Feels like activity absolutely fell off after Xmas. Barely getting any gifts. Guessing everyone was hunkered down staying inside and warm. Of course, with next week appearing to be a non-event week, I'm curious if folks will be more active if only because back to work and all that
Yes I mostly only play during transit to and from work.
Staying inside so my body doesn't burn under this year's thinner ozone layer due to the Tongan eruption or so the weather scientists say. SPF 50 is not enough
Yeah I kinda stopped sending gifts because it's such a time waster. I was annoyed by it before but now that the Vivillion stuff is tied behind it and I was doing it more often then it burned me out faster.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Excellent throws should have their own unique sound. Gotta let em know.
You play with sound? :P
Anyways, yeah, haven't been playing nearly as much. It just sucks to go out right now. Kinda doing the bare minimum and whatever I can do from home (like remote raids)
Yeah I kinda stopped sending gifts because it's such a time waster. I was annoyed by it before but now that the Vivillion stuff is tied behind it and I was doing it more often then it burned me out faster.
Send gifts to get me to best friend level, and that sweet best friend XP bonus, THEN quit sending. :P
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Woo, another wayspot approved (and it's the one I've wanted approved the most cuz I go to eat here all the time ). Was a little worried because the the criteria for restaurants is so confusing and a lot of people automatically reject them. But I nominated some cool soapbox racers they have hanging from the ceiling so that probably helped (it's too bad they take a bit to sync, I'm actually there right now for dinner )
Crazy thing though is my nominations have been getting approved in reverse order. My newest one was approved first, which I assumed was cuz it was a basketball court in a park and with that NBA game they are probably fast tracking anything tagged basketball. But then this one was approved before my first one. Crazy thing is my first one should be a slam dunk - historic train station (it literally checks all the wayspot boxes :P). I guess it just hasn't come up enough in voting? But I'm guessing it will be approved soon if this one just was (they were made around the sameish time).
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Trying to make sense of wayfarer can only lead to madness. It's like one of these eldritch horrors : unfathomable by the human mind. You just yell your nominations into the void and sometimes the void yells back.
It would be nice if, when a friend opens your gift to become a Best Friend and then immediately deletes you, you still get the Best Friend XP bonus anyway.
I've lost out on that twice now. Probably my fault for continuing to indulge jerks who never, ever sent me gifts, but it still stings.
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It would be nice if, when a friend opens your gift to become a Best Friend and then immediately deletes you, you still get the Best Friend XP bonus anyway.
I've lost out on that twice now. Probably my fault for continuing to indulge jerks who never, ever sent me gifts, but it still stings.
The whole friend interface needs a MAJOR overhaul to be honest. I'm sick of playing games trying to figure out who to delete so I don't hit 400 with the only info being "last online 2+ days ago." Been taking screenshots and comparing but it's such a gigantic hassle for something that shouldn't be an issue at all.
It's tedious but I've started to set nicknames for everyone when I gift them in a month. So everyone this month gets names or updates to Jan. Probably at the end of March everyone who hasn't gotten a name yet will get purged, and after that I'll do a monthly housekeeping on anyone three or more months out.
This definitely feels like it should be something I can sort by.
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edited January 2023
Had a feeling this would be the next CD Classic. Feels like maybe the next big one early on after Dratini. Guessing next one may be Beldum based on this trend (which would be great, I had the worst luck that CD on finding shinies for some reason.. I want a do-over :P).
There is a mystery mega this month. Wonder if it's Tyranataur to coincide with this. (edit: Nevermind, I guess it was announced as Salamance already? :P)
Had a feeling this would be the next CD Classic. Feels like maybe the next big one early on after Dratini. Guessing next one may be Beldum based on this trend (which would be great, I had the worst luck that CD on finding shinies for some reason.. I want a do-over :P).
There is a mystery mega this month. Wonder if it's Tyranataur to coincide with this. (edit: Nevermind, I guess it was announced as Salamance already? :P)
Salamance is still a rumor at this point; the new Mega hasn't been officially announced.
