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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i'd love for them to just ditch ex raids, it is an awful, awful system The distribution of eligible gyms is goddamn idiotic. As is the distribution of who gets invites.
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Vegastar posted:I understand your point, but the entire gimmick of pogo is nostalgia, and gen1 is pretty much the thing the common people remember. I'm pretty sure it's like the base set in Hearthstone, gen1 is never going anywhere. I should've said reduce gen1 spawns, not phase out; introducing a new generation means you either need to increase spawn points or reduce what you're spawning. Hopefully it's the former, that's what Niantic has done in the past.
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Sep 10, 2018 21:20
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Wheany posted:The distribution of eligible gyms is goddamn idiotic. As is the distribution of who gets invites. i don't know what you're talking about, raiding 4 ex eligible gyms several times a week for six months and never getting a single ex raid invite while another dude raided the exact same gyms just as often and ended up with over twenty ex invites over the same time span was totally a great and cool thing that really enhanced my pokemon go experience
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Sep 10, 2018 21:37
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i don't know what you're talking about, raiding 4 ex eligible gyms several times a week for six months and never getting a single ex raid invite while another dude raided the exact same gyms just as often and ended up with over twenty ex invites over the same time span was totally a great and cool thing that really enhanced my pokemon go experience yeah but since that happened to you instead of me, it's funny 
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Sep 10, 2018 21:46
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I just started trying to get EX passes in July, since then have gotten five, and was able to use four. Once I plugged into my local discord channel, it became easy and I probably could get all the mewtwos I could want (though I don’t work in the summer, which made weekday raids possible.) Having said that, the EX system is dumb and I wouldn’t be sorry to see it go.
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Sep 10, 2018 21:53
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Added a couple of new people from the Google Sheet for the Celebi quest. Hi new friends! I saw a couple of Montana goons on there. Hi potential new friends! If y'all are near Missoula or Helena, I'll be around and probably looking to get some walking Kms in when I'm home this fall/winter. Hit me up if you want to hang out.
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Sep 10, 2018 22:03
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I've hatched about 4 or 5 10k eggs this week and all but one have been trapinch. 
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Sep 10, 2018 22:19
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Epi Lepi posted:I've hatched about 4 or 5 10k eggs this week and all but one have been trapinch. I'm jealous. I'm wanting more Trapinch candies.
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Sep 10, 2018 22:22
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After all the Go-Tcha chat, I ordered one which arrived today. Slightly confusing but ultimately painless setup. Took it out for a walk and came home with all kinds of extra mons that I’d normally never bother to catch which meant I had all this candy and stardust that I’d never normally get. This rules. It makes it easier for me to just go out and take long walks without pausing constantly which means the game and me trying to get more healthy are totally compatible where they were sometimes working in concert and sometimes getting in each other’s way before.
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Sep 10, 2018 22:29
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pubic works project posted:I'm jealous. I'm wanting more Trapinch candies. I've got my Flygon so I want pretty much everything else you can get in a 10k. Especially Dratini, I missed the community day and never see them so I'm missing Dragonair and Dragonite from my dex.
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Sep 10, 2018 22:34
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Epi Lepi posted:I've hatched about 4 or 5 10k eggs this week and all but one have been trapinch. Just be glad Skarmory and Sudowoodo and other garbage don't hatch out of 10ks anymore
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Sep 10, 2018 22:44
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Missing Dratini and Larvitar community day is a hole in my heart
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Sep 10, 2018 22:48
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FistEnergy posted:Missing Dratini and Larvitar community day is a hole in my heart same but mareep, charmander and bulbasaur
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Sep 10, 2018 23:06
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One of my local PoGo buddies theorized that they're using this event as an opportunity to distribute Mewtwo more widely while they disable EX raids and work out all the bugs and add new features to it (EX pass sharing). It's either that, or they're scrapping EX raids entirely... Or maybe they change nothing after all. 
