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On November 12 2016 04:52 dAPhREAk wrote:
when do you guys play now, if at all? the sun setting at 5:00 (an hour before i get home) has really destroyed my motivation to go out on weekdays. i play a bit at work, but not enough to collect the potions i need to destroy everyone. weekends are hit or miss depending on my plans and motivation to move my ass.
During the weekdays I play for an hour or two getting gyms, which sucks, and leave the game on at my desk and catch anything interesting. On a day off I trek out to an omnibiome park to get some catching in.
I'm at 141/142 of the NAdex, so that part of the game is pretty much over for me until gen2 comes out. I hit 30 a couple weeks ago, so leveling it no longer a priority. Literally all I have left in this game is gyms and... right now it honestly isn't worth my time.
On November 12 2016 06:04 dAPhREAk wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2016 05:47 Assault_1 wrote:On November 12 2016 04:52 dAPhREAk wrote:
when do you guys play now, if at all? the sun setting at 5:00 (an hour before i get home) has really destroyed my motivation to go out on weekdays. i play a bit at work, but not enough to collect the potions i need to destroy everyone. weekends are hit or miss depending on my plans and motivation to move my ass. I lost a lot of motivation to play after the terrible gym changes, that was the endgame for me. The whole reason I'm leveling up, collecting stardust, looking for good IV/movesets and specific nests - all of it was for gyms. i assume you mean establishing a fiefdom of level 10 gyms, which certainly has its benefits. you dont enjoy the fact that its less time consuming to take down level 10 gyms? i am certainly enjoying that aspect. although i am lucky enough to still have a fiefdom of 8 gyms. i had more previously, but now we are in constant war over about four of them, which i find fun (as long as i have potions). i am also seeing a lot more low level people in gyms.
Being easier to take down level 10 gyms is better, yes, but with the way they gutted training it completely invalidated building them up in the first place. Having towers sit there for weeks on end sucks, but is it really wrong to build up a gym and expect it to stay there for a day or two? It took me ~1:30-2:00 to hit 10 gyms before this patch, not it's impossible. I consistantly see gyms of my color at level 1 with sub 500 Prestige and I just drive past. It isn't worth training against 4-7 times just to get it to level 2 and have it get taken down 30 minutes later.
Gyms normalizing down to your level was a good change, I agree, it's healthier for players that aren't hardcore - especially the kiddos that should be focusing on school most of the day. However, because of that I'm seeing massive gaps in the gym prestige when training, to the tune of 1200 Hypno, 1900Nidoqueen, 2k+ Gyarados. With the cut prestige gains, this is beyond frustrating to train against. The training CP-Limbo is still there, but now I'm getting my legs cut out from under me. I think gyms should normalize when training, regardless of level.
I currently have 73 potions, 103 Spotions, 67 Hpotions, 196 Mpotions, 117 Revives, and 36 Mrevives. I also have 0 desire to make use of them if it wasn't for the fact that I need to hatch 10ks for Aero-freaking-dactyl.
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i dont really like the new prestige system for your own gyms. i wish they had just put in the attacker benefit and left it at that.
although, i am guessing in a week or two's time, absent another big event, that gyms will be going up to level 10 again.
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On November 12 2016 06:04 dAPhREAk wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2016 05:47 Assault_1 wrote:On November 12 2016 04:52 dAPhREAk wrote:
when do you guys play now, if at all? the sun setting at 5:00 (an hour before i get home) has really destroyed my motivation to go out on weekdays. i play a bit at work, but not enough to collect the potions i need to destroy everyone. weekends are hit or miss depending on my plans and motivation to move my ass. I lost a lot of motivation to play after the terrible gym changes, that was the endgame for me. The whole reason I'm leveling up, collecting stardust, looking for good IV/movesets and specific nests - all of it was for gyms. i assume you mean establishing a fiefdom of level 10 gyms, which certainly has its benefits. you dont enjoy the fact that its less time consuming to take down level 10 gyms? i am certainly enjoying that aspect. although i am lucky enough to still have a fiefdom of 8 gyms. i had more previously, but now we are in constant war over about four of them, which i find fun (as long as i have potions). i am also seeing a lot more low level people in gyms.
