Pokemon: GO

[implosion]

i may be playing more of this, idk. Opened the game on vacation for pretty much the first time in 2 years. So much new stuff.

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[xRECKONERx]

if ur MS username doesnt match ur IGN pls post it here bc i have no clue who half the ppl are on my friendslist

[schadd_]

my username here is schadd_ but in pokemon go its schadd0

[Glork]

Ay yo Cheery can I get another hit of that Aussie Alolan Egg?

[Aristophanes]

Are there regional alolans?

[Aristophanes]

Also is there a list of our numbers? I have not yet gone through the thread to find them...


Edit - I am bothering.
This appears to be where they start. I'll compile a list later, maybe for the OP to link to

[Bellaphant]

That'd be great Ari !

[Sudo_Nym]

I know this is retreading old ground, but the "Passing all the skill gates on a raid, but you don't get the Pokémon because the RNG said Fuck You" is getting super old, and I started off hating it.

[the worst]

o hey this thing's a thing

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[Papa Zito]

I know this is retreading old ground, but the "Passing all the skill gates on a raid, but you don't get the Pokémon because the RNG said Fuck You" is getting super old, and I started off hating it.

It's weird, I haven't had this much trouble with those.

Are you using golden raspberries?

[Sudo_Nym]

I know this is retreading old ground, but the "Passing all the skill gates on a raid, but you don't get the Pokémon because the RNG said Fuck You" is getting super old, and I started off hating it.

It's weird, I haven't had this much trouble with those.

Are you using golden raspberries?

Golden raspberries and curveball throws, and Regirock is still bouncing out of the balls. I've now thrown just over thirty pokeballs at Regirock from three different raids, each one a curveball with a goldn razz, and still no catch.

[T-Bone]

9% chance to catch on each ball. 17% with golden razz.

[Sudo_Nym]

I get that it's random. My point is that being random to start with is bullshit.

[T-Bone]

There isn't really another way to do it. If it was a 100% then it takes away all the challenge and incentive to play.

At least reward pokemon can't flee like wild pokemon can.

[Sudo_Nym]

First of all, I disagree that throwing pokeballs is a "Challenge."

Second of all, the idea that you throw pokeballs to get pokemon is fine for pokemon that appear randomly on the map, because they have no barrier other than walking around until you find them. Raid pokemon do have a gate, though, which is that you have to beat the raid. Beating the raid is the challenge, especially for a guy like me who has to first travel to an area that has gyms, hope that one of the gyms has a raid, and that there's another group there I can latch onto to get past the raid. To then follow up that with "Well, you beat the actual challenge, now you have to hope the RNG is in your favor!" is an unnecessary annoyance, not a "bonus challenge."

[SleepyKrew]

rng is the true pokemon experience

[T-Bone]

But then we circle back to "Niantic does not intend this game to be a single player experience". They are purposely making this game so that you have to play with friends to achieve high level stuff. Your experience of "hopefully I stumble on random people raiding" is not the intended experience, and thus, the gameplay will not reflect that. Getting legendaries is super easy when you are playing the game as Niantic intends you too.

[Sudo_Nym]

You're right, it's clearly my fault for living in a suburb with no other players. Niantic is right to screw me over for not living near where they put their gyms.

[Psyche]

it’s just not a well-suited game for you maybe, play something else

[Sudo_Nym]

If it doesn't make me want to kill myself, Psyche, is it even worth playing?

[T-Bone]

I live in the suburbs too. I stumbled into my community. Chances are, one exists in yours.

[KittyMo]

There's a 400+ member discord (see: https://thesilphroad.com/map#4/44.43/-113.63) and 4,000+ member facebook group in your city...you've tried both of those to no avail?

[Sudo_Nym]

I don't see what "There's groups in your area!" has to do with my argument that "RNG shouldn't exist on a skill-gated encounter".

[KittyMo]

You're right, it's clearly my fault for living in a suburb with no other players.

I'm just responding to ^

[T-Bone]

Because as part of your argument you detail how labor intensive it is for you to get to the encounter in the first place, and for the player playing the game with a community as the developers intended, this is not an issue. Getting legendaries, and getting multiple legendaries, is easy, and the RNG is a little inconvenient at most. Ergo, the solution to your problem is to get in with your community.