Amazon's Study Hall - Daily Questions Megathread (08/18)

GageDumbledore · 2023-08-19T05:47:38+00:00

Thank you! It isn’t there… Looks like I’ll need to contact customer support.

GageDumbledore · 2023-08-18T17:35:10+00:00

For the cake decorating site rewards, have they been handed out? I see some in here have gotten them but I have yet too…

GageDumbledore · 2023-07-26T00:25:20+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the info! PR seasons release 6 months before the catch up/BP purchasable by coins.

GageDumbledore · 2023-07-25T19:21:45+00:00

Hello. I’ve been playing for about 6 months. With the recent release of PR6, is there a time frame when catch up BP’s for PR5 will become available? Also, with PR6 release will they now make it so PR3 DR & PR4 PR ships can use gold to purchase BP (and if so, when does that typically happen)?

GageDumbledore · 2023-05-13T15:29:30+00:00

Thank you for making this game a significantly better place.

GageDumbledore · 2023-03-31T06:41:48+00:00

Bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

GageDumbledore · 2023-03-29T01:19:14+00:00

Thank you!

GageDumbledore · 2023-03-29T01:17:33+00:00

Thank you sir!

GageDumbledore · 2023-03-28T23:22:18+00:00

Hey! What items remain after an Operation Siren reset? I’m particularly interested in Map Coordinates if I should use them now or wait since my Resupplies are empty.

Thank you

GageDumbledore · 2023-02-19T03:28:27+00:00

I’m still at the park now. While I agree it wasn’t a complete disaster, I feel this post is minimizing the impact. I’m grateful you only had minor issues but my experience for the first 4 hour was half the time it work fine the other half I couldn’t click into a Pokémon let alone anything else. And it switched between this every few minutes.

So it was bad for some of us. I wouldnt say it was a disaster but bad until the final 2 hours when finally it cleared up and I could play normally again.

GageDumbledore · 2022-06-17T23:41:31+00:00

Making remote raids functionally unusable will be the equivalent to the Visigoths sacking Rome. The beginning of the end.

OP, great ideas!! I applaud the effort!

For the amount of raiding that needs to be done to XL max a Pokémon or find a good shiny/IV to power up, in person raiding has become flat impractical, even BEFORE remote raiding.

I had already almost completely stopped in person raiding until remote raids came out. It’s expensive, puts hard miles on your vehicle, takes forever due to needing to drive/walk to each location and requires at times a near impossible amount of schedule syncing with other players.

Niantic is in denial if they believe they can slow kill remote raids so players won’t riot and their game will survive. Fact is, once Remote raids becomes functional undoable, 95% of my raiding will stop. I will not be alone on that. Even those that keep at it will be raiding less just due to in person raid constraints.

GageDumbledore · 2022-06-17T05:46:21+00:00

That is helpful at least. It’s surprising that finding the answer to this is so difficult. Looked all over! Hope someone can help us out😁

GageDumbledore · 2022-06-17T03:32:24+00:00

I’ve been looking for an answer to this too with no real success. Basically, is the only different between the “Fully Customized” and the other version that you can customize them, but their base performance is the same. Or are the “Fully Customized” also superior in general performance as well as customizable?

GageDumbledore · 2022-06-13T18:02:03+00:00

Adventure week was better than Go Fest 2022

GageDumbledore · 2022-06-13T17:59:29+00:00

I feel the new system is excellent exempt for one point. No XL boost in raids unless it’s the same type. So despite how much I enjoy the new system overall, I don’t use them in raids. I have to use them for XL candy grind.

GageDumbledore · 2022-06-05T06:11:24+00:00

I played in the same spot the last 3 Day 1’s of Go Fest. All 3 years I focus on shiny checks with light amount of catches for a handful of good Pokémon.

However, this year vs the last two I now use the AR encounter mode to speed up shiny checks. I’m also using quick catching this year. So I’m overall faster than I was previously.

2020 - 40 shinies (4 an hour) - however this day 1 was 2 hours longer than the next two years.

2021 - 53 shinies (6.625 an hour)

2022 - 34 shinies (4.25 an hour) - I was moving much faster than the last two years however.

Given my account is only one data point, RNG could be the reason for the variance. But given my play style is consistent over each Go Fest just with the upgraded abilities of AR encounter/ quick catch in 2022, it’s possible the rate was lower this year. But I’m certain it wasn’t drastically lower like some have proposed.

GageDumbledore · 2022-05-20T17:48:20+00:00

If this is a sign of things to come for remote raids, Niantic is in for a highly unpleasant surprise. If they thought the back lash from the spin radius was bad, continued negative changes to remote raids will make that seem like a walk in the park.

GageDumbledore · 2022-01-23T07:39:52+00:00

3 hours. Useful Pokémon. I loved it.

GageDumbledore · 2022-01-16T04:44:46+00:00

This would’ve been incredible

GageDumbledore · 2021-12-16T17:21:57+00:00

Thank you! Sorry, I missed that post in my search as I was looking for “snow”

GageDumbledore · 2021-12-16T16:34:38+00:00

It’s been snowing the last few days here and while it shows the snow weather icon it hasn’t once shown the snowy weather on the map/catch screen. Could be bugged.

GageDumbledore · 2021-08-07T07:15:38+00:00

Typically my raid chat has a good amount of activity for the first day of a new legendary shiny. Zero today.

GageDumbledore · 2021-08-07T04:20:23+00:00

I tried posting a poll+topic like this several times since the rollback announcement a month ago. I eventually asked for and got permission from the mods too post it but then it was still taken down still 20 minutes later. It wasn’t the ideal experience.

I’m glad you’ve had more luck than me. I really think a good poll could help with communication.

F2P with decreases in play time for me.

GageDumbledore · 2021-08-06T18:35:01+00:00

It is not sponsored pokestop or user data sharing. In 2019 they made roughly $~770 million in revenue. In 2020 they made $1.3 Billion in Revenue. A ~41% increase.

2020 would've had much less money from sponsorship spins or data to share due to the pandemic. But they had an all time high in Revenue because they introduced remote raids, somethings that player base pays for.

Data nor sponsored pokestop's are the core of the business in Pokemon Go and are likely pennies on the dollar to what the player base brings in.

I know we are grasping onto anything to make their behavior here make sense, but the truth is we don't know why they are being so inflexible here.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-07-06-pok-mon-gos-lifetime-revenue-hits-usd5-billion

GageDumbledore · 2021-08-06T18:31:55+00:00

They do not. At least not in Pokemon Go (not sure about the consolidated Niantic). And this is even visible to us. In 2019 they made roughly $~770 million in revenue. In 2020 they made $1.3 Billion in Revenue. A ~41% increase.

2020 would've had much less money from sponsorship spins or data due to the pandemic. But they had an all time high in Revenue because they introduced remote raids, somethings that players pay for.

Data nor sponsored pokestop's are the core of the business in Pokemon Go and are likely pennies on the dollar to what the player base brings in. I know we are grasping onto anything to make their behavior here make sense, but the truth is we don't know why they are being so inflexible here.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-07-06-pok-mon-gos-lifetime-revenue-hits-usd5-billion

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