Pokémon GO

R_N said:
From what I saw this event had no steps forward. A lot of places just didn't spawn any, they had to issue an announcement apologizing and the way eggs spawned made them easy to miss even if you had EX Gyms to fish for.

The "free meteorite" actually just being a duplicate of the timed research (both of which required beating Rayquaza anyway...) was also comical.
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For clarity, the "steps forward" I was referring to were trying to minimize Gym Blockage (method sucked but something like a glow to signal an egg without blocking raids the previous day to still allow planning) and increasing Rayquaza's Energy drops to "normal" Mega rates (admittedly necessary because of the thinner raids, but I'd hope that sticks around).

I say 3 steps back because any good changes or additions were either just to soften the bad Elite Format or fixing things they didn't really have a reason to do the old way to begin with.

The EX spawns were weird because after Niantic made the announcement, some people reported areas where somehow every Gym was a Mega Ray Egg, which brings into question what even makes an EX Gym.
 
I'm probably lucky with everyone here all over the world more recently with Fluke. I am still hopeful someday we can have remote lucky trades as I will never intend to travel to Australia just to receive a 12/15/12 of something, and yes it's a 1/64 odds of receiving a lucky hundo from a lucky trade which is rare. My latest buddies on my main and alt accounts are lucky hundo Rayquaza and lucky hundo Groudon so if I ever get 296 xl candies for each of them then I will certainly max them out.

For yesterday's mega Rayquaza raids, I managed to hook of with my group from Facebook & Discord as we managed to average 3-4 raids per hour for the 3 hours I was available. I did manage to get 2 shiny rayquaza which I am saving for lucky trades of equal value. One of the raids we did manage to join when there was mere seconds left to join which fortunately resulted in one of those 2 shinies.

I hope in the future we can have 3 hour mega rayquaza raids again but I'll only believe it when I see it happen.
 
Yeah, definitely very little places spawned any at all. This is why I inconveniently only was able to do one. Got a shiny though, so can't complain!
 
QuentinQuonce said:
Clearly I'm not as cruel as I thought. Ordinarily I'd laugh at the thought of all your excitement and anticipation inevitably concluding with you ending up with an 11/10/11 Marshadow, but I know how long you've been waiting for this so I sincerely hope you get a good one.
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Despite your change of heart the RNG gods have opted to appease your sadistic side:

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True to my word, though, I am still happy to have it and pumped it full of rare candy and levelled it up to 40. Waiting to see if we get more (non-paid) candy for global go fest before I add the second move or level up past 40. The real shame is that Niantic didn't give Marshadow any ghost-type moves. :(

Overall, this year's GO Fest was not worth it. It was just too hot and humid for a park that is super inconvenient to get to, has little shade, and has no air conditioned buildings you can retreat to (except the "quiet room" which is just a trailer). Seattle GO fest was much better in those respects. I basically just did a speedrun of the research to get Marshadow and did some trivia at one of the team tents and then we bailed. Honestly we should've just gotten the global go fest tickets and played in a mall next weekend.

RocketSurgery said:
https://pokemongolive.com/post/scorching-steps-2024?hl=en

Scorching sands! Instead of not hatching Larvesta, you will now not be hatching shiny Larvesta! You will also continue to not be hatching Charcadet.

Maybe you'll hatch a shiny slugma or litleo as a consolation prize.
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In other recent POGO events, I guess my bad Marshadow IV luck was to make up for my (eventually unnecessary) relatively good luck for the scorching steps event. I only used non-infinite incubators to clear out one set of eggs, and I managed to hatch 4 or 5 larvesta from 2k/5k eggs and 2 charcadet (both 2*) out of three 10k eggs. No shinies, though.

I did get a 3* charcadet from the Google play timed research, at least.
 
R_N said:
....If you're going to put Pidgey in the day time wouldn't it make sense to put Hoothoot in the night time...?
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Pidgey and Gligar are counterparts, apparently (news to me)

Solrock and Lunatone basically no longer being regionals is cool, though. One of the few duos where I genuinely like both equally.
 
I've been incredibly lax with raids this week so if anyone's doing Buzzwole or Xurkitree raids tomorrow please hit me up so I can get that sodding Timed Research completed. Happy to return the favour with Pheromosa for anyone not in Europe.
 
