WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Oh look, nothing but shitty fire types. Who would have guessed.
Jesus Niantic, how do you keep fucking this up?
Jesus Niantic, how do you keep fucking this up?
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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Just wait till they fuck up gyms and kill the game.
Did you randomly think that within the 1st hour you'd be able to see rare fire pokemon everywhere or something?
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I don't want rare fire Pokémon.
I don't want fire Pokémon PERIOD. I'm in a desert biome, there isn't a single fire Pokémon that is hard to obtain here.
The issue is I'm not seeing even a single ice Pokémon. My nearby is the same Pokémon I always see.
Which is par for the course for my area for events including desert biome Pokémon. Halloween only got me more Meowth and Cubone, both commons here. Had to drive an hour to get anything else. Rock event was mostly Geodude and Omanyte, a common and an uncommon-but-not-particularly-rare, didn't even get bonus Rhyhorn. Even the pink event was only Chansey, which is most common in deserts, but at least more Chansey is good. At least the water and grass events were good, but that was because *all* of the Pokémon in both of those events are rare as hell here.
I don't understand how Niantic can't figure out how to prioritize Pokémon that DON'T already spawn in your area.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
And the rock event was a total bust where I live, as I said, so it being good for you doesn't help me. I see no reason to expect things to change, especially when I'm 3/3 on events with desert biome Pokémon only giving me more of my local spawns.
really not sure how anything they do to gyms can be worse than what they currently have.
maybe in big cities gyms have a turn over rate.
here...
they are all level 10 blue gyms with the lowest pokemon at like 2.8k.
even if i wasn't blue, at level 27 or whatever I am I don't even have a pokemon that could be anywhere but the bottom of the gyms.
And the Water and Grass events sucked for people like me who live and work in water and grass biomes while the Rock and Fire ones are great.
That is just how these events work. And it's the reason, I assume, that Niantic has over the past few months tried to do an event for each type, so that all biomes have at least a couple of events where they get a bunch of Pokemon that don't normally spawn for them. Not every single event is going to be great for everyone.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I don't expect every event to be good for everyone. I never indicated I felt that way either, you're arguing a point I never made.
I do expect that they prioritize Pokémon who are rare in a certain biome over Pokémon that are already common when BOTH are a part of the same event. If this was just a fire event, I'd be fine with the results. But what's the justification of having a "Fire and Ice" event and only giving people the ones they already have and not the ones that are extraordinarily rare?
So you are expecting Niantic to make some sort of exception in the spawn rates for those in desert/fire biomes to depress the Fire types and show more Ice types? That would certainly require some special coding and dev time just for this event. I'd much rather they spend that time and energy on other things, frankly. Just boost the spawns across the board and be done with it.
same then a Charmander 30 mins later
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
wat
This is a completely nonsensical, tales from my ass statement. Just going to leave it there.
perfectchaos007
Member
same. could be a fire and ice promo. Finally caught a swinub!!
You stated:
How do you propose they do that without some sort of dynamic event spawn algorithm?
Icyflamez96
Member
Bout to go on a run rn. excited
clearacell
Member
yeah seeing a lot of swinub, I'm in a desert biome.
I agree that the water event was amazing for me. caught a couple of 100% magikarp. I do wish there WAS a dynamic algorithm that can focus more on stuff that isn't normal for certain events.
I agree that the water event was amazing for me. caught a couple of 100% magikarp. I do wish there WAS a dynamic algorithm that can focus more on stuff that isn't normal for certain events.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Bought an iPhone SE yesterday in anticipation for the event, life on my aging and banged up Galaxy S4 after having an iPhone 7 was torturous.
Now Pokemon GO is silky smooth again and I can catch some 'mons
Here's to some Lapras spawns
Now Pokemon GO is silky smooth again and I can catch some 'mons
Here's to some Lapras spawns
it's weird seeing people excited about swinub.
they are about as common in wisconsin as pidgy lol.
granted I bet it was weird seeing someone excited for ekans when I was in vegas as they are no where to be found here
Icyflamez96
Member
i saw squat
SiegfriedFM
Member
Tons of Cyndaquil and Houndour here, and those literally never spawn here so I'm happy.
Bedameister
Member
I love this event so much
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
it's weird seeing people excited about swinub.
they are about as common in wisconsin as pidgy lol.
