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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Toy Box & Games Cupboard => Topic started by: Haruna on June 24, 2018, 01:41:31 PM

Title: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 24, 2018, 01:41:31 PM
So Pokemon Go added a friend feature this past week and I thought it would be fun to be friends with some Pokemon Go-playing Arena members! We could send gifts (and trade Pokémon, but only if you’re very close by as trades are conducted in-person)

I don't think I'm allowed to post a link on how to send gifts, but if needed you can Google the topic and lots of good info comes up. If anyone needs help I can answer some questions, too (though I'm still learning how to do this since it's a new feature!) I think for safety's/privacy's sake, we could PM our trainer codes to each other instead of posting them publicly, since this sub is visible to non-Arena members Edit 6/30: Kiwi has pointed out that if you put your trainer code in a spoiler, this will keep it hidden from non-Arena members as only Arena members can see spoiler content. So if you'd like to keep it semi-private, just put your trainer code (and username because it's helpful) in a spoiler! ^.^ Mine is:

Spoiler
9638 8265 1243 (my username is PinkNinjaKitty)

Looking forward to being friends with you guys! Post here with your thoughts and your trainer codes :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to trade?
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 24, 2018, 02:07:59 PM
Oh, neat! I just redownloaded it! My code is 8394-9252-8846
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to trade?
Post by: Haruna on June 24, 2018, 02:14:06 PM
Great, tailrustedtealeaf! I'll send you a friend request :) (I'm PinkNinjaKitty). Do you want to post your trainer code there? I'm not sure if strangers might see it here and then I guess request you as a friend. Of course, you could always reject their request. I'm not sure of the best way to go about this!  ^^; Anyway, I'll message you in PoGo now!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to trade?
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 24, 2018, 04:14:16 PM
Do you want to post your trainer code there? I'm not sure if strangers might see it here and then I guess request you as a friend. Of course, you could always reject their request. I'm not sure of the best way to go about this!  ^^; Anyway, I'll message you in PoGo now!
Thank you for the concern, but I'm alright! It's no different than seeing people list their nintendo 3DS friend codes, and I need to have it on hand here anyway for when people ask.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on June 27, 2018, 12:35:23 PM
Myself and my husband are the only ones we know who are still actively playing so we'd love more friends for gifts! My sister plays but infrequently as she has a lot of log in problems.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ponycake on June 27, 2018, 12:55:34 PM
I play and gift every day. Add me please!

2859 0394 8249
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 27, 2018, 02:42:15 PM
Great! I sent a request to you both, NinaMarie and Ponycake!  :thumb:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: okamigirl64 on June 27, 2018, 02:43:59 PM
I play and gift every day. Add me please!

2859 0394 8249

I sent a request!
My ID is 6660 1445 6256  ^.^
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 27, 2018, 04:30:33 PM
I sent one to you, too, OkamiGirl! (my PoGo ID is PinkNinjaKitty)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: sailorstitch on June 27, 2018, 05:17:17 PM
Here's my trainer code. 5427 5348 4504 I'm sailormufasa in PoGo.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on June 27, 2018, 06:43:56 PM
Ok I've sent off requests to everyone who has posted here.

My name is NinaMarie87 and my code is 9335 2994 8334
my husband is NerfherderJ and his code is 6734 0252 8689

I'm really loving all the new content to the game!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 28, 2018, 10:47:08 AM
Here's my trainer code. 5427 5348 4504 I'm sailormufasa in PoGo.
Sent one to you, sailorstitch!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loa on June 28, 2018, 06:33:29 PM
Mine is 7763 9759 0689!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Kiwi on June 29, 2018, 10:58:20 AM
If anyone is concerned about having some privacy but still wants to share their code, you can use the Spoiler tag. Spoilers are hidden from the public (only members that are logged in can see what's in a Spoiler).

My code is:
Spoiler
6258 6151 3015
(username is jenmpoet)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 30, 2018, 08:59:36 AM
If anyone is concerned about having some privacy but still wants to share their code, you can use the Spoiler tag. Spoilers are hidden from the public (only members that are logged in can see what's in a Spoiler).

My code is:
Spoiler
6258 6151 3015
(username is jenmpoet)
Oh, awesome! I'll edit the top post to reflect this and I'll put my trainer code in it. Also sent a friend request to you, Kiwi!

Mine is 7763 9759 0689!
Great! Sent a friend request  ^.^
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on July 01, 2018, 05:40:50 PM
What do you guys think about getting Alolan eggs from the friendship gifts? I've hatched one so far and it was a Meowth. It's hard for me to keep an open space since where I work I can reach two stops and I spin them a lot. Even if you have an open egg space you might not get an egg from a gift. My husband has two open spots and is afraid to visit any stops before he can get eggs from gifts.
Overall it's an interesting feature and adds a different kind of challenge.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Sea_Breeze on July 02, 2018, 12:59:28 AM
Ive had to upgrade my bag 4 times since this new feature.. lol my PoGo details are below

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FallonNZ 1765 1274 1932
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Shaiyeh on July 02, 2018, 01:31:30 AM
I just updated my game, so here's my code :)
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5955 2977 0991
xShaiyeh
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 03, 2018, 03:44:11 PM
Sent you friend requests, Shaiyeh and Sea Breeze!  ^.^

What do you guys think about getting Alolan eggs from the friendship gifts? I've hatched one so far and it was a Meowth. It's hard for me to keep an open space since where I work I can reach two stops and I spin them a lot. Even if you have an open egg space you might not get an egg from a gift. My husband has two open spots and is afraid to visit any stops before he can get eggs from gifts.
Overall it's an interesting feature and adds a different kind of challenge.
Yeah, I know what you mean about avoiding spinning stops in order to stop egg slots from filling with regular eggs. Currently I’m just trying to keep an eye on egg slots; I keep them all full and once an egg hatches I quickly open a gift  and usually one of the gifts will have an Alolan egg which I then incubate. I’ve been buying super incubators because I’m impatient :) (but only with in-game gym money so far; I haven’t given into buying incubators with real money . . . yet.) It does help the Alolan eggs hatch faster, of course, which is a nice feeling. I’m really hoping to hatch a white Vulpix but they’re pretty rare!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Sea_Breeze on July 03, 2018, 09:18:06 PM
Accepted Haruna... I've also added everyone else on this thread... I wish there was a way to "nickname" people so I knew who was who and how far away they were... lol
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on July 03, 2018, 10:18:07 PM
Accepted Haruna... I've also added everyone else on this thread... I wish there was a way to "nickname" people so I knew who was who and how far away they were... lol

I'm super easy to identify as my name here is exactly the same minus some numbers. :P
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Sprinkles on July 05, 2018, 08:33:03 AM
I've been playing Pokemon Go casually after taking a break from it (like a lot of people had). I'm gonna add everyone that has posted ^.^

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0510 8103 6987. My username is Glitterhooves.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Strawberry Swirl on July 05, 2018, 11:38:50 AM
Hooray! Code time! Add me if you like receiving gifts, I am quite liberal with giving them. : D
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visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on July 05, 2018, 12:02:30 PM
Already frustrated with the eggs. I've hatched 3 and two were meowths and 1 a rattata. Rattatas are spawning all over here why the heck would I want to hatch one?? Lol still having fun overall though. I like seeing the stops people got gifts from!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Rosette on July 05, 2018, 12:40:30 PM
I'd love to have more friends!  I have more gifts than I can give away in a day.  :D. If you left your number above my comment, I've friended you.  :)

Spoiler
5256 2217 5090
Narastar
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: UrocyonFox on July 05, 2018, 12:57:08 PM
Nice.

Mine is
Spoiler
9671 9095 9914
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 05, 2018, 04:12:38 PM
I’ve added you all as friends! :)

NinaMarie, I feel you on the eggs! Why Rattata, Niantic? Lol. A lot of mine have been Rattata; I’ve had several Meowth; and one Grimer and some Sandshrews, which are really cute! (I’ve been using super incubators and getting egg distance like a crazy person). I want to get enough Grimer candy to make a technicolor Muk :D My grail is Alolan Vulpix. Waiting for her will make it all the more special when I get her. Or at least that’s what I tell myself :lol:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Strawberry Swirl on July 05, 2018, 04:47:59 PM
Honestly I need more Meowth to be able to have an alola Persian. Although currently my focus is acquiring a Milotic.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Lempuri on July 06, 2018, 12:49:47 AM
If you want a Finnish friend, here's one! I go by the name Kaljupoke and my trainer code is
Spoiler
4277 0243 6830

Edit: I sent a friend request to everybody on this thread. :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 06, 2018, 09:43:19 AM
Accepted your friend request, Lempuri! Hope you get your Alolan Persian, Sapphire Rain. Regular Meowth candy counts toward Alolan candy, too, so you can catch as many of those as you see. Right now I’m slowly collecting Vulpix candy . . .
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Lempuri on July 07, 2018, 01:57:24 AM
Cheers, Haruna!

What kind of Alolans do you get from eggs? I wonder if it varies between countries or continents. I've gotten way too many Meowths and Sandshrews, luckily also a Vulpix and a Grimer.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Thunderwing on July 07, 2018, 06:51:42 PM
Here is my info!  I am going to start sending friend requests. I have been accumulating gifts... hoping to hatch some this weekend.

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Name is Kiera Striker.  Code number is 1469 4280 3176
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 08, 2018, 10:23:50 AM
Accepted your friend request, Thunderwing!

What kind of Alolans do you get from eggs? I wonder if it varies between countries or continents. I've gotten way too many Meowths and Sandshrews, luckily also a Vulpix and a Grimer.
I’m pretty sure those four, plus Alolan Rattata, are the Alolans available right now. That’s awesome that you got a Vulpix! So far I’ve hatched mostly Rattata (argh), and then after that about three each of Grimer and Sandshrew, as of today. I thought I hatched more but apparently only hatched two Meowth. No Vulpixes so far! Crossing my fingers . . .

Looking forward to the Squirtle Community Day today! I hope to find a shiny and to do a task that gets me a Squirtle Squad one :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on July 08, 2018, 10:36:26 AM
I've missed out on pretty much every community day and the potential rewards. The 3 hour window is a bit inconvenient. LOL I learned about the timeframe for the first event AFTER it was over. I think the stars will be aligned today though! I've yet to get a shiny ANYTHING so here's hoping it's my lucky day!

I am actually hoping I hatch a grimer soon. The regular ones are nowhere to be seen around here. I caught one a long time ago and promptly named it smooze. Never seen them since.
Regular Vulpix have been showing up frequently so by the time I hatch any alolan ones I'll have enough candy to evolve two!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 08, 2018, 10:40:04 AM
I'm glad I've got incense, I'm no longer on vacation so pokestops are few and far between in my area!
3 hours isn't a very long time, and pretty inconvenient to anyone working today.
Edit: Just visited the two pokestops in my area! Got a nice handful of Squirtles, and a shiny event one! ooo. I can't wait until the weather is a little more...my temperature to do longer hauls.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 08, 2018, 02:11:29 PM
"Smooze" :lol: -- I might have to steal that name, NinaMarie!

Just visited the two pokestops in my area! Got a nice handful of Squirtles, and a shiny event one! ooo. I can't wait until the weather is a little more...my temperature to do longer hauls.
Aweseome, a shiny! :D

My sister and I got back a little while ago from the mall. Someone advised us to go to the mall to find Squirtles on Community Day, and it was good advice -- Squirtles were everywhere! I'm not kidding when I say there were probably fifteen around us at one point. I did the quest to do the Squirtles with sunglasses many times and named them after the Ninja Turtles. :biggrin:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Strawberry Swirl on July 08, 2018, 04:17:24 PM
Got two shinies today, tee hee. Good day. :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Duenia on July 15, 2018, 12:38:15 PM
Ooooh I still play! I'll have to start adding some pony people tomorrow :)

Spoiler
Duenia 6355 9616 2428
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on July 17, 2018, 11:07:54 AM
I hatched 7 eggs yesterday and thought I'd share the results here. I'm going to list the locations they came from as well just for kicks.

x3 Rattatas - Duck, North Carolina; Tampa, Florida; Boston, Massachussets
x2 Sandshrews - both from Bay Lake, Florida
Meowth -Newport News, Virginia
Grimer - Oamaru, Otago New Zealand

Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 17, 2018, 11:11:22 AM
They teased gen 4 pokemon! I'm just waiting for gen 5. I don't care if it's unpopular, I love them!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on July 18, 2018, 01:47:25 PM
Oh wow, this seems so much fun! I do not know anyone IRL who still plays, so when this gifting option came in I was a little sad to see another item just taking up space in my bag (and it can't be deleted...) - now I will have a chance to give them away to people who may actually find them useful :) I'll start adding you :)

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If anyone wants a pokefriend from Hungary, my code is 7203 5863 8569, and the name is aranyhaju (meaning golden-haired in Hungarian :P )

With all these new variations and gens out, I currently heavily struggle with space... I can only catch about 5 pokémon at a time before my storage is full. I am not willing to buy space for money, but I am slow at accumulating coins via defending gyms :( Yesterday was a good day though, as I found more gyms where there was some space left for my guys, even if only for a short time, so I won't complain.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Duenia on July 19, 2018, 07:44:10 PM
Alright I think I finally got everyone :lol:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on July 21, 2018, 12:07:23 AM
I finally have a phone that can can run the app properly!
My previous phone needed the APK downloads and couldn't handle it anymore :P

I already got an Alolan Sandshrew (now Sandslash) :D

My code :
Spoiler
1662 8807 8427
username is Ivrenel
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on July 24, 2018, 02:33:25 PM
Ok, so this is fun indeed!

