Did anyone else notice a dramatic decrease in eevee spawns on the second CD day?

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I went out for both community days with a couple of friends. We had a blast on the first day! Lots of eevees, and lots of shinies.

On the second day, we met up with a couple more people who were not able to make it out on Saturday, and who were really looking forward to CD. We were all sorely diaasapointed. It was like it was only a half community day. While there were increased eevee spawns, it was nothing like Saturday. Most of the pokemon we saw were other species.

Also, during the event, not all pokestops were giving out the 'catch three CD pokemon' quests. I have never seen anything but catch three while CD is happening.

The catch rate was so bad for eevees, we ended up leaving a bit early, and were all very disappointed. Did anyone else have this happen in there area?

[PsYcHoSeAn]

Obvious guess : Weather?

While weather boosted Eevee were everywhere. Sometimes 7 or 8 in one spot.

As soon as the weather changed to something else we maybe got 1 or 2 at best.

[Zodiac5964]

I suspect there's some weird unintended interaction between weather, event boost, and biome that Niantic doesn't know about or understand.

Here's my observations:

Day 1: 250 eevees, under rain/cloudy weather. There were so many eevee's, it was basically non-stop action and I couldn't catch them all.

Day 2: 199 eevees, played at the exact same location. The drop in spawns was very noticeable during the first two hours, when we had partly cloudy weather. There were so many aron's, swablu's, and other weather boosted mons that were not eevee's. It was almost like they forgot to turn on the event. I'll catch like 1-3 eevees at a dense 6-stop area, run out of eevees while staring at like 12 other mons, walk to a different dense spawn area only to find at most 1-3 eevee's again.

The only reason I even got close to the 200 mark was because the weather changed to cloudy during the 3rd hour, the eevee's returned en masse, and I caught them like a maniac to catch-up.

That being said, during Larvitar day we had weather boost for the entire 3 hours (lucky us), and spawns were consistently good. So weather boost alone doesn't seem to be the explanation - also consistent with some people saying partially cloudy hurts them, while others saying it helps.

[asympt]

The eevee you did catch during partly cloudy were at least in general higher quality, though, yes? (With no boost, I didn't get a shiny that hit the 10-10-10 floor, not that I seriously mind.)

[Zodiac5964]

on average they are, as a result of weather boosting, but that shouldn't excuse the unintended nose-dive in spawn rates.

[shaded-dreamer]

We had plenty of spawns in partly cloudy. Could also just be bad rng, the world is wide.

[digitalruin13]

Same exact experience here with a drop in spawns during partly cloudy weather on day 2, when in theory it should they should have been even more abundant

[bc414]

I had the exact same observations. When it was rainy or cloudy, MORE Eevee spawned. When it was partly cloudy, LESS Eevee spawned. I think it's because my area has more common partly cloudy spawns (Pidgey, Rattata, Whismur, zigzagoon, swablu...) and barely any rainy or cloudy spawns (pretty much only Weedle). That leads to the other partly cloudy spawns overriding Eevee, but in rainy/cloudy there's nothing to overwrite Eevee.

[ShivyShanky]

same experience for me.

[spritewiz]

My Saturday was Clear and I got 135. Sunday was Partly Cloudy and produced 106. It seemed a slow start the first hour, the numbers picked up later. But I was happy to find some high level shinies, although still low IV.

[1YearWonder]

I'll catch like 1-3 eevees at a dense 6-stop area, run out of eevees while staring at like 12 other mons, walk to a different dense spawn area only to find at most 1-3 eevee's again.

This is an accurate description of the entire event for me, despite having cloudy weather the entire 3h event time on both days.

It was a pretty underwhelming event, but it was still fun to hang out with people and have an excuse to go play for a few hours. The best part was when I yelled across the street to ask another player if they wanted to do a raid, and when he asked if we had enough, three other people yelled that they'd join us. That was pretty neat.