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Finally got through all of the ultra beasts (also an egghorse from timed research), very handy for being in a small area with organised raiding essentially impossible.
 
I've actually also almost finished out this research. I figured I may as well, you know? I should be able to finish it up tomorrow and worst case I have 2 remotes I can use.
I feel between this & the Sinnoh Global, that they might uptick the raids for these events. I see far more 1 & 3 star raids pop up, across more of the nearby gyms that I can actually go to, than I normally do.

The Kartana was even shiny! How nice.
 
At a raid a few weeks ago I met two really cool people that live in my city. We added each other on Pokemon GO and they said GO Fest is Pokemon GO's biggest yearly event, and that I should not miss out on it. I usually don't care much about events, but they got me interested. When we left the raid they said "see you there" but I now realize I have no ways of reaching them. Did some online name searching but didn't give me much. I wish Pokemon GO had some sort of chat function. It would surely be nice doing some of the event together with a few people, but I'm definitely not going to do it by myself.
 
One more plea for Buzzwole and Xurkitree, good people (it's Pheromosa raid hour in one hour if people want invites in return)
 
Fluke said:
I wish Pokemon GO had some sort of chat function. It would surely be nice doing some of the event together with a few people, but I'm definitely not going to do it by myself.
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You may want to try out Niantic's Campfire feature as it has the ability to chat with other Pokemon GO members that use it.

I'm waiting until I get a better phone plan as my current device is poor at multitasking and probably lacks the RAM to load the app as quickly as possible unless Niantic has yet other buggy things that has been making it load up slower than usual.

Edit: got a shiny Pheromosa on my alt from a member here from "Taylor" so thanks for the invite. We were able to duo it can probably be soloable with a Mega Rayquaza at least.
 
pika pal said:
I will be doing Buzzwole for my own Raid hour in like 5 and a half hours, but if that's too late I could join for Pheromosa (easy Duo with Flying attackers and I need the Shiny)
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Not too late! It's 11pm for me so I'll be up. Thanks!

Also as I've got four accounts I'm up for doing loads, so feel free to invite then leave the lobbies if you've had your fill - pretty sure Buzzwole is an easy duo
 
QuentinQuonce said:
Not too late! It's 11pm for me so I'll be up. Thanks!

Also as I've got four accounts I'm up for doing 6 in total, so feel free to invite then leave the lobbies if you've had your fill - pretty sure Buzzwole is an easy duo
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Which account(s) should I invite? I have GreenTyphlosion added, not sure if I had any of your other alts as well.
 
I managed to meet the people I was looking for at a meet up through Campfire today! We had a good time, did some fun raids in a group of ~50 people, and caught some fun stuff, all while the weather was amazing. I had no clue this game was still alive like this. Good experience.
 
I ran into and chatted up a lot of people, and blew my Raid savings for this event on ~130 Necrozma Raids. These kind of events tell me that the game isn't really "dead" as one might think, moreso its structure leaves things really scatterbrained/disorganized.

Niantic has very few effective communication channels (the average player being unlikely to download Campfire for it given how many QoL and features it lacks compared to most chat platforms) for the players and community to congregate and communicate through. Most players on my friends' list have a Discord but have not linked to Campfire despite it have features like a Remote Raid Queue or Map that should make it useful.

Something like an in-game messaging system to say things like "We have Lucky Friends, want to meet?" or to even just communicate "I'm trying to make a raid, want to join?" would go much further than having to go to an external app, be it Campfire or Discord.
 
Well, this year was a bit of a bust even considering the fact I didn't buy a ticket (and honestly after seeing the event in full I feel pretty validated in that). There was nothing of particular interest outside of the raids: the vast majority of wild spawns were species which most players have already had ample opportunity to get before. Considering previous years put egg-locked species like Pancham or regionals like Heracross in the wild for everyone, or at the very least some at-the-time rare and/or evolved species like Rufflet, Burmy, Watchog, Golurk, Dragalge, Vibrava, and Beartic, I was hoping for something interesting but the most exciting it really got was, er... Golett (oh, apparently that can be shiny?) and Jangmo-o (which big whoop because it will almost certainly have a community day next year). I'm afraid Espeon and Umbreon are not sufficient draws for me.