Thank you for all the adds and gifts, everyone! :) I also sent out a ton of them (and keep giggling at how they may look weird to you, as most of the pokéstops have local names here :D ) So far I got 4 Alolan eggs, and hatched a Grimer and a Sandshrew! I was about to check where they came from specifically, and I did see their origins just a few days ago, but as per today I can no longer see it, it only says "hatched" (and this is true for the rest of my Pokémon too.. do you also have this issue?).

I can't decide if I like Grimer or Sandshrew more. Sandshrew is so cute in colour and animation, but aw, Grimer is so... teenie! She's so small compared to my reguar Grimer - is that normal? (she's not XS)

Already walking with the third Alolan egg, but now I only have one incubator, and the eggs no longer hatch in half the time, so it will take awhile...

As for the friends-features: guys, I wish trading was not a locally restricted thing... Mr. Mime is such an everyday sight here that I constantly just pass him and don't even bother to catch anymore... I would be happy to send a few over to those who are not residing in Europe and don't yet have him if that was an option!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Duenia on July 24, 2018, 02:39:04 PM
With the new nickname feature I'm trying to get people's arena usernames matched up to their Pokemon Go usernames. I went through the thread and found most of them.

So anyone wanna claim these? :lol:

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Ghofddtil
Jennn516
Seaponeys
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Kiwi on July 25, 2018, 07:24:57 AM
With the new nickname feature I'm trying to get people's arena usernames matched up to their Pokemon Go usernames. I went through the thread and found most of them.

So anyone wanna claim these? :lol:

Spoiler
Ghofddtil
Jennn516
Seaponeys


I don't know the other two, but I can confirm this one:
Spoiler
Ghofddtil = Loa
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: SurfStar on July 26, 2018, 04:03:50 PM
I added people here - Should come from user Cyzzane

My friend code is: 445389124839
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on July 26, 2018, 05:25:41 PM
So anyone wanna claim these? :lol:

Spoiler
Ghofddtil
Jennn516
Seaponeys
Spoiler
I am Seaponeys!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 29, 2018, 12:45:46 PM
I was about to check where they came from specifically, and I did see their origins just a few days ago, but as per today I can no longer see it, it only says "hatched" (and this is true for the rest of my Pokémon too.. do you also have this issue?).
Hmm, mine still say where they're from! I have an iPhone  -- are you on Android?

I can't decide if I like Grimer or Sandshrew more. Sandshrew is so cute in colour and animation, but aw, Grimer is so... teenie! She's so small compared to my reguar Grimer - is that normal? (she's not XS)
Wow, I'd never noticed that! I compared my Grimers just now and yes, my Alolan Grimer is smaller than my Kanto one!

As for the friends-features: guys, I wish trading was not a locally restricted thing... Mr. Mime is such an everyday sight here that I constantly just pass him and don't even bother to catch anymore... I would be happy to send a few over to those who are not residing in Europe and don't yet have him if that was an option!
Oh, I totally agree! I can see why Niantic had to limit trading (spoofers, boo) but it would be so fun to trade with you guys even though we don't live close by. I don't have a Mr. Mime -- that's one of the few I still need and I don't think I'll get to Europe anytime soon!

Speaking of trading, I traded a Pokemon with my sister last night and it turned into a lucky Pokemon! It was an Eevee and I traded her an Alolan Meowth that also turned lucky. I thought older Pokemon were supposed to be more likely to turn lucky, but we had caught/hatched both of those that day. *shrug* Anyway, I'm glad my first (and possibly only!) lucky is an Eevee. And I can't wait for Eevee community day!!!!!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on July 29, 2018, 02:23:25 PM
I was about to check where they came from specifically, and I did see their origins just a few days ago, but as per today I can no longer see it, it only says "hatched" (and this is true for the rest of my Pokémon too.. do you also have this issue?).
Hmm, mine still say where they're from! I have an iPhone  -- are you on Android?
Yep, I'm on Android. I really hope this is just a glitch in the latest update, and will be fixed with the following one, knowing where all my Pokémon are from was such a cool feature, and it existed ever since I can remember...

Not much news here... I was away for the weekend and didn't get to play. Still struggling with space issues (quite heavily now: now that I hatched another Alolan Pokémon, a Meowth, I only have 2 free slots...), but I can hardly find gyms to put my Pokémon in to earn coins, and once I do they are kicked out strangely quickly... 46 coins to go to reach 200, so that I can buy a storage upgrade. I hope I get there soon, because looking up newly caught Pokémon to transfer them after every second catch is getting a little annoying, diplomatically said :pout:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ponycake on July 31, 2018, 03:01:02 PM
I’m jennn516!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on August 08, 2018, 07:39:06 AM
As for the friends-features: guys, I wish trading was not a locally restricted thing... Mr. Mime is such an everyday sight here that I constantly just pass him and don't even bother to catch anymore... I would be happy to send a few over to those who are not residing in Europe and don't yet have him if that was an option!
Oh, I totally agree! I can see why Niantic had to limit trading (spoofers, boo) but it would be so fun to trade with you guys even though we don't live close by. I don't have a Mr. Mime -- that's one of the few I still need and I don't think I'll get to Europe anytime soon!

Speaking of trading, I traded a Pokemon with my sister last night and it turned into a lucky Pokemon! It was an Eevee and I traded her an Alolan Meowth that also turned lucky. I thought older Pokemon were supposed to be more likely to turn lucky, but we had caught/hatched both of those that day. *shrug* Anyway, I'm glad my first (and possibly only!) lucky is an Eevee. And I can't wait for Eevee community day!!!!!

Same! I'm still looking for Tauros and Kangaskhan!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on August 08, 2018, 12:07:55 PM
As for the friends-features: guys, I wish trading was not a locally restricted thing... Mr. Mime is such an everyday sight here that I constantly just pass him and don't even bother to catch anymore... I would be happy to send a few over to those who are not residing in Europe and don't yet have him if that was an option!
Oh, I totally agree! I can see why Niantic had to limit trading (spoofers, boo) but it would be so fun to trade with you guys even though we don't live close by. I don't have a Mr. Mime -- that's one of the few I still need and I don't think I'll get to Europe anytime soon!

Speaking of trading, I traded a Pokemon with my sister last night and it turned into a lucky Pokemon! It was an Eevee and I traded her an Alolan Meowth that also turned lucky. I thought older Pokemon were supposed to be more likely to turn lucky, but we had caught/hatched both of those that day. *shrug* Anyway, I'm glad my first (and possibly only!) lucky is an Eevee. And I can't wait for Eevee community day!!!!!

Same! I'm still looking for Tauros and Kangaskhan!

Yep I'd love to trade Tauros for Mr. Mime and Kangaskhan. Tauros has been popping up by my apartment a lot lately..
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on August 11, 2018, 05:23:55 PM
Got my very first shiny Pokémon today! Right after today’s event started I logged in and the very first Evee I caught was shiny! It was pretty exciting lol
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Bekuno on August 12, 2018, 04:02:40 PM
I recently started playing again and went out for community day today and got my first shiny eevees! My username is also Bekuno there, I'll be sending out friend requests!

My code is 6373-0282-6158
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on August 13, 2018, 01:57:32 AM
Cool! Accepted, Bekuno!

Managed to get 4 shinies. With two Vaporeon and one Flareon as evolutions. Keeping one Eevee as an Eevee :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ponycake on August 14, 2018, 06:39:42 PM
The ultra friends bonus is sooo nice. Had my lucky egg popped so got 100,000 from it on community day. So good. Thanks for adding me everyone!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Bekuno on August 17, 2018, 10:31:50 AM
Would anyone be bothered if I shared some codes with my mother? She plays even more than I do and has only 2 people on her list. She constantly bugs me to open gifts because she has too many and no one to send them to.

Her UN is suzzysmom
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on August 17, 2018, 11:57:15 AM
The ultra friends bonus is sooo nice. Had my lucky egg popped so got 100,000 from it on community day. So good. Thanks for adding me everyone!
Awesome!!

 
Would anyone be bothered if I shared some codes with my mother? She plays even more than I do and has only 2 people on her list. She constantly bugs me to open gifts because she has too many and no one to send them to.

Her UN is suzzysmom
I don’t mind at all! :) My trainer code again is
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  9638 8265 1243
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on August 18, 2018, 07:22:41 AM
Would anyone be bothered if I shared some codes with my mother? She plays even more than I do and has only 2 people on her list. She constantly bugs me to open gifts because she has too many and no one to send them to.

Her UN is suzzysmom

Sure, no problem :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on August 19, 2018, 09:35:36 PM
Would anyone be bothered if I shared some codes with my mother? She plays even more than I do and has only 2 people on her list. She constantly bugs me to open gifts because she has too many and no one to send them to.

Her UN is suzzysmom
My husband and I are always happy to get more friends!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on August 24, 2018, 09:48:07 PM
My sister wants to make three new friends for the Celebi quest and wants them to be nice people, so she asked me if I'd post her trainer code here. Please request her as a friend! :)

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199843922743; her name is ShioriHitohana

Also, I have a white Vulpix!!!!!! I was so happy to hatch her on Eevee community day. Thanks to the trainer (not sure who since it only gives location!) who gave me that egg and thanks everyone for the gifts so far :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on August 25, 2018, 01:43:39 AM
My sister wants to make three new friends for the Celebi quest and wants them to be nice people, so she asked me if I'd post her trainer code here. Please request her as a friend! :)

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199843922743; her name is ShioriHitohana

Also, I have a white Vulpix!!!!!! I was so happy to hatch her on Eevee community day. Thanks to the trainer (not sure who since it only gives location!) who gave me that egg and thanks everyone for the gifts so far :)

Sure! I'll add her :) And congrats on Vulpix! So pretty :lovey:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on August 26, 2018, 07:04:07 PM
My sister wants to make three new friends for the Celebi quest and wants them to be nice people, so she asked me if I'd post her trainer code here. Please request her as a friend! :)

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199843922743; her name is ShioriHitohana

Also, I have a white Vulpix!!!!!! I was so happy to hatch her on Eevee community day. Thanks to the trainer (not sure who since it only gives location!) who gave me that egg and thanks everyone for the gifts so far :)

Sure! I'll add her :) And congrats on Vulpix! So pretty :lovey:
Thanks! She really appreciates it. And thank you about Vulpix! She's such a pretty Pokemon, isn't she?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on August 28, 2018, 10:41:43 AM
Wow, Bekuno, that is so cool that your mother also plays :) Do you sometimes play together? It must be fun to have someone who you can talk to about the game :)
I am happy to accept a friend request from her, here is my trainer code again:
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I7203 5863 8569, and the name is aranyhaju (meaning golden-haired in Hungarian :P )

I am happy to add your sister too, Haruna, but the code does not seem to work for me unfortunately (it states invalid trainer code, I tried multiple times to make sure I didn't mistype) :huh: Could you check with her?

As for the friends-features: guys, I wish trading was not a locally restricted thing... Mr. Mime is such an everyday sight here that I constantly just pass him and don't even bother to catch anymore... I would be happy to send a few over to those who are not residing in Europe and don't yet have him if that was an option!
Oh, I totally agree! I can see why Niantic had to limit trading (spoofers, boo) but it would be so fun to trade with you guys even though we don't live close by. I don't have a Mr. Mime -- that's one of the few I still need and I don't think I'll get to Europe anytime soon!

Speaking of trading, I traded a Pokemon with my sister last night and it turned into a lucky Pokemon! It was an Eevee and I traded her an Alolan Meowth that also turned lucky. I thought older Pokemon were supposed to be more likely to turn lucky, but we had caught/hatched both of those that day. *shrug* Anyway, I'm glad my first (and possibly only!) lucky is an Eevee. And I can't wait for Eevee community day!!!!!

Same! I'm still looking for Tauros and Kangaskhan!

Yep I'd love to trade Tauros for Mr. Mime and Kangaskhan. Tauros has been popping up by my apartment a lot lately..
I'm secretly wishing for global trading to become available at least on special occasions (e.g. events), how awesome that would be! I am keeping 3 extra Mr.Mimes in my storage to send away if this ever happens :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Mori_LeStrange on September 02, 2018, 12:17:11 PM
Haven't posted in awhile. But it's good to see people still playing the game. I'm working on the Celebi quest and was hoping to if some of you would add me as a friend. I try and give out gifts regularly, unfortunately the pokestops by me can be a little stingy with gifts. Anyway my code is 4130 7832 2845.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on September 02, 2018, 03:25:12 PM
I’ll add you as a friend, Mori :) And thanks, Loona! I asked my sister and she changed her trainer code, though to what I’m not sure.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Mori_LeStrange on September 08, 2018, 09:06:39 PM
Big thank you to everyone who added me as a friend!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on September 09, 2018, 11:22:34 AM
Big thank you to everyone who added me as a friend!
Sure thing!

Did anyone take part in the Moltres event yesterday? My sister got the pink chicken :P (shiny version). I kinda want it and she said she might trade it to me. For us, the event started rough. We were at a mall with about four gyms. While we were battling the first Moltres with about 12 other players, the game glitched and the Moltres' health bar never went down. We all had to exit and go back in, although some players couldn't reenter because of network errors. The second time we tried, Moltres was beaten at first, but then the game stopped there and we had to wait until it finally brought us to the rewards and catch screen.

