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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Oh, good! I'd just hate to be underprepared.

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Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

Cowslips Warren posted:

Wait. I think I had one of those lightbulb moments. Say I hatch some Alohan Pokemon from goons, from say Norway and Australia, and then if I trade those to people here where I live in the US, would that add to their pilot's badge? And mine too?

Yeah, that's why I always open gifts from Australia first when I have open egg slots.

https://www.antipodesmap.com

TheEye posted:

Not sure they would have gone with Snorlax without the legacy move, so I would guess other legacy moves people care about. I guess ice shard/ice beam Lapras is possible, but if they're willing to do evolved forms then likeliest is probably shadow claw Gengar (making my 98% one a lot less rare). The only one I personally need is rock throw Omastar, but I kind of doubt they'll do that after adventure week.

They might do ice shard and/or beam lapras or shadow claw gengar but rock throw omastar is never coming back since omastar could never learn it in the main series. It's uh, not canon, which is apparently something niantic cares about or the pokemon company forced them to.

mastershakeman posted:

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM AN APP INTO MEMORY. ITS POKEMON GO AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ASH. I DO EVERY THROW AND I DO EVERY THROW HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME GIFTS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP CURVEBALLS. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY OPEN TWENTY GIFTS EVERY MORNING. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JERKS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE TRAINER FRIEND NAMES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNING. THEN I LIFT
Same.

PetraCore posted:

Oh, good! I'd just hate to be underprepared.

Don't forget the bring pinaps for the double candy bonus. It never runs so you might as well use them.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
Yeah, last week I caught Articuno on the third attempt with ultra balls and pinaps.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar

PetraCore posted:

Also, about how many pokeballs should I have for Articuno? I've got about 100 great balls right now, but I'm not sure if I should take a catching hiatus tomorrow to save up more.

It doesn’t run, just make sure you have 20+ pinaps so you get double candy.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

I only have 5 pinaps but maybe I'll get lucky. Thanks for the help!

Modus Pwnens
Dec 29, 2004

PetraCore posted:

I took over my first gym! Me and someone else I couldn't see were grinding it down, and they managed to take it before me but for some reason only left an extremely baby abra. Like, 20 cp. So I kicked the baby in the face and dropped a 700 cp seviper in there to maybe give some other mystic people a chance to drop in better pokemon.

That's good but the current meta is to go with your large adult son and beat the poo poo out of anyone who comes to take your gym.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Modus Pwnens posted:

That's good but the current meta is to go with your large adult son and beat the poo poo out of anyone who comes to take your gym.
Now there are several large sons in front of my seviper and I don't think he's even getting touched. Win me clothes money, seviper...

pod6isjerks
Feb 17, 2005

Nap Ghost
Gift inventory limit increased to 10

https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1012126125676347392?s=19



EDIT: I managed to hatch a 100% Snorlax this morning, after having only seen one other one back in Summer of 2016.
Any chance Body Slam will be TM-able now that you'll be able to catch them with it during the research event?

pod6isjerks fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jun 28, 2018

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
Does trading have the same +friendship as opening presents?

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

PetraCore posted:

Oh, good! I'd just hate to be underprepared.

You should be able to catch it using pineapp berries, it's not a challenge

runawayturtles
Aug 2, 2004

Pomplamoose posted:

They might do ice shard and/or beam lapras or shadow claw gengar but rock throw omastar is never coming back since omastar could never learn it in the main series. It's uh, not canon, which is apparently something niantic cares about or the pokemon company forced them to.

Oh, didn't realize it was one of the non-learnable ones. TPC definitely cares a lot about that (and Niantic probably not at all), so yeah, there's no way it'll return.

pod6isjerks posted:

EDIT: I managed to hatch a 100% Snorlax this morning, after having only seen one other one back in Summer of 2016.
Any chance Body Slam will be TM-able now that you'll be able to catch them with it during the research event?

Highly unlikely, but I guess we'll see.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

PetraCore posted:

So I kicked the baby in the face and dropped a 700 cp seviper in there

This is why I like this game.

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.
Now with the gift system you can also send postcards of the gym to people after you kick them out of it. I like that part.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
I got great friends with my buddy, his screen shows we need 3 more days. Ha

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007



This is very good.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



The driving miles thing is working for me so that's dope.

In other news Niantic must be trolling me. I spun 5 gyms/stops today and got zero gifts via the randomizer. Two hours later I get a push notification that I should spin some stops to get gifts.

Ziddar
Jul 24, 2003

Time Travel: Not Even Once



okay maybe a few times


mastershakeman posted:

I got great friends with my buddy, his screen shows we need 3 more days. Ha

Apparently the friendship system is another case of how Niantic takes a seemingly simple thing, and manages to mess it up.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/8uj11a/visual_illustation_of_how_many_days_you_can_save/
Instead of some shared friendship statistic, both players have stats that are somehow in a constant game of catch-up with each other. And easily get out of sync. :shepface:

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.
What the gently caress Niantic.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!
put the world's biggest shrug here

they'll figure out all the kinks eventually, they are kinda wading into uncharted territory so whatever, its not like the core game we've been playing for awhile got worse with this update

SuperKlaus
Oct 20, 2005


Fun Shoe
I miss PGNexus letting me see all the high IVs I caught at a glance and sparing me the tedium of checking each 'mon individually. It seems to be dead though...?

