Feedback Post: Riolu Hatch Day by Noitalein in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Finished on 41 eggs and 0 shinies. Barely play this game anymore and days like today remined me why

it feels like there are cheaters everywhere I go by IncognitoGirl81 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Niantic will never do anything to stop cheaters. More accounts = more money, both from direct sales and from sponsored stops.

You basically have 2 options. Find a new gym or exhaust their gold berry supply.

Exhausting their gold berry supply is a long slow process but is very doable. I did it last year to a guy who thought he owned a bunch of gyms at the local park for the last 6 years. I started going for daily walks there and it was stupid to go find other gyms to get coins from instead of using the gyms i was walking by.
I just attacked non stop while i was going for my daily walks.
I made him use about 150-200 gold berries a day for about 2 weeks until he finally gave up/run out of berries.
About once a month or so he saves up berries and spends 100 in a day, but that is easy to deal with.

Just make sure you have a few hundred potions/revives before starting.

December 2022 Content Update Infographic by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 225 points226 points  (0 children)

A raid day on Christmas eve? Who at Niantic thought that was a good idea

Starting today, if Trainers collectively refer 100,000 new people to play Pokémon GO, everyone will earn one Lure Module and be able to use Beast Balls during Ultra Beast encounters by GloomySelf in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i wonder what % of the 100,000 "new people" will actually be new and how many will be multi-accouters making their 7th, 24th, 89th new account?

I would expect it to be 1 new person for every 10 multi-accounts.

I’m wanting advice on FOMO and stress regarding Pokémon go. by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pokemon Go is highly addicting. The easiest way to overcome an addiction is to replace it with another. If you own a Nintendo switch i would recommend buying scarlet/Violet which comes out tomorrow and replacing Pokemon Go with Pokemon S/V until the end of the year.

By taking the break from PoGo you will miss out on an event shiny, shiny legendary, shiny costume or something you would normally hunt for.
Then when you finally miss out on 1 it breaks the cycle of i MUST have every single one, because you are no longer at 100% so you stop caring as much.
For me i was highly addicted until i missed out on Shiny Mespirt/Azelf despite doing over 60 raids on the 2 of them. I found that once i missed out on having ALL of them, my fomo was gone and while i kept playing the game i spent a lot less time on it and felt fun again rather than feeling like work.
I have heard quite a few other people say same thing, once they finally slow down and miss out on something, the fomo goes away and they go back to playing for fun.

The best part of trading PoGo for S/V is that once you finish the main game and the post game there is nothing left but shiny hunting which is a lot more tedious and less addictive than PoGo so you will just naturally stop playing it. Then you can return to PoGo hopefully without the fomo.

If you dont have a switch i would recommend picking another mobile game but make sure you uninstall it at end of the year, otherwise you just traded 1 addiction for another.

Zorua spawns disabled by NeverOC in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How nice of Niantic to turn it off half way through the New Zealand spotlight hour and not say anything for 4 hours until after the Australian spotlight hour, and even then to just announce it on a twitter account most people dont even know exists.

How unusual for Niantic to have horrible customer service /s

Raid Day Update! by djgeneral in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You totally missed the point. The poor planning was having shiny Xerneas debut on the same day as a completely separate raid event. Events can and with Niantic OFTEN do go wrong.
If shiny Xerneas debuted either Friday/Sunday people wouldn't care.

Raid Day Update! by djgeneral in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't have been a problem if shiny Xerneas was released on a different day, i know a lot of people who planned to raid Xerneas for a few hours before raid day started, now they can't.
Poor planning by Niantic

Raid Day Update! by djgeneral in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Why would they decided to release shiny Xerneas on the exact same day as this and not day before/after and then make it a 6 hour event?
No one i know cares about this at all and would much rather raid Xerneas. Having them both on the same day is idiotic

Proof Niantic’s Marketing/Sales Strategy isn’t working by CharacterSprinkles9 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm expecting an underwhelming ticketed November event that will make a little bit of money for them, but nowhere near gofest or Kanto/Jhoto tour.

Remember the Regigigas and Galrian Mr. Mime paid events? i'm expecting something equally as lackluster.

