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Eggs are basically lootboxes, but you've got to work for them before you get a poo poo reward. It's such a terrible system that maybe worked when the game came out (Pidgey and Rattata aside), but egg pools are just clogged with useless poo poo and the Gen 4 rollout is just a pathetic trickle compared to the well done Gen 3 rollout that it's annoying a lot of people.
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It’s frustrating to have Niantic to be able to coast by just due to having the Pokemon property. Two years in and we finally have something resembling a real game.
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Dec 24, 2018 05:34
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BGrifter posted:Any day now the Pokemon Go gacha will launch. When The Pokemon Company decides to break the glass and release an actual Pokemon gacha game, a lot of people are going to go bankrupt.
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Dec 24, 2018 06:31
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With the slow trickle of gen 4 releases, I stopped caring about dex completion. With gen 3 I tried to catch as many new pokemon as possible before the next wave was released. The waves of releases provided a sense of pacing to pokedex completion. I know that's not really possible with gen 4 since most of the new pokemon are evolved from previous gens or legendaries but it still sucks. Also knowing that future community days could render otherwise strong movesets obsolete I haven't evolved any of the gen 4 starters and I'm trying not to evolve anything with a high max cp that doesn't have a shiny released unless I have a specific use for it, like to use against a specific raid boss or in PVP. Otherwise I don't see the point of evolving something just for the dex entry.
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Dec 24, 2018 08:18
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I heard EX raids get cancelled sometimes. Is there any way at all to predict a cancellation so I don't make out-of-the-way plans that get wasted?
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Dec 25, 2018 00:59
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This guy was loitering outside my house this morning, no where near water with sunshine weather. I never really see these things, so hitting a good trade right on the spot in one shot is always cool. 
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Dec 25, 2018 01:58
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SuperKlaus posted:I heard EX raids get cancelled sometimes. Is there any way at all to predict a cancellation so I don't make out-of-the-way plans that get wasted? They only get canceled when niantic fucks up. Which they might given that is a new deoxys form.
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Dec 25, 2018 02:06
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I got my first ever invitation to an EX raid from my first ever 5 star raid the other day. Missed out on catching Lugia, so I hope the Deoxys raid on the 29th doesn't get cancelled.
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Dec 25, 2018 04:36
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I mean part of why I'm asking is I heard you get 50 large in dust and 5 raid passes if they cancel and given the bother involved in getting to my raid I think I might rather see a cancellation.
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Dec 25, 2018 05:47
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they've cancelled maybe, what, five EX raid waves out of hundreds? Don't count on it.
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Dec 25, 2018 06:01
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What's a Mewtwo trade typically worth? Never had one and need one for dex/raiding and want to know what to expect
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Dec 25, 2018 21:47
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It depends. I traded a Mewtwo to two of my friends who could never get a pass for one so I took small poo poo in trade. Most people want shinies or legendaries.
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Dec 25, 2018 22:01
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I swapped mine for a shiny swablu and the guy was certain he was ripping me off. Any non-community day shiny would do it, I think. If you’ve got any decent old pokes that are guaranteed lucky, that might do it. And I’ve had people offer my pick of their dex for my guaranteed lucky shadow claw/shadow ball gengar.
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Dec 25, 2018 22:15
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Soulex posted:What's a Mewtwo trade typically worth? Never had one and need one for dex/raiding and want to know what to expect Trying to put a value on something in a game where the trade system is practically useless due to the high currency cost and the fact that you can only do one for one trades doesn't really work out. On top of that, the Mewtwo you end up getting is more likely to be reduced to garbage than keeping good stats unless you can force a Lucky trade by throwing a july/aug 2016 monster at it with less than 10 luckies on either yourself or the other person. It would still be useful even then simply because it is a Mewtwo, but wasting hundreds of thousands of dust for a weak version of a pokemon that will inevitably return at some time in the future is wasteful. You should probably just not worry too much about it. Eventually you'll find someone who has literally dozens of mewtwos because they raided 10 times a day during the month it was in all 5 star raids, and become ultra or best friends with them and just get one for whatever. Or wait till it comes back to raids.
