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GulAtiCa

GulAtiCa

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Oct 25, 2017
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Oh nice, to all!

My wife caught hers. I need to start doing more sponsored raids.
 

JRoth

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Oct 26, 2017
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Aron's seem to love to spawn at work. Went on a 15m break, and found 5 in the garage! One was 91%!
 

Taco_Human

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Jan 6, 2018
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Ohhhh boy. Caught a perfect Machop today. Fucking wow. Evolved him and fed him some dust. I'm not sure if I would max him out...I totally can though.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
15,548
Yeah, it's the Machamp meta now, especially when your area gets cloudy often. It shreds through everything. I really want to max a second one but I'd rather catch a lvl. 35 to save stardust.
 

Taco_Human

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Jan 6, 2018
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Yeah it just ate through about 180k stardust. Ouch. Worth it though.

Now to actually use up this stockpile of pokeballs.
 

Robochimp

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Oct 25, 2017
2,677
When coordinating raids on Facebook there are always these same people who just show up without saying anything. They never chime in when we're trying to get a headcount and trying to decide a go time. They're just there. For regular raids it would be nice to count them in, but whatever.

Well not communicating doesn't work so well for EX raids. I made a post yesterday asking for everyone who was going and if they were going to need extra time to get there.

As we finished the raid, one of the above mentioned people is running over asking if we started and why we couldn't have waited and that she just got off of work, my response was did you communicate any of that to us before the raid? The answer was no.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's really weird. We had people walking towards us and just casually adding something to a gym while we were talking. And we were on the same team!

And when we non-confrontationally ask why they use multi accounts during raids, some people get really evasive or give the standard response of "doing it for a friend or family member"

The weirdest thing is that a lot of people think spoofing is part of the game and therefore never create private groups.
 

StarCreator

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Oct 25, 2017
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My area has players spread out pretty thin and sometimes the spoofers make up the difference in having enough people to finish a raid on time. That, and simple laziness, leads to raids being in public lobbies more often than not.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yeah, but when you think about it, those same spoofers are the ones kicking you out in the middle of the night every single day even when it's unbearingly hot/cold. The last thing I'd want is give those spoofers more ammo.
 

gutshot

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Oct 25, 2017
4,440
Toscana, Italy
It's really weird. We had people walking towards us and just casually adding something to a gym while we were talking. And we were on the same team!

And when we non-confrontationally ask why they use multi accounts during raids, some people get really evasive or give the standard response of "doing it for a friend or family member"

The weirdest thing is that a lot of people think spoofing is part of the game and therefore never create private groups.

I honestly don't care if people multi-account. As long as they are actually physically going to raids, bring as many accounts as you want, I say. Now that gym shaving isn't a thing any more, someone else multi-accounting really doesn't affect me negatively in any way.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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Shaving is most definitely still a thing. How else will assholes get inside gyms when it's full?

Also, multi accounts of the same colour will still prevent people from entering gyms since they will take an extra spot.
 
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gutshot

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Oct 25, 2017
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Shaving is most definitely still a thing. How else will assholes get inside gyms when it's full?

Also, multi accounts of the same colour will still prevent people from entering gyms since they will take an extra spot.

If someone shaves me out of a gym, they are helping me by giving me coins.

And if a gym is full, it is full. I'll move on to another one. I'm not really gonna be mad that a full gym is technically only occupied by four people instead of six.
 
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GulAtiCa

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Caught this in the wild. 100%. Couldn't pass up a nearby Dragonite esp since the Dratini family is so rare nowadays.

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GulAtiCa

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If it was my 1st 100% Dratini family member, absolutely. But I already have a 100% lv 40 Dragonite (leveled up from like a lv 20ish Dratini.. lots of candy/stardust). I actually have a 800ish CP 100% Dragonite caught in wild too (near my work as well)

Caught it for my wife too, it is her 1st 100% Dragonite though. But, unlike me she doesn't has a lot of stardust. And already has a very nice 98% Dratini/Dragonite from a egg (I was never that lucky).
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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Congrats! I'd max it but that's just the perfectionist in me. :)

If someone shaves me out of a gym, they are helping me by giving me coins.

And if a gym is full, it is full. I'll move on to another one. I'm not really gonna be mad that a full gym is technically only occupied by four people instead of six.
I haven't taken over gyms solely for the purpose of collecting coins for a long time now. I mean, it's really just 50 cents each day. Hardly worth the amount of effort you're putting in. At least before you also collected 5k stardust. You'd need to feed 250 berries each day just to reach the same amount!
 