All the same, despite the glitches, it was a good day. The glitches ironed out and I was able to catch Moltres, and it was exciting seeing my sister get a shiny.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Einhornbaby on September 09, 2018, 11:37:49 AM
Id like to make friends too :D
My code is : 6675 0367 0053  and my name is Nessaxy
Please send me a PM if adding and Ill add you back!! :D
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on September 09, 2018, 06:17:29 PM
Id like to make friends too :D
My code is : 6675 0367 0053  and my name is Nessaxy
Please send me a PM if adding and Ill add you back!! :D
Sent you a friend request!  ^.^
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on September 11, 2018, 01:19:55 AM
I have just sent out friend requests to both of you, Einhornbaby and Mori :)

I finally got back my location info, so I can now see where my hatched Alolan Pokémon are from - it's so funny to have these guys from all around the world :) I have just hatched a second Grimer yesterday, and I already have enough candies to evolve her into a technicolor Muk - I'm just collecting some more pokémon to evolve at once using a lucky egg. I am currently walking with one of my two Alolan Sandshrews (they are so beautiful! :heart: ), and I only need 3 candies to evolve one of them into a Sandslash.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on September 15, 2018, 10:49:21 PM
Guys they added regionals to the 7k eggs!!!! I just hatched a Mr. Mime!!!!!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Taxel on September 16, 2018, 01:09:31 AM
My fiance and I have become so obsessed with Pokemon Go lately! I'd love to get some more friends :D I send gifts when I can, usually on the weekends when I have access to more than 3 Pokestops haha.

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anautumnbison: 0852 0263 9895

I caught a shiny Magikarp on my fiance's phone today and that's probably my biggest accomplishment in the game. We've both been hunting Magikarps since I got a phone because he desperately wants a Gyarados. He's been so jealous of the couple trainers in our area who drops shiny ones in gyms.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on September 16, 2018, 10:50:58 AM
Loona, do you have your Sandslash yet? And I’m so glad they put regionals in eggs, at least for a little while! That must have been so exciting, NinaMarie. I hope to get a Kangaskhan — fingers crossed!

Taxel, I sent you a friend request! My trainer name is PinkNinjaKitty.

Have you guys noticed rare spawns? The other day I saw a Lapras at a Pokestop near me. :shocked: I had to go catch it, of course! I’ve never seen them spawn here, not even for any of the events. And then, to cap it off, on the way home from my brothers house, I found another!!!! I’ve only ever seen 4 before, out of 1000s of Pokemon caught. Later I also found two Chanseys!! And there are some Hitmonchans and Hitmonlees running around. The spawns are mostly common but these have been unusual!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on September 16, 2018, 01:38:20 PM
Yes all kinds pokemon I never usually see have been popping up like crazy! Until this started happening I hadn't seen a Hitmonlee in the entire time I've played. Except for the regional pokemon and two legendary you could only get from raids my pokedex for Kanto is complete! It's really exciting!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Mori_LeStrange on September 18, 2018, 08:26:14 PM
Taxel and Einhornbaby I sent you friend requests.

I've notice the increase in rare spawns too. I've caught 2 Chansey recently. I've noticed Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan popping up much more frequently. The last time I saw them was during the fighting event. And my boyfriend and I found 2 each this weekend. Made him very happy as those are his 2 favorites and he had never caught them.

Congratulations on Mr. Mime NinaMarie!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Sea_Breeze on September 27, 2018, 02:34:44 AM
Hope everyones making the most of MewTwo raids at the moment. Finally completed by Gen 1 dex with Tauros being my last :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on September 27, 2018, 10:28:06 AM
Unfortunately I can’t get any raids that big as it’s just my husband and I and we have no one else to raid with :(

I was rather upset with my husband because he has been getting so many random shinies, wingull, geodude, magickarp. But we both got a shiny chickorita during the event and I have hatched all the regionals so I guess we are even.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Sea_Breeze on September 29, 2018, 02:57:52 AM
Thats a shame NinaMarie.. Id raid with you if we were closer :)

Got a Deoxy raid on Thursday with a big bunch. Our city has four separate EX raids that day... Pretty good seeing as theres only a few hundred odd players and most of them aren't active.  I have noticed quite a few older players returning though... 4 in the last week!!!! I mean they've been out for well over 16 months but for some reason somethings got them hooked again :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ponycake on October 01, 2018, 10:13:03 PM
Did a Deoxys raid today and caught it on the first ball. My gen 1 Pokédex is complete, all I needed was the regionals as I had all birds and mew two and everything else already. Thanks all for being my friend on there. I’ll be best friends status with some of you not too far in the future. :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on October 24, 2018, 08:11:06 AM
Yay, I hatched Chimecho on the Beldum event day :lovey:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on October 24, 2018, 06:34:51 PM
Yay, I hatched Chimecho on the Beldum event day :lovey:
Yay! Chimeco’s adorable.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on March 02, 2019, 08:12:34 AM
Letting you all know I changed my username from Ivrenel to Maera091 :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on March 23, 2019, 03:49:26 PM
Hey all.

I need to make 3 new friends for achievements...

Would any one be able to add me?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on March 24, 2019, 03:17:00 AM
Hey all.

I need to make 3 new friends for achievements...

Would any one be able to add me?
I'd be happy to :) Didn't find your friend code in the thread, so can you PM it to me (or share it here)?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I didn't follow things that closely: does trading still only work between friends who are within a distance/can actually meet up?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on March 24, 2019, 03:44:07 AM
Hey all.

I need to make 3 new friends for achievements...

Would any one be able to add me?
I'd be happy to :) Didn't find your friend code in the thread, so can you PM it to me (or share it here)?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I didn't follow things that closely: does trading still only work between friends who are within a distance/can actually meet up?

I think that's still the case...

@banditpony: Sure thing. Let me know your code :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on March 24, 2019, 05:11:40 AM
Thanks!]
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on March 25, 2019, 06:48:50 AM
Here is my code:

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7242 0663 8742

Request sent ^^
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on March 25, 2019, 08:30:36 AM
Thank you. ^^ I need two more, if any one has a spot to add?
(You don't have to keep me in your FL if you don't want)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on March 25, 2019, 07:26:15 PM
Thank you. ^^ I need two more, if any one has a spot to add?
(You don't have to keep me in your FL if you don't want)
I'd be happy to be your PoGo friend! Sent a request :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on March 26, 2019, 01:53:59 PM
I also just sent you a request - thanks for the code! :)

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I didn't follow things that closely: does trading still only work between friends who are within a distance/can actually meet up?

I think that's still the case...
ah, bummer :/ Thank you for the reply though!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on March 26, 2019, 02:26:08 PM
:) thank you <3
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on April 17, 2019, 12:33:42 PM
Got a lucky friend today! Too bad we are in different countries and can’t trade :huh:

Caught a shiny Buneary too! On my husband’s account.... :facepalm: :facepalm:

Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on April 17, 2019, 01:09:34 PM
Got a lucky friend today! Too bad we are in different countries and can’t trade :huh:
*raises hand* :blush: First I was like "whoa, how did she do those characters in her name?", then I realised that's what indicate we are lucky friends - then came the disappointment when I read on and realised that we'd have to trade to benefit from this status :huh: I don't have a lucky Pokémon yet...

I still wish they made events when friends can trade internationally (and I still keep Mr. Mimes for if this ever happens) *sigh*
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Caught a shiny Buneary too! On my husband’s account.... :facepalm: :facepalm:
I'll share my silliness from yesterday in hope you might feel a little better: yesterday I was going through my Pokémon, checking which to keep, transfer or evolve, and I realised I have 2 Machokes and 99 Machop candies. I was keeping the two Machokes exactly to evolve one of them into a Machamp when I get enough candy, in hope that they evolve to be stronger than my current Machamp. So in I go to my items, use a rare candy to make my candy count 100, go back to my Pokémon, select the Machoke with the bigger CP, and, like a robot...
I push "Transfer", and then I select OK when I get the warning that this is something I cannot undo...
and when there is suddenly only one Machoke instead of the evolution animation, I realise this is not what I wanted to do :facepalm:

At least your hubs has a shiny Buneary now ;)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on April 17, 2019, 03:13:45 PM
 :hug: At least our names look cool for a day :biggrin:

This is not the first time I have been working my husband’s account for him and I caught a shiny, I’m very lucky for him :lol:

What a rough oops!! I hate when my brain turns off and I transfer something I did not want to transfer. I’m trying to use the star favoriting thing more.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on May 27, 2019, 02:17:32 AM
Got a lucky friend today! Too bad we are in different countries and can’t trade :huh:

Caught a shiny Buneary too! On my husband’s account.... :facepalm: :facepalm:


We're lucky friends too! This makes me wish that Niantic could allow a wordwide trade once a month or something!

I got a shiny Lapras and a shiny Absol last Saturday :)

I still wish they made events when friends can trade internationally (and I still keep Mr. Mimes for if this ever happens) *sigh*
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Caught a shiny Buneary too! On my husband’s account.... :facepalm: :facepalm:
I'll share my silliness from yesterday in hope you might feel a little better: yesterday I was going through my Pokémon, checking which to keep, transfer or evolve, and I realised I have 2 Machokes and 99 Machop candies. I was keeping the two Machokes exactly to evolve one of them into a Machamp when I get enough candy, in hope that they evolve to be stronger than my current Machamp. So in I go to my items, use a rare candy to make my candy count 100, go back to my Pokémon, select the Machoke with the bigger CP, and, like a robot...
I push "Transfer", and then I select OK when I get the warning that this is something I cannot undo...
and when there is suddenly only one Machoke instead of the evolution animation, I realise this is not what I wanted to do :facepalm:

At least your hubs has a shiny Buneary now ;)

I transferred a shiny Minun  >_< Complete auto pilot
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on May 28, 2019, 07:23:03 PM
This makes me wish that Niantic could allow a wordwide trade once a month or something!
That would be awesome! I'd love to be able to trade with you guys. I feel like if they limited the trading to once a month or so, like you said, or a special event or something, it wouldn't encourage cheating or whatever Niantic's trying to avoid.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on May 29, 2019, 07:32:06 AM
Still no international trading or anything? That's a missed opportunity. I forget, is internet trading a thing or do you have to be next to the person you're trading with?
I haven't played in a while but when I head down to the beach it's fun to play, see you guys in two months.  :P
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on May 29, 2019, 12:02:20 PM
I transferred a shiny Minun  >_< Complete auto pilot
ooooooouch! >_<  :huh:

Still no international trading or anything? That's a missed opportunity. I forget, is internet trading a thing or do you have to be next to the person you're trading with?
I haven't played in a while but when I head down to the beach it's fun to play, see you guys in two months.  :P
No, as far as I'm aware, trading is still available only when you're standing next to each other. I too think this is a missed opportunity, especially in today's world where there's little you cannot do with others online... I also agree that I wouldn't need this to be a regular thing, but it would be great if it was possible on dedicated special events at least...

How is everyone doing with the game recently? I've kept on playing but not very actively. The most recent events left me a bit neutral (and I've never even seen a silhouette of a Pikachu in a detective hat), so I'm starting to lose a little interest again. All the Snorlax lying around looked funny today though :) I caught one with CP over 2400, more than my "old" Snorlax I caught via some event/monthly challenge back in 2016, so I'm happy with that, but other than that I find this event a little lacking: I already had two Snorlax(es?), and the only extra feature is a special move? They could have given us a Snorlax in a sleeping hat :3 or at least a shiny - though I'm very unlucky with shinies, I think I've only ever caught 4 or 5 shiny Pokémon.

ETA: I also got massively unlucky today. I was playing on the bus, on the way to work today morning, and suddenly we passed a Lombre. I have never seen a Lombre in the wild before, and Lotad is so uncommon here that I only managed to evolve one Lotad so far, and I only have 8 candies, so very far from a Ludicolo, so I was eager to tap him - only to find that I reached the max capacity of my storage box. This of course happened between two stops, so the bus was speeding fast and there was no way I could transfer a Pokémon fast enough to create space (and I was late, so taking off, catching it and waiting for the next bus was also out of question). Needless to say, in just 5 seconds we also passed a Swablu - I'm still nowhere near close to evolving to Altaria, because Swablu is also not very common here, so every candy counts... I quickly freed up 3 or 4 places, but it was also not there anymore, and nothing else interesting showed up on the rest of the trip.

ETA2: when did the game start to censor the nicknames you can give to a Pokémon? I caught an Aipom with 666 CP, so I tried to rename her SatanAipom, but got an error stating "The name contains inappropriate text." :O About two or three years ago I had a Machop called Satanka ("ka" is a diminitive in Hungarian, so it roughly translates to "Little Satan"), for the same reason, and I could rename the guy without an issue (we renamed him with a friend while working together at an anime convention. He has never seen the game, and all he knew about Pokémon was probably Pikachu, so I was showing him all the Pokémon I had). Satanka was with me for years until one day I accidentally powered him up, only to realise that it actually took the fun away from him. I had another Machop with much higher CP, so the poor guy got transferred in the end.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on May 30, 2019, 06:57:57 PM
How is everyone doing with the game recently? I've kept on playing but not very actively. The most recent events left me a bit neutral (and I've never even seen a silhouette of a Pikachu in a detective hat), so I'm starting to lose a little interest again. All the Snorlax lying around looked funny today though :) I caught one with CP over 2400, more than my "old" Snorlax I caught via some event/monthly challenge back in 2016, so I'm happy with that, but other than that I find this event a little lacking: I already had two Snorlax(es?), and the only extra feature is a special move? They could have given us a Snorlax in a sleeping hat :3 or at least a shiny - though I'm very unlucky with shinies, I think I've only ever caught 4 or 5 shiny Pokémon.
I'm playing every day, pretty much, but casually and just focusing on what I want -- which would mainly be shiny Growlithe at this point. :lol: I have two research quests that give Growlithe as a reward, so I'm hoping one will be shiny.