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Dec 25, 2018 23:06
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Yeah, the Mewtwo will be virtually worthless to anyone who raided a bunch during that time. It's the dust you'd be paying for cause hoooooooooly poo poo that's a lotta dust.
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Dec 25, 2018 23:09
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Back in the old US of A and for some pokego first world problems. My resort in Mexico had no cell data in Niantic's system to spawn pokemon and then I got unlucky at the airport so 0 heracross in my dex still.
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Dec 26, 2018 02:18
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I was looking for a shiny Murkow and only one dude had one for trade; despite me helping him in the past, he didn't want anything I had to offer. Ah well. Then I got lucky; another gent is desperate for a shiny Geodude; I have two. He said he'd give me his shiny Snubbel and Murkow and a Munchlax for him. I told him just the shiny Murkow would make us even. He wants the shiny geodude bad. But gently caress, I am not gonna take two shinies for one (even if they'd be another trade, you know).
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Dec 26, 2018 03:01
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Cowslips Warren posted:I was looking for a shiny Murkow and only one dude had one for trade; despite me helping him in the past, he didn't want anything I had to offer. Ah well. Then I got lucky; another gent is desperate for a shiny Geodude; I have two. He said he'd give me his shiny Snubbel and Murkow and a Munchlax for him. I told him just the shiny Murkow would make us even. That's an impossible trade anyways, unless you have already caught each one at some point. You can only trade one shiny or non-dex pokemon per day.
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Dec 26, 2018 09:30
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BabyRyoga posted:That's an impossible trade anyways, unless you have already caught each one at some point. You can only trade one shiny or non-dex pokemon per day. I know, it would have been at least two trades over two days, but I'm not taking two shinies for one regardless. now there's some dude on our Discord channel with a munchlax saying he will trade it for one of the Gen 4 regionals. Good luck with that.
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Dec 26, 2018 13:44
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Time for another round of Ultra Friends! NatKingSwole PanicRelicanth PaulBlarticus Pezfourtytwo rockethatch Samitch11 systemchronos TheBiggaFigga TomRgv Urposeppo I'll be opening gifts at 12pm EST on Friday the 29th.
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Dec 26, 2018 19:29
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Dragonstoned posted:You are more likely to get it to go lucky if you're trading a pokemon that was caught in 7/2016 or 8/2016 (and have less than 10 luckies already) but it's never a guarantee. The July/August 2016 Pokemon you have makes whatever you trade it with a guaranteed lucky as long as you've had less than 10 lucky Pokemon. Click here for their post about it. I think the confusion for some people is that they expected both players to get a lucky Pokemon. Some trigger-happy traders who already had more than 10 lucky Pokemon and are going for a lucky dex completion jumped at this announcement, asked people with July/August 2016 Pokemon to trade with them, and ended up not getting lucky Pokemon and got upset for not reading correctly. If you met someone like this and you still have less than 10 lucky Pokemon, don't get pressured into trading with them unless they're going to trade you a shiny or something worthwhile that YOU can get a lucky on. Otherwise you'll burn through your guaranteed luckies if they want something specific while trading you garbage. I waited until I got Best Friends with my alt and traded over a shiny Hondour to my main with a July/August '16 Pokemon and it rerolled from an 81% to an 87% lucky.
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Dec 26, 2018 19:43
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I used my 10 Luckies on Tyranitars, Dragonites, and Metagross during the community event weekend and it was the best
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Is it on hand or does it count if you transfered them? Also thanks everyone for the advice.
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Dec 26, 2018 21:48
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The 10 guaranteed includes transfers and any lucky evolves you do.
