The original Slakoth day was a bit of a disappointment, although not the complete wash that I read about after the fact. It was, however, particularly frustrating, because a frienhad come d up to my neck of the woods to play, and I feel like we let her down somehow, although clearly it was Niantic's fail. Usually, when we're all lured up and in full swing there are literal piles of the pokemon-of-the-day everywhere, and that was sadly not the case, and there were several chunks of time where there were zero slakoths to be had. Nevertheless, I ended up with a very healthy eight shinies, and it was good to walk and chat with my friend, and catch up with some other folks.
Slakoth makeup weekend has also been something of a disappointment, as it's been wall to wall slakoths, and really I might have preferred rather more of the GoFest weekend and Alolan spawns. I've seen less than 30 nindorans all weekend, including research, and I think sandshrew is about the same. I did nab an alolan diglett and two alolan rats before the slakoth infestation began, and at least the five further shiny slakoths I now have are, at least, better than the original handful, so I can't really complain.
Last weekend's Raiku raid day was more satisfactory, if somewhat testing - mostly due to being the hottest day of the year. I think it got up to 34C, maybe 35C, and there was a good chunk of the first part of the route was in direct sun. We also had some logistical challenges, with a major event taking out a section of our usual route and even though we were a good distance away from the event, the phone signal was impacted, so I lost four or five raids through phone glitches, and another three or four while dealing with my body being Very Unhappy about the heat. I *almost* quit about an hour in, but one of my Poke-friends had waited for me while I was being not well, and I figured that we were probably past the worst of the heat, and I'm really glad I did push on, because the rest of the day was much more fun. I ended up with a couple of mates in the back-of-the-fast-group pack, and we did most of the route in the end - I think 26 or so of the 33 that the fast group went for, and I did 20 or so of them. I got my shiny, and so did my friend-who-waited-for-me, although not until the penultimate raid, which was nervewracking. I do enjoy the raid days - it's expensive, but there's a good challenge to it, and I really like the group of people I'm doing it with. Looking forward to the next one on Sunday!
I've similarly been enjoying the raid dinner hours, on the weeks when I can get out of work in time to get back near home to play with said group - it's a nice, bite-sized, chunk of time, and a good reason to get together with a group. (The weeks when I haven't been able to get back home to play, it's been rubbish, as it's almost impossible to find a lobby when everything hatches at once without external coms.)
The GoFest weekend for the Chicago fest, I was grinding pretty hard, and I lucked out with a set of three shiny horsea - including two actually decent IV/CP ones - so I have a nifty little family set. They're *ridiculously* pretty shinies.
"Adventure Week" was the event where I turned level 40 last year, and it was nice not be *as* driven as I was then, but also nice to hit Double 40 status, so I was mostly chasing shinies, but also picking up fresh stops as often as possible. Friday, I made a specific trip to a part of town I'm not often in, where there was an Onyx nest (didn't get a shiny Onyx, did pick up a couple of nice scarves in a charity shop), Saturday my friend and I did another section of the Capital Ring walk, and then it was community day, and then some more grinding on Sunday took my in-game distance up to 70k for the week. Total non-CD shiny count? Zero until I was sitting on the couch, doing game admin, when the one-spawn-an-hour that I get in my house turned out to be a shiny anorith... I've since traded for a shiny lileep, but the kabuto that I yearn for is still eluding me.
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Date: 2019-07-07 10:32 pm (UTC)Slakoth makeup weekend has also been something of a disappointment, as it's been wall to wall slakoths, and really I might have preferred rather more of the GoFest weekend and Alolan spawns. I've seen less than 30 nindorans all weekend, including research, and I think sandshrew is about the same. I did nab an alolan diglett and two alolan rats before the slakoth infestation began, and at least the five further shiny slakoths I now have are, at least, better than the original handful, so I can't really complain.
Last weekend's Raiku raid day was more satisfactory, if somewhat testing - mostly due to being the hottest day of the year. I think it got up to 34C, maybe 35C, and there was a good chunk of the first part of the route was in direct sun. We also had some logistical challenges, with a major event taking out a section of our usual route and even though we were a good distance away from the event, the phone signal was impacted, so I lost four or five raids through phone glitches, and another three or four while dealing with my body being Very Unhappy about the heat. I *almost* quit about an hour in, but one of my Poke-friends had waited for me while I was being not well, and I figured that we were probably past the worst of the heat, and I'm really glad I did push on, because the rest of the day was much more fun. I ended up with a couple of mates in the back-of-the-fast-group pack, and we did most of the route in the end - I think 26 or so of the 33 that the fast group went for, and I did 20 or so of them. I got my shiny, and so did my friend-who-waited-for-me, although not until the penultimate raid, which was nervewracking. I do enjoy the raid days - it's expensive, but there's a good challenge to it, and I really like the group of people I'm doing it with. Looking forward to the next one on Sunday!
I've similarly been enjoying the raid dinner hours, on the weeks when I can get out of work in time to get back near home to play with said group - it's a nice, bite-sized, chunk of time, and a good reason to get together with a group. (The weeks when I haven't been able to get back home to play, it's been rubbish, as it's almost impossible to find a lobby when everything hatches at once without external coms.)
The GoFest weekend for the Chicago fest, I was grinding pretty hard, and I lucked out with a set of three shiny horsea - including two actually decent IV/CP ones - so I have a nifty little family set. They're *ridiculously* pretty shinies.
"Adventure Week" was the event where I turned level 40 last year, and it was nice not be *as* driven as I was then, but also nice to hit Double 40 status, so I was mostly chasing shinies, but also picking up fresh stops as often as possible. Friday, I made a specific trip to a part of town I'm not often in, where there was an Onyx nest (didn't get a shiny Onyx, did pick up a couple of nice scarves in a charity shop), Saturday my friend and I did another section of the Capital Ring walk, and then it was community day, and then some more grinding on Sunday took my in-game distance up to 70k for the week. Total non-CD shiny count? Zero until I was sitting on the couch, doing game admin, when the one-spawn-an-hour that I get in my house turned out to be a shiny anorith... I've since traded for a shiny lileep, but the kabuto that I yearn for is still eluding me.