Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

@SocksAndTheCity congrats on the larvesta. Unless you are worried about wins then pick your smallest Pokémon and just let them get crunched through to get the battles done. Can be plugged through pretty quickly that way. Good luck

I forgot I hatched a Larvesta this morning! My last job before the end of today is plough through all the battles, since I won't really have time tomorrow.

I got one but no shiny. At least I was passing by and didn't lose a remote pass on it though - that would really piss me off 🤬

I have a shiny detective Pikachu and a shiny cowboy Slowpoke, so I'm hoping that isn't my quota filled 😂

Argh. I used my precious hard-earned remote raid pass on a guzzlord raid earlier and despite getting extra balls for the final strike it escaped! This happened the last time I remote raided too. 🤬🤬🤬

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HI @Onhols !!! I was there last week, doing a university drop off for my DC! And now you are sending me these lovely postcards from the city! Were you just visiting too? (Sorry if this seems like a nosy question, it's just that your postcards have made me smile so much, just when I needed it!). Still being a little vague cos I don't want to out you!

That’s me! Which postcards?

Is Beginner999 here? Your last few postcards have been from somewhere interesting and I'm just wondering if you live there or just visiting!?
Sorry for the vagueness, I'm just being cautious in case I out someone!

Aw well done Felix. Mine's MushyPeas. I must have been running short of fishy nicknames.

Feebas takes me back to that evolve-a-feebas research. Of course then there were no feebas around for months on end and I doggedly walked the single one I'd picked up earlier.

Still not figured the accelerated candy on routes mechanic.

Feebas is one of the featured spawns in the Out To Play event - I have a shiny one too! I love a Feebas 😊

I did a route yesterday and got two Zygarde cells at the end - I don't know whether it was because of it being a slightly longer one, but that was a real plus.

A bunch of my local routes have vanished too. I popped into town and was going to do one but they have all vanished apart from the longest one, which I didn't have time to do. Very annoying.

Has anyone worked out how the 'reduced candy distance on routes' mechanic works? Does the distance go up faster? Or is my buddy going to chuck out candy at 2/3 of the usual number? The target number doesn't seem to go down, if it's a 20km walking distance it still says 20.

Walking distance has been behaving oddly since routes came out altogether, I keep ending up with pokemon with negative distance walked.

I've submitted three routes; the one that was approved took virtually no time and the other two are still 'under review', one since the 7th July. I wish they'd just delete them or something.

I got most of the research done today but I have two more eggs to hatch and a bit further to walk as I've been at work and don't have anyone to do it for me. One annoying thing I found this afternoon is that my most regular route (sub fifteen minutes and starting only five minutes away) has vanished completely and I have no idea why?

Catching a shiny Entei over at the Shard has cheered me up though, and I'm now up to 28 raids 😊

gillybean that is impressive dedication to the cause! I've also not found any reason in the routes that I had approved/'under review'. I've submitted 4, two approved within the hour, two still on hold weeks later. One of my pending ones someone else has since had a near identical route approved, so I wondered if it was being compared somewhere in the back room - but they didn't actually reject mine which is now duplicate.

@ISaySteadyOn goodness, rest up and try to ignore the ‘out to play’ timed research til you can manage it.

I have somehow miraculously managed to complete it…! No one is more surprised than me 😂
When I saw it pop up this morning and it required a route to be completed I was sure it wasn’t going to happen. But, when I dropped ds off to his volunteering job today I thought I’d see if I could manage to walk and submit a route around the nearby park as I was feeling particularly well today.
It’s not easy holding a phone while using a mobility aid and conkers everywhere determined to get under my wheels but I managed it.
Got back to my car and had to sit and rest while filling in the blurb so hadn’t even got me or my walker back in the car at this point.

Pressed submit and then sent out a few gifts while I was failing to get up again resting . Thought I’d check the status to be sure it had gone in and thank goodness I was sitting down as it had already been published! Godsmacked doesn’t begin to describe it.
So I managed to haul myself back around what I had just submitted and was able to complete a route. Wasn’t long enough for the meters walked task so I sent ds back around after he was done at the foodbank as I could barely stand at this point.

Unfortunately this route is in our nearest ‘town’ so still a 10min drive each way from home, but on a good day I may be able to manage it again.

Ever hopeful for another quick publishing, I sent ds off around our local park to submit a route when we got home. Similar length, round a park on footpaths/across the playing fields. Pretty much the same kind of route. But that is now stuck in under review. Go figure😖

@ISaySteadyOn Eek, sounds uncomfy. Get well soon. x

Do any of you in the thread have kathwithcats?

Which of you do I have as friends on there?

Just checking for future co-ordinegging. I know there were some from the MN discord in the past.

@porridgeisbae my ds has submitted a couple on my account. He can walk where I can’t do the distance. The route swings wildly. Even when you have a nice line along a path or road, if you turn a corner it recalculates and moves from where you actually walked and what was showing before turning. I don’t know how to stop it doing that.

Anyhow we went ahead and submitted but both those and my earlier attempt a couple of weeks ago are ‘under review’….

anyone getting theirs approved immediately who can give some feedback on what type of routes seem to go through without any queries?