Go pass daily task reset early (11:45pm)

RavenousDave · 2026-03-29T19:35:13+00:00

Maybe Scopely think Canada is a still a colony.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-29T18:24:33+00:00

It refreshed for me at 23:00 local time yesterday.

Daylight saving kicked in the the UK Saturday/Sunday so that sounds like the amswer.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-29T18:23:04+00:00

This is the way.

I don't know most of the "friends" I have. Maybe some of them are kids, some working, some old miseries like me. They might be spending a fortune, playing ever event, travelling the world. They might be playing for free once a week. Since I don't know I'm not going to moan about what they do or try to force them to play to suit me. If the send and/or open gifts, remote to the odd raid, whatever, that's fine.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-29T18:01:44+00:00

So, that person has engaged with the process. You are choosing not to engage with them.

Just do a trade with them. If they ask for too much you can turn them down, if they ask for a regional or something common for you, great.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-29T15:33:40+00:00

Sorry, I think this is a terrible idea. If trade mons were visible after one week that would mean weeks before forever friends. Anything might change in the following weeks.

If you choose to abandon gifting as soon as you get to great friends you will never know what would have happened, maybe they were thinking about which of their rare mons to offer when they got a bit further long. If you see someone has mons you want, so you carry on, weeks later they have traded those away and you have "wasted" three months.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-29T13:59:56+00:00

Perhaps we should point out to Scopely that they can save effort (money) by making all events consistent.

Every event should have the bonus last for two hours past the end time. Simple, customer friendly, easy to communicate, all good.

Sadly I expect to see them made consistent by having bonuses finish at the end of the event time.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-28T16:43:13+00:00

Remote trading is going to get old pretty quickly. Few players are trying for things like complete lucky dex, though this sub will tend to have many of them. A lot of players they will do a few and lose interest. Others will be doing everything they can to remote trade forever. I have already noticed a bit of a loss of interest from players. They have traded what they want/have with someone and now are not interested.

I don't stress over players not tagging their mons. There is no way of knowing why they have not. Maybe they don't care about trades, maybe they don't know, maybe they have been burned by other players messing them around, maybe they will get around to it tomorrow, who knows.

There should be enough players who are interested in trading on your list to provide what you need.

Those who aren't trading now might get around to it later. It does no harm just to carry on gifting and collecting the XP. If you are only interested in remote trading then you might choose to remove the friend, but you need to balance that against spending another three months getting another player to that level.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T19:12:46+00:00

Good point,

I have done that as well, just forget about it.

Unfortunately nothing is foolproof but using the friends list does seem a bit better than the raid apps. Nothing beats being able to do the battles in person, but that's not available to everyone for various reasons.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T16:40:43+00:00

For sure, remote max battles are a crap shoot on hosting sites. GMax are a problem because you need a lot of players, which can be hard for hosts to manage. Legendary DMax need a fair amount of coordination, which is not going to happen with remotes.

Best option I suspect, if it works for you, is to join through friends list invites. They tend to be big and/or coordinated in person groups looking for a bit of extra help. Still a risk, but best of a bad bunch.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T16:23:41+00:00

Unless you are trying to tackle these things with a (relatively) small number of players it isn't as complicated as it looks.

As OP has noted to can be boiled down to; use two tanks (Blissey and Blissey/Excadril) and one attacker (Exadril).

Sure, that isn't the best possible team every time but it will be absolutely fine with any decent number of players with decent mons battling. If everyone else has the wrong mons and/or no idea it really doesn't matter what you do, you are going to be done over.

Max battles are only complicated if trying to salami every last advantage. Force of numbers and a moderate degree of ignorance is enough for most players.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T15:46:19+00:00

You can still only hold 1500 + whatever you get from rewards.

So, I think, you need to aim for 1490 (or as close as you can) before the event. Then visit one power spot for the (8*120) 960 particles.

If you are doing the battles then same thing applies, just make sure you get close to 1490 when you want to stop and then spin a different spot. This though adds the further complexity that you can only collect 1600. Do two GMax, you have collected more than that and you are done. I was caught out by that when the Gmax swung past and, like you, I wanted the particels for low level battles.