I was holding about 15 gyms last week, now I'm on 3. The gyms I used to be on were all level 10, now they never go above level 3-4. The sad thing is most people are happy about it so it won't change - the casuals are all happy they can take down gyms in 15 minutes, instict/valor are happy they can beat blue gyms, niantic is happy because people are getting way less coins so they'll spend more real money in the shop.
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On November 12 2016 06:55 dAPhREAk wrote:
i dont really like the new prestige system for your own gyms. i wish they had just put in the attacker benefit and left it at that.
although, i am guessing in a week or two's time, absent another big event, that gyms will be going up to level 10 again.
I agree, just the attacking change seems sufficient to break up the stagnation. Training anything more than 2k prestige is just way to large a time commitment.
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Bonus items have been changed. Just got 3 outta a stop 
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orcast, you can thank me. i decided to go on a walk, and as soon as i get outside, event over. cursed.
in other news, do you see that level 10 mystic gym by the local library? hah, dead. attackers bonus is awesome.
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All Niantic had to do was to put back training prestige gains as before and give like 300xp/kill for the opposite team to make the system more dynamic. Right now I haven't seen a gym go above level 4 in lol.
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Just tipped past halfway on collecting for my 9x10k! None of them will be Eevee!
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i got a kabuto. so disappointed.....
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Did they break something again? Everything is running after 1 ball.
Or maybe I'm just having a really bad day.
Edit: Turns out t's not literally everything but really large numbers.
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On November 12 2016 15:33 Vaelone wrote:
Did they break something again? Everything is running after 1 ball.
Or maybe I'm just having a really bad day.
Edit: Turns out t's not literally everything but really large numbers.
For a while, the first pokemon I tried to catch after opening the app ran away. Even more so, very few ones did so at other times 
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On November 12 2016 15:33 Vaelone wrote:
Did they break something again? Everything is running after 1 ball.
Or maybe I'm just having a really bad day.
Edit: Turns out t's not literally everything but really large numbers.
If pokestops weren't giving you items, you might have been soft banned. Happened to me when my GPS had a massive freakout once.
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So... wot d'ya think the Thanksgiving event will be? (Presuming they have one... )
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On November 13 2016 00:20 Spect8rCraft wrote:So... wot d'ya think the Thanksgiving event will be? (Presuming they have one... )
Might not be one, really. While Halloween is pretty universal, Thanksgiving only happens in two countries from what I know, and they hold them on separate days.
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On November 13 2016 05:14 Rehio wrote:Show nested quote +On November 13 2016 00:20 Spect8rCraft wrote:So... wot d'ya think the Thanksgiving event will be? (Presuming they have one... ) Might not be one, really. While Halloween is pretty universal, Thanksgiving only happens in two countries from what I know, and they hold them on separate days.
I wouldn't say Halloween is universal, more so that other countries are aware of it.
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It's much more spread than thanksgiving nonetheless.
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Not sure if this is relevant, but Niantic seems to be based on California (apparently a spinoff from Google, so its history says).
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Another low level(5) Butt/Beam Snorlax. At least this one has good IVs(15/12/15, 93%).
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On November 15 2016 11:01 Gahlo wrote:
Another low level(5) Butt/Beam Snorlax. At least this one has good IVs(15/12/15, 93%).
Good lord, a butt beam Snorlax. The horror.
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I really wish they'd revert the reduction to training prestige. Dynamic gyms are fine and all but building something up into a stronghold was cool. It doesn't have to last a week (which it doesn't at all anymore) but something that at least makes the other team hesitate to take it down.
I just find myself hoping other teams take down my team's level 4 gyms so that I can take it back when it's theirs at level 2 or 3...
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