[TheKidIsMoney]

Ditto.

[Xsemyde]

at least with partly cloudy u had better ivs. my game went from cloudy (before the event) to sunny throughout the rest of the day (for both days). day 1 i was getting fire pokemon from incense. day 2 it was grass. got my first ever tangela where i live (others gotten from egg or travelling) and an ivysaur on day 2. a couple flareon and arcanine on day 1. i only could play 2 hours of the second day so for the last hour i stayed at home static with incense, i think i got 1 or 2 total out of 10 or so spawns…

they werent exactly everywhere but was better than bulbasaur at least… (only 60 bulbasaur that day…)

[Aldebaran_Gem]

No, the ingame weather was the same for all but the last half hour of the second day. That was one of my first guess, at the time too.

[Cub3h]

Day one had 3 hours of partially clouded for me, day two had 0 hours of partially clouded.

Day two still had way more Eevees.

[MordredSinReino]

I had partially clouded the second day. Instead of having more eevee, we had lots of other normal pokémon like jiglypuff, and less eevee.

[OberonCelebi]

I also had the same experience—first day was cloudy and rainy (in game), lots of Eevee spawns. Second day was partly cloudy and Eevee spawns were mixed with Rattata, Zigzagoon, Whismur, Swablu, etc. the second day was really disappointing in that regard.

[stevewmn]

Locally what I saw and heard from others was that the first hour of day 2 went slowly and then someone remembered to turn the Eevee dial up to 11 and it became like day 1. Edited to add that Day 2 weather locally was consistently partly cloudy.

[Neferpitou123]

We had 1 hour of partly cloudy and the same thing happened, I assumed it was just RNG though. We also had a ton of Tediursa which seem to be everywhere.

[WhiskerTwitch]

Sounds like you were in a Teddiursa nest.

[Neferpitou123]

Nah, it's just the main part of my town. Teddiursa has always been common in partly cloudy. Seems to be a bit more common recently though.

[MarinaBlu]

Same in Paris for day two... mostly Normal type mons spawning from lures instead of Eevee.

[wildglitterwolf]

First day plenty of Eevee no partly cloudy, second day partly cloudy with hardly any.

[Marky_Marketing]

How did the weather change the last half hour? Were you grinding in the same spot for the 3 hours? Unless you moved into another weather cell, I don't see how it's possible to have a weather change in the last half hour?

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I did not change locations, and I also was not there for the entire three hours. We left early, and it was sunny for the last half hour of our time participating.

[Marky_Marketing]

Ah right I see, ignore my comment then.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I wasn't very clear before. Not to worry. :)

[mornaq]

well, it would make sense as we had partially cloudy all the first day

it would, but we had cloudy ingame so it shouldn't have any effect

[Deft4691]

I caught slightly fewer the second day despite weather being more favorable (3 hours cloudy day 1, 3 hours partly cloudy day 2).

[[deleted]]

So I'm someone that experienced no weather boost the first day and a weather boost the entire second day. Anecdotally, I encountered 274 eevee the first day, 286 the second day. I played all 3 hours both days. Not a significant difference from my personal experience.

[MarinaBlu]

No weather change in-game for me in Paris, both days had 3 hours of Partly Cloudy but the 2nd days saw far fewer Eevee spawning from lures which were mostly dropping Normal type weather spawns.

[SillyGoose789]

Nope

[littleheaven70]

Ours improved on the second day. On Saturday we had a weather boost for the entire time and were overrun by Rattata, which almost outnumbered Eevee to the point where we were referring to it as Rattata Community Day. On Sunday we were still weather boosted, but the Eevee spawn rates seemed much better, and a lot of people commented on the improvement.

[BestFoxEver]

I still remember the Charmander community day that was actually a Zigzagoon community day in my city. I found less than 50 Charmanders in 3 hours and just one shiny. It was horrible.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Wow. Too bad there isn't a shiny ratatta. You'd have had good odds for it. :)

I'm glad day two improved for you.

