Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

I realise this thread hasn't been updated for an ages but just wondering if anyone could send me an invite for the discord? I've just started playing again after a veeery long gap only to discover that discord has deleted my account in the interim so I've had to start a new one 😭😭
I'm Feelana on PG and was grumpiestpossum on discord in case anyone remembers me!

I got a nice selection of shinies too, Nihilego and Celesteela were both from the research, which felt a bit like a cheat, getting loads of ultra beasts for doing 1 star raids!

after a slow start I was actually very happy with my shiny haul, particularly the corsola. Didn’t do too many ultra raids and didn’t get the special research completed yet as struggled to do the walking. Hopefully get that finished this week.

Go raid party app is what you need. The price of a remote pass is far cheaper than 100 miles of travel costs.

I only saw one stakataka raid all day Saturday. I'd got one from the research during the week, at least. I'm one degree to the wrong side of the Greenwich meridian but would have to travel over 100 miles, down to somewhere like Withernsea for one, which isn't likely to happen!

I was busy all day yesterday and barely had chance to play, although I did three remote raids at lunchtime and managed to get into town for the last half hour to do another four - you couldn't move for them between Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square 😀

I managed more on Saturday, but no shiny Necrozma (out of around 25 raids total), and none of the other new shinies either. I did get a shiny Carvanha and a couple of shiny Rockruffs (including a Dusk form one) amongst others which made up for it a bit, but I'm annoyed with myself for not planning better.

I didn't raid at all. I was out for the day for a gig (Travis) so all the raids at home I couldn't go to and while some people did invite me randomly I didn't have the chance to join any of them. I got to meet the whole band though so that was better than getting Pokémon IMO. 😁

I missed most of GoFest! I've been in bed with Covid all weekend. Managed a couple of raids on my home gym and a few remotes, but no shiny ultra beasts, just one Hisuian Sneasel. Bummer.

I drove into town to a park next to the university, lots of gyms in a small space. It's where it's all been happening since Ingress days (the first batch of stops and gyms came from that game). There were three of us and we struggled to get into the same lobby, they were filling so quickly that the one of us that can't read a map had missed a slot by the time they'd worked out which gym was the right one. My son had a shiny Necrozma, we didn't see a Kartana raid in the hour and a half we were there each day. Didn't see a Stakathingy either. I'm not sure I have the stamina for a two day event (or the bag space) but I had a great time despite the weather.

I didn't manage to go out to raid, today. I did one from the relative dry of a bus shelter on Saturday and catching was difficult because my screen was wet. I ventured out for a short walk to catch the ducklett that, despite the filthy weather, were not spawning at home, this afternoon, and got soaked through. Did a couple of remote raids from the dry of my house, though and some local players joined in with one. Dawn wings was an easy duo, I found. No shiny necrozma but I did get shiny Kartana, Hisuian Sneasel (so cool) and Corsola, among others including a pink ducklett in a very big puddle!

So has everyone been out necrozma hunting today? We walked round in circles and caught lots, my best 98% - good enough if annoying not to get the last 2%! No shinies, but I like my new shiny jangmo-o.

I haven't encountered a single go rocket psychic or ghost team since having a charcadet on the go. 🤔

Have you got anyone you can battle with by scanning a code? Get them to set a team of their easiest 3 ghosts and plough through. Tedious but saves being stuck for weeks.

I've added those who have left their codes. I've not been out the house much recently so wasn't playing so much but went out for a bit yesterday during the spheal hour and ended up eating free stovies in a pub at 10pm as we accidentally invaded dominoes night. 🤣

(For the non-Scots, stovies is like a hash type meal with meat (usually stewing steak cooked until it's falling apart but some people use corned beef), onions and potatoes. Served with oatcakes.)

I've got a Charcadet buddy waiting to evolve and another one to do after, but I'm so sick of looking at it I might put my Larvesta back for now as I've only got about ten candies to go.

The current raid special research is irritating me - it must be lovely to have money to burn on remote passes (or limitless free time to wander around from raid to raid) but I have neither, and I hate not being able to finish everything 😖

Fingers crossed for the weekend weather! It rained so much in London yesterday that hopefully we used all ours up 😀

Thanks for the invites . I go through phases and having started the game years ago partly as dss interested and I played whilst walking the pram I now have DS7 who wants to play lol 😂

I've sent you requests @poorremus and @Jfw82

I can't believe I got this far and only just realised some Pokémon provide a lot more stardust than others. Noticed staryu seemed to be giving loads and then caught an audino and it was even more! I'm always short of stardust, so now I'm chasing all the ones which give extra.