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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Nope. There seems to be hints in the code that may change though. In the meantime, yeah, the game's always been absolutely garbage at it. 2000 CP Scyther up first against near-3000 CP Rhydon and Golem, with no enemy Pokémon weak to Scyther? SURE WHY NOT
Why would you EVER want your 2700 Vape on literally ANY team? Keep that shit in the box, always.
So what you're saying is, it would explicitly be beneficial to NOT calm down, because freaking out can and does change things.
haha, that's not what I'm saying. and you know it.
I'm more talking about people going nuts with the "fuck you! you ruined my life" posts. Esp, since some people seem to repeat that every week. lol
There is a big difference between going "This is fucking stupid. What idiots. they are ruining the game!" and a breakdown of why they don't like it. I don't exactly agree with "border" on some of his/her issues of late, but their explanations of why they are annoyed feel more helpful.
I myself def want it back to 100 per day. I already lost out on 20ish coins because of that. I have a few 24 hour gyms now too. I'm afraid they might get taken out before tomorrow.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
I think its weakness/supereffective based.
This is the real travesty of this whole update also.
We need to have our own preseleted/recently used teams. So annoying to have to switch out mons everytime. Especially when it takes like 4+ times you fight the same gym.
Like do Niantic not have gameplay designers
Got one earlier too. The description of the item says iirc that you get one free raid pass everyday (unless you have one already)
Icyflamez96
Member
We in bois
Well, you can usually knock the first pokemon off a gym with 1-2 fights, so most people just kick them off and then work in a 6v9 scenario.
A good Jolteon can take down 2-3 Gyrados. A good Jynx/Cloyster can kill 2 Dragonites. A good Vaporeon can kill 2-3 Tyranitars. Taking down a large tower was entirely possible with a team of 6, if you were dodging the majority of the time and not getting hit by their charged attacks.
You had to pick and choose your towers (ones that weren't stacked with Blisseys and Snorlaxes), but it was within the realm of possibility to do solo takedowns without massive casualties. Eventually people just let towers go stagnant because it was smarter to find your own teams' towers and join those than it was to conquer opposing towers and pray that 9 other players in the area were going to help you rebuild it.
The old system was not without its share of massive problems that needed to be fixed, to be sure.....but at least it was a reliable income generator. A Pokemon that got stuck on a tower could earn you 300coins/month......now one that gets stuck on a tower will earn you 50 coins maximum.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I knew the level would drop, but that's faster than I thought. Nice.
Wasn't that in the last datamine dump? I thought there was something in the code for Battle Team or something, so hopefully that's coming soon.
You don't understand why they want people to travel every day in an augmented reality game? The old system was terrible and I collected 100 coins every day. In a year it's been saturated with cutthroat players taking up all the gyms leaving low level players in the dust. It was literally survival of the fittest.
In case this wasn't answered yet. That 1st "timer" is actually just a clock of when it unlocks. It's military time.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I hope the map eventually gets some kind of detail. "Continents are darker than oceans" is a liiiiiiittle lacking, lol.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
would be cool if it showed what type of biome you are in even just a simple color overlay would be nice
Charlie0108
Member
Are raids not available in the UK? I have none starting near me and I'm level 28.
Some people mentioned they are only on Sponsored Gyms, no? I see no single Raid on my city neither, and we don't have sponsored Gyms I think
90% of my problems with the current economy would be fixed if they let you travel to a gym to collect your Coin earnings. That's how I presumed it was going to work when they unveiled this system in Ingress.
Having to wait for someone else to knock my pokemon out of a gym is ridiculous. I don't even know if I want to feed my teammates' pokemon because maybe they want to get it back. If you feed a pokemon that's been there for more than 7-8 hours you're basically just wasting coins that its trainer will never get.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
1 coin/10 min
Charlie0108
Member
Is this still with a 100 per day cap? Shouldn't be that hard to get 100 then, only requires 100 cumulative mins across 20 Pokemon
Is anyone else getting an error message when they try to feed berries to pokemon in gyms? It seems like after feeding 5-6 of them I can't do any more feeding.....there's just a red "Error" bar that drops down from the top of the screen each time I attempt it. It goes away after 10-15 minutes and I can resume feeding.
Oh nice, the 50 cap sucks tho but I wasn't going to get more than that a day anyways
50 is the new cap.
They lowered the cap to 50 coins per day. *Grumble*
Apparently there is a limit to how many you can feed at once. Though, guess should really have better error message. I haven't seen that yet myself. But 5-6 would be rather low IMO. Too low. Though, after the 2nd berry, I noticed their motivation doesn't really go up by much, so I usually stop after 4.