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Sep 10, 2018 23:22
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DizzyBum posted:Or maybe they change nothing after all. it's this btw
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FistEnergy posted:Missing Dratini and Larvitar community day is a hole in my heart DEEP STATE PLOT posted:same but mareep, charmander and bulbasaur
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Sep 10, 2018 23:33
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doingitwrong posted:After all the Go-Tcha chat, I ordered one which arrived today. Slightly confusing but ultimately painless setup. Took it out for a walk and came home with all kinds of extra mons that I’d normally never bother to catch which meant I had all this candy and stardust that I’d never normally get. This rules. It makes it easier for me to just go out and take long walks without pausing constantly which means the game and me trying to get more healthy are totally compatible where they were sometimes working in concert and sometimes getting in each other’s way before. The chat got me to buy one yesterday, and I agree that it rules! Looking forward to taking it running and running rather than run-check phone-stop-run. (Also, I figure that $44 is a lot cheaper than the cost of fixing my wrecked car when I can’t inevitably help myself from looking at my phone as I drive.)
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Sep 10, 2018 23:34
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I'm excited for Mewtwo just because I live in a town without a single sponsored gym so I have never seen an EX raid or pass. The complainers will get over it
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Sep 10, 2018 23:43
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Pez posted:I'm excited for Mewtwo just because I live in a town without a single sponsored gym so I have never seen an EX raid or pass. The complainers will get over it do you live in a town without a single park also? because that's plausible - I've seen some hosed up town zoning - and also not cool if true
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Sep 10, 2018 23:45
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The fact that you can get an EX raid pass, show up to an organized event, and then whiff all your throws on Mewtwo and fail to catch it really grinds my gears about the current system. Bringing Mewtwo to normal raids during a time-limited window is absolutely the right call, pokegrognards be damned.
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Sep 11, 2018 00:12
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I agree with you fully, but how do you whiff every ball? Maximise the # of balls you get with (small raid group, same color team,etc) , wait to throw till it attacks, and have someone else throw if you can't hit it.
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Sep 11, 2018 00:32
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Yeah missing Charmander day sucks too. I have caught 6300 Pokemon and I have seen 13 of them total. On a related note, in Cleveland every "catch 5 fire types for a Silver Pinap" quest gets dunked in the trash immediately 
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Sep 11, 2018 00:52
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FistEnergy posted:Yeah missing Charmander day sucks too. I have caught 6300 Pokemon and I have seen 13 of them total. Can't you just go to the river for that?
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FistEnergy posted:Yeah missing Charmander day sucks too. I have caught 6300 Pokemon and I have seen 13 of them total. I had to dunk "make 3 nice catches in a row" because apparently I can make 10 great curves in a row against legendary birds but 3 nice catches is too much to ask this noob for.
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Sep 11, 2018 01:16
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Charmander shows at rivers? Suicidal bastard. I am really hoping EX raids are over with, but they're probably just switching out the mon.
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tangy yet delightful posted:I had to dunk "make 3 nice catches in a row" because apparently I can make 10 great curves in a row against legendary birds but 3 nice catches is too much to ask this noob for. ...You know that punching above counts for the quest, right? Aka you get progress for "three nice throws" if you throw greats. It doesn't have to be the specific throw, just that or better. Moltres day was okay. We got off track somehow so ended up only doing 21~ raids but got 8 shinies between two accounts(including one 93%!), and 3 98's. I'm personally hype for Mewtwo month. I can not get a good one on my main to save my life; out of 17, none have been higher than 88%. If you include my alt, which has two 91's, that's 2 over 90 IV Mewtwo out of 31 raids. Its become a joke with my local group how bad my luck has been. Siets posted:The fact that you can get an EX raid pass, show up to an organized event, and then whiff all your throws on Mewtwo and fail to catch it really grinds my gears about the current system. Bringing Mewtwo to normal raids during a time-limited window is absolutely the right call, pokegrognards be damned. It's not the system's fault if you can't throw well enough to hit the pokemon(unless "whiff" means something different where you are from?). Mewtwo has double the base catch rate of other legendaries, doesn't move around much, and is pretty easy to hit?
