Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

I don't spend real money, just means it is slow to build everything up!

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of local groups and DS seems to have gone off Pokémon go completely, although he might just be holding out for a phone upgrade at Christmas. 😉 I have a work colleague who plays, but we never seem to be able to meet at a good time to get to raids. Apart from watching out for eggs is there a way to know what will appear where so you can plan a bit further in advance?

Yay!!! They're lovely. Make sure you have a budget so you don't spend too much in the shop on the passes :)

If you look online you might find groups near you for local players so you can add people and do more 5* raids without buying the remote passes.

Thank you, I've got my first terrakion! 💐 Might have to get some more remote passes, as that is more fun than the 1 stars!

Fab, thanks for the request, off out shortly but will add in a bit.

I have mainly been trying to build up my Pokémon and item storage with all the coins I can get, but just realised I have a remote raid pass from some research, so could potentially join one long distance.

@porridgeisbae I have added you, I'm pretty certain I'm not local enough to go raiding but always happy to exchange gifts.

@thirdfiddle do I have you? And anyone else who might fancy a Terrakion raid at some point-

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Awesome :)

And lookee, here they come again. And DH just traded me a nice lucky one. Even better :)

@SneakyGremlin one of ds friends moved to Manchester. We are having a flying visit to her for a lucky trade coming up soon on our way to/from Newcastle. I know it’s a big place but looks like it has a thriving community from what she says.

I haven’t noticed any gifts coming from around the angel of the north area but if anyone is in that area we might be able to meet up to trade spare regionals I have such as tauros or tropius

Hullo.

Long time no curveball!

I've moved to Manchester now. Pogo is muuuuuch better there

Nearly there....

The Poke Post thing seems to be based around trading cards which isn't my thing, and the queues will probably be immense, so not really worth a special trip to London I'd have thought .

But it's close to me so I might scoot by after work and do a couple of raids and capture the vibe..

Top tip if you're visiting London from out of town is that the South Bank (near Royal Festival Hall) is great for raids at the weekend - you can grab a coffee from Pret or some food from the excellent street food market at the back and take your pick of loads of gyms with loads of random players.

Did anyone go to the pop up Poke Post stop in Edinburgh at the weekend? I’m wondering if it’s worth taking time off work to go to the London one which is on a weekday.

I assume they’ve done that to try and reduce the queues but judging by the pop up shop they had in London a few years ago they’ll be queuing from the night before….

Although I've got an official start date years ago from when I first made my account, I only really started playing some time into the master ball challenge. I realised a while ago I was never going to make the raids and I think I'll end up just off on excellent throws now. Hopefully there will be another!

I'm cutting it a bit fine with the Masterball research - still can't reliably throw an Excellent ball. But at least I find Furfrows easier to do them on.

I never even thought of swapping them daily to do that, I'm such an idiot. I've just been doing one at a time so it's taking even longer. Thank you! Hopefully that will speed things up a bit for me.

I'm thinking of levelling up today so if anyone is 1 away with Lilith, keep an eye out for xp from 2pm.

I should really be more proactive about getting to best buddies. I only really go for it to the point of catch assist and the useful gifts then I stop trying or have all the candy/candy xl/ mega energy I'm wanting, by then, so switch buddies.

The nearby egg spawns have been infrequent and heavily biased towards flipping shadow articuno or whatever, today, but finally and absol spawned just as it was starting to get dark and I completed my 60 raids. 7 day streak, tomorrow and other research tasks saved up so I can use a lucky egg and star piece and claim everything.

Useful to know about a future best buddy task if that's one that comes up eventually for everyone. I'll look after all the old ones.

Oh that's true, I might've traded some past buddies, maybe there was a Rhyperior.

With buddies I would just walk one for candies then evolve and ignore. I think I ended up trading some in and I'm cursing that I did that now I have a "get 10 best buddies" task. I have one so far and just using whatever ones I've buddied up a little so it's a bit faster to get them right up, still taking forever though.