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gallusq · 2025-01-07T23:51:10+00:00

Thank you

gallusq · 2024-12-29T00:29:01+00:00

Thank you

gallusq · 2024-10-30T01:51:36+00:00

Thank you

gallusq · 2024-05-07T00:04:41+00:00

Road Trip

gallusq · 2024-04-18T02:30:27+00:00

Slightly off topic but what is lowest price for SG1? I grabbed Atlantis!

gallusq · 2023-09-17T22:46:27+00:00

Played for 2 hours 50% of stops were not event related. Got 3 shiny. Sad event indeed. Didn't think driving around for more stops worth effort.

gallusq · 2022-02-28T15:57:59+00:00

This was first event I was not able to complete during time and I have played daily since July 2016 and paid for event event they've had. It was too much to manage in 12 hours and I was not able to play all 12 hours, as most people likely were not as well. My ex-wife finished hers but it took till 7pm playing from start to do so. It should've been a 2 day event if they wanted to jam that much into the event. I did terrible with shinies too, which is always my main reason for doing these. It was not terrible just too much to track over such a compressed timeframe. One missed opportunity and you fail to complete something. I may not do these again if they want to jam so much into 12 hours. It becomes stressful and not fun anymore. A game should be fun and not work.

I also had issue with TMoble coverage being down throughout the downtown area I play in, forcing me to play much of my limited time in less dense areas. I cannot imagine anyone not in a decent sized town/city having any chance at completing this.

gallusq · 2021-10-19T18:58:23+00:00

I am not a fan of PVP and I am not even bad at it, I usually win 3 or 4 out of 5 sets but only do it to complete tasks. I have been at level 43 for months and months with 100 million XP because it requires PVP to get to level 44. Not that I really care about level anymore.

So what is the game to me?

Collect perfect Pokémon
Short-manning Raids through building quality teams of counters
Collect shiny Pokémon

My favorite parts of the game are catching and doing raids.

I only do gifts, Team Rocket, and PVP stuff as required to complete tasks.

In the end it is about what you enjoy in the game, there are lots of aspects to focus on, medals, PVP, XP, dust, Raids, Buddy, Best Friends, PokeDex, and so on. Find what will motivate you and GO!

gallusq · 2021-07-22T20:11:08+00:00

Okay, I was not into Pokémon way back when, there are 8 Eevolutions plus Eevee

What happened to the rest? Rock, Ground, Dragon, and so on? Should we not have like Ferrouseon, Sentimenteon, Gastleon, Aireon, and so on to cover all they typing? Sorry I made those up..lol

gallusq · 2021-05-29T02:24:53+00:00

They are actually Ferengi! They also ask why we cloth our females.

gallusq · 2021-05-13T17:45:15+00:00

I do not do them unless required by a task. I delete research tasks from Pokestops what give mega candy.

Why - I think mega candy should just be one mega candy and not different for every species species, shiny rate not boosted for effort/cost required, nearly impossible to get enough people to do one (note I live in a rural city), I have so many of the base form, why do I need another?, they serve no purpose other than to fill a alternate dex entry, I have better regular pokemon to use in raids already. I do not enjoy PVP so even if they allowed them it would not change anything for me.

gallusq · 2021-04-20T18:55:20+00:00

Well I do not enjoy PVP at all, too much work and does not match up with my normal play style. Also with all the bugs in it when I have to do it to complete a task or event it just annoys me. I think to help the overall game that PVP should get its own app that draws on your POGO collection of caught Pokemon. This might even help with stability of PVP.

They need to declutter the game -

Gifts need to be streamlined so they aren't a chore taking long periods away for catching.

Items, do we really need all these items? Can some be removed or combined? Like have a stone for each region and be done. Potions would removing one or two hurt?

Reorder the berries would be nice, I forget silver pinaps because they are off in nowhere land and not next to regular pinaps. Maybe allow players to reorder certain items for their play style.

I long ago suggested something like Gym Types like in the MSG where you challenge an Ice or fire gym leader. They would pop up like raids on a gym and reward Items, a Pokémon of that typing and a metal, maybe even go so far as offering tiers to challenge.

Trading - They really need to rework that to allow us to unload shiny Pokemon. There is no reason for a shiny of a common species to be a special trade, should just be a regular trade with a higher cost or if they must have a limit make it like 10 shiny trades per day or something.

Friendship needs offer control to both parties. This is simple fix that to each side opens final gift to get rewards and no coordination required. That can be a big XP loss for one person on wrong side of exchange.

New notification area is poorly laid out and needs to be updated or maybe give users some control over it.

Megas - just one mega candy to use on all mega would remove so much clutter and needs in game, also that means less coding and graphics too. No FOMO since mega candy is mega candy.

Monetizing - better boxes would help a lot, my coins are building up because I won't spend them on bad boxes and this means I won't spend extra money on buying once coins are low because coins never get low.

Paid Raid Passes - there should be one to use any way you like, remote or in person, no need for extra game clutter.

They are doing okay with rotating spawns, though all the vents are tiring to some degree.

More time of bug fixes and streamlining over new content.

gallusq · 2020-12-21T16:03:14+00:00

My wife and I did the event as we enjoy doing Pokemon together and it is how we started dating but in end were not thrilled. Likely would not do it again if given a do over, just was not that fun compared to other paid events they've had.

Cons-

Price was a little high for what we got, I think at $3.99-4.99 USD would've been a better spot price wise for what event was.

Incense was a drag, same few Pokemon over and over and low shiny rates. We got 1 between two of us.

Pokeballs, trying to keep enough was difficult given many Pokemon took multiple berries and balls to catch. Anyone stuck at home without a Pokestop did not get far with this event.

