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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Been weather boosted in the evenings here the last couple days, so lots of Groudon raids after work. Finally caught a shiny today... on my alt. That's not as bad as it used to be, just grind out that 80k stardust and a month of friendship.
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endlessmonotony posted:I don't think you understand statistics. At all. 250 plus is enough of a sample size in something that occurs 1 in 20ish that your results will start to normalize. I understand that someone might, even with an excessive number of encounters, experience an abysmal streak of luck once in a while, but it just isn't something that occurs multiple times in a row. If you play the par of the course and still get only 1 or even no shinies several months in a row, you are doing something wrong, as much as it might not feel like it. There is a reason the "same people" always post about getting a bunch of shinies, and the same people post about not getting very many, and I have converted several people I know from group B to group A firsthand. If it is as you say it is regarding spawns being lower, you should try to find a better place to play if possible. Figure out where the other players are going and follow them.
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Jan 25, 2019 07:31
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BabyRyoga posted:250 plus is enough of a sample size in something that occurs 1 in 20ish that your results will start to normalize. I understand that someone might, even with an excessive number of encounters, experience an abysmal streak of luck once in a while, but it just isn't something that occurs multiple times in a row. If you play the par of the course and still get only 1 or even no shinies several months in a row, you are doing something wrong, as much as it might not feel like it. There is a reason the "same people" always post about getting a bunch of shinies, and the same people post about not getting very many, and I have converted several people I know from group B to group A firsthand. Nah, complaining about on the internet is probably a pretty good indicator you're on the shittier side of random chance, and "just isn't something that occurs multiple times in a row" is trivially proven as false, you can even calculate the odds. One in a million odds happen once every million instances on average and all. That being said, the odds are bigger Niantic just has hosed something up. We know these things are both regional and time-based, and everyone in a region having lovely shiny luck just based on a coding fuckup wouldn't even make me wonder how Niantic hosed up, because they do, incessantly. Also yeah the spawns being lovely is true for the nearest 100 miles in all directions. The more committed local players point out you can take a train for ~120 miles and find the nearest spot with spawns that let you grab 100+ event mon per community day... but I ain't paying for a train ticket for shiny pokemon.
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Jan 25, 2019 10:54
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BabyRyoga posted:If you play the par of the course and still get only 1 or even no shinies several months in a row, you are doing something wrong, as much as it might not feel like it. Repeating the same demonstrably incorrect thing over and over again doesn't make you right. I go where the event pokemon spawn in great numbers, some community days there are shinies, others there are none, and I'm not the only person in this thread who has posted about the same experience, let alone elsewhere. That's not me doing something wrong, that's something wrong with the game.
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Jan 25, 2019 11:17
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BiggaFigga! We are best friends tomorrow. You wanna arrange this?
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omnibobb posted:BiggaFigga! We are best friends tomorrow. You wanna arrange this? I'm at 40, so whenever you want to go for it
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Jan 25, 2019 14:04
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I don't have the shiny feebas, but I do have a 93 iv regular that will be a cool evolved Pokemon. I think I'm actually off work for pig community day so that'll be cool.
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Jan 25, 2019 14:14
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BabyRyoga posted:250 plus is enough of a sample size in something that occurs 1 in 20ish that your results will start to normalize. I understand that someone might, even with an excessive number of encounters, experience an abysmal streak of luck once in a while, but it just isn't something that occurs multiple times in a row. If you play the par of the course and still get only 1 or even no shinies several months in a row, you are doing something wrong, as much as it might not feel like it. There is a reason the "same people" always post about getting a bunch of shinies, and the same people post about not getting very many, and I have converted several people I know from group B to group A firsthand. that would be all well and good if it wasn't happening with the people that I am literally walking down the street with every community day. Some people consistently get 15 to 20 while others are lucky to get one in that three-hour window. We're in a small town so there's really only one good spot down our main street where there are about 5 pokestops and three gyms, so I could understand if everyone was getting low amounts compared to players in large towns but this is all happening locally
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Jan 25, 2019 14:39
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DizzyBum, we're a day away from best friends. You can pop it whenever, just post in this thread when you do
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Sorry that I'm probably repeating myself but this game really needs a "Raid Interest Alert" system where you can like shoot up a flare or ping the map to let people know you're at / intend to go to a gym with a raid. I've been doing some essentially random raids for Kyogres and it's kind of frustrating when I wait ten minutes hoping for other randoms, and then leave, and sometimes come back ten minutes later and stumble on 11 participants. Yes I know there are Discord and FB groups coordinating actions but something in-game would be nice.
