Routine Sparkles Pokémon Go

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New thread. No routes where I am. We're going to be at Pokémon Go Fest on 6 August. V excited.

Woohoo. More storage available at last!

Is anyone at GoFest today ? How is it? My son and I are beginning to get excited for it. Thankfully weather seems OK for Sunday

I'm going tomorrow, but there are so many people out playing here in the City I took the afternoon off to get my raiding pants on, and it's been fantastic seeing them fill up over and over again. I have a lot of new friends to go through now 😊

I've got another shiny Rayquaza and shiny Yveltal and a 100% Xerneas, which isn't anything new in terms of pokedex but it's all nice to have. I've just been shopping for tomorrows park food and hatched a shiny 98% Larvitar too 😀

Yes it's great being able to walk into so many raids full of level 50 players. It's such a fun way to play.

For anyone who lives in outer London and hasn't bought a pass it's possibly worth taking the train/tube in and hanging out at the big hot spots (Hyde Park, Regents Park, South Bank) just to do the raids.

We just got back to London today and I am also getting quite excited for Sunday @Purpletoes.

Might be silly but I changed my buddy Pokémon to the first best buddy we ever had, a Machamp because I thought she should come to our first GoFest.

I love raids especially when you get to do them with 20 other people. Sometimes I don't even mind not catching the Pokémon because the raid was such fun.

Have any of you got the ability to make routes yet? I was already planning to go out to make some but then realized I can't yet.

I think that's a lovely idea @ISaySteadyOn .

My first best buddy was a Happiny (now a Blissey), but the one who was for the longest is my Melmetal (156 days), so I think she ought to come with me tomorrow 😍

Our tickets were yesterday and extended tickets today. Best go fest I’ve been too in terms of connections and no bugs and I’ve been to a fair few.

If you preordered T-shirts there is a shorter queue at the side of the merchandise tent. Go early or mid ticket, my ds had a 5 min wait at noon, I had a 30min wait at 2pm

There are two sets of tasks. One for your ticket time in the park and a separate one for outside it. Rayquaza raids only seem to be outside the park so don’t expect to pop off early and only do the park but.
Maldon don’t mega evolve your rayquaza until you get to that in the special research. I jumped the gun a bit and gave to go raiding again today.

The today golden task include a follow a route. I’ve only found one that starts near Brixton station and is est 39 mins. If you know of any shorter ones or spot any on your way keep them in mind.

Good luck and happy shiny hunting to those attending today and tomorrow. Hope the rain holds off for you!

The rain looks terrible today. I'm hoping to get away with it tomorrow.

I think a lot of players are aiming for Covent Garden or Canary Wharf as weather-proof places to raid. The bus is good for catching but not for raiding of course. (Though if there were a group of you on the same bus you could probably use the Ready button to do some raids if you were really well-coordinated).

I've got an errand to run at St Pancras this morning, so I might see how that area is for raids.

The South Bank is always good for people joining in raids, and has a fair few Routes. The City now has a lot of Routes, eg Liverpool Street for Moorgate which is only 15 minutes, and Leadenhall Market and Liverpool Street Station are nice and dry, but I don't think many other players will be heading that way. The Royal Parks have lots of Routes but they'll be wet.

Yes, the weather is looking fairly crappy - I'm still playing from my sofa while I decide where to go. I want to get four routes in to take me to the end of the Zygarde research, but I think the long South Bank one I'd planned might be sacked off in favour of just going back and forth across London Bridge a few times 😁

Thankfully there are lots of raids on within a few minutes' walk and I already have a shiny Ferroseed which is new for me. I might also extend to tomorrow but I'm going to see how tired I am by the end of today first.

I went yesterday, I was busy trying to juggle kids and everything so didn't get to do nearly as much as I would have liked. I got kicked out at London Bridge on a raid for a shiny Rayquaza which was sooooooo annoying!! I have one last task which is raid with a buddy. I did a raid with my husband last night but it didn't finish the task so am guessing it either needs to be a London based raid or a Rayquaza raid. Does anyone know? I may have to go back into London tomorrow

There's a short Waterloo Bridge to Waterloo Station route which would be less exposed to the weather than going over London Bridge and you could grab a coffee at the Royal Festival Hall and do raids while you're there.

Hi everyone, reinstalled the game after an extended hiatus (2 years ish!) where real life got in the way. Previously got to level 40, largely thanks to the MN POGO discord! Is this still active?

@CantStandMeow Hi I was maybe on the Discord then too, then I stopped playing as seriously for a while.

Do you have me as a friend? Kathwithcats x

So could someone tell a GoFest first timer what to expect tomorrow? I only bought an afternoon ticket if that helps to know.

@behindanothername raid with buddy do they mean your pokemon buddy?

Looking forward to tomorrow and the weather is looking better. Not sure where we will go in the morning as we have concert tonight as well but will be in the park for the afternoon

Your ticket still gives you city access all morning so you can play and raid (and get some rayquaza mega energy plus get into the research tasks - whatever is important to you!) before you go to the park and the spawns are the same.

There are Collection Challenges for the four different areas of the park, plus a couple of research tasks for each which are just spinning pokestops and taking a photo of a pokémon you catch in each zone. Lots of things to do, but it's no different to playing normally just on a larger scale .

There are water stations for filling bottles, food stalls, plenty of toilets and rest areas where you can sit under a big gazebo and eat/have a rest (or try to get out of the rain in the case of those of us who went today), a merchandising tent which I didn't go in and various other bits and bobs. It's all very straightforward and the only I would emphasise again is wear comfortable shoes or boots - I've done 22,000 steps today even including the time spent hiding under trees trying not to get my phone soaked 😂

Your forecast is better tomorrow too!

@Purpletoes the raid task is with your buddy, yes. I tucked mine in at the end of a battle party and that was enough.

I will say I had a few problems with signal dropping out today, but it was annoying rather than catastrophic.

Thanks. Now I am even more excited

Would anyone be up for adding me for a research task?

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Sent you an invite. Always good to have more friends.

@SuperLoudPoppingAction I don't know how many of us just added you, but it says your friends list is full.

You could delete some player on your list so people can add you for the research task if you like.

Hi all,

I was on these threads ages ago but dropped off since the discord started.

Went to a rainy go fest on Saturday

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We went yesterday afternoon and even the weather didn't stop us having a great time. A couple of us had a few laggy moments but all in all the signal was fine, considering how many people were there.

I was a bit disappointed that mega Rayquaza wasn't in any raids in the park but any raid that has full lobby's is great fun regardless.

Pretty happy with my shiny haul, a couple missing from my wish list but will try again at global.

Hope everyone else that went had an amazing time.