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

Friend stuff seems neat. I like the little postcards you get. I guess one must have been from one of those sprint advertising things which made me laugh

Beastyfella
Mar 5, 2008

I have lost all powers of reading comprehension and counting ability hours ago

SuperKlaus posted:

I miss PGNexus letting me see all the high IVs I caught at a glance and sparing me the tedium of checking each 'mon individually. It seems to be dead though...?

Didn't you have to log in to it? If so, that's a way to get banned.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Maker Of Shoes posted:

they are kinda wading into uncharted territory

technically true, because having a single source of truth (some friendship vaule stored serverside) and having two clients update to/from it is actually very well charted

whereas having two separate, competing, and contradictory local states fighting with each other over which one is correct is in fact fairly uncharted, because nobody else does it.

:v:

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax
My girlfriend would like more Pokemon friends! Her friend code is 6626 3488 6518. Thanks!

Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jun 29, 2018

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
This 20 per day open limit is a pain.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

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

Woodchip posted:

This 20 per day open limit is a pain.

care less and just open a few whenever you open the game

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

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

Psion posted:

technically true, because having a single source of truth (some friendship vaule stored serverside) and having two clients update to/from it is actually very well charted

whereas having two separate, competing, and contradictory local states fighting with each other over which one is correct is in fact fairly uncharted, because nobody else does it.

:v:

....touche

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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A gym nearby opened up a raid for... a magikarp. I punched it with my Roselia. I now have a buff magikarp that will be very useful to me in, oh, about 380 magikarp candies.

Soarer
Jan 14, 2012

I JUST CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S PONY AVATARS

~SMcD
I was pretty happy when I got a 98IV karp and was coming up on 400 candies. Then I got a shiney one :smithicide:

DaStampede
Feb 8, 2018

It can't be that hard to code friendship progression through the exchange of gifts.

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

DaStampede posted:

It can't be that hard to code friendship progression through the exchange of gifts.

Whether it's hard to code or not has little to nothing to do with whatever nonsense code Niantic is farting out. At this point I'd buy them just training a new neural network to code in features every time they want to add a new one - it would fit time, cost and quality.

DaStampede
Feb 8, 2018

and it would have the chance of improving itself over time

SuperKlaus
Oct 20, 2005


Fun Shoe

Beastyfella posted:

Didn't you have to log in to it? If so, that's a way to get banned.

Technically but I lost any fear as I used it for ages. I used it and used it and never heard any stories of bans that weren't deeply suspicious like "I got banned for PGNexus TOTALLY NOT BECAUSE OF BOTTING I SWEAR."

I quit a long time ago, not having any nostalgic connection to Wave 3 and beyond, but friend codes and daily tasks got me to try again. Now I'm just really sad that I have to use these clunky add-on phone apps instead of seeing all the IVs of my collection with a glance. Especially because my loser phone is apparently incompatible with CalcyIV and the thread says that's best :(

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

SuperKlaus posted:

Technically but I lost any fear as I used it for ages. I used it and used it and never heard any stories of bans that weren't deeply suspicious like "I got banned for PGNexus TOTALLY NOT BECAUSE OF BOTTING I SWEAR."

I quit a long time ago, not having any nostalgic connection to Wave 3 and beyond, but friend codes and daily tasks got me to try again. Now I'm just really sad that I have to use these clunky add-on phone apps instead of seeing all the IVs of my collection with a glance. Especially because my loser phone is apparently incompatible with CalcyIV and the thread says that's best :(

Is Pokegenie an option?

pod6isjerks
Feb 17, 2005

Nap Ghost

SuperKlaus posted:

Technically but I lost any fear as I used it for ages. I used it and used it and never heard any stories of bans that weren't deeply suspicious like "I got banned for PGNexus TOTALLY NOT BECAUSE OF BOTTING I SWEAR."

I used it a couple of times too without issue but, one of the ways they're catching people is differences in the way pgnexus requests data from the way the game does. If something changes on Niantic's end and pgnexus, etc send a malformed or outdated server request, it's a dead giveaway. Somebody correct me if I got that totally wrong.

Soysaucebeast
Mar 4, 2008




Finally got my Mew! And it has... Struggle Bug and Stone Edge. Dumb Mew.

Sykic
Feb 9, 2004

Resist! Humanity demands it! Resist!
As useful as the exp and items are from gifts, I think I'm enjoying the locations their from more. It's neat to see monuments, murals, etc from around the world, especially when most of the pokestops around here are pubs and churches.

Special mention to getting a gift from "The Wizard and his Balls" a few days ago. :v:

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Sykic posted:

As useful as the exp and items are from gifts, I think I'm enjoying the locations their from more. It's neat to see monuments, murals, etc from around the world, especially when most of the pokestops around here are pubs and churches.

Special mention to getting a gift from "The Wizard and his Balls" a few days ago. :v:

That was probably me, you're welcome! :j:

Sanford
Jun 30, 2007

...and rarely post!


Sykic posted:

As useful as the exp and items are from gifts, I think I'm enjoying the locations their from more. It's neat to see monuments, murals, etc from around the world, especially when most of the pokestops around here are pubs and churches.

Special mention to getting a gift from "The Wizard and his Balls" a few days ago. :v:

Me too! I feel bad sending "Watchorn Church, Alfreton" and "Morton Community Centre" compared to some of the great locations I'm getting.

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White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Soysaucebeast posted:

Finally got my Mew! And it has... Struggle Bug and Stone Edge. Dumb Mew.

TMs are your friend!

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