Falchion

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Oct 25, 2017
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If it was my 1st 100% Dratini family member, absolutely. But I already have a 100% lv 40 Dragonite (leveled up from like a lv 20ish Dratini.. lots of candy/stardust). I actually have a 800ish CP 100% Dragonite caught in wild too (near my work as well)

Caught it for my wife too, it is her 1st 100% Dragonite though. But, unlike me she doesn't has a lot of stardust. And already has a very nice 98% Dratini/Dragonite from a egg (I was never that lucky).

My first 100% is my Dragonaire and once the community event happens next month I'll try and max him out.
 

gutshot

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Oct 25, 2017
4,440
Toscana, Italy
Congrats! I'd max it but that's just the perfectionist in me. :)


I haven't taken over gyms solely for the purpose of collecting coins for a long time now. I mean, it's really just 50 cents each day. Hardly worth the amount of effort you're putting in. At least before you also collected 5k stardust. You'd need to feed 250 berries each day just to reach the same amount!

Well I'm strictly F2P (except for the small amount of money I get from Google Rewards) so every little bit of coins help.
 
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GulAtiCa

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Just caught a lv 34 100% Ralts by my work. Hot damn! I already have a fully maxed evolved one, but I'll be evolving and maxing this one too. I let some people in the community know of it too, I'm sure they could use it.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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I tells ya all these weather boosted hundos keep alluding me. Always at the wrong place at the wrong time.
 

Taco_Human

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Lucky! I wish I had more 100 percent trophies. I really wish I had a rhyhorn nest around me or something. Build up a higher level army with them or something.
 
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GulAtiCa

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I've been lucky in a few cases, but also missed nice ones too, esp in a big city like where I am (Atlanta). Weather boosted or not, getting a hundro Larvitar was finally possible, they spawn few times a week when it's the correct weather.

I'm still holding out on a 100% lv30+ Sloth, I am not evolving one till I get one (since I really don't plan to level it up myself lol)
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'd max a Slaking. I was wrong before. Play Rough hits like a truck! It's like 1/10 to dodge it and if you don't Machamp takes like 3/4 health off.
 

StarCreator

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Oct 25, 2017
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So is there a confirmed viable method of triggering an EX raid invite? We tried to get a big group together to raid a gym that has hosted several EX raids but managed to overshoot and had to split up. The split ended up being 9 and 14, both private groups.
 

Terranigma

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Oct 27, 2017
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Looks liek Niantic did a surprise ex raid pass wave. People getting passes today for a exraid on saturday.
Did not get a pass this time though, did do 2 raids on that location.
 

onpoint

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Oct 26, 2017
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All week I have been raiding nothing but EX gyms. Every day I was doing 2 or 3. The group around here is trying to trigger them by doing as many small party raids as possible in the 45 minutes. Seems to be working somewhat.
 

StarCreator

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Oct 25, 2017
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The gym I raided at lunch got an EX raid but none of us got an invite. It had been the first time in a while we've done that gym, though we've done it enough to have silver badges on nothing other than raiding it.

We did it super close to when they actually handed the invites out, so maybe we're still in the pool for the next one.
 

Joni

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm no longer motivated to try, especially now they do more midweek Mewtwo raids.
 

Joni

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Oct 27, 2017
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Because it becomes clearer that I can't fulfill the criteria, like raid at a specific gym a couple of times. The place where I know the ex raids I can't raid during the week.
 

Firemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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It can trigger on gyms that haven't given out ex raids yet. It just needs to be a park. The minimum amount you need to raid to be eligible is one. Doesn't matter if it's Kyogre or Wailmer.
 

StarCreator

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Oct 25, 2017
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Because it becomes clearer that I can't fulfill the criteria, like raid at a specific gym a couple of times. The place where I know the ex raids I can't raid during the week.
A large number of EX raid invite recipients here this wave were weekend raiders. Raiding during the week isn't a requirement. Heck, I'm almost exclusively a weekday raider and I've received no invites since the first beta waves, which clearly functioned differently from the current system.
 

dreamlongdead

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Nov 5, 2017
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I haven't raided at a single EX location all week. I'm just focused on Pokédex completion.

I tried getting as many Gen 3 eggs as I could before the promotion ended today. Hoping for some good stuff from this last batch. My results haven't been great so far.
 

StarCreator

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Oct 25, 2017
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Welp, scratch that. Apparently, my coworker's alt account got an EX raid invite from the raid we did at lunchtime today. He had never raided that gym on that account before and no other device in our group, including his main account, got an invite despite running in the same private group.

EDIT: Seems every coworker got in except me. lol

Guess I'm going to be back there to raid again sooner rather than later.
 
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Robochimp

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Oct 25, 2017
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10 Kyogres caught so far and none are over 90%. Ugh. At least the one I just got has max attack.

I just caught my tenth Kyogre yesterday and same here, best is 89. Out of 23 Kyogre attempts I never saw one over 2300 CP.

I'm done with Kyogre, it's so strong I'm not going to worry about 3 Attack points.
 
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