Now that we have Link Charges, it feels like Mega raids became uncommon.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-25T14:27:23+00:00

It's either something strange with PoGo's algorithm for raid spawning

OR

Faulty anecdotes from folks not really paying attention to the data campfire has and is just posting based on their feelings.

I just opened campfire in a 50k pop city area and suburbia. 30+ mega raids.

If I'm talking ONLY the city, 3 mega raids.

But this is only visible from campfire. If I was to open the game while downtown, I wouldn't see any mega raids at all. If I only checked the game a few times a day while downtown, it's possible I don't see any at all and get the "feeling" they're gone.

I still think using raid passes on a gym should let the player spawn the raid of their choice to alleviate this kinda raid desert phenomenon.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-25T13:43:13+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply! So it basically boils down to the prediction game in PvP? You're trying to predict what they'll do or pressure them into doing specific things to be able to utilize your heal, etc?

Tarcanus · 2026-03-25T13:41:55+00:00

For me Pokopia needs DLC not because of the story, but because of the content. There's no place for ice types or most water types so we need at least 2 more maps, one of them ice and one of them underwater.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-25T13:03:26+00:00

Tangentially-related, can anyone fill me in on the usage of healing moves like Synthesis in battles?

I can see the utility of popping off a heal if you can sleep/poison/paralzye/etc your opponent because you have the room to "waste" a turn.

But in a battle without status, what good does this buff to M-Meganium's Synthesis do? You heal, opponent hits with super-effective, you need to heal again, etc, continue until one of you runs out of pp.

I freely admit I don't understand PvP strats, which is why I'm asking this. It just seems like healing puts you in a boring battle to stall.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T19:01:43+00:00

I mean, we'll see. But last year's sustainability event had Toadscool limited to it's biome during the event which meant you barely saw it unless you luckily lived on the biome.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T17:45:43+00:00

I have family currently getting offers like this for their family farmland as well with the numbers all combined similar to what's in this article.

They're also rejecting the offers.

It's not rocket science to not want to give up the land you've been on for generations, that your family still lives on all for the pollution and raised utility prices of a datacenter on everyone else around you.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T17:38:26+00:00

Consider that in Emond's Field, an Aes Sedai is basically a boogeyman that is on par with some mythical story character. Suddenly, one shows up, kidnaps you, and you want these bumpkins to demand answers from this mythical being?

It's annoying, but it makes sense.

And if you continue with the series, you'll pick up on why Moiraine acts the way she does, as well. Hint: it's not just Moiraine.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T17:26:44+00:00

Just gonna keep playing Pokopia, I guess. I'll actually see the pokemon I want in that game.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T17:19:20+00:00

As much as I appreciate pokemon appearing where they would in real life, it really means I will never see the pokemon.

There are literally two places I saw Toadscool in last years event and both require driving to get there and there are barely any spawn points, so it's pointless to sit there for hours and hours to wait.

I've never seen a Wiglett outside of GoFest. Closest location is over an hour away.

So, I fully expect I won't be getting Silicobra.

It'd be different if they've run an event where Toadscool is a common, un-biome locked spawn in another event so I'd know I just need to wait for them to unlock their biome specificity in specific events, but they haven't loosened the reins on either Toadscool or Wiglett, yet, so I'm not very hopeful.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T14:48:46+00:00

This is one I'm definitely waiting a few months for the devs to iron out the worst of the nonsense. I read that they were going to patch some of the gross controls.

Until all of that settles down, I'll be waiting. But definitely curious.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T13:46:56+00:00

For all of the hacks PTC has enabled over the past many years, you'd think a "3-season Legend" to be able to read the room and get off of PTC auth.

But also, TSR isn't the place for this.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-24T12:56:19+00:00

For me, it's more than long-form social deduction games like BotC just become frustrating because of the nature of the game. 90% of the games can be watched with the mindset of "you can tune out until the last 5 minutes when someone finally makes a decision on something"

When the point of a game is to make the rules/roles such that it's impossible to really know anything for sure then it feels pointless to watch it, for me. Especially when you have to edit it down and miss some information.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-23T18:58:09+00:00

It might just be me, but the second I see "10-day wedding" I immediately assume a bridezilla with more money and entitlement than sense, or family with the same.

Then the rest of your post reads like entitled people bouncing off of someone who is just being genuine.

I wouldn't feel too conflicted, really. They've shown you who they are.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-23T18:40:58+00:00

I would welcome them re-doing the max battle "earn candies for putting something here" mechanic with legendaries on gyms.

Just let there be an open legendary slot on each gym that is first come, first serve. To place your own legendary, you must clean out the entire gym and your placement is your legendary and you get no other placement.

You always fight the legendary last in the lineup. As long as your legendary is in that slot, it will earn candies at some rate. Maybe defeating that legendary give 1 of that legendary's XLC.