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Jan 25, 2019 18:15
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Honestly my discord group seems to be good enough that whatever in game raid coordination system niantic half develops would just detract from the experience or significantly slow the game down. I certainly understand the need for an in game communication system but I really don’t trust niantic to do it without loving up raids via disconnections or lag for like 3 months. Why they still have in game notifications that you can’t turn off is still a mystery to me.
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Jan 25, 2019 18:21
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 Hell yeah, finally hatched one. Still need Munchlax and Chingling, but I don't expect to ever hatch that baby bell. Centzon Totochtin posted:DizzyBum, we're a day away from best friends. You can pop it whenever, just post in this thread when you do Are you PizzaLad69? I'm going to hold off a couple days since I've got another friend that's 3 days away from besties. I will definitely let you know, though. Thanks! DizzyBum fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Jan 25, 2019 18:29
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Jan 25, 2019 19:47
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I've hatched give Munchlax, I would happily trade some for a chingling, mantyke, or shiny Eevee.
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Jan 25, 2019 19:53
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What it needs is a “start raid now” button. I don’t need a 9 person squad to take down a 1-2 bowser monster. gently caress you Niantic.
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Jan 25, 2019 19:58
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I caught 4 Kyogres and 2 Groudon today with zero flees. I should buy a lotto ticket!
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I am at like 7 munchlaxs, 2 riolus, 1 ching, but 0 mantykes. The muchlaxes seem way more common than the others, possibly in part to people complaining about how they were specifically mentioned in the event description last month whereas the others were not mentioned by name.
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Robokomodo posted:What it needs is a “start raid now” button. I don’t need a 9 person squad to take down a 1-2 bowser monster. gently caress you Niantic. IMO there should be an option to start a raid immediately when creating a private group. Keep the public lobby as-is.
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DizzyBum posted:IMO there should be an option to start a raid immediately when creating a private group. Keep the public lobby as-is. That seems like a good compromise solution. Being able to start solo raids immediately would be very nice, and it'd curb some of the toxic behavior from the tryhards. The last few times I was out doing Kyogre/Groudon raids there was a group standing off to the side whining that there were some low levels in the 20 person raid. It took 30 seconds to demolish the boss instead of 20, oh no. Giving those sorts of people a "start raid now" button would get nasty real fast.
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Some people. So a new guy joined our discord and lamented he was lvl 21 and had no good mon to raid with. We have a raid train set on Sunday, so I told him hey, friend me, we can do three special trades today, tomorrow, and Sunday. I will give you two machamps, two venusaurs, and at least 1, maybe 2 Tyranitar. That'll get you started good for raids. I ask where he lives, I live about two miles away, so I suggest we meet in the middle. Then he whines he doesn't have a car and has been walking everywhere. Keep in mind this is Phoenix, AZ, and the high is like 68? I offer a place closer to his house and he starts whining about not having his license yet. Okay, how the gently caress did he plan on going on the train without a loving car and no carpool? Bitch I am offering you three decent mon, fully evolved, and you can't meet me loving a half mile from your house?
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Jan 26, 2019 01:51
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Cowslips Warren posted:Some people. that's really nice weather and i'd happily walk 2 miles for those mons. especially if it was back when i was level 21.
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What the gently caress? It's gorgeous right now in Arizona. Maybe he's one of those 500 lb people that can't walk? You tried to be nice, but that choosing beggar still isn't ok with a few minutes of walking. It's stupid easy to level up. Make friends, join a raid train, wild catch stuff when you're level 25-30 and be able to contribute to get more balls.
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Today I got my first ever 0%er (Seedot) as well as 2 shiny Psyducks and a shiny Kyogre  The first Psyduck was snagged by the Gotcha and I lost my poo poo when I was checking what mons I had hoovered up. I had no idea it was live and thought it wouldn't be out till AFTER the Brazil safari zone ended. The first one is low level with the usual bad stats (1/1/8) but that suits Psyduck well so whatever but the second is level 29 and is about 75iv which is pretty good for a wild shiny. All in all it was good day 
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BGrifter posted:That seems like a good compromise solution. Being able to start solo raids immediately would be very nice, and it'd curb some of the toxic behavior from the tryhards. Ughhh. I have been telling people that they can't "spoil" a raid. As long as there are 2 other tryhards (or at least high-level-mon-havers), they can use pidgeys for all I care. On pretty much every tier 5 raid 1 person makes all the difference, whatever the cutoff point between "hard but doable" and "piss easy" is.