You're right, a shiny Snorlax possibility would be fun. That's the most fun part of the game for me right now -- finding shinies -- but also the most frustrating, since it rarely happens. It is quite funny to see the Snorlax lying everywhere, lol.

Oh, and I'm also looking forward to evolving a Glaceon and Leafeon. I almost have enough coins saved up from gyms to buy the lure that evolves Glaceon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on June 03, 2019, 07:05:17 AM
How is everyone doing with the game recently? I've kept on playing but not very actively. The most recent events left me a bit neutral (and I've never even seen a silhouette of a Pikachu in a detective hat), so I'm starting to lose a little interest again.

I believe the only way to get the Pikachu was to take a picture with your camera, then he would show up. (once a day, I think).

I love all the sleeping snorlax. I will be sad when they are gone. ;_;*

I've played casually since day 1 of the game. So I still have fun with it. With the one exception -- not being able to find magikarp frustrates me. a lot. :( I live near water. I see all other fishies. Why not magikarp?

I'm lucky that theres a park that's not far where people play all the time. They put up the special lures yesterday and I was able to get leafeon and glaceon. *^_^*
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on June 03, 2019, 11:41:25 AM

I believe the only way to get the Pikachu was to take a picture with your camera, then he would show up. (once a day, I think).
Ah, that would explain things... :/ I never have my camera on, as it eats the battery and I hate to charge my mobile daily...

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I'm lucky that theres a park that's not far where people play all the time. They put up the special lures yesterday and I was able to get leafeon and glaceon. *^_^*
Lucky! I hope you'll also get Magikarp soon!

Haruna, is there a specific tactic you can use for shinies, or are they just totally random? If it is the latter, I can imagine the frustration, as I guess you basically just have to catch every Pokémon you come across? I've only ever come across them a handful of times, and (IIRC) all of mine are from the wild (and none from events where shinies were said to appear more frequently...).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 12, 2019, 08:30:43 PM
Haruna, is there a specific tactic you can use for shinies, or are they just totally random? If it is the latter, I can imagine the frustration, as I guess you basically just have to catch every Pokémon you come across? I've only ever come across them a handful of times, and (IIRC) all of mine are from the wild (and none from events where shinies were said to appear more frequently...).
As I understand it, there are 1 out of the 450, say, Growlithes you'll meet in the wild that are shiny -- pretty bad odds. But I tap on any Growlithe because hope springs eternal. There are a few species who are more likely to be shiny if they come from research tasks, raids, or are hatched from eggs (like some baby Pokemon). I think Community Day rates for the featured Pokemon are 1 in 25, and I've had good luck with that usually, but I'm sorry you haven't. Sometimes the odds just work out really bad even when shiny rates are increased.

I've been negotiating a trade with a member on my local Discord server to get shiny Bulbasaur and shiny Dratini, so I'll be happy when we're Ultra Friends and that trade's completed. I have yet to find someone with a shiny Growlithe who needs what I have to trade, but you never know! Maybe I will find it in the wild.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on June 20, 2019, 11:59:32 AM
I completely and utterly missed the slakoth event. Was sad I missed the opportunity for a pink sloth. It's not a common pokemon around here.

Continuing the subject of shinies I got super lucky with the research tasks reward and got a shiny Latias!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on June 23, 2019, 12:44:53 PM
I completely and utterly missed the slakoth event. Was sad I missed the opportunity for a pink sloth. It's not a common pokemon around here.

Continuing the subject of shinies I got super lucky with the research tasks reward and got a shiny Latias!
Wow, congrats on your shiny Latias, that's super cool!

I got lucky with the event this time - I was totally unaware, I opened the app quickly only to check if there are any pokéstops around (we were in an apartment on a holiday abroad, and we had a little rest time before we departed to an event that afternoon), and in the 5 minutes I had the app open I caught 3 Slakoths, 2 of which were shiny! :shocked: (who came up with this colour choice though? Poor things look like they were shaved nekkid :P ) Slakoth is totally uncommon here as well (the single one I had so far was hatched), so I was super happy :)

As I understand it, there are 1 out of the 450, say, Growlithes you'll meet in the wild that are shiny -- pretty bad odds. But I tap on any Growlithe because hope springs eternal. There are a few species who are more likely to be shiny if they come from research tasks, raids, or are hatched from eggs (like some baby Pokemon). I think Community Day rates for the featured Pokemon are 1 in 25, and I've had good luck with that usually, but I'm sorry you haven't. Sometimes the odds just work out really bad even when shiny rates are increased.
Ah, I see. That really isn't a lot then... good luck with finding a shiny Growlithe! :) Are all Pokémon are available in shiny versions, or is this feature limited to certain species only? If they are, do you already have all the others, or is Growlithe just a special want?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on June 29, 2019, 06:15:27 AM
Well, there is a new quest thing that requests 1 more friend.

7242 0663 8742 

^ Anyone want help fulfill that quest?


Cummy. I guess there's another one coming up, so I would like to wait for that.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: AliceM16 on June 29, 2019, 06:37:38 AM
I’ve also got this quest! And I’d love to have some more Pokemon Go friends either way so I thought I’d post here.

My friend code is 3073 8591 5546  :biggrin:

I’ve sent you a request, banditpony!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on June 30, 2019, 01:50:27 PM
Wow, congrats on your shiny Latias, that's super cool!

I got lucky with the event this time - I was totally unaware, I opened the app quickly only to check if there are any pokéstops around (we were in an apartment on a holiday abroad, and we had a little rest time before we departed to an event that afternoon), and in the 5 minutes I had the app open I caught 3 Slakoths, 2 of which were shiny! :shocked: (who came up with this colour choice though? Poor things look like they were shaved nekkid :P ) Slakoth is totally uncommon here as well (the single one I had so far was hatched), so I was super happy :)
Yay, I'm so happy for you! Shiny Slakoth does look pretty funky. Somehow I think the pink color is so random though that it's cute, lol.

As I understand it, there are 1 out of the 450, say, Growlithes you'll meet in the wild that are shiny -- pretty bad odds. But I tap on any Growlithe because hope springs eternal. There are a few species who are more likely to be shiny if they come from research tasks, raids, or are hatched from eggs (like some baby Pokemon). I think Community Day rates for the featured Pokemon are 1 in 25, and I've had good luck with that usually, but I'm sorry you haven't. Sometimes the odds just work out really bad even when shiny rates are increased.
Ah, I see. That really isn't a lot then... good luck with finding a shiny Growlithe! :) Are all Pokémon are available in shiny versions, or is this feature limited to certain species only? If they are, do you already have all the others, or is Growlithe just a special want?
Thank you! I was actually really happy this week because someone in my area has a shiny Growlithe they will trade me for a legacy move Gengar! Yay yay yay :)

Only certain species are available in shiny form right now; the infographic below is out of date but pretty accurate. (I forget who's left out of this chart -- probably some shiny legendaries, baby Pokemon, Pikachus with hats, and definitely the current shiny Alolans that came out this past Friday). Growlithe is just a special want for me :) I have some other shinies, mostly from Community Days; the non-Community-day one I'm proudest of is shiny Houndour. If it wasn't obvious I love fire-types and cat/dog-like Pokemon, lol.
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Post Merge: June 30, 2019, 01:55:47 PM

Well, there is a new quest thing that requests 1 more friend.

7242 0663 8742 

^ Anyone want help fulfill that quest?
I'm already friends with you or I totally would

I’ve also got this quest! And I’d love to have some more Pokemon Go friends either way so I thought I’d post here.

My friend code is 3073 8591 5546  :biggrin:

I’ve sent you a request, banditpony!
Adding you! :)

Also, a heads up about the Jumpstart research if you haven't heard:
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keep the Dratini you get from the first steps and don't evolve it yet because you'll need it to complete the second steps; and, after step 4? or so there's a guaranteed shiny Eevee encounter. Try to complete this step during partly cloudy weather, when normal Pokemon like Eevee are weather-boosted
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: AliceM16 on July 01, 2019, 07:23:58 AM
Ooh thank you for the info about the Eevee (and the friend request)! I’m in love with shiny Mareep. So cute.

Congrats on your Growlithe!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 05, 2019, 07:34:06 PM
Ooh thank you for the info about the Eevee (and the friend request)! I’m in love with shiny Mareep. So cute.

Congrats on your Growlithe!
You're welcome! My sister sent you a friend request; her user name is ShioriHitohana :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 09, 2019, 09:15:13 PM
My sister also requested you as a friend, Banditpony. Her username is ShioriHitohana
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on July 12, 2019, 05:24:05 AM
Ooh thank you for the info about the Eevee (and the friend request)! I’m in love with shiny Mareep. So cute.

Congrats on your Growlithe!
Sorry for the late reaction, I added you too (aranyhaju here), we are already friends :)

That checklist is awesome Haruna, thank you for sharing! I've just Googled shinies, and there are a lot of similar lists going around, I don't know why I haven't thought of that these things exist XD I love love love shiny Omanyte and Dratini! Sadly the Dratini I got from the first step of the quest wasn't a shiny one. Thanks for the tip about keeping it! Now I'm wondering if it is absolutely necessary to evolve that Dratini for the quest to accept the evolution, or if it can be any Dratini - or Dragonair, for that matter. I have had two Dragonairs for a long time now, one was kept to be evolved further, and I would then wait with evolving one of those into a Dragonite until I'm at that step of the quest. Which I might not be able to complete anyway, because it involves trading and I literally don't know a single person who plays and is local. Another quest has also been parking in my quest list for months because of this same reason.

The checklist also reminded me how insanely few shinies I have... Squirtle, Magikarp, Hariyama (caught as a Makuhita), Ho-Oh, Poochyena, Aron, Swablu, Smoochum and Slakoth are the only ones I have in shiny form. I like Swablu the most, but Magikarp the goldfish is also very cute :)

I' m also happy to hear you are getting a shiny Growlithe - did the trade go through in the end?

Last week we spent a long weekend abroad, and holy boy, Novi Sad in Serbia is one big Slakoth nest! Remember how I said I felt lucky finding 3 Slakoths when we were abroad the last time, as my city just doesn't have them at all, and the single one I had before that was hatched? Here they were lying aroung everywhere! :O I wasn't playing a lot, but I still managed to catch enough to evolve one up until Slaking! :cool: I also found enough Skorupi to evolve one (this Pokémon is also totally uncommon here), so my weekend was totally successful Pokémon-wise. The only downside is that it's now slightly boring to be back home, there's hardly anything new coming up anymore here for me nowadays, so I'm starting to lose my interest...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 13, 2019, 07:47:42 PM
Now I'm wondering if it is absolutely necessary to evolve that Dratini for the quest to accept the evolution, or if it can be any Dratini - or Dragonair, for that matter. I have had two Dragonairs for a long time now, one was kept to be evolved further, and I would then wait with evolving one of those into a Dragonite until I'm at that step of the quest. Which I might not be able to complete anyway, because it involves trading and I literally don't know a single person who plays and is local. Another quest has also been parking in my quest list for months because of this same reason.
That's tough that you don't have anyone to trade with :/ Again I wish that we could trade at a distance. I've found some trading partners through Discord; maybe you could find some close by people that way?

About the Dratini evolution chioce -- this might be important later on, but I'm not sure if you want to know more about the research task ahead of time, so I've put it in a spoiler. (I only learned this the other day when I got to this step XD):
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I'm pretty sure you can evolve any Dratini to meet the requirements of Step 2 :) What you'll want to do and what I didn't do is save that Dratini-turned-Dragonair for Step 6, because one of the tasks is "Evolve a Dragonair"! The other two tasks on that step -- "Make a new friend" (again!) and "Win a level 3 or higher raid" give you 60 Dratini candies each. I'm pretty sure you can choose to evolve your Dratini-turned-Dragonair or the one you already have and had planned to evolve.

The checklist also reminded me how insanely few shinies I have... Squirtle, Magikarp, Hariyama (caught as a Makuhita), Ho-Oh, Poochyena, Aron, Swablu, Smoochum and Slakoth are the only ones I have in shiny form. I like Swablu the most, but Magikarp the goldfish is also very cute :)

I' m also happy to hear you are getting a shiny Growlithe - did the trade go through in the end?
Swablu is really cute as a shiny! You have some cool ones :) In about two weeks I'll be Ultra Friends with the two people (a second person also offered me a shiny Growlithe and I'll turn it into an Arcanine!) I'm trading with. It's so long to wait, lol.


