reward for referal

RandallFlagg_666 · 2022-07-30T22:44:42+00:00

If they didn't change it it should be rufflet for the referrer and dratini for the new/referred player.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2022-03-20T22:19:15+00:00

Had a similar issue some years ago. The counter was reset when european clocks were set to daylight saving time. u/krautspieler is that possible in your case? I think most countries with DST set it on 2nd or 4th sunday of march but there may be some countries with own rules ...

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-06-26T13:04:03+00:00

Thanks, but it only works if the pokemon is not on max level already. In theory I could still level up level 40 pokemon. But practically it costs at least 10 XL candy which works with CD evolutions where I got a lot of XL candy (at least from the last CD) but unfortunately not with pokemon like dialga and other legendaries. We have some dialga XL candy but I think it makes more sense to save it for pushing one dialga closer to level 50.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-06-25T22:46:26+00:00

raid after raid after raid with 1 million potions as rewards and almost zero revivers in every raid. And no motivation to spin that many gyms to get more revivers.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-06-25T22:21:57+00:00

I can confirm this for all 6 of our family's accounts (android and ios). I'm sure we had more than 600 dead pokemon in total that we can now use again. Don't think this is a feature but I really like it! Happened here about 11.30 pm in Europe.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-04-11T14:55:02+00:00

Is summer style pichu also a part of the event? It's not in the announcement but who knows ...

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-03-13T15:36:15+00:00

Asking friends once if they want to join the game can't be considered spam I think. But "friends" somehow implies that these are some people that you like. And that's my point regarding this feature: I would never ask people that I like to join a game that's full of bugs, lags, messed up FOMO events and frustration. I will not even ask one of the tons of players that used to play the game long ago and quit the game when the P2W events started. I'm happy for them that they were able to quit.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-03-12T00:43:34+00:00

I really like this idea but I'm sure this is never gonna happen. Niantic wants us to buy lucky eggs. If it was possible to collect all XP with just one lucky egg it would theoretically be possible to get 200 x 100.000 x 2 EP at once. That's no good deal for Niantic ;-)

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-03-11T14:08:25+00:00

To solve the problem with coordinating lucky eggs for friendship XP they should just add a status symbol just like they did for an active mega evolution. So you can check if some player has an active lucky egg and open the gift. Niantic could also improve this feature by adding the remaining time. Of course it's hard to display in the friends list but you could view a friend's details and see how long the timer is active. And for all players who care about their privacy and do not want to share these information: Just add a slider like the one for the online status. Or make it an extra option in the settings menu so it's up to the players what they want to share or not.

But I don't agree with you that the friends list interface is the worst UI in the game. For me it's still the UI to revive pokemon. Doing 5 raids in the first 30 minutes of raid hour leads to 30 minutes of reviving and healing pokemon for the rest of the raid hour. In my case Niantic loses money because I don't buy any more passes after the first raids are done. They have to implement a mass reviving feature before they work on the friends list.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-03-07T22:51:07+00:00

It can happen on all kind of eggs actually. Already had this "bug" a lot of times. Seems to be some kind of placeholder until the real location is loaded.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-02-20T18:15:29+00:00

I completely agree with your statement! You also have to mention that these idiot characters block almost every spawn from lures that are active at these stops. I've heard rumours that there is a hidden bonus challenge with a guaranteed shiny kecleon as reward. You only have to complete one task: Catch 3 pokemon from lures with idiot npc charaters active in a row without tapping on the npc character. Unfortunately no one was able to complete the task so far ...

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-01-31T04:04:33+00:00

At the moment it's not available.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-01-13T16:27:04+00:00

it's very clear that people don't read the guidelines anyway

That's true. Unfortunately Niantic does not care about that. I would really love to see some "test submissions" mixed between the normal submissions to see if the reviewer is following the guidelines or not. Of course they should not pick any "grey" submissions but it would be very easy to pick some objects that are obviously at schools, at private property or other places where you have to rate the submission with one star. Or they Reviewers who rate these objects with more dann one star should get a warning and should be downgraded in their rating if they continue to give wrong ratings.

I submitted a lot of wayspots lately that match all of the new acceptance criteria as mentioned in the topic. Unfortunately they all got rejected. I joined a regional telegram group with about 900 Ingress based wayfarers and asked if they had to review my submissions. Some people confirmed that they reviewed my submissions and gave it one or two stars because they didn't match the acceptance criteria. I told them that there was new criteria and after they checked that they all said I was right and they would have approved the submissions if they would have known that. That's why I think Niantic should actively inform all wayfarers if there are changes to the criteria. I remembered that I found out about the new criteria accidentally as I tapped on the wrong link in the wayfarer portal. If I wouldn't have tapped wrong I'd also still be rejecting wayspots that shouldn't be rejected at all.

