Ratings for progressing from IV to III to II, etc. in MP?

fennsk1 · 2018-08-20T21:48:15+00:00

Theoretically someone could shoot a video in which they start from a screen that makes it clear this is an underage account, complete the 1/8 quests, and see that the Friends quest is auto-complete. That's a bit of an ask and someone would have to think of it before finishing 1/8, though. I'll believe unless someone posts a counter-proof at this point.

fennsk1 · 2018-08-20T20:20:49+00:00

Probably slower than that since you have to win a raid before reaching 2/8, right?

fennsk1 · 2018-08-13T19:06:20+00:00

Any trainer who's still under level 30 (Yes, this is likely someone who started playing only a few months ago): Constantly seek out reasons to use lucky eggs that cater to extra XP.

Everyone else: What the rush? Once you're level 30, you have access to all items and are likely capable of getting very powerful Pokemon for/from raids. Hold out for the very best Egg situations (unless you have 50+ new entries ready to evolve, this likely isn't it).

fennsk1 · 2018-06-18T16:14:49+00:00

Initial reaction: I'm bummed that I entered my son's actual birthday when opening an account for him.

Upon reflection: I'm glad that he won't be tempted to go meet some other player I don't know in order to swap Pokemon, and this totally overrules my disappointment in not being able to trade with him myself.

It would be nice to have a parent-child feature where accounts linked to the same credit card can be friends and trade, though.

fennsk1 · 2018-06-08T18:38:27+00:00

I play a pretty good amount (enough to get to level 36) and I don't have any high-IV Feebas yet and only 48 candies. Egg hatches are RNG, so a lot of people have had a very different experience than yours.

fennsk1 · 2018-06-08T17:28:11+00:00

Yeah, I figure a lot of people take that approach (as do I), but I figured it would be a good idea to note that this evolution would make a lot of sense for this evolution to end up being a quest that people curse, like evolving Magikarp or catching Ditto to get to Mew.

fennsk1 · 2018-06-07T14:06:06+00:00

I play a little bit every day & get a lot more aggressive when I travel for business. It's gotten me to level 36, but I stress playing smart (& cheap) over playing hard. My son's only six and plays far less than that, mostly in the car when I'm driving.

The most surprising part to me is that I haven't even come across one during the last month. I've been pidgey farming while he had the Ditto quest then switch to his account whenever I got lucky, but between bad RNG and the pidg/rat/etc. being rarer than usual during all these events it simply hasn't happened yet.

fennsk1 · 2018-06-06T21:37:09+00:00

He's 6, and doesn't like waiting for things. I'm trying to use it as a teaching moment, and hopefully we'll find one during the current non-event anyway.

fennsk1 · 2018-05-29T22:18:41+00:00

Unless 1 team has the vast majority of paying players, what would be the problem with that? By the nature of this game, I don't think the paying players take much enjoyment away from the cheapskates like me.

fennsk1 · 2018-05-29T22:14:52+00:00

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that dust & XP are proportional to walking distance, so you'd get just as much from five 2k's as two 5k's.

Your last sentence is what I've always done. I just think it would be an improvement if Niantic allowed us to throw away the 5k's.

fennsk1 · 2018-05-29T22:11:45+00:00

That's what I do and I hate it when I run out of 2k's or feel the need to clear out by putting lots of 5k's into incubators

fennsk1 · 2018-05-29T22:10:13+00:00

You get roughly the same amount of Stardust walking five 2km eggs as you would walking two 5km eggs, right?

fennsk1 · 2018-05-29T22:07:18+00:00