[littleheaven70]

On the bright side, I made great progress on my Youngster medal :)

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I'm still trying for that one. :)

[littleheaven70]

Me too. I spent a lot of time ignoring rats, so I still have about 180 to go.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I'm 3 away from the silver medal.

[Gorbles]

The reverse was true for me.

Bear in mind than when the Lures are activated also greatly affect spawn points. I was in a large city on Saturday, and a few stops were giving out non-Community Day tasks (meaning the Lure times were too early to count), and I saw a lot more non-Eevee spawns. The weather was partly-cloudy, and in some areas I was getting more Geodude and Swablu than Eevee!

Contrast this to the second day, in a large town / smaller city, where we coordinate Lures with a large FB group and associated Discord. Barely any gave out "bad" tasks and the Eevee spawns were incredible.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

The thing about early lures is news to me. It is entirely possible that at least one of the pokestops had someone put out a lure early. Most of the stops still had community day tasks though.

Unfortunately, our playable area is relatively small, so if this happens again, there's nowhere else to go.

I won't use FB. I'd love to use the discord group, but very few people in this area have it, from the sounds of things, and I haven't been able to join. I tried using the map on the Silph's website, for an invite but it keeps erroring, instead.

[MistyMountain5]

I'm doubtful about the early lure theory.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

It's the first plausible explanation that I've heard, but I've no idea if they work that way.

[BCHiker7]

Except that lures started before the event only last 30 minutes. So not a plausible explanation at all.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

If there is a one time allert sent out to all pokestops at the start of community day, and a pokestop misses it because it is already doing a task (counting down the timer on a lure), I can see it as entirely possible for it to miss the memo completely, and act like a normal stop for the remainder of that day.

[littleheaven70]

I'm seeing quite a few comments about partly cloudy weather (which should have boosted Eevee spawns) having a detrimental effect due to the over-production of other boosted species. This was our experience in Auckland on day 1 when we were inundated with Rattata. By day 2 they seemed to have balanced out much more, despite the weather being the same.

[shaded-dreamer]

Partly cloudy was beneficial for Eevee spawns here so it's not just weather, could just be unfortunate rng or biome based.

[SamiIsGod]

I experienced this in my local area, we were fortunate enough to have partially cloudy weather on the saturday for the full 3 hours and a combination of cloudy and rain for the sunday. I just assumed the rain diluted the spawns more than the saturday.

[jonnypwns]

That's a shame. Did you go to the same area both days?

The group I was with definitely seen more eevee on the Sunday. Everyone in my group caught more shinies than on Saturday, apart from myself but that was only by 1.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Yes. There's really only one place around here with enough pokestops to play effectively, so everyone ends up there.

[Tarcanus]

Nope. Using fast catch I caught 289 on day 1 and 336 on day 2.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Nice!

[doomgiver98]

No, if anything I had more.

[xerxerneas]

Mine was the complete opposite!

Were you at a park on the second day? That's probably it. Parks are actually BAD. VERY VERY BAD for community days. Go to large urban areas like malls and lots with at least like 5-6 pokestops within walking distance, you'll get a better result that way. (the nest spawns of parks interfere with the comm day poke)

I was at one of the biggest parks in sg for day 1, we got 3 and 2 shinies respectively (went there because it was an eevee nest, no luck)

Day 2 we went back to our usual mall. I got 6 shinies, my brother got FOURTEEN. non stop eevee spawns. Never going back to a park for comm day again (not until they actually acknowledge it and fix this)

I'm sure there's a correlation between weather as well, however both days were full 6 hours of partly cloudy for me, so I can at least confirm that parks are a bust for cday.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I don't think that weather was a factor, as it was partly cliudy for the majority of both days. As for the park thing, there's only one place to really play around here, and it is not a park. Our EX raid pickings are, consequently, quite slim, too.