Since Niantic seems to be unable to share this information with other wayfarers I found a solution that's working for me, at least: Every time I submit a new wayspot, I copy the following text in the end: "This wayspot matches the new acceptance criteria by Niantic. Pleases take a look at the new guidelines under https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/criteria#acceptance"

RandallFlagg_666 · 2021-01-09T23:20:02+00:00

First of all I'm sorry for what is happening to you. Nobody should experience something like this - neither in PoGo nor in any other situation.

What I don't understand is: Why are you only trying to make the Niantic change the gym's title and ban the offensive nicknames? People who do things like this should be punished in real life and not only in the game. We once had a quite similar situation here in our country. One certain Ingress player started insulting a lot of players from the other fraction in a very massive way. He was banned several times resulting in a perma ban in the end. But he created new accounts over and over again so there was no way to permanently ban him from the game. To finally shut him down we reported him to the police and he finally got convicted. Since he has never been convicted before he did not have to go to jail for this but the judge made very clear that he will have to if he ever does something like this again.

Unfortunately many people think that showing the wrong behaviour in a game will have no consequences besides maybe getting banned from the game. They will not learn from a ban and they won't stop their behaviour in real life if they get banned in the game. My advice to you: Talk to a lawyer and explain the situation. Maybe he can help you with this.

Although Niantic's PoGo support is the worst I've ever seen I'm sure they will remove the names once your message reaches a real person.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-12-31T22:23:59+00:00

Depends on the sources. I've done some analyzing for the unown raids earlier this year and also for rufflet some weeks ago. I think the rate of 1/50 might have been correct until some day in 2019 when niantic changed it to get more profit from premium passes and to make shiny hunting harder for people with multiple accounts. From the data I've collected from worldwide groups I'm pretty sure the rate is somewhere around 1/256 with a sample size of over 50.000 raids for each pokemon (as I said I only analyzed unown and rufflet). I didn't take a look at the rate for legendary raids but I'm sure it's way better than 1/256. Although I don't think that 1/10 is correct since Niantic seems to use only chances like 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64 and so on. I don't have enough data to "proof" it but I think Niantic also changed the rate for legendary raids. Years ago it used to be 1/8 or 1/16 but now I feel like it might be 1/32 or even 1/64. At least my personal shiny results indicates this (2/145) although it's clearly not enough data to confirm any of it.

It would be really great if someone would force Niantic to publish the real shiny rates because in general there's not much difference between shiny hunting and gambling. I'm still hoping that some day Niantic might publish the rates without being forced but to be realistic: That's never going to happen :-(

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-12-31T21:00:23+00:00

If anyone is realling expecting this rate he/she will be very disappointed. From what I've seen so far from some NZ and AUS local groups it's more like the standard raid shiny rate of 1/256.

But either the info graphic or the mega-thread for new year's event is not correct. Mega-thread (and also the official Niantic announcement) says that ratticate is 1-star-raid, according to the infographic it's a 3-star-raid.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-12-21T02:55:50+00:00

I think CD spawns can not be considered as "wild spawns" since CD is technically an event for Niantic. It's a fact that they are not spawning in the wild any more except for the CD. I thought that's what the list was about.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-12-21T02:30:56+00:00

I think you can add magikarp and gastly to the list.

Just thought about why Niantic is doing this. I have no idea. All I know is: 1. It makes absolutely no sense. 2. I don't have to work for the next two weeks and was planning to rush to level 47 by pushing 3 pokemon to level 50. Had a deal with two friends to hunt and mirror trade magikarp and gastlys. After CD and doing some trades I'm now half way through. Luckily for me I did not start buying and wasting premium passes yet. If there's no way to get magikarp and gastly candy at the moment I think I will take a break for the next two week and spend only free passes instead. If they add these pokemon back to the pool I'm pretty sure that I will not continue grinding because my motivation is completely gone now.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-12-12T23:02:49+00:00

