mad. I evolved 3 TTars with 97+ IV.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:08 |
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Indianapolis was good poo poo. Walked around Broad Ripple and lured up the place while my wife went shopping. Was partly cloudy the whole time, despite being ninety seven loving degrees. Unfortunately the highest IV I checked was 89%. Still, I caught a level 35, 73% shiny and had enough candy to evolve 3, so I'm content.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:10 |
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Managed to get 5 shinies and was able to evolve 7 smack down Tyranitars. A good day overall.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:10 |
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Dragged my rear end out of bed even though I was sick as a dog for this event. Didn't get a shiny, and only got one larvitar with 90%+ iv, but I managed to get Smack Down on three ttars before I had to call it for the day. Not the community day I was hoping for but I'm just glad I was able to get anything.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:14 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:i cant imagine non local trading that doesn't require player to player contact if nintendo and niantic want to preserve regional critter exclusivity either. That’s the thing, isn’t it? If they make trading world-wide, you’ll have Chinese farmbots selling regionals and maxed-out Blisseys by the truckload within a couple of hours. And if they go local-only, there’s the potential serious risk I mentioned earlier of creepy hardcore players (or worse) deliberately targeting younger players. Maybe they could do some sort of hybrid thing where you drop your pokemon off at a local gym designated as a trading post, then other passing players can make trading offers that you could accept or decline remotely? It could probably still be abused, but it’d be a way to keep trading localized without forcing you to physically interact with other players.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:25 |
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Welp, caught well over a hundred larvitars over the full three hours. Got four shinies including the very first pokemon of the day, but got nothing over 91% so my old 93% that I hatched about a year ago is still the baddest mutha on the block, even without Smackdown.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:34 |
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It was partly cloudy the whole time. Managed to evolve 4 all over 3k cp. One was 100% and one was shiny. I named the shiny one PeepsChamp since it has smack down.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:37 |
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Burned through every pinap I had, but I went from a single Tyranitar to an entire family. Even have a shiny of each stage. Meet the posse: They get named whatever I think of at the time.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:40 |
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Welp we started late but I managed to get 1 shiny and 2 fully evolved Tyranitars. Unfortunately due to stupid Pokemon connections issues I missed evolving them during the event and didn't get the fancy move. oh well considering larvitar never spawn around here I'm glad to get what I got. 1 is 97%
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 22:56 |
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3 Smack Downs and 2 shinies. Not as good a haul as last month but I was kinda busy today.
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# ? Jun 16, 2018 23:00 |