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Willsun posted:The July/August 2016 Pokemon you have makes whatever you trade it with a guaranteed lucky as long as you've had less than 10 lucky Pokemon. Click here for their post about it. I think the confusion for some people is that they expected both players to get a lucky Pokemon. Some trigger-happy traders who already had more than 10 lucky Pokemon and are going for a lucky dex completion jumped at this announcement, asked people with July/August 2016 Pokemon to trade with them, and ended up not getting lucky Pokemon and got upset for not reading correctly. If you met someone like this and you still have less than 10 lucky Pokemon, don't get pressured into trading with them unless they're going to trade you a shiny or something worthwhile that YOU can get a lucky on. Otherwise you'll burn through your guaranteed luckies if they want something specific while trading you garbage. ALL lucky trades result in both players getting lucky pokemon. I had my brother's account trade me 10 things from July 16' when I already had prob 30 or 40 luckies, and every trade was still a lucky for me. Maybe it wasn't working properly when the feature was first announced or something.
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FistEnergy posted:Time for another round of Ultra Friends! Open away my friend, I'll probably forget but I've gotten good at popping an egg after the notification but before the splash screen comes up
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Dec 27, 2018 04:08
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GTJustin posted:The 10 guaranteed includes transfers and any lucky evolves you do. I didn't know evolving a lucky Pokemon counted against your 10, that's good to know!
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FunkmasterCGH I accidentally pushed us to ultra friends. Use an egg as soon as you log in next. Sorry dude.
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Ultra friends heads-up alert. The following people should pop a lucky egg at 1:15pm CST today: Cunmcallister EdibleVenus45 FistEnergy FronkStavens Marzzle Serafaina Fake James fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Chairman Mao posted:I didn't know evolving a lucky Pokemon counted against your 10, that's good to know!
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Opening gifts to become best/ultra friends around noon EST today with DrMcBill PizzaLad69 Muppetjedi Sorry this last gift was hanging there for weeks - got caught up with stuff this past month and been very inconsistent with playing but hopefully you can all pop eggs after 1215pm EST or so if you want the xp bump
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Joose Caboose posted:Opening gifts to become best/ultra friends around noon EST today with Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be out shiny hunting so I’ll go ahead and pop an egg. Lol two minutes after I posted that I got the pop up.  Ah well, it’s just experience. Fyrbrand fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Beastyfella posted:Thought I read on Silph Road that this doesn't count anymore. As of maybe a month ago. That would be very interesting to know. The only info I've seen since the feature came out is that it's based on number of lucky entries in the dex.
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So what is our new awesome January research? drat poo poo. Ho and Lugia. Cause no one wants anything else.
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lol Ho-oh and Lugia. Remind me why I wasted my time raiding for them a couple weeks ago?
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Well, they are added to the pool of possibilities, so they're two of eight Pokemon and you only get four rolls of the dice in the month. Plus we don't know yet if the research ones can be shiny like the raid ones were. I feel like a big idiot because I got a shiny Snorunt and evolved it not knowing 1) Glalie is ugly as poo poo, 2) Glalie's shiny is remarkably low-effort, and 3) Froslass exists and the Snorunt was female. What I wouldn't give for a way to devolve a Pokemon right now. Well, shiny Froslass doesn't look very different anyway, I guess.
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Yeah, I need a Ho-Oh and if I had timed it to get 5 rolls (I turned in a research today, so if I miss even a single day I can't get five) I'd still only have a 49% chance to get at least one Ho-Oh. With four rolls that's a 41% chance, with three it's a 33%.
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Dec 28, 2018 01:13
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I'd like a Kyogre sometime this century, Niantic 
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"We don't like releasing new content, here is old content for not 1, not 2, but THREE months in a row" at least take the aug-oct "legendaries" out of the pool, you fucks.
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SuperKlaus posted:Well, they are added to the pool of possibilities, so they're two of eight Pokemon and you only get four rolls of the dice in the month. Plus we don't know yet if the research ones can be shiny like the raid ones were. Point taken, but this pool of eight is around till the end of February so we’ll have 8-9 shots. On the upside Zapdos sticks around till February and is the only one I still need. 
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