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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
- Thread starter spyroflame0487
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A spoofer does not have the social network to reliably organize exclusive raids though. If you just hop around the globe all day and suddenly you receive an invitation to a raid in Des Moines, Iowa......how are you going to co-ordinate with the people in Des Moines? You aren't hooked in to the local Facebook group or local Discords.
I would honestly prefer than Niantic stop worrying so much about spoofers though. I honestly don't care if some jackass has 30 Zapdos or whatever. So long as they're not ruining the game for legitimate players, just let them amass their collections in peace.
Robdraggoo
Member
You mean the company that put 20k people in one area and didn't think Connection issues would be a problem?
I really don't think this has anything to do with spoofers, more just something more unique.
Don't forget they posted this nearly a month ago: https://youtu.be/bvSe6pMvUjM?t=51
That is likely how it will all work.
My hopes is that it invites ALL that happen to been to that gym where it appears recently. Hopefully a 2+ day counter too.
Don't forget they posted this nearly a month ago: https://youtu.be/bvSe6pMvUjM?t=51
That is likely how it will all work.
My hopes is that it invites ALL that happen to been to that gym where it appears recently. Hopefully a 2+ day counter too.
Yeah, that I do agree with. Would be much better for gyms you interacted with recently (like past few weeks).
Robdraggoo
Member
What does recently even mean?
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Spoofers just need to hit up high profile gyms like say, anything around Times Square, and they'll be golden, since there will people doing those all day.
"Weeks"
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
should be anyone within a certain distance off a gym that has a legendary egg pop up on it gets the invite or just keep it how it is now this new system is going to take the already watered down player base and water it down even further
the way it is now:
post on facebook or discord and even just passers by show up get the raid done at your own pace
this new way:
hope someone has done a raid at the random specific gym
hope they even decide to show up
and now if you are a rural or suburban player you are fucked no more going into the city and organizing groups of people
now its hope people do a raid at one of your many spread out gyms with your thinned out player base
shit like this makes me want to start spoofing
HammerOfThor
Member
I'll lose my shit if my only invited are to San Diego where I just came back from vacation
Yeah but they'd have to do them daily for just 50 coins. I mean, they're spoofers instead of travellers for a reason...
Reptars Revenge
Member
Yep when I was in Chicago and New York you just see a raid, join the raid, and no matter what time left 20 people will automatically be in the party because the amount of people and spoofers. Didn't lose half Heath on one Pokémon during a zapdos raid. Spoofers will be having a blast with mewtwo.
Robdraggoo
Member
Alakazam is a dps machine but really weak, executor is strong and does decent dps. I hadn't battled with Lucia once yet, all the raid bosses so far are just weak to Godzilla lol
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Even with the nerf Mewtwo is still the clear king. He's effectively a super-Alakazam that can actually take hits. Lugia benefits from being exceedingly tanky, especially for a Psychic type, but isn't particularly powerful.
Before the nerf though, Mewtwo was so powerful that he was one of the top counters for basically every Pokémon, even against Pokémon with superior typing.
Acerac
Banned
The players make dozens (hundreds?) of tools to play Pokemon Go in any sort of functional way, then Niantic looks at the statistics and sees that players are managing with the tools that they have, and feel that their current restrictions are reasonable.
That or they are openly hostile to their playerbase I'm not completely sure which.
spyroflame0487
Member
When everyone is clamoring for Mewtwo but you still haven't been able to get Lugia or any of the birds
Robdraggoo
Member
Well, if it was dropping today someone would have already got an invite. I swear if they give you like a 2 hour notice *shakes fist*
HammerOfThor
Member
Speaking of which, who do I want to use against Mewtwo?
psynergylover
Member
Yeah, this seems stupid...so we get one pass every few days(or even weeks) to a gym we battled then get a pass for you and a small selected group of players who probably won't be able to all meet at the same time...
Edit: and here I was about to throw a $20 for raid passes.....
Edit: and here I was about to throw a $20 for raid passes.....
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
anyone with strong dark moves tyranitar and gengar
yup you gotta hope enough players did a raid there
then you have to hope they will show up to that specific raid
so many different better ways they could of handled this and they went with what they did is baffling its like they dont even play their own game
Bite/Crunch Tyranitar
Shadow Claw/Shadow Ball Gengar
Fury Cutter/X-Scissor Scizor
Fury Cutter/X-Scissor Pinsir
I'm beginning to think the most exhausting thing about all these raids is trying to assemble decent teams with Stardust being in such short supply.