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Psychobabble! posted:...You know that punching above counts for the quest, right? Aka you get progress for "three nice throws" if you throw greats. It doesn't have to be the specific throw, just that or better.
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Zombie Dachshund posted:I just started trying to get EX passes in July, since then have gotten five, and was able to use four. Once I plugged into my local discord channel, it became easy and I probably could get all the mewtwos I could want (though I don’t work in the summer, which made weekday raids possible.) I live in a small town with a main village area where everyone meets (the rest of the town is very spread apart, there's zero reason to go there if you don't live there, and since most of our local players only have a bus it's unmanageable for them to get elsewhere). There are zero EX-raid eligible gyms in the village. There's one about a five minute walk away, but it's in the middle of a golf course, so it's completely unusable during daytime hours between Easter and Thanksgiving, and in the winter you usually have to go through 2 feet of snow to get to it. We're all very happy to see Mewtwo, literally none of us, including many level 40 players, have one yet.
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Psychobabble! posted:It's not the system's fault if you can't throw well enough to hit the pokemon(unless "whiff" means something different where you are from?). Mewtwo has double the base catch rate of other legendaries, doesn't move around much, and is pretty easy to hit? Whiff can be used generally to describe trying to do a thing and not doing the thing. Like I had an EX pass for Mewtwo a couple weeks ago, hit nine throws with a golden razz at great or better, and he broke free of all of them. So I whiffed on him. You know how some people were talking about getting RNG hosed for getting EX passes in general? Same thing, really. Just because he has a higher base catch rate doesn't mean that you're guaranteed to catch him.
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Y'all are curve balling, right? Just checking.
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Willsun posted:Got a 97% Mewtwo so I'm ready to quit this psychic lasagna cat and start on the not-relevant-meta Deoxys if they ever change the EX raid. I'm really happy to see a lot of locals finally get Mewtwo after these few rounds of holding them on Sunday.  http://garfemon.tumblr.com/
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Mustached Demon posted:Y'all are curve balling, right? 99% of time. That extra 1% is too much 
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Psychobabble! posted:It's not the system's fault if you can't throw well enough to hit the pokemon(unless "whiff" means something different where you are from?). Mewtwo has double the base catch rate of other legendaries, doesn't move around much, and is pretty easy to hit? Every throw I made on Mewtwo was great or excellent curveball, while he was also golden rasp'd but he still ran on me. Birdstrike posted:more people having mewtwo doesn’t take anything away from you Tell that to the rear end in a top hat who had 15+ but still refused to let me keep the gym for the extra balls, despite his team also having a guaranteed damage bonus.
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I've been to 16 Mewtwo raids and 2 have run from me despite hitting them with curve balls inside the circle every time. It happens to the best of us, especially if there's a large group and you're on the minority team and don't get many balls to work with.FistEnergy posted:Soloed my first Machamp raid. 50 seconds to spare too! Finally added him to my Dex Congrats! That's a lot of extra time. What level are you, what did you use, and did you have a weather boost?
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Having no Pokemon experience outside of GO, what is the reasoning for assuming the next Ex-Raid will be Deoxys instead of Jirachi?
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Sep 11, 2018 03:26
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Jirachi follows the pattern of availability from Willow’s events in being a 100/6 little dude legendary.
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Big McHuge posted:Having no Pokemon experience outside of GO, what is the reasoning for assuming the next Ex-Raid will be Deoxys instead of Jirachi? Jirachi is of the same tier of pokemon as Mew and Celebi, sharing the exact same base stats (100 across the board, 600 total) and being the cute little psychic type at the back end of the pokedex. I'm just assuming that Jirachi will be the subject of the next special mission set.
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HookShot posted:I live in a small town with a main village area where everyone meets (the rest of the town is very spread apart, there's zero reason to go there if you don't live there, and since most of our local players only have a bus it's unmanageable for them to get elsewhere). You live in some former Olympic village, I assume from the 2010 Olympics, right? A lot of your gifts are an Olympic village something or other.
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