Pokemon Go #10. See ya later Feralligator, in a while Totodile

Thank you both! I have one so will use it on a 5k one that I need

How do the rare candies work?

You have a chance of getting them when you do raids. Not sure how common they are though, because I've done about six or seven raids now and haven't had any (though I have had a fast and a charged TM). DH, lucky bugger, has got about six rare candies.

Click on the rare candy, click on the Pokemon in your collection you want to feed it to and it becomes a candy for that Pokemon. Mine has been turning into Mareep candy as I've only got the one and I'm already sick of walking it.

I'm getting to grips with the new gyms and have about eight within viewing distance of my house!
How do the rare candies work?

There's an achievement medal for feeding berries to Pokémon too.

Our Typhlosion that I popped into the gym on the way to work in the morning is already back, he fought hard and brought 18 coins back with him for about 3 hours in the gym. I'm quite happy with that and have nursed him back to his full strength.

atm we are putting our Scizor into gyms because it looks like it's waving when you click in to check on it we don't have the most scientific approach
Someone asked what's the point of feeding the pokemon. We were feeding our's to try to keep its motivation up until the next day because we'd already had a pokemon return with 50 coins.

PsammeadPaintedTheLion If you get there and a group has already started battling, you can't join them until they finish, and only if they lose.

If they win, that's that, you're in a group on your own or with whoever has recently turned up.

You can have many simultaneous battles running throughout the hour depending on when people turn up.

If you turn up and a group is battling, if they give you the code for the battle, you click "private group" and you can get in with them. But if they aren't expecting you, nobody is going to have taken note of the code to give it to you!

What I don't understand is the private raid function.

Is it the case that you can go to raid a gym and there are 5 other players standing around, but that if those 5 are all in a private group, you are essentially battling alone? Or do you still battle simultaneously, and if that's the case, what is the point?

I know at some point you'll be able to create raids, so is the private raiding thing meant more for that?

I have been trying to research this but I can't find the answer.

Soubriquet - yes it is quite easy. You just need a gym pass which you get automatically from your first gym-spin of the day.

Once you have the pass, you wait for the raid to start, turn in your pass and have a couple of minutes to select your team. Then you just battle like always. You get rewards from defeating the boss, including white poke balls, which you can then use to capture the boss.

I'm sure they will tweak the gym coin limit in time as right now its a but rubbish. I find the best thing for me to do is take over the gum in the graveyard in the evening so less chance of anyone taking it off that night whereas there's no point taking any of the gyms in the centre as they get taken back immediately.

I haven't taken part in a raid yet. Is it quite easy to do?

Dame I like your idea of extra stardust. I read somewhere you get extra stardust if you feed a mon a berry (but only 20).

I know I really don't get this 50 coin limit. I didn't realise it existed yesterday so went around putting mons in gyms and feeding. Some were battles, some spaces. But today when I'm sure some will run out of motivation there's no point in going to other new gyms - no point in playing today!

I did my first raid yesterday and caught a Croconaw!

I would love it if they rewarded bringing a gym down. Most of the players here are blue, I spend ages tearing blue gyms down and they are back up within a few hours. This system is better but the reward system isn't fair or balanced. Maybe after the coin limit is reached returning 'mon could bring stardust, or xp.

With this 50 coin limit per day I don't see the point in feeding berries?

I do it just to make sure we keep the gym. Even if I'm not going to get coins from it when it comes out, is rather my team hold it than either of the other two.

With this 50 coin limit per day I don't see the point in feeding berries?

No worries, TheweewitchRoz

I believe they'll change it though; I think it'll take a few weeks for everything to settle down, glitches to be fixed and changes to be permenant.

Thanks - I hadn't realised that.

TheweewitchRoz At the current time, you can only get a max of 50 coins per day.

So if Blissey has been in there for two days or ten, it will only come back with 50 coins. If another Pokemon has already come back with 50 coins that day, the Blissey will come back with no coins.

I guess I'm confused by how gyms work then - why can you not get more coins from your Blissey?

WhiteHorseWilliam No worries I always put in my highest (though at the moment keeping a couple of key players back for raids).

PokemonGo Oh yes, I love being able to know where my Pokemon are! I used to name them according to gym before too.

I also love that it tells you when you battle how many battles your Pokemon has won so far!

Yes, no matter how long my Blissey stays in the gym now it won't earn any more that 50 coins. If I get it out on a day when something else comes out it earns nothing.
I would rather rotate them in and out every day than have one in for days.

I'm loving the extra storage. It always made me sad having to throw things away. It's especially useful for players like me that use a go plus (all the time)

I also like being able to
Know where my pokemon are when they are in gyms. I used to name and date them before and I'm glad not to have to do it anymore.

I'm going to be earning a lot fewer coins though. I was regularly earning 100 a day before. I'm not sure it matters too much though. 🤷🏻‍♀️. I don't buy incubators and I've now maxed out my storage.