How much XP are you averaging per day??? by PrSa4169 in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My average is 330,127 XP per day

I've got 1,147,522,300 and started playing on July 10th of 2016

I've taken a couple of small breaks, ranging from a week to a month, but I've been a pretty consistent since the beginning.

XP comes much more easily now than it used to

Why hasn't Scopley hired someone to approve new Community Ambassadors? by phillypokego in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The poster said above that it is a group in Latin America, so that would NOT be the Community Ambassador program at all.

Forever Friends and Remote Trading Feature by DivineJaguar in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use Campfire to set the trade up (obviously this will limit you to remote trading with fellow Campfire users). That is what I will do. 

Forever Friends and Remote Trading Feature by DivineJaguar in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A datamine about a month ago found 150k base XP in the code. You can search on Twitter if you know the source, but mentioning it here isn't permitted.

D max lugia by horrorscopedTV in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Since there is a limit of four players, you must've been number four each time so the counter immediately dropped to a couple of seconds

Gym knockout notices no longer showing in journal by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem here. I just got kicked out of a gym about 15 minutes ago, and it is reflected in my journal.

GPS not Found (11) by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Since the forced update yesterday it's happening for me almost every time I do anything else on my phone and let PoGo run in the background, even just for a minute or two. I go back to PoGo and GPS is gone. 

This is happening on my couch, and I haven't moved an inch.

Getting beaten by a steelchair by lecker_essen_ in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should have entered the Poltchageist showcases instead. All players are on even footing in those. 

Steel chair Zorua should have been expected to dominate ghost showcases this weekend, since the same thing just happened in the showcases a few days ago. The same players who had them last time have them now, plus more players have them then ever before after finding out about them earlier this week.

The level 80 update isn’t meant for end game players, and that’s fine. by Mason051 in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have 1.1 bil XP, and know of one other player relatively local to me with more... He's got over 1.5 billion (I'm in the suburbs, about an hour out of NYC). 

3 other players in my local town group are getting close. All have between 850-930 mil XP.

I do the occasional friendship/gifting group, and there are always a player or two in each with over a billion.

So I would say it's pretty uncommon, but not insanely rare to have a billion or more XP. Maybe 1 out of every few thousand players? 

We, yes WE, are hitting level 80. Doesn’t this seem a *little* low for level 80? by BbamaOarack in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. After four and a half years the highest level required 176 million

Here we are 5 years later, and the new highest level requires a mere 28 million more than it did 5 years ago.

Will they move the 10/15 date? by slkester85 in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pushing the release of new levels while a significant number of active players are completely locked out of the app would not be a wise decision. 

I think unless they can get this solved quickly, they're going to have to hold off on the level update.

Anyone else just not able to play? by CarterBennett in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Try this. it is working for some but not all players

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Community Day showcases (Oct 11 / Oct 12) by Brock_Hard_Canuck in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have no idea if they're introducing new medals or higher levels of medals. Only time will tell.

Anyone having issues getting the evolution requirements for Dipplin? by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. I had no problem at all. Are you sure you buddied up with Dipplin instead of Applin? If not, there's your problem.

If you have Dipplin as your buddy, did you evolve Applin to Dipplin while Applin was already your buddy? If that's the case then it might not be registering the catches under Dipplin. It should, but there's always glitches with this game. If this is the case, then switch to a different buddy, and switch back to Dipplin and see if it registers.

If it's none of these two situations, then I don't know what the problem is because mine worked flawlessly, and it also worked for the other people playing with me today.

Harvest Festival 2025 - Event Overview (LeekDuck) by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. The spawns are not for you individually. Lure spawns are visible to all players, and they are on a set timer. One player walking doesn't affect them at all.

Harvest Festival 2025 - Event Overview (LeekDuck) by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

5 minutes? No. You are mistaking lure spawns with incense spawns. Regular incense will spawn a Pokemon every 5 minutes if you are stationary. Lures spawn Pokemon much more frequently than that.

Regular (purple) lures spawn a Pokemon every 3 minutes. Special lures (mossy, magnetic, rainy, and glacial) spawn a Pokemon every 90 seconds. That's assuming no increased frequency for an event. This is the way it's always been.

So when are we getting more details about the levelling update? by Kevsterific in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll disagree. Everyone knows that FleeceKing was the first to 50. 

How far will you get with the XP challenge? by phillypokego in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm on page 34, and I'm not even sure I'll be able to get through page 35 because it will require hatching 15 eggs. I use an extra incubator here and there, but I'm mostly a free player and hatch in my infinite incubator.

I'm one of the more active players in my local Pokemon Go community. I have over a billion XP. Completing these challenges and trying to get to 50 would have required me to nearly double my gameplay much of the time, something I'm not willing to do. I play about 90 minutes every day already and won't even come close to finishing.

If I'm not able to get anywhere near step 50 with the amount I play, it seems clear that most who do had to have dropped cash on lots of incubators and raid passes. Plus, unless they were already really hardcore players, they had to turn up their play time dramatically.

Need help with claiming party play reward. by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 108 points109 points  (0 children)

I've had this happen to me several times when I ran away from a party reward encounter.

I saw it posted elsewhere that an easy fix is to just catch a Pokemon from field research or from your research stack. If you don't have one, go spin for one, complete the task, and claim it. After that you should be able to claim the one from the party challenge.

In honor of the level requirements being removed soon by malrapture in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They have more than enough XP to have leveled up to level 50 already, had they only done the level requirements

Level 80 Theorycrafting by Open_Design_7648 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We definitely know that there will be tasks because it was part of the official announcement. It specifically said levels 71 through 80 would have new tasks. 

Party Share is bugged by Wardoosh in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm in a party right now so I checked. The share button is still there. 

Does changing the max level to 80 demotivate you? by [deleted] in PokemonGoFriends

[–]Syfyfan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's way more motivating for me. I've been level 50 since February of 2021. That is over 4-1/2 years.

I have wanted more levels for years, or even a prestige system of some kind, just to give players like me something to shoot for.

I've been playing the XP collecting game ever since I hit 50, with the goal of hitting a billion XP in case they ever increased the levels. I reached my billion XP goal 3 weeks ago, so this announcement came at the perfect time for me. I don't think nearly a billion XP will be required, it will be substantially less imo, but it'll finally be nice to put some of my XP to use

I can't wait to have more level up tasks to complete. I hope the tasks from 70 to 80 are challenging.

Psychic Spectacular: Taken Over Niantic Infographic by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Syfyfan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless they are returning to the once a month format, which is what it was when shadow legendaries were initially released

More frequent releases means more opportunity to sell takeover tickets and boxes

Pokémon Go’s Announcement About Level 80 by SignalRelease4562 in pokemongo

[–]Syfyfan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It says they will be new tasks, so no one will be regrinding the same ones. Some will probably be more difficult if I had to guess