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Had a feeling this would be the next CD Classic. Feels like maybe the next big one early on after Dratini. Guessing next one may be Beldum based on this trend (which would be great, I had the worst luck that CD on finding shinies for some reason.. I want a do-over :P).
There is a mystery mega this month. Wonder if it's Tyranataur to coincide with this. (edit: Nevermind, I guess it was announced as Salamance already? :P)
Salamance is still a rumor at this point; the new Mega hasn't been officially announced.
Oh really? Leekduck has it listed, that's why I thought they announced it.
Huh, Leek Duck usually doesn't bite on rumors. OK, I see where that came from, then.
Yeah I saw it there and thought I must have just missed an announcement. Wouldn't expect them to flat out list it like it's confirmed (moreso list it as "Unknown mega" and then when you click in say it's probably Salamance)
I got a bunch of shinies. First day was mostly focusing on Hoppip and Spheal since I missed those community days. Got quite a few of everything, except Deinos for whatever reason (got like three all day) despite that being like the one thing I clicked on all Sunday (need dragon medal progress - ended up pretty close, maybe 300ish away from platinum). Also no shiny bulbasaur but I mean, I already have some. Also got a couple of 2021 shinies from eggs including two Fletchlings and a Snivy. Was trying really hard for a Tepig cuz his shiny is cool but no luck T_T Did get a 98% Gible like minutes into Saturday's thing (not shiny but who cares, Garchomp has a garbage shiny) so woooo. Finally.. Sick of only getting shit IV ones.
Did a Mega Glalie raid last night and got screwed over, only getting 80 mega energy despite us clearing it insanely quick (I've read this is a bug that can happen when there's a network interruption of some kind, though everything seemed fine to me?). Tried to write to support but once again they are completely worthless and refuse to do anything. Thanks, glad I spent money on remote passes for your broken ass game and you won't even comp me the mega energy I was supposed to get. (I'm still really salty since this is the second time support has basically told me to fuck off and this one in particular was the game being broken)
OF COURSE YOU GOT A BUNCH OF SHINIES BECUSE YOU'RE A HUGE FISHING BOAT TRAWLING THE WATERS WITH GIGANTIC NETS
and i'm a tiny fisherperson in a floaty with a toy fishing pole
Man, this Vivillon feature has been great for deadbeat friends finally sending gifts again.
I told my wife this and she had a good chuckle. She then wanted me to tell everyone that she spearheaded this event from the start and is glad to hear people are enjoying it. She’s quite proud of how smoothly this one went.
I KNEW such a cool, smart and well made event could only have been her idea. I'm serious. She's the one person with decision power making things better in PoGo.
I got a bunch of shinies. First day was mostly focusing on Hoppip and Spheal since I missed those community days. Got quite a few of everything, except Deinos for whatever reason (got like three all day) despite that being like the one thing I clicked on all Sunday (need dragon medal progress - ended up pretty close, maybe 300ish away from platinum). Also no shiny bulbasaur but I mean, I already have some. Also got a couple of 2021 shinies from eggs including two Fletchlings and a Snivy. Was trying really hard for a Tepig cuz his shiny is cool but no luck T_T Did get a 98% Gible like minutes into Saturday's thing (not shiny but who cares, Garchomp has a garbage shiny) so woooo. Finally.. Sick of only getting shit IV ones.
Did a Mega Glalie raid last night and got screwed over, only getting 80 mega energy despite us clearing it insanely quick (I've read this is a bug that can happen when there's a network interruption of some kind, though everything seemed fine to me?). Tried to write to support but once again they are completely worthless and refuse to do anything. Thanks, glad I spent money on remote passes for your broken ass game and you won't even comp me the mega energy I was supposed to get. (I'm still really salty since this is the second time support has basically told me to fuck off and this one in particular was the game being broken)
OF COURSE YOU GOT A BUNCH OF SHINIES BECUSE YOU'RE A HUGE FISHING BOAT TRAWLING THE WATERS WITH GIGANTIC NETS
and i'm a tiny fisherperson in a floaty with a toy fishing pole
Haha. I used to have pretty bad luck with them, I think maybe I've just gotten better at hunting (and gotcha definitely helps). Again, really wish this game had long distance trading, I would totally send some to people.