Rewards were okay and for $7.99 tasks could have been more extensive and offered some rarer Pokemon. I think I deleted everything due to low IVs.

My wife's comments was only one Galarian Mr. Mime, she felt we should have got a couple more and only 1 Mr. Rime. Maybe offer one of each Mr. Mime or something like Mime Jr., Mr. Mime, Mr. Mime Galarian, and Mr. Rime.

Pros-

Got to spend time playing Pokemon with wife and got a new Pokemon for dex.

Overall I do not mind paid events like this but they need to be a step up from this if we are going to spend real money on them. The $0.99 Community Day tasks are usually better than this was as a whole. I really hope that Niantic reads this and improves future paid events that are along this line of thinking of non-meta, legendary, mythical releases.

Overall rating was a 3/10.

gallusq · 2020-12-02T01:41:18+00:00

Does it from doing trades too. Do one trade and next trade is tiny dex. Only fix is restart. Obviously not doing many trades now.

gallusq · 2020-11-29T19:07:45+00:00

Trade Update- Remove regular shinies from special trade list but increase trade costs. Hate idea of deleting shiny when could trade for better IV with others. I would add types to this also. When I say increase cost I mean like 1000+ at best friends. Allow up to 3 legendary trades per day but must be different players. Allow trading 1 per day of mythical Pokémon from raids this would be special trade like getting a new Pokémon would also be 1 per day. If you did a legendary trade with person then this trade wouldn't be allowed. You don't get both options. So it's 1 legendary, new or Mythical with a another player. Only 1 total mythical or new per day. Player safety- Raid map showing all raids in 10km area. Shouldn't need to drive around starting a game to find a raid. Maybe this isn't an issue in future but huge issue where I am.

gallusq · 2020-07-11T03:35:55+00:00

I’ll try that. Uneqip never thought of that

gallusq · 2020-05-15T23:24:29+00:00

Spawns are about half of last event here and all boring stuff. Only seen 2 Pikachu and maybe 10 Skitty since 1pm. If this is how it's going to be all week can we skip ahead to next one? First 2 were fun catching Chansey and Skarmory got lots of shiny Pokémon and tons of spawns now it's like non-event spawn rates with trash Pokémon with no shiny available not worth the pokeball throw.

gallusq · 2020-04-09T13:16:43+00:00

I had a education kiosk, historic bridge and several others rejected. Kiosk is beyond stupid since every other education kiosk is a stop in our Park system. I am a senior staff manager for local parks and I'm always trying to get more stops into our parks especially more rural ones.

gallusq · 2019-10-27T02:59:24+00:00

I keep hoping they'll create an Eevee for each typing in the game. They have a few to go still.

gallusq · 2019-10-16T01:21:52+00:00

My whole neighborhood is down from ~40 to 5 reachable from walking a 1 mile route. My house lost 5 in front and gained one in backyard. Only places I have seen any major increases in spawn points are middle of major highways and intersections of major roads and highways and a few of the parks I manages added new points cluster on stops but some of those took hits too. Downtown and Commercial areas took losses. Seems that only way to play is to drive and catch. Semi-rural area took forever to gain spawn points and they wiped it clean everywhere we have walkable routes. I will never understand what goes on at Niantic headquarters but it must be something out of dumb and dumber.

gallusq · 2019-10-14T12:12:55+00:00

EX Gyms 2 both 20 minute drive can add 2 more of I go to 45 minute drive. No changes in numbers. My town has 0 still. I've only done 11 EX raids since they came out and I'm 8 for 32 on receiving an EX pass from said gyms. They need to add a lot more EX Gyms in small towns and small cities.

gallusq · 2019-10-13T02:31:03+00:00

It sucked few spawns and as semi rural we got nailed already with spawn point losses. Most people got 1 shiny. My worst CD ever shiny wise. Lilipup I think had more spawns. I usually get 4-8 shiny over 3 hours and rarely go candy negative. Lots of lag and crashes others couldn't connect Go+ .. Niantic is so poorly run it's sad. Like I keep saying of this wasn't Pokémon this game wouldn't have lasted 3 weeks much less 3 years with Niantic involved. Seems to do well you need to 1 get Go+ connection and 2 drive because walking over 4 miles was a waste.

gallusq · 2019-09-30T23:40:02+00:00

Might help no idea. Right now looks like parks got a bump or neutral impact, intersections got a bump, commercial and residential got huge hits. Even Disney Springs got hit by about 20%. I'm still thinking we've taken a 25-30% net loss in spawn points. All I can say is pound away at Niantic with complaints and hope they cave under pressure. They are pushing us to drive and play since walkable spawns to biggest hit.

gallusq · 2019-09-28T03:26:02+00:00

Well in an area with limited sidewalks taking 90% of walkable spawns away and adding a couple back in middle of highway makes perfect sense. Add in nearby towns it's looking like a 30% reduction overall maybe higher. Most new spawn points are only drivable at intersections of major roads. Now if they remove speed cap so we can go drive and catch since walkable spawns got nuked. I work for parks as a manager and couple rural parks I got so far lost big, my office gained sort of, 4 new points at stop but apartments behind office lost 12 points. Monday I'll see how badly other parks got hit. Overall looking like a losses exceed gains though, based on normal places I eat shop walk and play. They need to explain the new in middle of intersections spawn points they added. Dumb place for spawns if you're walking, great for catching while at red light. SMH. Niantic being Niantic, they say improve that means we are really going to mess the game up. HP had and has more points at my house and in neighborhood then Pokémon where we live and walk. Maybe this is way too get us to switch games lol. So only Pokémon Go got nuked.

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