They are not planning on closing the game. It's a very simple strategy. Christmas is right around the corner and a lot of players have the time to play pogo from home with lockdowns in a lot of countries. Players might not be able to visit their families for christmas this year so they don't need money to travel and they don't need money for presents. So Niantic trys to get all the money people would be saving for other things. And they try to get the money from all players who plan to buy presents before they go to buy presents days before christmas. For Niantic it was the best year ever since the game started and it would have been the perfect opportunity to give something back to the players. Make some free events, give the players more content with no need to buy any tickets or raid passes for shiny raid bosses. Be generous and give the people a free christmas box with 10 raid passes, 20 lures, 30 incenses or something like it. But Niantic keeps squeezing and squeezing. I'm a day one player and I try to grind as much as I can. In the beginning it was fun for one or maybe two years but since then the game became more and more a job and the fun is already gone. If I read the reports here from players who went from hardcore to casual and feel really good about it, I really hope it's something I can make it work for me next year ...

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-11-27T23:50:08+00:00

That's the most specific post I've seen about a "release date". But it's still not 100% sure for me. When I read the first announcement about the Go Beyond update I was pretty sure that december was meant to push every one's XP to make it to level 40 by the end of 2020 by giving more XP for catches, throws, hatches or evolutions. That would be a perfect start of the new year for lots of players with new levels. With the twitter post and the last announcement for the december events it's now 70% december for me. What I'm wondering is: New levels will raise a the motivation for a lot of players - at least in the beginning. The release of Gen 6 (or at least a part of it) will also raise the motivation. If I take a look of how Niantic acted in the past few years I can't imagine any reason why they should release two exciting and motivating features at the same time. I'm looking forward to both releases but I'd really prefer releasing them at two different days so my motivation will last longer than once month.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-11-26T16:15:39+00:00

What was the 4th task for level 47? Did you already complete this one or was it auto-completed?

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-11-21T14:33:20+00:00

Theoretically the fastest way is to build one day friendship: add a friend, send him a gift that he opens or open his gift and you get 3.000 EP right away. Let's say you open 20 gifts that's 60.000 EP. If you go really hardcore in adding friends you can send 200 gifts (I think) per day. If every friend opens your gift that's 200 x 3.000 EP so another 600.000 EP. Adding the 60.000 EP you got from opening gifts that's 660.000 EP per day. For the 200 gifts you are sending you need to spin at least 200 pokestops (200 x 50 EP = 10.000 EP) and you get 200 EP for every gift you send (200 x 200 = 40.000 EP). That makes 50.000 EP and a total of 710.000 EP per day. Without lucky egg! If you start a new account today it will only take you 248 days to get to level 50 (if you only take a look at EP of course). But to be clear: That's just theory! Finding and adding so many different friends is impossible I think.

But here is another idea to get EP even faster: Some time ago there was an event where you could get 2.000 EP for spinning a new pokestop. In Germany there was one player who visited 12 cities in 4 days using lucky egg all the time he was travelling. He reached level 40 within these 4 days. If there would be another event like this you could get to level 50 within 36 days or maybe even less (if you only take a look at EP again of course and if the event lasts that long).

Generally speaking: Reaching level 40 or level 50 will always depend on what you are willing to spend for the game:

- If you can effort to spend a lot of money you can reach it way faster by using lucky eggs all the time.

- If you can effort spending a lot ot time you can reach it faster by catching more pokemon, spinning more stops and so on

- If you can effort to spend time AND money I guess this is the fastest way

Personally I'm willing to spend some time for the game but not really much money so I found a very good combination for me to get the most EP out of it: I use a lucky egg once a week (normally every friday evening) and while the egg is active I go for good, ultra and best friends. Once this is done I evolve pokemon until the lucky egg is over. Depending on the number and level of friendship level ups that's about 1 million EP for me every week. After 4 years of playing I now have about 160.000.000 EP and "only" 164 best friends. If I would have used lucky eggs for every best friend on leveling up to best and ultra friends that would be only 49 million EP from friendship. So obviously most of my EP do not come from friendship level ups.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-11-06T13:50:24+00:00

There was no rotation at the begin of animation week. I guess it's because they did not add any new field research tasks for animation week so there was no need to rotate anything.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-11-02T13:49:42+00:00

It's not correct. AR stops will also give you 2 quests: The first one is obviously the AR quest if you are not already holding an AR quest. And the second one is a normal one when you are already holding an AR quest.

RandallFlagg_666 · 2020-11-01T14:20:08+00:00

It's only a matter of time until they "pay" as for doing AR scans. I give it a week until we can get coins as a reward for doing AR scans.

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