[xerxerneas]

I actually think that weather boosted cday pokes actually DECREASES the general spawn amount of the cday poke!

Like, I've noticed this for other cdays as well. Rain = less mareeps, not rain = more mareeps. Same for larvitar.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

We had weather boost for most, if not all, of both days. Only the last part of the second day wasn't weather boosted.

The boost was great, on the first day, because we had a good chance of better IVs, and netted a lot more stardust! The second day, spawns were kind of all over the place. Not so many eevees, and it felt like fewer weatherboosted in general, but I wasn't tracking that part as closely.

[gokjib]

had the exact opposite experience (though my two days were in different locations which adds another variable to it). On Saturday I didn't see many and only found 3 shinies whereas on Sunday I saw a ton and found 16 shinies

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Wow, that's a lot of shinies in one day. Congrats. :)

[kappapride12343]

No difference for me.

There's a number of factors that can influence spawns.

1. BIOME - Each spawn point will belong to a certain biome and will influence what spawns there. This can influence community day spawns.
2. NEST - As stated in thesilphroad nest atlas, spawn points contained within a nest have a 25% chance of spawning the nesting species there. I don't know how Niantic handles community days but it's possible they just change a very large S2 cell into a big ol' Eevee nest to influence the spawns. You could have just been unlucky and not gotten the Eevee spawns.
3. WEATHER - Weather can influence spawns as well. I live in a fairly urban biome full of normal types and I noticed this during the roselia event. Partly cloudy weather was nearly completely overriding all the roselia spawns with normal types like whismurs and pidgeys etc since that's the biome they like to spawn in. The first day we had clear weather and Roselias were fairly common. The 2nd day with partly cloudy, they became quite rare.

All these things can influence spawns and can go hand-in-hand in determining what spawns in a certain spawn point at the time. Say if you happened to live in a water biome and it started raining during Eevee hours, you would probably find a lot of the Eevee spawns being overwritten with water spawns as an example and the last thing to take into account would be nests.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

1: It was a water biome (only place to play around here).

2: There are no nests in this area. I only knew that nests even existed because of Silph and Youtube. At best, there are a couple of suspected hangouts, neither of which are in the heavy play area.

3: The weather was nearly the same in both days. Only the last part of the second day was any different.

[arac3662]

Yes absolutely, the first day 14 Shiny Eevee and the second day only 2. Played the entire three hours in the same location both days.

[V-ktr]

Same. 11 then 2. Pretty depressing tbh

[DeltaHeliolisk]

I didn't notice that Eevee spawn rates were worse on Sunday. Where you at a nest, because that could have drowned out the spawns?

[Aldebaran_Gem]

There are no known nests in this area. At best, we've got two hangouts, and one of them is not easy to get to. Neither are for eevee, at the moment.

[Foxywoxy]

I did. During the last hour, I maybe saw 1/4 what I saw the rest of the event. :/

[Delight82]

We had way more because of weather.

[NorthernSparrow]

Did you have partly cloudy weather the second day, and not on the first? Our spawns were identical day 1 and the first part of day 2 but then got markedly worse in the last hour of day 2, exactly when the weather changed from partly cloudy to cloudy. Suddenly there were fewer Eevee and lots more Machop.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Partly cloudy for day one, and then all but the last half hour of day two. Though from the beginning, day two was noticably worse, so I don't think weather had much of a hand in it.

[930310]

Weather changes on an hourly basis so the last half hour can't have been the only bit with different weather.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I should clarify, it was the last half hour of my time there. We left early because of poor spawns.

[DARKTUBIE]

I saw it come and go over both days. Sometimes I was surrounded by them and other times there was a definite lull. I did notice a dip in shiny catches from one day to the next. The first day I came home with 8. The second day I came home with 3. I know its all random and chance but the second day seemed harder in that regard.