The upshot was that such boring spawns made it easy to focus on raiding but, just looking over the list of recent introductions and thinking about what feels thematically appropriate, would it really have broken the game open to have Hisuian Decidueye, Greavard, Komala, Bergmite or even Sandile appearing? There wasn't even a new Rotom form or a new species like Skiddo for ticketed players (obviously there's Marshadow but that's a given).

The one bit of luck I did have was finding a shiny Ducklett, which I'm pretty happy with.

Necrozma was another matter, though. I didn't spend a penny but, as I had over 10,000 coins saved up due to only rarely buying storage space and incubator bundles (and pretty much never buying remote passes) I was able to go all out and blew about 3000 coins on additional passes for which I ended up with... about 45 non-shiny individuals with crappy IVs. Looks like I'll have to hope for a good one from a lucky trade sometime.

And, infuriatingly, I lost out on my chance to get additional Ultra Beasts from that timed research last week because I didn't realise it'd disappear at 8pm on Friday rather than at 10am the next day when the event ended. Didn't manage to get any shinies while they were here - well, they'll be back eventually I'm sure.

pika pal said:
Niantic has very few effective communication channels (the average player being unlikely to download Campfire for it given how many QoL and features it lacks compared to most chat platforms) for the players and community to congregate and communicate through. Most players on my friends' list have a Discord but have not linked to Campfire despite it have features like a Remote Raid Queue or Map that should make it useful.

Something like an in-game messaging system to say things like "We have Lucky Friends, want to meet?" or to even just communicate "I'm trying to make a raid, want to join?" would go much further than having to go to an external app, be it Campfire or Discord.
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This. I had a message on Discord from someone I'm lucky with but, because I never get notifications from the app any more, had already left by the time I saw it.
 
QuentinQuonce said:
Well, this year was a bit of a bust even considering the fact I didn't buy a ticket (and honestly after seeing the event in full I feel pretty validated in that). There was nothing of particular interest outside of the raids: the vast majority of wild spawns were species which most players have already had ample opportunity to get before. Considering previous years put egg-locked species like Pancham or regionals like Heracross in the wild for everyone, or at the very least some at-the-time rare and/or evolved species like Rufflet, Burmy, Watchog, Golurk, Dragalge, Vibrava, and Beartic, I was hoping for something interesting but the most exciting it really got was, er... Golett (oh, apparently that can be shiny?) and Jangmo-o (which big whoop because it will almost certainly have a community day next year). I'm afraid Espeon and Umbreon are not sufficient draws for me.

The upshot was that such boring spawns made it easy to focus on raiding but, just looking over the list of recent introductions and thinking about what feels thematically appropriate, would it really have broken the game open to have Hisuian Decidueye, Greavard, Komala, Bergmite or even Sandile appearing? There wasn't even a new Rotom form or a new species like Skiddo for ticketed players (obviously there's Marshadow but that's a given).

The one bit of luck I did have was finding a shiny Ducklett, which I'm pretty happy with.

Necrozma was another matter, though. I didn't spend a penny but, as I had over 10,000 coins saved up due to only rarely buying storage space and incubator bundles (and pretty much never buying remote passes) I was able to go all out and blew about 3000 coins on additional passes for which I ended up with... about 45 non-shiny individuals with crappy IVs. Looks like I'll have to hope for a good one from a lucky trade sometime.

And, infuriatingly, I lost out on my chance to get additional Ultra Beasts from that timed research last week because I didn't realise it'd disappear at 8pm on Friday rather than at 10am the next day when the event ended. Didn't manage to get any shinies while they were here - well, they'll be back eventually I'm sure.
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The things I was most intent on for the Spawns were the stuff on the Incense, namely Rockruff (Dusk Form without having to hatch stupid long eggs) and the two Regionals for Dex entries (even nabbed a couple Shiny Corsola), but the pool overall wasn't very interesting considering how much stuff there was to look through for the couple cool things like Jangmo-o or mons with their special moves.

I do find it odd the Ultra Beast Timed Researches ended before the Go Fest stuff considering the UB's were still a prominent aspect of Saturday and the US ticket included benefits that lasted through the event (very high value if you were a raid fiend for that much candy).