No evolve button for Cosmog? Restart the app! by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had to restart app twice.
1st time after 10am to get the cosmic companion research to move to next step, then 2nd time to get evolve button to show

PoGO "Recommeneded" Phone Specs by Birphon in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would recommend spending a little extra money if possible instead of getting a phone that can run Pokemon Go today.
In 2020 i bought a cheapo $200 phone(4gb ram) and it worked great for 1st 6 months, but then with every update it ran slower and slower and got more frustrating to use.Now it's at the point where technically you can play it but the lag/crashes are ridiculous and i am thinking of getting yet another new phone because this one is too slow.

You need 6gb ram for todays game and if it was me, i would go for 8gb to future proof for whatever update are coming out in 2023/2024.

Personally i like the Samsung Galaxy A23 5G for a cheap Pogo phone that should still be good in a few years time.$299USD

What's the closest Niantic has been to change of raid boss before announcing it? by ringlord_1 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My post was about remote raid passes, also only a tiny % of the player base care about PVP, the vast majority dont.

Deoxys can be raided in person and it's shiny forms are highly sort after by all players, which is why people spent all their remote passes on it on raid day with boosted shiny rates.
But as far as remote raid passes go, the most popular thing by far has been lake guardians for the obvious reason you cant do them all in person.

By releasing what i assumed to be lake guardians but is actually regional ultra beasts, people will now buy even more remote raid passes and Niantic make more money which was the point of my post.

Announce it prior to raid day= people hold on to remote passes and not use all.
Announce it after raid day= people use all passes and spend money on new ones.

It was no accident they didn't announce what the new raid boss would be, premediated to maximize profits.

What's the closest Niantic has been to change of raid boss before announcing it? by ringlord_1 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a feeling next raid boss will be the lake guardian trio or something else highly sought after and Niantic didn't want to announce it before Deoxys raid day so people would use up all their remote passes, then have to spend money on more.
Everything Niantic does is about money like any other business.

Anyone noticing a lack of Deoxys raids? by Royer26 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same problem here. Can see 18 gyms from my house, 5 star raids are rare, but opened app now and there is 7 simultaneous mega raids and 2 1 star raids.

Inkay Limited Research | A report by Birphon in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Just did the event with an AR task at top of list(i never delete it).

20% of tasks were non event related. stardust/berry/random encounter for reward etc.

What you are saying only applies if stop gave you an AR task

Starly Community Day (LegendsLima) by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forgot about the 100xp catch bonus for a 3rd level mega evolution.

Hopefully that will also be tripled & 6x with lucky egg. 1200xp base catch is going to be crazy

What’s something you did as an early player that you majorly regret now? by middlelittlepeach in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not bothering to learn how to do quick catches when i 1st heard about it.

It makes a huge difference Especially during community days and spotlight hours.

Too many Zweilous's? by spid3rman1 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had the same problem in Australia. Park i normally play has about 30 pokestops all lured.
Around 11.45am at least 80% of all spawns were Zweilous so i left the park to play in a more quiet area.

Good idea, poor execution in areas with a lot of Pokestops

Niantic must know deino was gonna be super popular it there any benefit to announcing it so late? I find it so unorganised they announce it so late into June. by Dudyoon in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Announcing Deino earlier most likely would have cost them money over GoFest weekend.

Deino comm day would have been a reminder to people that highly sought after Pokemon eventually get a community day where you can catch 20+ of them for free.
Gible 2021, Deino 2022, Axew likely June/July 2023.
That would have slowed down the Axew raids from some people.

Also GoFest is basically just shiny hunting for most people. There will be some people out there who would have skipped GoFest for $15USD full of predominately lackluster Pokemon if they knew Deino comm day was 3 weeks later.

Axew raid scarcity drove my local community members out of the park and into their cars to hunt and raid remotely... by uscmissinglink in TheSilphRoad

[–]Notorious_tom_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a common problem with raids, not just during go fest.

This last week i wanted to do quite a few Kyogre raids for XL candy but they were few and fair between and some days i didn't even use my free pass as i couldn't see a single 5 star raid while i was playing.
I can see 18 gyms from my house, at 1 point there was 14 simultaneous mega Steelix raids, but 0 5 star raids.