Last week we spent a long weekend abroad, and holy boy, Novi Sad in Serbia is one big Slakoth nest! Remember how I said I felt lucky finding 3 Slakoths when we were abroad the last time, as my city just doesn't have them at all, and the single one I had before that was hatched? Here they were lying aroung everywhere! :O I wasn't playing a lot, but I still managed to catch enough to evolve one up until Slaking! :cool: I also found enough Skorupi to evolve one (this Pokémon is also totally uncommon here), so my weekend was totally successful Pokémon-wise. The only downside is that it's now slightly boring to be back home, there's hardly anything new coming up anymore here for me nowadays, so I'm starting to lose my interest...
Wow, that's a lot of Slakoth! I rarely see them, or Skorupi. I think I've only caught three Skorupi so far ^^; I have a lot of grass and bug Pokemon in my biome, and also a lot of cloudy weather that attracts normal and rock types.

I think the happiest thing that happened for me lately was catching a Groudon. I met up with some other trainers (from Discord) for a Groudon raid and they actually waited for me when there was only one minute left on the raid timer (how nice!). They laughed as I literally ran up to join them. We beat the Groudon and I caught it! This was after the discouragement of battling Kyogres and having them run away. I think Groudon is cool-looking, like a dragon ^.^
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on July 14, 2019, 08:33:28 AM
Spoiler
I'm pretty sure you can evolve any Dratini to meet the requirements of Step 2 :) What you'll want to do and what I didn't do is save that Dratini-turned-Dragonair for Step 6, because one of the tasks is "Evolve a Dragonair"! The other two tasks on that step -- "Make a new friend" (again!) and "Win a level 3 or higher raid" give you 60 Dratini candies each. I'm pretty sure you can choose to evolve your Dratini-turned-Dragonair or the one you already have and had planned to evolve.

(not annoyed at you).
I would of liked to of known that in advance, as I would of waited to add more friends. There's probably no more to add from here...

And that I'm fairly sure people would of gone ahead and did the second evolution if they had enough and didn't know. (-_- I think my husband falls in this bucket maybe).

I think that there should be trading with people who have a high enough friend level. You can battle i think, so i don't see why you can't trade.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: NinaMarie on July 16, 2019, 10:30:48 AM
Just wanted to stop by and say thank you to whom ever is in Pennsylvania because I hatched a shiny Cleffa from and egg from you!
I know it’s random and the friends don’t actually influence egg results but I thought I’d share :D
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on July 16, 2019, 01:47:38 PM
Just wanted to stop by and say thank you to whom ever is in Pennsylvania because I hatched a shiny Cleffa from and egg from you!
I know it’s random and the friends don’t actually influence egg results but I thought I’d share :D
This made me check where my Smoochum (whom I nicknamed Shimmerchum :P ) has come from, as she's my only hatched shiny - she's from Tifton, Georgia, so whoever is there, thanks for the egg! :lovey:

Thanks for the additional quest info Haruna - it doesn't annoy me at all either, in fact it is useful, and it is what kept me away from evolving a Dragonair straight ahead :) As for the trading part, I did a quick search the other day and Discord has come up on a lot of places, so maybe I'll have to look into that after all. The thing is, as antisocial as it may sound, I don't really feel I would like to get to know locals through the game, I'd just like to get that trade done and that's it. I feel like some swinger only looking for a one-night stand :blush: It would be nice to know some locals to team up for raids, but since I don't really play around randomly (it's mostly on my way to work and back, or if I need to go somewhere far by public transport), I wouldn't be of much use for the "we'll go and team up against that raid boss tomorrow evening"-type of occasions. Oh, and I'm not on Facebook, never was, not interested, which would also make communication difficult.

My recent happy moments are tied, I cannot decide which one I'm happier about: I managed to catch yet another shiny: on my seventh day of research I encountered a shiny Latias! :shocked: :cool: but I might actually be happier for the Kyogre I caught on my previous seventh day, as I in general like water Pokémon a lot. I won't say I would have minded if he turned out to be shiny too, but with Kyogre I much prefer the original colour scheme.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on July 16, 2019, 02:06:59 PM
Loona, in a pinch maybe you could have a friend or family member download the game for the trade?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on July 17, 2019, 01:10:11 PM
Loona, in a pinch maybe you could have a friend or family member download the game for the trade?
I had this thought too, but I honestly cannot think of anyone... my husband hates it to the point that I just stopped playing if he's around, and my sister is totally not interested in games, never was. I could ask the husband's nephew who I know tried the game years ago, but I also know he hasn't been interested and quickly stopped, and we only meet when the family is together so the husband is there too.
Another thought I had was asking two colleagues who we used to play together with back in the beginning, long before the friend system was a thing, but I don't know if they still play, and one of them has moved away from our team a long time ago, and it would be a little awkward to ping him because of this :P
Oh well, some solution will come up eventually :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Mori_LeStrange on July 26, 2019, 03:31:11 AM
I've fallen behind on my research tasks. I know I'm already friends with most people on here. But if anyone isn't can you add me? My code is
4130 7832 2845

MoriLeStrange is my name over there as well.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on August 21, 2019, 04:23:50 AM
I've sent out some friend requests for the new research :)

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My recent happy moments are tied, I cannot decide which one I'm happier about: I managed to catch yet another shiny: on my seventh day of research I encountered a shiny Latias! :shocked: :cool: but I might actually be happier for the Kyogre I caught on my previous seventh day, as I in general like water Pokémon a lot. I won't say I would have minded if he turned out to be shiny too, but with Kyogre I much prefer the original colour scheme.

Omg, luckkkyyy. I've been trying to get a shiny Latias :( No luck with the raids or the field research. I got a shiny Groudon in return :P Still nice, but darn!  :lol:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 26, 2019, 10:16:45 AM
If anyone is playing here’s my friend code

Spoiler
7821-1850-1997
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Kiwi on August 26, 2019, 04:51:43 PM
Gotta love the timing of these research things - I got a new friend request the other day, but I didn't have the new research yet, so I accepted it not knowing...and a day later need 3 more friends.  :rolleyes: Just sent out a few more requests to people in this thread (my ID is jenmpoet).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 28, 2019, 07:49:54 AM
Okay...finally gave in and downloaded this to my phone.  My usual user name is "not available" which irks me because who else would use Pokeyonekenobie? My younger brother made it up over 20 years ago when I was signing up for a certain beanie baby site back in the days of dial up (he was obsessed with Star Wars and the user name I wanted to use wasn't available so he mushed them together).  Anyway...apparently I need to "make a friend" for some research.

Spoiler
My user name is GundamRhapsody and my friend code is 1404 8359 4716.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 28, 2019, 08:08:13 AM
One of the task I had to do was take five photos of water Pokemon, yesterday I took a picture of Barbaroch, and Magikarp in my dad’s car (he said cheeky  :fox: [not gonna swear]) then I took pictures of three other water Pokemon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 28, 2019, 06:50:51 PM
Eep...I managed an "Excellent" throw with a curve ball.  Totally accidental but I'll take it!  Also, I found my first shiny--it's a Seel. 
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Post by: Haruna on August 29, 2019, 03:15:51 PM
Eep...I managed an "Excellent" throw with a curve ball.  Totally accidental but I'll take it!  Also, I found my first shiny--it's a Seel.
Sent you a friend request, Pokeyonekenobie! ^.^ It’s so cool that you caught a shiny Seel. I’d love to run into one of those someday! I recently acquired my grail of shiny Growlithe via trading with a perfect stranger in front of Starbucks. Awkward but at least I have my shiny tiger-dog now, lol.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 30, 2019, 07:05:42 AM
Is there a list of everyone's user names [and possibly codes] under a spoiler somewhere so that we can look up who has sent us a request?  (I just don't have the time to go through 9 pages of names right now).  :biggrin:

As this is the only place I've put my code I assume any requests I get will be from here, but it would be nice to know who I'm friending.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on August 30, 2019, 08:18:47 AM
I've also sent you friend requests, bright rabbit 1 and Pokeyonekenobie.

Haruna, I'm so happy to hear you've finally got your shiny Growlithe! :) I haven't caught any more shinies since that.

I'm a little bit disappointed, as I was so looking forward to see at least a shiny Barboach or Carvanha during the current event, but despite catching a trillion of them, no shiny. I was really looking forward to this event (not because of the shinies, but because I love most water Pokémon), but after the first two days I got a bit less excited, even bored... Pokémon they've announced (and some of them I'd need) are showing up really scarcely... haven't seen a single Wartortle, Poliwhirl, Lapras, Quilfish,Mantine, Lotad, Feebas, Piplup, Buizel or Wooper, and I'm passing watery locations on a daily basis. I have seen a single Seaking, and have only caught a single Finneon. Wailmer is a bit more common, but I'm still not even close to 300 candies, let alone 400). Yesterday I barely turned the game on, and today only for the sake of evolving Caravanhas and Barboaches to complete a quest. Well, at least I won't be sad I'm missing two days, as I won't be able to play the game during the weekend, as we'll be away visiting family.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 30, 2019, 09:19:17 AM
I got Lotad and Wooper out of eggs.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on August 31, 2019, 10:47:13 PM
Is there a list of everyone's user names [and possibly codes] under a spoiler somewhere so that we can look up who has sent us a request?  (I just don't have the time to go through 9 pages of names right now).  :biggrin:
Unfortunately, no ^^; If there are any names you're particularly puzzled by, though, I might be able to help you match Arena person to Pokemon player!

Haruna, I'm so happy to hear you've finally got your shiny Growlithe! :)
Thanks so much! ^.^ I'm so happy to finally have him.

I'm a little bit disappointed, as I was so looking forward to see at least a shiny Barboach or Carvanha during the current event, but despite catching a trillion of them, no shiny. I was really looking forward to this event (not because of the shinies, but because I love most water Pokémon), but after the first two days I got a bit less excited, even bored... Pokémon they've announced (and some of them I'd need) are showing up really scarcely... haven't seen a single Wartortle, Poliwhirl, Lapras, Quilfish,Mantine, Lotad, Feebas, Piplup, Buizel or Wooper, and I'm passing watery locations on a daily basis. I have seen a single Seaking, and have only caught a single Finneon. Wailmer is a bit more common, but I'm still not even close to 300 candies, let alone 400). Yesterday I barely turned the game on, and today only for the sake of evolving Caravanhas and Barboaches to complete a quest. Well, at least I won't be sad I'm missing two days, as I won't be able to play the game during the weekend, as we'll be away visiting family.
I haven't found any shinies, either :/ I haven't been playing the game much this past week because of phone issues, though. I've seen some water Pokemon, but I live in a grass and water Pokemon paradise so it isn't unusual for me. They've mostly been Carvanha and Barboach, and Wailmer. I was happy the day I found a Feebas, so I'll call that my rare catch for this event.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Doedeardarling on September 02, 2019, 06:25:06 AM
So I'm playing only occasionally, but I need more friends for research so if anybody still has space, here's my code:
Spoiler
7577 5596 9992
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 04, 2019, 11:46:11 AM
Caught a shiny Houndour.  He's blue instead of black.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 09, 2019, 06:45:09 AM
Anyone having problems with Pokemon Go? I can’t log in with google

Now it’s working  again
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on September 13, 2019, 01:08:17 AM
So I'm playing only occasionally, but I need more friends for research so if anybody still has space, here's my code:
Spoiler
7577 5596 9992
I'll add you!

Caught a shiny Houndour.  He's blue instead of black.
That's awesome! Houndour is a favorite of mine. How did you find it, out of curiosity?

Anyone having problems with Pokemon Go? I can’t log in with google

Now it’s working  again
Yeah, sometimes either one of the two methods of logging into Pokemon Go (Google or a Pokemon Trainer Club, depending on what you signed up for) are not working because the respective servers are down. Google, at the very least, tends to be more reliable and the servers don't go down nearly as often as the PTC servers go down. It's frustrating, though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 13, 2019, 10:20:09 AM
Caught a shiny Houndour.  He's blue instead of black.
That's awesome! Houndour is a favorite of mine. How did you find it, out of curiosity?

He just showed up.  I don't think I did anything special to find him.  But I decided to evolve him into Houndoom.  :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on September 14, 2019, 02:57:18 PM
Caught a shiny Houndour.  He's blue instead of black.
That's awesome! Houndour is a favorite of mine. How did you find it, out of curiosity?

He just showed up.  I don't think I did anything special to find him.  But I decided to evolve him into Houndoom.  :)

Aah, nice! :D That's a really neat shiny!

-
So during the water event I managed to get a shiny. A charmander xD I have actually never encountered a shiny pokémon within the event it is promoted in :\ Really frustrating.

Anyone having luck with the regional eggs? I finally got Tauros and Farfetch'd, so my Gen 1 dex is COMPLETE  :frolic:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 16, 2019, 09:23:01 AM
Caught a shiny Turtwig yesterday during the Community event and managed to catch enough Turtwigs (and use enough pinap berries) to evolve a Torterra to get the special attack.  :)

Just out of curiosity, how does everyone decide which pokemon to keep and which to send to the professor?  Is it based on attack power, how many stars it gets when your leader evaluates it or something else?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on September 22, 2019, 07:55:32 PM
Anyone having luck with the regional eggs? I finally got Tauros and Farfetch'd, so my Gen 1 dex is COMPLETE  :frolic:
Awesome! I actually didn't know they were doing regional eggs  ^^; I'm out of the loop these days.