They collected a lot of data on raid participation over the last three weeks. They aren't just going to invite 20 people to your gym and cross their fingers.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Accidently deleted both my 100 IV Tyranitars. So much rage when I figured that out.
Also, Mewto is going to be a disaster. I doubt we will be able to even get 12 people to a single raid on him, let alone the probable 18 we will need.
Also, Mewto is going to be a disaster. I doubt we will be able to even get 12 people to a single raid on him, let alone the probable 18 we will need.
how the bloody hell did you manage to do THAT?
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
favorite any pokemon over 80% ivs so that never happens
How were your legendary raids? We easily had enough on 30 minutes notice, many where we had to split into groups.
Why aren't people favoriting their Pokemon?
Isn't there a glitch that unfavorites Pokémon you've put in the gym if you check their summary? There's also another annoying glitch that resets your selected team if you choose to heal them while in the lobby.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
We usually struggle to get 10 or more, when we get more than 15 it's usually late Saturday morning.
psynergylover
Member
But the fact remains is if all those supposed 20 people if all will show up, I work 5-6 days a week from roughly 4-11/12....now add in probably 19 others with different work/school/daily life schedules and it will be a complete mess. I've seen a couple of familiar faces in raids but most of the time I meet complete strangers, when I went to Central Park(which I'll be screwed if my invitation is there) nearly every raid I was in was with new people, how on earth am I going to contact them all? Hell on of them was on vacation from another country!
HammerOfThor
Member
I know we love to give Niantic shit, but developing an app of this size, and one with such a large dependency on outside resources(cell networks) must be very difficult. I'm sure they aren't completely oblivious to things and are doing what they feel would be best.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
yup like i said its going to be a nightmare you are taking in some regions watered down player pools and then watering them down even further by putting insane requirements
Acerac
Banned
Why aren't people favoriting their Pokemon?
I'd imagine it is because Niantic leaves huge glitches in their game for ages, even if those glitches can absolutely fuck over players.
There is that. Very annoying, but will be fixed in next update. Hopefully soon.
Though I wouldn't dare ever put any of my top Pokemon in gyms. The thing of worry will be defensive pokemon I place. Like my top Blisseys or Snorlaxes. That or fun pokemon lol. I do try my best to go back through and favorite them.
That's assuming they are even favoriting the Pokemon. I hear this from others from time to time of losing Pokemon and never once favoring them. I started favoring mine like a year ago when someone here accidently lost few of their top Pokemon.I'd imagine it is because Niantic leaves huge glitches in their game for ages, even if those glitches can absolutely fuck over players.
They'll invite more than 20 people and they know when you raided. They've collected a lot of data about you, they know where you live and where you work.
They have data from all the gyms and I'm sure they have a threshold for gym and time popularity that will trigger invites.
As for contacting other players, that looks like it's going to be all on Facebook or Discord. Post "Yo dudes I have a raid pass for X gym and Y time" you'll get a response.
Fright Zone
Member
Went into town to get a Zapdos before they disappeared and ended up with a Moltres instead, which i didn't have.
So are all the birds simultaneously available for a while now?
So are all the birds simultaneously available for a while now?
Yes, through August 31st.
Fright Zone
Member
Cool, still a chance for a Zapdos then.
So far I am:
Zapdos 0/1
Articuno 1/7
Moltres 1/2
Lugia 1/2
So far I am:
Zapdos 0/1
Articuno 1/7
Moltres 1/2
Lugia 1/2
psynergylover
Member
You're still glossing over availability; what made raiding easy was doing it on your time, but even then there were many times where people I've raided with before couldn't make do to life being in the way, now if I'm correct with this raid being on a selective time and place will put future strain on the raid groups, and who knows if we'll all get this exclusive raid pass at the same time, I haven't raided in these last couple of days. People play Pokémon Go differently; some might log in every day others might log in every other day, the notification can miss them and again put further strain on finding a full raid group. If Mewtwo is anything like Lugia, you're going to need a good squad. And even then if you managed to find group and take down Mewtwo if you don't catch it....hope this raid ideal group will all meet days/weeks....
At least with the birds you had several tries a day, imagine going like 0/10 for a Mewtwo!
At same level, they do comparable DPS because Thundershock > Charge Beam, but Zapdos has considerable more bulk so he will last longer.
And you're worried about things we have no details on. Niantic is putting together your raid group for you and telling you what time to show up.
We know nothing about catching Mewtwo just that for some reason they were giving 50 balls for a 100% catch rate attempt.