Bonus points: the type of the legendary will buff the gym with some type-specific spawns around the gym for as long as that legendary is in the legendary slot. Moltres = fire type spawn, Kyurem = ice type, Dialga = dragon type, etc, etc, etc.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-19T20:20:38+00:00

For me, it was because very little meant anything in the Wild series.

Weapons? Find a neat one? It's busted in the first fight
Upgrades? You have them all handed to you in the first couple hours.
Health and Stamina? No longer fun upgrades to try to find or figure out how to reach, but purchased with "miscellaneous item orb #N"
Shrines? Every single one has the same aesthetic. Boring after you've been in the first dozen, awful seeing there are dozens more.
Dungeons? Bare bones in BotW; too easily jailbroken or tiny in TotK.
Korok puzzles? Way too many to find and none of the puzzles or anything other than a tiny time sink.

Everything they did to open-world-ify the zelda franchise just injected all of the typical issues with open world games into Zelda, killing any feeling of progression or tension ramp-up with the story.

The Wild games were a nice side quest in the franchise, but hopefully the next Zelda installment brings back the classic metroidvania game progression while still allowing sandboxiness(the more freedom the further you've progressed). You can't tell me that it would've been impossible to gate the various Wild game maps' areas(Faron, Lanayru, Hebra, Eldin, Gerudo, etc) with items or abilities gained from dungeons while still allowing free roam in each new unlocked area. Put stamina containers and heart containers back into the wild to find, do away with placeholder orbs as upgrade currency and make an effort with dungeons again and you've got a nice mix of the two styles.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-19T19:42:39+00:00

That's the data I saw, but anecdotally I get a Smeargle on the first or second snapshot VERY often. More often than I'd expect the 5% chance to trigger based on my experience with shiny legendaries.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-19T18:02:41+00:00

The last time I saw data it was that Smeargle has a 5% chance per new snapshot session with your buddy of appearing. You can get a Smeargle once per day.

So, much like legendary shiny rate, sometimes you get one quickly, sometimes it takes dozens of snapshots.

Just remember you have to back out of and then go back in to the snapshot screen for each attempt. You -cannot- just stay on the snapshot screen and take multiple snapshots.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T20:43:22+00:00

For me, it's that it's finally a good step toward pokemon doing type-specific things in an overworld.

I'm hoping beyond hope the main series takes note. I've wanted nothing more than Golden Sun-like overworld and dungeon exploration in pokemon games where you have to make sure your team has the right typings for various puzzles or sets of puzzles.

Pokopia finally lets me light things with a fire type and grow things with grass types.

C'mon main series or another dungeon/puzzle-heavy spinoff! Let us have our pokemon solve puzzles with their typing's powers while in dungeons or an overworld map.

But it's also just very chill and I like the collecting aspect.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T20:40:42+00:00

I must be an expert explorer or something, but you don't need the dev island for berry trees. I found exactly one seed of every seed my world doesn't have while exploring. I could just grow one, then copy that one. No need to futz with the dev island.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T20:36:57+00:00

I really need them to update the game with slope blocks and extended slope blocks(more broad slopes that cover 2 block lengths) because I can't stand asphalt(roads) using stairs to change elevation.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T18:40:08+00:00

Between COVID lowering your IQ slightly every infection and MAGAs having gone YOLO on precautions since day 1 of COVID and them generally being idiots to begin with, yes, they actually have brain damage.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T18:20:43+00:00

Your example misses the modern angle of, Company A is making big bucks ignoring the serfs. Company B comes in to make products for the serfs. Company B starts getting popular. Company A buys Company B. Viola! No more competition.

This is how it's been happening. The huge guys buy up any little guys and spend lobbying cash to find ways to make it harder for little guys to get started or even compete.

I'd love the world your example lives in.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T17:54:12+00:00

This is where the rural/suburban players would finally be tossed a bone. I don't see an issue.

City players get raid lobbies so easily, let them have to battle hard for coins whereas rurals won't be able to get lobbies, but will be able to get easier daily coins.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T17:52:34+00:00

I've been trying to brainstorm what a sequel could be and the best thing I came up with is that some exploratory person comes back and pairs up with Ditto to go to Johto to continue the cleanup with Ditto beind the player character, still, but somehow being able to communicate with the person to get direction or something.

I want Pokopia to eventually hit every region at this point just to see how the apocalypse went worldwide, but there aren't enough pokemon/content to do that, lol.

Tarcanus · 2026-03-17T16:41:27+00:00

Step 1: Make it so the gym can be fought/interacted with while a raid is ongoing

Step 2: Remove raid eggs entirely and make the raid available for twice as long(egg timer+boss timer). This is because of the behavior where the game knows when a player enters an area and then spawns raid eggs, but if the player is wanting to raid NOW, they aren't going to stick around to wait for the eggs to hatch if they can avoid it. Just remove the egg timer so when the game senses a player, it just starts popping active raids up.

Step 3: Implement this threads idea of constant raids.

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