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I got a Ghost Psyduck too, I love him  I saw a tonne more Psyducks on my way to work but #1 was the only shiny. Not complaining as I got three shiny Pinsir in a row on Shiny Pinsir Day (and two with 80%+ stats even).
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Jan 26, 2019 12:16
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I got a 0% shiny Totodile. I think that's how you beat the game.
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Jan 26, 2019 12:32
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Finally got Articuno from the weekly research to complete the Gen 1 Pokedex on my kids' account! It's about time I got the one I wanted.
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Jan 26, 2019 14:42
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Jan 26, 2019 17:20
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I love it when I have login issues with this game. Seems to happen once every month. I just changed my password, so it's not like I've been hacked again or anything this time.
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FreudianSlippers posted:One of these things is not like the others 
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Duckman2008 posted:Based off my experience when Niantic , when they canceled my Ex raid they gave me 2 premium raid passes, so if that’s what I got, that’s what you get. My Zapdos are High Voltage and Thunderstruk. What? Don't look at me like that! SuperKlaus posted:Sorry that I'm probably repeating myself but this game really needs a "Raid Interest Alert" system where you can like shoot up a flare or ping the map to let people know you're at / intend to go to a gym with a raid. I've been doing some essentially random raids for Kyogres and it's kind of frustrating when I wait ten minutes hoping for other randoms, and then leave, and sometimes come back ten minutes later and stumble on 11 participants. I would personally love this. I often forget, or am too lazy, to check the local Discord, and anyway I'm already out walking around. I don't want to have to type poo poo on my phone or whatever. I would rather just hit a button to say "Yo! I'm here! Come kill this thing with me!"
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Wheany posted:Ughhh. I have been telling people that they can't "spoil" a raid. As long as there are 2 other tryhards (or at least high-level-mon-havers), they can use pidgeys for all I care. Yup! It’s beyond stupid when there’s a 20 person raid ready to annihilate the boss complaining that a couple low levels are participating. I wasn’t exaggerating saying it meant a 30 second raid instead of 20. The tryhards around here seem particularly broke brained and antisocial. A few of them have a competition trying to gold badge every gym in the area and look down on anyone with less than 50+. They talk about driving an hour up into the mountains every day to fight over a particularly remote gym. They scream and get angry when they get a 5km egg at a Pokestop cause “2k and 10k have the only good shinies”. Fortunately probably the best player in the region is this super chill old Japanese dude who plays with a clipboard covered in phones. He’s funny, nice and an all around good dude. Goes out of his way to make sure everyone in town has a chance to get their EX raids completed even though he can “solo” them.
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PSA the game is broken. Monsters spawn at any speed now. Get in your vehicles, it is safari time.
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If only I could talk someone into driving me around to do that, because it's not worth the $394 fine for operating a phone while driving otherwise
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Have seen 2 nonshiny Psyduck so far. They spawning all weekend? Also gently caress idiots who can't be bothered to open a gift! Not all, I know there is a limit, but a dude and I have been daily building to get to lvl 3 so I can get his shiny Murkow for a shiny Geodude, and then a few days ago he stopped opening gifts. Still playing, but we're to meet on the raid train tomorrow and won't be able to trade for another week because we only can meet on weekends and rear end in a top hat, despite saying he's playing in Discord, can't open a loving gift to move us along!
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NTRabbit posted:If only I could talk someone into driving me around to do that, because it's not worth the $394 fine for operating a phone while driving otherwise It's like 2 bucks to get on a bus and sit around catching blue ducks for an hour while listening to your favorite conspiracy theory podcast in one ear and tribal throat metal in the other. Let the good times roll, mate.
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BabyRyoga posted:It's like 2 bucks to get on a bus and sit around catching blue ducks for an hour while listening to your favorite conspiracy theory podcast in one ear and tribal throat metal in the other. Let the good times roll, mate. Tomorrow I'm going to be sitting in a hammock all day listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown, and Monday public holiday I'm going to be at a mates place surrounded by small kids wishing I was back in my hammock, so I'll have to hope they haven't fixed it on Tuesday.
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