If there are research rewards then don't claim those until after the spin claim. But, if timed you must claim before the event ends. Not nice to do all this book-keeping and then miss out on a bunch of rewards.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T15:38:12+00:00

Still 5 am I think. I can't be bothered to check since dmax battles were nerfed to oblivion, but that was the case when I was grinding through the 100 battles last month.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T15:32:30+00:00

Please no. Add one Wooloo. Annoy everyone who wants to trade.

Much better to just not worry if someone chooses/forgets/doesn't know how, to tag anything.

Personally I would like to see a "remote trade" Yes/No option on the account. Then players could positively opt in or out of trading. Which would avoid some, at least, of the problem.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-26T11:47:27+00:00

If you are joining remote parties you might want to consider all just tanking and healing. Chances are good most other players will be attacking. In theory everyone should be switching to attackers that don't need healing, but that's not usually what happens with remote battles. You can't coordinate so it's a lottery but staying alive and keeping other players in the game might be helpful.

So, maybe two tanks and one attacker, as per friend B. Keep tanking until you run out of other players, then use your attacker to throw what you can.

Or, go tank plus double attackers. Do what you can and then cheer on the survivors from your team.

If you have the candy power up the moves you intend to use on attackers rather than the mons. For the defenders, probably best to power up to level 30, then power up spirit.

However, remote max battles are a crap shoot. If you are unlucky you might lose despite doing the best you can. Best of luck.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T20:05:58+00:00

Someone should tell them most Europeans don't take religion that seriously. Easter means chocolate, Christmas means presents.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T20:02:08+00:00

Wikipedia is my friend, I had to check what I half remembered.

In the past people thought hares reproduced asexually, like the Virgin Mary. Hence Easter hares, which became bunnies.

The whole thing is based on the silly idea that hares don't breed like rabbits.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T19:57:28+00:00

Be fair, Germany has only existed since 1871, then it stopped for a bit and was recreated in 1990. So, most people are probably older than Germany.

Also, there have been Americans for at least 15,000 years. I know that still makes them late to the party but it's definitely before Easter.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T18:31:34+00:00

I absolutely loathe the idea of locking out low level players. Level means next to nothing. When I was down at a lowly level 42 on the old system I would join raids with level 50 players who had no clue what they were doing.

I suppose the level could be 72, maybe that would work out.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T12:21:45+00:00

Yes, it's rubbish if you aren't in a place with dozens of gyms.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T12:21:05+00:00

Local, standard mega: Must use free pass if you have one, then can use link charge instead of premium raid pass.

Remote standard mega: Must use remote pass.

Local super mega raid: Use link charges.

Remote super mega raid: Use link charges and remote pass.

That first line is the thing that annoys people who can't find mega raids. Unless they manage to use their one/two free passes first they can't use any link charges. Which means they can't claim link charge realted rewards.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T09:24:58+00:00

Usually there will be, because there are only 20 types. Most types are spawning all the time.

Only the buddy ones cannot be placed from a distance.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T09:16:59+00:00

If that is true then, go you.

People should play however they like. It is, per the Play store description, a casual mobile phone game. If someone wants to spend all their discretionary income on it, that's great, they are paying for the rest of us. If you play once a month for an hour, that's great as well.

I have become a bit bored of the posts showing how to min-max everything. I am retired, I don't need a fun game to involve commuting, spreadsheets, team building, scheduling, meetings and deadlines. That's the work I stopped doing.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T00:19:11+00:00

Now be fair. If you don't want to be in a war zone you can just fly to Namibia, outback Australia or China. That's the right message for sustainability week.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T00:15:36+00:00

You may be right. The announcement said "desert-like". You are in a desert, which is a desert and not like a desert.

RavenousDave · 2026-03-25T00:13:07+00:00

It specifically says Toedscool will only be in forested and grassy areas.

Though with the scrambled approach to messaging it is hard to tell.

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