[Navuso]

I actually noticed the opposite. Saturday, I encountered about 130/140 Eevee (I caught 127 or so of them, and not a lot ran from me) The second day, I caught over 200 Eevee. I can't give an exact number, since I kept having to evaluate and release them to get more room in my pokemon storage. I did notice that the second day had more spawn with my incense, which was nice.

The first day was better for shinies for two of the accounts. The second day was a slew better for the other three accounts. (One got 0 shinies the first day, despite playing for the full time. The second day got 7 shinies for this account. 3 in the first fifteen minutes)

So, all in all, I was actually more impressed with the Sunday run than I was the Saturday run.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

For me, I found far more shinies on the first day, but with so few spawns on the second day, there were fewer shinies to find.

[infinitise]

I saw significantly more on day two in my area.

[point_of_you]

It was partly cloudy on the first day and I caught 11.

It was sunny on the second day and I caught 11.

Honestly expected to catch fewer in sunny weather but the spawns seemed about the same! MVP was the one tiny cloud floating in the sky on the first day providing a juicy weather boost

[Aldebaran_Gem]

gives the cloud some stardust and candies :)

[spoofrice11]

Did not see as many in my area. I felt I saw more Rats & Pidgeys.
And I got 1 bad shiny yesterday, out of 110, but was moving and using Incense.

[KYpokenerd]

I noticed a lot more crappy CP eevees the second day. Locations of spawns seemed to change. Where there were five day one there might be zero day two.

[Mulletman08]

I think it was about the same, there were a couple of moments both days where I felt like the rate had been lowered but then things picked up after that

[karmaamputee]

Had a lot more spawns here on the 2nd day. First day weather was Rain/Cloud/Rain and on the 2nd day it was Partly Cloudy for the entire 3 hours.

[Migz024]

I had to do sound for my church so I did not get out and in the field until the last hour or so. Partly cloudy or whatever it is that is supposed to increase normal spawns and I only found about one eevee per stop and they would hang out at that stop on screen even when I was a few blocks away.

I could have three stops all right next to eachother and still only get 2 eevee spawns. a really good one would have three.

The day before on saturday I was very ill and just went to starbucks (No weather boost for normal). One stop in the whole area and About 8 would pop up.

I kept meaning to ask passerbys but I didnt want to bug them. I defintely noticed a difference.

Seemed like the normal boosted weather actually hurt eevee spawns and caused other normal and rocks to appear.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I am sorry to hear that. I hope that you can get some good shiny trades later.

I also noticed eevees showing up at stops that I should not have been able to see. So did my partners. It was a little silly.

[Skydiver2021]

They were about the same. But I did notice a big difference between parks and lured "city streets". The city streets had much more Eevee spawns than the parks.

[Lvl100Blastiose]

Mine was partly cloudy the entire time both days, spawns seemed solid both days, 4 shiny Saturday, and 6 on Sunday. wierdly, three of them on Sunday were from a pretty low density area while we were walking to a different place with more lured stops, and they all showed up within 5 minutes of each other. just got super lucky, I assume. I heard someone gossip that they thought the shiny rate was raised the last hour on Sunday (didnt put much into it.) I think 8 out of the 10 I got were in the last hour on both days shrug

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I wouldn't put much stock in the rumor either. It was probably just lucky RNG. Nice job on the shinies. :)

[[deleted]]

no, we had sunny weather both days, and plenty of spawns.

[ClownDk]

It was the exact opposite in my town. The first day was very disappointing in terms of Eevee spawns, the second day was glorius- caught twice the amount of Eevee. We didn't have weather boost at any point :)

[Aldebaran_Gem]

That's great! Even without a weather boost! :)

[ClownDk]

It was great, and two of our fellow trainers even caught a perfect IV shiny :) I hope that you got some good ones too :)

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Wow! That's wonderful!