Just out of curiosity, how does everyone decide which pokemon to keep and which to send to the professor?  Is it based on attack power, how many stars it gets when your leader evaluates it or something else?
Typically people keep the Pokemon with most stars when the team leader evaluates it. Even Pokemon with the same number of stars can have slightly different defense, HP, and attack, though. I'm not an expert and don't battle all that much (especially not player vs. player), but I think in general if you're looking at a good defensive Pokemon -- say, Snorlax -- you'll want to keep the Snorlax with the highest HP stat, given that all else is equal. If you're looking at a great damage-per-second attack Pokemon, like Gengar, you'd want high attack stats. Does anyone else want to chime in with some advice?

Obviously, also you'll want to keep hard-to-find Pokemon (if you want a living dex or if you'll need to walk it to get candy to evolve it into another form).

Personally I also just keep the Pokemon I find cutest or the ones that have sentimental value for me (like my starter Charmander). I hope this helps a little :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 09, 2019, 10:11:35 AM
My Pokemon Go game is starting to show the Pokemon in the snow because the weather here is colder.  I don't like the snow and I don't want it to be here already!  :cry:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 25, 2019, 08:11:06 AM
I just caught a shiny Eevee with a flower!  Not sure if I want to keep it Eevee or evolve it...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on October 26, 2019, 02:25:16 AM
I just caught a shiny Eevee with a flower!  Not sure if I want to keep it Eevee or evolve it...

Nice! Congrats :D I'd personally keep the flower one as Eevee <3 But that's up to you of course ;)

I just caught Shiny Houndour (Cutie with his CP16) :P
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on October 30, 2019, 07:23:18 PM
Pokeyonekenobie, my sister plays Pokemon Go and just sent you a friend request! Her username will be Shiorihitohana.

I just caught a shiny Eevee with a flower!  Not sure if I want to keep it Eevee or evolve it...
Wow, that's so cool, and rare! Personally I'd keep it an Eevee because it's such a cute shiny.

I caught a Litwick the other day, which isn't really rare, but I think it's cute ^.^ On a side note, my Pokemon box is getting super full now and I don't necessarily want to buy more storage. ^^;



Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 18, 2019, 07:18:17 AM
I didn't catch a shiny Chimchar this weekend, but I got a 4-star one that I was able to evolve into Infernape.  :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Sora on November 19, 2019, 06:51:58 AM
Don't think I've shared my code with anyone here yet! Username is Chewtle, feel free to add me :)

Spoiler
4940 2121 0521
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 22, 2019, 02:15:27 PM
Anyone else just get an update that says the Pokemon storage has been expanded to 3000?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Loona on December 10, 2019, 04:48:18 AM
I just sent you a request Sora! :)

Anyone else just get an update that says the Pokemon storage has been expanded to 3000?
I remember seeing this message a couple of weeks ago. I believe it only referred to the possible capacity - you'll still need to buy extra 50+ storages individually, but earlier there was an overall limit. Only guessing though, as I never even reached 4 digit in storage :D

How is everyone doing with the game recently? I have to admit that I've recently become a little bored with it (and the friend event was disappointing to me - this is exactly the occasion during which I was wishing to have the possibility to do remote trading...), but I like the current Evolution Event, as a lot of Pokémon that are normally rare around here are popping up more often. I'm the happiest about Burmy, Gligar and Ralts appearing more often, as I haven't yet had enough candy to evolve any of these. I also managed to catch a Magmar (there were 2, sadly I didn't have the chance to get the other one), who I also haven't yet managed to evolve. Now I have enough candy to evolve 2 Burmies, and I don't need a lot more to evolve the rest either. I'm hoping to encounter some more of these Pokémon, but if not, at least I am close enough to be able to use rare candies or walk a few kilometres to make up for the difference.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 10, 2019, 07:14:10 AM
Anyone else just get an update that says the Pokemon storage has been expanded to 3000?
I remember seeing this message a couple of weeks ago. I believe it only referred to the possible capacity - you'll still need to buy extra 50+ storages individually, but earlier there was an overall limit. Only guessing though, as I never even reached 4 digit in storage :D


That's what I thought, too.  That seems like it would take an awful lot of upgrades since I think it only adds 50 at a time.  But maybe if you started playing at the start (instead of 4 months ago like me) you have a lot more Pokemon you really want to keep.
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Post by: Sora on December 17, 2019, 12:55:17 PM
Added those who sent friend requests!

The only thing that's boring me in the game is the catching mechanics. Just recently, nearly every Pokemon that I've tried to catch has escaped 5+ balls of any kind, even if I get a good shot. Then half of them run away....

There are still very few PokeStops in my area, making it a nuisance to keep losing the balls in the first place.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 18, 2019, 07:15:31 AM
Added those who sent friend requests!

The only thing that's boring me in the game is the catching mechanics. Just recently, nearly every Pokemon that I've tried to catch has escaped 5+ balls of any kind, even if I get a good shot. Then half of them run away....

There are still very few PokeStops in my area, making it a nuisance to keep losing the balls in the first place.

I live in an area where no Pokestops or Gyms are even visible when I play--not even way off in the distance.  The only thing that saves me is that I work in a library a few towns over and it is a Pokestop.  Otherwise I don't think I'd bother because there's just nothing out where I live.
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Post by: Loona on December 19, 2019, 01:28:50 PM
Aw, I feel for you two! This makes me appreciate our abundance of pokestops more - luckily there's a lot where I live, which I sometimes find annoying because I never have enough space for items. I'll stop feeling annoyed and try to appreciate this a bit more - and I'll try to send you two more gifts :)

I really enjoyed the evolution event and seeing some otherwise uncommon Pokémon pop up more often. I did manage to evolve Gligar, Ralts, Magmar and 2 Burmies without having to use any rare candies, which made me very happy. That said though, now that the event is over, I'm starting to get a little bored again... as I'm usually playing on the same route, it's the same Pokémon that I encounter every day, and the catching feature alone, it seems, cannot keep me excited anymore. I am trying and trying, but I cannot beat the Rocket leaders*, so I find myself not trying so hard anymore. I also do not catch the Pokémon I have caught hundreds of times already, I only tap the ones that I am aware of existing in a shiny version - I did have some luck with this recently, and managed to catch a shiny Swinub (Shinub) and Mr. Mime (Mr.Shine XD ), and I also got a purple Kyogre from a quest, but shinies are so rare that they can't keep my excitement up enough either.

*speaking of them, Cliff creeps me out. The way he's turning to always face me when I walk past a Pokéstop occupied by him is totally creepy XD

I'm hoping the new buddy feature will be good and will get my excitemennt level up again - based on what I've read, it does sound good, and it's something I wished to have for a long long time (Pikachu was my starter, and already back then at the game's start I felt that he isn't walking with me is a missed opportunity on the developers' side. When the buddy system was introduced, I, again, was hoping that buddies will actually walk with us, so it's good to see this finally happening), so I'm eager to try it out. I did log in to have a quick look, and Togepi running around me was insanely cute! That said though, the Pokéstop next to my house was occupied by Rocket leader Arlo at that time, and it was a little concerning to see Togepi running around him, so I turned the game off :P
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 19, 2019, 03:42:32 PM
I managed to catch a shiny Slakoth the other day.  He's pink!  And I just caught a Ditto hiding out as a Skitty so if anyone is trying to find Ditto, check the Skitties.

My co-worker set a Feebas as her buddy and it was hilarious watching it "swim" around in mid-air.
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Post by: Sora on December 19, 2019, 05:07:04 PM
Pokeyonekenobie, it's a similar thing with me - for ages there wasn't anything in sight. Very recently, a single stop has appeared in a children's playground in the next neighbourhood. It's such a shame, considering that Jurassic World Alive has a LOAD of stops all around where I live - I can't go walking for 2 minutes without being surrounded by at least 3 new ones.

I'd like to enjoy the buddy feature, but currently, my bag is full (again) and I've run out of berries :P Hopefully after Christmas I'll have time to actually play around with it.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 20, 2019, 07:23:51 AM
Don't forget all the bonuses coming up next week.  You can get an incubator every day from spinning a stop and extra candies/exp/stardust for catching.  I forget what else is happening but you can look it up here https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/cubchoo-cryogonal-virizion-and-more-shadow-pokemon-this-december-in-pokemon-go/
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Post by: Loona on December 21, 2019, 09:50:00 AM
Ah, good to know - thanks for the heads up Pokeyonekenobie! Although I wish such big events wouldn't happen at times like this... on days when I'm not going to work I don't really play with the app (so I almost always miss community days too) - other than being on annual leave until next year, I also don't plan to move around much in the upcoming days. The past weeks have been awfully exhausting, so while I normally hate to stay at home all day, right now I'm weirdly enjoying it. During the holidays we'll travel to the in-laws, but that isn't where I am planning to play either, as we'll be with family, and as there aren't any pokéstops around their house, I'd have to leave the gathered family and go out to spin one to get an incubator, which may not be too polite.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 31, 2019, 07:34:42 AM
I really hate when I add a new friend in order to complete a trade task only to have the next task be to make a new friend.  :drunk:

Everybody hatching right now?  It's half distance hatching through tomorrow, I think.  Don't forget that you can still get a free incubator a day when you spin.  I don't remember how long that's going on so don't miss it!
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Post by: Sora on January 01, 2020, 12:48:57 PM
Yeah, that drives me up the wall when that happens!

Haven't been able to do much for the past few days - game got stuck loading 75%. It's happened before. I haven't found a way around it other than to wait one or two days for it to solve itself :huh:
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Post by: Loona on January 02, 2020, 01:36:04 PM
I'm also having issues with the game, although for me it's the AR refusing to work. It's too bad because I have a quest where I have to take 5 photos of ice-type Pokémon, and I was saving this for a day when I don't go anywhere and it's less likely that I encounter Pokémon, but I wasn't able to fulfill it yesterday because AR just didn' work at all. It just did not load. It still does not today... my experience with such issues is the same as Sora's: there isn't really much we can do, it will sort itself out in a couple of days.

I'm using 8 incubators at the moment, luckily I had the opportunity to spin almost every day, even if I didn't really plat that day. I missed the half distance hatching though, as I haven't even left the house yesterday. I still believe this whole event was a little ill-timed (I guess many people spend Christmas inside with family, and the 1st of January mostly in bed :P ). Oh well, they'll hatch eventually.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 02, 2020, 02:09:58 PM
I'm also having issues with the game, although for me it's the AR refusing to work. It's too bad because I have a quest where I have to take 5 photos of ice-type Pokémon, and I was saving this for a day when I don't go anywhere and it's less likely that I encounter Pokémon, but I wasn't able to fulfill it yesterday because AR just didn' work at all. It just did not load. It still does not today... my experience with such issues is the same as Sora's: there isn't really much we can do, it will sort itself out in a couple of days.

I'm using 8 incubators at the moment, luckily I had the opportunity to spin almost every day, even if I didn't really plat that day. I missed the half distance hatching though, as I haven't even left the house yesterday. I still believe this whole event was a little ill-timed (I guess many people spend Christmas inside with family, and the 1st of January mostly in bed :P ). Oh well, they'll hatch eventually.

I had the same problem with the photos.  However, I found that I could take pictures of my buddy.  So my way around the photos not working was to set an ice type as my buddy and then snap the 5 pics. 

My game just updated again and now it asks every time I go to catch a pokemon if I want to turn on the AR, which I do not.  It used to only ask the first time I signed into the game after signing out.
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Post by: Sora on January 05, 2020, 06:19:41 AM
Well, got back on, and now Adventure Sync has stopped working... Again  -_-
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Post by: Haruna on January 05, 2020, 01:06:37 PM
Yeah, I think my Adventure Sync has been on the fritz, too. I'm trying to walk Litwick but am not getting much distance at all lately.

My sister and I added you as a friend, Sora! We're Shiorihitohana and PinkNinjaKitty in the game.

I'm honestly still in holiday mode and hardly know what events are coming up, what features are in the game atm, etc. Buddy Mode doesn't work very well for my phone but my sister and I played around with it. I did hatch a Riolu the other day!! That was a long time in coming.
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Post by: Sora on January 07, 2020, 01:00:23 PM
Accepted you both! :D

I need to gather some more gifts to send. PokeStops seem determined to give me regular PokeBalls lately.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 08, 2020, 07:04:56 AM
I wonder what the Pokemon Direct will be tomorrow.

I wish I knew more people around me who played.  I really need someone to go to a gym kind of in the middle of nowhere and beat my Ursaring.  He's been in there for over a week because apparently nobody ever goes to that gym.  He's only got 433 CP because I haven't given him berries so that someone will beat him.
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Post by: Sora on January 08, 2020, 10:15:29 AM
I put an Arcanine in a gym at a small, local zoo, and I didn't see him back until about 2 weeks later. I can only guess that one of the staff played as well, since the team received a few berries here and there and was a pure Instinct gym.
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Post by: Haruna on January 19, 2020, 12:03:01 PM
I caught a shiny Piplup for Community Day! ^.^ My sister caught 3, but lately I've been running low on space and am happy to have just 1. Overall it was a great CD -- we walked around the mall and found tons and tons of Piplup, plus some of the newer Unova Pokemon (like Venipede, Karrablast, and Tympoule; I also hatched a Trubbish? which looks like a trash bag, so random). How was everyone else's Community Day?

