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Sat at home watching football and catching Turtwigs from my couch. It was rainy and the Packers won so I’m good with my decision. Two shinies and I’ll evolve a couple of the good ones I have from eggs. An acceptable Community Day.
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Sep 15, 2019 21:53
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3 Turtwigs. 0 shiny. And this Evolve Them By 2 Hours After The Event For A Unique Move is bullshit. Just let us get it whenever we can evolve them.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:02
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Prop Wash posted:I have to confess I prefer this time to the afternoon slot, and that'll be even more the case as we move into the winter and it gets dark earlier. I guess the opposite is true for the southern hemisphere - does Niantic adjust for that or do people just wander around in the dark during Australian winter community days? They do not adjust for the southern hemisphere, so we get to roam around in the dark in winter, and the hottest part of the day in summer
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Sep 15, 2019 22:13
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Turtwig was such a bad choice. between that and the flower Eevee research reward I have to wonder if someone at Niantic just hates the players
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Sep 15, 2019 22:16
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 loving finally finished my Kanto Dex.
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indigi posted:Turtwig was such a bad choice. between that and the flower Eevee research reward I have to wonder if someone at Niantic just hates the players It’s a nice break from having to care about POGO, but the timing isn’t exactly great. We’re at the tail end of summer, exactly when the playerbase usually drops off. Now is when they need exciting stuff to retain players as the weather cools down.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:20
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Caught over 80 turta no shinny only two 3 stars. Meh.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:22
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Got 7 shiny turtles and hatched a shiny Kanga, so I’d call it a good community day. None of the turtles were particularly good, but I hardly use grass mons anyway so no huge loss there.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:23
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BGrifter posted:It’s a nice break from having to care about POGO, but the timing isn’t exactly great. We’re at the tail end of summer, exactly when the playerbase usually drops off. Now is when they need exciting stuff to retain players as the weather cools down. Gen 5 starts Monday. All eight Pokemon that they're releasing.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:23
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Sep 15, 2019 22:24
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indigi posted:Turtwig was such a bad choice. between that and the flower Eevee research reward I have to wonder if someone at Niantic just hates the players Every other month it's a starter and this month was turtwig's turn.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:25
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 The sad thing is this is my best Torterra by far, and I'd much rather it was the normal colours instead of sickly yellow.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:28
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I really hope there's a Halloween event. I have a perfect iv dusclops I want to sinnoh evolve, and a legacy haunter that needs twenty or so more candies for a 3* gengar.
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Sep 15, 2019 22:30
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Headed out at 1:42pm, got a shiny Turtwig and went back home. 
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Sep 15, 2019 22:36
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NTRabbit posted:They do not adjust for the southern hemisphere, so we get to roam around in the dark in winter, and the hottest part of the day in summer What does Niantic adjust for? Literally everyone gets to play by California rules and if they aren't in California, gently caress 'em.
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DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:I really hope there's a Halloween event. I have a perfect iv dusclops I want to sinnoh evolve, and a legacy haunter that needs twenty or so more candies for a 3* gengar. Odds are extremely good that they'll make a big deal out of chandelure for Halloween. I walked my dogs until the poor ladies were ready to drop. They loved going to the beach and getting petted all midday long. I ground out the 100K experience I needed to get from the end of level 37 to the beginning of 38, got 5 shinies, evolved 5 turtwigs to Torterra including 1 shiny, hatched a Mr. Mime and Kangaskhan, 3 Farfetch'd(Including a 96), and raided for one of the forms of Deoxys I didn't have. I didn't get a single thing I actually cared about, but it was a nice day anyway. 
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Sep 15, 2019 22:43
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I never feel as much despair in this game as I do when I hatch a wynaut from a 7k egg.
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 Missed out on Turtwig community day but i did just catch this at work! That makes my second one 
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bowmore posted:weekly research giving the goods I have had my spin streak and research rewards aligned to Sunday for over a year. On Monday, despite having finished tasks ready to go, I never turned one in. I'm far too compulsive to have research rewards out of alignment. I'm not so broken up about missing an Eevee, though. Is just throwing me off of my rhythm to turn in quests only every other day. Still: halfway there.
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Sep 16, 2019 00:26
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So wait whats the deal with lucky pokemon? Is there a limit? What are they?
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ZeusCannon posted:So wait whats the deal with lucky pokemon? Is there a limit? What are they? You get a lucky pokemon trading with a lucky friend, which is a thing you can randomly get when you exchange gifts with a maxed-out friend. They take less dust to level up and are guaranteed a 12/12/12 stat base on trading.
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ZeusCannon posted:So wait whats the deal with lucky pokemon? Is there a limit? What are they? When someone is your Best Friend, exchanging gifts has a chance of making you lucky friends. You have that chance with every daily gift, it's what happens instead of leveling up the friendship, basically. There is no limit to how many friends can be lucky with you at once as far as we know, and you can become lucky friends again with people who were it before, it's really just RNG. I was lucky friends with my husband last month and we just became lucky friends again yesterday, for example. With other Besties, I've gifted almost daily and we've not been lucky friends in ages. Random. Any Pokemon traded via lucky trade will get its IV adjusted to at least 85% if I'm not loving up numbers, and leveling up the traded lucky mons costs half the amount of stardust that it usually would. Ergo, the ideal case is to trade for fancy legendaries or some such, but the world is your oyster.