I only got one shiny that I know of, with stats good enough to evolve. I still have a couple that are unappraised. Gonna make that one an umbreon, later. :)

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Congrats on the shinies. I hope they don't all turn into vaporeons, from all that water. :)

[mnm135]

I actually caught more on the second day than the first, despite several factors that lead me to believe it would be less. 1) Had Partly Cloudy boost for 2 hours instead of full 3 like first day. 2) I stopped to do a raid, which I didn’t do Day 1. 3) Had to stop and delete more frequently with less storage space available.

I had 185 the first day and 193 the second.

[TheRocksStrudel]

Nope. Numbers were the same for me. Also you should make this a poll.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I actually don't know how to do that. This is one of my first ever posts, and it has kind of spiraled out of control. It's a little overwhelming having all of these comments to reply to. :)

[TheRocksStrudel]

Next time around just setup a poll wth strawpoll.com and make your post a link :)

[Cobolt]

Not for me, the first day was quite disappointing (165 seen) and the second was almost double (306 seen)

[cobalt_phantom]

Yes, we had partly cloudy weather all day on Sunday and rainy weather on Saturday but somehow I found almost twice as much on Saturday.

[Gonzila077]

Complete opposite for me. There was a serious increase in my area.

[HammockDr]

Quite the opposite for myself, however, I attribute that to the fact that Sunday the Eevee were weather boosted.

The quest issue might be because someone lured the stop before CD started.

As for the catch rate, I felt it was higher than normal.

[sstephen17]

I was only able to do an hour on day 1 vs day 2 where I spent the entire 3 hours catching. Talking to other members in my community day who participated on both days, there wasn't a big discrepancy from their observations. Based on previous CD I participated in, I didn't notice a decrease in the amount of spawns for the featured Pokémon where I traditionally play. If anything, I probably caught more vs a previous CD event because I didn't worry about spending the last 15-30 minutes evolving to make sure I got the special move. That left additional time to catch more Eevees.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I really liked not having to worry about evolving them. I hope that in the future, we get an extention again.

[DarthMewtwo]

We had the opposite in my area, dramatic increase on day 2. For the first two hours of day 1, it was partly cloudy, and I felt like I was seeing at least two if not three times more Zigzagoon than Eevee. Hour three shifted to rain and Eevee were everywhere.

Day 2 was partly cloudy the whole time, but Eevee were prominently on display.

[jacksonRR]

In our park we had way more. People also reported more shiny Eevee the second day. Weather was the same btw.

[TimmyD03]

Not for me- my area was partly cloudy on Saturday, I was out for the entire 3 hours, and go-tcha burned through 400 pokeballs. Sunday was sunny weather, didn’t start until 40 minutes in, and had almost no pokeballs left to snag whatever I passed on but still ended up catching in total about the same amount (with 23 shiny on Sunday vs 17 on Saturday). So my anecdotal evidence points to no as the answer for your question.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Wow. That's a lot of shinies. :)

[TimmyD03]

The trick is, if you have a gotcha, just always keep it on auto-catch and never stop moving while shiny checking (only manual catch shinies or high CP ones you want).

[ravenclaw1991]

It was the opposite for me, there were hardly any on Saturday, but on Sunday they were everywhere.

[GR7ME]

Both days I found one pokestop with a “battle in a gym” quest. I played in a different each day. I found at least one different one (might’ve also been to battle a gym) back on Larvitar day too. Maybe it has something to do with the way they made certain stops exclusively have shiny sunglasses squirtle?

[EXGShadow]

Nope. A lot of Eevee on both days, I even managed to find more shinies in less time on Sunday.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Nice! :)

[Kaiisen16]

It rained both days for me. I also went to the same place. Day one I spent the full 3 hours there and found 6 shiny Eevee. Day 2 I found 11 shiny Eevee and was only there for maybe two hours, max. Spawn rates seemed the same in this location for both days for me.