Also, does anyone else feel a little out of the loop? I don't know the Pokemon of Gen 5 except for the starters, and I don't know who's available or how to get certain Pokemon (especially when special evolutions are needed) or which Pokemon are strongest. I also seem to have some glitches with the buddy system.
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Post by: Loona on January 29, 2020, 01:39:38 PM
I'm the same Haruna - except I've felt this for some time now :P I only ever really played with games that contain the first two gens (or rather up to Johto), so all the rest (apart from a few exceptions that I got to know from here and there, accidentally) are new to me. I've kinda got used to walking around unknown Pokémon for now :blush: Many times I don't mind, but I do have to admit that most of the newer Pokémon don't appeal to me as much - I don't know if it's more due to the lack of familiarity and nostalgy, or because they really are different. Some of them don't even make much sense to me. Like, take Foongus, with its pokéball-patterned hat - why would a creature appear in nature that resembles something that humans invented to catch such creatures? :blink:
(yes, I wondered the same about Voltorb back then, but at least that doesn't have all the same pattern)

I'm also finding the distance recording buggy... I don't have adventure sync turned on, but when I walk while playing, I get much less kilometres than what I'm actually travelling... and I'm getting more and more certain the game doesn't record the distance walked/travelled while in catching or battling (Team Rocket) mode, nor does it seem to record any travel time spent travelling faster than at walking speed. For example, I usually play the game in the morning, on my way to work (which is a trip of approximately 5 kilometres via public transport), yet I hardly ever walk 5 kilometres according to the "report" on Monday mornings. The only explanation I see for this (other than it not recording "faster than walking" travel time at all) is that the trip is full of pokéstops, and when I'm not madly spinning, I'm catching something. I rarely spend time just walking and doing nothing else - which is, I think, the only thing it would actually record. Oh well, it is what it is...

I didn't have a chance to participate in the Piplup Community Day, but I also caught a few shinies recently, the weirdest being shiny Alolan Vulpix (hatched). I say weird because it doesn't look any different from the non-shiny version. I have to look at them *really* hard to tell them apart, and then too I think I only see the difference because I want to see it. I haven't even noticed it's a shiny until I was browsing my Pokémon storage and noticed the shiny icon there :lookround:
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 30, 2020, 07:19:15 AM
One of my field tasks was to get 5 great curveball throws in a row.  I managed 4. :cry:
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Post by: Haruna on February 05, 2020, 08:56:28 PM
One of my field tasks was to get 5 great curveball throws in a row.  I managed 4. :cry:
I hate that one! I had the simpler one of making 3 great curveball throws in a row (for the Jirachi quest) and it is *ridiculously frustrating.* 4 in a row is awesome! Good luck on the 5 in a row!

I didn't have a chance to participate in the Piplup Community Day, but I also caught a few shinies recently, the weirdest being shiny Alolan Vulpix (hatched). I say weird because it doesn't look any different from the non-shiny version. I have to look at them *really* hard to tell them apart, and then too I think I only see the difference because I want to see it. I haven't even noticed it's a shiny until I was browsing my Pokémon storage and noticed the shiny icon there :lookround:
:drool: I wish we lived close enough to trade; I've been obsessing about shiny Alolan Vulpix way too much, lol. You're right; it's really hard to tell the difference between the shiny and the regular!

Speaking of Vulpix, for the recent voting event I tried to vote for a Vulpix community day, which would have included Alolan Vulpix, but the votes went to Rhyhorn instead.  -_- I think Rhyhorn's evolutions are better Pokemon for battling, but I don't care as much about that as I do one of my favorite Pokemon. Still, maybe some day they'll do Vulpix!

The short Minccino event this past Sunday was fun. Such an adorable Pokemon. I played with my sister and we caught a bunch. The first one I encountered puzzled me for a split second. "it's . . . pink?" I quickly realized it was an adorable shiny Minccino :heart: I know so little about this new generation that I had no idea what its shiny looked like. I'm constantly being surprised by unfamiliar Pokemon.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 14, 2020, 02:00:32 PM
Well...that was just mean.  I had to catch one more whismer to finish a field task and it turned into ditto.  So now I still need one more.   :P
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Post by: Sora on February 14, 2020, 03:30:20 PM
So we finally have a Safari Zone in the UK... But it's in Liverpool. Seriously surprised that Niantic haven't done a single event in London yet. Eh. Apparently tickets were advertised at £12 but that didn't include taxes/fees which makes it... £18 a ticket. For a bunch of 'mons that even the most casual of players will already have. Save for Relicanth (I'm pretty sure I can easily find someone to trade with locally on that one).

I'll pass... Not that I can find anywhere cheap that would take me to Liverpool anyway, heh.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 26, 2020, 07:02:34 AM
Don't forget to catch your Pikachu and Eevee with party hats on!  Also, I caught a machamp this morning.   :shocked:
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Post by: Haruna on February 28, 2020, 02:39:08 AM
Don't forget to catch your Pikachu and Eevee with party hats on!  Also, I caught a machamp this morning.   :shocked:
Whoa! I'm liking this event -- there's more of a variety of Pokemon, and even though the hat thing has been overused I like seeing my favorite Pokemon, Eevee, with a little hat.

I've had only 1 or 2 Pokemon storage spaces available at times, so I'm "retiring" some of the 'mons I've been keeping since 2016. My sister has Let's Go, Eevee on the Switch and I'm going to send some that I never use but still have an attachment to to a park where they can live happily. ^.^
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 17, 2020, 03:26:02 PM
I just caught a shiny Treecko and hadn't noticed until just now that I caught a shiny Pikachu with a flower hat on sometime last week.  Sometimes I wish the shiny colors were more drastic on some of them.  If shiny Pikachu was red, blue, or purple instead of a slightly darker shade of yellow, he would be more noticeable and (IMO) much more interesting to keep around.  Even the shiny Turtwig and Treecko, while still a shade of green, are more turquoise than the green that they come in so they're very noticeable.  I wonder sometimes if I've accidentally transferred a shiny without realizing it just because the color was so close to the original. 
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Post by: Haruna on April 17, 2020, 05:48:27 PM
I just caught a shiny Treecko and hadn't noticed until just now that I caught a shiny Pikachu with a flower hat on sometime last week.  Sometimes I wish the shiny colors were more drastic on some of them.  If shiny Pikachu was red, blue, or purple instead of a slightly darker shade of yellow, he would be more noticeable and (IMO) much more interesting to keep around.  Even the shiny Turtwig and Treecko, while still a shade of green, are more turquoise than the green that they come in so they're very noticeable.  I wonder sometimes if I've accidentally transferred a shiny without realizing it just because the color was so close to the original.
Shiny Pikachu is super similar to regular Pikachu. I think that the game will warn you if you try to transfer a shiny, if that eases your mind a little.

Today, while stuck at home, I somehow finally hatched my 10k egg and it was Gible. Worth the wait! I have a research task that is "hatch 4 eggs," ridiculously hard when I'm staying home.

How is everyone else playing Pokemon Go? I haven't been as dedicated recently since I can't leave the house, but Pokemon spawn in our house regularly so I've been trying to keep up my catch streak at least.
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Post by: Loona on April 19, 2020, 02:42:20 AM
Congrats on catching a shiny Treecko!

I agree with the shiny thing completely. I don't necessarily want the shinies to be a totally different colour, just a little more obvious. I also caught a shiny Pikachu a couple of weeks ago, and yeah, the differencei s barely visible. Same goes for shiny Squirtle. And I've already complained about shiny Alolan Vulpix, TBH I still can't see the difference, I basically only know because of the shiny icon :blush: :P

Today, while stuck at home, I somehow finally hatched my 10k egg and it was Gible. Worth the wait! I have a research task that is "hatch 4 eggs," ridiculously hard when I'm staying home.

How is everyone else playing Pokemon Go? I haven't been as dedicated recently since I can't leave the house, but Pokemon spawn in our house regularly so I've been trying to keep up my catch streak at least.
Congrats on hatching Gible!

I'm complaining so much abot this to my husband (who still doesn't like the game, so it's limited complaining, but thefact that I mentioned this to him more than once, knowing that he doesn't want to hear, already shows my frustration)... I think they said they'll make the game more playable? And they could totally do that easily, but the reailty is: "Hatch 4 eggs"-quests and egg-hatching walking events. Seriously? We are in frigging quarantine! :mad: In my country it's against the law to leave the house if your work doesn't require you to, or of it isn't for necessities. I work from home, so I play on the way to the grocery store, and back on the few occasions of going out. That's not a lot, because... law. I do have 1(-3, depending on where the GPS puts me) Pokéstops that I can spin from home, but the quests they give are totally not achievable (like the egg-hatching ones we already mentioned). So while I get to the store I usually also try to collect 3 "sane" quests that I can do from home in the upcoming days (e.g. transfer..., win a battle, evolve..., power up..., take a snapshot...; I honestly thought they'll make these type of quests more common to ease gameplay, that would have sounded reasonable and easy). I haven't really noticed an insreased spawn around my home either. Yesterday my quest was to catch 10 Pokémon, and I had to log in several times during the day to see if there's any. It was super frustrating... I'm losing my interest like this...

Just to end on a positive note, Arlo occupied the Pokéstop I can spin from home the other day, and I found it so annoying that I decided to try to beat him. I've given up on beating leaders because I never even got close, but now after 2-3 tries I felt I could probably to it with a little more tactics... and after about 10 tries I DID IT! I was so happy any proud of my guys! I don't really know what this actually means, I hope that I'm not gonna see him ever again :D
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 19, 2020, 05:07:48 PM
Yeah, I've thought it was weird to have so many egg hatching ones right now, but since I still go to work every day I have managed to complete a couple of those.  Perhaps they thought it was still doable since they have made hatching times halved right now?  But good job beating the Rocket leader.  I haven't even bothered to try looking for them just yet so my Rocket tracker is just sitting there, taking up space in my bag.

I will say that I'm impressed with the incense event today.  Usually when I use an incense, I get maybe 2 Pokemon in the half hour before the incense runs out.  I live in the middle of nowhere.  It's more than a mile to the nearest Pokestop and about 10 miles to the nearest gym so for Pokemon to spawn at all where I live I have to use an incense.  Today, however, I constantly had Pokemon spawning when I used an incense.  It was nice to not feel like I was wasting it and actually had to stop playing for the day because I ran out of Pokeballs and didn't want use coins for any.  When I go to work tomorrow, I can spin a stop from my office all day and load up again.   (When I finally hit level 40 I totally plan to try and get some stops closer to where I live!)
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Post by: Sora on July 21, 2020, 08:33:26 AM
Is Adventure Sync not working again? I got it working once, but now it's not working at all (again)....
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 21, 2020, 10:05:23 AM
Bummer.  I can't finish the friend challenge this week because I need to send out gifts and nobody is opening them.  I hate challenges that force me to rely on other people because those are the ones that I cannot ever manage to finish.
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Post by: Sora on July 21, 2020, 02:27:37 PM
Same. Although I can't be too much of a hypocrite, I admit I didn't open a few for a while...

That said, I'm trying to play at least once a day again, so I'll try my best to open gifts and send as many as I can back out. I'm just kinda spoiled by Jurassic World Alive and the sheer number of PokeStop equivalents outside my house :P
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Post by: Moonbreeze on July 25, 2020, 02:00:58 AM
I haven't played actively, but I caved and bought the GoFest-ticket. Sorry if someone receives a random friend request. That'd be me for one of the research tasks!
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Post by: NinaMarie on September 22, 2020, 02:42:11 PM
Turns out my house is a shiny hotspot. Last two community days I e managed to catch 5 shinies while being at home. I like what they’ve dine with remote raids. Now if we can just trade with our friends in other countries.
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Post by: Haruna on October 19, 2020, 07:20:59 PM
Deerlings are out and about :) So cute.

Now if we can just trade with our friends in other countries.

Yes!
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 20, 2020, 07:06:54 AM
Deerlings are out and about :) So cute.

Now if we can just trade with our friends in other countries.

Yes!

Right?  I mean, they made it work for the video games so why not on a game that requires the internet to work?  Even if you had to be ultra friends or something first I think they could make it happen.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 17, 2020, 08:59:55 AM
If you transfer a pokemon to Pokemon Home, don't open the mystery box until you have an hour available to play.  Why?  Because it will attract Meltan for an hour.  Load up on Pinap Berries and Pokeballs, and make sure you have space to catch him!
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Post by: Haruna on November 19, 2020, 07:34:55 PM
Yay, new Pokemon! Some Kalos region Pokemon are getting added to the game in December. I'm especially looking forward to Fennekin ^.^

How often are you guys playing? What are you up to these days? I'm casually playing a few minutes most days, trying to complete the Victini research task (I'm way behind . . . )
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Post by: NinaMarie on November 21, 2020, 09:53:12 AM
Did anyone manage to get more than one galaran ponyta? I didn’t know it was a limited 2 day thing until after it was over. I only got one :( I hoard ponytas..
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Post by: Haruna on November 22, 2020, 01:34:16 AM
Did anyone manage to get more than one galaran ponyta? I didn’t know it was a limited 2 day thing until after it was over. I only got one :( I hoard ponytas..
I did, but only two. I think that they can hatch out of 7 km eggs now, though!
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Post by: NinaMarie on November 25, 2020, 07:05:53 PM
Did anyone manage to get more than one galaran ponyta? I didn’t know it was a limited 2 day thing until after it was over. I only got one :( I hoard ponytas..
I did, but only two. I think that they can hatch out of 7 km eggs now, though!