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ZeusCannon posted:So wait whats the deal with lucky pokemon? Is there a limit? What are they? What they are: Pokemon that are guaranteed to have a fairly high minimum for stats after trades, and are also cheaper stardust-wise to power up. How to get them randomly: - Any random trade between you and another person has a chance to be lucky. The older one of the pokemon being traded is, the higher chance, but there's no minimum old or minimum friendship level required. How to get them guaranteed: - After you become best friends with someone, further gifts/trades/pvp/etc has a chance to trigger "lucky friends", which pre-guarantees the next trade between you will be lucky. - If you (or someone else) has pokemon from July or August 2016, and one or both of the accounts has less than 10 lucky pokemon, a trade involving one of those old pokemon will be guaranteed lucky. (If both of you have >10 luckies already, then it falls under the above "old pokemon = higher chance" rule, where it's still something like a 70% chance to trigger, but it's not guaranteed anymore) There are no limits to the number of lucky pokemon you can have, which means things like "trading a bunch of community day pokemon around between your buddies instead of immediately scrapping them" can net you several luckies.
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I'm working on completing my lucky dex, I have 159 lucky pokemon currently
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:- If you (or someone else) has pokemon from July or August 2016, and one or both of the accounts has less than 10 lucky pokemon, a trade involving one of those old pokemon will be guaranteed lucky. (If both of you have >10 luckies already, then it falls under the above "old pokemon = higher chance" rule, where it's still something like a 70% chance to trigger, but it's not guaranteed anymore) I think this doesn't work anymore.
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Good haul today: 12 shiny Turtwig, a wild shiny Tauros, 666 Swablu, 666 Farfetch'd, and the one Deoxys form I was missing. Fiance got about half the shiny haul but managed two 100%er's from team rocket stops.
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endlessmonotony posted:I think this doesn't work anymore. Both my spouse and I have caches of 2016 pokemon and it's still working as of a week or two ago.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:- If you (or someone else) has pokemon from July or August 2016, and one or both of the accounts has less than 10 lucky pokemon, a trade involving one of those old pokemon will be guaranteed lucky. (If both of you have >10 luckies already, then it falls under the above "old pokemon = higher chance" rule, where it's still something like a 70% chance to trigger, but it's not guaranteed anymore) Slightly different than this sadly— ten trade limit is a cap for the sender's account. So eg if you have 50 July/August 2016 Pokémon you couldn’t do ten lucky trades with five accounts and have them guaranteed — only the first ten trades you do will be guaranteed. After you’ve run out of guarantees the 70% rate applies but it needs to be a July/August 2016 mon for one at least a year old IIRC. Link is here: https://thesilphroad.com/science/breakthrough-guaranteed-lucky-trades-actually-work/ Also for op— the silph road research group is really good for this stuff. They do admirably controlled testing. tildes fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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tildes posted:Slightly different than this sadly— ten trade limit is a cap for either account, not both. So eg if you have 50 July/August 2016 Pokémon you couldn’t do ten lucky trades with five accounts and have them guaranteed — only the first ten trades you do will be guaranteed. After you’ve run out of guarantees the 70% rate applies but it needs to be a July/August 2016 mon for one at least a year old IIRC. What I don't have confirmed is this scenario: Player 1 already has more than 10 lucky Pokemon. Player 2 has less than 10 lucky Pokemon. What if P1 wants to trade a Jul/Aug 2016 Pokemon to P2 for a non-Jul/Aug 2016 Pokemon? Would it not be guaranteed because the old Pokemon is coming from P1's side, and P1 is disqualified from the special circumstance? Or would the lucky be guaranteed even though the old Pokemon is not coming from P2's side, but P2 still qualifies for having less than 10 lucky Pokemon? Whereas I'm sure this scenario is guaranteed because I've done this with someone else: Player 1 already has more than 10 lucky Pokemon. Player 2 has less than 10 lucky Pokemon. P1 can trade any Pokemon to P2, who will trade over a Jul/Aug 2016 Pokemon. The trade should be guaranteed lucky because P2 still qualifies AND is providing the old Pokemon. The game wouldn't block out P2 from getting a lucky trade just because P1 is over their limit.
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Willsun posted:What I don't have confirmed is this scenario: In the first scenario you don't get a guaranteed lucky -- I've tried this and had it fail. But yes, you are right -- what I should have said was that it is a hard cap for the sender. Edited to not be wrong!
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Hatched a shiny Pichu, my second. If anyone is great San Diego and has shiny Eevees I'll happily trade it. Plus my very best hatch was a shiny Elekid! Shiny Electrabuzz is awesome, who is Electivire so lame?
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How are you guys catching so many shinys. I walked for 2 hours and 15 minutes constantly catching stuff and I got 0. Amazing.
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LingcodKilla posted:How are you guys catching so many shinys. I walked for 2 hours and 15 minutes constantly catching stuff and I got 0. Amazing. Find a spot with a lot of lures. Like, ideally you want a place where you’ve got 4 or 5 stops all within reaching distance. Sit on your fat rear end and catch Pokémon for three hours. Go home with a dozen shinies.
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Haven't played in a year: opened a friend's brand new gift: oh my god you can still get Alolan eggs  Please just let me delete eggs
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Macaluso posted:Haven't played in a year: opened a friend's brand new gift: oh my god you can still get Alolan eggs Last week and this week Alolan eggs can have the gen 1 regionals with a chance for shiny.
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Macaluso posted:Haven't played in a year: opened a friend's brand new gift: oh my god you can still get Alolan eggs the 7km eggs have a lot more just than alolan pokemon these days + specifically have regionals this week
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Macaluso posted:Haven't played in a year: opened a friend's brand new gift: oh my god you can still get Alolan eggs Right now (until today/tomorrow, depending on your time zone) you can get shiny gen 1 regionals from those eggs. And the contents are decided when you receive the gift, not when it hatches. Also the egg pool in general has expanded, so it’s not just Alolans in the 7km eggs any more. Edit: wow, beaten twice in two minutes.
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Didn't care much about turtwig, so we each got a few and called it good. Snagged a shiny grimer on my run this morning, and a second shiny onix in the afternoon. Along with my shadow larvitar, it was a good day.
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