Huh, Leek Duck usually doesn't bite on rumors. OK, I see where that came from, then.
Yeah I saw it there and thought I must have just missed an announcement. Wouldn't expect them to flat out list it like it's confirmed (moreso list it as "Unknown mega" and then when you click in say it's probably Salamance)
My guess is data-mining. Or wild speculation, which doesn't seem like LD's schtick?
Huh, Leek Duck usually doesn't bite on rumors. OK, I see where that came from, then.
Yeah I saw it there and thought I must have just missed an announcement. Wouldn't expect them to flat out list it like it's confirmed (moreso list it as "Unknown mega" and then when you click in say it's probably Salamance)
My guess is data-mining. Or wild speculation, which doesn't seem like LD's schtick?
Probably yeah, but there's been megas datamined that have been in the game for ages now. Like, Mega Sableye has been in the game for a real long time I think. Though I will say more recent datamines (as far as I've seen) have tended to line up with the megas released (like they datamine Alakazam and it gets released next, etc)
Whismur community day in Feb? (which bleh, not my favorite Pokemon but I suppose my first non-red-gyarados shiny ever that for the longest time I thought was actually Goomy until I looked at my Pokemon Y boxes :P)
Overall seems kinda whatever but shiny Dedenne is cool. Also Axew in raids is kinda hype (I have a perfect, I wants XL candies...) and Goomy and Noibat in the wild is nice for those annoying ass rare-AF 10k egg evos.
Does anybody know is there any "risk" to adding random friend codes? Not random like a random string, just random like "saw this FC posted on r/PokemonGoFriends"
Does anybody know is there any "risk" to adding random friend codes? Not random like a random string, just random like "saw this FC posted on r/PokemonGoFriends"
You may get someone who never, ever sends you gifts, then ghosts you before you can get the best friend XP bonus, WHICH I'M STILL SALTY ABOUT.
But that's really it.
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edited January 2023
Wow, these boxes are actually... not complete garbage? (Community Day box could be better but the other two are decent)
Let's give credit where credit's due - even going by the old standards, 375 coins for five incubators and five super incubators is a really great deal. I mean, the current Explorer Box has 10 of each and five incense for 1,850. And the current Trainee Box just has one of each and a battle pass for 450.
I'll happily bite on the new incubator box if it encourages prices to go down.
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Let's give credit where credit's due - even going by the old standards, 375 coins for five incubators and five super incubators is a really great deal. I mean, the current Explorer Box has 10 of each and five incense for 1,850. And the current Trainee Box just has one of each and a battle pass for 450.
I'll happily bite on the new incubator box if it encourages prices to go down.
Yeah, I feel like they've very slowly been getting better again. At least, it's been a little while since we've had some of those borderline offensively priced ones (like the 2000+ boxes filled with poffins and pokeballs and crap). It's too bad the really good deals like that incubator box are only one time purchase but whatever, I'll take it at this point.
If you find one, go hard on catching it. The one I found ran after one ball. Not sure if I got unlucky but for something that's such a pain to find it's better to use the good stuff than to throw your phone in a lake.
I think we saw 3 kecleon over about a dozen or so stops (we weren't actively searching), but what we did notice is that if you're not close enough to the stop, the kecleon won't actually show up on the map after you knock it off the stop.
Also feels like they reduced the radius inside which you can interact with stops/gyms again
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You play with sound? :P
Anyways, yeah, haven't been playing nearly as much. It just sucks to go out right now. Kinda doing the bare minimum and whatever I can do from home (like remote raids)
Send gifts to get me to best friend level, and that sweet best friend XP bonus, THEN quit sending. :P
Crazy thing though is my nominations have been getting approved in reverse order. My newest one was approved first, which I assumed was cuz it was a basketball court in a park and with that NBA game they are probably fast tracking anything tagged basketball. But then this one was approved before my first one. Crazy thing is my first one should be a slam dunk - historic train station (it literally checks all the wayspot boxes :P). I guess it just hasn't come up enough in voting? But I'm guessing it will be approved soon if this one just was (they were made around the sameish time).