I get that, but not everyone are like us. I interact with people on a daily basis and one of them didn't even know you could collect coins. He put them in gyms but the game never explained to him that you need to press a small button in the shop menu every 21 hours. Some people used their strongest Pokemon to prestige gyms and didn't know the most effective way was to use less than strong Pokemon. A number of them got disillusioned and quit after their low cp pokemon got kicked out by someone of the same team. If Niantic wants the game to grow for younger generations, then giving these small payouts as opposed to being completely unavailable to the non-hardcore was absolutely the right call. The old gym system was broken.
The fact that the "Collect Coins" button was effectively hidden is a UI problem more than it was a problem with the Gym system itself. Niantic could have "pushed" payments to players every 24 hours like they're doing now, or simply made it more obvious in the menus.
There is no defense for Gym building/prestiging system though. I am more than happy to see it go. I wish there was a more interesting or active way for players to help support their teams' gyms though.....just feeding berries to pokemon is not very interesting.
Charlie0108
Member
50 coins per day is bullshit, especially considering I've had 5 Pokemon sat in Gym since last night and they literally just got knocked out and only gave me 33 coins. Should have been 75. Grrr
I'm fine with the 50 cap as long as it's a coin per 10 min.
overall I will still likely get far more from gyms if there is a higher turn over.
I mean I think I have only gotten 30 coins from gyms total this year because everything around me was locked at level 10 blue with level 35+ trainers.
overall I will still likely get far more from gyms if there is a higher turn over.
I mean I think I have only gotten 30 coins from gyms total this year because everything around me was locked at level 10 blue with level 35+ trainers.
The_Inquisitor
Member
The big change for me is I'll put lower CP Pokémon in. No justification to put my best in.
SirBukkake
Member
One thing that shouldn't be overlooked no matter what your opinion is about the new gym updateat the very least, Niantec seems to be responding somewhat quickly to tweaking its features.
I honestly thought yesterday that I wouldn't be able to participate in Raids till mid/late July.
Let's hope they create a payout fix/feature soon to justify their 50 coin cap.
I honestly thought yesterday that I wouldn't be able to participate in Raids till mid/late July.
Let's hope they create a payout fix/feature soon to justify their 50 coin cap.
The_Inquisitor
Member
It's about 100F outside. Will wait for Evening to raid it seems. How much do tickets cost?
You can get a free raid pass every day but you can only have one in your inventory. Premium raid passes are unlimited I presume and are purchasable for 100 coins.
The_Inquisitor
Member
As a mostly F2P player that's steep. Probably going to only raid 1x a day it seems.
you can have as many premium raid passes as you want.
100 coins a pop is steep to me though.
likely will just do one raid per day.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
is stuff really buggy right now or is that just me?
I was having issues like the game auto swapping my Pokemon in a gym battle, and everyone healing thus causing me to time out, etc.
was weird.
I was having issues like the game auto swapping my Pokemon in a gym battle, and everyone healing thus causing me to time out, etc.
was weird.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Whenever there's a big update and more players are on, gyms get really laggy.
dreamlongdead
Member
Niantic instantly turned the gym rewards from complete garbage to totally reasonable from the negative feedback, so I applaud them. As a city player, this is a huge boon for me.
I got 13 Coins just from one Pokemon. For the last several months, I've been averaging about 10 Coins total. A good day would be 30 Coins.
Now, I will be getting many more Coins with this system.
I got 13 Coins just from one Pokemon. For the last several months, I've been averaging about 10 Coins total. A good day would be 30 Coins.
Now, I will be getting many more Coins with this system.
Charlie0108
Member
Watched a few YouTube videos and I'm definitely going to have to go out of my way to get these raids done purely for Rare Candies alone. It's the only way I'm ever getting an Ampharos or a Tyranitar. Rare Candies in general are amazing. They completely remove the reliance on eggs to get candy for rare Pokemon, which means eggs getting super crowded once Gen IV and beyond come out will be less of an issue.
IXI FalcoN
Member
Just did my first raid. It was at a Starbucks gym, so I think yes it is only sponsored gyms.
Level 1 raid, 5000CP Quilava. Myself and one other person took it out in 10 seconds. My Rhydon only lost about 20% HP. He was a bitch to catch though, I razzed everytime and he popped 8 times before staying in.
Got 3 golden razz berries and that was it. Looking forward to more challenging raids. But if you see a level 1 raid out there and you're by yourself go for it, this was cake.
Level 1 raid, 5000CP Quilava. Myself and one other person took it out in 10 seconds. My Rhydon only lost about 20% HP. He was a bitch to catch though, I razzed everytime and he popped 8 times before staying in.
Got 3 golden razz berries and that was it. Looking forward to more challenging raids. But if you see a level 1 raid out there and you're by yourself go for it, this was cake.
by gen 4 I think they will have to specify gen eggs and allow you to throw away like 10 per day.
otherwise either the gen 4 eggs will be a super pain to get done or any eggs before that will be a pain depening on how they set rarity of the eggs.
RAIDS ARE 25 or ABOVE NOW.
though I don't imagine I have any around me since none of my gyms are sponsored gyms.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Yup, got two right near each other down the road.