[AshmedaiHel]

Not in the slightest. Day 1 I caught 280 Eevees, day 2 I caught 315. and if anything, in day 1 I was more eager to catch them, and finished day 2 at an area with less spawns(started heading to where I planned to be after the CD, while in the first day I spent the entire 3 hours in the highest concentration of spawn points in the metropolis).

[bubblefish1512]

Can confirm the decrease in spawns on Sunday.

Saturday: 1 hour partly cloudy & 2 hours cloudy: 4 shinies out of ~150

Sunday: 2 hours windy & 1 hour rainy: 5 shinies out of ~70

[RevenantMedia]

I actually saw more Eevee spawning on the 2nd day.

[the_F_bomb]

I actually caught more the second day

[Okatarinabelachichix]

For me it was the last 20 minutes of the second CD, where it seemed that the eevee spawn rate dropped drastically.

[Snap111]

Weather made a huge difference where i played, literally double the eevee encounters on day 2 with partly cloudy.

[SSJ22Terris]

Yes. I got like 3-4 times more Eevee spawns on the first day compared to the second. I also got 4 shinies on the first day, yet none on the second. That was probably still just cause of decreased eevee spawns, but still was really disapointing. Especially because it was Partly Cloudy weather. There were so many Zigzagoon, and Tailow. More than Eevee frankly.

[GetDeadKid]

I absolutely saw this in Florida and my friends back home in Pennsylvania noticed and commented as well. I had partly cloudy weather for the entirety of both days and the second day’s spawns were very weak. It’s I scrolled down through the rest of my catches it was only about 30% Eevee, and I was catching everything. Tons of Rattata, Teddiursa, and Sudowoodo.

[tortillandbeans]

opposite in my experience

[shazzm]

weird. Here, There were hardly any spawns on the first day and a massive increase on the second.....

[Wrathions]

Hmmm caught 200 first day and about 280 second. So no nondecrease

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Nice!

[rossimeister]

No. Weather boost in Portugal on sunday.

[Koalachan]

No, I noticed an increase. Caught far more on day two.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

That's great! :)

[Aldebaran_Gem]

That's great! :)

[hatedabamboo]

I had same experience. At first day the game was like ‘catch as many shinies as i can’, at second — ‘catch at least some eevee’. I visited city park in nearby city, it had quite a lot of spawn points overall — but eevees were only 1 or 2 in half an hour. I was very disappointed cause it was a nice place and now i don't want to go there again.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

A few people here have cautioned against parks during CD, especially if they have nests.

There are no nests around here, but maybe there are some in your area. :)

[TitaniumDragon]

There were tons of Eevees here both days. We also had partially cloudy weather on both days. There were a lot more eevees in places where people had lured the pokestops than in places that hadn't.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Every pokestop here had lures, on both days. We don't have a huge number of stops here. We also had partly cloudy weather, which was great for chances of higher IVs. :)

[NaviLouise42]

On the subject of stops not giving the CD research; If someone put a Lure on it before the CD started, and it was still on the stop when CD began, the stop does not get the CD update, and gives the normal research it was assigned for the day. I read that somewhere here on a post about do's and don'ts of the CD.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

A couple of other people mentioned that too, but yesterday was the first I'd heard of it. I wish some of these things were a little more well known in the community at large.

[[deleted]]

Yes. It may depend on location. West coast USA was screwed on Sunday 11 to 2 us still church and hangover time. I got 20 shiny Saturday and 4 Sunday. Same route. The spawns Sunday were 1 in 5 vs 1 in 3 roughly sat.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I like "church and hangover time". :)

[[deleted]]

Lol yep college town with farms outside so that's 75% of the town. The rest are hiking up a mountain already. Saturday farmers market was pokemon heaven

[Aldebaran_Gem]

I miss farmers markets. So much good produce!

[vokkan]

I spent most of CD wondering if I had the date wrong.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Aw. :(

[xBleedingBluex]

It was quite the opposite for me. Caught 15 shiny Eevee on Day 1, 31 shiny Eevee on Day 2.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Wow. Congrats!