It would be nice if, when a friend opens your gift to become a Best Friend and then immediately deletes you, you still get the Best Friend XP bonus anyway.
I've lost out on that twice now. Probably my fault for continuing to indulge jerks who never, ever sent me gifts, but it still stings.
The whole friend interface needs a MAJOR overhaul to be honest. I'm sick of playing games trying to figure out who to delete so I don't hit 400 with the only info being "last online 2+ days ago." Been taking screenshots and comparing but it's such a gigantic hassle for something that shouldn't be an issue at all.
This definitely feels like it should be something I can sort by.
Awwww yisss
e: weird, tweet was deleted.
There is a mystery mega this month. Wonder if it's Tyranataur to coincide with this. (edit: Nevermind, I guess it was announced as Salamance already? :P)
Salamance is still a rumor at this point; the new Mega hasn't been officially announced.
Oh really? Leekduck has it listed, that's why I thought they announced it.
Edit: https://leekduck.com/events/mega-salamance-in-mega-raids-january-2023/
Ahh, if you click in they say it's not confirmed... tisk tisk Leekduck
That's all I got, though. Well, that and a 1-off Salamence, so happy to be wrong
Yeah I saw it there and thought I must have just missed an announcement. Wouldn't expect them to flat out list it like it's confirmed (moreso list it as "Unknown mega" and then when you click in say it's probably Salamance)
OF COURSE YOU GOT A BUNCH OF SHINIES BECUSE YOU'RE A HUGE FISHING BOAT TRAWLING THE WATERS WITH GIGANTIC NETS
and i'm a tiny fisherperson in a floaty with a toy fishing pole
I KNEW such a cool, smart and well made event could only have been her idea. I'm serious. She's the one person with decision power making things better in PoGo.
Haha. I used to have pretty bad luck with them, I think maybe I've just gotten better at hunting (and gotcha definitely helps). Again, really wish this game had long distance trading, I would totally send some to people.
My guess is data-mining. Or wild speculation, which doesn't seem like LD's schtick?
Probably yeah, but there's been megas datamined that have been in the game for ages now. Like, Mega Sableye has been in the game for a real long time I think. Though I will say more recent datamines (as far as I've seen) have tended to line up with the megas released (like they datamine Alakazam and it gets released next, etc)
Edit: Speaking of datamines, just saw this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/10117eq/boomburst_and_glaciate_sound_effects_added/
Whismur community day in Feb? (which bleh, not my favorite Pokemon but I suppose my first non-red-gyarados shiny ever that for the longest time I thought was actually Goomy until I looked at my Pokemon Y boxes :P)
At work so can't look, have to wait 2 minutes for someone to completely infograph this whole thing :P
Edit: Oh hey look https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/103f51f/twinkling_fantasy_event/
haha, I don't know how they do this shit so fast
Also Mega Salamance confirmed I guess
Overall seems kinda whatever but shiny Dedenne is cool. Also Axew in raids is kinda hype (I have a perfect, I wants XL candies...) and Goomy and Noibat in the wild is nice for those annoying ass rare-AF 10k egg evos.
I was wondering if we'd ever get a dragon event, and here we are!
They get the info early to have time to prepare images and videos.
That's also why sometimes leaks or accidental early tweets happen.
You may get someone who never, ever sends you gifts, then ghosts you before you can get the best friend XP bonus, WHICH I'M STILL SALTY ABOUT.
But that's really it.
Surprised Pikachu face
Do wish they'd stop limiting the real good ones to "one" tho
I'll happily bite on the new incubator box if it encourages prices to go down.
Yeah, I feel like they've very slowly been getting better again. At least, it's been a little while since we've had some of those borderline offensively priced ones (like the 2000+ boxes filled with poffins and pokeballs and crap). It's too bad the really good deals like that incubator box are only one time purchase but whatever, I'll take it at this point.
Edit or not, I dunno
Kecleon is also out now. They made him rare as hell tho. I only found one searching maybe 50 pokestops or something.
Also feels like they reduced the radius inside which you can interact with stops/gyms again