I do think Tour/Fest events since Hoenn Tour have been leaning more and more heavily on the Raid "Headliners" since those are obviously the big money makers, but it has the issue of not really hooking community players since there's so much overlap between things. Like I skipped out on Research walking and hunting for Wild Spawns actively since I didn't want to stray far from my Raid Trains, so I didn't really get into the other big features too much like Egg Hatching or some rarer spawns like Jangmo-o. The only exception was Sinnoh Tour where I could do tasks in "down time" of Biomes where Origins didn't spawn (which happened to align with things I wanted to hunt) or where the tasks were Raid Focused so I could do them simultaneously (like the Win-Raids tasks Hisuian Evos or simple power-up Tasks for things like Sneasel).
 
pika pal said:
The things I was most intent on for the Spawns were the stuff on the Incense, namely Rockruff (Dusk Form without having to hatch stupid long eggs) and the two Regionals for Dex entries (even nabbed a couple Shiny Corsola), but the pool overall wasn't very interesting considering how much stuff there was to look through for the couple cool things like Jangmo-o or mons with their special moves.
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Funny you mentioned Corsola as that particular mon was literally part of my aversion to buying a ticket, I remember well people raiding the heck out of it during the Johto tour and still not getting a shiny (and the subsequent analysis which showed that regionals likely weren't shiny-boosted). But a few people seemed to get a shiny one this time around so it seems like that wasn't the case here. The only other regional was Maractus which obviously can't be shiny yet but will almost certainly be released in the Unova tour next year so I wasn't that bothered about it.

pika pal said:
I do find it odd the Ultra Beast Timed Researches ended before the Go Fest stuff considering the UB's were still a prominent aspect of Saturday and the US ticket included benefits that lasted through the event (very high value if you were a raid fiend for that much candy).

I do think Tour/Fest events since Hoenn Tour have been leaning more and more heavily on the Raid "Headliners" since those are obviously the big money makers, but it has the issue of not really hooking community players since there's so much overlap between things. Like I skipped out on Research walking and hunting for Wild Spawns actively since I didn't want to stray far from my Raid Trains, so I didn't really get into the other big features too much like Egg Hatching or some rarer spawns like Jangmo-o. The only exception was Sinnoh Tour where I could do tasks in "down time" of Biomes where Origins didn't spawn (which happened to align with things I wanted to hunt) or where the tasks were Raid Focused so I could do them simultaneously (like the Win-Raids tasks Hisuian Evos or simple power-up Tasks for things like Sneasel).
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A lot of people raiding with me were quite disappointed the UBs weren't around on Sunday. Personally I was not because two forms of Necrozma is enough variance considering Jangmo-o, Pikachu x2, Espeon, and Umbreon already dilutes the pool of available raids enough - if you'd added in a bunch of UBs to that it'd have been a nightmare raiding as many Necrozma with green passes as I managed. Small mercies I guess.

I quite like the Saturday-Sunday split Go Fest tends to have where Day 1 is mostly spawn-focused and Day 2 is raid/story focused, I remember a couple of years back (2020, I believe) they had a Team Rocket-focused day and it was so overwhelming checking Pokemon and doing battles and ensuring I was making it through the Special Research AND trying to do raids (iirc it was Groudon and Kyogre on day 1 and Dialga/Palkia/Giratina on Day 2, which at the time I hadn't caught any of yet so I went very hard trying to get them all).

This was, by comparison, quite stripped-back in comparison to previous years: a lot of people would (I assume) have largely ignored raids on Day 1 and focused on spawns and then gone hard on raids on Day 2. Ultimately I did enjoy it overall, just for the experience.
 
QuentinQuonce said:
This was, by comparison, quite stripped-back in comparison to previous years: a lot of people would (I assume) have largely ignored raids on Day 1 and focused on spawns and then gone hard on raids on Day 2. Ultimately I did enjoy it overall, just for the experience.
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I think this is the intended format, but in my personal experience and several members of my friend group, it was moreso they focused on the UB's for Day 1 since the Day 2 Necrozmas were just an objectively better time to do it (less scattered/diluted spawns on Gyms, plus having to do some for Fusion Energy no matter how good they had rolls beforehand). The lackluster field and research spawns led to a style of mostly walking between Gyms, catching on the way and only diverting if someone shouted out something rare like a Hundo.
 
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