granted I bet it was weird seeing someone excited for ekans when I was in vegas as they are no where to be found here
i shit out ekans they are garbage tier spawn everywhere never seen a swinub in central california and yeah pretty much only seeing fire type for this event as well gonna give it time but so far its been shitty all i want is at least a swinub and a delibird and ill consider this event a success
only missing
feraligatr
togetic
ampharos
politoed (just need upgrade item)
jumpluff
unown
sneasel
piloswine
delibird
kingdra (just need upgrade item)
donphan
porygon2 (just need upgrade item)
smeargle
kinda crappy that not all gen 2 can be hatched from eggs
edit: right after i posted a swinub spawned off my incense event is a half success so far
Yh they've tripled it.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
really hope they add more buddy slots one day so many pokemon id love to walk to get candy to power them up but i cant cause i always have to walk one to get enough candy to evolve it
maybe add a buddy slot that you can only put pokemon that you have fully evolved into it to generate candy to use to power them up with
maybe add a buddy slot that you can only put pokemon that you have fully evolved into it to generate candy to use to power them up with
Smeargle and Delibird have yet to be released. I'm hoping they will be dropped with the gym rework since the reason they are holding them back is due to their unique moves.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
oooh just thought they wernt hatchable well shit hope they put them in eggs at least once they do put them out
Hatching 10 km eggs has to be the most frustrating experience in the game right now. They are hard to get from Pokestops and then you get finally get one, incubate it and walk five times as far as a 2 km egg only to hatch total trash 8 out of 10 times. Like, I don't mind hatching trash out of a 2 km egg because the effort to get it and then hatch it is a lot lower. But considering the 10 km drop rate and the distance you have to walk to hatch it, it really needs to be something useful every single time.
And yes, the last five 10 km hatches for me have been Pineco, Gligar, Skarmory, Dratini (less than 80% IVs) and Gligar again. So maybe I'm a little bit salty. But nothing else in this game makes me want to throw my phone quite like the 10 km hatches.
And yes, the last five 10 km hatches for me have been Pineco, Gligar, Skarmory, Dratini (less than 80% IVs) and Gligar again. So maybe I'm a little bit salty. But nothing else in this game makes me want to throw my phone quite like the 10 km hatches.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
tell me about it i would be happy to get dratini i dont even get those all i get are gligar, skarmory and mantine
all i want are larvitar to power up my tyranitar or a couple more mareep to get my ampharos
all i want are larvitar to power up my tyranitar or a couple more mareep to get my ampharos
Bedameister
Member
Yeah hatching 10km eggs is so nerve wrecking. But the excitement before the huge disappointment is always nice.
Here are the rarity tiers for the event, according to a r/TheSilphRoad poster:
That seems to match up with what I am experiencing.
Code:
2048 Growlithe
2048 Cyndaquil
2048 Shellder
2048 Swinub
2048 Ponyta
2048 Vulpix
1024 Charmander
1024 Houndour
512 Seel
128 Sneasel
48 Jynx
24 Magmar
16 Lapras
4 Charmeleon
4 Quilava
4 Flareon
4 Rapidash
2 Typhlosion
2 Piloswine
2 Charizard
2 Houndoom
2 Dewgong
2 Cloyster
1 Ninetales
1 ArcanineThat seems to match up with what I am experiencing.
Icyflamez96
Member
Arcanine & Ninetails being more rare than Charizard & Typhlosion? Looks like they threw us a bone with this one.
LucidMomentum
Member
Desert Biome, seeing the following:
-Swinub
-Shellder
-Seel
-Vulpix
-Cyndaquil
-Charmander
Swinub is the only one I really need and I'm almost at 50 candies just from randomly catching things.
-Swinub
-Shellder
-Seel
-Vulpix
-Cyndaquil
-Charmander
Swinub is the only one I really need and I'm almost at 50 candies just from randomly catching things.
Same.
Need a Sneasel tho : (
Used a lucky egg during lunch since was hatching a 10k egg. Was a Chansey! Kinda strange that I've now gotten 3 Chanseys from eggs buy only 1 Snorlax (did catch like 4 or 5 in wild though).
Gained around 50k in xp. Really enjoying this event so far. That Lapras from yesterday was pure awesome.
Gained around 50k in xp. Really enjoying this event so far. That Lapras from yesterday was pure awesome.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
already have 38 swinub candy at this rate ill have piloswine by tomorrow
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Catch a growlithe. 100 IV. SWEET!!
EVOLVE!
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Snarl and Wild Charge.
GOD DAMN MOTHER #$^&***(*^;:"$%;*@> $>÷*3@?-[> $,#?-*'IFNED
So much anger....
EVOLVE!
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Snarl and Wild Charge.
GOD DAMN MOTHER #$^&***(*^;:"$%;*@> $>÷*3@?-[> $,#?-*'IFNED
So much anger....
Hatched a Glyder. My 10k streak finally ended. lol. Hatched another Dratini the other day and a Mareep. Mareep are pretty rare for me. Really strange that I can almost evolve my 2nd Larivtar all the way, but not my Mareep yet. lol.
I also now have near 300 Dratini candies (plus 60+ on me to transfer at some point for sweet 120 candies+). I won't evolve yet, prob wait till the gym update comes and goes to see what changes (esp if new moves come into play)
I also now have near 300 Dratini candies (plus 60+ on me to transfer at some point for sweet 120 candies+). I won't evolve yet, prob wait till the gym update comes and goes to see what changes (esp if new moves come into play)