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Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

https://twitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/1007858040597630976?s=21

It seems like this happens to Asia every single month.

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White Light
Dec 19, 2012

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

Roger Explosion
Jan 26, 2006

THAT'S SPECTACULAR.
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.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
I wish there was a way to see what bonuses are currently active.

AirRaid
Dec 21, 2004

Nose Manual + Super Sonic Spin Attack
Kangaskhan was available worldwide for a week or so during an event a while back, so you might find less people need that one.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
Only Farfetch'd was available worldwide.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

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.

Jorgos Nuuh
Dec 28, 2004
Pröööööt

Beachcomber posted:

Only Farfetch'd was available worldwide.

Kangaskhan was in europe too along with "europ" unowns last summer. Some event.

Roger Explosion
Jan 26, 2006

THAT'S SPECTACULAR.
Whatever, I just want to clear some space that this

*looks up collective noun for kangaroos*

mob is taking up.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

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 :colbert:

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.

Zombie Dachshund
Feb 26, 2016

Ballz posted:

https://twitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/1007858040597630976?s=21

It seems like this happens to Asia every single month.

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.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
My game's been running like poo poo, myself. Keeps hanging instead of, say, opening a gym.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
Yeah past few days have been rough

Sjonkel
Jan 31, 2012
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?

Comrade Koba
Jul 2, 2007

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 :colbert:

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.

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.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

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.

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


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!

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
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

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar

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

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
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".

Pez
Feb 28, 2002

Thanks to CoX, my stairs will be protected forever!
I'd trade every Pokemon I have for 2 damned ghosts right about now. And maybe a Mr Mime

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
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.

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Louisgod posted:

But it’s good for your kids to spend time with you

Joke's on you, I don't have any kids!




:smith:

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
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.

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
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.

Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

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

ShakeZula
Jun 17, 2003

Nobody move and nobody gets hurt.

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.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

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.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
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

Mumbling
Feb 7, 2015

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.

DaStampede
Feb 8, 2018

No shiny, but I'm not even mad. I evolved 3 TTars with 97+ IV.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
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.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
Managed to get 5 shinies and was able to evolve 7 smack down Tyranitars. A good day overall.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
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.

Comrade Koba
Jul 2, 2007

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.

hamburgers in pockets
Jun 18, 2005

Yeah, that's blood. It'll get better before the show.
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.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

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.

Ziddar
Jul 24, 2003

Time Travel: Not Even Once



okay maybe a few times


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.

Pez
Feb 28, 2002

Thanks to CoX, my stairs will be protected forever!
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. :sigh: oh well considering larvitar never spawn around here I'm glad to get what I got. 1 is 97%

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DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


3 Smack Downs and 2 shinies. Not as good a haul as last month but I was kinda busy today.

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