Omg I just hatched one! Fantastic!
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 19, 2021, 02:21:20 PM
I just caught a shiny Groudon!  He's green.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 23, 2021, 03:01:26 PM
If you're having an issue finding Plusle and Minun for this collection task, apparently you have to spin a pokestop and get "Catch 11 Pokemon" as your research task and then the "prize" is an encounter with one of these.  For me that means driving a couple of miles away in the snow in order to spin.  I hate not being high enough level to request a pokestop where I live.   >_<
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Post by: Haruna on January 24, 2021, 10:13:33 PM
I just caught a shiny Groudon!  He's green.
Oh congrats! And thanks for the advice on the event today. I was trying to find a shiny Mareep but no luck. I missed shiny Mareep and Dratini back when they had their community days and it's been a fruitless search since . . .

Omg I just hatched one! Fantastic!
Awesome! :iconclap:

These days I'm just casually playing. I tried to do one of the regional challenges but got salty that the app didn't count the Herdier I evolved from a Lilipup -- that would have completed the challenge and I wanted the rare candy. I think I needed to do a raid, but I didn't have the time to find one. Ah, well. I'll just walk with my ice cream cone for a while and get enough candy to evolve it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 25, 2021, 08:24:17 AM
Yeah, I didn't find any shinies yesterday-mostly because I had a limited amount of balls and was trying to finish the challenge before I focused on shinies.  The last Pokemon I caught was a 4-Star Beldum, though, because I was trying to get enough candies to evolve my Metang but I didn't manage to get enough.  So 4-star was a good last hurrah for yesterday.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on January 25, 2021, 09:02:50 AM
These days I'm just casually playing. I tried to do one of the regional challenges but got salty that the app didn't count the Herdier I evolved from a Lilipup -- that would have completed the challenge and I wanted the rare candy. I think I needed to do a raid, but I didn't have the time to find one. Ah, well. I'll just walk with my ice cream cone for a while and get enough candy to evolve it.

I had found my Herdier in the wild, it was just more rare then lilipup.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 10, 2021, 10:30:02 AM
The current challenge where I have to send 5 gifts to friends is hard because so many of my friends never open the gifts.  The last set had send 3 gifts.  I can only imagine if there's another set of challenges after this one how many I'll have to send.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: banditpony on February 10, 2021, 10:56:16 AM
Am I added to your friendlist? (7242 0663 8742) I will open your gifts.

We have 2 other accts in the house too if you want me to give those to you as well.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 10, 2021, 01:03:18 PM
Sweet.  I'll add you!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on May 12, 2021, 12:53:35 AM
I'm enjoying this fairy/dragon event. I've been checking every single Dratini to try to get a pretty pink shiny one; I hope, hope, hope I'll have one by the event's end. My Pokedex says that I've seen 444 Dratinis since I started playing; if the odds are 1 in 500 like they say, I'm not too far away . . .


I wish so much that I hadn't missed Dratini community day way back when. At least I actually got a shiny Clefairy yesterday! I've been looking for her for about a year.

Is anyone else sometimes confused about how much is happening? I can never keep up, ha ha. But it's nice to have things to do in the game.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 12, 2021, 07:13:13 AM
It seems like there's something new every day anymore.  I'm just frustrated because I need to catch a Landorous to get a picture of him for a research task still but now the only legendaries in the raids are Xerneas and it will change to Yveltal soon. 
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ridi on June 30, 2021, 03:38:38 AM
I'm a very active Pokemon Go player, please add me! 0743 5955 6907

It's a bit last minute, but I'm looking to play as many Regigigas raids as possible... it's one of my favorite legendaries, but all the ones I've caught so far have had pretty mediocre stats. Will also invite friends to raids, just let me know what you are looking for.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on July 04, 2021, 07:16:33 PM
I'm a very active Pokemon Go player, please add me! 0743 5955 6907

It's a bit last minute, but I'm looking to play as many Regigigas raids as possible... it's one of my favorite legendaries, but all the ones I've caught so far have had pretty mediocre stats. Will also invite friends to raids, just let me know what you are looking for.
I requested you! My name in-game is PinkNinjaKitty. I'm looking for Xerneas raids bc I missed the last round! But I'll usually fight in any raid if I can

It seems like there's something new every day anymore.  I'm just frustrated because I need to catch a Landorous to get a picture of him for a research task still but now the only legendaries in the raids are Xerneas and it will change to Yveltal soon. 
I'm so out of the loop that I didn't even know we can take pictures with Landorous for research tasks. Ay ay ay.

I did Tepig community day yesterday, though. My sister reminded me that it was happening and I got two shinies, which is all I need. One was CP 14, lol.

Do you guys plan on doing Pokemon Go Fest? I think I will, for the Deinos and the chance of a shiny Dratini.

Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ridi on July 06, 2021, 12:41:05 AM
Thank you Haruna! I added you  :frolic:

I participate in everything I can, so I'll probably do Fest as well. It'll be my first time, so I'm pretty excited!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 11, 2021, 08:29:51 PM
I can't use charged attacks against other trainers.  Not in the Go League and not against Team Rocket.  It's highly annoying.  I've put in a support ticket but who knows how long it will take them to fix it.   :pout:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ridi on July 12, 2021, 03:17:00 AM
I've had that issue a couple of times, but a restart always fixed it for me. Sounds really awful to be stuck with it! i hope they fix it asap  >_<
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 12, 2021, 08:10:20 AM
I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program.  It didn't do anything.  :(
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Mori_LeStrange on July 17, 2021, 06:37:33 PM
Ridi I sent you a friend request.  :)
Do you guys plan on doing Pokemon Go Fest? I think I will, for the Deinos and the chance of a shiny Dratini.

I ended up playing. I'm enjoying it so far. Almost have enough candy to fully evolve my Deinos. My boyfriend was lucky and caught a shiny one.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ridi on July 17, 2021, 11:32:25 PM
Ridi I sent you a friend request.  :)

Thank you! What's your username? I posted a friend request on twitter yesterday and got like 20+ new friends XD

Had a good day 1 of go fest! Got to add Chatot and Throh to my Pokedex, and got a shiny Sawk, among others. Love those guys. Unfortunately my Meloetta and event Flygon turned out to be rather mediocre 2*s.  >_<

Hoping to complete my legendary dex today! I just got an invite to a Reshiram raid by a friend in Japan, now I just need Zekrom iirc.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Mori_LeStrange on August 14, 2021, 03:10:44 PM
Ridi I sent you a friend request.  :)

Thank you! What's your username? I posted a friend request on twitter yesterday and got like 20+ new friends XD

Had a good day 1 of go fest! Got to add Chatot and Throh to my Pokedex, and got a shiny Sawk, among others. Love those guys. Unfortunately my Meloetta and event Flygon turned out to be rather mediocre 2*s.  >_<

Hoping to complete my legendary dex today! I just got an invite to a Reshiram raid by a friend in Japan, now I just need Zekrom iirc.

MoriLeStrange24.

Anyone playing Community day?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 15, 2021, 09:39:47 PM
I'm really not having much fun playing Pokemon Go lately.  I cannot use charged attacks, I cannot use curve ball throws, half the time the pokeball doesn't even throw so I lose any chance of having nice/great/excellent throws, and when it does throw it goes off the opposite direction from where I tried to send it.  I've sent in bug reports but it doesn't look like they care to fix these issues any time soon.  Battling is such a joke I can't beat low-level grunts.  On top of that, the change in distance from Pokestops/Gyms is making it very difficult for me to even spin for items.  I was sitting IN a pokestop this morning and couldn't spin it until my avatar wandered close enough, but then it kept wandering away so it made it difficult to stock up on things.

So I don't know...I may wait until they actually do something to fix the issues.  I may play community days to get shinies but that's about all I can do right now...assuming the ball actually manages to go the right way.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: ridi on August 16, 2021, 06:00:52 AM
Oh, I'm so sorry you're still struggling, Pokeyonekenobie. :sad: I wonder what's causing it. If you have another device available, could you try logging in there?

I haven't noticed any changes to the Pokestop distances, so I'm guessing it's something they're gradually rolling out. It's a really bad move of Niantic :/

I played on the Eevee community days and am pleased with the results! I now have all the shiny versions of the evolutions recorded... except the original 3. I did end up with several spare shiny Eevees, but I'm always a bit hesitant to evolve Eevee into Vaporeon, Jolteon or Flareon since I can't be sure what I'm gonna get. I'd be pretty miffed if I ended up with three shiny Jolteons.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: northstar3184 on September 21, 2021, 01:04:21 AM
I just started playing a little less than 2 months ago. Always looking for new friends on Pokemon Go and I send gifts out daily. My trainer code is 6159 7136 5317 and user name is firefly163s. You can also send me a pm on here if you're looking for specific Pokemon to trade. I haven't done any trades yet, but I'm interested in getting exclusives that are found outside the U.S.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 05, 2021, 05:24:14 PM
I just started playing a little less than 2 months ago. Always looking for new friends on Pokemon Go and I send gifts out daily. My trainer code is 6159 7136 5317 and user name is firefly163s. You can also send me a pm on here if you're looking for specific Pokemon to trade. I haven't done any trades yet, but I'm interested in getting exclusives that are found outside the U.S.

Sent a friend request on the game.  :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: northstar3184 on November 09, 2021, 07:53:33 PM
Got it. Accepted. Watch your gifts, I send them out daily  :) and will prioritize pony peeps.

Post Merge: November 09, 2021, 07:56:08 PM

I just started playing a little less than 2 months ago. Always looking for new friends on Pokemon Go and I send gifts out daily. My trainer code is 6159 7136 5317 and user name is firefly163s. You can also send me a pm on here if you're looking for specific Pokemon to trade. I haven't done any trades yet, but I'm interested in getting exclusives that are found outside the U.S.

Sent a friend request on the game.  :)




Got it. Accepted. Watch your gifts, I send them out daily  :) and will prioritize pony peeps.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 28, 2021, 09:45:47 PM
My ID is 6660 1445 6256  ^.^

Sent a friend request.  Every time there's a new challenge to add a friend I have to search this thread for people I haven't asked yet and hope they're still playing.  :lol:

I have a friend who needs to add someone for that challenge, too, so if anyone is okay with me passing their friend code on to him, let me know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Apple Spice on January 02, 2022, 10:11:47 PM
I would love to add more friends. My trainer code is 0466 5199 7914 aka TabbieBlinks
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on January 25, 2022, 09:22:54 PM
I would love to add more friends. My trainer code is 0466 5199 7914

Request sent! My ID is PinkNinjaKitty
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: starscout on January 27, 2022, 12:33:59 PM
I recently started playing PoGO again. My code is 7464 1695 9059 and my trainer nickname is HoloAlleah.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Doedeardarling on February 26, 2022, 10:47:07 AM
I've started to play again, so please add me if you'd like to be friends. My code is 7577 5596 9992 and I go by BonnieBonnets.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Haruna on March 05, 2022, 08:30:14 PM
I recently started playing PoGO again. My code is 7464 1695 9059 and my trainer nickname is HoloAlleah.

Sent a friend request! My in-game name is PinkNinjaKitty.

Doedeardarling, I'm already your friend and sent you a gift today :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 27, 2022, 07:05:47 AM
I'm really not having much fun playing Pokemon Go lately.  I cannot use charged attacks, I cannot use curve ball throws, half the time the pokeball doesn't even throw so I lose any chance of having nice/great/excellent throws, and when it does throw it goes off the opposite direction from where I tried to send it.  I've sent in bug reports but it doesn't look like they care to fix these issues any time soon.  Battling is such a joke I can't beat low-level grunts.  On top of that, the change in distance from Pokestops/Gyms is making it very difficult for me to even spin for items.  I was sitting IN a pokestop this morning and couldn't spin it until my avatar wandered close enough, but then it kept wandering away so it made it difficult to stock up on things.

So I don't know...I may wait until they actually do something to fix the issues.  I may play community days to get shinies but that's about all I can do right now...assuming the ball actually manages to go the right way.

I figured out the problem with my phone and Pokemon Go.  It was the battery settings.  Apparently by attempting to preserve some battery life it prevented fast speeds, which is apparently necessary for this game.  So if you're experiencing the same thing, change your battery settings and see if that helps.  I managed to defeat Giovanni last night for the first time in almost a year because of the delay issues I've been having.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 13, 2023, 07:23:00 AM
I need to go through this thread and add people.  I've managed to miss a bunch! 

Is everyone having fun with their Vivillon hunt?  Remember to pin those postcards to trigger your scatterbug catch.  And if you somehow miss the popup (or have too many Pokemon in your bag and need to clear some out) you can go to your badges and click on the Vivillon badge to see if there are any ready for you to catch.  :)  You don't miss out on them just because your bag is full!

I think my region gives out High Plains Vivillon.  What about you guys?  I've heard that Sandstorm is really hard to get and it looks like the Elegant one is only available from Japan, just like in the DS games.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go -- who wants to be friends?
Post by: Moonbreeze on March 02, 2023, 03:39:25 AM
I'm clearing out my friendslist and will be adding some new from this thread if that's alright! I'm Maera091. Feel free to add me if I missed you! <3

Trainer code under the spoiler

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ETA: finally completed my Hoenn pokédex with the Last PoGO tour, I hatched the Relicanth I still needed :D
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