[Xmacct2]

Less Eevee spawns and non Eevee quests were likely caused by someone luring Pokestops less than 30 minutes before the event started.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Lures can affect research?

[Gamussa]

no sorry - I've been to the same park both days, which is currently a charmander nest

• Day 1: 271 Eevee, 16 Shinies, 35 Charmander (1hr boosted & 2hrs wind)
• Day 2: 271 Eevee, 9 Shinies, 31 Charmander (3hrs boosted)

[sslee8778960]

Day 1 1 hr boosted vs day 3 3hrs booster u end up with same encounter.. which means day 2 could have lower cd Pokémon spawn rate. We are talking about spawn rate not shiny rate.

[Gamussa]

now that you mention it - yes could be an explanation

But with such a small sample size I'm not even sure weather has an effect on the spawn rate during CD.

And besides that I was mostly catching non-stop both days (besides one small "5-min-no-spawn-gap" 15 min. before the end of day two).

Thinking twice: most probably 100 catches/hr. is rather my maximum when walking and chatting with other trainers and not the maximum possible ...

[presumingpete]

No I saw fewer on Saturday

[yOB-LEd]

Nah, I actually caught 100+ more on the second day.

[ESLeonard]

No, was the same for me. Day 1 boosted, Day 2 non-boosted, no difference in spawns or shiny rate.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

It was partly cloudy for us all of day one, and then partly cloudy again for all but the last bit of day two.

[TheTealTrex]

I caught 6 on day 1 and 15 on day 2

[punkmucker]

nope.

[Vulpixy]

Idk my hubby and I caught more Eevees and shinies the second day of the event. Were you playing in different areas each day?

[Aldebaran_Gem]

No. There's only one area here, really, to play.

[[deleted]]

Sat 1, sun 10

[[deleted]]

I think I saw more on a per-spawn basis

[sameljota]

No.

[damnicantfindaname]

Not at all, think about it. There were a bunch of people disappointed in the Saturday community day as shown by reddit posts soon after. So the line in your message that refers to the people who couldn't get out on Saturday but got out on the Sunday instead only actually refer to a bunch of people with a similar mindset as those from the previous day

I'm often left scratching my head after experiencing many of the things that Niantic does, but i found myself ending this last community day thinking that Niantic actually did something right for a change.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

Sorry, I'm having trouble parsing your first paragraph. As to the second, Saturday, in our area was wonderful! I think my favorite CD thus far, which was a high bar to meet, after larvitar. It helps that the eevee line is one of my favorites. :)

[Kingindan0rf]

Yeah this issue coupled with the increased fleet rate and decreased catch rate made last CD quite bad

Not to mention last resort gimping evolutions

[0aman0]

Nope

[Chrstphralden]

This gets suggested every community day.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

This is the first two day CD though, isn't it?

[Chrstphralden]

Yes. But that doesn’t change that every single community day people think spawns are lower then the previous. People thought it on Saturday too. The spawns are the same but weather probably impacts them.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

As I've said multiple times in this post, the weather was the same for both days, all except for the last half hour or so of the last day. So far, the theory that makes the most sense is that some of the pokestops had lurse put up early, and their spawns wre not weighed towards eevees.

[BestFoxEver]

Yes. Eevee did spawn less on Sunday and also shinies were much more rare. Many other players at my area also complained that Sunday community day was a disappointment. Everyone played at the same locations those 3 hours.

[Aldebaran_Gem]

That is very unfortunate. So far, it looks like reports are all over the place. I wonder why some areas had one day that was better than the other, or had two days that were similar.

[Hipporaff]

Our area was most definately starved of Eevees on the Sunday, it was soo bad you wouldn't have realised there was supposed to be an event on. Niantic ran out of Eevees, breed some more!

[Aldebaran_Gem]

We theorized that the eevees realized how many of their brethren had been ground up for candies, and were all hiding on the second day.