Pokemon Go
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ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Um everythingI get research. Can you explain raids if you don't have friends
I've put pokemon on gyms and made them happier with those berry things. That's a bit odd.
Can I ask - you're adults and do you feel a bit ridiculous doing this when the people who are also playing are teenagers? Or is that just me?
yes I do! feel ridiculous but know older people than me doing it
was embarrassed the other week when saw a group of people doing a raid together and went a bit further away, they asked if I was playing and give me a code to their private group raid which the only legendary one i've done
they also had a printed card you could scan or go to a website where they arranged to meet up and go on raids!
haven't done that yet
They were a pretty mixed bunch and some were older
you can do a raid yourself, some are easy like 1 icon 2 icon or sometimes 3 but it's easier if others are doing it too, they don't have to be your friends, just doing it at the same time
trashpony
Hag
I might drive to another town
yes I do! feel ridiculous but know older people than me doing it
was embarrassed the other week when saw a group of people doing a raid together and went a bit further away, they asked if I was playing and give me a code to their private group raid which the only legendary one i've done
they also had a printed card you could scan or go to a website where they arranged to meet up and go on raids!
haven't done that yet
They were a pretty mixed bunch and some were older
you can do a raid yourself, some are easy like 1 icon 2 icon or sometimes 3 but it's easier if others are doing it too, they don't have to be your friends, just doing it at the same time
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
the giving berries to pokemon in gyms remotely is weirdUm everything
I've put pokemon on gyms and made them happier with those berry things. That's a bit odd.
Can I ask - you're adults and do you feel a bit ridiculous doing this when the people who are also playing are teenagers? Or is that just me?
got one in mid Wales that's been there 4 days+ now! another one in the gym has been there 26 days!
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
I might drive to another town
Callie
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I've been to a community day a couple of times and it's been a real mix of people, I don't feel daft! Well no more than usual.
Community day is pretty cool trashpony loads of local pogo players join together and catch a particular type of Pokémon that is rare but on increased spawning with higher chance of catching a shiny version. Loads of players wandering around town with their battery packs connected
Community day is pretty cool trashpony loads of local pogo players join together and catch a particular type of Pokémon that is rare but on increased spawning with higher chance of catching a shiny version. Loads of players wandering around town with their battery packs connected
Callie
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I'm feeling like a bit of an arse because I'm indoors all day today and can't regift anyone
Diolch!
Its me
aqua
made of cheese and gin
That’s not me but I just sent you one
Apparently things to note re gifts, you can only open 20 a day and you cannot get an egg if you have no space for an egg (which is obvious but I needed reminding
) so be strategic about opening them
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Um everything
I've put pokemon on gyms and made them happier with those berry things. That's a bit odd.
Can I ask - you're adults and do you feel a bit ridiculous doing this when the people who are also playing are teenagers? Or is that just me?
Raids.
You can do level 1 raids by yourself, level 2 probably but check you have the right counters, level 3 maybe if you have a good team of the best counters you can do some of them. Level 4 and 5 always need more than one player.
Pokemon Go Type Chart - Poke Assistant
has type charts so you can see what is super effective against what. Weather also makes a difference but not as much as if something is super effective attack.
this is an infographic for the current raid boss selection
The recommended selection prioritises strong defense but raids are totally an attacking thing so you can't rely on recommended and you need to learn the types that are super effective if you want to win level 3 raids on your own, you probably need to be higher level as well to have enough of the right counters at a high enough level, but for instance you might be able to go out and catch 6 weather boosted eevees at level 34 and evolve them all into espeons and that team should be able to beat a machamp... but you probably don't have that team right now
If you live in a town or city you'll probably find that there is a discord, facebook or whatsapp group where people arrange to meet for raids together. If you're in London or a big city there'll probably be one for your local area as well. Depending on how active your area is you can try turning up at level 5 raids at the hatch time and see if a group appears but that can be very hit and miss (Birmingham city centre on lunch hours you can be pretty sure that there'll be groups at most level 5 raids, but outside of those hours you need to be on the discord to reliably find raids, in my suburb it's a facebook group and you really need to be connected to reliably meet for raids).
weather boosting is where you see the swirls around a pokemon on the map, you get +25% stardust and the pokemon is 5 levels higher than normal so you can catch pokemon 5 levels above your current level, up to level 35.
Gyms
6 pokemon per gym, only one of a species can be placed so there's more variety.
When you place them they have just below their actual CP and over time this degrades. When you attack a gym, a pokemon with a full heart will take 3 battles to remove from the gym, this drops to 2 and then 1 over time as the motivation decreases.
You get coins when your pokemon gets kicked out of the gym, maximum 50 per day. Coins are accumulated at the rate of 1 per 10 minutes defended, so you need just over 8 hours total to get all your coins each day.
With research, you get a legendary after doing 7 days of research, and they change each month so you have just enough time to get an articuno before it goes away and something else comes in July if you do one task per day now to the end of the month.
I play in two areas - mostly on my lunchbreak in birmingham city centre with hardcore raiders who are mostly 25-40 year old white men (basically my demographic but I'd prefer something more mixed) and on weekends/community days with a group in my local area which is more mixed but still mostly adults and some parents with children, not teenagers. I feel a bit ridiculous playing it full stop, but I don't really care as it gets me out walking and fulfills my collecting urge for zero cost.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
That’s not me but I just sent you one
Apparently things to note re gifts, you can only open 20 a day and you cannot get an egg if you have no space for an egg (which is obvious but I needed reminding
You may only receive 20 gifts per day, but you can *give* 100 gifts each day [insert heart emoticon here]
The no space for egg thing is annoying but I have been walking hard today and opened maybe 10-12 gifts with an egg slot open and got 7 eggs so they seem common in gifts so as long as you keep a couple of gifts and remember (!) to open the gifts before spinning another stop when an egg hatches, you'll probably get an alolan egg. I don't think you lose a lot by forgetting and opening a gift without an egg slot, they seem plentiful.
Callie
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You might be ok for friending a now trashy as I believe they have made it open to all!
trashpony
Hag
Callie
Pivoting
Okay - my trainer code is 0503 4633 9382 (the name is the foal's youtube name)
never had him down as a raver
trashpony
Hag
You'd be surprised
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Okay - my trainer code is 0503 4633 9382 (the name is the foal's youtube name
I have sent you all friend requests. My name ends in 379.
I will send you all gifts every day!
Love the outfit
I only usually get out of the house on Wednesdays and Fridays, so won't have many gifts to send, but I'll pass on all I get, and it takes me ages to hatch all the blooming 2k eggs I get so I'm waiting to open a couple of my gifts. Wish the gifts would include incubators!
trashpony
Hag
Is that the pink spotty 7k one? If so, thank you for ours to one of you (but I can't remember who now)
