Pokemon Go #17: Mankey Gone To Heaven

[PickAChew]

Because friendship and trading has just been launched and t'other thread is almost full!

Whattodo I said in my original post that's it's urban myth and a fun theory.
Please read my posts properly and stop picking arguments where there are none.

It's not dangerous for new players to collect 10k eggs. They are usually the best ones. And if you hatch a load together with a star piece that means more star dust.

I’ve transferred mine?

Increased my bag size to 2000 a while ago, that's been the case for some time. Got me first Vulpix, whoop, whoop! Evolved to a ninetail, just need another so I can have one of each. Caught 2 hat chu's as well.

Actually I’ve just found out that it’s only with bulk transfers that you can’t select them! Individually you can thankfully. Bye bye 9 party hat Pikachus!

LumpySpacedPrincess Apologies; a mistype on my part! It’s Pokémon storage that’s being increased to 2000, not bag storage

TangelasVine I’m not starting an argument; I’m just erring on the side of caution when it comes to sharing these ‘theories’ with new/returning/casual players.

You can’t advise for or against anyone collecting 10km eggs, because you get what you’re given and you’re stuck with them. You have to hatch them whatever they are! Like a pp said, it would be nice to be able to delete eggs. And I already agreed with you on aligning and hatching eggs together where possible.

Theories and rumours can affect gameplay, and most of the time they’re bullshit.

Well everyone is intelligent enough to read the thread and play how they see fit. I'm still going to share how I play so let's agree to disagree. It's pokemon not AIBU!

Yay storage increase!

So, does anyone else hoard pidgeys and wait for double xp events to evolve them or is that just me?

You can delete event Pokémon, just individually, the old way, from their own page.

I just hard pidgey candy. Had 700 candy this evening and evolved the 30 pidgey I'd caught since they were back in the game, after the last event had ended.

My only gripe about the Pikachu is that they replace easier to catch evolvables.

TangelasVine Like I said, everyone should play how they want, whether that be casual or hardcore.

I don’t think spreading ‘theories’ with no evidence is the same as sharing how you play, though. The former can negatively affect people’s gameplay, whereas the latter I wholeheartedly encourage as by sharing the different ways we play we can enhance each other’s experiences.

So, does anyone else hoard pidgeys and wait for double xp events to evolve them or is that just me?

LumpySpacedPrincess I do similar I collect Pidgey and Whismur and name them ‘Evolveme’. Then when I raid I put on a lucky egg, do the raid and spend the rest of the time mass evolving Pidgey, Whismur, Wurmple, Weedle, Caterpie etc.

I don’t wait for double XP events, but it gets me loads of XP as I catch everything and raid a lot so it’s great to combine the two

TSR has done some research on Alolan eggs and found the following hatch rates:

• 27.6% for Rattata, Meowth and Sandshrew

• 13.8% for Grimer

• 3.4% for Vulpix

Whattodo ok you're not going to agree to disagree playing this way suits me. It's a chat room on mumsnet about a game so you don't have total control over what people post.
I know you'll reply again telling me off so I'll just have to ignore it or it'll fill up the thread and there are other things to talk about.
PS I've got 4 10k eggs in the last 2 days (lighthearted!)

TangelasVine It’s nothing to do with play style, like I said, else I wouldn’t have a problem with it.

I’m not trying to control what people post. Anyone can post whatever they want, but if it’s wrong or obviously bullshit, I am going to point that out because not doing so is unhelpful to other players.

Egg wise, I am deliberately not getting normal eggs at the moment. My Dex’s are as complete as possible, so I want Alolan eggs to get Vulpix.

So as soon as I finish walking one set of Alolan eggs (I’ve set them up to hatch in groups of 5 and 4), I open a load of gifts and put another set on.

If I forgot and spun a PokeStop and got an egg from it, I’d be very disappointed whether that was 2, 5 or 10km.

So excited for Shiny Articuno day! Lots of XP to be gained here.

Our group is meeting up and starting at one end of town and working our way down

I'm meeting a worker at half past ten 😭

I'll pretend I have something very important to do at 12 and must be back for then...

I haven't had five raid passes yet!

You'll get the raid passes when you spin a gym - one each time you've completed a raid.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I’ve had an excellent day today! Our raid group spent the entire three hours raiding

So here are my Post Event Stats...

I did 17 Articuno Raids
I caught 15 out of 17 Articuno
I caught 2 shiny Articuno

I earned 760,331 XP and 32,771 stardust

My best Articuno was 96%
My worst Articuno was 75%
My shiny Articuno were 78% and 76%

So all in all a very, very good three hours!

I managed 10 raids today which I am pleased about. Unfortunately non turned out to by shiny and I only managed to catch 2 of them.

I didn't get any raids

Ds1 wasn't interested in the raids until the last moment when he wanted to duo one.

I've cheered myself up with this wild catch, though. Just need to find a gym to show it off in :o

I participated in 11 raids. Caught 1 shiny (96%) and 3 others at 90%+. 3 ran away.

We hit 5 gyms that have had EX Raids before and 2 gyms that are eligible for EX Raids but never been triggered.

:)

Sounds like a day of mixed fortunes! my DD got up at 7 to go to the nearest town with a decent-sized raid group (our nearest village has only 5 of us) - the train (35 mins) had been cancelled! so she decided at the last minute to drive - 45 miles each way.

The group did 20 raids in the day and 5 of the players didn't get a shiny - including poor DD. Us rural players are well used to having to work twice as hard as townies, but sometimes even so it's all for nothing, sigh -small violin plays