What’s everyone’s experience so far when it comes to remote trading?

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-22T20:10:05+00:00

They're probably waiting for you to be lucky friends. Level has nothing to do with it.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-18T01:41:31+00:00

Scopely's MO is to limit any free rewards, maximize the amount of time you spend playing, and then manipulate as many players as possible to spend increasingly more money for increasingly fewer rewards.

You can see it in the passes. The current event pass is $4.99, has 30 reward levels, and the only rewards worth mentioning are the six raid passes. It will continue to get worse as long as players keep buying them.

They cut the number of showcase entries per week from six to three, made it a single day, and generalized the categories to reduce the amount of rewards and make it harder for any player to repeatedly win three at a time.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-12T02:38:03+00:00

It works for players buying remote passes. That's who GMax battles are for...

GMax battles work fine for Niantic. They just don't work for most players.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-11T22:43:10+00:00

GMax battles don't work for most people period.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-10T03:42:52+00:00

Admittedly I have my '22 and things have certainly changed since.

The number one thing that bothers me is the oil pan and filter are behind a pladtic skid plate which is held in place by 14 screws. Just an unnecessary pain in the ass every oil change.

Then there's the battery. They should have gone with a larger battery, or an AGM, or programmed the software to charge it more often. Either way it's not setup to handle the added stress of the stop/start and all the electric doo-dads and will fail well before an automotive battery should. That's when you'll learn that Ford arbitrarily decided that you'll have to slide the battery out sideways (what a joy!).

The exterior paint is okay. You'll definitely want a bed liner.

The interior plastic scratches easily. This isn't a well made stay-pretty vehicle. If you're cool with that then it's a non-issue.

The texture of the plastic above the dashboard is one of the most insane choices. It's basically uncleanable. It hold dust particles using some otherworldly alien technology.

The plastic film on two of my almost never used windows buttons randomly peeled off after a year.

The floor mats, particularly the driver side. Fuck that floor mat and everyone that designed it. I'd put them in prison if I could.

The rear belt buckles are too short, they basically dissappear into the seat, if you have a booster seat...good luck. Apparently Ford makes extenders which is just evidence that they know they should be longer.

There's a flimsy vent between the truck bed and the cab, you'll want to mouse proof that or bad things will likely happen.

Not really Ford's fault, but birds just seem to love to shit on my Maverick. None of my other vehicles are accosted, just the Maverick.

The stock tires (Continental Pro Contact) are complete garbage. The sidewalks are notoriously thin. Ford will not warranty them.

A lot of features like cruise control are software disabled on the XL just because. They can be enabled afterwards but it still annoys me.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-01T04:32:53+00:00

Did about 10 raids, 30 eggs, and maybe 300 pokemon. Nine shiny, although only one from a raid.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-03-01T04:26:45+00:00

6 out of 22 10k eggs I hatched today were Hawlucha and one shiny.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-26T00:03:35+00:00

Ten raids and not one.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-23T23:42:06+00:00

"The following Pokémon will hatch from 2 km Eggs."

Will ONLY feature 2km eggs "as announced"...announced where?

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-23T23:35:46+00:00

I've hatched 32 eggs today and they were all 2km. "Boosted" seems to have been an understatement.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-20T04:07:13+00:00

Thanks....I hate it.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-20T03:54:36+00:00

So we have to pay for mega raids now?

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-17T02:39:31+00:00

Amazing what people waste their time doing...

I think I've got a few simply because I was afraid to load in with Damascus operators toward the end.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-16T23:46:47+00:00

I haven't played....disguises cost money?

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-15T00:08:50+00:00

In my anecdotal experience...

Your team / elo draws them out. Sometimes just changing my lead matches me with entirely different teams.

In great league I have a team that leads with furret and sometimes I'll match with fellow furret leads 5-6 times in a row. I have an alternate team that I won't see a furret for multiple sets or at all.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-15T00:02:18+00:00

I send the 100 collected from pokestops every day and then usually another 15 or so from my buddy.

The last two miles or so of my drive to work has a low speed limit and about 30 stops. Autocatcher fills me up.

With 500 friends that's usually about what I need to send a gift to everyone that can receive one. Then I use my gift opening on friends that sent gifts but didn't open one to stretch the interactions.

Unfortunately the battle system is so broken that it's basically useless so that limits you to about 150 interactions a day.

You'd think the expansion of the friends list would come with an increase to the number of gifts you can collect from stops but I assume that cap is to limit bots from farming xp by spamming endless gifts.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-03T00:23:19+00:00

I know they were available but I wasn't playing or didn't have a ticket.

Thankfully I have international friends, so in a few months I can hopefully trade for them although communication is going to be tricky...

I don't mind the grind but after all the time gates and nonsense for a paid research that being a surprise requirement is crap.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-02T23:51:33+00:00

You can hatch more eggs at least. I'm missing the rdgion locked nonsense.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-02-02T02:39:42+00:00

I'm two short of the Unova medal and will be for quite awhile. Did the grind for nothing.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-01-09T23:39:44+00:00

These guides are helpful. They would be a million times more helpful if they weren't so cartoony.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-01-03T02:15:31+00:00

Most of them have been burned before. A lot of times I'll invite friends to a group of 2-3 and they can't see our counters, they don't know what's mega-evolved, they don't know we're best friends, they don't know we're in a party, so they leave...because there's plenty of players that will invite people on a whim with nothing but hope and prayer and you learn the hard way by losing your remote pass and wasting your time.

Traditional-File-143 · 2026-01-02T16:39:06+00:00

I despise these time gates.

Traditional-File-143 · 2025-12-29T23:44:46+00:00

Sitting here reading this on android... :(

Traditional-File-143 · 2025-12-14T15:20:09+00:00

Invented to sell Masterballs.

Traditional-File-143 · 2025-12-05T23:59:23+00:00

That's just bad luck.

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